Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread fire-eyes
Hmm, I don't know . . . The particular address I was trying to connect was definitely blocked. Other than not beeing able to connect with a browser, nc, httping and tcptraceroute confirmed it). Could it be an area/account specific block perhaps? When I questioned the owner he said that this

[gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of customization that I can do with it. However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? There

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Jamie Dobbs wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of customization that I can do with it. However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread KH
Jamie Dobbs wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of customization that I can do with it. However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread KH
Dale wrote: Jamie Dobbs wrote: Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) No clue on this one. I'm not building a 64 bit rig until I know I can use it and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of customization that I can do with it. However, I do have a few worries - why

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Sergey Kobzar
What does 'wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' command tell? Don't forget stop wpa_supplicant before and reload iwl module. Monday, March 10, 2008, 11:39:55 PM, you wrote: 2008. 03. 10, hetfo keltezessel 22.28-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt irta:

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Jamie, Jamie Dobbs schrieb: Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? Just a few questions before I plunge in to it again :-) you need a 64-bit system only if you have more then 4GB memory on your pc. If not I

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah! Uwe -- Informal Linux Group

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. Huh. Dunno about that. I have a Core2 Duo with 2G RAM here and took kdeenablefinal out of USE

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, 2008. 03. 11, kedd keltezéssel 10.00-kor Sergey Kobzar ezt írta: What does 'wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' command tell? Don't forget stop wpa_supplicant before and reload iwl module. Thank you for you help. I already removed the ipw3945d

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all.   Compile times would be pretty short.  ;-)  Woo Ooo. Huh. Dunno about that. I have a Core2 Duo with 2G RAM here and took kdeenablefinal out of USE last night. Started emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: P. S.  Is this coming through as plain text? Yes. They all do that, sir :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -ep world | genlop -p These are the pretended packages: (this may take a while; wait...) SNIP one lng list Estimated update time: 1 day, 20 hours, 53 minutes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Hmmm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:39:39 +0100, KH wrote: only thing I found out until now is that flash is not working. Maybe this is fixed by now. Install nspluginwrapper and the vast majority of flash sites work. Progress is being made then. The last I heard the

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all.   Compile times would be pretty short.  ;-)  Woo Ooo. Huh. Dunno about that. I have a Core2 Duo with 2G RAM here and took

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah! Uwe -- Informal Linux Group

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Robert Stockdale IV wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. Uwe Dial-up user reporting in here. What is this feature you speak of here? How does this work? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Robert Stockdale IV
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:39:39 +0100, KH wrote: only thing I found out until now is that flash is not working. Maybe this is fixed by now. Install nspluginwrapper and the vast majority of flash sites work. -- Neil Bothwick Actually, Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of sources to be downloaded. It's compiling here right now. On two boxes using distcc. BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. The other lads in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: P. S. Is this coming through as plain text? Yes. They all do that, sir :-) Thanks. Any time they don't, let me know. Here or any other list. I'll get my hammer if needed. :-@ Dale :-) :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:59 +0100 (CET), Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling* Forget compiling OOo, that machine would be fast enough to run it ;-) -- Neil Bothwick In space, no one can hear you

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, I realized, some kernel modules were unloaded. Maybe I only have to load all the required kernel modules, such as: ieee80211.ko ieee80211_crypt.ko ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.ko ieee80211_crypt_tkip.ko ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko Maybe rfkill and rfkill_input I will try again this night :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Amar Cosic
There should be gentoo-chat list -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: KDE 3 is known for its long build times. Thanks to the new build system, KDE 4 builds orders of magnitude faster (kdelibs 4 build takes way less than an hour on my Core 2 Duo laptop, while kdelibs 3 takes more than 3 hours). Oh, oh, oh. 1 hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:59 +0100 (CET), Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling* Forget compiling OOo, that machine would be fast enough to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: There should be gentoo-chat list There is one. We call it gentoo-user. It's a rite-of-passage thing. When you figure out the *real* purpose of gentoo-user, then we let you into the inner circle. Next week's lesson is to figure out the *real* mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. Uwe Dial-up user reporting in here. What is this feature you speak of here? How does this work? Instead of downloading the whole tarball of a new version of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 07:22:38 Jamie Dobbs wrote: I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? Gentoo does not have versions. What you're quoting is the version of the installation CD, which doesn't have to keep up with the

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 10 March 2008 20:33:32 Jan Seeger wrote: Yes, with 2.6.24, iwlwifi is not required anymore. In fact you can't emerge it at all with kernel 2.6.24. Here's my wpa_supplicant.conf and my /etc/conf.d/net Heartfelt thanks from me! Your config has got my wifi working; now I'll have to

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 10:49:02 Pongracz Istvan wrote: I realized, some kernel modules were unloaded. Maybe I only have to load all the required kernel modules, such as: ieee80211.ko ieee80211_crypt.ko ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.ko ieee80211_crypt_tkip.ko ieee80211_crypt_wep.ko After Jan's

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Jan Seeger
On Tue, 11. Mar, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with snip #Network configuration config_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 ) routes_WLAN1=( default via 192.168.178.1 ) dns_servers_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.1 ) gateways_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.1 ) The key

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: KDE 3 is known for its long build times. Thanks to the new build system, KDE 4 builds orders of magnitude faster (kdelibs 4 build takes way less than an hour on my Core 2 Duo laptop, while

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread KH
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:39:39 +0100, KH wrote: only thing I found out until now is that flash is not working. Maybe this is fixed by now. Install nspluginwrapper and the vast majority of flash sites work. cool. Never missed it but it's nice to have it. Thanx

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Shields
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the level of customization that I can do with it. Well then, welcome back. SNIP Also I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 12:36:49 Jan Seeger wrote: On Tue, 11. Mar, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with It doesn't restart automatically here. That is strange. Have you, perchance, edited something in /etc/conf.d/rc regarding the hot-/coldplugging services? Yes, that'll be it. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Naga
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 11:02:16 Dale wrote: [...] I'm sticking with KDE 3 right now. With this dial-up and the frequency of updates, it's just not worth it right now. By the time I get it updated a new set of updates is coming out. Guess I'm nuts since I run kde-svn... ;) -- Naga --

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Jamie Dobbs wrote: However, I do have a few worries - why has there been no 2007.1 release (there was a 2006.1 from what I recall)? security problems popping up always at the wrong time made it almost impossible. So they scrapped it and concentrated on doing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Naga wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008 11:02:16 Dale wrote: [...] I'm sticking with KDE 3 right now. With this dial-up and the frequency of updates, it's just not worth it right now. By the time I get it updated a new set of updates is coming out. Guess I'm

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know *what* parts of KDE I have to re-emerge? (Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Gustavo Campos
Should be enough enable the use flag on your make.conf (xcomposite) and emerge -uvaDN world. Portage will take care of re-compiling only the packages whose USE flag has changed. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know *what*

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: wellwhaddayaknow. There's at least one person in the world more nuts than me: kde-4.0.2 e17-cvs :-) Make that two. o_O Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread BRM
--- Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:39:39 +0100, KH wrote: only thing I found out until now is that flash is not working. Maybe this is fixed by now. Install nspluginwrapper and the vast majority of flash sites work. Yep, running AMD64 at home. For the most

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 11. März 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, Finally the iwlwifi is working on my laptop, BIG FAT thanks to all of you guys! Based on Jan Seeger's config files I modified my config as shown below. Here is my net config: /etc/conf.d/net 8 # WIRELESS

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: set xcomposite in USE. It'll rebuild a couple of things: Hm ... It will only re-emerge kdebase-3.5.9-r1 here. That doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:53:49 +0100 Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: set xcomposite in USE. It'll rebuild a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: wellwhaddayaknow. There's at least one person in the world more nuts than me: kde-4.0.2 e17-cvs :-) Make that two. o_O Bugger. Here's me thinking I was unique in the world. I reckon that fellow who was hinting earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: hm, there is no composite use-flag. Are you sure that you have to re-emerge anything? the flag is xcomposite But I would guess: kwin, kdeartwork and maybe that hideous kcontrol-replacement. /me looks around worriedly... /me thinks I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:08:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Bugger. Here's me thinking I was unique in the world. You are, just like everyone else :) -- Neil Bothwick Did you hear about the blind prostitute? You have to hand it to her. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-11 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, Does anybody have a working pcmcia/usb tv tuner card for linux? I plan to replace our old desktop pc with a laptop and I would like to complete the TV function with the laptop. So, it would be nice to find a working pcmcia tv tuner card. I start to search it using google, but what if

[gentoo-user] what is a normal rsync?

2008-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so I did a emege-webrsync. It appears to have downloaded and installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache: sent 9492088 bytes received 762706 bytes 585988.23 bytes/sec total size is 152597091 speedup is 14.88

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:15:53 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: Does anybody have a working pcmcia/usb tv tuner card for linux? I plan to replace our old desktop pc with a laptop and I would like to complete the TV function with the laptop. So, it would be nice to find a working pcmcia tv tuner

[gentoo-user] kopete and msn contacts

2008-03-11 Thread b.n.
Hi, I switched from aMSN to Kopete to have a decent msn client that also works with gtalk. Unfortunately I found that kopete has some kind of bug with MSN contacts. It's apparently impossible to *add* a new contact (if I try, it says nothing just like it's working, but the contact is not added

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia/usb tv tuner

2008-03-11 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Pongracz Istvan wrote: Does anybody have a working pcmcia/usb tv tuner card for linux? You don't mention what kind of tuner you're looking for - analogue/digital, cable/satellite/terrestrial. Anyway, I just bought a Hauppauge WinTV Nova TD and I'm quite pleased with it. It's a USB 2.0 stick

[gentoo-user] no dma on parallel port

2008-03-11 Thread luis jure
hello list, searching information that could help me solve the problem of my old HP laserjet 1100 printing too slow, i found something about dma and parallel port. i activated ECP on the bios, the address of the port is 378, irq 7 and dma 3. but dma is not activated when booting: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] what is a normal rsync?

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Haggett
Grant Edwards wrote: I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so I did a emege-webrsync. It appears to have downloaded and installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache: sent 9492088 bytes received 762706 bytes 585988.23 bytes/sec total size is 152597091

[gentoo-user] Re: what is a normal rsync?

2008-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-12, Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so I did a emege-webrsync. It appears to have downloaded and installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache: *** Completed websync, please

[gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-11 Thread forgottenwizard
I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup (these will be archived by, probably, dar or tar later on), and was wondering if someone knew what I could strip out. Thanks. --

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-11 Thread Logan McKenna
I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: set xcomposite in USE. It'll rebuild a couple of things: Hm ... It will

[gentoo-user] X server locks up if a 3D game is run

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin Stangl
Hello, I recently bought a new portable with an Intel GMA X3100, which I believe to be supported by the Intel driver. However, when I attempt to run many 3D games (tested with Savage and doomsday-1.9.0_beta5), X locks up and I am seemingly unable to switch VTs. According to its log, however, it