Re: [gentoo-user] strange alarm signal

2012-02-01 Thread Matthias Krebs
On 02/01/2012 10:05 AM, Thanasis wrote: Has anyone ever seen the following strange behaviour? While updating the system with emerge, after each installation of a package, before it starts emerging the next one, it pauses for a minute or two, then displays "alarm signal" (without the quotes) on a

Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it?

2011-06-27 Thread Matthias Krebs
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. > Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the > folder > .gvfs  with permissions dr-x-- 2 jarausch users > > When I run tar (as root!) I get > tar: ./jara

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to drive the VGA output

2010-06-24 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Donnerstag 24 Juni 2010, 01:14:44 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Laptop: dell E6510 > Gentoo: ~amd64 > Graphics: nvidia VVS 3100M > > I am unable to drive the VGA output. Symptoms include > > * Executing "xrandr" does not mention LVDS or VGA > (and using --output VGA gives a warning that VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)

2010-02-17 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 22:26:11 schrieb ubiquitous1980: > Using KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet for amd64. I know BBC broke > this. Anyone got a fix? update to kde 4.4 bbc works again (at least for berlin)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids

2009-12-13 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009 16:44:49 schrieb sean: > Robin Atwood wrote: > > Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the > > search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns "Cannot > > find 'London'" or whatever. This is on two systems; anyone else notice > >

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: Am I doing this right

2009-10-17 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Freitag 16 Oktober 2009 20:34:17 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 18:31 +0200, Matthias Krebs wrote: > > Am Freitag 16 Oktober 2009 15:23:20 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > > > I think I've set up distcc correctly, but I keep seeing a whole bunch >

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: Am I doing this right

2009-10-16 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Freitag 16 Oktober 2009 15:23:20 schrieb Michael Sullivan: > I think I've set up distcc correctly, but I keep seeing a whole bunch of > messages like this: > distcc[24416] (dcc_writex) ERROR: failed to write: Connection reset by > peer > > Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

2009-09-16 Thread Matthias Krebs
> Hi, > > thank you for your posting ! :) > > Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry... > Here it is (upper left corner): > > http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg > Hi, looks like a very basic conky configuration check out this thread for some more advanced examples : http://crunchbanglinu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-12 Thread Matthias Krebs
> Hi, > > for a long time I used IceWM as my windowmanager since I dont > want to mimicry other OSses (...) or want session management. > One thing, which is a must-have of windowmanagers I want to use > is the possibility to control the windowmanager nearly completly > with the keyboard (hot

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

2009-07-02 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 20:52:38 schrieb Hazen Valliant-Saunders: > So any news on the ATI Front or will I have to rool my own and submit it? well, it is in the tree this is from the Changelog: *ati-drivers-9.6 (25 Jun 2009) 25 Jun 2009; Tomáš Chvátal +files/kernel/2.6.29.patch, +files/

Re: [gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-25 Thread Matthias Krebs
On Saturday 25 October 2008 10:37:48 Gildor Oronar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:52:04 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> However after years and years kompozer is still not available in Gentoo > >> Linux. > > > > If you'd searched Bugzilla you'd ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

2005-09-05 Thread Matthias Krebs
Am Montag, 5. September 2005 21:56 schrieb Matthew Lee: > I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the > problem. > In answer to the other question the SMTP server does > require authentication. The settings I have now > worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's > something on my lapt

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Matthias Krebs
On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Krebs schreef: > > And as > > someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel > > parameter, so everything after it is ignored. > > In what world is this? If you're using vesafb

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Matthias Krebs
> Sorry didn't work. > The 8bpp message did dissapear but the framebuffer still want's to > read the config file for 800x600. > > -- > Naga Maybe you want to use a mode your graphic board doesn't support. Do a "cat /proc/fb0/modes" to get the modes your board supports. And as someone else mentione

Re: [gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-22 Thread Matthias Krebs
On 8/22/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel. > I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all > (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is > deprecated since it is the def