Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Joshua D Doll
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm looking at my system and I'm surprised to find dbus running, since I put -dbus -hal in my /etc/make.conf. msoul...@anton:~$ ps -ef | grep dbus | grep -v grep msoulier 9221 1 0 Apr12 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Joshua D Doll
Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? Here's my link on the subject: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-logo.html

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Joshua D Doll
Florian Philipp wrote: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5.2-r7 build problems

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere but as of yet it hasn't happened. For kicks today I cleaned out distfiles and did

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5.2-r7 build problems

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would get cleaned up in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-10 Thread Joshua D Doll
Roy Wright wrote: Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find

Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)

2009-02-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what to do rather than go read docs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Dale wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I like the control also. I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new user' could read, follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua D Doll
Saphirus Sage wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Dale wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I like the control also. I only took a *very* small

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?

2009-01-27 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kenneth Prugh ken69...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

2009-01-15 Thread Joshua D Doll
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a rebuild of the ffmpeg library. The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke transcode. The --deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode. On my

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread Joshua D Doll
James wrote: All, I upgrade gentoo-sources to 2.6.26 a few days ago and just noticed that vmware-server doesn't play nice with the new kernel. I've seen bug ID 227303, but haven't been successful in patching vmware-server as some of the comments in the bug indicate. Anyone been able to get

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package. Then a lazy admin

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update

2008-08-11 Thread Joshua D Doll
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I was away for two weeks and am not trying to do an --update world. Gnome 2.22 has gone stable so there are a number of pkgs to emerge and a few blockers. (full output is below) I can't understand the first blocker msg [blocks B ] media-video/totem-2.21 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.26, rtc problem

2008-07-18 Thread Joshua D Doll
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.26 I have got a problem with starting hwclock service - it doesn't find /dev/rtc. I have tried to add rtc_cmos to

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.26, rtc problem

2008-07-18 Thread Joshua D Doll
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Joshua D Doll wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.26 I have got a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?

2008-07-16 Thread Joshua D Doll
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a source for the photos? - Grant There's webcollage in xscreensaver that will grab photos off the net and make a collage out of them.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-14 Thread Joshua D Doll
Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade packages!

2008-07-10 Thread Joshua D Doll
John covici wrote: Hi. I just emerged the firefox 3.0 which required a new version also of xulrunner. Now if I run revdep-rebuild, it wants to downgrade both of these packages. A number of packages seem to depend on libnss3.so.11 libsmime3.so.11 libssl3.so.11 . How can I resolve this

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: Try add to grub.conf this line vga=0x31B This controls resolution and color depth of your framebuffer screen. You can read more about this at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to a nonexistent file. Grub hangs if that's the case. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it still works. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Joshua D Doll
Grant wrote: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Rock solid. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Joshua D Doll
b.n. wrote: Grant ha scritto: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably it's me not having time at all

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Joshua D Doll
Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum

Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?

2008-04-03 Thread Joshua D Doll
luis jure wrote: hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-21 Thread Joshua D Doll
Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread Joshua D Doll
Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 beta release

2008-03-13 Thread Joshua D Doll
James wrote: Anyone know where (or who do I ask) to test a beta release of the 2008.0 installation stages? James According to this document they are still working on the specs for the beta: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2008.0/index.xml --Joshua Doll --

Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread Joshua D Doll
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have