Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: udev/baselayout mess?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Herber
Duncan: Thanks for the story behind the base layout packages and the plans for the upgrade. -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

[gentoo-amd64] frustrated - configure mime types for browser

2009-12-13 Thread Steve Herber
a few pointers, I would appreciate it. Thanks, -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Alsa Config keeps disappearing

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Herber
to each application? After reading some about the alsa/pulseaudio/jack/oss set of sound software I am amazed it works as good as it does. Thanks, -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Wed, 1 Jul

[gentoo-amd64] howto find overlay with a package

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Herber
not in the official list from layman -L ? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

[gentoo-amd64] How do I switch to a window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Herber
Can somebody answer a question, related to the favorite WM question, how do I change to an alternative window manager? I normally run xdm and update my .xinitrc or .xsession file to do this but I feel that there should be a better way. How do you do it? Thanks, -- Steve Herberher

Re: [gentoo-amd64] localhost??

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Herber
937976 /var/log/cups/page_log cupsd 2605 root9u REG3,497379 937950 /var/log/cups/access_log cupsd 2605 root 10u unix 0xdbfaa580 0t01636069 socket -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Security

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [100% OFF TOPIC] Where does one learn about running vmware under Gentoo?

2009-01-30 Thread Steve Herber
I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. I just never had as much success with VMWare. Good luck, -- Steve Herberher...@thing.comwork: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine

[gentoo-amd64] another boot order question

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Herber
why do I ever have this problem on that system? Thanks for any suggestions. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Herber
test Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] test

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Herber
I was testing a local mailman list, called gentoo, on my mail server. Unfortunately, I had an alias in pine for gentoo that was pointed to this list. I have removed that alias. Thanks for the comments. All have passed the test. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: unmerging slotted group packages

2007-01-28 Thread Steve Herber
be nice if some of your material could be added to it because your comments are good help for all Gentoo people.. Thank you, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-amd64] what causes this?

2006-10-17 Thread Steve Herber
not interested in a solution for php, but a guideline to help me fix any package with this problem. Thanks, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] boinc

2006-08-01 Thread Steve Herber
that emerge setiathome fails to create a viable system on amd64.) Good luck. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Dieter Ries wrote: hi, i had boinc 5.2.something running on my

Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia masking help

2006-07-26 Thread Steve Herber
averted many problems by simply documenting this. [rant-off] Thank you Richard, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/25/06, Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Herber
/usr/portage/skel.ebuild - Thanks for the pointer. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/29/06, Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This simply

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Herber
visualize some simple scripts that I can write to start testing. I think that I can safely conclude that the sort of script I envision does not exist yet. Cheers! Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399

[gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Herber
. If it failed you could ignore it or try to figure out the problem. This is not an AMD64 problem, but I know the people on this list are always pushing the Gentoo limits. So, thank you for your suggestions. Thanks, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW

[gentoo-amd64] Re: ntpd configuration question

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Herber
pool.ntp.org time server pool. This is a great project. They also list stratum one and two servers. Please note that you need to ask permission or register with many of the system owners if you want to use them. Cheers, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security

[gentoo-amd64] kernel config file for A8N-SLI Premium

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Herber
appreciate such a config file. I would not object to any suggestions as to why the recent genkernel images fail to find the real root disk image, or any hints as to why I can't get ntpd to work. Thank you, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kernel config file for A8N-SLI Premium

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Herber
. Can't wait for that bug to get fixed. Now if I could just get a new kernel to boot. Thanks! Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Duncan wrote: Steve Herber posted [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] hal, dbus and ivman

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Herber
fails. It seems to be a qt problem with int, long, long long definitions not matching the amd64 standard which is why we are seeing the problem. There is a patch on the qt site but I haven't tried to apply it yet. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NFS on freebsd

2005-12-31 Thread Steve Herber
Could you document you setup and test procedure? I use NFS for most disk storage but have never tried to tune it much. Any performance suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425

Re: [gentoo-amd64] What's up with portage?

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Herber
had you noticed? Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Mark Haney wrote: I've noticed over the last couple of days that I'm seeing several packages without ebuilds when doing

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Herber
I would recommend you use Shorewall for an easy way to configure and manage you iptables based linux firewall. The documentation is excellent. Plus, I like to have lunch with the author. shorewall.net Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Herber
. If I have a problem, I review the install handbook again. Good luck, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/20/05, Peter Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Herber
and USB. How much am I supposed to trim from the quoted article??? Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Warning bash-3.1 serious issue starting init scripts bug #115142

2005-12-11 Thread Steve Herber
the =() from the ones I found causing reboot problems, at least until I got my network link back. Then I masked out the new version and reverted to the previous version. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Multiple X with multiple Keyboards

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Herber
computer to support multiple keyboards, videos, and mice, as a way to share the computer among many concurrent users. I would spend some time looking for that project. It might do exactly what you want. Good luck, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security

[gentoo-amd64] alsa mixer question

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Herber
multiple applications to work together? I just want to be able to start a browser, xmms, and then run a few laps with Torcs. Thanks, --- Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Printing with Cups and 3-port JetDirect

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Herber
:41:14 2005 DefaultPrinter hp Info hp lj 4 Location master bedroom DeviceURI socket://wednesday State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 /Printer Looking at my configuration, I don't seem to be using 9100. Have you tried the lpd port? Steve Herber[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Suddenly can't compile anything

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Herber
here is my short list of configuration commands to check: fix_libtool_files.sh gcc-config -l binutils-config -l I don't know if running them will fix your system but they help. Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Internal Card Reader detection

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Herber
be helpful. Thanks, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, theboywho wrote: Hi, Hi have the same machine. When you insert something into the reader, you have to tell the machine to re

Re: [gentoo-amd64] my gcc multilib is broken... help!

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Herber
to do with the fact that I am still running 2004.3 profile, not the recent 2005.0 or .1 profile. I hope someone recognizes the problem and can supply a fix. Good luck, Steve Herber[EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425