Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:38 on Saturday 28 May 2011, Daniel da > Veiga > did opine thusly: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > It looks like it's time to tak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, walt wrote: > On 05/26/2011 04:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Now, a couple of months into my retirement > ... > > in 2002 when I finished my PHD > > Retiring 9 years after finishing your education? > Nice to know that so

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:46 -0700 > schrieb "Kevin O'Gorman" : > > > It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a > > little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > ... > > * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. > They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a >> little sad about it, or I'd just quietly go away. >> >>

[gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. I have gotten pretty tired of updates that take over 48 hours to compile, and the occasional mess-up that once or twice led me to rebuild with empty-tree and took a week or so. So I guess I shouldn't complain (and I'm not). I'm just not in the target market for Gentoo any more. It was fun, though. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now > > I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now > >

[gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; never fails to process some packages that are hardwired for one reason or another. Some search engine results suggest this may be true, but they're mostly old. Is this still and permanently true? If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in the elogs? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
consists of - things like minimum > packages to install, things that must not be installed, starting point for > USE > flags, etc etc. > [snippage] > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ood thing... >> > > Sounds to me like that should be made into a feature request. What does the > list think? If there's support I will log it. > +1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
that) by Linux Journal). I wound up with Gentoo because slower-release distros did not have kernels that knew how to configure such a machine -- I never figured out if it was the Xeon stuff or just SMP. Anyway, an up-to-date kernel avoided it triggering clock slowdowns. Nothing like having a state-of-the-art machine that persists in running at 10%. I do try to get elogs by email, but its flakey for some reason. But some of those other steps mentioned above I've never heard of before. Time for a little studying (sigh). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
bout to try this, and I may change it a bit because when I restarted apache, reload didn't work. I had to stop it and restart it. Maybe I'll submit a bug if I can make sense out of what happens with 'reload' and it always happens. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> >> >>>> Okay, there was already a thread about that, and my Python problem seems >>> solved. I still have no log entries. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
che208 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_error_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache203 Feb 7 03:10 ssl_error_log-20110207.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_request_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 102 Dec 31 03:10 ssl_request_log-20101231.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache158 Jan 22 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110122.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache197 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache103 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110206.gz treat apache2 # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:04:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> > I just noticed a failure in a dynamic web page that I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; > that would be "python-updater". -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Davide Carnovale < > francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2011/5/2 Helmut Jarausch >> >>> On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carno

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
3.1.3-r1(3.1){tbz2}(02:31:33 PM 02/26/2011)(gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples -sqlite -wininst) Homepage:http://www.python.org/ I'm right now trying to see if "eselect python set 3" will let emerge, vim and tar run again. 3 is version 2.7. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:04:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I just noticed a failure in a dynamic web page that I haven't touched > > in years. So I looked in > > /var/log/apache2 and found tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
log files, and no special logfile paths, so it seems it must use the default. However in /var/log/apache2 I find log files that have not been touched since February. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-04-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
otice a failure (it's a feature not commonly used). I want to find out the exact error from my CGI program (the web error says the system logs will have more info but they don't). How do I find out where/if Apache thinks its logging things? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild Not Fixing Broken Links

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
l "cleanup", -#!/bin/bash -dispatch-conf -revdep-rebuild -lafilefixer --justfixit -perl-cleaner all -locale-gen --keep --quiet You have to be prepared to respond to dispatch-conf, but the others run to completion by themselves. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, movies, webcam, wifi, ethernet, second monitor and all. The only thing to dislike is that the machine does not have an indicator LED for caps lock -- on Win 7 it uses an on-screen icon each time the status changes. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > I just ran "emerge -p --depclean" and the only thing it wants to remove > is > > gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12. So my system's pretty clean, b

[gentoo-user] Puzzled about --depclean

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
just wondering about how --depclean picked on this one of the five? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. > > According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages > that &g

[gentoo-user] Persistent hal

2010-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I don't really want it, but my system still has hal installed. According to equery depends, it seems that there are still two packages that unconditionally depend on hal (besides hal-info): k3b and gnome-mount. I don't care much about gnome-mount (this is primarily a KDE system), but I definitely

Re: [gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM, pk wrote: > On 2010-12-13 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > > listening. > > > > Does anybody know how to find this out? > > netstat o

[gentoo-user] Re: Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 an

[gentoo-user] Eeek: many open ports

2010-12-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n but does not disclose which process is listening. Does anybody know how to find this out? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in "world" - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t recent call last): > File "./auditworld", line 20, in >import gentoolkit.sets > ImportError: No module named set > Are you sure it's even it gentoolkit? I have that but no auditworld on x86. It's not in gentoolkit-dev either. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
kg so I had a binary package lying around. Emerging it with -gK restored the files, and everything was okay. OTOH, a couple of years ago I did an emerge -e and regretted it. It kept stopping because something wasn't configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, kashani wrote: > On 11/15/2010 8:37 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Color me stupid. It was stopped. It started when I told it to in >> /etc/init.d. >> Now I have to wonder what stopped it. Judging from the mail that got >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:57:42 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I don't even know where to start on this. > > I'd start by looking at the logs, I think Postfix logs to syslog by > default. The first quest

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no > longer > > able > > to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it

[gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
me a shove in the right direction. I'm pretty good at this, but I only configured Postfix once and it was a long time ago. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
d)link :) > > sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 > > HTH >Francesco > > I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
work > without having *both* OS shifting the clock by one hour ... > > The more I read this page[1] the more I am tempted to format MSWindows out > of > this box whether the warranty is still valid or not! > > [1] > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html<http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
way, it can remind me what's going on, and seems more direct. It also works if I "su" to root. As an old-timer on Unix, I often forget sudo. I don't like it much anyway because it won't get me into root if something goes wrong in bootup: with this in mind, I need a root PW anyway, until that bottleneck gets fixed. The above form is actually only used in a debugging mode I've defined, and is silent otherwise. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-10-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e, the corresponding line does not include the DISPLAY variable, and it happens to work fine that way. Try just keeping HOME. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> ... > >>>>> I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is > not free (as in beer). Is that true? > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e these require the game's installer CDs to work. > > I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an > activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be using > it. > > Stroller. > > Wouldn't that be kind of sensele

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > >> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Har

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
p up an > ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho. > > Any takers ? :P > > Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
is, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if > someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful! > I'm still at 4.3.4, and having these problems. I wouldn't be holding my breath for a silver bullet. I'm writing this on chormium, having jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi wrote: > On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András > > Csányi did opine thusly: > > > >> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'

[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
accounts to be had that can forward to wherever you like. I yet another gmail account like that for some specific sensitive traffic that I want semi-anonymous. I'm sure there are other free accounts that can do the same. Save your money for the things you really need. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and more pleasant to find the right tool for the job, rather than complain about what anyone else is doing. For me, case closed and I can go back to doing what I want. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tools. It helps to have a really big /tmp (mine has 19GB free at the moment), and to keep using the same name in case you forget to delete the (possibly huge) file. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
If you use screen you can then use the scrollback it provides > > Or adjust your terminal preferences to have a lot of scrollback room. The defaults tend to be in the range of 0 to 500 lines. I often set the value to 30,000 or more, with no noticeable bad effects. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rything to a file, and look at the file however you like. If using less(1) or more(1), I would do it this way emerge -NDpvu world 2>&1 | less under the bash shell. There are a lot of advantages to less, but perhaps the most important is that you can scroll backwards if you've gone too far -- you don't have to start over. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/26/2010 04:29 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >> wrote: >> >>> On a number of websites, I've been unable to see the "captcha" that

[gentoo-user] How and whether to take action on elog message from sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ction on this message, even if I thought it important to do. Anyone have a clue? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Firefox (Namoroka-3.6.8, actually) and Epiphany-2.31-r1 both fail to show captchas

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
queror gives me unrelated trouble, which I'm still working on -- I don't use it in general so I'm not surprised, but I cannot say what it does with captchas. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d >> >> and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no effect on KDE. >> Manually

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim < > ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> wrote: > >> Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: >> >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: > > I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, >> inste

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
aul Hartman > >>> > > wrote: > >>>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > >>>>> I found the specs with Hsync and VSync limits, but they don't mention > the > >>>>> clock speed. I guess I

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Mick wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman wrote: > > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > >> control the display manager. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to > > control the display manager. My problem has been that going to > /etc/init.d > > an

[gentoo-user] Re: Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm actually working to integrate a new HD monitor in a system built before > HD was invented. The monitor works better than the old one, but just in 4:3 > aspect mode. But that's another thread, I only mention

[gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sn't it odd that the display "manager" has such weak control on its "subordinate"? Big PITA for me. Gr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman > > [major snippage] > Check out x11-apps/amlc -- it has an interactive modeline generator > wh

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:10 PM, dhk wrote: > On 08/24/2010 06:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > >>> wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Mick wrote: > >> > >> On 24 August 2010 11:23,

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.0 60.0 896x67260.0 832x62475.0 800x60075.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 65.0 700x52575.0 60.0 640x51275.0 60.0 640x48075.0 73.0 67.0 60.0 720x40070.0 576x43275.0 512x38475.0 70.0 60.0 416x31275.0 400x30075.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 320x24075.0 73.0 60.0 treat log # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ide the data reported by > the monitor in its own way > The logs show Xorg seriously considering 1920x1080. I don't know what to do about it's complaint about the modeline. My fear is that the 2002 vintage MACH64 motherboard video isn't capable of the speeds required, but I'm not sure how to run that experiment. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > On 24/08/10 03:38, Bill Longman wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new >> ASUS VH242H, which is very wide.

[gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rmit -- which is not right now.) Any ideas? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages

2010-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
nce. I want clear font rendering, which I guess means using hints, and I've added the auto-hinter use-flag in package.use. I hope I guessed right. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman > > > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman >

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my > camera > > broke, and I had to get > > one in a hurry, and didn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
1) There are containers 2) Codec != container 3) Video and Audio are encoded one from column A and one from column B. I hope this gives you an idea of what a newb I am. Please calibrate responses accordingly. My friend is pretty sure my problem is the video H.264 codec. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 04:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> ... >> >> My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my >> camera broke, and I had to get one in a hurry, and didn't really

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed in >> Gentoo. >> It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find

[gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ke-0.9.4.ebuild<http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=229397> ? WTF? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Help interpreting firefox e-log message

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t. I understand there's a kernel patch of the same name, but it's not in the source tree (AFAIK). -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] python modules

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
king). You can use an overlay for ones you cannot otherwise find, but then all maintenance is yours to do. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman > wrote: > > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > ... > > Now I find that not only >> do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C >> program that uses the distributed >> libgdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t; ...excepting, of course, "sudo bash -l" which means you've given away > the keys to the kingdom. > > I actually prefer "sudo su -" -- as long as I'm giving it away! :o) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
#x27;; printf("Key: %s", longbucket); value = gdbm_fetch(control, key); memcpy(longbucket, value.dptr, value.dsize); longbucket[value.dsize] = '\0'; printf(", val: \"%s\"\n", longbucket); free(value.dptr); nextkey = g

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I may have found the root of the problem: examine the following output of > an eix query on apache, and note that the cgi stuff seems to be turned off > in the installed version. > [snip snip] > The installed versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
See SOLVED thread [snip all] -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
se to look? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
be best. Anyway, I'm going to be exploring. Do you have cgi working on apache2 (2.2.15), and if so, how things are arranged? I'll be trying to make a cgi out of a hello world in C, to see if my current config can CGI at all. If not, I'll be trying to back out config changes. What a mess! -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
uld be .py or possibly .python, not .cgi or .pl. I see hints that the same sort of thing can still be accomplished, and I'd rather do that than break my RCS version sequence because of a name change. I'll report back. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] > However, my configs contain a few ScriptAlias directories, which are full > of python programs. They are not being executed, but > served up in source code form, even though they have an initial shebang and > rem

[gentoo-user] Progress made, not done yet Re: All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
g and remain executable by all. So there must be some new thing to do besides defining a ScriptAlias directory. Anybody know what it is? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
those connections look normal. I don't know what the usual module list is, so I guess I have to go trolling throught the init.d scripts to figure it out, unless somebody knows a better way. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > >> then the X app is not limited to using only IP but can choose whichever >> transport it deems best. Of course the usual safety caveats apply. If >> others are on your host, they'll have X access.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> xhost SI:localuser:root > > Thanks -- that was what I was trying to remember, so I just emerged it. Looks like something I should be able to do in my .bashrc and just forget about. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:24 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've > > tried a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > > > In /etc/init.d it looks li

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
apache2 # And that's a DNS listener, an NTP listener, and firefox as a client, not a listener. Though it makes me want to track down 1e100.net and find out who they are. I'll see about strace. > If that fails I'd strace the startup manually. > > -- > > Kyle > -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Tomas Krasnican wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > As of today, my apache2 web server seems to refuse to start. I've tried > > a system reboot, to no avail -- > > connections are refused on port 80. > > I think that

[gentoo-user] All of a sudden, no apache2. No clue why.

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN netstat: no support for `AF INET (sctp)' on this system. treat init.d # Any ideas? Wh

[gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t there's always something... Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7;t, and the list of files for "kcontrol" contains *no* files of that name, and only one directory (under HTML) of that name. So how to I run the darned thing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB

2010-07-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rld.com (David W Noon) > == > I put -xcb in the USE variable of /etc/make.conf, and did an emerge -aDNvu. Everything works, and cairo no longer complains. Ignoring it would probably have worked for me too, but it would have left me worrying. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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