Re: [gentoo-user] about to increase kernel
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:52:19 +0800 (CST), 525225097 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My video drive is not support(the default kernel in 2007.0livecd).My computer is new.In otheroperating system such as ubuntu,opensuse(to release soon）it support well.if I should increase the kernel.It sure I couldn't find the driver in linux,the company mean to just support windows.A if I should do it.How can I do in a nonetwork.Thinks Just wanted to let you know my spam filter ate this. You might want to rewrite it with better punctuation since many other people may not have seen it either. As for your network card, it would help if you told us which model it was, which kernel versions from other distros have worked, and which kernel versions from Gentoo have not worked. --Thomas Tuttle -- Thomas Tuttle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ttuttle.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble Getting Wireless Networking Configured -- SOLVED
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:08:17 -0700, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: For the archives... Ditching wpa_supplicant in favor of iwconfig (wireless tools port) solved my problems. Only downside is that I am unable to use WPA-PSK authentication. Maybe a future version of wpa_supplicant will work? Unlikely. ;-) I've used it a couple times and it always strikes me as much less stable than wireless-tools, even when authenticating to non-WEP networks. It would routinely fail to associate, even when wireless-tools worked effortlessly. I'd love to run WPA, just because it's better, but I'm unwilling to put up with wpa_supplicant. My two cents, Thomas Tuttle -- Thomas Tuttle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ttuttle.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?
On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot. No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses hung out on a stick to be picked clean by crows. I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen drive, for the filesystem containing Portage. It is true, as you said, that syncing often will cause no harm to a normal hard disk. Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind of twaddle. ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. Please, be nice. --Thomas Tuttle pgpPQ9nwZDoIw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager
On December 27 at 22:46 EST, frank hastily scribbled: Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). I don't mean to be rude, but you really should watch what Portage was doing. It's generally a bad idea to emerge -u world unsupervised, since (as you can see) it can break things if you don't read messages printed after packages are upgrades. Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic command startx TWM comes up. How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window manager? Check the contents of ~/.xinitrc. It should say exec fluxbox; at the end. How did you configure your window manager before? --Thomas Tuttle pgpa4vVIXEtZw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource
On December 26 at 20:38 EST, Alan E. Davis hastily scribbled: I wiki about USE flags would be extremely useful. Am I the only one, or are newbies the only ones who encounter USE flags with cryptic significance? The descriptions from euse, profuse, etc., are a bit of a help alot of the time; however, some use flags would bear some serious explanation! Is something now available that would provide this functionality? http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/ has some good articles (not a specific index of USE flags, but good tutorials and stuff) and might be a good place to put the article(s) you'd like to write. I am not wise to the world of wikis (my sole attempt to edit wikipedia was a dismal failture, even though I am pretty literate in LaTeX); however I would be willing to put something simple together with some help. Er, Wikipedia doesn't use LaTeX except in math articles. This sounds like a good idea. You should start an article on Gentoo-Wiki.com if nobody else has. --Thomas Tuttle pgp8NrsGOvBGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] what z p2p clients for linux?
On November 15 at 07:12 EST, El Nino hastily scribbled: what is the best p2p (Gnutella support) client for linux? I use gtk-gnutella for Gnutella and Azureus for BitTorrent. It does have the usual problems of a Gnutella client (junk files on the network and such) but it's a nice program nonetheless. ___ Have you mooed today? \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\ | |-w | | || | Yes! Thanks for asking! Hope this helps, Tom -- Thomas Tuttle Having computer problems? Install Gentoo Linux. (www.gentoo.org) email: thinkinginbinary.com | www: http://thinkinginbinary.webhop.net/ aim: thinkinginbinary | jabber: thinkinginbinary.org pgpIiSGmfmKSE.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Problems with nsc-ircc IrDA driver (transmit, no receive)
I'm trying to get the IrDA chip working on my Asus M2400Ne laptop. The chip uses the nsc_ircc driver. When I load the driver, it can transmit, but not receive. (If I put a Palm next to it, the Palm will show Waiting for sender... but the computer won't show the Palm's packets.) Can anyone help me figure this out? Alternatively, does anyone know a good, cheap USB IrDA dongle that (preferably) works with LIRC as well? Thanks, Thomas Tuttle -- Thomas Tuttle Your ad here! Discount rates for OSS projects. (Email for details.) ;-) email: thinkinginbinary.com | www: http://thinkinginbinary.webhop.net/ aim: thinkinginbinary | jabber: thinkinginbinary.org pgplyA01bMY0N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Photo organizing, slideshows, and S/VCD/DVD authoring/editing
On November 08 at 18:49 EST, b.n. hastily scribbled: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: 2005/11/8, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3. Creation of slideshows from photographs. I would like to be able to select some or all of the photographs, maybe add some opening or closing title, extract headers or footers from EXIF information, edit transition between photos, add music to the slideshow, adjust the duration of photos and transition to fit the music, and export a video in a suitable format to be included in VCD, SVCD or DVD. I have no idea... but looks like the most horrible kitschy bad-taste thing I ever heard, so I refuse to give you advices about such an horror :-) Maybe, but you can make really happy your mother-in-law if you prepare a few of those slideshows containing photos of her grandchildren. If you finally author an easy to use SVCD menu, burn it on a printable surface CD, and print a photo of them in the surface, you become her favorite son-in-law... believe me, tested and proven ;o) Ahaha, OK, you're forgiven :-P (Sorry if I looked rude, but I couldn't control myself in front of such a description...) Yeah... it sounded like a description of a bad PowerPoint presentation. ;-) Good to see you're using it for something tasteful and not to annoy co-workers. -- Thomas Tuttle A List Apart: For people who make websites. (www.alistapart.com) email: thinkinginbinary.com | www: http://thinkinginbinary.webhop.net/ aim: thinkinginbinary | jabber: thinkinginbinary.org pgp1W8zUzxdqb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL
On November 08 at 13:33 EST, Michael Shaw hastily scribbled: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. I can offer three suggestions: 1. vim. If you set it up right (just a few lines in ~/.vimrc), it will do syntax highlighting properly. 2. jedit. It's java-based, but relatively light, supports many file types (although it is a tad Java-centric), and has good plugins. 3. bluefish. It's not language-centric, but I *think* it has PHP support (I might be wrong), and it's a good web development editor. Hope this helps. -- Thomas Tuttle A List Apart: For people who make websites. (www.alistapart.com) email: thinkinginbinary.com | www: http://thinkinginbinary.webhop.net/ aim: thinkinginbinary | jabber: thinkinginbinary.org pgpp1IU8x171s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OTAnn] Feedback
On November 07 at 16:49 EST, Mark Knecht hastily scribbled: I received an email from these guys and decided it was spam. Is it? - Mark It sounded to me either like spam or a humorous imitation of all the Web 2.0 stuff going around (a Web 2.01 app?) Either way, I'd ignore it. On 11/7/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shenanigans schreef: We have mirrored your mail list in a new application Is this permitted? (a mirror of the mail list that is unaffiliated with the Gentoo organization and administration? or is this affiliated?) And is there something wrong with me that it rather gives me the creeps if it is (permitted, but not affiliated)? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Thomas Tuttle Your ad here! Discount rates for OSS projects. (Email for details.) ;-) email: thinkinginbinary.com | www: http://thinkinginbinary.webhop.net/ aim: thinkinginbinary | jabber: thinkinginbinary.org pgpJutOyo4Ezi.pgp Description: PGP signature
