Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-09 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard Thanks again. Looks like th

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 08 December 2006 15:36, Steve Brenneis wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib The strange thing here is that there is no such thing as kwin.la. I have re-emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib Try "revdep-rebuild -p" and see if that outputs anything needing to be reb

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
James wrote: Steve Brenneis surry.net> writes: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves

[gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Brenneis
I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug USE flag, but I have no idea whe

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine, without any crashing etc, on bo

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Steve Brenneis
Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I have a desktop and a laptop with nVidia cards. The desktop is an AMD-64 machine, but Gentoo is built on it using the athlon-xp architecture. The laptop is a Pentium 4. On the AMD system, I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-15 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Steve Brenneis wrote: > >> Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> >>> You have no video card? Put at least VIDEO_CARDS="vesa" in >>> your /etc/make.conf, and add "nv" or "radeon" or whatever your >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Steve Brenneis wrote: > >> I am using -hardened and -pie right now. >> > > Minus pie? That's no USE flag. > > It was mentioned in one of the Gentoo forums online as a solution to the static library problem. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Brenneis
Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Steve Brenneis wrote: > >> I had problems with Xorg 6.8.2 and a duplicate symbol in >> libbitmap.a. This was a well-known problem and the two most >> popular fixes seemed to be to switch gcc to the non-hardened >> version or to rebuild X

[gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries

2006-07-12 Thread Steve Brenneis
I had problems with Xorg 6.8.2 and a duplicate symbol in libbitmap.a. This was a well-known problem and the two most popular fixes seemed to be to switch gcc to the non-hardened version or to rebuild Xorg with the "static" use flag. I chose the latter and all was well. Now that the Xorg ebuild has

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble

2005-10-30 Thread Steve Brenneis
Alexey Asprov wrote: >Thanks very much for your replies. It seems that cdrecord has a tough time >to coexist with 2.6 kernel series. I have ended up with fireing Kanotix >LiveCD, mounting my Gentoo partition and burning new Knoppix 4.0.2 with >k3b with some sort of hacked Ubuntu drivers ( cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] is harddrive kaput?

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Brenneis
maxim wexler wrote: Hello everbody, I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Brenneis
WKenworthy wrote: Ive found that the latest knoppix has ndiswrapper so I have grabbed the windoze binary and will give that a go tonight - 2005.1 doesnt appear to have ndiswrapper. If all else failed I'll carry the thing into the study and run a cable from the switch until I get everything copi