[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

2009-10-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP

Re: [gentoo-user] X86 stable emerged a bunch of KDE 4 things. How to use them?

2009-10-26 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:56:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Having just emerged what looked like a couple of hundred things, many of them KDE-4 related, I'm surprised that on reboot I'm still running KDE 3.5. Moreover, there's only /usr/kde/3.5, no 4*. The only change I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:52:26 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Could be over-zealous whittling. Why not use the Live DVD .config unchanged? I assumed there was no need for a 1001 modules for hardware i don't have. That's a correct assumption. The assumption about which options you don't need

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote: On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
I think this problem has now gone away on my machine. I cannot be sure what it was that helped. I removed all qt-* packages, and some of the problematic packages mentioned as depending on the earlier versions. After running # emerge -utv world, I noted some dependencies, and may have

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread walt
On 10/26/2009 02:10 AM, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On 25.10.2009 18:07, walt wrote: It seems that pulseaudio has its own mixer control (not included in gentoo's pulseaudio package) so maybe it does make sense to remove that function from gnome's volume control applet. Looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? If you are using

Fwd: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
2009/10/25 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Sunday 25 October 2009 22:19:11 Mick wrote: # emerge -uatDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge      ] kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.3.1  USE=(-kdeprefix) [ebuild  N  

[gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. When I start ntp, I get frequent time reset messages in the log:

[gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/25/2009 11:37 PM, Grant wrote: After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? If you're using coretemp as sensor, the temps

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp to compensate. Is it physical or virtual environment? If

[gentoo-user] What does the sqlite USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the sqlite USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib). Why?

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the sqlite USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the sqlite USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the sqlite USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the sqlite USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the default in the ebuild seems

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome audio (mixer) question [SOLVED YET AGAIN]

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 26.10.2009 14:19, walt wrote: You say you rebuilt world. Was gnome-media actually rebuild without the pulseaudio Use flag? That's where gnome-volume-control comes from, not from the panel applets package. Yes, I used the usual |emerge -vpDNu world| and that did remerge gnome-media.

[gentoo-user] Re: What does the sqlite USE flag do in Firefox?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/26/2009 06:30 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the sqlite USE flag does for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner.

[gentoo-user] Flash installation?

2009-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, ,,,after upgrading Firefox (-3.014) I was remembered to install the Adobe Flash plugin. I first tried to install it via emerge which fails -- Firefox does not see the installation (yes, JavaScript was enabled and NoScript instructed accordingly). From the Adobe website I downloaded

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash installation?

2009-10-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/26/2009 07:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ,,,after upgrading Firefox (-3.014) I was remembered to install the Adobe Flash plugin. I first tried to install it via emerge which fails -- Firefox does not see the installation (yes, JavaScript was enabled and NoScript

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp large drift (frequency error, frequent time resets)

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 16:23:11 schrieb Jil Larner: Hi, Alexander Puchmayr a écrit : I think I have a problem with the system time, which is considerable too slow. It looses about 3 seconds every 20 minutes (i.e. ~10 secs/hour or 4 minutes per day). This seems to be too much for ntp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash installation?

2009-10-26 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [09-10-26 19:04]: On 10/26/2009 07:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, ,,,after upgrading Firefox (-3.014) I was remembered to install the Adobe Flash plugin. I first tried to install it via emerge which fails -- Firefox does not see the

[gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
Hi. I have a network cardwhich I am trying to start and it has worked before, but today when I tried to start the card, I get the following: RTNETLINK answers: file exists. I notice that its not building the default route. Here are its configs using baselayout2 and openrc 5.2-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 26 Oktober 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a network cardwhich I am trying to start and it has worked before, but today when I tried to start the card, I get the following: RTNETLINK answers: file exists. I notice that its not building the default route. Here are

[gentoo-user] Konqueror race condition when asked to email file

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
I selected a file and then clicked on Send File to email it. Konqueror froze every time (irrespective of the size of the file) and I had to kill it. This is what top showed: 7441 michael 20 0 66600 26m 18m R 39.3 4.2 0:16.06 kdeinit4: konqueror [kdeinit] --silent and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 26 Oktober 2009, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a network cardwhich I am trying to start and it has worked before, but today when I tried to start the card, I get the following: RTNETLINK answers: file exists. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Grant
After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter.  If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal.  Has anyone else seen this? If you're using coretemp as sensor, the temps are always off (the coretemp sensor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 26 Oktober 2009, Grant wrote: After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? If you're using coretemp as sensor,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors much hotter in 2.6.31 than 2.6.28

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31, I noticed my CPU temperatures are reported a full 20C hotter. If I load the old kernel, the reported temperatures drops back down to normal. Has anyone else seen this? If you're using

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

2009-10-26 Thread Grant
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 against xine-lib-1.2 which I need. - Grant

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

2009-10-26 Thread 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 against xine-lib-1.2 which I need. - Grant K3b should do

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 20:06:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: in network: ifconfig_eth0=67.62.15.196 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultroute=67.62.15.1 This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This

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

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 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 against xine-lib-1.2 which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 26 October 2009 16:26:23 Mick wrote: Which I guess proves the point that Dirk is making. If I were to emerge akonadi again, will it pop up everytime I start kmail, knode, etc? No, at least mine doesn't here. I forget exactly what I did to achieve this, it was something like

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

2009-10-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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? media-video/devede http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html I've used it on oBSD and like

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 20:06:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: in network: ifconfig_eth0=67.62.15.196 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultroute=67.62.15.1 This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it?

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

2009-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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 against xine-lib-1.2 which I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 26 Oktober 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 20:06:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: in network: ifconfig_eth0=67.62.15.196 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultroute=67.62.15.1 This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it?

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

2009-10-26 Thread Grant
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? media-video/devede http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html I've used it on oBSD and like it. WOW. Great program! One good tip deserves another so I

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 against

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. The ones that come with newer versions of openrc. If you decide to use them, your configuration now goes into

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:47:43 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it? and that is why I wrote 'in network' But it's only half of the truth. Editing /etc/conf.d/network doesn't have any effect unless you also

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 26 Oktober 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:47:43 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: This only applies if you have switched to new style networking scripts, doesn't it? and that is why I wrote 'in network' But it's only half of the truth. Editing

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. The ones that come with newer versions of openrc. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 October 2009 20:26:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: I forget exactly what I did to achieve this, it was something like having trouble getting akonadi to work right, so I set all the kdepim apps to use the resource files directly in the fashion of KDE-3.5 Can you please share what

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

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge This didn't work, so I looked further and found out

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

2009-10-26 Thread Zeerak Waseem
try adding this to your xorg.conf: Section Serverflags Option DontZapFalse EndSection On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:45:07 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my

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

2009-10-26 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 October 2009 22:55:39 Zeerak Waseem wrote: try adding this to your xorg.conf: Section Serverflags Option DontZapFalse EndSection Thanks, but without a xorg.conf file I found through some experimentation that the solution is to add: merge

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

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringterminate:ctrl_alt_bksp/merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:26:31 Mick wrote: Create the conventional addressbooks as files in ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/resources - exactly as we did in KDE-3.5 Hmm I didn't have any files in there, there were all under ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/* I have set up conventional files or

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

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 00:45:07 Mick wrote: I have been trying to get this to work for some time now. I have followed this upgrade guide and modified my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi to include merge key=input.xkb.options

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

2009-10-26 Thread Denis
Seriously! ;-) You just got to love that hal.  All that when one line does it in xorg.conf.  Yep, it's a serious improvement over the old way.  LOL Dale :-)  :-) P. S.  This was meant to be funny.  Note the LOL at the end.

[gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
My profile has been ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a matter of ln -sf

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Crístian Viana
yes, you can use ln to create a symlink to the new profile, or use eselect to do it for you. $ sudo eselect profile list ... check the number of default/linux/x86/10.0... $ sudo eselect profile set number On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: My profile has

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] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread William Kenworthy
rattus ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: My profile has been ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 I've forgotten about how this is done. Is it just a

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

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:24:32 Dale wrote: You just got to love that hal. All that when one line does it in xorg.conf. Yep, it's a serious improvement over the old way. LOL Dale :-) :-) P. S. This was meant to be funny. Note the LOL at the end. You do understand that in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5]

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output

2009-10-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 10/25/09, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sun, 10/25, Maxim Wexler wrote: === Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. === It looks like you have USB debug turned on. I remember there was a kernel that was released that had that. Normally it's off, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

2009-10-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. I'm not aware of such a subsystem. Can you give an example? Maxim

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] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:31:27 Harry Putnam wrote: My profile has been ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 starting an update system today I'm told my profile is depricated and to update to default/linux/x86/10.0 I've forgotten about how this

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

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: 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

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 deep

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output

2009-10-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
#CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set [edit] CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG = y I turned it off, recompiled, copied the kernel over and rebooted. $dmesg still displays the verbose 'usb-storage' lines and excludes everything else here's a long thread on this same subject

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

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dmesg output - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread Maxim Wexler
Ok, this is too weird. While mucking around in the kernel I noticed that the scroll back buffer wasn't set. So I configured it and gave it 128 bytes to play with. Sez I, well at least I'll be able to scroll back to the start of all that verbiage. That's the only change I've made since turning

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3]

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Dale
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote: rattus ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3]

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
Harry Putnam wrote: In fact what does `developer' buy you? Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing a lot of debugging and testing of ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network

2009-10-26 Thread covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. The ones that come with