Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 19 December 2009 12:19:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 19.12.2009 09:08, schrieb Stroller: Could anyone comment? Might it help if you said WHY you're unimpressed? might be ;-) It seems as if my system doesn't benefit that much: With 8 gigs of RAM, suspend-to-ram,

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:03:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Create an local overlay. Put the ebuild in there. I'd also rename the ebuild to something like my-nvidia-drivers That way it becomes a completely new app from portage's point of view and therefore not subject to updated

Re: [gentoo-user] dolphin cannot display chinese

2009-12-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my X it self works well with chinese. but the dolphin does not work well with chinese. if any file contains chinese (or any non-ascii) characters, it simply will not be displayed in the list. how can i fix this? Can you see the file

[gentoo-user] Switching AP from madwifi to ath5k

2009-12-20 Thread Grant
I've tried several times to switch from the madwifi wireless drivers to the in-kernel ath5k. Since I'm up to 2.6.32, I'd like to give it another try. It looks like wlan0 is starting in master mode and my laptop is connecting to it successfully. The problem is that shorewall won't start (for

[gentoo-user] No desktop after login with kdm

2009-12-20 Thread nelis . botha
I had to hardreboot my laptop was totaly unresponsive to any input. Now that I have rebooted I can login with kdm but after that I have no desktop. I can open applications with krunner (alt+f2) but thats it. All the applications looks okay. Any ideas as to how I can resolve this? Ps I am

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-20 Thread Grant
Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong device. Bingo, right as usual!  Apparently I wiped the USB stick.  I ran fdisk and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small Linux on the stick.  For some reason the laptop tell me missing operating

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:56:39PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: Is there a quick way to install a bootloader manually, so I can see if that works? I tried to adapt this but couldn't come up with a procedure I though would be correct: Don't know about the distro you were trying to

[gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on either size or age? I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to rotate on more than one condition. I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more than 12 rotations for whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] dolphin cannot display chinese

2009-12-20 Thread Xi Shen
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my X it self works well with chinese. but the dolphin does not work well with chinese. if any file contains chinese (or any non-ascii) characters, it simply will not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd - bytes at a time

2009-12-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:11:27 +, Stroller wrote: Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite significantly. Thank you. I have always wondered what the optimal bs might be. And why -

Re: [gentoo-user] [lame logrotate Q]

2009-12-20 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone show me how to write a logrotate rule that will rotate on either size or age? I use some very simple scripting for yrs but don't really see how to rotate on more than one condition. I'd like to rotate a certain log weekly or over 7000k and keep no more than 12

Re: [gentoo-user] off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)

2009-12-20 Thread John Campbell
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports button press 13 button press 6 button release 6 button release 13 Similar results for the