Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Dnes
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Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
of every item directly affected by any changes in CFLAGS or USE. The --deep forces a recompile of indirectly affected items. If there don't seem to be any problems, let it rebuild the listed items. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Choppy video playback

2008-01-28 Thread Walter Dnes
willing to give up on Asiatic text, you can cause Firefox to not link against pango, by including the line... www-client/mozilla-firefox moznopango ...in /etc/portage/package.use It's your decision whether occasional Asiatic scripts or a faster Firefox is worth more to you. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1) I've tried the usual... grep openmotif /etc/portage/* revdep-rebuild --ask Nothing shows up from either one. What do I do next? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
/openmotif-2.3.0-r1) ...as saying that some other program required a version of openmotif which was = 2.3.0. I figure that an older version of program x should not be considered as a block to a newer version of program x. Isn't that the whole point of --update? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting =x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 ????

2008-04-02 Thread Walter Dnes
version, when 99% of non-slottable apps and libs allow portage to delete the old version and replace it with the new version? I'm obviously missing something here. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http

[gentoo-user] Unmerged coreutils + mktemp; can't emerge anymore

2008-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
]) portage_exception.CommandNotFound: stty [m3000][root][~] == -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http://walterdnes.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged coreutils + mktemp; can't emerge anymore

2008-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:48:15PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote about his incredible saga of thud and blunder. Sorry about the panic post. I got flustered and posted right away, when I should've checked for similar threads. Problem solved as per the suggestions in the other threads. Reminder

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure

2008-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:50:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Friday 18 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: checking for ALSA... yes checking for snd_pcm_ioplug_create in -lasound... no configure: error: *** libasound has no external plugin SDK libasound comes from package alsa-lib. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-24 Thread Walter Dnes
burned... twice shy. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http://walterdnes.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] nscd doing IPV6 requests on an IPV4-only system ???

2008-04-27 Thread Walter Dnes
about restricting nscd to IPV4. Is this a minor resource issue? What happens if nscd *DOES* find an record, and my system doesn't know what to do with it? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight SAC's Canadian internet tax http

[gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-01 Thread Walter Dnes
the programming language, so there's no need for a full-blown development environment. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:24:57AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote - which one gives the least trouble setting up and running? Thanks for your input everybody. According to /proc/cpuinfo, I'm running an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, but it's in 32-bit mode. I'll go with Sun Java

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:24:57AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I only need a runtime. I don't know the programming language, so there's no need for a full-blown development environment. OK, so I *WAS* going to try the Sun JRE. It seems that there's no such animal. You have to download

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-08 Thread Walter Dnes
exactly what I was looking for. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight Canadian internet taxes http://walterdnes.wordpress.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
after each reboot, and unmute and re-set all the audio settings. This is the lesser of 2 evils, because no alsa sound is a showstopper. What am I doing wrong? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop the Squeegee Kids in Pinstripe Suits Fight Canadian internet taxes http://walterdnes.wordpress.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
on the flash drive. I suppose one should also use a filesystem without journalling to save the flash drive. Are there any other native linux filesystems, besides ext2fs, that don't journal? While we're at it, can Gentoo run without a swap partition or swap file? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop

[gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-10 Thread Walter Dnes
Media Accelerator 3100 video chip. I'm not into gaming, so as long as it works reasonably well, I'm happy. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Inspiron 530 compatability questions before buying

2007-08-11 Thread Walter Dnes
under Linux. Thanks. Good to know. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
)? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:57:02PM +0200, b.n. wrote Walter Dnes ha scritto: Normal rebooting is a pain, because I usually run with 3 or 4 text consoles logged in for different functions, as well as an X session. So what do I have to do to get a *DESKTOP* PC to suspend to disk

[gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-23 Thread Walter Dnes
GSA- SATA-5 None Drive A 1.44M, 3.5 in The install asks me to type in either the boot device or shell for a shell. Of course, with a b0rk3n keyboard, I can't do either. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and tried various iterations of gentoo atkbd.foobar=n No luck. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
and Knoppix and Xubuntu all... a) fail to find the install CD after the initial stages of booting b) double up keystrokes after the initial stages of booting Of course, Vista works on the system. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-25 Thread Walter Dnes
Dual Core (different from Core Duo) act like only one cpu? One problem down and one to go. I can get a limited shell. It doesn't have lspci or fdisk. I want to see what shows up with lspci -v and fdisk -l. I have a floppy if that helps. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
give me busybox. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
, and useless, error message. Is there an example somewhere of how busybox's mount command works? Or does it not support msdos or vfat filesystem types? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea

[gentoo-user] [maybe solved] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:01:09PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I got a shiny new Dell Inspiron from the PC fairy. Windows Vista works OK (at least good enough for Windows). It does not want to be formattedg. I insert the latest minimal install CD, and things start off OK at the beginning

[gentoo-user] Which -march and flags for Intel Dual Core (*NOT* Core Duo)?

2007-08-29 Thread Walter Dnes
: 3192.10 -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which -march and flags for Intel Dual Core (*NOT* Core Duo)?

2007-09-01 Thread Walter Dnes
-msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-01 Thread Walter Dnes
. I'm now in the middle of copying over directories from my current machine, so the Dell 530 can become my hot backup machine. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
if the target file physically exists in /home/bindmounts - in Gentoo, /etc/localtime is a physical file, not a symlink into /usr/share/zoneinfo. If it is a symlink in your distro, scripts that execute early in the boot process might get confused about what time it is. -- Walter

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
for years :-) With few exceptions, it's an answer looking for a problem. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
made /var/tmp/portage a separate volume and now reduce it at will. Drifting back onto the thread topic (is that allowed hereg?) having /var use part of a common pool (what's left over after swap and a 500 meg / partition) avoids that problem altogether, rather than band-aiding it. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
. I don't know the internal difference myself. I was just following instructions. As long as it gets linux to boot on it, I'm happy. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-07 Thread Walter Dnes
already too late. And remember that a regular user account can run mail to send spam, or ping or DNS lookups to take part in DDOS attacks. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync stopped working

2007-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:15:59 -0400 From: Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: emerge --sync stopped working Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I went almost a month without updating. My old machine (1999 Dell 450 mhz PIII) finally died. I had kept

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync stopped working

2007-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:00:40PM +0200, Naga wrote On Monday 17 September 2007 13:32:18 Walter Dnes wrote: and the the same errors with other servers. I also tried downgrading from 2.6.3-r3 to -r2 and -r1, and got the same errors. Any ideas? Tried upgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync stopped working

2007-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
my broadband ISP. I've had to fall back to my dialup ISP, which I deliberately use a different provider for. Their name, and website, is 295.ca so guess how much they charge per month. Anyhow, I just ran a successful emerge --sync via dialup. I have some complaining to do. -- Walter Dnes

[gentoo-user] Audio/mp3 problems, something not set properly

2007-09-19 Thread Walter Dnes
properly, The error message is... ALSA snd_pcm_hw_params error: Invalid argument Yes, that's correct, mpg123 reports Success but fails. mpg321 reports an error but plays the mp3 properly. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think

[gentoo-user] Trying to recover ALSA functionality after PEBKAC error

2007-09-23 Thread Walter Dnes
do I do now to recover ALSA functionality? emerge --world? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User Guide XML error : solved ?

2007-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
-- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking into zip files

2007-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
to untag all, but they do prompt, so you can specify a pattern (e.g. *.c if you want to tag/untag all C source files in the current directory). -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
to get make to build the new version of the code. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-12 Thread Walter Dnes
(required for NOTRACK/TRACE) ARP tables support -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help enabling iptables support in kernel

2007-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
Gentoo for a few years, and I remember earlier versions of iptables, where everything was on one page. Why do we have to activate the same feature on two separate pages now? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I

[gentoo-user] I don't understand what's happening with emerge gnupg

2007-12-15 Thread Walter Dnes
the old version itself? That's generally part of the update process. - once I manually unmerged gnupg, what brings it back? I did *NOT* use revdep-rebuild. - what's with the additional flags for 2.0.7 compared to what 2.0.7 had the previous time I tried? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Walter Dnes
a list of significant improvements you want implemented? There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a relic of the Windows era. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user

[gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
want to force a boot with {ALT}{SysRq}b This does work in a true textmode, but not in X. Fortunately, Reiserfs' journalling saved my neck, but I'd rather not have to shut down a machine that hasn't been synced. Is there a way to tell X to pass through the {ALT}{SysRq}random key combo? -- Walter

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
to force acpid to read in the new config -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
Aaaargh, a typo in my instructions On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:58:25PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote rc-update add default acpid (to automatically start acpid at future bootups) Should have read... rc-update add acpid default -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X

[gentoo-user] Emerge multiple-versions-in-same-slot weirdness with X11 libs...

2007-12-19 Thread Walter Dnes
exists in the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be installed simultaneously. For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. end screen capture -- Walter

[gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
-r2 protected: none omitted: 4.1.2 Would there be any reason to keep the older gcc 3.46? I'm not familiar enough with Gentoo under-the-hood to decide. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
][~] equery depends =gcc-3* [ Searching for packages depending on =gcc-3*... ] sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 (=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4) sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.3_pre20040130) www-client/links-2.1_pre28-r1 (sys-devel/gcc) It looks like nothing depends on gcc-3*. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Any reason to keep older gcc?

2007-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
--update world so that all packages pick up the correct USE flags and hence dependent libraries. I did that before posting. I went through the list, and I've unmerged what I could get away with, and reduced the count down from 74 to 53. I don't think I can go much further. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] No help on annoying `sandbox' error

2007-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
/usr/share/sandbox/sandbox.bashrc sources /etc/profile -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-04 Thread Walter Dnes
. But it obviously slows Firefox down. Your choice. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] RANT: WTF does a *SPREADSHEET* need SVG and unicode?

2008-01-13 Thread Walter Dnes
is totally fuggedaboutit. That advantage risks being ruined if we follow the Windows Disease and insist on unnecessarily bloating basic apps. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-14 Thread Walter Dnes
an audit, that it was finally tracked down, by following the network cabling one of Redhat's selling points with Redhat Enterprise Linux is the promise of a slower release cycle. Timely security patches, yes. But OS version du jour, NO. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not repeating myself I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
? or should I wait for a rhythmbax update? How does the system respond if you do a... revdep-rebuild -p -v Note: do it exactly as above. -p is pretend, because we're just looking, and -v is verbose, for more detail. According to the man page, you should *NOT* do revdep-rebuild -pv. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread Walter Dnes
curiousity, what does the :0 do in your emerge command? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread Walter Dnes
ebuild is marked stable, you can get rid of that keywords entry. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-28 Thread Walter Dnes
without problems, it'll help get that ebuild marked as stable. Not necessarily tomorrow, but it will help. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from man?

2009-03-29 Thread Walter Dnes
- the sed one-liner deletes all such occurences (technically, it replaces them with nothing). -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
message saved me uploading a big bunch of diagnostics because X had stopped working, i.e. it crashed on launch from startx. I now have X working again. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

[gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
to be working. The intel is in case I ever switch back to the onboard built-in video chip. After ipv6 was snuck into the defaults, I started off my USE with -*, so I still don't have dbus and hal. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Clean-up after latest updates

2009-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
Size Used by radeon125984 1 scsi_wait_scan 1152 0 intel_agp 23172 1 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Walter Dnes
to specify it, because it is not the default. I don't know if noatime implies nodiratime, but I'd play it safe and specify both. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-07 Thread Walter Dnes
/default run the command /etc/init.d/acpid restart to force acpid to read in the new config -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

[gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-21 Thread Walter Dnes
netgroup:files bootparams: files automount: files aliases: files -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
(all 12 kbytes) on my webpage. Execute... wget www.waltdnes.org/strace.txt ...to have a look. It appears to be opening files all over the place. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:18:08PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote Richard Fish wrote: What version and use flags do you have for net- [ebuild R ] net-misc/iputils-021109-r3 -doc -ipv6 -static 0 kB AOL Me too. /AOL Exact same version and flags. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] nscd; what am I doing wrong?

2005-12-23 Thread Walter Dnes
seem much snappier now. They've been slow in the past, 3 megabits ADSL notwithstanding. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-24 Thread Walter Dnes
-firefox-1.0.7-r4 [1.0.7-r2] [ebuild U ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 [1.4.2-r2] Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. [m450][root][~] emaint --check world Checking world for problems 'media-sound/pmidi' has no ebuilds available -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-24 Thread Walter Dnes
. Without motif, xpdf builds, but only installs xpdf libraries, but not the executable. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
? That's something totally different. CONFIG_PROTECT controls whether or not the current config file is overwritten when a new version of a program is emerged. The USE variable controls whether or not optional dependancies are linked in during an emerge. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
' function(rt. mouse click) doesn't do it. Click on the square at the top right hand corner of the Firefox window frame. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
though a .vimrc file exists. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
Metric:1 I have no ADSL support compiled in. Instead, my eth0 connects to the ADSL modem/router. Is your system possibly set up like that? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
, but there have been a few multi-platform security bugs. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
1026 Dec 26 18:56:30 202.111.173.85:45304 to UDP port 1026 Dec 26 18:59:42 218.27.103.206:55370 to UDP port 1026 -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge update fails; The tale of the battling dependancies

2005-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
of packages to be updated - uncomment the line in package.mask - run the manual emerge There has got to be a better way... please... someone... -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

2005-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
, and then mount the USB drive and copy from the temporary directory at blazing USB v1.1 speed. I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup changed somehow? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update fails; The tale of the battling dependancies

2005-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype attached to that portion of Multigoogle. Five words were printed: insufficient data for meaningful answer. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology

Re: [gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

2005-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:24:18PM +, Stroller wrote On 27 Dec 2005, at 11:51, Walter Dnes wrote: I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup changed somehow? I don't do much with USB

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

2005-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
/etc/portage/package.use file. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread Walter Dnes
app-editors/vim app-misc/mc -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e world stop at ncruses no error

2006-01-07 Thread Walter Dnes
this one incident has cost you. Besides, you can usually emerge while working, or fire it up before going to bed. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-11 Thread Walter Dnes
]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name] [-f inactive] [-e expire] [-p passwd] [-L|-U] name I RTFM'd, and I don't see any mention of -a in usermod. I use gpasswd with the -a option. Is that what you meant? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings

[gentoo-user] Heads up; Ontario-wide brownout tests Thursday Jan 19

2006-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
/media/md_newsitem.asp?newsID=2699 for further details. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Walter Dnes
Win3.2 under DOSBOX, and it runs Chessmaster 3000 just fine! -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-21 Thread Walter Dnes
to the clipboard, {ALT-TAB} to a vim session, and paste the clipboard with * even if vim is running in a textmode console. Is there some similar channel for vim in linux? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
* running mutt or slrn, with vim as the editor - paste the complex URL directly into a message I'm composing with vim -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Walter Dnes
/package.use for the few packages that don't like it. If a flag is required for only 1 or 2 apps, I go the other way. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] One host, two NIC's...

2006-02-06 Thread Walter Dnes
? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] My USB problem partially solved... was hardware-related.

2006-02-08 Thread Walter Dnes
on the USB connection for power? For now, I know that I have to use the short cable with the shirtpocket USB drives. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ImageMagick convert utility; latest version has problems

2006-02-09 Thread Walter Dnes
fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] ImageMagick convert utility; latest version has problems

2006-02-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote Le vendredi 10 f?vrier 2006 ? 02:25 -0500, Walter Dnes a ?crit : The latest unstable builds complain about not finding libMagick.so.6. More or less random guess : did you revdep-rebuild ? Yes. Neither revdep

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Walter Dnes
plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem slang sockets sse theora threads tiff truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib This way, I'm in full control. Only the flags I specify are USEd. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology

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