On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
was written in the Wiki or
Walter Dnes wrote:
I intend to get the Silicon Dust HDHomerun dual tuner box. It has a
linux library and CLI plus a separate gtk+ GUI. The linux source comes
with a makefile that puts stuff in /usr/local. But I want at least a
wrapper ebuild so that Portage knows about the files, and can
On 18. 4. 2010 8:57, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
* there is an option for the kernel that must be enabled at
compile time that enables automatic RAID detection and assembly by the
kernel before mounting /, but it works only for MD metadata 0.96 (see
[1]);
* the default metadata for
Hi,
for whatever reason my mousewheel is no longer working after upgrading
zu the latest X-Org server (and corresponding libraries). Here's the
excerpt from the xorg.conf that is relevant:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
Option ProtocolIMPS/2
Option Device
On Sunday 18 April 2010 06:09:38 Adam wrote:
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
way to do it?
You could create a new
Hi,
I came accross this problem:
I did a revdepü-rebuild, which reports, that media-video/cinepaint:0
is broken and no ebuild could be found:
* Portage could not find any version of the following packages it could build:
* media-video/cinepaint:0
*
* (Perhaps they are masked, blocked, or
On Sunday 18 April 2010 08:53:43 Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
for whatever reason my mousewheel is no longer working after upgrading
zu the latest X-Org server (and corresponding libraries). Here's the
excerpt from the xorg.conf that is relevant:
Section InputDevice
Identifier
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:57:38 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
Also a question for about /boot on RAID1... I didn't manage to
make it work... Could you Neil please tell me exactly how you did
this? I'm most interested in how you've convinced Grub to work...
You just don't tell GRUB
you can either delete it from /var/lib/portage/world or run emerge
--depclean; that package should be removed.
On 04/18/10 11:02, Jonathan wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:29:37 +1000
Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
sudoedit is mainly just a shortcut for sudo $EDITOR (plus doing a
few things).
sudoedit is safer then sudo because sudoedit runs as root but nano
(The editor) runs as your user.
Am 18.04.2010 10:18, schrieb Crístian Viana:
you can either delete it from /var/lib/portage/world or run emerge
--depclean; that package should be removed.
I would add ask and verbose to this.
emerge -av --depclean
This gives you a little more chance to see what will be happening.
kh
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 07:53:43AM +, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
for whatever reason my mousewheel is no longer working after upgrading
zu the latest X-Org server (and corresponding libraries). Here's the
excerpt from the xorg.conf that is relevant:
Section InputDevice
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:09:42 +0100, Mick wrote:
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to
my grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the
right way to do it?
You could
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:13:58 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
* Portage could not find any version of the following packages it
could build:
* media-video/cinepaint:0
*
* (Perhaps they are masked, blocked, or removed from portage.)
* Try to emerge them manually.
What I the best
Hi,
I'm using LVM, having / and /home as logical volumes and a backup script
creating a logical snapshot volume of each in the process.
Since I use gentoo (comming from arch), my backup script fails rather often
with the error message 'Can't remove open logical volume volume'. The script
I have been playing with KVM (replacing VMware-Server) and I need to setup my
network for the Guests like this:
8---
brctl addbr br-eth1
brctl addbr br-eth2
Hi,
b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format
which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes.
To use it, one needs a tool made by WD which only runs under windows.
Or?
Is
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be
possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,
which is currently unpartitioned and unformatted electrically
wired with my PC
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 02:21:19PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be
possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,
On 04/18/10 22:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be
possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,
which is currently
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:57:05PM +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
On 04/18/10 22:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be
possible to install
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem zeera...@gmail.com [10-04-18 15:28]:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:57:05PM +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:
On 04/18/10 22:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
Precisely.
However, you will have to be able to compile a compatible kernel from
your PC. Compatible
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format
which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes.
To use it, one
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-04-18 16:00]:
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
Precisely.
However, you will have to be
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [10-04-18 16:12]:
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format
which turns out to
On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
Precisely.
However, you will have to be able to compile
dhk dhk...@optonline.net [10-04-18 16:20]:
On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
On 2010-04-17 6:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
emerge -e
On Sunday 18 April 2010 06:41:47 Adam wrote:
i guess this means i should point l4 to a custom runlevel in
/etc/runlevels that is the same as default with the exception that
xdm is removed...
That's what I do. I have /etc/runlevels/no-x/ which contains all the
services I want started if I
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
I intend to get the Silicon Dust HDHomerun dual tuner box.
Walt,
I own an HDHR and it's been a great little box for the last couple
of years. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have.
That said watch out for what's
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Empirically any way there doesn't seem to be a problem. I built the
new kernel and it booted normally so I think I'm misinterpreting what
was written in the Wiki or
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
For the purpose of posterity:
The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define
a fall back smtp server.
Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up giving help.
Did someone answer your question privately?
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world, where are
the info/warn/errors logged? I see a whole bunch of separate/individual
logs ion /var/log/portage/elog, but what I'm looking for is a single,
easily readable log of all of the result
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:16 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format
which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes.
To use it,
On 2010-04-18 11:38 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world, where are
the info/warn/errors logged? I see a whole bunch of separate/individual
logs ion /var/log/portage/elog, but what I'm looking for is a
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 6:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile
everything *but* gcc)?
Of course I meant:
On 4/18/10, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
You could try temporarily masking it:
#echo sys-devel/gcc /etc/portage/package.mask
Then updating:
#emerge -e system
Then removing the mask:
#sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask
I don't know of any emerge flag that does this in
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles.
not very nice, but will work without breaking anything.
Dang - I already started the emerge...
I'm surprised there's no easy way to do this... I guess just because you
don't
On 2010-04-18 11:54 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
On 4/18/10, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
You could try temporarily masking it:
#echo sys-devel/gcc /etc/portage/package.mask
Then updating:
#emerge -e system
Then removing the mask:
#sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask
I don't
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [10-04-18 17:44]:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:16 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls Advanced Format
which turns out to be
On 2010-04-18 11:57 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles.
not very nice, but will work without breaking anything.
Hmmm... clarification though... when you say 'kill something'... how
would I
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc compiles.
not very nice, but will work without breaking anything.
Dang - I already started the emerge...
You can still
On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
dhk dhk...@optonline.net [10-04-18 16:20]:
On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
a bunch of files to a partition
On 04/18/2010 12:30 PM, dhk wrote:
On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
dhk dhk...@optonline.net [10-04-18 16:20]:
On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc
compiles. not very nice, but will work without breaking
anything.
Dang - I
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
Is there a way to emerge, say, system, but omit one package in it?
For example, I've already recompiled gcc 4.3.4 with itself... is there a
way to now do something like:
emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill something when gcc
compiles. not very
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:38:19 Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world
Why are you doing that? Have you verified that you have in fact updated gcc
from one version to another with an incompatible ABI?
There is a
On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote:
Crap, doesn't look like this will work...
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to
On Sunday 18 April 2010 14:21:19 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am reading the Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a
new Gentoo-System via boot-CD.
If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it be
possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,
which is
On Sunday 18 April 2010 07:21:56 Dale wrote:
Adam wrote:
I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do
something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my
grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right
way to do it?
On 2010-04-18 1:11 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote:
On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote:
Crap, doesn't look like this will work...
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked.
!!! One
On Sunday 18 April 2010 05:05:23 walt wrote:
On 04/17/2010 06:02 PM, Jonathan wrote:
What does the E in EUID stand for?
I did a quick Google and found RUID and EUID but I did not find anything
else.
Did you really type what you meant? Doesn't make much sense as is, so I
assume there is
On 2010-04-18 1:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:38:19 Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world
Why are you doing that?
Because it wasn't a minor bugfix update? I'm going from 4.1.2 to 4.3.4.
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:38 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world, where are
the info/warn/errors logged? I see a whole bunch of separate/individual
logs ion /var/log/portage/elog, but what I'm
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
SNIP
Hi Gandalf,
thanks a lot for your extensive explanations!!!
Unfortunately, I already bought two of those drives...according
to your explanation about the expected lifetime of those I think
I have done the complete wrong
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
SNIP
Hi Gandalf,
thanks a lot for your extensive explanations!!!
Unfortunately, I already bought two of those drives...according
to your explanation about
On Sunday 18 April 2010 07:41:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 4/18/2010 12:29 AM, Jonathan wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:46:25 +0100
David W Noondwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
If any Joe Schmoe could imbue a program with capabilities, this might
be true. But that's not the way the system
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:04:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That's what I do. I have /etc/runlevels/no-x/ which contains all the
services I want started if I boot a CLI-only system. It's sometimes
handy to have all the virtual consoles available, so single mode
doesn't help here.
That's whay
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:16:55 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
any hint for a keyword other than advanced and format ???
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
Total: 351 packages (351 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 5 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
[0] /usr/portage
[?] indicates that the source repository
On Sunday 18 April 2010 19:37:40 Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 1:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:38:19 Tanstaafl wrote:
I must be missing something obvious...
When updating gcc, and thus emerging -e both system and world
Why are you doing that?
Because it
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Hi, currently I am reading the
Gentoo-Handbokk about installing a new Gentoo-System via
boot-CD.If I have a running Gentoo-Sytem on my PC...would it
be possible to install a new Gentoo-System on a fresh harddisk,
which is currently unpartitioned and
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:13:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm not sure that we good advice or not for RAIDs that could be
assembled later but that's what I did and it leads to the kernel
trying to do everything before the system is totally up and mdadm is
really running.
I only have one RAID1
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:37:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
Like I said, I have a bunch of *individual* logs (for individual
ebuilds)... I was hoping for something a little easier to manage/read,
all in one file...
My preferred approach is to add mail to PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM to get each
elog message
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:56:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=warn error log qa
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save
I have the last two, but didn't have the first - just added it...
I think that's the default. I have it just to be explicit.
Hello,
I've got a box with two processors so i have MAKEOPTS set to -j2. One
package gnome breaks during compile under these circumstances so am
wanting to install it and only it with MAKEOPTS set to -j1 i'm
thinking i have to put a file somewhere to pass custom make options to
emerge gnome, but
Dear all,
I use a Compaq 7550 monitor. It's a CRT.
Currently, I can not adjust the refresh rate under Gentoo, but it was
adjustable when it was running Ubuntu. I think I may need to copy the
X configure file or some sort of CRT driver file from Ubuntu. What do
you think? Any suggestion please?
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 02:46:58PM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
I've got a box with two processors so i have MAKEOPTS set to -j2. One
package gnome breaks during compile under these circumstances so am
wanting to install it and only it with MAKEOPTS set to -j1 i'm
thinking i have to put a file
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote:
Dear all,
I use a Compaq 7550 monitor. It's a CRT.
Currently, I can not adjust the refresh rate under Gentoo, but it was
adjustable when it was running Ubuntu. I think I may need to copy the
X configure file or some sort of CRT
On 2010-04-18 1:09 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 11:45 AM, Johannes Kimmel wrote:
well... you could use --keep-going and kill
Thanks for your reply Hemman! I'm using HAL to configure X. Currently
not xorg.conf is placed under /etc/X11. Shall I copy the xorg.conf
file from Ubuntu to Gentoo?
Chen
On 4/18/10, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 03:54:38PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 3:49 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 1:09 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:26PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-04-18 12:29 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:57:48AM -0400,
On 2010-04-18 3:57 PM, YoYo siska wrote:
Will etc-update still prompt for all necessary changes for config
files for *all* of the installs done, considering I did ctrl-c 3
times (glibc, and both gcc's)?
yes, if new config files got installed, etc-update will show them (I
think it uses 'find'
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, Xianwen Chen – Uni. Tromsø wrote:
Thanks for your reply Hemman! I'm using HAL to configure X. Currently
not xorg.conf is placed under /etc/X11. Shall I copy the xorg.conf
file from Ubuntu to Gentoo?
you could do that. But check for changes. You could also post it here
On 2010-04-18 1:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:00:40 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get:
emerge -pev world
snip
Total: 351 packages (351 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 5 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
[0] /usr/portage
On Sunday 18 April 2010 16:14:50 Harry Putnam wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
For the purpose of posterity:
The way to set up a fall back host is to use confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to
define a fall back smtp server.
Thanks Mick... Instead of asking for help, you ended up
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
I'm not finding it now readily.
Can someone tell me where that setting may be made.
If it has something to do with new way of starting X where we don't
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:13:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm not sure that we good advice or not for RAIDs that could be
assembled later but that's what I did and it leads to the kernel
trying to do everything before the
On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
I'm not finding it now readily.
Can someone tell me where that setting may be made.
If it has something to
Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fine.
Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my
unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). I
decided to shut it down and go to bed.
Today the AP is just not
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
I'm not finding it now readily.
Can
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 08:07:59AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
Anyway, you might be in Europe or Canada or someplace with better
consumer protection laws than the U.S.
I'm in Toronto, Canada, and our situation is worse than yours. Cell
phone data plans are exorbitantly expensive, the telcos
On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up
once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That
Sounds a bit like:
http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/
Although it may be different in your case...
Best regards
Peter
On 04/19/2010 12:47 AM, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:15:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 04/19/2010 12:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've seen on this group some time back a few ways, or at least more
than 1 as I recall to retain the ability to leave X with
Ctrl+Alt_+BKSPC.
I'm not
On Sunday 18 April 2010 22:06:44 Mick wrote:
I was reminded that I do not understand sendmail enough for my liking.
Does anybody?
--
Rgds
Peter.
On 18 April 2010 22:28, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fine.
Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my
unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). I
decided
On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:29:12 YoYo siska wrote:
You can still break the emerge (for example with ctrl-c) when it
starts to emerge gcc, the continue the emerge process with emerge
--resume --skipfirst
that's what I usually do with openoffice and similar apps when I do a
quick update and
Dale,
Thanks for following up. HOw do you start a new thread?
It is slightly annoying when you change a setting and reverts back to the
original; the whole (computer) system should be more user friendly. Either way,
it is good that there is an easy fix, which I will do.
I will have much more
On Sunday 18 April 2010 18:50:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:04:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That's what I do. I have /etc/runlevels/no-x/ which contains all
the services I want started if I boot a CLI-only system. It's
sometimes handy to have all the virtual consoles
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up
once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That
Sounds a bit like:
http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up
once every two minutes and then lets the drive go
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
Read more details here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not
the new way ;)
Well, its just not the NEWEST way. But what is the newest
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
Read more details here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not
the new way ;)
Well, its just
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:36:54 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I assume you aren't specifying --jobs=[2,3,4,...]. Very useful
embellishment of emerge: gets things done in half the time.
--jobs=2 doubles the number of ebuilds being merged, not the number of
cores in your processor :-O
It is
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:58:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That's whay I used to do until I found the gentoo=nox option, it
saves maintaining an extra runlevel.
But X isn't the only thing I don't run when not running X, if you see
what I mean. Only about 3 other things differ at the
Recompiled hplip for use with C5180 with new use flag: scanner. Now
scanning works, printing does not. Recompiled with new-hpcups use
flag. Still not working. Output from cups web interface:
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/hp failed
Any ideas?
ubiquitous1980
thanks for your suggestion. i will try it.
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David Shen
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dan blum wrote:
Dale,
Thanks for following up. HOw do you start a new thread?
It is slightly annoying when you change a setting and reverts back to the original; the
whole (computer) system should be more user friendly. Either way, it is good that there
is an easy fix, which I will do.
I
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