[gentoo-user] Re: ftp.kernel.org is dead...long lives...what?

2011-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/20/2011 05:43 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: for a longer time now ftp.kernel.org is not reachable and it seems it is not in the DNS anymore. What is another main server of the kernel sources and not a mirror of the now dead one ftp.kernel.org? https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:19:18 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: [snip] Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) I have those options too. But the team that runs the SAN charges and the rates are not cheap. Yeah, tell me about it. The day after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread James Broadhead
On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: :-)  Example: Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. And forget all about playing music. As requested: http://i.imgur.com/WbQHa.jpg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically run after each update world? (That was actually my original question :-) You should run it first, because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:29:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Well, you have me convinced. I had assumed that a bland revdep-rebuild would catch everything including the library specified. Wrong, I see. Would preserved-rebuild catch everything that the revdep-rebuild fails to catch?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically run after each update world? (That was actually my original question

[gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread James
Howdy, I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. James

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. I did find this: http://www.mplayer2.org/comparison.html I'm still interested in folks experiences or comparisons of mplayer1 and mplayer2 James

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Tue 20 Sep 2011 08:41:13 PM IST, James wrote: Howdy, I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. James

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just playing music. Or mpg321 or mpg123, both of which are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just playing music. Or mpg321

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Thanasis
on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 20 September 2011, 20:19:44 schrieb Thanasis: on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more

Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 the SP 500 was within about .1% of where it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And, as an Amarok user... searching my collection, finding song texts, rating songs, wikipedia information for artist, album or a specfic song, tagging, easy sorting of playlists, bookmarks,

[gentoo-user] Keyboard

2011-09-20 Thread jdm
Fellow Gentoers, I have just bought a nice and shiny new gaming keyboard Solid Year Keysonic KSK-6001 UELX The keyboard works at BIOS, grub and in Windows. But is totally unresponsive using Linux apart from Backspace(lol) After searching the net I found the issue was due to anti-ghosting

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: ... I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be appreciated. I believe this would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:36 +0100 James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: :-)  Example: Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:36 +0100 James Broadheadjamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2011 15:22, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: :-) Example: Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage to display the Gentoo logo at

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2011 12:07 AM, Stroller wrote: On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: ... I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_rc4_p20101114 Any quick education on mplayer 2 would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Confuzzled about bug severity

2011-09-20 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 09/20/2011 12:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I've filed two bug reports today[1][2]. Now, when filing bugs, the dropdown for 'severity' includes Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data. One bug did cause data loss (a configuration wipe; I'm now amused I can use the

[gentoo-user] hardened-sources reverted to 2.6.39-r8 :(

2011-09-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hmm, just ran eix-sync followed by emerge -pvuD @world... And I was unpleasantly surprised when I see sys-kernel/hardened-sources going back from the currently installed (and booting) 2.6.39-r13 to -r8 Changelog does not described why -r13 is pulled. So, what should I do now? Should I recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Confuzzled about bug severity

2011-09-20 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: On 09/20/2011 12:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I've filed two bug reports today[1][2]. Now, when filing bugs, the dropdown for 'severity' includes Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data. One bug did cause data loss (a configuration wipe; I'm now

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-20 Thread Stroller
On 21 September 2011, at 02:37, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/21/2011 12:07 AM, Stroller wrote: On 20 September 2011, at 16:11, James wrote: ... I have not kept up with the mplayer developments. Now I see: media-video/mplayer2 and media-video/mplayer Available versions: