[gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

2009-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpxvLIp9fcXV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
that it obsoletes the need for gail? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgptYcNBZfQN8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

2009-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:53 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: 1) vgchange -a n 2) vgexport -a 3) vgimport -a 4) vgscan --mknodes 5) vgchange -a y #5 is all I've ever had to do.

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
direction. --Albert Einstein pgpkTZVqAvC6X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:58 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:49:36 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because I might want to migrate

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-) Use an alias

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug? From the Gentoo Development guide: There are also shortcuts for

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading GCC (just to be sure)...

2009-03-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:56 +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, today after syncing I found new version of GCC being available, emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world shows: [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3 [4.1.2] USE=... I found a Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide, but it deals with GCC

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:49 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in,

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
: No such file or directory Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpdyzFph6WNe.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp4mZtcGGIoY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know about that. How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know about that. How can I revert that mask

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to see if that is your problem. Many thanks (to Albert, as well). I didn't know

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=custom-optimization

2009-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:30 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm wondering how to interpret the custom-optimization use flag which has become much more common in the recent weeks/months. I mean, I understand the basic concept: it either uses the cflags from my

[gentoo-user] Kate doesn't reuse existing process anymore with kde 3.5.0?

2006-01-03 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
://monobrasil.softwarelivre.org - - Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQ7tGh/7iFmsNzeXfAQKJFwf

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ryan Viljoen
. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Joseph
On 07/11/08 20:55, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:48 -0600, Joseph wrote: How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported this type of installation? I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy task. The reason I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:16 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: I'm sorry, I wasnt clear in my original post. When using gnome in ubuntu, clicking the sort by name in nautilus sorts using [Aa]-[Zz] When using gnome in gentoo, clicking the sort by name in nautilus yields A-Z-a-z. The same

[gentoo-user] Re: Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

2008-07-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your LC_ALL environment variable. [~]$ LC_ALL=en_US ls total 56K 4.0K bin/4.0K exclude4.0K Private/ 4.0K Templates/ 4.0K Desktop/4.0K Media/ 4.0K Projects/ 4.0K

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python?

2008-07-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 23:08 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: The safest course is run python-updater-0.2, unmerge python-2.3, update python-updater then run the new version. You shouldn't break too much by unmerging the old version before you run python-updater. A few things may not work, but

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
Albert Hopkins wrote: Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL connections (via HTTP, LDAP, POP). If that's the case then it would be extremely difficult (you will need to fake the server's host keys). Furthermore, the ethics of such a practice

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL connections (via HTTP, LDAP, POP). If that's the case then it would be extremely difficult (you will need to fake the server's

Re: [gentoo-user] way off-topic - is it possible to log webmail messages content in an enterprise network

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Martin
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Eric Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: Doesn't Gmail support SSL? My email provider provides support for SSL connections (via HTTP, LDAP, POP). If that's the case then it would be extremely difficult (you

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc modules args

2008-08-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 08:35 +0200, gigli wrote: Hi I upgraded to openrc on my gentoo system, i use it as a mythbackend + desktop. I need to pass an argument to the module dvb_usb_dib0700 to activate the low noise amplifier, but i can't get it to work. /etc/conf.d/modules looks like this

Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:31 -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: In short, I am working on a server migration going from a physical box to a virtual system. I pretty much need everything (software-wise) identical. What is the best way to do that? I was looking at outputting the data from equery

Re: [gentoo-user] Server migration

2008-08-11 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:44:43AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: The easiest thing to do would be to migrate system, P2V, as is. I dont' know what virtual server software you are using, but there are tools to do this (plus with Linux it's easy enough doing manually). Aside from that if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 17 August 2008 08:29:29 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:20 +0200, econti wrote: So I went to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265 to fix but I understood absolutely nothing. :-( Could anyone explain to me in which manner I should use the bug page

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
dot au The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: Hi, recently (dunno why or when exactly) firefox has started crashing when loading certain pages. Two pages I'm used to access often that are causing the problem are my banking site (once logged in) and linode.com/members...

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:54 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: To back myself up: file name=why_no.py #!/usr/bin/python import random for i in range(1,1): if random.random() 0.001: print rare if malformed beast:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Martin
Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless On 10/30/08, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] Any ideas why

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Albert Hopkins writes: , | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) [blah] Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. Because you haven't set them. Therefore they take

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-31 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm coming into this thread kinda late, so feel free to ignore... ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have

[gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpTpL50C0IQJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to Firefox 3 this no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Moore
On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:54, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... Why do you want to do this? ... I don't understand why. What is your justification for doing that? To prevent his kids

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled something, the word

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:38 +0100, Michele Schiavo wrote: on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident.. Ok, here's is what I found. Both my 32-bit GNOME boxes show about 70-80MB VIRT for gnome-panel. My x64 box shows 303MB. Moreover, top shows the following top memory munchers:

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel eats 350-400 MB

2008-12-03 Thread Justin
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 23:38 +0100, Michele Schiavo wrote: on me, it aet 413.9 of virtual and 44.9 of resident.. Ok, here's is what I found. Both my 32-bit GNOME boxes show about 70-80MB VIRT for gnome-panel. My x64 box shows 303MB. Moreover, top

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in Linux? I sure don't. [snip] My suggestion would be not go go cheap

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-04 Thread KH
Mark Knecht schrieb: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:18 AM, KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins schrieb: Some weeks ago I bought Samsung clp-300 color laser printer for less than 130 Euros. I use cups and I don't have any problems. Did not have to by new color jet. I have been

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpDvvw1Qpctq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Why RAID1?

2008-12-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:30 -0800, kashani wrote: Grant wrote: Do you guys think RAID1 is unnecessary with an SLC SSD drive? No need for RAID1, brand new technology always works right in the first generation. There are never problems. :-D It would be interesting to run RAID1 between an

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:01 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:12 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm getting this: !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: This profile is deprecated. Please update to a 2008.0 profile using eselect profile. and I

[gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpNVj2zf9YMf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
direction. --Albert Einstein pgpmR9mzhVXA3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpkWrOcePJBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Is it possible to use kde3.3 and 3.4 side by side?

2005-05-07 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
. ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQnzi5v7iFmsNzeXfAQJvsAf/a96h7EHwLfezNGWjiWg/kloKbcii/veU mx7AisrjasnsU1JqdFcWFWkwvsphxotNUvW/endOzT/4If8B7YPLaGDZPQ3eD6Om

[gentoo-user] kopete kde3.4 raise window doesn't work anymore

2005-05-21 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
is lame; religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQo9tG/7iFmsNzeXfAQKcoAf/QHolkwzL3QCQPQuBelOwZ1W5RMECbeQm

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Aggelos
on 02/21/2007 08:39 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:58 +, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: [...] I hate to be a nasty evil person and say this, but I will anyway - this has no place on a Gentoo mailing list IMO. Post it in the off topic section

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
The post that I made was satire. Its porpoise was to inspire a laugh, a chuckle, at most a humorous response. Not a debate. Debates are for serious people. Look the fact is every day: * A dolphin is killed * A cow is killed * Someone litters * Someone is killed/tortured

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running vmware via X-Forwarding. Could be bandwidth. Wifi, as

[gentoo-user] Re: X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-22, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:06 -0800, Grant wrote: I wonder if I need more power on the machine running the apps instead of more bandwidth. It has 512MB and I do need to upgrade that, but it feels like a bandwidth problem when I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp error when using elog

2007-02-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 12:15 +, Paul Stear wrote: Sorry for posting this again but can anybody help? How do I find out what 451 Temporary Local Problem is? Paul Hello all, Sometime ago I stopped receiving elog mail messages. The error in the log is:- sendmail: RCPT TO:my email

Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies

2007-03-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Looking at the ebuild, I see nothing particularly outstanding about it's dependencies relative to other GNOME apps, apart from gtksourceview. there's lots of documentation stuff pulled in, although I've switched off the docs useflag

[gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:53:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-03-12, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote That was the old way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new method is devised. The new method

Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1

2007-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:18:54 +, Albert Hopkins wrote: But if you truly want to do an upgrade, would it not be better to do a emerge -Duva world as opposed to emerge -eva. -eva isn't upgrading anything, it's just re-building what you already have, but since many things you have currently

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 March 2007 23:34, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 23:06 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm convinced that I am too tired to understand this because I noticed I have been missing out words in my response (sorry!). Would you mind simplifying it for me? Think about

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can get some

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending console messages on Users

2007-05-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 May 2007 20:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 18:52 +0100, Mick wrote: What is the way to send a console warning to anyone logged on a machine before I reboot it? shutdown(8) does this for you. In addition there is wall(1). Of course wall! I had forgotten about

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-29 Thread sean
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007 14:36, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can

[gentoo-user] Re: Math symbols with emerge -C

2007-06-01 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But that's totally irrelevant as to whether you have other versions of gentoo-sources installed. All that probably indicates is that you *had* them installed at one time, and probably unmerged them. The directories likely still exist because other

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Friday 08 June 2007 12:54, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:05 +0300, Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: Is it safe to move my linux system by using: #cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part 'cp -a' (or better rsync -a) is probably better than 'cp -rp

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced down our throats. I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to be a one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 July 2007 19:28, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 18:04 +, James wrote: I do not have NTFS enabled in the kernel. The wiki on ntfs3g said not to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g Likely because they mutually exclusive (i.e. both are drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. Editing would be nice, but not necessary at this stage and I am looking at kdenlive for

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): A chooser in the GDM/XDMCP sense is a program that lists available hosts to log into (via XDMCP). Thanks. It may be useful some day. Why should you need to write anything. Forget GDM and if you want to run X then type X [ENTER]. If you want Xgl then Xgl [ENTER

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:06 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: [...] I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl. If you'd like to read any details you can take a look at first posts of this topic. Then you probably don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters

2007-01-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:48 +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: Hi everyone, Despite being a Gnome fan, I've been using few KDE apps, such as Amarok and Kile. I've emerged them on my Gentoo desktop with a Gnome environment. Unfortunately I'm not able to force a KDE apps to display Polish diacritical

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture AVI DV, or RAW DV

2007-01-27 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 January 2007 13:49, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:54 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I would like to capture the content of some digital video tapes from a camcorder with a firewire connection onto my PC and burn a DVD with it. Editing would be nice

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Stępień
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): Then you probably don't want to use GDM or any other DM as they are primarily designed to manage displays that are already selected. What you want is more of a chicken-and-egg issue for a display manager. What you likely need is something to be run from

Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto [SOLVED][OT]

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
Albert Hopkins wrote: You didn't do something crazy like put -static in your CFLAGS did you? No, I don't have it in my CFLAGS: grep CFLA /etc/make.conf CFLAGS=-march=pentium2 -mmmx -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} (yes it's an old Compaq Pentium II @400MHz with 128MB RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
I think you confused my message. When I said I've always been told... I didn't mean I was told it was part of the standard, I mean it is common knowledge, common sense, rule-of-thumb, best practice -- whatever. Yes there is FHS but I don't consider it the Bible. most distros break FHS in some

[gentoo-user] 2.6.12.2 hangs a little bit while booting.

2005-07-07 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
- - Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQs3lgv7iFmsNzeXfAQKeAAf/ZcQg9UZ0W

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.12.2 hangs a little bit while booting.

2005-07-09 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
. - -- Regards, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. Npgsql Lead Developer http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql MonoBrasil Project Founder Member http://monobrasil.softwarelivre.org - - Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape won't start

2009-06-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-zero page size is deprecated Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp83NJFgJuQY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords

2009-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:58 +, James wrote: Well, I just tried something that seems to work, but has me confused or missing the routine reading of new portage features. Anyway upon a routine update (using portage 2.2_rc33 and sets for kde4) I got a message: All ebuilds that

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.8 and compiz - hard locks

2009-07-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
Am I the only one experiencing this? I upgraded xf86-video-intel to 2.8.0. After this and other upgrades I noticed my X/GNOME/compiz session kept locking up. It took me a while to deduce it down to the intel driver. Basically what happens this.. shortly after going into X and launching compiz

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 12:05 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: Last week the gentoo forums went down. Then gentoo-wiki.com went down. Now it seems as though all of gentoo.org is down. What's the deal? What are we to do about this shoddy hosting? Gentoo.org works for me. IIRC gentoo-wiki.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:29 -0600, Joseph wrote: On 08/13/09 21:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: So what do you suggest? I mean, other than whinging about something that Gentoo can do absolutely nothing about, what do you suggest one actually DOES? Had a cancel/board[sic] meeting and see if it

[gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics... no This package needs BSD signal semantics to run. sed: can't read

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 13:35 +0200, pk wrote: Questions (I don't know the answers): Doesn't glibc need a rebuild after kernel reconfiguration (such as CONFIG_BSD_...)? I mean glibc doesn't support (kernel) options that the kernel doesn't support, right? Is glibc built against sanitized kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of trouble a few times. Wait until some bastard runs mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.gotcha then you try

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...

2009-08-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 14:45 +0200, Jarry wrote: [...] man sensord: DESCRIPTION Sensord is a daemon that can be used to periodically log sensor readings from hardware health-monitoring chips to syslog(3) ***OR*** a round-robin database (RRD) and to alert when a sensor alarm is signalled;

[gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2009-08-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
just remove django for now... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpKdU1rSAcRP.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 13:58 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: xen requires your cpu support hardware virtulization. and i only heard it support windows, but i do not know how well it supports. Both statements are so very far from the truth: Firstly, PV Xen guests require no hardware virtualization

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVS

2009-09-09 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nick Khamis a écrit : Hello everyone I am having problems with using LVS in Gentoo, I needed the following modules built into the kernel: snipsnip Hi, First, you got two requests in the other thread you post about LVS, one from Albert Hopkins who told you to do a find /lib/modules/$(uname -r

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless does not work on thinkpad t61

2009-09-11 Thread Xi Shen
i solved it. thanks ;) On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:20 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: my laptop is thinkpad t61, and wireless card is intel pro/wireless 3945abg (according to the lspci output). i have configured my kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
yes ... Keith, Albert, James, thanks for your replies ... I will consider trying this although I would prefer not to go completely ~amd64 ... as I am very happy with the overall state of my system ... you know, the old dilemma :-) I will look into getting 2.26 soon, thanks. Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: [very clear, consice, polite answer to the OP's question] And he's right, as a meta distribution, it just works is generally *not* regarded as a Gentoo principle to shoot for. And oddly, in fact, it usually it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 08:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: why is it always vim users who get their panties in a knot about nothing? You are likely wrong about this. I'm willing to bet that a lot of people, even people responding to this thread, are vim users. However most of us know how

[gentoo-user] Re: Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-02, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: It's a distribution where you have to choose your own system logger and compile your own kernel, but when it comes to the text editor they decide to hold your hand with nano? Some of us who are vimpaired think of it more

Re: [gentoo-user] Totem build error

2009-10-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 07:09 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: thanks for your post...but it is not clear to me, what it means -- sorry I am no native english speaker. I did: solfire:/home/mccramerfind /usr/lib/python* -type f -name codegen.py

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 11:58 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: sometimes upstream changes a packet without renaming it This got me thinking. I've been hearing the word packet used a lot lately to describe software. I always think

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict on consolkit -- how to resolve?

2009-10-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 05:34 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am trying to upgrade to the gnome overlay and I get the following slot conflict: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:22:48 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Justin wrote: I would say it is about just to many germans who are translating german words literally into english and as the the german word

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