Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 16.08.2011 02:18, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian Because autounmask=n assumes you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Philip Webb
How does everybody here use Gentoo? 2 personal desktop machines (one stand-by) + 1 netbook. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:48:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? 1) 2 desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:58:00 PM Grant wrote: I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck between pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the backups to the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:48:30 PM Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves so fast, I figure a year should be more than plenty. Maybe I

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves so fast, I figure

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Jens Reinemuth
I use it on all of my hardware (except the smartphone)... That includes my server (Xeon, 64bit, nginx, mariadb, mongodb, postfix, ...), my pc at home (Core2, 64Bit, kde 4.7), the netbook (32bit, atom, kde 4.7), my file-server (atom, 64bit, samba)... gentoo is the system of choice on every new

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 16.08.2011 02:18, schrieb Dale: Sebastian Beßler wrote: But why was autounmask=y complaining but not autounmask=n? The dependency of the virtual was missing both times so shouldn't emerge spit some error out both times? Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread victor romanchuk
1 Desktop 1 Netbook (For holiday and during travel) 1 home server (running Xen with virtualized Gentoo instances) i own similar combination (the server is actually head/mouseless desktop powered by core i7 and equipped with 24gb of ram allowing to concurrently run number of gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:28:53 AM Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-16 Thread Andrea Conti
it does not actually matter how you configured the driver -- built-in kernel or as module: everytime when driver operates the device, it checks whether firmware is loaded. Are you sure about that? AFAIK firmware loading is only attempted once, when the driver is first initialized.

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:28:53 AM Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wal l-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wal l-street This is

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:01:03 AM Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: I use KMail to an IMAP server and as I am a digital pack-rat, I hardly ever delete anything. :) Only time I will delete any email or documents is when it's either duplicated or covered by a confidentiality

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue 16 August 2011 11:15:21 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Rosegarden works???

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Luis, Am Montag, 15. August 2011, 20:51:05 schrieb luis jure: on 2011-08-15 at 22:32 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: What version of jack are you using? i have jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.7 installed. but i think this shouldn't be the problem, because at least in the past jack was needed

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:30:03 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue 16 August 2011 11:15:21 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon 15 August 2011 21:48:30 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Montag, 15. August 2011, 21:48:30 schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread jdm
Survey answer Desktop and laptop gentoo. Both for personal use. Desktop hosts webserver for pictures and stuff (keeps the mrs happy) inc samba, kvm, etc Been using for 4 years and still haven't got a clue but mailing list has been great for tips and advice and sanity. Dual boot with windows

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 04:01:03 AM Dale wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: I use KMail to an IMAP server and as I am a digital pack-rat, I hardly ever delete anything. :) Only time I will delete any email or documents is when it's either duplicated or covered

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 16:15, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:10:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: I was interested to read that NASDAQ runs a modified Gentoo and wondered what does an unmodified stock Gentoo look like. Then I realised I was being silly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 14:33, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it could be that I'm reading the error incorrectly too.  Ask people how much fun it is for me to figure out what the heck portage is puking on my keyboard.  I have had Alan explain it to me, what he says makes sense but it

[gentoo-user] cups configuration for dummies

2011-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've installed a GenToo system on the PC of a friend which doesn't know the internals of Linux (GenToo). At home he has a local network with a printer (probably managed by a Window system). Is there an easy means to configure CUPS on his system to find that printer? Many thanks for a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [110815 21:21]: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use

[gentoo-user] new laptop - back screen

2011-08-16 Thread KH
Hi, I bought myself a lenovo Ideapad U160 which should be in specs like this on [1]. I want to have gentoo on it. The base system worked well, so I tried to see the penguins. I followed this guide [2] (uvesa). Now I see grub, then I see the penguins for a part of a second an then the screen is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/15/2011 09:58 PM, Grant wrote: the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys. If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each system to be backed-up, allow root read access of each system via SSH +1 push. But my question is, Why do you

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue 16 August 2011 06:39:39 Bill Longman did opine thusly: On 08/15/2011 09:58 PM, Grant wrote: the backup server. If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys. If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each system to be backed-up, allow root read access

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage autounmask is strange again

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 14:33, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it could be that I'm reading the error incorrectly too. Ask people how much fun it is for me to figure out what the heck portage is puking on my keyboard. I have had Alan explain it to me, what he

Re: [gentoo-user] cups configuration for dummies

2011-08-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 Aug 2011 12:50:55 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've installed a GenToo system on the PC of a friend which doesn't know the internals of Linux (GenToo). At home he has a local network with a printer (probably managed by a Window system). Is there an easy means to configure

Re: [gentoo-user] new laptop - back screen

2011-08-16 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 Aug 2011 14:00:39 KH wrote: Hi, I bought myself a lenovo Ideapad U160 which should be in specs like this on [1]. I want to have gentoo on it. The base system worked well, so I tried to see the penguins. I followed this guide [2] (uvesa). Now I see grub, then I see the penguins

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Mol wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case? I use gentoo on my laptop (1.6

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup or use case?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 22:48, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rosegarden works???

2011-08-16 Thread luis jure
on 2011-08-16 at 11:38 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Is the dbus-use-flag enabled for your jack? no, it wasn't. But because of my negative experience with jack2, I would try downgrading jack to 0.121.2 or something like that and try again. i did that, but no joy... anyway, i'm not convinced

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 August 2011 07:57:37 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-16 Thread kashani
On 8/15/2011 11:57 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 15, 2011 09:23:44 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 August 2011 19:38:49 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: You're welcome, my Gentoo-user archive goes back to 2004 :) Mine goes back a year. Gentoo moves so fast, I figure a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a nice-to-have project for me. Which howto did you follow, what do you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-16 Thread victor romanchuk
it does not actually matter how you configured the driver -- built-in kernel or as module: everytime when driver operates the device, it checks whether firmware is loaded. Are you sure about that? AFAIK firmware loading is only attempted once, when the driver is first initialized. i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.08.2011 23:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: I became afraid after reading this wiki page, especially the part about removing openrc and making your own init.d and conf.d entries: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd :) I read through parts of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 23:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: I became afraid after reading this wiki page, especially the part about removing openrc and making your own init.d and conf.d entries: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} rdiff-backup: push or pull?

2011-08-16 Thread Grant
I'm setting up an automated rdiff-backup system and I'm stuck between pushing the backups to the backup server, and pulling the backups to the backup server.  If I push, I have to allow read/write access of my backups via SSH keys.  If I pull, I have to enable root logins on each system to be

[gentoo-user] distccmon-gui red bars finally solved

2011-08-16 Thread Bill Longman
I wanted to share with others on the list something that I recently discovered with distccmon-gui. I found that when I travel to work and to home with my laptop, sometimes the distccmon-gui would be covered with red specks when processing jobs on remote hosts. I saw that they were always

[gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Howdy, I notice this USE flag is on by default now. I also follow -dev but this still is not clear for me. What exactly does introspection enable? Is it some GUI thing or something else? I also think I saw somewhere it is mostly a Gnome thing. Do I need it since I only use KDE and have

Re: [gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

2011-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
I notice this USE flag is on by default now.  I also follow -dev but this still is not clear for me.  What exactly does introspection enable?  Is it some GUI thing or something else?  I also think I saw somewhere it is mostly a Gnome thing.  Do I need it since I only use KDE and have Fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: I notice this USE flag is on by default now. I also follow -dev but this still is not clear for me. What exactly does introspection enable? Is it some GUI thing or something else? I also think I saw somewhere it is mostly a Gnome thing. Do I need it since I only use KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

2011-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
Re-reading what I wrote sounded a bit rude, so rephrased; Now ask someone who codes WTF that page means :) Sounds like it allows programs to use code from different languages. I then assume gentoo devs know what they're doing, so I accept their decision and stop thinking about it.

[gentoo-user] [OT]: Reset of USB when switching to console and back to X?

2011-08-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have attached an old keyboard (PS/2-connector) via an USB-PS/2-adaptor to my PC. When typing too fast (...) the three LEDs of the keyboard flashes and everything typed then is typed as if the CTRL-Key constantly locked (I am using the X-window-system with openbox as windowmanager. There

Re: [gentoo-user] introspection USE flag and KDE

2011-08-16 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: Re-reading what I wrote sounded a bit rude, so rephrased; Now ask someone who codes WTF that page means :) Sounds like it allows programs to use code from different languages. I then assume gentoo devs know what they're doing, so I accept their decision and stop thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08/16/11 03:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/193823/how-linux-mastered-wall-street This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does everybody here use Gentoo? For