Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:02:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: My trusty 12-year-old scanner is starting to show signs of age : Epson Perfection 1260 1200 x 2400 dpi ; 48-bit color Speed : 1200 dpi hi-speed : Monochrome + Color 32 ms/line Optical Resolution : 1200 dpi Max Document

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 04:51:39PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: I have an HP inkjet which insists on starting itself up every time the power is restored, despite the presence of a perfectly good on/off button. When I complained, they said they thought it was more helpful that way. Not my

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs with TRIM issues

2015-06-21 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:24:55PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: /* devices that don't properly handle queued TRIM commands */ Micron_M500* Crucial_CT*M500* Micron_M5[15]0* Crucial_CT*M550* Crucial_CT*MX100* Samsung SSD 8* from drivers/ata/libata-core.c Then read further: *

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs with TRIM issues

2015-06-21 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 03:16:16PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: Also, I don't know which stable kernels have the blacklist. It doesn't look like this list is in 3.18.14 which is the most recent longterm in Gentoo (3.18.15 is out but not yet in gentoo-sources). I went ahead and disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

2015-06-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:09:30AM +, James wrote: Bruce Hill daddy at happypenguincomputers.com writes: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Your probably looking in the mirror too much. I *do*, sir. The comment

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

2015-06-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:38:57PM +, James wrote: SS7 (The north American switching standard) where the tariffs are still enforced is where the phone meta-data comes from regardless of how it is originated. Now, All data from an ISP, Telco web company, social media or anything else can

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 09:01:18AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: Hi Andrew, You might be interested in these settings (from about:config): browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:20:29PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: No no no! LiLo, on a six year old machine actually works well. It does exactly what it says on the packet, i.e. it boots up the machine, and nothing more. I use LiLo, mainly to avoid the complexities of Grub. -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from no-multilib to (true) multilib

2015-04-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:51:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my workstation the day this option came out, */* abi_x86_32 in package.use went reasonably well. x11-libs/cairo-1.12.18-r1 failed, but maybe that problem is the 32-bit mesa. Going to rebuild it and try. There's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from no-multilib to (true) multilib

2015-03-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:20:23AM +0100, Mick wrote: Given that the emul-linux-x86 package sets are now deprecated and we can now with USE=abi_x86_32 emerge our own 32bit libraries where needed, is it now easier to move from a no-multilib to a multilib environment, or will it still require

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in Gentoo: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round -

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 06:43:26PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 08:11:15 AM Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: Can you offer any technical suggestions as for what to check? Do you leave the messages on the mailserver? In that case, ensure your POP3-client keeps a list

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On December 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: Please stop insults and offensive language. I just sent replies to the list, this is verifiable by mail headers. My apologies to you sir. If you have mail problems, check your MTA or whatever you are using to

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 06:20:05PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:22:26 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Anyone here running ceph / http://ceph.com/ on gentoo? As server(s) or client or ... ? I am learning about this right now and currently on my way to

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
To whoever controls this list... I just arrived home to find my mailbox spammed with hundreds of messages from this luser Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org What is the explanation for this please?

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-23 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:29:20PM -0500, Dale wrote: Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: On 22/03/14 14:48, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/22/2014 5:06 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind! If someone says something you

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about History file

2014-01-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 07:10:10AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, I routinely am logged into a server with multiple consoles (I log in with one (the same) regular user, then su - to root). This morning I tried to grep roots .bash_history for a command I ran some time ago, and it wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 09:06:38AM -0700, Joseph wrote: Thank you for the hints, here is the output of: tail -f /var/log/messages My line if fstab is: /dev/sdb1 /media/stickautonoauto,rw,user and this USB below file are mounted as root:root (not joseph:users)

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 07:42:33PM -0700, Joseph wrote: After recent upgrade when I mount my USB and try as root: chown joseph:users /media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/stick/Ancient-Electricity_new.ppt’: Operation not permitted file ownership

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 09:27:19PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, my google-fu has failed me... I've found a few sites that describe how to set static ports for NFS mounting remote shares (I use iptables for both inbound AND outbound,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS static ports - driving me crazy...

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:04:29PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: It just so happens that I'm setting up NFS atm using this guide: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NFSv4 This info unfortunately misses the port number: 2049 What do you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 24.1.1 - and PFD viewer UGLY fonts

2013-12-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 07:38:00PM -0700, Joseph wrote: I just upgraded to Firefox-24.1.1 and when an online pdf file is generated some ugly view pops up that is using monospace fonts impossible to read and it looks ugly on a print out. Is there a solution to it? How about giving a link

Re: [gentoo-user] metasploit jumping into emerge -uDN world

2013-12-29 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 01:54:48PM -0200, Zhu wrote: Most likely metasploit itself is in world. You can check you worldfile with your favourite editor (/var/lib/portage/world). It should also be printed bold in the emerge output if your terminal supports it Yeah, metasploit is in

Re: [gentoo-user] out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:53:16AM -0700, Joseph wrote: I'm upgrading the system and running out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk * Checking for at least 18 gigabytes disk space at /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.0.4/temp ...

Re: [gentoo-user] out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 08:44:46AM -0700, Joseph wrote: It appears to only require such a ridiculous amount if you build with debugging flags. This would be an easy solution but debug flags are off: [ebuild N ] net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r300:3 USE=geoloc gstreamer introspection jit

Re: [gentoo-user] out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:52:56AM -0700, Joseph wrote: I just did, but it doesn't help webkit-gtk-2.0.4 still asking 18GB disk space to compile. Checking for sufficient disk space to build ${PN} with debugging CFLAGS None here and 2.0.4 has built with 7G, and on the other box with 12G. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:17:55PM +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 Dec 2013 15:18:15 the wrote: On 12/19/13 17:50, Bruce Hill wrote: I *believe* if you have the driver built into your kernel: CONFIG_IPW2200=y then you need to have the firmware listed with these 2 lines

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: 'libsandbox.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 04:33:13PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: One of my systems has suddenly started displaying a lot of error messages any time any package is emerged: Emerging (1 of 1) x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.18 * rxvt-unicode-9.18.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi, problem, problem, problem

2013-12-19 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Florian HEGRON wrote: This means that driver can not find ipw2200-bss.fw file (probably part of sys-firmware/ipw2200-firmware) to load it to wireless card RAM chip. Ensure that you have that file, usually it is localed in /lib/firmware.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:34:14AM +0200, Thanasis wrote: In my system /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source is a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` What does that guys sig say - List replies preferred. -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive (

Re: Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful (was: Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean)

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 05:49:30PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:24:58 -0600 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: From: Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean Reply

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:15:59PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: What does that guys sig say - List replies preferred. My sig? Where is that? It was a soft hint, asking you to not CC me, I'm on the list. Hope you don't get as offended as some other person. Cheers, Bruce -- Happy

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:48:33PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: It was a soft hint, asking you to not CC me, I'm on the list. Hope you don't get as offended as some other person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Sanitize sources If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to sanitize the kernel sources: |root # ||make distclean| Interesting option.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 08:57:08PM +, Markos Chandras wrote: You could get your running config using zcat /proc/config.gz .config Only if you enabled: CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y in your running kernel. -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 04:47:03PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I have never used wicd, so I can't say exactly what it's the problem; but I was under the impression that wicd is basically dead. Its last release was more than a year and a half ago. I haven't read the other posts after

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:05:14PM -0500, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: thanks but I had done that and the command is simply /usr/sbin/wicd --no-daemon Perhaps relevant is Type=dbus Canek points out that wicd has had no new releases. Perhaps I should switch to networkmanager. I will try that

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote: The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig? Maybe i'm completely blind... Thanks in advance for any help, Mosh lol, done! As i thought...i was blind :D You could at least say how you did it.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig. On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other options that it is VERY probable you never have to

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:53:39AM +0100, Michael Rühmann wrote: mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y What *is* so difficult about that? well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:47:44PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:21:42 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: You could at least say how you did it. *sigh* maybe even add the kernel part to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Any time you can't see how to enable a kernel option, just search for it and look at the Selected By field to see what you need to turn it on: Symbol: ZLIB_DEFLATE [=y] Type : tristate Defined at lib/Kconfig:198

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict the list of installed interpreters, use the relevant settings in make.conf. Python has PYTHON_TARGETS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: mingdao@workstation ~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf RUBY_TARGETS=ruby20 Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D You could say that: $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:07:01AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: And for the record (you didn't specifically say so), are you in agreement that cp -a /usr/. /usr.tmp/. will accomplish the exact same thing as the rsync command I was planning on using? There are reasons why rsync is better

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:35:29AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-12-06 8:13 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: There are reasons why rsync is better than cp. The best one IMO is that rysnc will not copy a corrupt file, while cp will. And rsync will tell you about

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-03 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:47:01AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Yeah, when it comes to servers, I'm more of a wimp than not... but being careful and conservative on my servers has saved me more times than I can count, so I'm ok with it... ;) I have one server with separate /usr that's in LVM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-03 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:06:16AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: mingdao@server ~ $ df -hT │link/ether a0:88:b4:54:33:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict when trying to emerge xorg-server-1.14.3-r2

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:23:43AM -0700, Nicolas Bock wrote: Hi, emerge --oneshot xorg-server throws this error message: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict when trying to emerge xorg-server-1.14.3-r2

2013-11-14 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:23:43AM -0700, Nicolas Bock wrote: Hi, emerge --oneshot xorg-server throws this error message: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Radeon Firmware?

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:59:41PM +0100, Elias Diem wrote: Hi all I've got a Radeon graphics card and I don't know which firmware to use. My model doesn't seem to be listed on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Firmware Here is the output from lspci: output 00:01.0 VGA compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:44:10AM -0600, Dale wrote: On 10/11/13 at 08:07pm, Walter Dnes wrote: Try this hack :) $ ps -ef | grep [u]rxvt yohan 3559 1 0 11:50 ?00:00:00 urxvt yohan 3667 1 0 11:52 ?00:00:00 urxvt That one didn't return anything. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Radeon Firmware?

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:03:23PM +0100, Elias Diem wrote: Hi Bruce On 2013-11-11, Bruce Hill wrote: If you have CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m, and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware/, then the kernel will pick the right firmware automatically, without having to name the microcode

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox not killing processes on close

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Edward M wrote: On 11/10/2013 1:38 PM, Dale wrote: When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that session, I get the error that the session is already running. Hello,:-) / /The following article explains how to deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Radeon Firmware?

2013-11-11 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:41:55PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:03:23 +0100 schrieb Elias Diem pub.li...@webconect.ch: Hi Bruce On 2013-11-11, Bruce Hill wrote: If you have CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m, and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/firmware/, then the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/poppler-0.24.3 fails to build

2013-11-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Hello, poppler fails to build for me and i don't know why. Does someone got an idea about this? [ 97%] Building CXX object qt4/src/CMakeFiles/poppler-qt4.dir/ArthurOutputDev.cc.o cd

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:04:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? * do you really have a problem with running

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 07:29:28AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 01:04:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 06:15:56AM +, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On Monday 04 Nov 2013 19:51:32 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: For starters, you should probably merge package.keywords into package.accept_keywords; the latter is the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:44:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I too see your viewpoint, as you see mine. There's nothing wrong with your logic within the narrow domain of making the code that implements this specific feature (subslots) work correctly per spec. Background: I'm a Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:28:05PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:29:59 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: I can't understand the *need* for the new slot/subslot philosophy. The need to it is clear. Previous methods worked by breaking things and then fixing them, hopefully before

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel guys sent me back here

2013-11-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:02:00PM -0800, Grant wrote: I was referred back to my distro supplier for a kernel crash. Isn't that a kernel problem? https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981 The first thing for any crash is logs. And btw ... don't go to the Linux kernel if you're

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:43:07PM +, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 Nov 2013 19:51:32 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: For starters, you should probably merge package.keywords into package.accept_keywords; the latter is the new standard name, though

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

2013-11-01 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:11:59PM -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more supported versions/implementations of python. Indeed. We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 03:13:37AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: What size is that screen? Can you attach a screen shot? I have 1920x1080 on everything but this laptop (1440x900), and use 23 screens at work. Still, I just can't seem to like any setup with more than one thing on the screen at

[gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
Last night my laptop began having two problems. First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor doesn't change from the I-beam back to the pointer for another 2s

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 08:22:39AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Last night my laptop began having two problems. First, when I paste with middle-click of the mouse into Firefox, there is no output on the screen for about 2-3 seconds. In Libreoffice it takes about 7-8s, and then the mouse cursor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pentoo overlay

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:24:55PM +, James wrote: The only difference I've see so far is make.conf is in /etc/portage/. mingdao@server ~ $ eselect news read 5 2012-09-09-make.conf-and-make.profile-move Title make.conf and make.profile move Author

Re: [gentoo-user] video display problem

2013-10-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:57:14PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Are you running an Nvidia video card with their proprietary driver? Youtube, even static/paused Youtube images would cause that on such a setup I once had. I already fixed it and answered my own thread. ;) And, no, I feel the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-10-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:14:30PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I run 2 browsers, 960x1080 side-by-each, on a 1920x1080 display. What size is that screen? Can you attach a screen shot? I have 1920x1080 on everything but this laptop (1440x900), and use 23 screens at work. Still, I just can't

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade 4.6.3 to 4.7.3 - any gotchas?

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:29:27PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Just asking ahead of time... Any major gotchas with respect to this GCC upgrade? Does this one introduce any ABI changes that require rebuilding the entire toolchain... or even world? It's an easy upgrade. Just remember to

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application client? box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 * These

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require a remote desktop application client? box0=; equery -C depends --indirect net-misc/freerdp-1.1.0_beta1 * These

Re: [gentoo-user] re: media-video/vlc-2.0.9 depends on net-misc/freerdp

2013-10-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:37:28PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/26/2013 08:03 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 06:52:18PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've updated vlc today, which pulled in freerdp as a dependency. Is that normal? Why would a media player require

Re: [gentoo-user] Brand new instalation - Network problem

2013-10-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:44:00PM +, João Matos wrote: Hi list, I`ve just installed a brand new gentoo amd64 and there is this problem: my Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06) is recognized as *sit0* , but I

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

2013-10-26 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:18:11PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:30:57PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote The (non-)relationship between eselect python and PYTHON_TARGETS is something that would be nice to resolve, but I don't know how to do it. PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:26:05PM +, James wrote: specifically for tight target implementations. Samsung is killing the world, with ARM and open source linux. James I'm not positive of it's architecture, but for 20 months I had a Samsung

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:31:08PM +, James wrote: I'm not positive of it's architecture, but for 20 months I had a Samsung Galaxy S running Android. This was by far the biggest POS I ever owned. From the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel ricing

2013-10-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:36:37PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Just because you got a phone that was bad, and didn't bother to get it replaced, doesn't make all Galaxy S4 phones as bad as yours. Hey, dipstick! Apparently you can't distinguish between S and S4. :-) -- Happy Penguin Computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:04:21AM -0500, Dale wrote: Every once in a while, my brain actually comes up with something. ROFL Want to hear something equally funny? I started the UPS service that started this whole mess to see if it works. This is from messages: Oct 22 02:47:50

Re: [gentoo-user] there are no ebuilds to satisfy =x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.19.

2013-10-22 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:36:46AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I'm tryint to emerge: gtk+-2.24.19 on one of my x86 but I'm getting: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.19. package.keywords has: =x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.19 ~x86 That version is no longer in portage: mingdao@baruch ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Asterisk 11.5.1 MeetMe on Gentoo

2013-10-18 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 06:23:51PM -0500, sbasu...@soft-gator.com wrote: Hello, I am running asterisk with dahdi in several Gentoo servers, everything works great, but when I try to use meetme it tells me that there is no application I already try: 1. In asterisk command line:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either. Second, it works except for the third part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:57:46PM -0700, walt wrote: Third thing is, no mouse worky. It works in the BIOS but not in the OS. Dale, I don't understand what you mean by works in the BIOS. Could you give us a few more details? He means the mouse works when he boots and has to select

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't kill /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/nsplugin

2013-10-15 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:38:19AM -0700, Grant wrote: Multiple instances of /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/nsplugin keep spawning even after I kill them. I suspect midori although I have the libreoffice plugin disabled. Has anyone else seen this? How can I confirm my suspicions? Is pstree

Re: [gentoo-user] New mobo change

2013-10-15 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:49:54AM -0500, Dale wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Personally, I think all you need to do is to ensure that the kernel has all the drivers it needs to speak to the new mobo. Other members of the @world set relies on the drivers in the kernel. But I don't use any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:18:06AM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: This is 3.8.13 now ... with some changed options, sure. For now I am happy ... can't believe it yet ;-) Why do you use a kernel that has been abandoned? https://www.kernel.org/ You should use a longterm kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:19:40PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I just plugged in my USB memory stick. Here's the output of dmesg with regard to that: box0=; dmesg|tail -30 [ 1674.204287] ehci-pci :00:1a.7: GetStatus port:3 status 001005 0 ACK POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT [

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:36:50PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see my UPS and nut couldn't start its services. So, it appears that mine must be ancient hardware. My messages file is still full of the same error

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:06:57AM -0500, Dale wrote: Just remove ohci and uhci from the kernel config These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I'm not sure about my UPS. It could be old

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:59:52PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I avoided. Next, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:02:07PM +, James wrote: Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: computer gaming (yawn)... The Kalman filter operates recursively on streams of noisy input data to produce a statistically optimal estimate of the underlying system state. [1] (sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:44:35AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just stumbled across some very interesting software/ideas: http://skarnet.org/poweredby.html Yes, I have been looking at this for a few days, and some of the other

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 05:45:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Then you can all use mine with the greatest of pleasure: SYNC=rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage I have the NetOps team BEGGING me weekly to try and generate more traffic out of our network going international. The in-out

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:47:21PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Rather simple issue: I have a kernel in boot with the suffix -safe ... and this one got listed first in grub.conf. kerninst found that one and always set that one as default so my various recompilings never changed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:54:30PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 02/10/2013 20:48, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 05:45:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Then you can all use mine with the greatest of pleasure: SYNC=rsync://ftp.is.co.za/gentoo-portage I have the NetOps

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-01 Thread Bruce Hill
There are 3 (or more) computers which sync (sometimes daily) on my LAN at work: server, router, and workstation. server has issues almost all the time getting a rsync server (for lack of better way to state it). All three comps have the exact same SYNC in make.conf: mingdao@server ~ $ grep SYNC

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