Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something that is not in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Dale
Keith Dart wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:09 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What gets me is this, I even did a fresh install on another hard drive, it don't work there either. hal and friends were included from the very start of the install too. Either I am missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:27:09 Alan E. Davis wrote: I live on a tropical island. I've been going through about all the suggestions people have made and all the ideas I can think of. I have an ancient laptop here that used to lock up in the middle of large compilations, and eventually I

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting a Kernel-2.4 with glibc-2.9?

2009-07-11 Thread daid kahl
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 17:13:16 daid kahl wrote: Hello, I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work. Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 kernel does not

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-11 Thread pk
Dale wrote: Hi folks. Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before, right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is. I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was a nightmare, AGAIN. I want my old way back to say it

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting Cardreader running on Asus F3SC

2009-07-11 Thread Marco
Hi again, I got my card reader running: ~# lspci [...] 09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's root directory, the place where is will find its configuration and stage files

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first  as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5.  That is where I want it to be. Those are two different things. the first is GRUB's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 July 2009, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: from Cacti forums): | grep -v NaN | grep 'row' | tr e ' ' \ | awk {'print Q$2qcq$3qcq$9Q'} \ | tr Q '' | tr c ',' | tr q '' Haven't tested it, but looks like it

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan E. Davis writes: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5. That is where I want it to be. Those are two different

[gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Currently I have xorg-server-1.6.1.901-r4 - as far as all newer ones don't work for me (I mean GL-related things with my intel graphics), while first one makes my son happy with few GL games. So I have masked all xorg-server versions which are later rather one currently installed. Today

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Uh. I wrote: Is there a reason why yo keep having grub on #2? If not, I'd just run grub, enter root (hd0,0) This should be (hd1,0), using the same /boot partition as before. setup (hd0) But the master boot record is on the first drive now. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 17:57:32 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Currently I have xorg-server-1.6.1.901-r4 - as far as all newer ones don't work for me (I mean GL-related things with my intel graphics), while first one makes my son happy with few GL games. So I have masked all xorg-server

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also.

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also. It's pity that portage doesn't support the .deb concept of pinning. I know you can always achieve the same effect with masks, but it would

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alan, On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also. It's pity that

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC [number format] LC_TIME [time format]

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 11 July 2009 20:32:19 William Hubbs wrote: Hi Alan, On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2009 19:24:35 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Find the ebuild in /var/db/pkg/category/package Thanks, it works - just created Manifest also.

Re: [gentoo-user] :-@ Reversing xorg-server, hal and evdev.

2009-07-11 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Dale wrote: Hi folks. Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before, right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is. I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was a nightmare, AGAIN. I want my old way

[gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 08:08 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan E. Davis writes: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote: In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as /dev/sda5. That is where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Jul 2009, at 19:35, walt wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === How to say portage to keep this as is? === I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask e.g.: media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 masks anything greater than that version. (for me, 3D/dri does not work with my Intel chipset (G35) for mesa greater than that).

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 01:13 PM, Stroller wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C I'm reading this as to *only* set

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: === On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === How to say portage to keep this as is? I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask e.g.: media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 masks anything greater than that version. That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific version he

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 07/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific version he needs is no longer in portage, so portage wants to downgrade. Maybe masking lower versions also would do the trick? But putting the ebuild into the overlay is the cleanest solution. ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: grub root (hdnow I hit TAB for a list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] eee PC crashes on shutdown.

2009-07-11 Thread Maxim Wexler
When you do # tail -f /var/log/messages do you see some sort of report when you push SysRq. Yes. Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod SysRq : Emergency Sync Jul 10 21:17:12 zaphod Emergency Sync complete That's strange; I see nothing. Is there a hotkey number associated with it as there is for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for /

2009-07-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thanks to everyone. I feel like this was so easy, how could I have been confused? But I was. Somehow, I was lost for weeks between the ways that Ubuntu and Gentoo handle grub---and I was trying to install unstable ubuntu with grub 2, so that may explain some of it, but not all, surely. I used

[gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri -- FIXED

2009-07-11 Thread felix
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:05:27PM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2. I tried many things,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Dartke...@dartworks.biz wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:22 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: This is NOT the way for Linux to make progress in the desktop wars, folks. Works for me. ;-) But its true that Xorg is making some rapid

[gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6

2009-07-11 Thread felix
This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or adding an entry to package.mask? !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a