Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Justin
On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: I've found a few people referencing to a 30-day stabilization policy which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always Good idea. Or use LVM. - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) I like to have many partitions. When my

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do:  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness i found a similar file at /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness. i think they are the same :) should give something like levels:  

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small cluster size maybe. I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. There's no need for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/2/10, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rssamp;subj=newsamp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expecting a discussion then perhaps you'd care to narrow it down

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On 1 March 2010 18:09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: Thanks for the howto, Mick.  I followed it on my Windows Vista Home Premium 64; got The operation completed successfully all the way through, but on reboot I

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On 2 March 2010 10:10, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small cluster size maybe. I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. The data I've seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory relocation

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:30:24 Tanstaafl wrote: Well... my local overlays (that I set up a long time ago) are there... and portage obviously 'touches' those, so... should I move them as well? I wouldn't. I'm happy with the new default arrangement: mainstream packages under /usr/portage;

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 01 March 2010 22:47:36 Neil Walker wrote: There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with 2.6.33. Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory relocation

2010-03-02 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there. That didn't work for me; the current layman script still references the old location; which is why I added the soft link.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread walt
On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rssamp;subj=newsamp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expecting a discussion

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:09:06 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with 2.6.33. Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:07 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, waltw41...@gmail.com  wrote: This article was a big surprise to me.  Am I the last one to hear about this stuff?

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: I've found a few people referencing to a 30-day stabilization policy which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be considered for stabilization, but is there any document that

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com said: I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the arch manager would notice? The general policy is here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: I've found a few people referencing to a 30-day stabilization policy which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory relocation

2010-03-02 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:56:58AM -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there. That didn't work for me; the current layman script

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Walker
Peter Humphrey wrote: There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with 2.6.33. Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. emerge =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.53-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 01 March 2010 22:47:36 Neil Walker wrote: There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with 2.6.33. Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers

[gentoo-user] Re: Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Lie Ryan
On 03/03/2010 04:52 AM, Mark Loeser wrote: Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com said: I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the arch manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:07:21 walt wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rssamp;subj=new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:07 -0800, walt wrote: I've also not heard of the NoSQL movement before The NoSQL movement is long-lasting and continuous. It just changes names every few years :-)

[gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs Konqueror - cpu goes to 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs Konqueror - cpu goes

[gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf

2010-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
For quite a long time I've been using things like: vga=0x31A On the kernel line in grub.conf Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. ## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x305

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:48:36 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:26:35 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards compliant in

Re: [gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: For quite a long time I've been using things like: vga=0x31A On the kernel line in grub.conf Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. ##

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:29:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often,

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:53:29 Dale wrote: without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a tremendous amount of cpu load. Not knowing the site either, my weather radar site locks up when

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo [SOLVED]

2010-03-02 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 01:33, daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. Zsh is a wonderfull shell, but it does have a steep learning curve, due to its many

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:53:29 Dale wrote: without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a tremendous amount of cpu load.

[gentoo-user] do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux?

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
hi, both lvm2 and zfs are copy-on-write snapshot system. do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] emerge uclibc fails after upgrade of linux-headers

2010-03-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there I am trying to build a minimal system for my 128MB USB stick, based on uclibc. I’m in the process of rebuilding system after upgrading gcc from 4.1 to 4.3. During the upgrade, linux-headers was updated from 2.6.23-r3 to 2.6.30-r1. After such an update, the c library needs to be rebuilt