Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:57:04 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hmm, maybe I should file a bug for this. NOTHING should EVER mount anything automatically on a users system unless being explicitely told to do so. So the above should change to MOUNT_BOOT=yes, or even be a use flag. I couldn't agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:57:04 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hmm, maybe I should file a bug for this. NOTHING should EVER mount anything automatically on a users system unless being explicitely told to do so. So the above should change to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb ext »Q«: It could just as easily remount a /boot that had been ro. Aaaargh, just looked at the code. It does! Bug is filed. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: $LINGUAS question

2008-05-23 Thread Bill Roberts
I had something similar happen, and a reboot, or perhaps a restart of xwindows solved it. Bill Roberts On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:55 AM, »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Does it matter in

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Sobey
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo shows: bla bla Just build a stock (gentoo-sources) kernel on the same machine, and the vmx flag is there, along with a whole load

[gentoo-user] openrc all over again with version 0.2.4-r1

2008-05-23 Thread reader
After surviving the initial update to openrc I've now found after an update world that the latest openrc no longer links /etc/init.d/lo to /lib/rc/sh/net.sh. In fact /lib/rc/sh/net.sh is completely gone. So I'm left with several useless symlinks in /etc/init.d and no indication of what they

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc all over again with version 0.2.4-r1

2008-05-23 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On 5/23/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After surviving the initial update to openrc I've now found after an update world that the latest openrc no longer links /etc/init.d/lo to /lib/rc/sh/net.sh. In fact /lib/rc/sh/net.sh is completely gone. So I'm left with several

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-23 Thread Mick
2008/5/22 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:13:44PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Does it matter in which order languages are emerged? Mplayer emerge says it uses the first one as the default language, and one firefox emerge showed all help menus etc in some non-English language.

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc all over again with version 0.2.4-r1

2008-05-23 Thread reader
Andrés Becerra Sandoval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably you didn't etc-updated your system. My box is working correctly, /etc/init.d/net.lo is the attached file, and net.eth0 is a symlink to this file. Do you mean just update the new .cfg files against installed files? Apparently I

[gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm thinking about buying a BlueRay- and HD-DVD-combo reader. Can I use GNU/Linux standard software (mplayer preferred) to watch HD-movies or does its copy protection stop me from using it? If so, are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc all over again with version 0.2.4-r1

2008-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:27:33 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After surviving the initial update to openrc I've now found after an update world that the latest openrc no longer links /etc/init.d/lo to /lib/rc/sh/net.sh. In fact /lib/rc/sh/net.sh is completely gone. So I'm left with

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 May 2008 17:02:19 +0100, Mick wrote: Despite my LINGUAS settings I have noticed that kcontrol only shows US English under languages. Country Region allows me to select UK, but the only option that I have/can add under languages is US. Spelling is en_US, although I would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] High Definition and OSS

2008-05-23 Thread James
Hi list! I'm thinking about buying a BlueRay- and HD-DVD-combo reader. Can I use GNU/Linux standard software (mplayer preferred) to watch HD-movies or does its copy protection stop me from using it? If so, are there any workarounds? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp I think you have to

[gentoo-user] phpldapadmin 1.1.0.5 and firefox 3

2008-05-23 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, is there anyone using phpldapadmin-1.1.0.5 with firefox-3 ? I can't get the login form using ff3. Any idea why not? Thanks in advance, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

[gentoo-user] kernel config ata/atapi and scsi

2008-05-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I remember reading that much of the CDrom et al support now uses the scsi subsystem, but have not remembered enough. I would appreciate answers to the following specific questions. I have a dell insprion 6400 laptop. Using lshw I find that the ide interface contains ATA disk Hitachi HTS72101

[gentoo-user] join two tab-separate-value files without join field

2008-05-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hi. I got a datasheet from my colleague in MS Excel format and I intend to process that file with my awk/sed knowledge. The problem is: he sent me two Excel files each with 2134 records, in fact there should be only one excel file with 2134 rows and 295 columns, but MS Excel can only handle 256

[gentoo-user] Re: is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-23 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:38:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 23. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:57:04 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hmm, maybe I should file a bug for this. NOTHING should EVER mount anything automatically on a users

Re: [gentoo-user] join two tab-separate-value files without join field

2008-05-23 Thread Tim
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hi. I got a datasheet from my colleague in MS Excel format and I intend to process that file with my awk/sed knowledge. The problem is: he sent me two Excel files each with 2134 records, in fact there should be only one excel file with 2134 rows and 295 columns, but MS