Adam Carter wrote:
Usually you put stuff like that in /etc/sysctl.conf. IIRC the key
is vm.swappiness.
Looking at the man page, I would think you are correct but I don't
see a example on that setting. I'll have to google for it I guess.
Putting it in rc.conf does work
Hi,
this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it.
In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove
the 'hal' use flag.
I have removed it in /etc/make.conf and added 'udev' instead.
The xorg-server definitely doesn't have this use flag set in
/etc/portage/package.use
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:18 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Helmut
Jarausch did opine thusly:
Hi,
this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it.
In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove
the 'hal' use flag.
I have removed it in /etc/make.conf and added
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:22 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Harry
Putnam did opine thusly:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes:
101027 Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if there is some kind of guide to scrap hal.
From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1
Ask not will this work on Gentoo, rather ask will this work on
Linux!
Your answer is very interesting, Iain.
I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision ;-)
Thank you very much for the explanation.
Roger
On 10/28/10 10:22:42, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:18 on Thursday 28 October 2010,
Helmut
Jarausch did opine thusly:
Hi,
this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it.
In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove
the 'hal' use
On Thursday 28 October 2010 00:21:25 Dale wrote:
It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho.
I didn't suggest you should run without X all the time :-)
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:10 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Helmut
Jarausch did opine thusly:
Many thanks, Alan.
Meanwhile, upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 went smoothly and
I've removed /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi
where I had some settings for the keyboard and the mouse.
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:24 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Peter
Humphrey did opine thusly:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 00:21:25 Dale wrote:
It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho.
I didn't suggest you should run without X all the time :-)
Why not? If he was using my
The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You
can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers
for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo.
N series is not listed on Gentoo wiki but
On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote:
I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho. I read somewhere the
switch is coming. I think it is switching to policykit at some
point. I notice it is already in the USE flags for kdelibs here,
disabled here at the moment tho. That would be
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI. I could have
used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox. ^_^ Gmail has
web access so I could do it that way I guess.
You can, in fact, also read G-mail with Mutt
The best would be to run lspci on the machine as others suggested. You
can paste the lspci -n output here and get the availability of drivers
for linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
There is also lists of hardware/laptops known to be working on Gentoo.
N series is not listed on Gentoo wiki
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote:
I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho. I read somewhere the
switch is coming. I think it is switching to policykit at some
point. I notice it is already in the USE flags for kdelibs here,
disabled here at the
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 00:21:25 Dale wrote:
It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho.
I didn't suggest you should run without X all the time :-)
I know. I could check it with Lynx but I would have to gargle my mouth
first. lol
Dale
Hi there, i've installed a debian/zimbra inside a chroot envorment using
gentoo. But, the command df -h don't work cos i don't have /etc/mtab
arch in chroot. How i can sync/create, or make df -h work correctly.
For now, i gain this message:
*/bin/df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No
Hi,
ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
ose is the open source edition
bin is the binary
You can read about the difference http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions
best regards
Petri Rosenström
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Zhu Sha Zang zhushaz...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
Hi there, i've installed a
On Thursday 28 October 2010 11:46:30 Dale wrote:
Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya?
Any gotchas? May try it here.
No problems so far. I had to unmask a more recent version of xorg
because version 1.7.7 was incompatible with kernel 2.6.36. Well, I could
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:46 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote:
I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho. I read somewhere the
switch is coming. I think it is switching to policykit at
After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup perl-cleaner --all
When I run emerge --depclean it asked me to removed the following packages
listed below.
However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I need
them? (I retained them all)
virtual/perl-Package-Constants
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes:
The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting some strange errors when using
'sql-ledger' eg.
Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at SL/IS.pm line 582.
The 'XXX is depreciated messages are not normally errors. They are just
to inform you that the script
On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup perl-cleaner --all
When I run emerge --depclean it asked me to removed the following packages
listed below.
However, when I check all of them are needed by some other packages. Do I
need
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:46 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 04:50:18 Dale wrote:
I think KDE is moving away from hal to tho. I read somewhere the
switch is coming. I think
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:36 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it.
What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it, until it's ancient, not
supported and your box won't update world anymore so you are up the
On 10/28/10 15:05, Mick wrote:
On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup perl-cleaner --all
When I run emerge --depclean it asked me to removed the following packages
listed below.
However, when I check all of them are needed by
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:26, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:22 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Harry
Putnam did opine thusly:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes:
101027 Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if there is some kind of guide to
On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:35:49 Alan McKinnon wrote:
xorg-server 1.8 and 1.9 use mesa-7.8.2, and there's reports around
that that version of mesa causes desktop slowdowns. mesa-7.7.1 as
used by xorg- server-1.7 is reported to be fine
This box has been the most sluggish box I've ever seen
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:36 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it.
What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it, until it's ancient, not
supported and your box won't update
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes:
over the last week or so I've noticed unusually large swap usage. I
usually hibernate this laptop and have uptimes up to 12 days so apps can
run for a long time.
Hello Iain,
From a hardware guy; If you really need hibernate, use it.
No
On 10/28/10, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
I've posted this message on Gentoo forum and user krinn suggested to file
a bug as depclean not suppose to remove package that depend on
packages that are still in use.
I'd imagine most items on your list are simply build-time
dependencies, and
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
That's one thing about Gentoo, you get new stuff pretty quick even if you
run stable. If you run unstable, you get things really quick, bugs and all.
;-)
Unstable is still pretty stable. If you really want to have fun start
101027 Dale wrote:
Have you looked at Mutt ?
I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI.
I could have used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox.
Well, everyone's preferences are different. However,
Mutt isn't command-line, rather it's text-based, ie non-GUI:
it has a
On 10/28/10 15:05, Mick wrote:
On 28 October 2010 13:58, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
After upgrading to Perl 5.12 and all cleanup perl-cleaner --all
When I run emerge --depclean it asked me to removed the following packages
listed below.
However, when I check all of them are needed by
101028 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Harry Putnam did opine thusly:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes:
From my notes, having done it on 2 desktops machines + 1 netbook :
To remove Hal : drop '-hal' flag, add 'udev' flag ;
So no kind of hal flag in make.conf
or is `-hal' a typo that should
Hi,
how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and
mask one particular version of that package? I want to use
that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue
with any future higher upgrades (x.y.z+1).
So I entered tree/package in /etc/portage/package.unmask, and
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
My fast desktop with Core i7 920, Nvidia GX 240, has a
slower KDE UI than my 6-year-old laptop that has AMD Athlon 3200+ and
ATI Radeon Mobility 9700. Simply opening a konsole window on my
desktop with
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 20:13, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and
mask one particular version of that package? I want to use
that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue
with any future higher upgrades (x.y.z+1).
So
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:11:42 +0300, Fatih Tümen wrote:
I agree putting -hal is not a good idea unless you dare to break the
packages that need hal. But I think there is a third option here
Packages that need hal won't have a hal use flag.
--
Neil Bothwick
Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:13 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Jarry did
opine thusly:
Hi,
how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and
mask one particular version of that package? I want to use
that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue
with any future
/imagemagick-6.6.2.5',
* the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5'.
* The complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/media-gfx:imagemagick-6.6.2.5:20101028-182120.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx
Dale asks:
They are probably already moved away from hal. Everybody knows it is
going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too. I'm still on
1.7.*.
Me too.
Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya?
Any gotchas? May try it here.
X starts, but crashes
--info
=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5', * the complete build log and the output
of 'emerge -pqv =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2.5'. * The complete build log
is located at
'/var/log/portage/media-gfx:imagemagick-6.6.2.5:20101028-182120.log'. *
The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:13 +, James wrote:
Hello Iain,
hey :)
From a hardware guy; If you really need hibernate, use it.
No laptop was designed to stay powered on continuously
despite the features in software and hardware.
[snip]
If you need hibernate, use it. If you do not, your
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:08 +0200, Roger Cahn wrote:
Ask not will this work on Gentoo, rather ask will this work on
Linux!
Your answer is very interesting, Iain.
I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and
whatever else it might be!
I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops and
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