Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

2009-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:16:49 Brenton wrote: Hi, When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my change when I edit in grub. I make a change then go back to check and it never saves. I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook. Thanks, Brenton.

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Golden rule with nfs: It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and there is no facility to change uids and gids on the fly.

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Golden rule with nfs: It was designed for the case of a diskless client mounts it's home or root directories over the network, while exporting passwd and shadow files over NIS. That is evident in it's design and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 27 Jul, ABCD wrote: I believe the mask is still in place because of a couple issues with sets, as well as issues with FEATURES=preserve-libs. I don't think so. I'm using the bleeding egde portage since several months now without any problems. These have been mask for 'political' reasons -

[gentoo-user] x11-drivers/at-drivers-9.7 stable?

2009-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have been running x11-drivers/at-drivers-9.6 with my gentoo-sources-2.6.30-rx kernel for several days now WITHOUT any problem (except tons of undesirable log entries). Yesterday, I tried the 0.9.7 version which crashed after a few minutes. Has somebody else made better experience? Many

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drivers/at-drivers-9.7 stable?

2009-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 Juli 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have been running x11-drivers/at-drivers-9.6 with my gentoo-sources-2.6.30-rx kernel for several days now WITHOUT any problem (except tons of undesirable log entries). Yesterday, I tried the 0.9.7 version which crashed after a few

[gentoo-user] publishing ebuilds via bugzilla - bug #279438

2009-07-28 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi all, recently, I have written an ebuild for the program sci-chemistry/gabedit and published it at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279438 I am a chemist, so please excuse the following questions. ;) What will now happen with the published ebuild? Can I somehow help getting it to

Re: [gentoo-user] publishing ebuilds via bugzilla - bug #279438

2009-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 Juli 2009, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Hi all, recently, I have written an ebuild for the program sci-chemistry/gabedit and published it at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279438 I am a chemist, so please excuse the following questions. ;) What will now happen with the

Re: [gentoo-user] publishing ebuilds via bugzilla - bug #279438

2009-07-28 Thread Justin
Hi, try it at the gentoo-science ml or better at #gentoo-science at freenode. First place is the science overlay t get it closer to the tree. Try to find out which dev is interested in similar packages and drop him a mail. I will comment on your ebuild at bgo. justin signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:56:58 +0300 (EEST) Igor Nemilentsev trez...@gmail.com wrote the words: Greetings, I'm having exactly the same problem and have been trying to fix it. Could you please specify where in xorg.conf you placed setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Please

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 13:23:13 Skippy wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:56:58 +0300 (EEST) Igor Nemilentsev trez...@gmail.com wrote the words: Greetings, I'm having exactly the same problem and have been trying to fix it. Could you please specify where in xorg.conf you placed

Re: [gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Tuesday 28 July 2009 09:39:40 Alex Schuster wrote: man 5 exports (at least my localized german version) lists the map_daemon option, which allows mapping of UIDs / GIDs between server and client. This needs the rpc.ugidd to be running on server side. I never did

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Skippy
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:26:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote the words: The problem has little if anything to do with Gentoo developers (who keep things as close to upstream as possible), and everything to do with the upstream developers of Xorg and hal. The fix is per

Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs

2009-07-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Jul, Skippy wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:56:58 +0300 (EEST) Igor Nemilentsev trez...@gmail.com wrote the words: Greetings, I'm having exactly the same problem and have been trying to fix it. Could you please specify where in xorg.conf you placed setxkbmap -option

[gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Mazur
Hello, I have an nVidia card, and I can use the NVIDIA X Server Settings app to dynamically detect and configure displays I connect to my laptop. When I'm done with the configuration, I simply apply it, and keep on truckin' without having to restart X. Doing this manually each time I

[gentoo-user] Kernel configuration and setup hint? - capture audio from usb-video webcam??

2009-07-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I think I git stuck: What devices and what paths are involved, when I want to capture video with audio from my usb webcam? I am using v4l2/alsa/guvcview and linux-2.29.6 vanilla. Any hint, which gives me a direction, in which I can start my search would be very helpful and very

[gentoo-user]

2009-07-28 Thread Alexander
Hello. I've installed recently thunar on my kde desktop and it looks very ugly due to strange icons set. In console output it gives (thunar:4215): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-home' for stock: Icon 'gnome-fs-home' not present in theme So I've installed

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: Hello. I've installed recently thunar on my kde desktop and it looks very ugly due to strange icons set. In console output it gives (thunar:4215): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'gnome-fs-home' for stock: Icon

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-07-28 Thread Alexander
On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: Hello. I've installed recently thunar on my kde desktop and it looks very ugly due to strange icons set. In console output it gives (thunar:4215): Gtk-WARNING **: Error

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-28 Thread Grant
... What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage?  Would each system keep running if the HDs died?  If so, I think that would offer as good or better system

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jul 2009, at 18:52, Grant wrote: ... Is cost-savings the advantage of using CF instead of SSD? It sounds like it might be wiser to spend a little more (low capacity SSD drives are pretty cheap now) and have a real storage device that doesn't need an adapter and is much faster, can swap,

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Alexanderb3n...@yandex.ru wrote: Hello. I've installed recently thunar on my kde desktop and it looks very ugly due to strange icons set. In

[gentoo-user] check for nfs systems offered for mounting

2009-07-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there anyway to check for nfs filesystems that are mountable? Something like smbclient can do for cifs/smb shares. equery tools nfs-utils doesn't show anything likely.

Re: [gentoo-user] check for nfs systems offered for mounting

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Harry Putnam [gentoo-user] [Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:11:44PM -0500]: Is there anyway to check for nfs filesystems that are mountable? Something like smbclient can do for cifs/smb shares. equery tools nfs-utils doesn't show anything likely. Perhaps showmount -e host would be what you

Re: [gentoo-user] check for nfs systems offered for mounting

2009-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 23:11:44 Harry Putnam wrote: Is there anyway to check for nfs filesystems that are mountable? Something like smbclient can do for cifs/smb shares. equery tools nfs-utils doesn't show anything likely. showmount -e [ip|hostname] part of sys-fs/nfs-utils It shows the

[gentoo-user] OT: a script involving an IRC connection

2009-07-28 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I want to write a script that I'll run on my server which will connect to an IRC host and send a message to me if I'm logged on there. It can then disconnect from the server (or just plain drop the connection). Any suggestions as to how to achieve this? I'm reasonably

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:25:19PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after 3 days of re-syncing and retrying. The build dies early on in the patch-appliaction stage, so