[gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Howdy, Installing on a nice shiny new Dell laptop which has these new-fangled UEFI and 4K-sector disks. Never having worked on these things before, I'm somewhat wary especially as we've had huge threads before on what to do and not do. I don't want to rehash all of that all over again (and the

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts

2012-01-04 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked: On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph: xpdf it complains about missing fonts xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier' Error: No display font for

Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-04 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 3, 2012 7:08 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:49:45 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read it (and don't remember if I ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me. No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they

Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed

2012-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote ...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem. The situation remains the samesigh

Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed

2012-01-04 Thread meino . cramer
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [12-01-04 14:22]: On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote ...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Wednesday 04 January 2012 11:57:18 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which

[gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread v_2e
Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the patches from that directory while the most recent one does not. I consider this

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts

2012-01-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked: On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph: xpdf it complains about missing fonts xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.01.2012 14:47, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On 01/04/2012 07:47 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the patches from that directory while

Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-04 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts

2012-01-04 Thread Joseph
On 01/04/12 14:52, Florian Philipp wrote: [snip] open(/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

[gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Pan
Hi list, I'm kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24). Filtering is done via iptables and snort should jump as IPS on

Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed

2012-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 13:23:20 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [12-01-04 14:22]: On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]: On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:53:18 -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting into the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it starts no problem. Have you enabled logging in rc.conf? What does /var/log/rc.log show? -- Neil

[gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then

Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, I’m kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24).

Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 5, 2012 12:28 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, I’m kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my

Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, - 8 snip Can you post the output of ip rule sh? And for every table listed in the above, post the output of ip route sh table $TABLENAME? Rgds,

AW: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Pan
Hi Pandu, thanks for your reply. As far as I can see, proxy_arp is not enabled on any interfaces: host conf # pwd /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf Host conf # for f in $(find | grep -i proxy_arp | grep -v pvlan ); do echo $f cat $f ;done ./all/proxy_arp 0 ./default/proxy_arp 0

[gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

2012-01-04 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers

Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act

Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting

2012-01-04 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:53:18AM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm. (Or whatever may have replaced

AW: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Pan
Hi, This is quite a large list with lots of hosts, but even grep –v the larger /24-ones leaves the arp-table up to 10.000… I’ve also heared (but never understood), that the lo-interface should be up and running. This is true in this case, but I noticed, the routes for 127.0.0.1 are

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated,

[gentoo-user] No mysql_install_db in dev-db/mysql-5.5.19?

2012-01-04 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I know, mysql = 5.5 is masked even on ~amd64, but I need mysql 5.5 for the improved InnoDB support it has. When I run emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.5.19, it doesn't complete and I see this in mysql_install_db.log: //usr/bin/mysql_install_db: No such file or directory The command doesn't exist,

Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mathurin
Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com writes: Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the

AW: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

2012-01-04 Thread Peter Pan
Hi, you might want to have a look here for choosing the hardware: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers an in column AP set it to yes. Once you have the driver, you can search for compatible hardware. Usually, Atheros-chips should be a good way to go, although there are different versions

[gentoo-user] Strange flashplayer behavior recently

2012-01-04 Thread walt
I'm always getting email with links to youtube and various other flash-intensive websites, and just a few days ago the flash content stopped loading in firefox when I click on the URL in thunderbird. For example, the youtube web page opens normally and all the various icons come up, but the video

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would be two 320GB SATA drives, an IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Jason Weisberger wrote: Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
I would instantly agree, but backing off the unlock and oc doesn't improve the situation. I can try text console with the onboard graphics and see what happens.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: I would instantly agree, but backing off the unlock and oc doesn't improve the situation.  I can try text console with the onboard graphics and see what happens. I would second Michael's suggestion that you completely

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Yeah, it never occurred to me that even when i was in console compiling stuff that i was using a 1280x1024 vesa or nouveau framebuffer each time. That will be first thing when i get home. On Jan 4, 2012 3:52 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason

[gentoo-user] Spacenav use test

2012-01-04 Thread Anthoine Bourgeois
Hello, 3Dconnexion corp sells some 3D mouse devices. There are 4 different 3Dconnexion devices : http://www.3dconnexion.com/buy/shop.html Those devices use a proprietary driver but an free alternative is available on : http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/ The problems with proprietary driver are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, it never occurred to me that even when i was in console compiling stuff that i was using a 1280x1024 vesa or nouveau framebuffer each time. That will be first thing when i get home. Good luck with that. Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info  wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:49:29 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As I said about my ex once, time tells.  Sometimes, time is the only thing that does tell too.  Reminds me of wine although I don't drink it. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to look at udev and mdev as winner or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:59:13 +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: .xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Sorry for the delayed response on the result, but i decided to do a makeopts -j1 while i was at it. Compile has been going on for two hours. Shoot me :)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:21 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel config? genkernel --dmraid all Not sure how to check those

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'. It used to work on my old OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead. I wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array. While in the first case you see all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Dale
Jason Weisberger wrote: Sorry for the delayed response on the result, but i decided to do a makeopts -j1 while i was at it. Compile has been going on for two hours. Shoot me :) I doubt this is the issue but I ran into a weird one a while back. I have a data drive, it's mounted on

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X running again and do it one

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Dale
Jason Weisberger wrote: Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X

[gentoo-user] Several KDE packages don't compile.

2012-01-04 Thread Dale
Howdy, I can't get folding to work and I need heat. I resorted to doing a emerge -e world. Thing is, this has uncovered a issue or two. These are the packages that fail: * The following 4 packages have failed to build or install: * * (kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.7.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 21:28:32 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/05/12 02:51, walt wrote: On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the short one: partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme to the other disks. run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid- devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Well after a couple hours of trying to get the Radeon HD3300 to actually start properly so I can test the compilation.. I haven't done it yet. Instead I decided to go ape-s**t on the radeon wiki article which drove me into so many dead ends. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon Now that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
This is why I figured you'd want to go without X for the purpose of testing. No X, no framebuffer, the card should have acted like a plane-jane VGA or VESA adapter. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well after a couple hours of trying to get the Radeon

[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Weisberger
Well like i said earlier, it did work that way. The final test is doing it in X with full drivers loaded again. Then i get to kick my 9800gt off a cliff.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well like i said earlier, it did work that way.  The final test is doing it in X with full drivers loaded again.  Then i get to kick my 9800gt off a cliff. Well, keep in mind you're switching from a PCIe card to an

[gentoo-user] fonts for: gv, xpdf, flpsed

2012-01-04 Thread Joseph
What kind of font packages are following application use for their interface (GUI menus) gv, xpdf, flpsed etc. Ever since I switch to a new system, I'm having problem view the menu options in all these packages that deal with postscipt files. Their menu fonts are small barley readable and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread pk
On 2012-01-05 01:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need udev. Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible configuration of devices, i.e. tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:52 +0100 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need udev. Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible