[gentoo-user] FEATURES=buildsyspkg

2008-04-20 Thread Graham Murray
What is the intended logic of buildsyspkg? I assumed that it would build binary packages for all 'system' packages, ie those which would be in a 'stage-2' tarball, but it seems a little arbitrary. For example, it builds binary packages for portage but not for python, for baselayout but not openrc,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Abraham Gyorgy: Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Never do this unless you're using xfs. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

[gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I found my current XServer-setup very inflexible and would like to hear some tips for improving it. What I would like to have is a customizable plug'n'play setup which I can configure without restarting the XServer. Since I have a notebook, there are many occasions where I have to work

[gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Gav -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread William Kenworthy
I think you are looking for problems where they dont exist: point your xorg.conf at /dev/input/mice - then all mice end up under the one reference. i.e., plug in a usbmouse and once the modules are loaded, its automatically seen by the xserver. Keyboards (usb) and the native keyboard (on

Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:48:31AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. usage of my own Logitech mouse as well as typical USB-mice and my touchpad. You probably can define separate device section for: • touchpad • your logitech mouse • any other mouse and in the server layout have touchpad

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-20 Thread Stroller
On 19 Apr 2008, at 21:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: ... Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep throwing stones in a glasshouse. If he's never made a dire mistake then he doesn't live in a glass house. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-20 Thread Justin
Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep throwing stones in a glasshouse. You are right! Once I did this: rm -rv `equery files foo`. This was a brilliant lesson! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-20 Thread Justin
And since so many other people did this too, he just called a LOT of people stupid. Not good. Just said doing this is stupid not those people are stupid!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-20 Thread b.n.
Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works fine. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
b.n. wrote: Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works fine. m. Decent, images clear and sound good. Looks nice on top of monitor. Easy to install! --

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-04-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
b.n. wrote: Gavin Seddon ha scritto: Hi, Can anyone recommend a easy-to-install and decent wc for conferencing? Depends on what you mean with decent. I have a cheap Logitech and it works m. Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 Webcam looks good? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer

2008-04-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on my Intel i945. don't put modes or modelines into your xorg.conf. Let X figure it out. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: The system is back to working now as far as I can tell. Without all of you I would hardly have known exactly how to proceed. With your help I made some headway. Not sure yet whether it will reboot successfully but at least I could emerge coreutils

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Abraham Gyorgy: Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Never do this unless you're using xfs. Bye... Dirk Why? never fsck at boot time - /dev/hda1 /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, den 20.04.2008, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Abraham Gyorgy: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.04.2008, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Abraham Gyorgy: Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Never do this unless you're using xfs. Why? never fsck at

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Never do this unless you're using xfs. Why? never fsck at boot time - Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see below. You stated this (xfs doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

2008-04-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, den 20.04.2008, 19:22 +0200 schrieb Francesco Talamona: You stated this (xfs doesn't need to be checked at boot) twice, but I'd like to read a bit of explanation. fsck.xfs is a dummy. It does nothing. So not calling it at all doesn't make a difference. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this functionality. flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep

Re: [gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 13:39 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this

[gentoo-user] iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed

2008-04-20 Thread »Q«
I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a 4965AGN. I'd been using the iwlwifi package with a 2.6.23 kernel. I just moved to tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r4, so I'm now using the iwlwifi driver that's included with the kernel. Now if I need to restart the wireless interface (using /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed

2008-04-20 Thread Cristian Gary
hi, the fast and not the pretty way to set on the Wireless radio interface ,when you have this problem do this. iwconfig wlan0 txpower on and then /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start On 4/20/08, »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a 4965AGN. I'd been using the

[gentoo-user] Re: iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed

2008-04-20 Thread »Q«
Cristian Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/08, »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a 4965AGN. I'd been using the iwlwifi package with a 2.6.23 kernel. I just moved to tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r4, so I'm now using the iwlwifi driver that's included with the

[gentoo-user] Samba build problem after system update

2008-04-20 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwiński
Hi! I have problem with installing/updating couple apps after system update. After upgrading I've done revdep-rebuild (as usual) and everything is ok. I've try to emerge autoconfig but error also occurred. What should I do with this? Any suggestions? * samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1

[gentoo-user] Index the doc

2008-04-20 Thread alain . didierjean
fter being a user (for at least a year each) of Redhat, Suse, Debian I finally went to Gentoo and intend to stick to it. What I like most: - I had to reinstall only once, when I changed my computer. That's great ! Experience has taught me that, should a new version be issued, the safer and