[gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello ! Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? Can I follow the guide on: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD Is that a proven/working method ? / Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error

2009-04-22 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2009/4/22 김무성 : > My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 > > And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9 > > Up-to-date gcc. > > When I install vmware-server, ./vmware-install.pl > > there is an error. > > This is error information > > > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Dale
Thomas Chef wrote: > Hello ! > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? > > / Thomas A lot of pe

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey >> >> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> >> I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make par

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Jacques Montier
Thomas Chef a gentiment tapote: > Hello ! > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? > > / Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao >> wrote: >>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio >> >> I think that one should do it. >> > > Also, according to > http://gstreamer.fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Thomas Chef wrote: > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to > use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > Can I follow the guide on: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > Is that a proven/working method ? Be very careful as GNU tar is buggy and do

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:49:19 Xavier Parizet wrote: > In fact you're right, it seems that my webmail (Roundcube) add the > skins/default part i saw earlier in your first post... Looking at the > mail source and there is no skins/default part. > Apologize :) Thanks. You had me worried for a w

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mark David Dumlao > > wrote: > >> media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdio > > > > I think that one should do it. > > > > Also, according to > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:34:34 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:23:34 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:07:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey >> >> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:56:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> >> I think the problem is from the SYSSRC make par

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong keyboard map in Fluxbox

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
Hi all, I found the silly reason: slim set NumLock to be active and that does not turn out to be a good thing on a notebook. Thanks for the tip anyway! -- Best regards, Marco

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > I'm going to go with this one. I'm writing/testing a gst-plugins-bad > ebuild right now :) Taking this one back. Playing around using gst-launch-0.10 with various cd reading sources (cdiocddasrc, cdparanoiasrc, cdaudio) tells me (1) i pr

Re: [gentoo-user] What use flags/build settings should I use to get audio CDs to play in totem?

2009-04-22 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > Also, what appears to be the case (and probably what confused me) is > that cdparanoia and friends CAN read audio CDs. It just seems to fess > up when it's reading mixed data/audio CDs and outputs me garbage. Oh, and not to derail my own

[gentoo-user] xorg upgrade: cannot play video files after suspend to ram

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, after upgrading xorg I experience the following problem: Video will play fine with any player (vlc, mplayer) before hibernate-ram. computer wakes up ok from hibernate-ram, however when I try playing video now, my screen turns black(sometimes I

[gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. OK, should just need to set the background im

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
Hi all, I am trying to get my wireless adapter (Intel 3945ABG) running. following the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi I compiled the kernel accordingly. Now the howto states: For kernel 2.6.27 and later, use the second slot(version 228.57.2.21) which needs to be unmasked i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get my wireless adapter (Intel 3945ABG) running. > following the instructions on http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi I > compiled the kernel accordingly. Now the howto states: > > For kernel 2.6.27 and later, use the second slot(version 228.57.2.21)

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Marco
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Marco schrieb: [...] > You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to > iwl4965. > > If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything. > I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.28.1.6. > > For iwl4965, I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Marco schrieb: > [...] >> You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to >> iwl4965. >> >> If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keyword anything. >> I'm on 2.6.28 with version 15.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode

2009-04-22 Thread Alejandro
2009/4/22 Florian Philipp > Marco schrieb: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Florian Philipp > > wrote: > >> Marco schrieb: > > [...] > >> You somehow mixed iwl4965 and iwl3945. Version 228.57.2.21 belongs to > >> iwl4965. > >> > >> If you really want iwl3945, you don't need to unmask/keywor

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:24:00AM +0200, Penguin Lover Thomas Chef squawked: > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want to > use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > Personally I use app-backup/rdiff-backup and dump not to DVD, but to an external harddrive stored

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: jre memory heap size issue

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron Clark
Adam Carter wrote: Sorry - here it is in plain text for the luddites, j/k :-) I have set -Xmx256m using the Java control panel GUI, and; sphinx jre # pgrep -lf java 8949 /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/bin/java -Xmx256m -Xbootclasspath/a:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > Well I just went back to using two monitors in twinview mode after a few > months of single monitor suffering. But now when KDM start I get half a > screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right > half of th

[gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason. For example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text: "prog" the prog is given a red background. Even if I use ':syntax off', it is still red. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Chris Lieb wrote: > I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things > that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason. For > example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text: > > "prog" > > the prog is given a red background. Even if I use ':synt

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
2009/4/22 Anthony Metcalf : > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things >> that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason.  For >> example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text: >> >> "prog" >> >> the prog is given a

[gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two), the "print" button is greyed out. With "print to file", the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. > When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two), > the "print" button is greyed out. With "print to file", the button is > live and the pdf file is successfully

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Simon
hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
On 4/22/2009 10:36 AM, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things >> that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason. For >> example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text: >> >> "prog" >> >> th

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Colors/styles in vim

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Lieb
On 4/22/2009 11:09 AM, Mark wrote: > 2009/4/22 Anthony Metcalf : >> Chris Lieb wrote: >>> I am new to vim and am encountering an annoying issue: certain things >>> that I type in get highlighted red, for no apparent reason. For >>> example, if I create a file test.txt and insert the following text

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Chef wrote: > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want > > to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > > Can I follow the guide on: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Backup_to_DVD > > > > Is that a pr

[gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
Hello All- I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), everything appears to be set up correctly in my xorg.conf, no errors or warnings

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appe

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
>> Anyone have any clues > > Try to comment out all "Option" lines from the "Device" section of > your xorg.conf. In mine I only have two lines, Identifier and Driver. > This fixed KDE4 desktop effects for me. No luck - exact same behavior as before... :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Thomas Chef wrote: > > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I want > > > to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > > > > Can I follow the guide on: > > > http://en.gentoo-wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > Hello All- > > I'm having a devil of a time getting this combination to work. Several > different computer systems, with KDE's from 4.2.0-4.2.2, with several > different NVidia cards. Using the latest NVidia drivers (180.51), > everything appe

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Thomas Chef wrote: > > > > Now that my gentoo system is up and running the applications that I > > > > want to use, how do I make a reliable backup ? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
> shorten your conf to this and retry: Thanks, but same result with the new xorg.conf...

[gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread John covici
Take a look at a book called "The Future of Telephony" -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote > hi there, > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with > gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
> Be sure you're using the "xcomposite" USE flag, and perhaps you need > "opengl" as well. Output of "emerge -pv kwin": [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2 USE="captury opengl xcomposite xinerama -debug -kdeprefix" 0 kB So, all already enabled... :( Any other thoughts? Thanks! -James

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Higgins
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon wrote: > hi there, > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, so here's my... $.02. > I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good > 'deal'

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to > > restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than 100 > > multi-volume archives? > > No, just a couple of douzend so far. My lib takes 8 cardridges. So far no > proble

[gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-22 Thread Kelly Hirai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? kelly Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/phasex/phasex-0.11.1.ebuild,v 1.

[gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Wince
All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all o

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus wrote: > >> Be sure you're using the "xcomposite" USE flag, and perhaps you need >> "opengl" as well. > > Output of "emerge -pv kwin": > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2 USE="captury opengl xcomposite > xinerama -debug -kdeprefix" 0 kB > > So, a

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex

2009-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Kelly Hirai wrote: > this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? Looks like the domain expired a few days ago... and according to cached copies, he used that domain for his e-mail address as well. I guess you hope someone else has a copy of the arch

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia, KDE4, and Desktop Effects

2009-04-22 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM, James Ausmus wrote: >> >>> Be sure you're using the "xcomposite" USE flag, and perhaps you need >>> "opengl" as well. >> >> Output of "emerge -pv kwin": >> >> [ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kwin-4.2.2  USE="captury

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: > Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS="-j1" to see what make > command is launched. > Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before. # cd /usr/src/linux # make prepare # MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge nvidia-drivers This t

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 22 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > There is a 1-5% chance that GNU tar does fail this way, did you try to > > > restore enough GNU tar multi-volume archives? Did you restore more than > > > 100 multi-volume archives? > > > > No, just a couple of d

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: > > Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS="-j1" to see what make > > command is launched. > > Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before. > > # cd /usr/src

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive > created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a > closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it look promising. Star implements aprox. twice a

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore

2009-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume > > archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have > > to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution segfaults

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:26 +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:18:58 -0500, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 06:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Michael Sullivan > >> wrote: > >> > >> > a...@catherine ~ $ evolution > >> > **

[gentoo-user] Recomendation of wireless USB or PCI

2009-04-22 Thread Thomas Chef
Hello ! As I have no network cable where my gentoo computer will be placed, I need to use a wirelss network adapter. Do you have any recomendations of which product (USB plug) to buy which is simple to install ? In my local stores I can choose from: (only USB sticks) - GIGABYTE Link ACT - D-Link

Re: [gentoo-user] telephony

2009-04-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie. In addition to Si

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:04:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: >> > Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS="-j1" to see what make >> > command is launched. >> > Try also to run m

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4

2009-04-22 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince wrote: > All, > I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running > gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. > # uname -a > Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 > 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4