Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 10/15/2012 08:38 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Thanks for the heads-up, last time I looked nemo was not in portage. I use gnome3.6 and dislike the new nautilus - still have version 3.4 of it installed. But now I can switch to nemo. GNOME 3.6 landed? I know it was released, but I still don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 10/14/2012 03:19 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Huh? Are there other libcs that do it differently? I can't imagine any alternative (except of the sbrk function from the bad old days). Newlib at least uses sbrk, presumably because only requiring that, as opposed to requiring a fully functional

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-20 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 08/20/2012 02:19 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Michael Trausch m...@trausch.us wrote: Tested and verified w/ at least Rhythmbox and Banshee. Have offered a bounty for years for anyone who fox the bug. There are open, confirmed bugs in (at least) Launchpad

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-20 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 08/20/2012 02:19 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: And the players output to PulseAudio directly or through the ALSA emulation? In GNOME 2 you could configure GStreamer (which both Rhythmbox and Banshee use) to use PulseAudio as default sink, or using ALSA; but it PA is running, newer versions

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 05/09/2012 07:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: As long as you don't use them in any kind of RAID setup you they should be fine. The biggest difference between them and 'enterprise' class drives is the enterprise class drives are designed for multi-drive RAID setups... you don't want drives to

Re: [gentoo-user] How can i use GRUB to boot my windows?

2012-03-09 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 03/09/2012 07:40 AM, 赵佳晖 wrote: grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo root(hd0,7) kernel /boot/kernel-3.2.1-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda8 title Windows 7

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/17/2012 03:12 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. I think I want to match only the name, creation date file size. The eSATA drive needs to be vfat due to

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: Add FAT considers two filenames that are the same except for case as the same filename to that list. NTFS has the same limitation. I had forgotten about that. FAT is always case-sensitive. While it is possible to change the rules slightly for NTFS,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-16 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 11:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P I hate extra cogs in the system. Simpler is better! That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got the vibes that Gentoo's is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of what is happening) or write my own scripts, etc... Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM! You just need LVM built-in and GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 09:52 AM, LK wrote: Are there any firmware-related messages in your dmesg? Oh yes: http://pastebin.com/b95y3GaH Look at the area from 1.576863 to 62.228490, includes the 60s freeze from switching to clocksource tsc. Does the problem lay in my AMD gpu (hd6xxx) ? It is

Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 10:49 AM, LK wrote: In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You can eliminate them by switching VTs after boot, or as Nikos said, you are also able to eliminate them entirely

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 01:08 PM, LK wrote: BTW: So is grub0 still supported by gentoo / maintained by themselves? Does that matter(it is boot, no network stuff) ? GRUB Legacy (that is, GRUB versions 0.xx) is still the default in Gentoo. In order to use GRUB 2 (that is, GRUB version 1.99 in Portage)

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 01:40 PM, LK wrote: On 120214, at 19:24, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/14/2012 01:08 PM, LK wrote: BTW: So is grub0 still supported by gentoo / maintained by themselves? Does that matter(it is boot, no network stuff) ? GRUB Legacy (that is, GRUB versions 0.xx) is still

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 02:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote: A detailed elaboration would be nice. A contrasting migration guide, complete with the how's, where's and why's would be awesome. (Once one's invested in understanding a tool, a 1-2-3-itsmagic walkthrough is very discomforting.) While there are

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 02:29 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a configuration that is so convoluted that it *has to* be generated

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 02:59 PM, Michael Cook wrote: You can't edit /etc/default/grub to customize how grub-mkconfig generates grub.cfg. Mint probably has update-grub like Ubuntu does which just allows you to use that command instead of grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg grub-mkconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 02:53 PM, LK wrote: I meant in GRUB2. I have another box with linux mint using GRUB2, and splash backgrounds in GRUB / lowlevel menus or anywhere (branding) reminds me of commercialism like Apple putting their logo onto every product. (They are good, tho, the apple logo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 03:41 PM, Grant wrote: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? I've used Chromium in the past. It supports the same plugins that Firefox does. There is also Epiphany, the GNOME browser,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 03:57 PM, LK wrote: First, why do we need that much code? First, are you talking about source or binary code? If you're talking about source code, then realize this: Not all that source is even compiled on your system. As to the source that *is* compiled on your system, there

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 06:47 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: FYI Gentoo's GRUB 0.9x in portage has supported GPT for at least 2 or 3 years now. I'm using it with GPT partitions and my systems all boot. :) Not all distributions do. I have been running GPT for quite some time, while I only switched to Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
(Sorry that the threading is broken, I was looking at this in the list archive and don't still have the mails from earlier, which I probably mass-deleted...) This sounds suspiciously like an error loading firmware, which can happen when you have a video adapter or WiFi adapter that needs

Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/14/2012 08:37 PM, Dale wrote: On my older x86 machine, I get this when trying to update: WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with