[gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-01 Thread Adam Carter
HW = Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 4250 " (Chipset = 0x9715) Config is mostly taken from a working amd64 + radeon system. linux-firmware is installed. No errors or warning in the the xorg logs, but startx returns a blank screen on both the VGA and HDMI outputs. It also fails with no xorg.conf. There's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Spidey wrote: > That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with > temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like > something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains > ebuild files I guess it doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-01 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 00:17, Spidey wrote: > The question is in the subject: how to easily find out what USE flags are > redundant in make.conf and package.use? > Someone somewhere in this list suggested using some tool, I've tried that > but it was extremely verbose, and I'd had to toggle manual

[gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-01 Thread Spidey
The question is in the subject: how to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use? Someone somewhere in this list suggested using some tool, I've tried that but it was extremely verbose, and I'd had to toggle manually flags to see if it affected or not. If some tool t

[gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-01 Thread Spidey
That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with changelogs. I hope I'm wrong. Claudio Robe

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-01 Thread Grant
>> Thanks for that.  I haven't thought it all the way through, but if >> Unix ownership and permissions aren't granular enough and subversion's >> path-based authorization won't work, I will need to use ACLs.  I think >> both subversion's path-based authorization and Unix >> ownership/permissions w

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-01 Thread Grant
>>> I'm not sure if you are overcomplicating this by trying to use Unix >>> permission.  Have you instead considered webdav?  You can restrict this to >>> particular (apache) users/groups, directories, files.  It also uses >>> lockfiles >>> so with two users editing a file simultaneously will caus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 09:25, Indi wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:06:20AM -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: >> >> Found the problem: setuid bit was missing; chmod 4711 did the trick >> (verified via solid-hardware list). >> Time to logout and login and see if that was all. >> > > You're very cour

Re: [gentoo-user] X hang / occasionally after using LVM

2011-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag 30 September 2011, 18:34:48 schrieb J.Marcos Sitorus: > >do you have any crashes when virtualbox was not started and no virtualbox > >modules are loaded? > > I was suffer another crash when I backup my data to the other partition on > LVM, when virtualbox not running > I set virtualbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Indi
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:06:20AM -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > > Found the problem: setuid bit was missing; chmod 4711 did the trick > (verified via solid-hardware list). > Time to logout and login and see if that was all. > You're very courageous, posting that you found the solution before

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-10-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> OK, my bad for confusing the two. Currently make.conf in the chroot says: >> >> MAKEOPTS="-j3" >> >> and when I run emerge in the chroot it's typically >> >> emerge -DuN -j2 @world >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 07:06, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 04:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:18:45 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: >> >>> > This one caused my hotplugging to stop working in KDE. The fix was >>> > >>> > chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.10.2011 01:53, schrieb Grant: >> I'm not sure if you are overcomplicating this by trying to use Unix >> permission. Have you instead considered webdav? You can restrict this to >> particular (apache) users/groups, directories, files. It also uses lockfiles >> so with two users editing a fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 04:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:18:45 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > >> > This one caused my hotplugging to stop working in KDE. The fix was >> > >> > chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper >> > >> >> (udisks:[pid]): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 04:18:45 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > > This one caused my hotplugging to stop working in KDE. The fix was > > > > chmod o+x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper > > > > (udisks:[pid]): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: The > permission of the setuid helper

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-10-01 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:34:36 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > >> Also, recurring errors in the form of "Failed to execute program >> /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success", which is determined >> to be EPERM, which is probably due to B

[gentoo-user] Large fonts in printing!

2011-10-01 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I have a dot matrix printer. Since it prints ASCII text, I used lpr output.txt and it prints large size text. Large in the sense, the thing which fits in one single page if printed using kwrite goes into 1.5 pages. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com