[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/05/2010 09:39 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is identical. I tried (or: I am still trying) to checksum the firs

[gentoo-user] "equery depends" gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I wanted to see which packages depend on x11-libs/qt-webkit, so I did: equery depends x11-libs/qt-webkit I got lots of results; but almost none of them mention qt-webkit *anywhere* (except for one package: qtscriptgenerator). I don't understand. Why does it print all the rest? Anyone can

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3 left my system a couple of years ago! so

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:17 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde

[gentoo-user] Re: "equery depends" gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --depclean -pv x11-libs/qt-webkit Thanks for the tip! Didn't know --depclean can be used for that. Compared to that: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.3 pulled in by: app-cdr/k3b--r1 app-text/kchmviewer-5.2 dev-python/PyQt4-4.7.3

[gentoo-user] Re: "equery depends" gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:59 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --depclean -pv x11-libs/qt-webkit Thanks for the tip! Didn't know --depclean can be used for that. Compared to that: x11-li

[gentoo-user] Re: (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/17/2010 03:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. However, it seems to be quite repeatable. I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: windows 7 and gentoo linux. The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determi

[gentoo-user] Re: file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/23/2010 01:56 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: Checking for file ownership gives me: # portageq owners / /usr/bin/neon-config net-misc/neon-0.29.3 /usr/bin/neon-config # portageq owners / /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h net-misc/neon-0.29.3 /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h and

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:24 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin a mouse does not work and special keys on the keyboard are not detected. When I enable it, everything wor

[gentoo-user] Re: XServer hal useflag

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 09:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins: Originally Xorg required you to pretty much specify all your devices and configuration in your xorg.conf file. Then the option came to use hal to help with identifying, hot-plugging, and auto-confi

[gentoo-user] Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes on disk. Anyway to fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/01/2010 10:21 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-01, Nils Larsson wrote: Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay. Two questions: 1) What do the qt3support use flag and the qt-qt3support package do? I had a

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes on disk. Anyway to fix this? I do not have the same problem

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 03:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:49:30 -0500, Dale wrote: This appears to be the opposite of a upgrade. He has a package that wants the OLD slotted version of libpng not the NEW slotted version. If I understand that correctly, he has already done the upgrade

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 02:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:22:35 Daniel Wagener wrote: On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:43:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I updated to Opera 10.60 just now

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 02:22 PM, Daniel Wagener wrote: On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:43:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/03/2010 12:37 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 20:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly to the point that makes

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 06:36 PM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 03 July 2010 13:38:14 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] In case it matters, I'm on AMD64. I also found this: http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/751/ Previous versions used to have the qt-static flag in them, the 10.60 does not. All

[gentoo-user] Re: Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/03/2010 10:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 03 July 2010 14:38:14 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nikos, I just merged 10.60 and it works here. What are your local font-related settings? false true true hintslight lcddefault rgb For comparison, here's mi

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/07/2010 05:17 AM, Grant wrote: I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and playin

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/07/2010 08:46 PM, Grant wrote: Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : media-video/mplayer-uau. It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates a binary called "mplayer-uau

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 04:30 AM, Grant wrote: Regarding mplayer: There is another ebuild in the multimedia-overlay that I prefer now to mplayer(-mt) and that also uses ffmpeg-mt : media-video/mplayer-uau. It fetches the mplayer-version from one of the mplayer-devs and creates a binary called "mplayer-uau

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 06:59 PM, Stroller wrote: On 7 Jul 2010, at 19:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... mplayer-uau is a fork of MPlayer, previously known as "mplayer-git", before the developer was kicked from the mplayer project for unknown reasons. While mplayer from multimedia only adds the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 08:37 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest "mp

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/08/2010 11:28 PM, Grant wrote: Does mplayer from multimedia overlay include mplayer-mt and ffmpeg-mt patches, or just ffmpeg-mt? "mplayer-mt" is mplayer with ffmpeg-mt. Sorry for my misunderstanding. I'd like to follow the latest mplayer with ffmpeg-mt support. There is no latest "mp

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/10/2010 04:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to the newer version -> gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 * and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with emerge -e syste

[gentoo-user] Someone broke kde overlay :P

2010-07-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
What's the deal with: !! Couldn't download 'oxygen-icons-4.4.92.tar.xz'. Aborting. Note the ".xz" extension. Where the heck do I get that? Why using something like this in the first place? Why don't the tarballs I downloaded from my local KDE mirror work anymore? Why should I trust tarb

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Tamer Gl

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard (solved)

2010-07-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/13/2010 08:01 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Mark! you were entirely right, the problem were the input drivers. There three packages I remerged: xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-evdev and the problem was gone. Portage tells you to do exactly that after updating xorg-server.

[gentoo-user] Re: svn tools only

2010-07-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/20/2010 04:23 PM, fajfu...@wp.pl wrote: Hello Is it possible to emerge svn tools only. I mean I want to check out sources, commit modifications. I don't want to have the repository intalled on my machine. If it is possible what package should I install ? thanks for help dev-vcs/subver

[gentoo-user] I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way after trying to emerge openoffice (and everyone knows how painful that one is): checking for required Perl

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand Perl. What do I do after an update?

2010-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/21/2010 08:34 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1). However, a crapload of files still remain in /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard

[gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-07-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: That's impossible, isn't it? Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing flash for linux 64 bit, and I some of the sites I need to visit for

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox/xulrunner fails on "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2.7 and 1.9.2.7.

2010-07-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/24/2010 03:37 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:09 +0200, netfab wrote: Le Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:10:52 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : Help! Just re-sync and re-emerge xulrunner and firefox. See bugs #329563 and #329529. Thanks, doing so now. As luck would have

[gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/25/2010 07:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? Suspend should work. 3D however is too slow. Y

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 05:44 AM, sam new wrote: Hi All, As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE="-hal" in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD="no" ,exec rc-update

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat your cat. Although it may kill your crew. I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for.

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna eat you

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
here. On 07/29/2010 03:31 AM, Andrey Vul wrote: Ugh. Now i'll actually have to config policykit.conf. For some reason, match group=wheel return yes fails so much. Somehow the mount-ro defaults to no every time On 2010-07-28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul w

[gentoo-user] Re: how to remove HAL

2010-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Just after posting this, I realized that KDE 4.4 uses policykit, but 4.5 uses the new polkit. I guess that's why I never needed to mess with any configuration files. On 07/29/2010 03:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Btw, I think now the package is "polkit", not "policykit

[gentoo-user] Re: Mic on Skype

2010-07-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/31/2010 03:11 PM, Ivan wrote: I have a problem with my microphone on Skype. In general the mic works. I can record using `arecord -c2> test.wav'. It also records if I type arecord without -c2 option but the sound is *very* low. And the same thing occurs when I try to make a Skype test call

[gentoo-user] Re: Mic on Skype

2010-07-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/31/2010 06:00 PM, ivan.kazba...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:41:33 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/31/2010 03:11 PM, Ivan wrote: I have a problem with my microphone on Skype. In general the mic works. I can record using `arecord -c2> test.wav'. It also reco

[gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working python version.) Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show

[gentoo-user] Re: All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/2010 03:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working

[gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

2010-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote: Hi folks... I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and I sync two other gen

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors show 2 different temp. for my CPU

2010-08-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/04/2010 02:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, after i setup lm_sensors on my gentoo amd64, i ran sensors, and got the below output coretemp-isa- Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +61.0 C (high = +74.0 C, crit = +100.0 C) coretemp-isa-0001 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 1: +61.0 C (high = +7

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I create "dynamic" link?

2010-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2010 12:06 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I am facing this problem: I have subdirectory, let's say "/some/dir". I would like to create some kind of "dynamic" and "preliminary" link, so that any future subdirectories, created later in /some will in fact be links, pointing to /some/dir. So if later

[gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5

2010-08-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2010 07:24 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I touch the mouse or keyboard. Even somet

[gentoo-user] Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted I did file a bug about it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332245) but no solution thus far. I don't know what to do. D

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg 1.65

2010-08-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/13/2010 12:46 AM, dan blum wrote: I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently. When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine. Can anyone clue me in on how to emerge an older version of the program. By masking 1.7 and above. >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.7

[gentoo-user] JACK breaks at random

2010-08-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On a system where I can't use OSSv4 for sound (due to MIDI) and need to fall back to ALSA, I've hit ALSA's insane latency issues and therefore decided to use JACK. I'm trying to set-up a machine suitable for music/audio production. But JACK just stops working at random. Sometimes it works, b

[gentoo-user] Re: Mumble doesn't work anymore

2010-08-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2010 07:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Rebuilding qt-core fixed this.

[gentoo-user] Re: flags on a minimalist server

2009-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/10/2009 01:17 AM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those where it's optional. Hello Nikos, What about the -threads flag. Can I live without it? caveat for a minimal firewall? The &

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. If I s

[gentoo-user] Re: screen, mc, htop

2009-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2009 08:08 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2009 07:04 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: I use

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.30 gets no network

2009-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/13/2009 01:48 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Kevin O'Gorman mailto:kogor...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm just trying kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 and having the same trouble I had with 2.56.30-r4, so now I need to ask if I'm alone in this. I copied my .config

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/14/2009 03:59 AM, David Relson wrote: G'day, I'm running Xorg with a minimal config file (only 15 lines - which provide font paths and set the AllowMouseOpenFail option). When I last restarted my computer (about 3 months ago), X came up in 1280x1024 mode. Today I restarted X (because the

[gentoo-user] Re: Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/14/2009 02:22 PM, David Relson wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:57:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... Several obvious questions arise: _Why_ did X select a different resolution today? _How_ can I get to the higher resolution? _What_ can I do to prevent a

[gentoo-user] Re: *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system

2009-09-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update

[gentoo-user] Re: Information request: root directory not listed by df

2009-09-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/18/2009 02:20 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I followed the method outlined in the Gentoo installation docs, placing /boot on a small partition. Then when booting, I specify the root directory in grub.conf. The device is listed in /etc/fstab /dev/sda4 /

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 12:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. You will have t

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I would like a reference or reason ... The rea

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 09:45 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 090920 Neil Bothwick wrote: Dbus doesn't need to be put in any runlevel, it will be started when hald needs it. I was wondering why Htop shows it, but it isn't in the default runlevel. /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any ru

[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2009 10:54 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel either ;) Not here. Now that was pointless. Whatever shell you're using, geez, seriously...

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2009 08:10 PM, James wrote: Hello, Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) using ati-drivers, all if fine with: xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 ati-drivers-8.593 #

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/23/2009 03:10 AM, Grant wrote: Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone know why this might be happening? If you haven’t disabled it, Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/23/2009 05:16 AM, Grant wrote: Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone know why this might be happening? If you haven’t disabled it, Firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: opening port 8000

2009-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/23/2009 11:38 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How to open port 8000? netstat -a doesn't mention it. You mean you have a shoutcast server running on your machine? Are you behind a NAT? To see if you're behind a NAT, ty

[gentoo-user] Re: QT4 Development

2009-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2009 01:01 PM, Marco wrote: Hi all I want to install QT4 for development. Since the QT4 meta ebuild is masked, I am not sure what split packages are needed. http://dev.gentoo.org/~yngwin/qt4-split-ebuilds.xml only tells me what to install for applications depending on QT4. Just start

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.1 : further queries

2009-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/25/2009 12:34 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Kcontrol : might this help with configuring KDE 4.3.1 apps ? no. kcontrol is just a couple of kcm*.so. You need systemsettings if you want to change anything the easy way. There is always the hard one - edit config files Actually, that's what I m

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd-5.1.1 compiling error

2009-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/25/2009 03:22 AM, Hung Dang wrote: walt wrote: On 09/24/2009 02:06 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I get the following errors when compiling net-misc/dhcpcd-5.1.1. Do you know which package net/if_dl.h and net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h are belong to? if-bsd.c:37:23: error: net/if_dl.h: No su

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpcd-5.1.1 compiling error

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/25/2009 07:08 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/25/2009 03:22 AM, Hung Dang wrote: walt wrote: On 09/24/2009 02:06 PM, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I get the following errors when compiling net-misc/dhcpcd-5.1.1. Do you know which package net/if_dl.h and net80211

[gentoo-user] Re: re-extracting linux sources

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 12:35 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, After my last -uvDN world and subsequent revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean I found the main Makefile under /usr/src/linux was missing. I managed to extract it from the sources and copy it over only to find that, naturally, many other file

[gentoo-user] Re: What causes a package to be brought in during a big emerge?

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 04:05 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've done an: "emerge --pretend -NuD world" and whilst reviewing the output, it lists an old package that I played around with in the past but now no longer need. In turn I do: "emerge -C oldPackageNoLongerNeeded" the package is removed and I

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

2009-09-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 04:52 AM, James wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded ati-drivers to 9.9-r2 also to xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 bzflag fails to run from the kde menu. trying to launch it from the command line yields: X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

2009-09-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 01:59 AM, KostyaSha wrote: How to hotplug IDE hard drive? I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? Hot-plugging on IDE is only supported on RAID controllers that can do hot-plugging. The IDE standard itself does n

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

2009-09-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/26/2009 11:11 PM, David Juhl wrote: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net to specify name servers? I can't seem to modify the /etc/resolv.conf and get it to sick at boot. Depends on how you connect. If you're behind a router/gateway device that does NAT (this includes most "DSL modems")

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

2009-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
NS" and start from there. David On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:08 -0500, David Juhl wrote: I feel like a idiot my device isn't eth0 it is wlan0 and defined it as such... No wonder I didn't catch it... Thanks David On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 04:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

2009-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/28/2009 02:55 AM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: Check if your graphics card is actually fully supported by ati-drivers-9.9; only HD2000/HD3000/HD4000 series cards are supported. It an EAH4350 Silent. It worked fined with the '8' series of drivers.

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot fonts in firefox]

2009-09-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/28/2009 10:08 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone here coach me a little about getting a decent look in firefox. I've monkeyed around with the font settings endlessly but it seems I can only get a look where like in a google search.. The hits are displayed in a decent and reasonable size.

[gentoo-user] Is login on forums.gentoo.org broken?

2009-09-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I can't login to forums.gentoo.org. If I try, nothing happens; I'm just taken back to the index as if I had logged in, but I'm still logged out. There's no error message or anything. Is it just me?

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

2009-09-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/29/2009 03:55 PM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: The 4350 is fully supported: OK Can you try with some Live CD that loads the ati-drivers during live boot? I think Sabayon does this. If bzflag works there, then there's something wrong in the Gentoo inst

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag is broken

2009-09-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/29/2009 08:39 PM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: # equery depgraph --depth=1 bzflag Nothing stands out. I unmerged bzflag. Well, actually one thing that stands out is that I'm using newer versions of most of the dependencies.

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1

2009-09-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/01/2009 07:50 AM, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about upgrading to gcc-4.4 and was wondering if anyone here is using it and if they are having any problems with it. I'm using a desktop system with KDE and OOo as the biggest packages. No servers or anything to worry about like apache. Als

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1

2009-10-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/01/2009 11:45 AM, Dale wrote: Thanks for the info. It's compiling right now. Boy it is big. That's what she said. (Sorry, couldn't resist :P)

[gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...

2009-10-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Er, what the heck is this one: emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 USE="-debug" 0 kB [blocks B ] (" To

[gentoo-user] Re: And I thought I understood blocks...

2009-10-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/02/2009 07:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Er, what the heck is this one: emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3

[gentoo-user] Re: makewhatis -u

2009-10-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/06/2009 03:16 PM, KH wrote: Hi, during an update I read somewhere something like: "Hey run makewhatis -u . Also you should have a cronjob doing this regularly." I never heard of this before (but I am not the real geek - more like a user) but I wonder how regularly I should have the cronjo

[gentoo-user] Re: opening port 8000

2009-10-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/06/2009 11:11 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: b.) If directly connected iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT sorry for the delay answering, only just got back to mobile mode. soupeee # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -dport 8000 -j ACCEPT Bad argument `8000' That's not what the int

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote: One final question. When I run this command: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers) I get this error: 'x11-drivers/ati-drivers' is not a valid package atom Please check ebuild(5) for full details. Try: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers) And it's usually quicker

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do remember using nested $() commands... Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway? Hopefully not! It's just two key presses to type "``". "$()" takes 4 (shift+4+9, command, shi

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 09:33 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $(): But nowhere near as clear. Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key above

[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED 3D

2009-10-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/08/2009 11:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote: I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do remember using nested $() commands... Isn't ` being depreca

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] mms protocol ???

2009-10-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/10/2009 08:06 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to download a file with an url like this: mms:/// Directly cliking the link/url in firefox does not work. Is there any tool, with which I cann access that file? mplayer should be able to do it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Please help me win Ipod nano :)

2009-10-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/10/2009 10:29 PM, gosha-necr wrote: Hello friends! I want to ask you for help in winning ipod nano, if you register on biggest social network here: http://vkontakte.ru/reg632660 i'm can win :) Thank you! :) lol

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4?

[gentoo-user] Re: Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
From where? On 10/11/2009 10:58 PM, Chris Reffett wrote: Couldn't you just grab the kde 4.3 package.keyword list and append that to package.mask, since it uses the same slot format? Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days

[gentoo-user] Re: how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/2009 11:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK,

[gentoo-user] Re: big fonts after Xorg update

2009-10-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/16/2009 02:22 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Hi, I just updated from xorg-server 1.3.0.0-r6 to 1.6. After the upgrade I see a lot of applications have now much bigger fonts then they used to have (the fonts and font sizes of course are the same - they just appear bigger). Examples are KDM, Kons

[gentoo-user] Re: license mask

2009-10-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/19/2009 03:33 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: hi! when I try to update virtualbox-ose-additions, portage says: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.8" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - ap

[gentoo-user] Re: Wine users backup libjpeg.so.62.0.0

2009-10-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/20/2009 06:39 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: MAKE SURE TO BACKUP libjpeg.so.62.0.0 and libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to libjpeg.so.62.0.0) My older machine was getting flakey so I migrated to my newer machine. I updated the new machine to the latest everything, and got a message that I

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