Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow

2008-01-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
movements; it's *painfully* slow. I have a NVidia 6800GS. In my laptop with a crappy Intel i950, compiz fusion it's much more smooth. If you can find a solution, please let me know. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM z�b�� z{h���x%�

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow

2008-01-31 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Jan 30, 2008 3:12 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 4:56 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, is it normal to have problems to watch movies or DVDs when compiz-fusion is on? Because every time I try to watch a movie, VLC and Gxine close

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] Compiz-fusion working slow

2008-01-31 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
i915. The problem is Compiz Fusion and/or the version of X.org. It *could* be the Nvidia drivers, but I doubt it. Thanks for the comment, anyway. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM z�b�� z{h���x%�

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ By the way, *right now* I'm using Firefox in 64 bits, because YouTube now works with swfdec. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-02-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Feb 6, 2008 3:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 2:22 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [1] http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/ By the way, *right now* I'm using Firefox in 64

[gentoo-user] libmad sound artifacts

2008-03-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
, plugging the output from my sound card to the video input of the stereo. But it sounds really nice if I'm not using libmad. Any help will be *really* appreciated. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

[gentoo-user] libmad sound artifacts

2008-03-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
, plugging the output from my sound card to the video input of the stereo. But it sounds really nice if I'm not using libmad. Any help will be *really* appreciated. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
(for the win32codecs). Everything else is native 64 bit and works like a charm: even Windows games in wine (compiled in native 64 bits). -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
=writeback and commit=300 in particular works fine in my VAIO laptop. And we're talking about laptops, so a sudden loss of power is not something that could happen at any moment. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM z���(��j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Dec 18, 2007 6:40 PM, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2007, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Dec 18, 2007 2:56 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, [...] - ext3 looks slow some time The defaults are slow, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion

2007-12-31 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-3.2.1-r1 emerge failure

2008-07-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For reasons discussed elsewhere, I've got to get serious about spam. But my first 3 attempts to emerge spamassassin have failed. (on x86). For one thing, there's a detection process near the beginning that is failing to

Re: [gentoo-user] No progress indicator in bootsplash

2008-07-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sdc1 video=uvesafb:1280x1024-32,mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:gentoo console=tty1 BOOT_MSG=Cool, huh? softlevel=native In my experience, if you user

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-2.4.1 complaining about Java Runtime Environment

2008-09-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
putting JRE in my PATH, just in case, but that didn't seem to help... Anyone know a resolution to this? -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild

2009-09-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
emerge @preserved-rebuild Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
have modules where there is no other option (like nvidia drivers, LIRC, ndiswrapper, stuff like that). Good luck. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound card drivers must be modules?

2009-11-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On  5 Nov, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: ... Also, in my laptop (amd64 with Intel Core2 Duo) I don't have any emul-linux-* package; both Firefox and the Flash plugin (I use www-plugins/adobe-flash) are the 64bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
powered server, and it certainly has all the features a Torrent client can have. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/24  roun...@hotmail.ru: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Hi, I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. I would like to have a web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
since a couple of months ago, I believe); and better get used to it. Because it's not going anywhere. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 05/20/2010 08:30 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:  Don't even mention OSS4; the sound architecture goes in user space, not the kernel. I don't care where they go (why the hell should I?), for as long as they work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip (And doesn't really matters, but I haven't heard that it's possible to switch audio from internal speakers to bluetooth headset with OSS4, so as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't work.) With just a few clicks, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
; please correct me if you believe I'm mistaken. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
and Google are betting for it. So, no offense, but I trust more in those guys and the arguments I have heard from them. And the consensus with them is to use PulseAudio, and leave the mixing in user space. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
architecture for Linux. It works great for me, in several hardware configurations; and in particular in my Media Center, which is my principal medium to listen to music. And I trust the judgement of the ones that decided to use ALSA+PulseAudio. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-22 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
use-case, you should try Jack. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

2010-05-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
the PulseAudio applications will output sound through your headset. If also you have pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } in your ~/.asoundrc, all the ALSA applications will use PulseAudio, and then it will work for them too. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto

Re: [gentoo-user] tbz2 flag

2010-06-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
:            http://www.gentoo.org/     Description:         small and fast portage helper tools written in C That only means that host A is using precompiled binaries, the ones builded in host B I suppose. If you also compile the packages in host A, the tbz2 flag will disappear. Regards. -- Canek Peláez

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
not so much; it's not worth it. The GUI utilities (or at least those from GNOME, which is my preferred desktop) never really fail any more. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
is gnome-power-manager (+hal dependency). Excepting for that one, if you remove hal from your use flags nothing will try to pull it. I'm not sure with Xfce or KDE. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Instituto de Matemáticas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
in the way to actually do work. Just my opinion. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ??

2011-05-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Since I don't teach again until sept, this seems like a good time to try gnome 3.  Before I do, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel=YES ?

2011-07-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
you could try systemd. I use it in all of my boxes, and the boot time saved is in some cases in the order of one minute. (And to everybody else: I'm not interested in a flame war; I'm just telling my [admittedly empirical] experience). -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la

Re: [gentoo-user] strange, but Makefile is missing from gentoo-sources

2011-07-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
way to solve a problem like this? Have you tried make oldconfig? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing wired or wireless at boot time

2011-08-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
wild or weird use case, but then I'm really curious: Why do you want yo set up a different softlevel just to change between wired and wireless networks? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. It all works basically flawless. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I use systemd (which thankfully has entered the portage tree) systemd sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 16.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In all my computers (i.e., not the two desktops at uni, since they are not mine) I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
happy with OpenRC and nothing interest you from systemd, there is no reason to change. For me, the boot-times and the fact that most of the services I use have a .service unit file written by the authors of the package in question is enough for me. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en

Re: DBUS [was] Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stroller Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus might be required on my servers

Re: DBUS [was] Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly: Now if it had similarities to say hal, I would instantly understand. But dbus is good and useful in all the ways that hal isn't. Wasn't. HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue 23 August 2011 15:50:24 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue 23 August 2011 15:06:25 Canek Peláez Valdés did opine thusly

Re: DBUS [was] Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Because I generally update my desktop system while running X, and on at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do slots work?

2011-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
required. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do slots work?

2011-08-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Monday, August 29 at 12:02 (-0400), Canek Peláez Valdés said: [...] Actually, it's pretty stable. It doesn't have much customization available You can get a fair amount of customization by using gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-08-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
with Alex D-Bus; but I don't think it's the bus. Probably some program is spamming the bus, making it use that much memory, but I don't know for sure. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
with the idea of trying exherbo), but I cannot in good conscience recommend it to normal users, unless I'm willing to be their tech support forever. I love Gentoo, been using it since 2004, but I'm the first one to admit it's not for everyone. And that saddens me a little. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
manually configured a wireless network in years, and I have been the last three months traveling with my laptop literally all over the world, connecting to all kinds of access points. NetworkMnager just works, but I also hear great comments about connman. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the error messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
on the services? Or is there a way to slow down booting? You can press 'I' during boot to go into interactive mode, and then OpenRC will ask you before starting any service. You can also call rc-status to see the status of each service. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
in an office suite. Sounds like it's time to switch back to OOo. It would not surprise me that they will switch to mandatory CUPS in the future. It just happened before in LO because they develop new features faster, I believe. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
also my experience. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
the bloat of CUPS is negligible. Specially if, as I said, it usually just works. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com  wrote: On 2011-09-05, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org  wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
of the most cases, not only yours. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
more printing systems. And again, it's Open Source. If there is enough demand, someone will write support for other printing systems. Just don't assume that any project (being LibreOffice or Gentoo) need to support your choices besides the most used one. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Canek. Hi Alan. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: However, I use lprng, not cups.  It's good that we have a choice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
in net-print/cups is man pages (51), html pages for the web interface (110) and templates (140). Right there is thr 60% of the whole package. Really, CUPS is a very small daemon for all the things it does. I don't see any gain by splitting the package. Regards -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
partition if so they desire it. They will only need to use an initramfs. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
to do with NVidia drivers? genkernel included nouvou, which conflicted with the NVidia proprietary drivers at the time. I'm pretty sure (but could be wrong, I haven't used genkernel in ages) that there is a way to blacklist some modules and force others. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:04:17 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be resized should the need arise. Why not allow / to be resized entirely? You probably

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:54:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Then don't update. Wanna keep up with upstream? Then accept that sometimes you will need to change your setup, and change how you do stuff. Regards. This is so like something I have told folks about

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:30:16 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Because you can't boot from an LV, so you'd than need a separate /boot and an initramfs. Without LVM, you are unlikely to be able to resize / or /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 23:33:35 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is.  As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:23:45 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I wound up being able to recover by doing a full reinstall of all packages on the live system after mounting /usr into a freshly

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Then don't update. Wanna keep up with upstream

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 11:13:58 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 23:33:35 schrieb Canek Peláez

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
=y. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:33:35 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] The more I think about

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 12:34:50 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 11:13:58 schrieb Canek Peláez

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 12:45:47 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 16:58:22 schrieb Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-08 05:23, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Yeah, first time I installed Linux, it required 512 Mb (if I installed X), and 16 Mb of memmory. Change happens. I welcome it happily, because that's how we progress and get even

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-08 16:51, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But the freedom is still there. The freedom to either keep your system as it is (don't upgrade)            ^ You do realise that this is quite valid for Windows (and all

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: We already *have* the situation of not requiring initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-08 16:51, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But the freedom is still there. The freedom to either keep your system as it is (don't upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:56:44 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I expect to switch my

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't a discussion. This is a bunch of people offering displeasure, ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:13:58 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Have you *ever* thought about machines, that are not x86 or x86_64? Here's an intersting read: http://permalink.gmane.org

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
that udev may be required to support? It is a matter of what else do you end having in /bin and /lib. Remember that udev rules can execute arbitrary code. Do all that code needs to be moved to /bin and /lib also? I keep telling: it is a difficult problem. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
everyone understand this. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:13:55 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I don't know if the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:21:11 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I do not have an initramfs, do not need one, see no need to have one and have not yet seen a valid technical reason for why having one

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 16:23:36 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: In what valid way does access to /usr become something that udev may be required to support? It is a matter of what else do you end having

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:48:45 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. September 2011, 16:23:36 schrieb Canek

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
and use another distro/operating system. But the choice is theirs.  Can we make a difference other than venting here and in the forums? Yes: design and write a different system. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I htink almost everyone understand this. Regards. I think you are one of *very* few that understands this. This reminds me of a old joke.  One in four people have a mental issue.  Check three

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:39:21 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Unless I misunderstood this and referenced threads, all this agro

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:36:56 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:48:45 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I htink almost everyone understand this. Regards. I think you are one of *very* few that understands

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