Re: [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 11:12:07PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 160524 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > Could you confirm you have x11-misc/numlockx installed > > and have as the last two lines in your .xinitrc : > > numlockx& > > exec fluxbox > > Thanks : that works ! -- when X starts, the LED

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended way to shut down akonadi

On June 6, 2016 12:13:16 AM GMT+02:00, Mick wrote: >I run enlightenment DE with a few KDE apps, including KDEPIM and with >the >arrival of Plasma5 I have migrated most of my systems to this set up. > >On my laptop I run a stand-alone postgresql for KDEPIM's akonadi,

Re: [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle

160524 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I've noticed that the NumLock key goes off after 'startx'. >> My window manager is Fluxbox & I don't see any mention there >> nor does there seem to be any setting under /etc/X11 . >> I have added 'numlock' to the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen

On Jun 5, 2016 8:20 PM, "Bill Kenworthy" wrote: > > On 06/06/16 04:12, James wrote: > > Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > > > > >> Has anyone been able to get the surface pro ntrig touchscreen to work > >> ... and if so how? > > > > Sorry, never tried... > > > >> MS

[gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen

Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > Unfortunately no ... the first device is 8086:9d3a which shows up, but > the touchscreen at 8086:9d3e dosent. The problem is that the detection > code does not enumerate secondary devices - there was a patch against > the spi bus in the kernel a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen

On 06/06/16 04:12, James wrote: > Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > >> Has anyone been able to get the surface pro ntrig touchscreen to work >> ... and if so how? > > Sorry, never tried... > >> MS recently changed from the wacom to a ntrig touchscreen (they >> apparently bought the

[gentoo-user] Recommended way to shut down akonadi

I run enlightenment DE with a few KDE apps, including KDEPIM and with the arrival of Plasma5 I have migrated most of my systems to this set up. On my laptop I run a stand-alone postgresql for KDEPIM's akonadi, instead of mysql. Everything was working fine, until a week ago. Shutdown now takes a

Re: [gentoo-user] surface ntrig touchscreen

On Jun 4, 2016 8:04 PM, "Bill Kenworthy" wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get the surface pro ntrig touchscreen to work > ... and if so how? > > MS recently changed from the wacom to a ntrig touchscreen (they > apparently bought the company!) for the latest pro models. The

[gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen

Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > Has anyone been able to get the surface pro ntrig touchscreen to work > ... and if so how? Sorry, never tried... > MS recently changed from the wacom to a ntrig touchscreen (they > apparently bought the company!) for the latest pro models. The kernel >

[gentoo-user] how to use two graphics cards with one display

Hi, is there a way to reasonably use two graphics cards with a single display? SLI won't work because it's retarded in requiring the GPUs to be the same, which they aren't --- not to mention that the cards would be too far away from each other in the slots for a bridge to fit. So what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

On 06/05/2016 12:27 PM, J. García wrote: > It does, seems rc-service is just a wrapper to run stuff in > /etc/init.d/, proof: > Ok, thanks again. I'll redirect stderr when we check the status.

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

El dom, 05-06-2016 a las 12:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky escribió: > Oh ok, I didn't know about that. Yes it would be annoying to have > that > emailed to you every day. The first line of the script redirects > stdout, >  >   # First, redirect stdout to /dev/null. >   exec 1>/dev/null >  > but

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

On 06/05/2016 11:37 AM, J. García wrote: >> > It works, and is harmless as you say, but since I'm not running OpenRC, > it prints a warning to stderr about openrc not running, at least I find > that a bit annoying, Oh ok, I didn't know about that. Yes it would be annoying to have that emailed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

El dom, 05-06-2016 a las 09:37 -0600, J. García escribió: >  but redirecting  any output from /etc/init.d/$SERVICE status > to /dev/null. Correcting, my previous message: * but redirecting but redirecting  any output from /etc/init.d/$SERVICE status> to /dev/null, might be OK too, as only the

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

El dom, 05-06-2016 a las 09:37 -0400, Michael Orlitzky escribió: > On 06/05/2016 03:23 AM, J. García wrote: > > > > I run systemd , but I have not tested your script, as of now I'm > > not > > using spamassassin, but I will at some time in near future; but > > looking > > at the script, I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I did take your suggestion and check for rc-service though. I shouldn't > count on openrc being in @system forever. > I suspect it would still work if openrc weren't installed: bash -c "/etc/init.d/cups-browsed status

Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this?

On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 15:15:30 I wrote: > On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 11:35:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Portasge is not complaining, ./configure is... > > True. I was speaking rather too loosely. > > > ...and you appear to be misreading the output between what ./configure > > says with what eix &

Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this?

On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 11:35:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Portasge is not complaining, ./configure is... True. I was speaking rather too loosely. > ...and you appear to be misreading the output between what ./configure says > with what eix & ebuilds says. > This: > > No package 'mdds-1.0' found >

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

On 06/05/2016 03:23 AM, J. García wrote: > I run systemd , but I have not tested your script, as of now I'm not > using spamassassin, but I will at some time in near future; but looking > at the script, I see some problems, you run the OpenRC restart commands > even if systemd is available,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to decode this?

On 05/06/2016 11:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > X-Originating-<%= hostname %>-IP: [82.69.80.10] > > Hello list, > > I've just about finished installing a new ~amd64 system, because it was > getting too intricate to maintain ~arch versions of all the packages I need > with some pretty new hardware

[gentoo-user] How to decode this?

X-Originating-<%= hostname %>-IP: [82.69.80.10] Hello list, I've just about finished installing a new ~amd64 system, because it was getting too intricate to maintain ~arch versions of all the packages I need with some pretty new hardware in here. When it came to emerging libreoffice, though, and

Re: [gentoo-user] tablet

> On Sat, 28 May 2016, at 7:03 am, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet when > I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is usually > solid (in contrast to their software! :) > > Are there any other

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe systemd "reload" command

El sáb, 04-06-2016 a las 21:01 -0400, Michael Orlitzky escribió: > On 06/04/2016 08:47 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > > > Sounds good, do you want to try it and add it to the wiki? =) > > > I just made an attempt and added it to the wiki: > >