On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks everyone for all the suggestions.
I am currently waiting for emerge -DuvaNe systemsettings to finish,
Ill keep the list up to date on my success.
Regards
Dirk
Even re-emerging half of my system didn't resolve the
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote:
Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more
complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten
it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very powerful
shell.
Same goes for my other
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:46:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Man pages are mostly written as reference documents. Like technical
specs, they tend to list the capabilities of the app without giving the
bigger picture overview as that is assumed to be known.
That's right,they tend to assume that you
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Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people
who don't
read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something
does not
work.
On Friday 06 February 2009 10:57:51 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:46:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Man pages are mostly written as reference documents. Like technical
specs, they tend to list the capabilities of the app without giving the
bigger picture overview as that is
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:11:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If Grandma can easily use Google to find new shortcake recipes (an
entirely reasonable thing for Grandma to do in this day and age), then
it is not unreasonable for savvy users to have a look at the man page
and say
Oh look, this is a
Dear guys,
After a long time, I try to use again screenkast + libinstrudeo.
Ages before I did use it but nowadays (about in the last 6 months or
more) I cannot compile libinstrudeo because there are some compiling
problem.
These packages are in the sunrise overlay.
So, I guess there is a
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.09-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta:
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta:
Ok, this was the easy part. I deleted the at the code, but new compile
problem appears.
Does anybody knows, how to compile this stuff without rewrite
Hello all,
I have the above tablet and have been trying to get it working with Gentoo.
The problem seems to be that the kernel driver is USB and all instructions I
can find seem to concentrate on the USB versions of Wacom products. I am
using:
Portage 2.1.6.4
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote:
Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more
complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten
it unless you take features off from bash. It's
Hello,
I'm currently googling around for some insight into an extremely
annoying feature (or a bug?) which appeared with KDE 4.2, and/or the
xorg-server upgrade to 1.5.3-r2 that I did along with the kde upgrade.
The problem reveals itself when I press ctrl+c in some KDE
applications and that it
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with
AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets?
Especially what to specify for
SATA
AHCI. Please set ahci mode in bios.
Audio
repends on the chip used. Probably a hda realtek. In that case:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2009 14:36:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what
you are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part
they hid the information you are
* Arttu V. (arttu...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 13:37]:
Hello,
For example, KOrganizer edit menus still show shortcuts for copy,
paste, etc as ctrl+something (ctrl+c for copy). However, when I'm
adding a new event or todo and press ctrl+c to copy some text around
-- boom, X closes itself and
Hi,
does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with
AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets?
Especially what to specify for
SATA
Audio
network device
Many thanks for a hint or pointer.
Helmut.
--
Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen,
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over
quickly.
The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you
move around in a
On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over
quickly.
The kde ioslave for info
On 2/6/09, Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote:
Some application does not capture ctrl+c, which is normaly the interupt
shortcut in bash. So it surely is passed down to bash which intrupts
startx, since it is the active job.
I bet it won't happen with any Xsession started from
Hi,
im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is
there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create
such a package, and how?
Regards
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over
quickly.
The kde ioslave for info makes this
On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
you don't know what you are looking for you can
On Friday 06 February 2009 12:36:37 Arttu V. wrote:
Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially
solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie
mistakes.
Well, you did ask |-)
I think I'd start by looking for CTRL-C assignment in kxkb. A quick way to
I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge
@kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away
that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my
emerge -u... world. In fact, it only showed the user name and directory
that I was
Frank Schwidom wrote:
Hi,
im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is
there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create
such a package, and how?
Regards
What exactly are you trying to do?
LANG usually specifies the language you want software to
On 6 Feb 2009, at 13:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
...
Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just
about
anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a
single
page.
AIUI info pages are compiled from Texinfo source and thus can be
automagically
On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote:
...
Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially
solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie
mistakes.
Have you run revdep-rebuild?
Stroller.
On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote:
On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:16:36 -0600
Chris Lieb chris.l...@gmail.com wrote:
1) I use sync-eix to update portage and my overlays (via layman). I
want the client to still be able to run sync-eix, but have it only run
`emerge --metadata` (no `emerge --sync` or `layman --sync ALL`). What
do I
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta:
Dear guys,
Here is a snippet from the compile problem:
isdffmpegexporter.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void
ISDFFmpegExporter::cleanup()’:
isdffmpegexporter.cpp:208: error: cannot convert ‘ByteIOContext**’ to
On Friday 06 February 2009 14:36:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what
you are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part
they hid the information you are looking for. Oh - and the navigation? A
nightmare.
On 2009-02-06, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote:
Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more
complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten
it unless you take features off from bash.
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to
use the generic x86_64 option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an
IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the
kernel, or modules
On 2009-02-06, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know
exactly what you are looking for, you are lost. And you can
never sure in which part they hid the information you are
looking for. Oh - and the navigation? A
On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote:
Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on
just about anything, searched and either split into chapters
or presented as a single page.
The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
invented HTML, not
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote:
Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on
just about anything, searched and either split into chapters
or presented as a single page.
The cynic in me says that it's because Tim
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes:
Does that mean my memory card is good to go, or should I use some other
method of bad sector detection?
Hello Iain,
Hard to tell. Even repeated memory tests may/maynot find your gremlin,
i.e. bad memory. Also, just because it failed once, does
On 2009-02-06, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd wager to think that if we did use HTML, we'd simply argue
about the order of it's presentation or use of bold and
underlines.
And let's not forget blinkFlashing Text!/blink (shudder).
Oh no, it's 1999's geocities all
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Chris Lieb wrote:
I have read the guide on gentoo-wiki about setting up portage to work
over NFS[0] and have it mostly working. I have two issues that I would
like to work out:
1) I use sync-eix to update portage and my overlays (via layman).
sean tech.junk at myfairpoint.net writes:
Once you go through the steps instructed here,
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
cool
Can the live CD install be altered to work just like a normal Gentoo system?
I have managed to get my hands on a 16GB flash drive, and am thinking of
On 2/6/09, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote:
...
Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially
solution) is most welcome, including pointing out stupid newbie
mistakes.
Have you run revdep-rebuild?
Yes to
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:10:34 schrieb Chris Lieb:
I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge
@kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away
that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my
emerge -u... world. In
2009/2/6 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
If you are booted off a Gentoo CD and possibly others as well, lspci -v
can be a real good friend. It will tell you what drivers are being used
for what. Then just find those in the kernel config and enable those.
Dale
:-) :-)
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote:
Frank Schwidom wrote:
Hi,
im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is
there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create
such a package, and how?
Regards
What exactly are you trying to do?
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked:
On 2/6/09, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 12:36, Arttu V. wrote:
...
Any insight on where to start looking for the problem (and especially
solution) is most welcome, including
Frank Schwidom ha scritto:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote:
Frank Schwidom wrote:
Hi,
im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is
there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create
such a package, and how?
Regards
What
* Frank Schwidom (schwi...@gmx.net) [06.02.09 19:43]:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote:
I want to handle html-files like UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 files.
???
Where, why, whatfor?
I still not get it.
-vv
More context: Any specific app, any special purpose and what's not
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to
use the generic x86_64 option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an
IA64 system. In
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled
to use the generic x86_64 option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and
an IA64
On 05/02/2009, Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey guys.. random Linux question.
If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to
is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing
it?
Take a look at app-misc/screen. Although
Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com writes:
The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
largely correct.
There is entirely to much made of RMS. I don't know him personally
and just a
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
info?
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]:
Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI
installer ;)
No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you
install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read the
documentation,
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
info?
You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the
discussion.
I know you are not incapable of installing emacs and we both know you
can read info
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
What the heck is a Windows Installer?
*SCNR*
Bye...
Dirk
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On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
info?
You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the
discussion.
I know you are not incapable of
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
What the heck is a Windows Installer?
*SCNR*
Thirty five reboots and several hours
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
What the heck is a Windows Installer?
*SCNR*
Thirty
Howdy,
Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I
have grub menu of:
* Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz)
* Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old)
* Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1)
Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote:
...
so I created a file:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=Desktop/random.img bs=1024 count=500960
It has just occurred to me:
In the UK you can be imprisoned for failing to provide an encryption
key corresponding to this file.
Stroller.
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I
have grub menu of:
* Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz)
* Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old)
* Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1)
Then when
Harry Putnam wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
What the heck is a Windows Installer?
*SCNR*
Thirty five reboots and several hours
Sorry, can't resist
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
I found what I think is the instructions I used before:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing
which basically say to emerge debianutils
The problem I'm seeing is that make install is including the version
Roy Wright wrote:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther:
Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer
What the heck is a Windows Installer?
*SCNR*
Thirty five reboots and several hours
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
info?
You appear to be taking a potshot, not really
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi all,
recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of
photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the
backup...) but fortunately I was able to use a program to recover
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Good luck! In case you can't get it working reliably, Newegg has an
8gb CF card for $19.99 free shipping :)
Oops, never mind that part, I see you're in AU not US. My mistake! I
am an American after all, sometimes
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Pongracz Istvan
pongracz.ist...@gmail.com wrote:
2009. 02. 6, péntek keltezéssel 11.01-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta:
Dear guys,
Here is a snippet from the compile problem:
isdffmpegexporter.cpp: In member function 'virtual void
ISDFFmpegExporter::cleanup()':
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daid kahl wrote:
Hello,
I have encountered a problem maintaining my system using revdep-rebuild. I
have both gcc-3.4.6 and gcc-4.3.2 installed on my machine. I mainly use
gcc4, but sometimes I need g77 because many people at my laboratory use
2009/2/6 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de:
Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:10:34 schrieb Chris Lieb:
I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge
@kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away
that the title bar of Konsole did not update
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]:
This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD,
boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it
install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL
your software is already
Sebastian Günther wrote:
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]:
This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD,
boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it
install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL
On Samstag 07 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to
read info?
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