[gentoo-user] scanner with ADF for Linux

Any suggestion for scanner with good Linux support and ADF -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

Need login details. Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Creating a ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ? Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:56 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: >>> Some research tells me that this is a problem wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure > there will be those who claim its `simple'. > > Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. > > So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) > app

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me.  I'm sure > there will be those who claim its `simple'. > > Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. > > So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) > applianc

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:07 PM, walt wrote: > Well, at least on ~x86 and ~amd64 gnome3 is the default now.  I have > mixed feelings about gnome3, so I let gentoo install it on a VirtualBox > VM to start with and I'll think about updating my real machines later. > > The new gnome-shell is the con

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

Alan McKinnon wrote: 9G is what the dev reckons is the maximum. This other figure of 4G - what is that? The amount needed by some arb combination on some arb user's machine? That's not a good enough criteria. It's not really the maximum plus one well-defined other. It's is the maximum plus ever

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and net-tools

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. > > The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output > for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64). > > Neither of these have helped me.  Wicd

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by >> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1) >> >> There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I >> rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

>>> >> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by >>> >> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1) >>> >> >>> >> There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I >>> >> rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other >>> >> packages I should rebuild before en

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:43:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > The problem people have with LVM is not working with PVs, VGs and >> > LVs, it is understanding what they are and how they fit together. >> > Once that is clear, the system becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:43:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > The problem people have with LVM is not working with PVs, VGs and > > LVs, it is understanding what they are and how they fit together. > > Once that is clear, the system becomes as simple as you stated. > I have a machine I built a coupl

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

Am 27.11.2011 00:03, schrieb Samuraiii: > Hello fellow Gentoonians, > > I have problem with Gnupg 2 and compress preference on keys. > > When I recieve email which is for recipirnt with set compress preference > to BZIP2 Thunderbird (with enigmail) fails to decrypt it due this: > > gpg command l

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty >> > complex. >> >> I really don't think so. pvcreate creates a physical volume, >> vgcreate starts a volu

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 has landed

On 11/26/2011 02:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2011-11-26 22:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of the new stuff and use the mentioned gnome-fallback-set

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty > > complex. > > I really don't think so. pvcreate creates a physical volume, > vgcreate starts a volume group, and lvcreate -n > -L creates a logical volume t

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me.  I'm sure > there will be those who claim its `simple'. > > Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. > > So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) > applianc

[gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

Hello fellow Gentoonians, I have problem with Gnupg 2 and compress preference on keys. When I recieve email which is for recipirnt with set compress preference to BZIP2 Thunderbird (with enigmail) fails to decrypt it due this: gpg command line and output: /usr/bin/gpg2 gpg: invalid item `BZIP2'

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

Pandu Poluan writes: > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty > complex. I really don't think so. pvcreate creates a physical volume, v

[gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure there will be those who claim its `simple'. Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) appliance available for download?

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

Vishnupradeep wrote: > Is that true, Gnome 3 available for gentoo. can i emerge it ? > > > Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ > My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ > > > > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 AM, walt wrote: > > > Well, at least on ~x86 and ~amd64 gnome3

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

Am 2011-11-26 22:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Let me get this straight: if I want to somehow stay in the world of > gnome-2.32 (panels, desktop, etc) I could simply avoid masking any of > the new stuff and use the mentioned gnome-fallback-setting? > > I also hesitate to leave my comfort zo

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

Am 2011-11-26 21:07, schrieb walt: > The new gnome-shell is the controversial piece of gnome3 and (so far) > I find it counterproductive. > > I googled how to disable the gnome-shell and get my gnome-panel back, > along with the panel applets that I refuse to give up. (The gnome- > shell replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED)

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > >> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > >>> Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and > >>> needs a > >>> kernel config

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:58:55 -0600, Dale wrote: > If I were you, I would at least try to put /boot and / outside LVM then > everything else on LVM. Just make sure /boot and / have PLENTY of > space since they are pretty much committed at that point. I find 400MB for / (and no separate /boot) t

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:42:40 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > - Keeping data and code separate is always a good idea. But only a few > > things in /var are critical like /var/log and /var/. > > Everything else is usually tiny and can safely live on / > Except /var/tmp, which can grow to epic prop

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:05:57 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > Not really explaining waltdnes' interesting layout, but using > bindmount (instead of symlinks) ensures that when a program tries to > find a relative directory from a path, it will not attempt to do so > from the symlink's target. [snip]

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 has landed

Vishnupradeep wrote: > Is that true, Gnome 3 available for gentoo. can i emerge it ? You know, you don't need to ask us for permission ;) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:42:40 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Nov 26, 2011 2:57 PM, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:17 +0700 > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > > > highly-partitioned, like this: > > > > partition s

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

Is that true, Gnome 3 available for gentoo. can i emerge it ? Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:37 AM, walt wrote: > Well, at least on ~x86 and ~amd64 gnome3 is the default now. I have > mixed feelings ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

26 walt wrote: > Someone recommended app-admin/localepurge, > which removes them after installation. > Reclaims hundreds of MB when I run it every month or so. Thanks & to the other who suggested it. It has removed 82 MB junk. As its man page says, hopefully one day it wb in Portage ... --

[gentoo-user] gnome 3 has landed

Well, at least on ~x86 and ~amd64 gnome3 is the default now. I have mixed feelings about gnome3, so I let gentoo install it on a VirtualBox VM to start with and I'll think about updating my real machines later. The new gnome-shell is the controversial piece of gnome3 and (so far) I find it count

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On 11/25/2011 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So. Care to share your partitioning strategy? I'm not a fan of building servers outta parts. If this is a proper server with a raid card, which is useful for high IO things like mail and db servers, then your favorite RAID level, /boot / swap and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 01:22, Mick wrote: > On Friday 25 Nov 2011 20:08:01 Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote >> >> > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room >> > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Nov 26, 2011 2:57 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:17 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > > highly-partitioned, like this: > > partition setups are like lovers - highly variable. And the one that > suits you will su

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Friday 25 Nov 2011 20:08:01 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > > > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it al

[gentoo-user] Re: 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

On 11/25/2011 04:28 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not of any use to me: around 200MB in total. Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of? There was a thread a few months ago about this problem. Appa

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.14.1 upgrade

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> >> On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "微菜" > > wrote: >>> >>> 于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道: >>> > On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> Aft

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

Am 26.11.2011 16:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 26.11.2011 15:48, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: > >> So a couple of people I've heard of so far have an issue with the >> parallel setting and the latest openrc. You should report a bug if >> there isn't one already. > > Might be that one: >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Am 26.11.2011 16:34, schrieb Alex Schuster: > Michael Mol writes: > >> http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ > > 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Yes, got it now as well. Thanks for "quoting" me, Michael ... but I also google

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Mol writes: > >> http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ > > 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Should work now. Somehow, I triggered WP's "schedule a post" behavior.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > James Wall wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dale  wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to make this work?  I googled but I couldn't find anything >>> on >>> this one.  Well, a few worthless hits that just happen to have the words >>> on >>> the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Am 26.11.2011 16:22, schrieb Michael Mol: > I just wanted to share an experience I had today with optimizing > parallel builds after discovering "-l" for Make... > > I've got a little more tweaking I still want to do, but this is pretty > awesome... > > http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Michael Mol writes: > http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ 404, but http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ seems to work. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

Am 26.11.2011 15:48, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: > So a couple of people I've heard of so far have an issue with the > parallel setting and the latest openrc. You should report a bug if > there isn't one already. Might be that one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391945 Didn't browse th

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:35:15 +0300 Stayvoid wrote: > > Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts > That didn't work for me. > > > Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user > > font dirs in ${HOME} > Could you be more specific? > copy the fonts to ~/.fonts/, or make soft li

[gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

I just wanted to share an experience I had today with optimizing parallel builds after discovering "-l" for Make... I've got a little more tweaking I still want to do, but this is pretty awesome... http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/ ZZ

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Oh boy: setting rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf did the trick now. > Around 4 hrs of fiddling ... and then it is one "wrong bit". > > I don't have an explanation, just the result ... up and running fine > now > w/ openrc. So a c

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

Am 26.11.2011 14:51, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 2011-11-26 14:30, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I know that openrc has already been re-emerged, how could I have screwed >> up those dependencies by unmerging something yesterday? Oh boy: setting rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf did t

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:49:07 + James Broadhead wrote: > On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 + > > James Broadhead wrote: > >> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice > >> if it would use that information (roughly

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

Am 2011-11-26 14:30, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I know that openrc has already been re-emerged, how could I have screwed > up those dependencies by unmerging something yesterday? rc-depend and rc-update didn't help so far. running stuff with systemd is a good enough workaround so far. Time

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 + > James Broadhead wrote: >> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice >> if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much >> space to check for. >> >> 4-9GiB is a pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

Am 2011-11-26 14:00, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > lvm2? Should be part of @system? Will look for that now ... chroot again, re-emerged lvm2, no change. chroot again, disabled dmcrypt (I don't have anything encrypted now), no change. chroot again, now the service-dependencies look a bit diffe

[gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

I somehow screwed up my new and shiny box. Everything ran fine until yesterday I depcleaned a bit too much, as it seems. The symptom: booting sits there and openrc has many services waiting for other services ... the first one seems to be mdraid ... but I am not sure. I already chrooted into t

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems > to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a > nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a > while, either, so I was wondering if anyone is u

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts.

Stayvoid wrote: >> Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts > That didn't work for me. /usr/local/share/fonts > >> Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} > Could you be more specific?

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts.

> Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts That didn't work for me. > Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} Could you be more specific?

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts.

On 26 November 2011 08:00, Stayvoid wrote: > Hi there! > > I have some fonts which are not included in the repository. > How can I install them? > > Cheers! Bad, works immediately: Put them in /usr/share/fonts Good: I'm sure that there is a setting for per-user font dirs in ${HOME} AMAZING: Cop

Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive

On 26 November 2011 00:28, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd? I see that you have tried the SysRescueCD - have you tried the vanilla Gentoo LiveCD? I find that it is usually pretty resilient. In the past, I've found enabling legacy_ide mode helpful

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: I was once somewhat familiar with UUID-based fstab when I was still using Ubuntu. Too bad I've deleted my last Ubuntu VM a couple of weeks ago. Let's see if I can still find my installation notes... That's the easy p

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:30:42 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) > > mighty complex. > > I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a > shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part > of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > I was once somewhat familiar with UUID-based fstab when I was still > using Ubuntu. Too bad I've deleted my last Ubuntu VM a couple of > weeks ago. Let's see if I can still find my installation notes... > That's the easy part. Column 1 i

[gentoo-user] Fonts.

Hi there! I have some fonts which are not included in the repository. How can I install them? Cheers!