I've solved this.
Something was awry with my kernel config, what I don't know.
I installed a new kernel 4.0.5, which wouldn't boot my migrated config from the old kernel.
Did default config on the new kernel with a just the necessary changes for my hardware and all is well again.
ttyUSB0 appears ...

I'm want to program my duemilanove arduino (forerunnor of the uno) but udev isn't assigning a device name in /dev
I have followed the following guides:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-907860.html
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Arduino
http://playground.arduino.cc/linux/gentoo

I have even ...

What worked for me, after doing etc-update or whatever, I logged out and back into kde then I ran kbuildsycoca4 as user and my kde menu was back.

HTH

The spacenav driver can work as well, run the daemon as root not user then it doesn't run away.

Success, after downloading and installing the 64bit drivers from http://www.3dconnexion.com/service/drivers.html
and sym linking: she is working!

Hi All

I got a 3Dconnecion space navigator. I tried the spacenav driver from sourceforge but when starting that daemon it just runs away and I have to kill it.
I tried the linux driver on the CD but that needs libXm.so.3 which it looks for in the wrong place, when symlinking it to the one in /usr ...

Hi guys

When I try to run inkscape it just segfaults, this is the error shown by dmesg:
inkscape[7635]: segfault at 500001c4f ip 00007fc299b27ac0 sp 00007fff002e3de8 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7fc29
9aab000+150000]
Any ideas?
I have been revdep-rebuilding and upgrading to get inkscape to work, I ...

I suppose that is the only way to go then.
Thanx

That is what I have done, I have both installed. Running portage when 2.4 is selected is the problem.

The only reason I want 2.4 as opposed to 2.6 is to be able to run salome, that's why I set up a separate installation.
Apologies for my initial confusion between 2.2 and 2.4, I meant 2.4.

I am setting up a separate installation with a separate root partition so that I can run salome in, currently salome is in the sunrise overlay. Salome recommends compiling against python 2.4.
Using eselect-python it is simple to switch to python 2.2 but then portage stops functioning and spits out ...

Hi guys

I want to stick with the kde 4:3 tree for now, how can I mask the whole 4.4 tree without doing it package by package?

Thanx

I have the following error in /var/log/messages:
dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.11" (uid=1000 pid=4468 comm="kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device" member="GetPropertyBoolean" error name="(unset)" requested ...

I found the problem, had the wrong boot partition mounted, uname -a revealed that the kernel compilation time which showed me it was the wrong kernel. I only have one kernel installed.

I have trouble loading the kernel modules for alsa and nvidia. I get the following error in /var/log/messages:
version magic '2.6.32-gentoo-r3 SMP preempt mod_unload' should be '2.6.32-gentoo-r3 SMP mod_unload'
I have compiled my kernel with both desktop options for preemption to no vail.

Thanx ...

What worked for me is to change the font size to 9 from 10.

When I want to emerge the latest amarok I get the following, I have both kde 3.5.10 and kde 4.3 installed.
emerge -vp amarok

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 [4.5.1] USE="glib iconv qt3support ssl -debug ...

My gkrellm starts up with openbox, ie gkrellm is running when I am connected via ppp0, so is vnstat. Last night my bandwidth usage total was as approximatelt 340MB, today after switching the pc off last night and back on today it dropped to 240MB. But vnstat still shows 340MB?

I use gkrellm as a usage monitor on my internet connection which is a USB 3G huawei E220 modem. Now for some unknown reason gkrell seems to forget some of my usage stats after booting. Comparing my grkellm usage stats to the usage stats that vnstat gives the difference is about a 100MB.
Any ...

Hi, this relatively new app fails on my machine, need it for OpenFOAM.
emerge error:

mpicc -shared .libs/comm.o .libs/util.o .libs/debug.o .libs/setup.o .libs/grsetup.o .libs/timer.o .libs/node_refine.o .libs/initmsection.o .libs/order.o .libs/xyzpart.o .libs/pspases.o .libs/frename.o .libs ...

If you get the dia fail to load external source error just emerge docbook-xml-dtd.

I am getting the following warning, I think it started after the emul32bit stuff got emerged when I emerged mozilla-flash.
* Your CFLAGS contains "-fPIC" which can break packages.
* Your CXXFLAGS contains "-fPIC" which can break packages.
* Your CFLAGS contains "-m64" which can break packages ...

Solved!
Problem was the BIOS, rev F9 implemts the manchester (what I have) and toledo cores.
BIOS was on rev F7, flashed it too F11 and viola!
cat /proc/cpuinfo now reveals:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 43
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200 ...

I have SMP in the kernel.
But so far I don´t see a SMP setting in the BIOS.

I bought myself a X2 amd 64bit 4200+ with a GA-K8NXP-SLI mobo.
It appears to me that the cpu is a half baked dual core:
x86info reveals:
x86info v1.21. Dave Jones 2001-2007
Feedback to <davej@redhat.com>.

Found 1 CPU
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Family ...