Re: [gentoo-user] New install on x86 and login to KDE fails

2011-08-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 01:05:15 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > check permissions? Get some graphics hardware with not-broken drivers? > > I even tried a fresh new .kde directory. Same thing. The video is > built in so I'm sort of stuck with it I don't have a card that will fit

Re: [gentoo-user] New install on x86 and login to KDE fails

2011-08-31 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 01:05:15 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: check permissions? Get some graphics hardware with not-broken drivers? I even tried a fresh new .kde directory. Same thing. The video is built in so I'm sort of stuck with it I don't have a card that will

Re: [gentoo-user] New install on x86 and login to KDE fails

2011-08-31 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 01:05:15 Dale wrote: Still open to ideas. Keep in mind, failsafe works as does Fluxbox. Speaking of, how do I get the Fluxbox menu to include all the KDE apps? I want the card games, kpat and such, to show up. He may can use that until I can f

[gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread James
Hello, I just might have an opportunity to setup a Gentoo System using 10 G ethernet (fiber). The .39 kernel lists this hardware [1]. Does anyone have any experience with this hardware? Does it work? Did you make any bandwidth measurements? What type of fiber (mulimode/singlemode) (ST/SC) did yo

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd

2011-08-31 Thread walt
On 08/30/2011 04:56 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > dbus-daemon often uses 10-20% of my CPU according to top. Have you tried using dbus-monitor? It may tell you if some app is being inappropriate.

[gentoo-user] Epson BX525WD

2011-08-31 Thread Thanasis
Anyone with experience working with epson inkjet printers? BX525WD is a multifunction device (printer, copier and scanner), and has ethernet, USB and wifi connectivity. Can I use it with CUPS? Do I need any special USE flags? I use the amd64 no-multilib profile. I am interested in its printing fu

[gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
Hi, For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following message. Do you have any idea what does it means? File "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/tests/runTests", line 21, in os.environ["PORTAGE_GRPNAME"] = grp.getgrgid(os.getg

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Mol
2011/8/31 Space Cake : > Hi, > > For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following > message. Do you have any idea what does it means? > > File > "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/tests/runTests", > line 21, in >    os.environ["PO

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.02.15 CEST, Michael Mol wrote: > 2011/8/31 Space Cake : >> Hi, >> >> For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following >> message. Do you have any idea what does it means? >> >> File >> "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/p

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Space Cake wrote: > On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.02.15 CEST, Michael Mol wrote: >> 2011/8/31 Space Cake : >>> Hi, >>> >>> For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following >>> message. Do you have any idea what does it means? >>> >>> File >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.16.54 CEST, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Space Cake wrote: >> On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.02.15 CEST, Michael Mol wrote: >>> 2011/8/31 Space Cake : Hi, For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Epson BX525WD

2011-08-31 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
the type depends on how its hooked up, if its ethernet; use IPP. if its usb, it should detect -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: > Anyone with experience working with epson inkjet printers? > > BX525WD is a multifunction device (printer, c

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Bill Longman [10-08-17 20:16]: >>> On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...

Re: [gentoo-user] Epson BX525WD

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: > Anyone with experience working with epson inkjet printers? > > BX525WD is a multifunction device (printer, copier and scanner), and has > ethernet, USB and wifi connectivity. > > Can I use it with CUPS? Do I need any special USE flags? > I use the

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Space Cake wrote: > A cheap and easy way would be to use xev to monitor a window and then > pipe the stderr to a a program that waits for a keypress event and > then plays an apropriate. Thats how I did it in Python: ---

[gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
Hi, Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger but my external drive stays the same :) Thanks Laszlo

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch 31 August 2011, 17:18:26 schrieb Space Cake: > 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: > > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> Bill Longman [10-08-17 20:16]: > >>> On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 17.54.15 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Mittwoch 31 August 2011, 17:18:26 schrieb Space Cake: >> 2010-08-17 21:34 keltezéssel, Albert Hopkins írta: >>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman [10-08-17 20:16]: > On 08/1

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed > filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger > but my external drive stays the same :) Btrfs supports on the fly compression -- Nilesh Govindarajan htt

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed >> filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger >> but my external drive stays the same :) > > Btrfs

[gentoo-user] OpenLDAP works only at localhost, not from outside

2011-08-31 Thread Johannes Geiss
Hi there, I want to access my LDAP-data from anywhere on the internet but I only get it working on localhost. I installed OpenLDAP 2.4.24, and tried to do the tutorial at http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html The LDAP database works fine from localhost with ldapsearch

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > why? > man xset Can you explain further? I've read the xset man page, I've tried the 'c' option, and it does absolutely nothing. To the best of my recollection, the 'xset c' command has never done anything on any X11 machine I've used in the past 1

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Sorry for top-posting; Gmail java mobile client sucks) gid 0 should be the 'root' gid. Try 'grep -E "root|wheel" /etc/groups' and see if there is/are groups called 'root' or 'wheel' with gid==0 Also a question: Are you using sudo? Rgds, On 2011-08-31, Space Cake wrote: > Hi, > > For a few da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've read the xset man page, I've tried the 'c' option, and it does > absolutely nothing.  To the best of my recollection, the 'xset c' > command has never done anything on any X11 machine I've used in the > past 15+ years.  I have vague mem

[gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Grant
I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3) (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense. Other times I get a different series of messages in dmesg when I'm unable to connect which don't make sense to me.

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I've read the xset man page, I've tried the 'c' option, and it does >> absolutely nothing. ?To the best of my recollection, the 'xset c' >> command has never done anything on any X11 machine I've used

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and > sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3) > (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense.  Other times I get a > different series of messages in dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer > > Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a > typeblock-hitting-platen sound through that speaker? It was connected > to a timer-counter output pin not a D/A converter (unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Grant
>> I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and >> sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3) >> (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense.  Other times I get a >> different series of messages in dmesg when I'm unable to connect which >> don't ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Grant wrote: >>> I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and >>> sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3) >>> (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense.  Other times I get a >>> different series of messages in

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >>> b) old school pc-speaker in your computer >> >> Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a >> typeblock-hitting-platen sound through that speaker? It was connected >> to a timer-cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: b) old school pc-speaker in your computer >>> >>> Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a >>> typeblock-hitting-platen

[gentoo-user] Problems with KDE & Flash after moving to dual adapter

2011-08-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. Thanks in advance. OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia adapter to my machine and used nvidia-settings to create a new xorg.conf file. (Both new and old ar

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-08-31 Thread Adam Carter
> Btrfs supports on the fly compression Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely, and the mount option for that is compress=zlib.

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread Adam Carter
> I just might have an opportunity to setup a Gentoo > System using 10 G ethernet (fiber). The .39 > kernel lists this hardware [1]. > > Does anyone have any experience with this hardware? > Does it work? Did you make any bandwidth measurements? > What type of fiber (mulimode/singlemode) (ST/SC) di

[gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-08-31 Thread Doug Hunley
I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed net-tools. At that point, I got errors about /bin/hostname being missing. I did a quick search and found http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443540-start-0.html where the dev says baselayout > 1.12 doesn't *need* the hostname comman

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-package splitdebug FEATURE

2011-08-31 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/8/23 netfab : > Le 23/08/11 à 04:02, Leonardo a tapoté : >> What if I want to use splitdebug always and just deactivate it to some >> packages > > Another way is to enable splitdebug globally, but not install > debug files for specific packages : > >   /etc/portage/env/do-not-install-debug-fil

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the >> motherboard, and "xset c" still does nothing. >> >>> not playing a custom sound file. >> >> Which is what the OP asked for. > > Hey, it wasn't my idea. Talk to Volker for more details ab

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> I just might have an opportunity to setup a Gentoo >> System using 10 G ethernet (fiber). The .39 >> kernel lists this hardware [1]. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with this hardware? >> Does it work? Did you make any bandwidth measurem

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread Adam Carter
> I've overheard IRC conversations that discussed multi-queue network > cards in the context of multi-core systems. My educated guess, based > on what you mention, is that each queue in the card would ping a > different interrupt. Each interrupt might be handled by a different > core, so you'd see

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
(Sorry for top posting) baselayout > 1.12 don't need net-tools, but other packages might need net-tools. Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? Rgds, On 2011-09-01, Doug Hunley wrote: > I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed > net-tools. At that point, I got

[gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi, I'm having a little trouble updating Gentoo recently. When I try updating Gentoo by issuing: / emerge --deep --ask --update world / I get this: /These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE fla

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Does 'xset c' work for you? Well, it "works" as far as it sets the key click value successfully (if you "xset q" you can see if it's set) but there's no noises made by my computer. Looking more at xset it seems it's really just for setting t

Re: [gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-08-31 Thread meino . cramer
Sebastian Beßler [11-08-30 18:01]: > Am 30.08.2011 09:15, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > Personally, I'd put '<=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r99 ~amd64 ~x86' in that > > file. I have the conviction that versions with greater '-r' would be > > better, since it's a revision to the same version. > > '~sys-a

Re: [gentoo-user] 10 G eth (10000) on Gentoo

2011-08-31 Thread Adam Carter
> Nice - multi-queue was vapourware when i last looked. It would be > worth checking the driver source/doco to see what's there. Looks like intel made multiqueue available in Nov. 2010. You can set up to 16 queues. http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14687/eng/README.txt