[gentoo-user] Re: cannot configure native vmware tools

2009-10-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/21/2009 11:17 PM, Keith Dart wrote: === On Wed, 10/21, Xi Shen wrote: === why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? === Don't use that tool. Instead, just emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules. Isn't that for having Gentoo as host OS only? (As

[gentoo-user] Re: Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/22/2009 02:14 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on update world) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Quick 'n dirty one-liner: for f in $(qlist -IC); do stat /usr/portage/"$f"

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only with kernels< 2.6.29. And I suspect the problem is not the driver itself, b

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 06:47 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only

[gentoo-user] Re: Worrying revdep results against libc.so.6?

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 07:15 PM, Mick wrote: Akonadi won't work with -java +redland USE flags as documented elsewhere and has been giving me some errors about /lib/libc.so.6. I run revdep-rebuild against it to see what happens and this is what I got at the end of it: == .

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2009 11:37 PM, Grant wrote: After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? If you're using coretemp as sensor, the temps are

[gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib). Why?

[gentoo-user] Re: What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/26/2009 06:30 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash installation?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/26/2009 07:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ,,,after upgrading Firefox (->3.014) I was remembered to install the Adobe Flash plugin. I first tried to install it via emerge which fails -- Firefox does not "see" the installation (yes, JavaScript was enabled and NoScript inst

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} app to create DVD image?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/26/2009 10:05 PM, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of an app that will create a DVD image that can be burned to a DVD for playback on a regular home DVD player? I was using dvdstyler but it depends on xine-ui which doesn't compile against xine-lib-1.2 which I need. - Grant K3b should do it

[gentoo-user] Linux Magazine tests Gentoo performance

2009-10-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I suppose this is interesting to most Gentoo users. Linux Magazine performed a detailed benchmark of Gentoo, comparing it to Ubuntu 9.04: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574/1 The conclusion (Gentoo clearly outperforms Ubuntu) is no surprise, but it's still an interesting read. Before you as

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux Magazine tests Gentoo performance

2009-10-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/29/2009 10:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I suppose this is interesting to most Gentoo users. Linux Magazine performed a detailed benchmark of Gentoo, comparing it to Ubuntu 9.04: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574/1 Btw, I think this is a very nice example of why per-package CFLAGS

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-3.5.4 & xulrunner version

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 05:26 PM, Graham Murray wrote: The ebuild for mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 has been changed to force ~xulrunner-1.9.1.3. As xulrunner-1.9.1.4 was put into the tree at the same time as firefox-3.5.4 and is shown as a security fix, is it right that mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 is forcing the downgr

[gentoo-user] Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http://www.simplemachines.org (Try to scroll up/down). Anyone else noticing this or is it just me? I'm on AMD64. I've rebuil

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when scrolling in some pages. Example: http

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-10-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the problem? because it seems to be fine here. http://www.kamenos.gr scrolls without any lag. Instant response. No lag at all

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/31/2009 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about it a few times. At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/31/2009 08:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: The link is created only if you have the "symlink" USE flag enabled. Also, "Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the sources of the kernel you are running" is not entirely correct.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/31/2009 09:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:09:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: The link is created only if you have the "symlink" USE flag enabled. Also, "Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the sources of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrading and linux symlink

2009-10-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3 installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-11-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/30/2009 10:06 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/30/2009 09:39 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the problem? because it seems to be fine here. http://www.kamenos.gr scrolls

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 3.5 without changing entire system to ~arch?

2009-11-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/02/2009 07:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being (afaict) very invasive to the rest of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 04:55 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Gah, the Flash plugin is very buggy with 3.6 (rendering corruption). I reverted to 3.5.4 and downgraded to Gtk+ 2.16.6 and gtkmm 2.16.0 instead. Any pointers at to what might be wrong are still welcome. Shot in

[gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for "Night of the week for strip club attendance:" I would report that to the KDE development list. It look like a translator was

[gentoo-user] Re: New KDE4 option: "night of the week for strip club attendance" WTF?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 06:24 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:16 +0100, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/04/2009 02:45 PM, Erik wrote: With KDE4 I suddenly have bloody sexist stuff on my desktop!!! When I configure country/region and language, there is an option for "Night of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 06:48 PM, Grant wrote: I'm trying to configure my laptop's internal sound card and external USB sound card. I have /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel options snd-hda-intel index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 and restarting

[gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

2009-11-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/04/2009 07:47 PM, Grant wrote: How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create one if I want VGA output? - Grant Actually it works great after a reboot. Is there a better method for switching VGA outp

[gentoo-user] Re: need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

2009-11-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/2009 11:43 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I think I am getting close. My video player is vlc and I reemerged with alsa support; that pulled only the relevant alsa packages. Then downloaded a flv video and played; no sound.[...] Try to enable the alsasound service (as root): rc-c

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/2009 02:46 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background: Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1, which failed to compile. In researching

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server upgrading problem

2009-11-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/2009 11:18 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote: Try to resync and emerge the new eselect-opengl and run "eselect opengl set nvidia" again. This could fix it, as I had a similar problem. The old eselect did something wrong, but I can't remember exactl

[gentoo-user] Re: ati drivers.

2009-11-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/12/2009 11:55 PM, Igor wrote: В сообщении от Пятница 13 ноября 2009 00:30:35 автор Volker Armin Hemmann написал: [...] yeah, unpacking in /usr/portage is completly wrong. Just follow the instructions. I strictly follow the instructions. But "emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=x11

[gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/12/2009 10:01 PM, Mick wrote: I should know how to do this ... It isn't as simple as commenting out vc7 in /etc/securetty, right? The persistent offenders would try to start another X session on a different vc. Is there a trick I could add in /etc/pam.d/login or one of the /etc/pam.d/gdm

[gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/14/2009 12:12 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag 14 November 2009 10:21:35 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: You cannot impose any restrictions to the root user. root is unrestricted by definition. It's useless to even start thinking about trying. Ever heard about SELinux? Bye...

[gentoo-user] Re: Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/15/2009 11:22 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: SELinux allows to spread the tasks root needs to do or can do accross several roles. Of course, if only one single person has root access to the system this doesn't make sense. But we're talking about cases where several people (incl. the malicious a

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/17/2009 08:24 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image to the original one. I have used

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick quesition regarding "linux-2.6.31.x" and "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx"

2009-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out. In addition to the link Eray posted, you can a

[gentoo-user] Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of-gnu-patch-2-6

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear- of-gnu-patch-2-6 I emerged patch-2.60 when

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 04:48 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 091202 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 05:10 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever so

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 05:19 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/2009 11:23 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, On my dell Vostro 1520, with intel hda ICH9 82801I sound card (xSTAC92HD71B3, according to /proc/asound/card0/codec), only one application can access the sound card at a time. This probably means that applications access the hardware, and not some soft

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/04/2009 03:12 AM, walt wrote: Most people don't have any need for more than one application to use the sound card at the same time. I was under the impression that it's quite the opposite. For example I would still like to hear my MSN messenger go *ping* when someone talks to me while

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
You didn't mention whether you tried running the alsasound service in order to get dmix. If enabled, it doesn't matter what sound device the apps want to open. On 12/05/2009 05:51 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: hmmm. I've managed to focus the problem: Some programs try to access to sound device called

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
it's worth, that's what I use for a quite some time now. On 12/05/2009 11:36 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: alsasound is on boot runlevel, so it's running. Still, some apps, like flash movies in firefox, don't behave nicely. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card is only usable by one application at a time

2009-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/07/2009 03:24 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You *might* want to look into OSS4 if your card is supported by it :P It will require a rebuild of many packages though ("oss -alsa" in make.conf) and it requires using non-portage packages from an overlay and

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 02:50 PM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I noticed I could't open links an

[gentoo-user] Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that "KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6". If you were about to upgrade, spare yourselves some headaches. It does not work "just fine." On first sight, it does seem to work, but if you look a bit better, it does not. Symptoms of usin

[gentoo-user] Re: references from thunderbird

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 07:25 PM, walt wrote: On 12/15/2009 04:50 AM, zhen wrote: Hi. Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in firefox? I know there are options in about:config (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated firefox to 3.5.4. At some mom

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 08:17 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag 15 Dezember 2009 17:23:34 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: I read on various blogs (especially Gentoo-related :P) that "KDE 4.3.4 works just fine with Qt 4.6". Well, it does. For me. If you were about to upgrade, spare yours

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 09:09 PM, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: Bottom line, KDE 4.3 *does* work with Qt 4.6, but it does *not* work "just fine" (there's a big difference between "works" and "works fine"). I assume you mean 'x11-libs/qt

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: KDE 4.3 does *not* work OK with Qt 4.6

2009-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/15/2009 10:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: bottom line your system is screwed and you think it is qt4.6 If it got screwed, certainly not by me.

[gentoo-user] Re: fstab and cdrom question

2009-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote: Hello folks, Quick question. My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM device forced to /dev/cdr

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget"

2009-12-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote: Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a file at the same time) instead of wget. You got it backwards. Downloading more than one chunk at the same tim

[gentoo-user] Re: SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge"- how to find out

2009-12-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/21/2009 01:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to change the ebuild for media-gfx/keyjnote to that of the successor http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately, I cannot find out the SRC_URI for the ebuild (to be created in my overlay tree). Does anybody know to find out how

[gentoo-user] Re: make an -9999 ebuild compile only if necessary

2009-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/22/2009 07:21 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have ebuilds fetching the source code directly from a repository (be it CVS,SVN,HG,GIT,...) I'd like to modify the .ebuild to enter compilation only if something has been updated. Is this possible, has somebody else tried to do so? Given tha

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer cannot display chinese correctly

2010-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/16/2010 04:50 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. i have emerged kdebase-l10n with chinese enabled. my kde system works fine with chinese. but smplayer cannot display chinese filename correctly in its window title. i already have chinese use flag enabled in smplayer.

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: [...] I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: You can clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition and boot

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal user, the smplayer does not have some. i have already add that user account into the audio group. what have i m

[gentoo-user] Re: smplayer does no have sound if not root

2010-01-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/17/2010 11:42 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/17/2010 07:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3, smplayer is 0.6.8. i setup my whole as root, and the system works fine. but if i log in as a normal user, the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

2010-01-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/18/2010 01:50 PM, Stroller wrote: Hi there, Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pret

[gentoo-user] tvtime overscan not centered

2010-01-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I recently got my old TV tuner card out of the closed and decided to set it up. The kernel's v4l2 drivers support my card and it works just fine with tvtime. However, tvtime's overscan setting doesn't center the image correctly; when increasing the overscan value (to get rid of some random cr

[gentoo-user] Re: see what's been emerged

2010-01-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/18/2010 05:03 PM, James wrote: All, I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably in chronological

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed to return a charstring containing the typed password, but

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried run

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 01:53 PM, Xi Shen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 06:26 PM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in o

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/20/2010 11:39 PM, walt wrote: On 01/19/2010 10:26 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this proble

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/21/2010 06:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:34 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm no expert on PAM, but I've seen it used on every linux distribution that I've tried over the years. In the case I just described, I used it so I can identify myself

[gentoo-user] Re: remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based on NX. FreeNX, which I used before, was semi-abandoned at some point. Yo

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago. However, fetching still fails even after three days. Any place I can get the tarballs? The manifests have checksums in them for all the tarballs, suggesting that they're available somewhere.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/22/2010 10:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago. However, fetching still fails even after three days. Any place I can get the tarballs? The manifests have checksums in them for

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/25/2010 05:32 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 10:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago. However, fetching still

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 12:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Today it is finally released. I don't know why it took so long. :) It's a bit sad though that an open source project kee

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 12:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/26/2010 12:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Today it is finally released

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

2010-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/26/2010 12:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/26/2010 12:06 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Today it is finally released

[gentoo-user] How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new setting (that would be media-sound/lmms in this case.) I then did "ul

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/27/2010 04:58 PM, Steffen Loos wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the application with those new

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get a backtrace from a core dump?

2010-01-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/28/2010 01:22 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [10-01-27 17:09]: I need to get a backtrace from a core dump file. I followed the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml I added -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES and built the

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2010 02:29 PM, Momesso Andrea wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 19:57:52 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/02/2010 04:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] Don't know about the server configuration on Gentoo. I only run the client on my Gentoo box. The server runs on a D

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer does not have man page & output info is chinese

2010-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/04/2010 06:50 AM, Xi Shen wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64. my /etc/env.d/01locale is empty. after i compiled mplayer, the output info is chinese, and i cannot read it console, even though i can read it in the xterm. how to make the out

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: [...] Yea, one of those lines disables hal tho which I think is the whole point of this upgrade. HAL is a very minor thing in this update. But with an old kernel, well, I can only see problems in the long run. Especially since you're using outdated DRM kernel drivers. If I were

[gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard

2009-04-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
walt wrote: [...] HTF the average user is supposed to figure all this out for himself is beyond me. I'm thankful for the expert help I got. Gentoo is not for the average user. We had discussions in the past where GUIs were discussed to make these things automagic, but most Gentoo users here

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Denis wrote: I was updating the xorg-server on my other gentoo box from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, and my X would not launch until I commented out 'freetype' or 'vga' modules in the xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now, and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mou

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? If the nvidia driver has a man page, try to find: Option "NoLogo" "boolean"

[gentoo-user] Re: Does -Wl,--hash-style=gnu need a full world rebuild?

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jorge Morais wrote: Hi. According to discussion on gentoo-dev http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_50182554f851bedb82f8a349fbc90352.xml it seems the only reasons for -Wl,--hash-style=gnu not being default (yet) are these headaches for the developers: 1) Apparently it does not work on mips 2)

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: 090412 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:57:17 -0700, walt wrote: In that case I have no idea why the splashscreen doesn't show. Do you have this line in xorg.conf? Option "NoLogo" "true" No. Any other suggestions ? Then put it in xorg.conf in the "Device"

[gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jens Krahe wrote: Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Saturday 11 April 2009 11:26:11 Mike Kazantsev wrote: If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Is this for ATI only? On my box I get a complaint about libGL being too old. Actually, it's absent altogether. I have nvidia. Nvidia's cl

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: There's a lot of us voting 1 today I think. How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and not causing problems. (rhetorical...) I must be lucky because I've been using it since it hit

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Philip Webb wrote: I also didn't mention that Kmahjongg 4.2.1 doesn't allow you to edit the layout & its "traditional" tiles are ugly. You can use the old version. Nor is Okular a match for Kpdf 3.5.10. Okular is actually regarded as far better by almost everyone. I tried (re)moving .k

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2.1 : beta is as beta does

2009-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Philip Webb wrote: I'm quite willing to try new things, but KDE 4.2.1 is definitely a beta. But a very good one, at least for me. It has some features I want that KDE 3 simply lacks (mainly plasmids, Vista-like desktop effects and vastly better font rendering.

[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I get: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by se

[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available

[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Xavier Parizet wrote: Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird th

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about making a tarball

2009-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 there, then chroot in

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