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On Mar 17, 2012 11:15 AM, "Bruce Hill, Jr."
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> Title udev-181 unmasking
> AuthorWilliam Hubbs
> Posted2012-03-16
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
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> On March 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
> wrote:
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>> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
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>> > Happy Computer Users (for now), systemd is on your horizon.
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>> >
On March 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM "ZHANG, Le" wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > my question might seem silly, but I have reason for it:
> > I have heard there is way to auto-reboot linux after kernel
> > panic using "kernel.panic=" in /etc/sysctl.conf.
> >
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On March 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
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> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
> >
> >
> >
> > Happy Computer Users (for now), systemd is on your horizon.
> >
> > Houston, we have a problem!
>
> You can always try Walter's et. al. mdev re
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
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> On March 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
> wrote:
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>> Alan, the "vast majority" of Linux users right now are phone users.
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>> At least, that's how I see it.
>
>> Again, think about phones. And tablets. And TVs. And
>>
On March 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM "Canek Peláez Valdés"
wrote:
> Alan, the "vast majority" of Linux users right now are phone users.
> At least, that's how I see it.
> Again, think about phones. And tablets. And TVs. And
> [insert-here-cool-gadgets-from-the-future].
> Right now Linux runs in my
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
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> This item just appeared after eix-sync:
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> 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
> Title udev-181 unmasking
> Author William Hubbs
> Posted 2012-03-16
>
On Mar 17, 2012 9:54 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote:
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> The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
> http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ validator.w3.org complains about a couple
> of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
> Midori. Any comments from users of othe
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Walter Dnes wrote:
> The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
> http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ validator.w3.org complains about a couple
> of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
> Midori. Any comments from users of other browsers? The page will be
The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ validator.w3.org complains about a couple
of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
Midori. Any comments from users of other browsers? The page will be
permanently "under constru
>> Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
>> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
>> stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
>> backlight control on my laptop if I do:
>
> Probably from the intel video driver (i915 or
>> Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
>> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
>> stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
>> backlight control on my laptop if I do:
>>
>> echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backligh
>> > I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are
>> > fairly different.
>>
>> My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have
>> them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with
>> nothing so I don't think they're being installed anymo
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are
> > fairly different.
>
> My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have
> them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with
> nothing
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:44:03 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > This is for running programs from the computer against the device, not
> > autorunning programs on the device - such as initialising USB
> > modems.
>
> How long till autorunning programs becomes "the next great thing" on
> the desk
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>> Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here:
>>>
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
> stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
> backlight control on my laptop if I do:
Probab
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
>>
>> it appears that the recommendation is to mount pr
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
> stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
> backlight control on my laptop if I do:
>
> ech
Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
backlight control on my laptop if I do:
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
but
[snip]
>> Hey Mark, I'm happy to say I just fixed the screen backlighting on my
>> system, but I'm sorry to say I don't think it will help you with
>> keyboard backlighting. To fix it, I removed 'acpi_backlight=vendor'
>> from grub and added 'echo 0 >
>> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/bright
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I've been trying to debug a problem where one laptop's networking, as
> controlled by wicd, seems to randomly go offline once in awhile. In
> the process of reviewing 5 machines I ran across an inconsistency
> across a bunch of my machines, new
I've been trying to debug a problem where one laptop's networking, as
controlled by wicd, seems to randomly go offline once in awhile. In
the process of reviewing 5 machines I ran across an inconsistency
across a bunch of my machines, new and old. It seems some of them
mount proc in fstab while oth
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> acpi_listen on n-ArrowUp/Dn does produce a response so maybe I
> don't have something properly mapped?
It seems that on this Asus laptop the Fn-Arrow keys are mapped to
audio events of some type. (Reading xev responses) Looking at my
keyb
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Grant wrote:
>> Grant,
>> Sorry I missed this thread earlier. I've got an Asus 17" laptop
>> that I've been trying unsuccessfully to get the keyboard backlighting
>> to work correctly for weeks (maybe months - I no longer remember how
>> long) On my machine I g
On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight
with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'. Any other values
cause the screen to blink and flash. The keyboard backlight shortcuts
don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100. Also xbackli
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Grant wrote:
>>> On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight
>>> with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'. Any other values
>>> cause the screen to blink and flash. The keyboard backlight shortcuts
>>> don't work unless I map
Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
>
>> This has been one of my points too. I could go out and buy me a bluetooth
>> mouse/keyboard but I don't because it to complicates matters.
>
> I had a long reply to Walt that I (probably wisely) decided not to send, but
> the
>> On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight
>> with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'. Any other values
>> cause the screen to blink and flash. The keyboard backlight shortcuts
>> don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100. Also xbacklight
>> d
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:27 AM, YoYo Siska wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:23:28PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to figure out how my Asus laptop maps function key
>> events. This is being driven by an emerge message telling me that the
>> acpi4asus package is being obsole
Hi Nilesh!
Am 16.03.2012 13:49, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
> I think you need to be present in the video group.
I am;
> Clearly the problem is because access is denied to your video card.
> Just ls -l /dev/nvidiactl (you should see group video there)
tamer@office ~ $ ls -lA /dev/nvidiactl
crw-r
On Friday, March 16, 2012 08:46:05 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:13:46 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > Auto-starting programs when a device is added. Great, when are we
> > getting "autostart" support for CDs and USB-keys and under which
> > user-account will these be executed?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi!
> I am running a stable port of gentoo with gnome 2.31.1 and I want to run
> compiz.
>
> How do I run compiz proparly?! I am pretty sure, that I do something
> wrong. For any advise, I would thank you.
>
>
> Tamer
>
>
>
> When I open gnome
Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
> Just to be sure, r e i s u b may be input in low case, without shift, right?
>
> Like hold Alt + SysRq and type r e i s u b then release Alt + SysRq?
>
>
As the most experienced user of SysReq, that is correct. Thank hal for
all the experience too. Tha
Hello, Walter.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:55:53PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:17:14AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> > Yes, I've got Gnome going under mdev. Thanks to Mike Edenfield for
> > the tip about needing to configure things in xorg.conf.
> > Her
Hi!
I am running a stable port of gentoo with gnome 2.31.1 and I want to run
compiz.
How do I run compiz proparly?! I am pretty sure, that I do something
wrong. For any advise, I would thank you.
Tamer
When I open gnome-terminal (shell) and run "compiz-manager" I get the
following output:
t
Solved with patch from:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329987
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:54, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I do
>
> emerge -vp sys-libs/glibc
>
> I see the use flag (-nls%*)
> What are these special characters '(' '%' and '*' about?
>
man emerge contains the complete information, search for "%" ;-)
But, in a nutshell:
The parens
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:41, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, March 16, 2012 02:54:16 PM Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> What I have in mind for "helper scripts" would be (for example) a
>> script to ensure that, on boot, ethernet devices will maintain their
>> relative order. This needs to be stuck i
Hi,
when I do
emerge -vp sys-libs/glibc
I see the use flag(-nls%*)
What are these special characters '(' '%' and '*' about?
Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:39:44 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > Technically, we are all using an initramfs as all 2.6/3 kernels mount
> > an initramfs when they load. If does not contain an init script, they
> > fall back to the legacy behaviour.
> >
> > See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystem
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:13:46 +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> Auto-starting programs when a device is added. Great, when are we
> getting "autostart" support for CDs and USB-keys and under which
> user-account will these be executed?
This is for running programs from the computer against the devi
On Friday, March 16, 2012 02:54:16 PM Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:32, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:41:48AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
> >
> > > Hmmm... are you planning to host an overlay?
> > >
> > > If so, I'll be willing to donate some of my time to pr
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:32, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:41:48AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
>
> > Hmmm... are you planning to host an overlay?
> >
> > If so, I'll be willing to donate some of my time to provide some patched
> > ebuilds for packages that can function without
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:41:48AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
> Hmmm... are you planning to host an overlay?
>
> If so, I'll be willing to donate some of my time to provide some patched
> ebuilds for packages that can function without udev but lazily specify
> DEPEND=sys-fs/udev...
I wouldn't c
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