Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Sobey
some absolutely atrocious disk performance from it, a lot less than I would expect. Bonnie++ results are here: snip To reply to my own post, flashing the controller from 5.1 to 5.2 increased read performance six fold and doubled write performance. Result! Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
, not just the one. Instead use ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest You should copy the ebuild to an overlay before doing this, or this will be undone at the next sync. -- Neil Bothwick God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his

[gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Steve B.
success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data from CD1 six times. This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on linux, so any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. - Steve B. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:16:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine I'll just weigh in here for Hewlett Packard, (although I am told that if you want highest quality digital photo prints go for epson). I used to think that, having used the six colour Epsons. But I had big

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
it if it broke. I found it very straightforward. What's the worst that can happen? Your portage tree gets messed up, which can be fixed with emerge --sync. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing

[gentoo-user] Leery of Gnome dependencies for Openoffice

2005-10-21 Thread John J. Foster
my stable KDE system. About six months ago I installed whatever version of the Gnome desktop that was stable then, but ended up spending 3 or 4 days trying to remove all remnants of it after I decided that I didn't really like it that well. Am I being overly concerned here, or are that legitimate

Re: [gentoo-user] Leery of Gnome dependencies for Openoffice

2005-10-21 Thread b.n.
I'd very much like to run the regular build procedures, but am quite worried about what the pulling in of Gnome dependencies will do do my stable KDE system. About six months ago I installed whatever version of the Gnome desktop that was stable then, but ended up spending 3 or 4 days trying

[gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread kashani
up every six weeks (well the math is new) like clockwork, perhaps it is time to create a FAQ detailing the arguments and generally agreed on conclusions we'll all seen countless times. kashani, anxiously awaiting the drawn out discussion this may provoke, but willing to live

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device hde4 or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:59, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device hde4 or uknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic.. It's a 120 Gig harddrive /dev/hde1 is 20 Gigs, for Windows /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
Committee (noun): A life form with six or more legs and no brain. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
. :) Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? Thanks, Mrugesh pgp5KCL1QUvO3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl

2006-04-24 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 24 April 2006 22:38, Sven Köhler wrote: Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection

[gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)

2006-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
. I get at least six, sometimes more. I look at the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am. The next set it sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information. It's very annoying. How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 December 2006 17:47, Roman Naumann wrote: Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other languages with six cases. Russian. @Uwe Thiem Are you also German? You name sounds quite as if you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Latin has the four cases Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and additionally the Vocative and the Ablative. I haven't seen any other languages with six cases. As you can imagine, it's quite tiring to learn Latin. :-\ Just for your information. There are languages with more cases

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 21/12/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than windoze any day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL the software you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only have to reboot once too. I counted six

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
hands down. IMO What about package management? Good point, since LFS has none built in, I guess Gentoo wins here as well. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi guys, Actually, BLFS has six different package management options. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging GCC

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Six wrote: Hi, I just installed Gentoo. I decided I wanted GCJ and Objective C support in the GCC, so I recompiled it. Hmmm... I would try toying around with gcc-config and see if that solves your problem. Also, try 'source /etc/profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa problems - Using Alsa-driver and Ensoniq ens1371

2005-09-05 Thread Bill Six
Hi, Can confirm it works with Gentoo for more then two years, till now. Are you saying it's not working for you too? Check again the docs/config unmute the channels.Check the kernel-link. I've checked over the docs a few times, and made sure to unmute the channels. When I unmute PCM and

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 2 . Because on most machines inittab tells init to start agetty on the first six VTs, and X then takes the first free VT. In fact, I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers

2009-08-16 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 18:40, M Daniel R M4.maga...@gmail.com wrote: firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame window

[gentoo-user] Re: Double nautilus windows for each USB flash drive plugged in

2009-09-28 Thread walt
On 09/28/2009 06:23 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: Hello: Apparently I have bodged the setup somehow on this system. Each time I plug in a flash drive, two Nautilus windows open up. If I plug three USB drives in, six windows open. I can't answer your question, sorry, but I've noticed something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
it to package.unmask and nearly six weeks before you need to add the kde-sunset overlay. That's assuming the ebuilds that depend on QT3 haven't been updated to wiork with QT4, which is highly likely as that would require upstream changes for most of them too. It's a minor inconvenience

[gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debugged, is better than four lines in a config file

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

2010-08-11 Thread Dale
or option to enforce complexity. Stroller. Thing about changing passwords to often, the person forgets what the password is. I have a good strong password for my bank and credit card. If I had to change it every month, six months or something, I would set it to something simple so that I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/15/2010 09:35 AM, Jarry wrote: So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Uh oh..don your flameproof underwear and open the floodgates I've not used the new six-core AMDs but I love my XII 940. And with Intel's new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? For audio work I have six. 2-3 sound cards/machine. Typically 1 card/machine is dedicated to junk system sounds. The others run Jack for more interesting audio work. (Recording

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-05-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
never bother you again, I promise! I'm lying, of course, because I intend to do it again six months from now. Why not just use scp of sftp since its so infrequent? New can of worms. o_O scp is fucking easy to do. Even easier: pure-ftpd.

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
of 0.8) I don't think that feature looks into the future like that. The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for that. -- Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
the version level they will make stable next week? (For instance 0.7 instead of 0.8) I don't think that feature looks into the future like that. The latest version of baselayout is over six weeks old, so I'd go for that. -- Neil Bothwick Life's a crap shoot. (As are all my index futures trades

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

2011-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march

[gentoo-user] GRUB v2

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello List, I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being dense, or maybe it was on another list. I want to try another

[gentoo-user] Editing the open with dialog of PCMANFM

2011-09-24 Thread Alex Barrios
Hi everybody. I use PcManFM, its just perfect for everything but i wanna edit the options that appear in the open with sub-menu when i right click some file. For example, if I right click an image, it appears GIMP, Gpicview and like six times Wine core, for some reason. So i wanna fix

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/24/2011 08:28 PM, walt wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata outboard docking station. Not so good :( [...] Over at least six trials on each docking station I consistently get 105

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
functionality. That sounds like a poor gamble. A 3.0GHz CPu that I may be able to unlock to 6 cores for £20 less than a genuine 6 cores 3.2GHz 1090T. I either get slightly less for slightly less, or a lot less for slightly less :( -- Neil Bothwick God created the world in six days

[gentoo-user] Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer

2012-04-27 Thread Markos Chandras
on a Gentoo testing VM, on a Gentoo stable VM and on a brand new Gentoo installation. I have no idea where to look for that problem. System: Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor Host: Gentoo x86_64 testing (has not problem at all, so I presume HW problem is eliminated

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
deadline too. I wish projects wouldn't rely solely on wikis for documentation, it should be installed with the program. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread David Kuhl
. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either. Your mails arrive just fine, I see six altogether. You can see them here, for example: http://old.nabble.com/gentoo-user-f12640.html And your initial question about the initramfs

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
#125902 =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-r1 Then I googled and view https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902#c82. It turned out the bug has been existed for more than six years and is related to gentoo's group game policy. So can I just manually install nethack as a common user ?

[gentoo-user] gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Analuin Abyssbeholder
...@gentoo.org tav...@gentoo.org (21 Mar 2006) # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-r1 Then I googled and view https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902#c82. It turned out the bug has been existed for more than six years and is related to gentoo's group

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev blocks systemd etc

2013-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
six times over the course of a single day. I seems to me that this is rather a niche quite-specialized case (albeit a rather large instance of a niche case). In which case it would be better implemented as Redhat MagicSauce for their cloud environment where it would be exactly tuned to that case's

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
but decreased monitoring responsibility. RAID10 with six drives can be implemented one of two ways, Type 1: A B A B A B Type 2: A B C A B C If your controller can do Type 1, then going with six drives gives you better fault tolerance than four with a hot spare. I've only ever seen Type 2

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault tolerance). So, A B C A B C and not, A B A B A B The former gives you more space

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-17 11:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Any controller that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault tolerance

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Grant
Any controller that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault tolerance). I forget why I even brought it up. I think it was in order to argue

[gentoo-user] Xvnc/vncviewer: Keyboard repeat does not work?!

2014-10-11 Thread meino . cramer
fine...I have no idea what the reason for this problem... How can I fix that? Best regards, mcc PS: Mails/threads from over six years ago report this problem also -- and that it was fixed. Am I trapped in a time bubble? ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs

2014-10-14 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/14/2014 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about configurability/multiple ways of doing things. Oh, I don't think that -- it's pretty obvious that in the RedHat world,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing

2014-11-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 November 2014 23:21:46 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: have you tried restarting plasma? Or switched screens? I don't know how to restart plasma, other than logging out and in again. I have six virtual desktops most of the time, and they're all equally blank. i have occasionally

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing

2014-11-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
logging out and in again. I have six virtual desktops most of the time, and they're all equally blank. You might try $ killall plasma-desktop plasma-desktop to restart you plasma session. Oh, well if that's all there is to it, I will - thanks. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? Well, you could always use syslinux or something else. However, GRUB

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread Grant Edwards
. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I haven't been married at in over six years, but we gmail.comhad sexual counseling every day from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 10:43:28 Rich Freeman wrote: Just to humor you I'll include an OpenRC version of my raid1 btrfs install walkthrough. :) It has been a while since I've done one of those... Me too please, Rich. I still haven't got this six-year-old MBR box to boot raid1 btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
breech? It stores it in a single, encrypted file, wherever you put it. You can put the file on a cloud server if you wish, but it's just a file, useless without the decryption key. -- Neil Bothwick God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-02 Thread Daniel Frey
ll I gave up on printing for six months before I found foo2zjs. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
the running one, so you only need one GRUB to boot everything. That's why distro installers are so much better at setting up Linux dual booting these days, because GRUB2 makes it simple for them. -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
graphics with its > 'retina' monitor. Is it a matter of somehow tuning the Xorg settings on my > Linux PCs? Have you calibrated your monitors? That seems to be the first thing to do. I bought a device six months ago and it's transformed my viewing experience: http://www.hughski

[gentoo-user] Emerge

2016-04-15 Thread Alan Grimes
me for the next six months... =( Emerge seems to want to pretend it is possible to update packages without breaking anything. It's not. That's why there's revdep-rebuild. It is causing much much much more grief by refusing to do it's goddamned motherfucking job than it would be by giving revdep

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

2016-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
; Hmm, that longterm is starting to look somewhat mature. I might consider switching over myself. Usually I try to give them a good six months before I consider them ready for btrfs (they have a tendency to introduce regressions in new kernel versions; I gave up on tracking non-longterm ages ago). -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Has eclean changed recently?

2016-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:16:53 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > For several years I've been running "eclean-pkg -d" and "eclean-dist > -d" in a weekly tidying routine, but recently it removed every single > package, leaving just the directory structure. And I'd ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Has eclean changed recently?

2016-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2016 14:42:58 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > For several years I've been running "eclean-pkg -d" and "eclean-dist -d" > > in a weekly tidying routine, but recently it removed every single > > package, leaving just the directory st

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 24 Apr 2017 14:47:32 Mick wrote: > On Monday 24 Apr 2017 14:36:01 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Speaking of long emerge times, so far this box has spent nearly six > > hours on two systems simultaneously (one being a chroot for a slower > > machine) and still hasn't f

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-24 Thread Mick
On Monday 24 Apr 2017 14:36:01 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Speaking of long emerge times, so far this box has spent nearly six hours on > two systems simultaneously (one being a chroot for a slower machine) and > still hasn't finished. And qtwebkit has just failed; I'd better look into >

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/14/2017 06:05 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: So the MTP process crapped out again. I repeated this three times and cursed at KDE (it used to work, I haven't had to copy files off my phone in more than six months) and emailed them to myself. Same happens to me. And always has. I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed

2017-08-28 Thread wabe
<mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com> wrote: > any one have experiance with athlon, Phenom, and opteron?  if so i'm > curios if it's worth a $15-20 expense. I'm using an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor. I bought it six or seven years ago when it was brand-new. It still

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

2017-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12/03/2017 03:30 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > However, you can delay switching to the new profile for a while. For how long? eselect news item tells me: "Please migrate away from the 13.0 profiles within the six weeks after GCC 6.4.0 has been stabilized on your architecture.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
"Offer shutdown options" enabled? It could also be a permissions thing if your user no longer has permission to execute the shutdown and reboot commands. -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. pgplSIMaZZlkQ

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
efore I make another move. Three kernel > compilations on six systems within a week are a few too many. FWIW, I find 4.9.73 (upstream, not gentoo) rock solid. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply p

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
asked, so that won't do. Here, I've had to go back to 4.9.49-r1 (amd64, not ~amd64). But now I see 4.9.72 has been stabilised. I think I'll wait for some stabiliity in the kernel version offerings before I make another move. Three kernel compilations on six systems within a week are a few too many. --

[gentoo-user] Re: whats going on with python versions?

2018-07-10 Thread Grant Edwards
at my latest update, a lot > of them are going back to 3.5 instead. That's why I set PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" in my make.conf. I figured it would be best to wait until everything worked with 3.6. My guess is that six months or so after 3.6 becomes the default ought to

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-06 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > My IPv6 address is indeed static. Nice. In that case, you can of course use your router's global scope address in /etc/hosts or DNS. > The only IPv6 details my router shows are the LAN and WAN addresses, > and 'ip -6 route show' on this host, although it lists six

Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups

2021-05-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:40:30PM -0600, Jack wrote > On 5/12/21 10:35 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > * The Power button powers down, but is unable to reboot (there's a light > >inside the case that stays on) > Is that a short press or long press (at least six seconds?) on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
oes /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell you? -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. pgpWb1DKyib0m.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr partition

2022-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
eals what he uses or something.  ROFL  I use systemd-boot wherever possible, only falling back to GRUB if the BIOS is non-EFI. -- Neil Bothwick "God created the world in six days. On the seventh day he also decided to create England... just to try out his Practical Joke Weather Machine.&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:00:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt > > like doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to > > save myself the aggrivation...

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: > Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt like > doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to save myself > the aggrivation... No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-17 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Paul, On Thursday, 2022-11-17 17:52:17 +1100, you wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: > > ... > >Usually I should wait six months just to save myself > > the aggrivation... > > No, waiting 6 mon

[gentoo-user] Re: Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-11-17, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: >> Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt like >> doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to save myself >> the aggrivation

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild command doesn't fix broken libs it finds

2008-03-02 Thread Dale
Bob Young wrote: After a recent emerge -DuN world, messages for one of the packages stated that it was necessary to run revdep-rebuild after emerging the package, so I did. The revdep-rebuild ended up merging six packages, with one of them being gcc. Emerging all six packages took several hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
ftp server... By going to SRC_URI every time, they use up precious international bandwidth instead of local (of which there is heaps). Every six months, when Fedora or Ubuntu does a release, those users can saturate the entire pipe into this *country* - just to get isos that I already

[gentoo-user] Trouble tweaking KDE package six

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've never tried to hack a KDE appliction before, and I'm having a bunch of trouble just finding the right resources to RTF*. The package is six-0.5.3, and I have some tweaks I got from the original author back at release 0.3.3, but I cannot get them into the 0.5.3 source tree properly

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I generally try to update the docs with recent packages every six months or so though I am guilty of letting them sit a bit longer. However Gentoo has no official Bind documentation. The official Gentoo Virtual Mail how-to offers about half the functionality, explanation

[gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Six
in instead of the DVD burner, and it still gives the same error. Last time I let my dad touch my computer haha. Thanks for any help, Bill Six __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-09 Thread Ted Ozolins
Bill Six wrote: Hi, This isn't a Gentoo related problem, but a hardware one (I know next to nothing about hardware). First of all I have a Micron computer with a floppy drive, DVD-read drive (/dev/hdc), CDR drive (/dev/hdd), a master harddrive (/dev/hde), and a slave harddrive (/dev/hdf

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem

2005-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:45, Bill Six wrote: Hi, This isn't a Gentoo related problem, but a hardware one (I know next to nothing about hardware). First of all I have a Micron computer with a floppy drive, DVD-read drive (/dev/hdc), CDR drive (/dev/hdd), a master harddrive (/dev/hde

[gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread Raymond Lillard
installs take me less than half of a day. I watched OpenOffice download and compile for over six hours before I gave up and went to bed. Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. That version was released more than six months ago. The latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread Zac Medico
install. Most binary installs take me less than half of a day. I watched OpenOffice download and compile for over six hours before I gave up and went to bed. Many packages are offered as -bin packages such as openoffice-bin. You can alse use GRP packages (see handbook) or look at http

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
-config error: could not run/locate i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc My architecture is i686 and it seems that 27 packages before python-fchksum found the i686(that's SIX-eight-six)-pc-linux-gnu-gcc. Hm, when editing /etc/make.conf, did you change the CHOST setting? That could cause such behaviour... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Emerge

2006-09-07 Thread Dale
Bill Six wrote: Hi, 3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for about 6 months. However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently, the build will crap out and I'll get something like the following. Any idea why this happens? Thanks. ake[2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months ago). So I've had cause several times to change my disk layout, and although it consumes time the easy way is to make a backup and then restore

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Mick
Firefox. I am missing some of Firefox' plugins, and it works much better with the new flash, but over all I like Konqueror's behaviour better. I used to be a big Konqueror fan until about six months ago. Then I tried Chromium and was blown away by its speed and the way it works on more sites. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:38:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: I used to be a big Konqueror fan until about six months ago. Then I tried Chromium and was blown away by its speed and the way it works on more sites. I do miss some of the integration of Konqueror and its kio-slaves

Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to full multilib

2015-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
tried separate files and having them all in one file. Either way, each entry requires a person to manage it. For me at least, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. ;-) Actually, it's one big one vs six small ones :) I find the separate files much easier to manage as all the settings

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-26 Thread »Q«
page, do you get a What does this browser support? section? If so, what does it say? Of the six boxes there, I have ticks (?check marks?) on o - HTMLVideoElement o - WebM VP8 I have exclamation marks on all the others, namely o - H.264 ^ This is the only one which I have

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
ttings on > > > my Linux PCs? > > > > Have you calibrated your monitors? That seems to be the first thing to do. > > I bought a device six months ago and it's transformed my viewing > > > > experience: > > http://www.hughski.com/ > >

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-25 Thread Floyd Anderson
that sakura needs six times more time than urxvt. Combining this with the compile sessions, which are one of the core features of Gentoo ;)))... What I want is the "fastest" possible (...) terminal emulator supporting true color (24bit). I dont need fancy configuring options (two excep

Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...

2020-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
config is fine, chances are hyperthreading (aka "SMT mode") is > > disabled in your BIOS settings. > > > > andrea > > > > Hi Andrea, > > I checked that: The BIOS setting was set to use hyperthreading. > > But "Number of cores" was set to six.

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
ython_targets_python3_6 > >=dev-python/requests-2.23.0 python_targets_python3_6 > >=dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 python_targets_python3_6 > >=dev-python/setuptools-50.3.0 python_targets_python3_7 > >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-4.1.2-r1 python_targets_python3_6 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
nths ago and I've > > > > been websurfing, Youtubing, etc ever since. And Windows Home has not > > forced an update all that time. > > That would be difficult but no evidence of any evil doing, such as > installing Linux. However, I'm more concerned about an earlier f

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