[gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. Best, Damian.

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: >> hi, >> >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after >> some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can >> use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:41:04AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? atom is not amd64. Building stuff on my netbook is slow(er). My netbook has an N270 at 1.6GHz, with 1G ram. Most build j

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Kaddeh
Walter, I'd advise going back through and running a "make menuconfig" on 2.6.31-r6/10 and verify that everything is in order. The reason that I say this is that, in the event that your kernel -DID- revert back to defaults, if you have a non-ext2/3 partition, it isn't going t recognize it (EXT4, Re

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:21:06AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > i kanda thought about that for the usb stuff. but i have not resolve > it. may be i also need the pmout package to allow me to mount the usb > disk? > > the big problem now is the battery information. i really have no idea > where to look

Re: [gentoo-user] stop eth0 from starting at boot

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:53:00 -0600, Dale wrote: > This is a common problem. I am on baselayout 1 so if you are on > baselayout 2, this may not help. In /etc/conf.d/rc file, add this line > or edit the line you already have: > > RC_PLUG_SERVICES="net.wlan !net.eth*" In baselayout-2 this is se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to > > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? > > atom is not amd64. Some are. My Acer nettop has a 64 bit Atom, the 230 I think. -- Neil Bothwick Confucius

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > >> > One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to >> > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? >> >> atom is not amd64. > > Some are. My Acer nettop has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:23:14AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > > > One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to > > > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? > > > > atom is not amd64. > > Some are. My

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > I am rather curious what application you are using to get battery > information that requires it being root. > > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state is 0444 on my netbook/laptop since > forever. I just use a bash function to parse it and display it o

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:26 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > yesterday, after i have joined those groups, i did not restart my > system. i just exit X, and log off, then log on, and i did not able to > access those resources. but today, after a cold start up, all the > problems are fixed without touching

[gentoo-user] how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-10 Thread Nicolas Richard
Hello, Background info : I'm experiencing a bug and found out that the bug doesn't appear with libdrm-2.4.11 (I kept an ebuild for this one in /usr/local/portage/...), but it does occur with libdrm-2.4.13 (not sure about the version numbers anymore, and I have yet to try 2.4.12, too, but that's no

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:26 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> i think this is just a group and permission issue. > > Logging out of and back into X should be enough for any group changes to > take effect. I wonder if it could have been a module load

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Damian wrote: > I don't know if you have an nvidia card. I had the same problem: I was > only able to change the brightness from a text console. I solved the > problem by installing nvclock (now I no longer need sunglases). > > I hope that helps. > > thanks, i so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:25:34 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > Some are. My Acer nettop has a 64 bit Atom, the 230 I think. > > Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction. I only found out by accident when I booted from the wrong live CD. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 38: Gover

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 > > It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if > somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. > > Best, > Damia

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-09 8:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" > kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is > 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set > /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10), cop

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-09 8:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 8:38 AM, Dale wrote: > I use make oldconfig all the time and have only had problems with it > once. I would trust make oldconfig looong before I would even think to > trust genkernel. I have never got it to work for me. > > Using make oldconfig should be fine for the OP. My point

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:41 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" > > kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is > > 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one). I set > > /usr/src/linux to point at 2.

[gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, and 1.10.2). emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my question is, do I need all 3 versions? 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depending on 1.10* or higher. So, can I safely e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Mick
On 10 March 2010 01:36, Walter Dnes wrote: >  Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" > kernels saved me.  "production" is 2.6.30-r8.  "experimental" is > 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one).  I set > /usr/src/linux to point at 2.6.31-r6 (or 10),

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 8:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:41 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" >>> kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is >>> 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: >> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >> >> It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if >> somebody could gi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:22:41 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-09 8:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" > > kernels saved me. "production" is 2.6.30-r8. "experimental" is > > 2.6.31-r6 or 2.6.31-r10 (same problems with either one

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Michele Alzetta
Find out what package /usr/lib64/liblzmadec.so belongs to and re-emerge that package. If you have ccache activated, delete the whole cache before doing this. If the problem is still present, at this point try revdep-rebuild -i HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Mick
On 10 March 2010 13:56, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 8:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:22:41 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Today is when running a lilo menu with "production" and "experimental" kernels saved me.  "production" is 2.6.30-r8.  "experimental" is 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:56:24 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > The .30, .31 is the minor kernel version. You shouldn't use oldconfig > > when going from 2.4 to 2.6 but from 2.6.m to 2.6.n is safe. > > Again, not according to the official upgrade guide - it specifically > uses 2.6.9-r1 to 2.6.9-r2 as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:46:03 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 8:38 AM, Dale wrote: > > I use make oldconfig all the time and have only had problems with it > > once. I would trust make oldconfig looong before I would even think to > > trust genkernel. I have never got it to work for me. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: >>> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >>> >>> It's been unresolved for quite a lo

[gentoo-user] power management - no consolekit runtime support

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo ~amd64, kde 4.4. in the system settings/power management/capabilities, it says 'consolekit was not found active on your pc'. but i do have consolekit started before i start X. how to fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 9:07 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The current opinion of the current author of the kernel upgrade > guide says what you quoted. > > It's his opinion, it's what he thinks will work best for the > majority of people. It's probably also the wording that has been > proven to result in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Damian wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs:    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Whatever the guide says, the third part of the kernel version is > considered the minor revision, anything after that is a patch level. Gotcha - and I guess I was using those terms in my own way - the guide didn't use the word major or minor - I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:19 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > I see what you mean about the guide and consider it wrong, especially > > for an advanced section. You are more likely to run into problems > > when not reusing your old config that when using make oldconfig. > > But... my understanding i

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:09:25 +, Mick wrote: > Now, doing that for the first time may be too confusing for someone > who is not familiar with the process of rolling up their own kernel, > therefore the handbook has to cater for the lowest common denominator > and advises to go about it in a lon

Re: [gentoo-user] normal user do not have access to usb, and many other things

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > now i have a damn wired good news. all the problems i talked about are > gone. :) i can access my usb disk, i can see the battery info. Congratulations :) This reminds me to attempt to solve why my laptop has no battery info. I think I need to cr

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-10 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > I would set it up using CUPS as Damien suggested and then KDE should pick up > the settings without any additional effort on your behalf - i.e. I would > think > that the "server settings" would no longer be disabled (as long as you have > listen to more than the de

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 > > It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if > somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. I don't use gvfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 9:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:19 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: >> But... my understanding is that, by copying your old .config to the >> new kernel dir before running make menuconfig, you *are* reusing >> your old config... I sure hope I'm not reading *that* wron

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > No you're not. But it is far easier to miss important changes without > oldconfig to point them out to you by shoving them in your face. That's how I use it. I do oldconfig as a kind of "kernel config diff" and then follow it by menuconfig a

[gentoo-user] Re: how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 03:03 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: Hello, ... So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never done that before, but today is a good time to try), It's a great tool and easy to use once you've learned the basic steps. You can ask here if you need help with it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, and 1.10.2). emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my question is, do I need all 3 versions? 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packages, all depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Damian wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug r

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:50:33 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, > and 1.10.2). > > emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my > question is, do I need all 3 versions? > 'equery depends automake' shows 44 packag

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 02:25:28 Roy Wright wrote: > But now the KDE Printer Configuration dialog appears to be hitting > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204558 Yes, I started getting this when I upgraded to 4.4.1; before that it was working fine. Thanks for the bug pointer. -- Rgds Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:41:04 +0800 Xi Shen wrote: > one thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system? My Pentium III with 312MB of ram took 3 days to compile for i686 with a xfce desktop. compiling for around 18 hours per day.

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote: On 03/10/2010 05:50 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, and 1.10.2). emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my question is, do I need all 3 versions? 'equery depends au

[gentoo-user] vmware-server performance

2010-03-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Recently I see bad performance with my vmware-server. Loads of harddisk IO ... even bad on the RAID1, disks working all the time (I hear them and iostat tells me). Might have to do with kernel 2.6.33 and non-fitting vmware-modules? I masked some modules back then because they didn't work, maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 1:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > And this means multiple automake versions on the system are perfectly > normal. Ok, that's what I needed to hear... :) Thanks Nikos... -- Charles

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one > of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. Understood, thanks... Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask' me if I want to continue and r

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 15:50:33 Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have 3 versions of automake installed (1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r3, > and 1.10.2). > > emerge -pvuDN world shows an update available for each one, but, my > question is, do I need all 3 versions? Assuming you do not have those

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/10/10, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 > > It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if > somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. Are you still using lzma-utils, or ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one >> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. > > Understood, thanks... > > Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:16:14 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above will 'ask' > me if I want to continue and remove the packages it finds, correct? > Meaning, it won't just blindly go ahead and start ripping stuff out... Yes. > How does that dif

[gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama and Xrandr

2010-03-10 Thread Allistar
Dan Johansson wrote: > I have been playing with my X-configuration this weekend and I can not > really get it to work the way I like. My desktop box has two Nvidia cards > installed with one monitor connected to each. On to of that I am running > KDE (v 4.3.5 at the moment). > > # lspci | grep VG

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2010 10:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/10/2010 06:17 PM, walt wrote: A few packages actually specify an exact version of the autotools, but most just want a certain minimum version. Portage doesn't allow ebuilds to specify minimum versions or ranges for automake, only exact

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS-PDF failing

2010-03-10 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dirk, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: > >> >> Look into /etc/cups/cups-pdf. The individual spool directories must have >> proper access rights (like .ssh in your home) and match the UserUMask >> setting. Otherwise cups-pdf will not generate the PDF, s

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple versions of automake?

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/10/2010 10:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone. Understood, thanks... Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge --depclean -a' above

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch

2010-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/11/2010 01:13 AM, Mick wrote: I see in the amd64 FAQs this: == Can I get Adobe Flash working? Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit plugin, then run echo "www-plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mick wrote: > I see in the amd64 FAQs this: > == > Can I get Adobe Flash working? > Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash > plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit > plugin, then r

[gentoo-user] Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch

2010-03-10 Thread Mick
I see in the amd64 FAQs this: == Can I get Adobe Flash working? Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit plugin, then run echo "www-plugins/adobe-flash -32bit" >> /etc/portage/p

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > thanks, i solved this problem without emerging the nvclock package. i > guess it is a group and permission issue. i have my accounts joined > these groups: disk wheel audio cdrom video usb users plugdev, and i > can change the lcd brightness with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing adobe flash on 64bit arch

2010-03-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 23:32:14 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/11/2010 01:13 AM, Mick wrote: > > I see in the amd64 FAQs this: > > == > > Can I get Adobe Flash working? > > Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash > > plugin starting with v