Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the portage tree and every time thereafter. Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more complex route. Instead, put the

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/16/12 22:47, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way to get in touch with a good person for the job? - Grant Diego seems to be mad about the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the portage tree and every time thereafter. Editing the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: The change was done in the mythtv overlay (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? I understood that overlay gets updated only when there

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:39:24 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: The change was done in the mythtv overlay (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would

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

2012-02-17 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P

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

2012-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 6:10 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: I am one

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: ebuilds do not update themselves, something else does. All an overlay is, is an alternate bunch of ebuilds laid out in the same format as the portage tree. Layman is nothing more than a nice bunch of scripts that automate the install,

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

2012-02-17 Thread Dzianis Kahanovich
András Csányi пишет: I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim, but I haven't find any answer for this. A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is set up in xorg.conf than it will be okay. It

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 02/17/2012 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The MythTV overlay is not serviced by layman. Instead, it includes a script called from /etc/portage/postsync.d/ to update itself after every emerge --sync. Basically, there are two types

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too.  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to this thread.  It passes *MY* acid test.  I'm a paying subscriber to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too.  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to this thread.  It passes *MY* acid test.  I'm a paying subscriber to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too.  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to this thread.  It passes *MY* acid test.  I'm a paying subscriber to

[gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now it fails to emerge: http://pastebin.com/sngZLVgj emerge --info gdk-sharp: http://pastebin.com/qSsGXsnT Help!

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

2012-02-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 schrieb Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info: On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: I am

[gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, 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 limitations of the audio/video device it will

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

2012-02-17 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, 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

[gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A: Cracks about how if the system is old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread v_2e
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:37:19 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to beautify it just a bit? Smoother fonts and maybe just a bit of edge roundness? On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:51:18 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Ouch, is copy/paste in midori working for

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 17 February 2012 20:47, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette-

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] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 12:41:25 schrieb Grant: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? - Grant konqueror or chromium. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 12:41:25 schrieb Grant: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage?  Something minimal preferably but with flash support? - Grant konqueror

[gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

2012-02-17 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, well, I did some searches on this already, but without success, so I thought I'd ask here. Following issue: I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to record local logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via ssh, everything works fine, but I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-17 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.02.2012 19:55, imacake/LK wrote: Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now it fails to emerge: http://pastebin.com/sngZLVgj emerge --info gdk-sharp:

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

2012-02-17 Thread Manuel McLure
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas:  - FAT has limitations on file sizes.  - FAT cannot store permissions or ACLs  

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] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Manuel McLure man...@mclure.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas:  - FAT

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -0800, Grant wrote: LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter

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

2012-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Dnes
This revision removes a couple of steps in the process, so there's less stuff involved. If only software developers worked that way G. * Busybox stable is now past the buggy version that didn't work with mdev. There is no need to keyword version 1.19.2 * The virtual/dev-manager-0.ebuild has

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:06:09PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.02.2012 19:55, imacake/LK wrote: Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now it

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A: Cracks about how if the system

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having problems playing NHL Gamecenter Live streams at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread Willie Matthews
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:47:36 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having problems playing NHL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 18, 2012 6:46 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: This revision removes a couple of steps in the process, so there's less stuff involved. If only software developers worked that way G. * Busybox stable is now past the buggy version that didn't work with mdev. There is no

[gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-17 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to compile hydrogen cleanly. Since the ebuild of hydrogen fails to compile because the system linux3 is not known (which happens even when compiled on a linux-2.6*-booted machine)... I was pointed to patch which fixes this problem, but unfortunately it only opens the way to the next

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot

[gentoo-user] Marvell 9128 controller and SSD in Gentoo

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always exclusively from the perspective of Windows users complaining about Marvell drivers, lack

Re: [gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow, despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced poor suggestions) currently. I suggest using bittorrent, it always achieves the best results for me for

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

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: NOTE: To others discussing the various positives and negatives of Windows file systems please note that I had no choice in the matter. The only thing this piece of equipment accepts on it's USB port is VFAT. If you run

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

2012-02-17 Thread Nils Holland
On 22:37 Fri 17 Feb , Nils Holland wrote: I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to record local logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via ssh, everything works fine, but I can do millions of local, non-X11 plain vanilla terminal logins without