[gentoo-user] Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hello, recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it doesn't fit completely in. It is only a cm or so on all sides that ov

Re: [gentoo-user] Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> This may seem a little odd, but check your telly's remote for an overscan button or menu item. My TV doesn't let me controll overscan. I have a few modes to switch through but that doesn't effect overscan much or at all (zoom, panorama and 16:9 FS take more then the other modes but something is

[gentoo-user] Tell kernel to use right graphic card

2010-02-21 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hello, I have here a setup with two graphic cards and two displays. The radeon 3650HD has my monitor connected to it via VGA The radeon 3200HD has my TV connected via HDMI I use KMS and the open driver and X works with two seperated screens so far (hope xrandr support for multiple gpu comes fas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 22. Februar 2010 15:48:53 schrieb James: > Sebastian Beßler darkmetatron.de> writes: > > Tried to fix it by underscaning but that doesn't help either. My TV > > always adaptes magically. > > You can try to play the the DisplaySize settings, which

Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1

2010-02-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag 22 Februar 2010 16:17:06 schrieb Anthony Mutiso: > I would really like to stay with the opensource radeonhd driver, but it > looks like I have to give up dual-screen (:0.0, :0.1 setup) which I > prefer for Gnome. > > So it would nice to still have a working ati-drivers setup until > xf8

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Neal Hogan: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, daid kahl wrote: >> [snips from daid / Willie Wong] > >> >>> Unfortunately there aren't that many pdf viewing softwares to choose from. >> >> We seem to be doing well so far! > > I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get KMS to set the screen resolution to that of the external monitor attached to the laptop.

2010-02-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.02.2010 15:05, schrieb ubiquitous1980: > Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I > have more real estate on my external monitor. At present, the external > monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the > resolution of the laptop's s

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 05.03.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Friday 05 March 2010 21:09:33 Tanstaafl wrote: >> Also - when you switch compilers, do you need to reboot right away >> (after rebuilding world (and thus the kernel)? > > What does rebooting have to do with the compiler? The compiler only builds >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 09.06.2010 12:32, schrieb Jacques Montier: > Hi all, Hi, > dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 I get this also sometimes when I have a emerge running and use python-updater at the same time. Then waiting for the emerge to stop normaly helps. Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-"Container" ?

2010-06-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 08.06.2010 19:26, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > On the other hand: A iso-image-file on the harddisk would > be nice, but that filesystem isn't made for moving files > back and forth... You could use udf both for the image-file and the dvd. Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 10.06.2010 07:36, schrieb Dale: > To think the devs didn't believe this was going to cause some confusion. There is a news regarding python 3 after the install of python 3. It clearly says that is ok to have both installed parallel, and runnig python-updater is recommended, but you should neve

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

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 23.07.2010 05:51, schrieb Walter Dnes: I had a similar situation. I use one Windows app, that runs in WINE. WINE will not build without multi-lib support on a 64-bit install. I ended up installing QEMU-KVM, and then a 32-bit Gentoo guest inside that. Having done it once, the second time

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Wow, that was hard to find. Took me less than 5 seconds. It is nice to hear again that we are all numskulls and you are superior. Your opinion is always right and nearly every statement from others are wrong in your little world. Please let us partitipate in the l

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

2009-09-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Philip Webb schrieb: The version for 3.5.10 doesn't work on the Fluxbox desktop: it opens but lacks the list of options on the left side. The version for 3.5.10 can configure only kde3 apps. If you have no kde 3.5 to configure on your system kcontrol has nothing to show in the left panel. Wo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 30.09.2009 06:49, schrieb Roy Wright: > Next install the "Konsole Profiles" widget where ever it is convenient > (desktop, panel). You can only install this widget when running kde 4.x as DE. Philip wrote more then one time that he uses Fluxbox not KDE. That is the main problem that I have wi

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 30.09.2009 11:57, schrieb Philip Webb: > Yes again ! -- it opens Konqueror: is there any way to change that ? Change it in Systemsettings. I use konsole-4.3.1 with kde-3.5.10 and after the change it opens firefox for me. Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-09-30 Thread Sebastian Beßler
o tabs in left/right-split-mode then only the left side has the buttons. If I now close the left side again the buttons are gone for good. I have to open the profile-settings, toggle the option off and on to get them back. If that can be confirmed I open a bug for it. Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 bugs update

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 01.10.2009 08:27, schrieb daid kahl: > What all do you unmask for this? I'm still kicking around 3.5.10, but I > wouldn't mind some updated apps, and some of the new Konsole features sound > useful (which is ironic, since they were laid out as to why there aren't > differences from 3.5.10...)

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

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> 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) >> >> >> > > I was trying to make Nikos into a girl for a second there. LOL I need > to g

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

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Yup, it took about three seconds but didn't emerge anything so I guess I > am good to go. Yeppie!! Thats normal, because it never emerges anything. It only changes references by patching files. Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 07:29, schrieb Arthur D.: > I repeat once more. > Every user who has VIM installed on theirs systems is forced to do extra > configuration, to make sudo work as expected, just because someone prefer > other editor and thinks that vanilla choice is bad. Isn't that just stupid? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 08:25, schrieb Arthur D.: >> I really don't see your problem. >> All that was needed here on my box was setting VIM as my editor of >> choice (I preferer to do that per-user so no setting of anything in rc >> or /etc/env.d) and VISUDO accepted it. No magic involved. > > Sebastian, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 10:52, schrieb forgottenwizard: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:07:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:34:25 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: >> >>> So instead it should set a non-existant editor to the configured >>> default? >> >> Nano is not non-existent by default.

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 11:04, schrieb forgottenwizard: > The number of USE flags would be quite impressive for such a small > package. a "vanilla"-flag could be possible that disables every changes to the upstream-package. It even exists atm for a number of packages metat...@darkstation ~ $ euse -i vani

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 11:29, schrieb forgottenwizard: > > > Thats an option, but seems to be a poor one. All that will do is let you > use either vi(m) or nano for the default, which for emacs users will be > no diffrent than the current problem. If you use emacs then you are to far away to be helped

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.10.2009 11:40, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > Am 02.10.2009 11:29, schrieb forgottenwizard: > >> >> >> Thats an option, but seems to be a poor one. All that will do is let you >> use either vi(m) or nano for the default, which for emacs users will be >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools

2009-10-03 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 03.10.2009 17:31, schrieb Harry Putnam: > Haa, there is an old time tool... what do I need to use in `eix' to > find it. > > `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' metat...@darkstation ~ $ eix -S midnight * app-misc/mc Available versions: 4.6.1-r4 4.7.0_pre1 (~)4.7.0_pre2 (~)4.7.

Re: [gentoo-user] No news today?

2009-10-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 04.10.2009 11:29, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > solfire:/tmp>eselect news all > !!! Error: Action all unknown > exiting > solfire:/tmp>eselect read new > !!! Error: Can't load module read Hello, try eselect news read new or eselect news read all Greetings Sebastian

[gentoo-user] HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
in my dvd-drive. I use kde 3.5.10 Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
8 and now everything seems stable again. To downgrade I had to add dev-libs/libvolume_id-0.81.1 ** to package.keyword and install it because hal didn't emerge without it. It seems to be a dependancy but it isn't pulled in by portage. Greetings Sebastian Beßler

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

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 26.10.2009 21:17, schrieb 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 >> ag

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 00:31, schrieb Harry Putnam: > I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of > > ln -sf > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile ? that or eselect profile set default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop (assuming that you are a desktop-user) That is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 00:50, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I think it's about time we let this hal thing drop though Even hal developers came to this reasons and droped it ;-) So WHY change everything to hal now if hal will be replaced in near future anyway? I changed keyboard and mouse layout back from hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 01:27, schrieb Dale: > I'm just grateful for the geek that put the SysRq key sequence in the > kernel. At least you can get back to a working console and fix the > stupid thing. I use ati-drivers here and killing xorg with SysRq only gets me a blank black screen and a system so dee

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 02:03, schrieb Dale: > This is the sequence you tried I hope. This is copied from a message > sent to me a loong time ago. > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual > full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Yes, it is. But after E there is only darkness an

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+Alt+bksp in Xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 10:31, schrieb he zhitong: > if you are using gnome, gnome-keyboard-properties may helps. > in the "Layouts" tab, there's a "Layout Options" button. > click it and choose the "Control + Alt + Backspace" in "Key sequence to > kill the X server" > > it seems "setxkbmap -option termin

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

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.10.2009 13:03, schrieb Stroller: > If the DVD is regionalised, then running mplayer will allow you to clone > it to hard-drive, but I don't think that image will then be burnable. At > least, not to play on a regular household DVD player - the image will > still carry some CSS encryption. C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...

2009-10-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner: > On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote: >> Marcus Wanner cox.net> writes: >> >> >> >>> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and >>> after that, what driver do I need? >>> >> >> emerge lshw >> 'lshw ' may help >> >> hth, >>

Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG?

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a password? I don't have a local mail server on my desktop maschine. Sure, I could install some kind of relay to my non-local mailserver but then I need to store username and pass

Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG?

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.10.2009 18:59, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Am 28.10.2009 17:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >>> Is your mail server really configured that local root mail needs a >>> password? >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] public mail server for ELOG?

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 28.10.2009 19:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:44:59 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> That kind of delivery limits the access to this mails to the local >>> maschine. If I want to read local I don't need mails, I could just read >>> the logfiles from portage in /var/lo

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

2009-11-17 Thread Sebastian Beßler
ut mounting the iso and create it again from the mountpoint. That he has deleted the iso? How do you check the correctness of the new written iso? Have you a checksum of the old iso or do you check against the DVD? Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 29.11.2009 17:23, schrieb Jarry: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> How can I determine the motherboard make and model? I mean without >> opening the case. > > # emerge sys-apps/dmidecode > # dmidecode | grep Version: > Version: ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1805 I like my manufacture:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-11-29 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 29.11.2009 18:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > don't grep for version. There are several version strings. > # dmidecode | grep Version: Version: P1.60 Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.12.2009 22:01, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I always think of the possibility to somehow bookmark a thread and to be > able to quickcheck all these threads for replies, without the need of > scrolling through miles of other postings (yep, I already sort mails > into folders and use the th

Re: [gentoo-user] Which LiveCD for Intel Core2 Duo?

2009-12-11 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 11.12.2009 13:00, schrieb Erik: > I will install Gentoo Linux on a Dell laptop with Intel Core2 Dua and > 8GiB RAM. I tried 2 different LiveCDs. x86 boots fine, but does not seem > to find all memory. IA64 does not boot. Are there hidden versions like > x86_64? > Hi, you need the amd64 LiveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-13 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 13.12.2009 09:46, schrieb Stroller: > Hi all, > > A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image > file in its original format, please? Open the doc file with OpenOffice, save it as a odt file. The odt is a renamed zip archive that should contain the image in on of its su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What magic does portage use?

2009-12-13 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 13.12.2009 23:19, schrieb »Q«: > That looks like a bug. Heh, it would be nice if the initscripts worked > with the current stable version of baselayout. This is no bug, it is just how baselayout 1 and 2 are created. You don't need a initscript to start udev with baselayout 1 as it is started

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 10:48:57 schrieb Stroller: > I suspect this is going to prove a dead loss. Thanks for your help, > though. As mentioned here http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/evil-mods-tiff/ you could try to use http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ to recover the image from "Object 1

Re: [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 14.12.2009 21:39, schrieb Roger Mason: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors. > I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB. Hello, the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-15 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 17:44:01 schrieb Renat Golubchyk: > Try checking it with ImageMagick's "identify". app-forensic/foremost may be useful too Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing qt4 meta

2009-06-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Marco schrieb: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dirk Heinrichs > wrote: >> Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 15:51:20 schrieb Marco: >> >>> How can I remove all the packages in the meta package? >> No need to do that. It's about the meta package only. > > Just in case I would want to remove all the packa

Re: [gentoo-user]Optimizations for low-bandwidth web browsing?

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Grant schrieb: > I need to optimize web browsing for a slow cell phone data connection. > I'd like to browse faster and use less data ($). I've installed > ImgLikeOpera for Firefox which is great at selectively blocking > images, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do? > > - Grant >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Alan E. Davis schrieb: > thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random things. > > When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other > line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting > > /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: > cannot open s

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Robin Atwood schrieb: > Correction: you want "sa-learn --spam" for the training with the "pipe- > through" filter action. You can train a spamassassin running on an server by running "sa-lern --spam" on the client? Thats new to me, but thats maybe because I don't use KMail and don't know the "pip

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Robin Atwood schrieb: > "man sa-learn" :) metat...@darkstation ~ $ man sa-lern Keine Handbuchseite für sa-lern This is a client, spamassassin runs on my server. So spamassassin isn't installed here, and with this no sa-lern. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: [gentoo-user] Training Spamassassin via KMail

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Robin Atwood schrieb: >>> "man sa-learn" :) >> metat...@darkstation ~ $ man sa-lern >> Keine Handbuchseite für sa-lern >> >> This is a client, spamassassin runs on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Hi, > I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't > figure out how to get rid of this. It is annoying as heck. I like > Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get > there. How do I get rid of this? type about:config as URL

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Now that seems to have worked. Will test this more later tho. Supper > time here. > > THANKS MUCH !! !! !! > > Dale > > :-) :-) > No thx. Its nice to help a fellow seamonkey-user Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: > On 08/19/2009 12:55 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: >> Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:15 -0400 >> schrieb ABCD: >>> Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command >>> line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). >> >> Is this docume

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
b.n. schrieb: Oh, ok! I understand now. Why is it so? Will need to be done also when firefox 3 hits stable x86? This is so because a number of apps don't build against Firefox 3 at this time.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Suman Chakrabarty schrieb: Thanks, but I don't think my confusion was addressed fully. Let me explain. The following command did not work as reported (and suggested) before: ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated pac

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox-ose build failed

2008-08-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
pat schrieb: emerge --pretend qt ~~~ [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 What I have to change or emerge? Do you have /usr/bin/uic3 installed? No. Which package contains it? DarkMaschine linux # dep -F uic3 uic3: x11-libs/qt-4.3.4-r1: /usr/bin/uic3 DarkMaschine linux # em

Re: [gentoo-user] System hangs when enabling radeon power management

2012-01-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 09.01.2012 12:11, Blakawk wrote: > On 2012-01-09 11:51, Blakawk wrote: >> Hi folks ! >> >> I am facing a problem since a week now when enabling radeon power >> management following KMS Power Management Options [1]. I have two >> radeon HD 9770 on my system in crossfire configuration, but on Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
ld the radeon driver as module and load that after booting via modprobe radeon modeset=1 The firmware then gets loaded from the module. I do that here because building the driver inside the kernel makes problems for me. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote: > May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon. Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of the Ubuntu family anymore. That means much less money and much less manpower. And if this issue with a init-thingy bothers you, Kubuntu will be living

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD hdaudio: why do I have two audio devices and two mixers?

2012-03-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
nd was gone as pulseaudio then prefered HDMI over my real soundcard. Even with an hour of debugging I was unable to fix pulseaudio so now I switch back. I hope your results are better then mine. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Openvz Vserver

2012-04-11 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 11.04.2012 01:14, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > i have Vserver from Strato. I want installed Gentoo, because i like Gentoo. > I have found two Howtos, but what i not really understand, what is with the > Kernel and Grub, i can nothing read there. Or understand i something wrong? Be aware tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 13 and "blank" page

2012-06-08 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 08.06.2012 04:49, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded to firefox 13. > In the preferenced I had set "When firefox starts" to "about:blank" > and "Home Page" to "about:blank". This had worked for several > versions. You can change that by: Use about:config and set browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Total: 181 packages emerge -e @system -v Total: 436 packages, The kde-useflag pulls in a waste of packages In my system-set are 50 packages: emerge @system -vp Total: 50 packages Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
t and not in your @system. Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 14:03, schrieb Dale: If I do this: USE="-*" emerge -pv system I get this: Total: 50 packages (50 reinstalls) What a difference USE flags makes huh? You forgot to add the e, without it you reinstall only the 50 packages in @system, because the dependencies are all there at th

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 24.02.2011 16:21, schrieb Dale: I was always under the impression that @system was supposed to be a limited set of packages to build, including dependencies. For me, if I have a issue, I usually start with emerge -e system to see if it helps. Since there is some KDE stuff in there, that makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MS Windows-scanners [Was: Boot Partitions]

2011-03-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 06.03.2011 07:57, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: Might not be entirely what you're looking for, but when I borrowed a slide photo-scanner, I also wasn't able to get it to work with Sane. I did, however, manage to run the scanner from an MS windows onstall under Virtualbox and passing the USB-slide

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
answer has nothing to do with your problem, please give me more information what you have in mind. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
ven't used amavis in years so that I was not aware of this. But mail signing and mail encrypting are two absolutly differend pair of shoes. Greetings Sebastian Beßler PS: The key you use for signing is expired. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
the first person who has noticed or told me :o It was a pleasure to help. You a one of a hand full of people in my inbox that use signing, so your expired key was eye-catching. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
you have the syntax wrong. It is 'eselect python list' and 'eselect news read 1' Try it and look what it says. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What is with emerge after update world ?

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
n: > > # eselect python list > Available Python interpreters: > [1] python2.7 > [2] python3.1 Then use 'eselect python set 1' to activate python 2.7 That should fix your problem Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
right and set ALSA_CARDS="usb-usx2y" in /etc/make.conf Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 31.03.2011 14:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > ALSA_CARDS is not a extended USE_FLAG. It should say ALSA_CARDS are not normal USE_FLAGs but extended USE_FLAGs signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 10.05.2011 16:34, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Am I missing something? Look at 'grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo' to see if your CPU is throttling correctly. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 10.05.2011 16:49, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > And that tells me that the CPU is running at full speed (3 GHz in my > case) although all CPUs are idle. What does cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Check CPU for throttling

2011-05-10 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 10.05.2011 17:03, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Do I have to disable the userspace governor? Yes you have to. The userspace governor needs a external programm to set the cpu speed. Set it to ondemand should do the trick because ondemand lets the kernel choose the right cpu speed. Greetings Sebas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 13.05.2011 21:50, schrieb Mick: > a selection of > apps, rather that a heavy duty integrated DE with semantic searches and what > not. I have written my thesis about semantic searches but I am absolut unable to use that feature in KDE. But that and the graphic distortions I have aside is KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spam and Moderation [was: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind

2011-05-16 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 16.05.2011 22:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > When automated software cannot deal with it anymore, it is time for that > MailMan to go away and be replaced. Do you have any suggestions? As far as I am concerned that MailMan does his work very good. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now > obsolete, with a better capability built into portage. From man make.conf FEATURES = fixlafiles M

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
ti and x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd If that is not a choice for you then you have to wait for an (in-)offical patch or a version that works with .39 Do you really need .39 now? Living on the bleeding edge comes with problems of its own. Greetings Sebastian Beßler signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance

2011-05-26 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 25.05.2011 22:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I'd be interested to hear any current use cases where swap delivers a > provable > benefit. I need swap to build openoffice/libreoffice, my 8GB of RAM are not sufficient all the time for the tmpfs of /var/tmp/portage when building that. But aside

Re: [gentoo-user] xserver does not work after upgrade

2011-05-27 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 27.05.2011 17:09, schrieb fajfu...@wp.pl: > I found that "hal" has been unmerged during an upgrade. I installed it again > and launching it at startup. HAL was removed for a reason, it is not longer used by xserver. You have to use Udev for that now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: [gentoo-user] meaning of (-clutter) in an emerge USE list

2011-06-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 01.06.2011 20:25, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > I know that the (-clutter) means that the clutter flag has been removed, The flag is not removed as in "is not there anymore" but it is masked because using it makes, at a high percentage, problems of some kind . You could unmask that flag if you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.06.2011 14:27, schrieb András Csányi: > Why die another applications if the browser crashes? For example > console stuffs as htop, grep, less and others? Harmed seriously the > graphic abilities of the system in this case? For me that looks like a problem of some other kind (maybe hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 04.06.2011 12:37, schrieb Marc Joliet: > I noticed it with DW Noon, too, although it also happened with Indi. I'm > using Claws-Mail myself. I have Thunderbird and see this breakings too, it is really annoing. Greetings Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 04.06.2011 14:03, schrieb Indi: > Could it have anything to do with the fact that I read this list from the > usenet group, rather than the list itself? Could that cause an inconsistency > in headers that might break threading, perhaps? Your References: Header looks very strange, I think th

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 04.06.2011 16:54, schrieb Dale: > I just wonder if there is some setting that could be changed somewhere > to make it work correctly with usenet, or whatever you were using. I > just know this is going to happen again. I don't think that there is something that can be done, because the server

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 04.06.2011 23:10, schrieb Indi: > Every single GUI MUA I ever tried would lock up and become unresponsive > at times when dealing with IMAP. I use Thunderbird and IMAP for 3 years now and in all that time became TB never unresponsive. So this point seems to have improved since your testing.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Original-Nachricht Von: Neil Bothwick > K9, it defaults to top-posting, but you > can change it. K9 is the best mobil mailclient. > However, you can't > edit the text you are quoting, so it is still > rather top-posting-centric. Sure you can as you see AT this Mail! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 05.06.2011 11:29, schrieb Indi: > Oh that reminds me, one of the annoyances which seems to be common among > GUI MUAs is they create a fixed set of IMAP "folders" which one is then > stuck with whether or not they correspond to the IMAP structure > already established. Does t-bird still do th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 05.06.2011 11:53, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I don't see the point of editing a quote actually :-) Oh there a many uses for that. Replying to specifig parts of a quote for example. > Unless you mean reformatting it to still fit in 78 columns I edit quotes nearly by every anwser, to delete part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 06.06.2011 14:44, schrieb Indi: > > You need to realize you're giving advice about the windows version of > thunderbird. IOW you can stop now! I use Thunderbird here runnung on my beloved gentoo and all that Tanstaafl wrote just works here too. So if it does not work for you it most likely is

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