Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Greg Turner
The essence of your problem is: you need a working console during your boot sequence if you want to see anything. For an X86 'puter the main two ways to get that are: the VGA console, and the framebuffer console (CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, almost always works in a pinch unless you boot from EFI, in

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:29:34 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is what is happening -- if I do a startx in any console where I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was on the unused one), and I seem to be good to go. However when I try to use gdm, I no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 23.05.2014 21:50, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I am open to suggestions here, and I have a log segment I can put somewhere to illustrage the oh no problem, but I am getting tired of the mess and if I can find something which works with orca I will do that instead. Gentoo is all about

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

2014-05-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 19.05.2014 13:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick: The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what is safe with the current release - hence my question. Oh it does, just take a look at that section:

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:29:34 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is what is happening -- if I do a startx in any console where I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was on the unused one), and I seem to be good to go.

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:29:34 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is what is happening -- if I do a startx in any console where I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was on the unused one), and I seem to be good to go.

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:38:08 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is a link to the messages without me doing anything in gdm at all, just starting it. https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=filest=85cffe78261eacc915379ff5d5449d18 There are some warnings and errors in this

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:38:08 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is a link to the messages without me doing anything in gdm at all, just starting it. https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=filest=85cffe78261eacc915379ff5d5449d18

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Wang Xuerui
2014-05-25 4:20 GMT+08:00 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com: Hi all, Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel 3.12.13. (I just upgraded to 3.12.20-gentoo, so

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:38:08 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, here is a link to the messages without me doing anything in gdm at all, just starting it. https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=filest=85cffe78261eacc915379ff5d5449d18

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 25 May 2014 08:02:49 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: More information, I am not sure if the autostart stuff works at all for orca, but definitely if I hit super-alt-s it does start, but speech is not there, but I can see the process, but I will play some more. Not sure if it needs

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2014 08:02:49 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: More information, I am not sure if the autostart stuff works at all for orca, but definitely if I hit super-alt-s it does start, but speech is not there, but I can see the process, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/24/2014 04:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel 3.12.13. (I just upgraded to 3.12.20-gentoo, so now it's something

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PNG MIMI type

2014-05-25 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 19.05.2014 um 13:52 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 04:43:31PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: My classes have a optical power of about 4-dioptre and I need a special class for screen reading. I'm using XFCE as WM and these are my settings:

[gentoo-user] Opus: using and tagging

2014-05-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey peeps I was wondering whether any of you has made any experience with the Opus media format yet. It’s the new wonder audio codec with superb quality even at very low bitrates. I converted a 200 MB podcast MP3 from 128 kbps stereo to 24 kbps mono with astounding results. But because I

[gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
My php database, address book is set to (according to phpmyadmin): Collation: utf8_general_ci but some French customers have a problem entering their accented characters eg: Bâtiment f22 I was even try to edit the database and enter it by cut and paste and it will not save it. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 25 May 2014 08:12, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/24/2014 04:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel

[gentoo-user] Smart Label Printe SLP 650

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
Is anybody using Smart Label Printer SLP-650 with Gentoo? The cup driver recognized the printer and install it but it is not printing anything, I'm getting: SII_SLP650 SII SLP650 office SII SLP650/SLP650SE, 1.8 Idle - File

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 05:38 PM, Joseph wrote: My php database, address book is set to (according to phpmyadmin): Collation: utf8_general_ci The collation determines e.g. how strings are sorted, but that doesn't mean the database supports utf-8 (although MySQL should by default these days). Try

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
On 05/25/14 19:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/25/2014 05:38 PM, Joseph wrote: My php database, address book is set to (according to phpmyadmin): Collation: utf8_general_ci The collation determines e.g. how strings are sorted, but that doesn't mean the database supports utf-8 (although

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 08:06 PM, Joseph wrote: On 05/25/14 19:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Then, in mysql, run, show create database $your_database; This will show you the default character set, like, /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */ If it says utf8 and you've got those lines in my.cnf,

Re: [gentoo-user] Smart Label Printe SLP 650

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
On 05/25/14 16:47, Joseph wrote: Is anybody using Smart Label Printer SLP-650 with Gentoo? The cup driver recognized the printer and install it but it is not printing anything, I'm getting: SII_SLP650 SII SLP650 office SII SLP650/SLP650SE, 1.8 Idle - File

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
On 05/25/14 21:04, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/25/2014 08:06 PM, Joseph wrote: On 05/25/14 19:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Then, in mysql, run, show create database $your_database; This will show you the default character set, like, /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */ If it says

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 10:43 PM, Joseph wrote: What about the output of show create database $your_database;? Depending on how the database was created, it could still have another character set. I was trying to run this command in phpmyadmin: show create database $temp; I'm getting an error

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
On 05/25/14 23:00, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/25/2014 10:43 PM, Joseph wrote: What about the output of show create database $your_database;? Depending on how the database was created, it could still have another character set. I was trying to run this command in phpmyadmin: show create

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2014 11:36 PM, Joseph wrote: Yes, it worked, and I get: CREATE DATABASE `catalog_sys` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */ so it looks OK I think. Yeah, looks good. Here's what I'm using as a test case. Your columns aren't regular 'char' types, are they? mysql CREATE

[gentoo-user] Re: fstab cleanup

2014-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/05/14 13:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern systemd/gnome3-environment? tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/cdrw /media/cdrecorder auto user,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 You

[gentoo-user] Re: Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/05/14 00:37, Alex Schuster wrote: So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics