[gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean dmesg: sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null Then try fdisk

[gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about it. In short, I've found two things: a) "cfdisk" might work while "fdisk" does not. b) You have a corrupted

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge older version

2010-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/09/2010 06:45 PM, Laurent Kappler wrote: Hi, I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in portage is 6.5.7. How could I do that?? You can't, since the lowest version in portage is 6.5.2.9: $ eix imagemagick [I] media-gfx/imagemagick Available versions: 6.5.2

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow list?

2010-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/09/2010 09:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Wow, seven mostly similar answers. Is the list becoming slow? When I posted about an hour after the question was posted, there were no answers yet. Let's see how long this post takes to arrive. Usually it's just a matter of a few minutes. I noticed t

[gentoo-user] Re: Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/12/2010 09:25 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote: Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only as strong as its weakest link. It could be

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/17/2010 11:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] 1) IMO Alsa has never run so well when drivers are compiled into the kernel. I do a lot of audio in Linux and have always had the best results using modules. I would strongly suggest

[gentoo-user] Re: weather forecast plasmoid refuses to find Perth in Australia as a location

2010-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/18/2010 10:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:47:47 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I am having issues using the weather forecast plasmoid in KDE 4.3. It will not allow me to show the weather for Perth in Australia using the BBC or other sources. As someone else posted ye

[gentoo-user] Re: Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2010 01:34 AM, sean wrote: Hello All, My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop. Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on the Clip+ to MSC. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2010 10:07 AM, James Homuth wrote: *From:* Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] *Sent:* February 19, 2010 1:55 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit

[gentoo-user] MySQL 5.1 and Amarok

2010-02-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
It's not possible to use Amarok with the "embedded" USE flag with the newly released MySQL 5.1. Why is that? Can we expect it to work at some point?

[gentoo-user] Re: kde4 panelbar recovery

2010-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/22/2010 09:03 PM, James wrote: Stefano Crocco alice.it> writes: Right click on the desktop and choose "add panel". This should give you an empty panel. To fill it with widgets, click on the plasma symbol at right end of the panel, choose "add widgets" and insert the widgets you want.

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 07:42 AM, Stroller wrote: Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised "don't try using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the whole KDE environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead of Kmail". I kept my gob somewhat shut at that t

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and email. I like the simplicity an

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet&

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 03:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:48 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I am currently "subscribed" to 31 mailing lists on GMane. I don't even want to imagine what would happen if I would receive email from all of them (and 90% of the posts wou

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 05:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You and I do the same thing in the end. The difference is that you waste bandwidth, need to set up filters every time you subscribe to a new list Which takes about ten seconds usually

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/23/2010 07:42 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] You got me with that one :) Just because I don't have this problem doesn't mean no else does either. You are permanently wired to the Internet? Don't you ever go out? :P I'm referring to the machine. It's always connected. Broadband flat

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer important to me. I have remained out of pure inertia. I use gnome happily at work, both on Fedora and Ubuntu. All I need from any of them is a panel with some favorites, and a pager

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 03:41 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer important to me. I have remained out of pure iner

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 04:28 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: there was a recent discussion about this on this mailing list: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_13c6d27e4216e91ed3c4800fe42b8e95.xml it seems only Kmail needs that USE flag. I also haven't tried this on my system. Question is: will enabli

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 06:01 PM, daid kahl wrote: Hello all, Simple question: Can you please explain your pdf viewer of choice (and any configs or 'hacks' I should do)? I can't find anything I like. I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread. As I am trying to remove kdelibs from my system

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 06:03 PM, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 15:12:58 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/24/2010 03:41 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 06:47 PM, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/24/2010 06:03 PM, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 15:12:58 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/24/2010 03:41

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been using KDE for a long time, for reasons that are no longer impor

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:38:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 04:27 AM

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 07:57 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 07:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/24/2010 06:43 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 8:41 AM, Zeerak

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/24/2010 08:12 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/24/2010 11:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: How do you know what he needs? He probably wants KDE but without the whole "Semantic Desktop" thingy. Well, mostly based on him telling us what he needs, and that he doesn't really

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/25/2010 11:45 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm on KDE4 but

[gentoo-user] Re: libtool 2.x upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 03:15 AM, bn wrote: Hi, I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but m

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that a

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 06:10 PM, BRM wrote: [...] From: Alex Schuster That's the only issue. My only concern is software (e.g. KDevelop) that may not have been updated to KDE4 yet. (Not a fan of KDevelop3; waiting to see how KDevelop4 is going to shape up.) The KDE4 version is in the kde overlay, but I

[gentoo-user] KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from the terminal (be it Dolphin, Konqueror or whatever) the output generated is pretty much gigantic. It's stuff like this: QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPain

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from the terminal (be it Dolphin, Konqueror or whatever) the output

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 11:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful lot of debug

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 01:52 AM, Joseph wrote: I'm installing Freenx and it will not install unless I enable in sshd_conf UsePAM yes (password authentication) What is the use use of ssh-key if I have to enable PAM? FreeNX does not support SSH keys. It only uses one for its control user. For an NX-bas

[gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 03:30 AM, Joseph wrote: On 02/27/10 03:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/27/2010 01:52 AM, Joseph wrote: I'm installing Freenx and it will not install unless I enable in sshd_conf UsePAM yes (password authentication) What is the use use of ssh-key if I have to enabl

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't ins

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Dale On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: From: Neil BothwickTo: (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.33 and Nouveau

2010-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 11:29 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:39:19AM -0800, walt wrote: On 02/27/2010 09:22 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: Hey guys Got then latest gentoo-sources last night, and thought I'd try with the nouveau > drivers. And it went pretty well (unti

[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going on. Thanks. Some ENV variables a

[gentoo-user] vmware-workstation from vmware overlay broken digest

2010-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
If any dev from the vmware overlay reads this, please fix this one: Calculating dependencies / * Digest verification failed: * /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-7.0.1.227600.ebuild * Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification * Got: 3619a7454b53411695537b5

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (this is a rather obvious fix...) eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location change.

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 05:37 PM, Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql is being pulled in again!

2010-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 07:07 PM, Mick wrote: On 4 March 2010 15:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ? No. The USE flag is only for packages where MyS

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`

2010-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/2010 04:06 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:13:54 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: % qfile post_sync app-portage/portage-utils (/etc/portage/bin/post_sync) My qfile doesn’t find it, neither with nor without full path.

[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] 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

[gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 *>>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ... [ ok ] * Remember to merge your config files in /etc

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiz effects vs kwin

2010-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in speed) and wondering if this is normal, or something to do with

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiz effects vs kwin

2010-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/14/2010 04:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference

[gentoo-user] Re: wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/15/2010 05:06 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have enabled 'jpeg' flag in my /etc/make.conf, but i still cannot compile wine with jpeg support, and i really need this feature. the output of emerge -pv wine shows '(-jpeg)'. i think it is masked by profile. i then created '/etc/portage/profile/pac

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/20/2010 06:03 PM, Dainius Matusevičius wrote: help Is this the mailing-list equivalent of a message in a bottle? :P

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/20/2010 10:46 PM, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 14:55 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: or maybe he's using Seamonkey, like Dale :-) :-). Hey! What's wrong with seamonkey? I upgraded from Seamonkey 1 to Seamonkey 2. I let it copy the settings, email and other "

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 06:54 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller wrote: I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised that the inability to copy settings from one profil

[gentoo-user] Re: help

2010-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/22/2010 10:33 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote: Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick: TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this parti

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with thunderbird

2010-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/23/2010 01:43 PM, KH wrote: Hi, I just updated thunderbird. Now I have two problems: The rss feed only shows the title. It used to show the whole everything. How can I change that? I want to read the complete rss article. Not sure. Here they show OK. I'm using the "show article summar

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 04:09 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: hi, when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. Rebuild valgrind. This usually fixes this.

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 08:31 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: I think --gen-suppressions may be a too "complicated" solution. valgrind shouldn't find *any* warnings from the libraries of my system at all. either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. in every other system I try

[gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 05:36 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. I wouldn't doubt it. There are always errors everywhere :P The problem is you shouldn't see them since

[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/27/2010 02:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i noticed the following error messages when i was updating my system. * Updating shared mime info database ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' Unknown media type in

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg "threads" parameter

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all. Further

[gentoo-user] Re: unknown media type error when updating

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/28/2010 06:36 AM, Xi Shen wrote: so...there are expected to be unknown? haha...that is interesting. anyway, thanks. :) I guess they're not really expected to be unknown, but they're harmless as long as you don't get disappearing icons. If you do, then this is for you: http://bugs.ge

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate emerge --sync && emerge -uDN wor

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2010 10:07 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [10-04-04 08:28]: On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer

[gentoo-user] Re: VirtualBox bridge mode eth0

2010-04-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/08/2010 07:11 AM, Joseph wrote: I've activated Network adapter in VirtualBox (running Windows XP) but I it is not working. It works only in NAT mode not in Bridge mode. The worst part is when I enable bridge mode on second adapter the keyboard lock up, so I need to reboot the box :-/ I've

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC. I'm not finding it now readily. Can someone tell me where that setting may be made. If it has something to d

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my Ctrl+Alt+Backspace back

2010-04-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/19/2010 12:47 AM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC. I&

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/21/2010 01:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:08:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/21/2010 12:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:41:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages

2010-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, billyd wrote: Thanks for the reply, Alan. My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the partition where /var lives. Can you post the output of "df -i"? Free space is only one consideration. The other is free inodes.

[gentoo-user] Re: two version of the same lib at the same time...possible?

2010-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/28/2010 04:35 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for haveing both useable I need to have two different versions of x264 on my system. Is this possible in any way? Not with Portage (it allow you to customize --prefix). You can have an infinite number of them though if you install manu

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/30/2010 03:09 PM, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Roger Mason wrote about [gentoo-user] Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64: Hello, I need to compile a 32 bit version of libtermcap on an x86_64 (multilib) system. Can someone tell me how to set up CFLAGS? This is

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/30/2010 07:29 PM, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:20:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64: On 04/30/2010 03:09 PM, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Roger Mason wrote about [gentoo-user] Compiling

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

2010-05-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/07/2010 02:09 AM, Remy Blank wrote: I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. I have alr

[gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: hi everyone, something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of free space! The filesystem probably ran out of inodes. "df -i /home" will show inode usage.

[gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/09/2010 01:46 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: it doesn't seem so :-( FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda620856832 108698 207481341% /home I didn't know that the filesystem could run out of inodes before the disk space itself! thanks for the in

[gentoo-user] Re: I've been hacked.

2010-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/11/2010 10:28 PM, Grant wrote: I nmap'ed one of my remote Gentoo servers today and besides the expected open ports were these: 1080/tcp open socks 3128/tcp open squid-http 8080/tcp open http-proxy I'm not running any sort of proxy software that I know of and I should be the only person

[gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

2010-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/13/2010 01:56 AM, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in qu

[gentoo-user] Re: glx & dri fail to load for nv

2010-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/15/2010 06:31 AM, Grant wrote: I'm seeing tearing from the nv xorg driver. I think it's because the glx and dri modules are failing to load, and I think that's because I'm missing a kernel option or two. Can anyone tell me what I might be missing in the kernel for an Nvidia card? BTW, th

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.8.1 random segfaults

2010-05-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does anyone else get random segfaults all the time with xorg-server-1.8.1? Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x45cc28] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x40+0x59899) [0x459899] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x300100+0xf0d0) [0x300100f0d0] 3: /usr/bin/X (dixLookupPrivate+0xa) [0x42c5aa]

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 11:15 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:56:39 walt wrote: On 05/19/2010 12:59 PM, Fabian Köster wrote: Hi *, I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following problem: When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everythin

[gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but compilation fails: I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This driver is now in the kernel itself. nouveau-drm was used before that driver moved into the Li

[gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 08:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/20/2010 07:56 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to compile nouveau-drm for my Nvidia 8400GS video card, but compilation fails: I don't think you should be using nouveau-drm in the first place. This driver is now in the kernel itsel

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Don't even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the kernel. I don't care where they go (why the hell should I?), for as long as they work.

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 09:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Don't even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the kernel. I don't care where they go (wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/20/2010 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] What doesn't work is PulseAudio, actually. Too many problems with it. Pulse is simply broken by design; it's too far from the kernel to be any good. If I may us

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/21/2010 02:03 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Because as soon as you disable ALSA dmix and/or Pulse, suddenly you get acceptable sound latency. With OSS4, which has in-kernel mixing, it doesn't matter if you enable the mix

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/21/2010 09:26 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Then why does dmix lag? Then why does dmix lag? I don't know; I don't care. I don't use dmix, I use PulseAudio, and it takes care of everything in user space and I don&

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/21/2010 10:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 21 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You don't mind the lag (there is lag, no way around it, you just don't mind because you're not using software that needs good latency, like software synthesizers) but I do. So

[gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I decided to test PulseAudio on Gentoo since someone claimed the reason PulseAudio has a "it blows chunks" reputation because of Ubuntu shipping it with a broken configuration. So, I did: USE="alsa pulseaudio -oss" emerge -auDNl --with-bdeps=y world This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS support and use ALSA or Pulse instead. sure? Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot: http

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS support and use ALSA or

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 02:37 PM, David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:10:02 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about [gentoo-user] Can't get PulseAudio to work: [snip] I rebooted with an ALSA-enabled kernel and with OSSv4 completely removed. But it doesn't work; everything can use ALSA O

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get PulseAudio to work

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 04:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos

[gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2010 07:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Latency is the delay between giving the order to play a sound and the sound actually being played. It's usually around 30ms here with ALSA/dmix, and around 10ms with OSS/vmix.

[gentoo-user] Re: change memory speed?

2010-06-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/03/2010 10:20 AM, Grant wrote: I have my DDR800 RAM specifically set to DDR800 in the BIOS, but I get: # lshw -short -C memory H/W path Device Class Description = /0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS /0/3/5 mem

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