Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-06 Thread Jan Seeger
with the kernel sources and gcc to compile the network driver for the kernel. I do have another linux machine here, but it's currently only accessible via ssh (no graphics). Would that help me somehow? Regards, Jan Seeger

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread Jan Seeger
controller) supported in the newest linux kernel or will I have to wait? If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? Regards, Jan Seeger

[gentoo-user] The day of the living aspell

2008-07-25 Thread Jan Seeger
Greetings, I have recently tasted the superior spelling correction of hunspell, and don't ever want to see aspell on my system again. To that end, I have globally disabled the spell flag. However, kdelibs still seems to depend on aspell, even though I have disabled the flag and even rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

2008-07-21 Thread Jan Seeger
At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:02:58 +0200, Miernik wrote: Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none of it's business. Couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update

2008-07-19 Thread Jan Seeger
I guess that X is blanking the screen (I have a similar problem with blanking). So the correct location to look would be /etc/X11/xorg.conf Regards, Jan Seeger -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de

Re: [gentoo-user] no beep in console

2008-07-16 Thread Jan Seeger
At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:06:48 -0400, Peter Wood wrote: Hi list, I have been trying to get the console beep working on 2 laptops (one with a SIS and one with an Intel sound card). pcspkr is compiled as a kernel module on both laptops and shows as loaded in lspci, but I don't get any beeps

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-09 Thread Jan Seeger
I'd say this has gone on quite long enough. There *were* some nuggets of information among Jörgs lunatic ravings, but I think it would be best if we ended the thread. Also, who would I have to contact to get Jörg removed from the list? Regards, Jan -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de --

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
where fully sufficient for keeeping me on-line. Okay, the wireless is a bit flaky, but only when connecting. Note: I do not use network manager. What exactly are your problems? Regards, Jan Seeger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
At Tue, 6 May 2008 12:42:15 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: snip, snip Gentoo networking configuration is OK. It works for the most part, but you just need something were you can quickly type a password for a protected WPA network and it connects. Yes, you CAN edit the files by hand and provide

[gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
with encryption barring duplicity? Regards, Jan Seeger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:16:54 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I personally use dar and gpg. Dar can be used to make incremental backups which should partly solve your speed problem. Alternatively you could use tar and gpg or cpio or whatever floats your boat. Duplicity also does incremental

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Jan Seeger
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:52 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: I also use dar, but I don't bother with gpg. I use the '-K:' option of dar, which provides passphrase protected blowfish protection. I suppose I could use gpg, as well, with AES256 or IDEA, but that would be overkill, I think, since

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Jan Seeger
On Mon, 31. Mar, ionut cucu spammed my inbox with (gramps:) I remember the good old days when a good clean old-fashioned fight to the death would sort these things out, and the winner would be right. Now we have reasoning, such a bore. Good one. I lol'ed^^ -- thenybble.de/blog/ -- four bits

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-17 Thread Jan Seeger
On Sun, 16. Mar, W.Kenworthy spammed my inbox with I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Jan Seeger
On Sun, 16. Mar, Stroller spammed my inbox with Well, I've heard otherwise. Use jffs2 or the CF card will wear out prematurely... I've heard lots about using flashdrives for filesystems, but I've never read on a mailing list anything actually definitive on the subject. I find many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

2008-03-16 Thread Jan Seeger
As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would welcome any improvement comments. File size of the test file shouldn't matter, since without wear leveling, the same cells should get written over and over again. Only thing I need to do now is run it for a long time...

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-11 Thread Jan Seeger
On Tue, 11. Mar, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with snip #Network configuration config_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255 ) routes_WLAN1=( default via 192.168.178.1 ) dns_servers_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.1 ) gateways_WLAN1=( 192.168.178.1 ) The key

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-10 Thread Jan Seeger
On Mon, 10. Mar, Sergey Kobzar spammed my inbox with snip My kernel is Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Unfortunately I can't emerge iwlwifi (but maybe it's not required?): Yes, with 2.6.24, iwlwifi is not required anymore. snip Also looks like it's impossible to get WPA-PSK working with iwlwifi

Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi psk auth

2008-03-10 Thread Jan Seeger
On Mon, 10. Mar, Sergey Kobzar spammed my inbox with Hi Jan, Monday, March 10, 2008, 10:33:32 PM, you wrote: My kernel is Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Unfortunately I can't emerge iwlwifi (but maybe it's not required?): Yes, with 2.6.24, iwlwifi is not required anymore. Looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread Jan Seeger
On Thu, 06. Mar, John J. Foster spammed my inbox with Hi all - it's been awhile snip Is this common? Is there any way around it? I'm not really sure why openntpd didn't work. I tried out vmware with a windows VM and it was always fast. I have recently read an article on virtualization timing

[gentoo-user] perl-cleaner won't clean

2008-03-04 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, As per the subject: I recently rebuilt perl from a non-threaded to a threaded version (with ithreads). Libperl-depending ebuilds were rebuilt correctly, but all installed modules need to be

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner won't clean

2008-03-04 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04. Mar, Rumen Yotov spammed my inbox with Jan Seeger wrote: Hi, Threading affects only libperl perl the modules are Ok. IIRC perl-cleaner is used when upgrading to new perl version to rebuild the modules. HTH. Rumen I'm pretty sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-03 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NOTE: I don't speak spanish. But somehow, I read it thusly: On Mon, 03. Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spammed my inbox with Por las nuevas políticas de calidad ISO 9001 que la empresa está implementando, todos los temas relacionados con soporte técnico

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Seeger
banking without entering anything... If your bank doesn't require something like a TAN (transaction number) or ITAN (indexed transaction number), I wouldn't use it at all. So it would probably wiser to get a laptop and take good care of it. Regards Jan Seeger - -- thenybble.de/blog/ -- four bits

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06. Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann spammed my inbox with snip not needed anymore either. flash does work in the 'normal' firefox just fine. Come again? I would be very glad to finally ditch the binary firefox, but using nspluginwrapper didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06. Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann spammed my inbox with On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: On Wed, 06. Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann spammed my inbox with snip not needed anymore either. flash does work in the 'normal' firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29. Jan, Jan Seeger spammed my inbox with On Tue, 29. Jan, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with On Monday 28 January 2008 16:43:29 Jan Seeger wrote: snip Nope. I pasted that into a file called pipe, and it still returns Unix time

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-29 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29. Jan, Peter Humphrey spammed my inbox with On Monday 28 January 2008 16:43:29 Jan Seeger wrote: snip Nope. I pasted that into a file called pipe, and it still returns Unix time stamps, thus: $ grep completed /var/log/emerge.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Seeger
+\]/$times[2]:$times[1] $times[3].$times[4].$times[5]/;' Just pipe your log through that and you will get beautiful (european) dates instead of timestamps. Regards Jan Seeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Jan Seeger
sine waves, pink and white noise. Regards, Jan Seeger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

2008-01-22 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22. Jan, Ricardo Saffi Marques spammed my inbox with I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups, just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to crontab -e. I edit my cron table using:

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to allocate mem

2007-11-20 Thread Jan Seeger
curious also, since I sort of gave up looking for an answer. Greets Jan Seeger -- thenybble.de/blog/ -- four bits at a time -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving a file using Python and Cron

2007-09-09 Thread Jan Seeger
something which may go awry. HTH Jan Seeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG477iMmLQdC6jvocRAgGKAJ9iali9yPgTUgz68t/Vn5wf9UHWtgCfTVnJ yQmdQd4SmO88bR9W7tIwdD4= =WlTn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo- user] KDE HAL: запретить монт ирование определенных р азделов

2007-08-31 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yep, I could proudly display my mad UTF-8 skillz to my GF^^ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1+ogMmLQdC6jvocRAuOFAKCXtron95L96dORFxiWlsfOhwOXmgCdHzBr wcoR12d1d8TweJkTYtyVf+w= =xivi -END PGP SIGNATURE- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, thanks for saying this, it got me thinking too. Emerging iwlwifi rright now. I'll write an article about it in my blog... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-20 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uh, right. I'm sorry, but after all the threads asking what happened to packages.gentoo.org and the like, I somehow thought this was another one... And that infrastructure announcement was linked from planet gentoo, this is how I got to read it (rss).

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com not responding

2007-08-19 Thread Jan Seeger
On planet gentoo, one can read that the cause for the outage was a security issue: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20070814-infrapr.xml Regards, Jan pgp0Q9OVm0ElC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

2007-08-17 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try to add HorizScrollDelta0 to your xorg.conf InputDevice section for the touchpad. That also annoyued me. Another thing is that, when pasting a URL, Firefox automatically opens it. I rectified that by going to about:config and setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction - Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd think that using -march overrides -mtune. You cannot at the same time tune for two architectures. To cross-compile, you would need crossdev. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] Crap is being added to site-gentoo.el

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just add 'dev-util/subversion -emacs' to /etc/portage/package.use. That way, Subversion is installed without emacs support. To get fancy and only disable the emacs flag for one version, try something like '=dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r4 - -emacs'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing packages that depend on specified package

2007-06-17 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try equery d package. You need to emerge gentoolkit for that. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdVaPMmLQdC6jvocRApGIAJ0RaIBQXOaDUNqRGkO20Ja0ImNwjwCeJ3K9 iyawObvLdHmeoDe0740qhSg= =HpiK -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-16 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for being late, but have you tried to add the offending packages to package.provided and then emerging the meta packages? Not exactly clean, but cleaner than editing the ebuild, and it works... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MSI Player P610

2007-05-15 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you looked if it runs with MTP (Media Transfer Protocol I think). Amarok can and gnomad should now be able to do MTP with the corresponding Useflag. Greetings jeeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Concerning Number 2: You need to have gensplash enabled in the Kernel (which it is), and have emerged the splashutils packages. Also, you need to modify your grub.conf to use a framebuffer. Furthermore, you need to create an initial ramdisk to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah yes sorry there. Then I cannot help you, since I have no experience using netboot/pxe. Sorry Greetings Jan Seeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOIatMmLQdC6jvocRArVUAKCi7A3I7FZo4X3BHLV+eJ6dgS0XegCZAVVG

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in bash ?

2007-04-21 Thread Jan Seeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is no bug. Bash globs everything that begins with A-Z (also directories) and then gives that list to ls. So ls lists all these files and the directories that begin with A-Z. Strangely though, bash seems to ignore case. (When I try your command,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-04 Thread Jan Seeger
you are doing something completely wrong or my portage is just better. Regards, Jan Seeger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE9KdMmLQdC6jvocRAodMAJ0X5mlwoPSoXaOqq6OvTvmPBPqpDwCfUYNt Yjssa+ZSnc/zzWiqRHezVHk= =Zkcv -END PGP SIGNATURE