Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-23 Thread Collins Richey
of pre-compiled ~x86 or ~amd64 stuff (your choice) on a DVD. Even after install, it takes something like1 1/2 minutes to boot! Maybe that's because it uses the genkernel crap ? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-02 Thread Collins Richey
. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-27 Thread Collins Richey
, and don't have a kernel source available to run make menuconfig. Just wade through the choices and look for 'real time clock' support. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-27 Thread Collins Richey
delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere. Does anyone use one they like? Preferrably one with an ebuild and not dependent on K stuff. You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to feed the right parameters to mplayer. -- Collins Richey If you fill

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread Collins Richey
pops up right away, before a DVD is put in: Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are several ...RTC... settings in my kernel. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
compiling them with -Os. Have things progressed to the point where -Os can be generally recommended? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/21/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? Isn't that why logwatch was created? -- Collins Richey If you fill

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Collins Richey
. If your Gentoo system handles USB storage devices properly (why wouldn't it), you'll have no problems. According to the drive enclosure advertisements, metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard evidence. These units have the standard external AC-DC chunky blocks. -- Collins Richey

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Collins Richey
-- the installed printers are just not there Just a thought - check to see if the printer was defined as default during setup. If not, mark your printer as default. That alone would cause other applications not to work. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
On 7/31/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was said and done

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
any compile problems, but then I've not tried emerging empty world. My machine is too sodding fast to need that. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-30 Thread Collins Richey
was said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection had not included the keyboard and mouse modules for xorg, so I had to emerge these manually. Also I didn't have much sucess using 'X -configure'. I had to copy over an existin xorg.conf and make modifications. HTH, -- Collins