[gentoo-user] Recover from memory corruption

2010-06-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
recovered? Reemerging everything (-e) might fail if some essential package is already broken, right? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Recover from memory corruption

2010-06-20 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:04:46 +0100, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> What's the best way to make sure the system is recovered? Reemerging >> everything (-e) might fail if some essential package is already broken, >> right? > > At least you

[gentoo-user] evince stabilization request at bugzilla

2010-06-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva
I found out evince 2.30 made its way into the tree, but I see no "bug" in bugzilla regarding evince stabilization. As the commit message states "new version for Gnome 2.30", does this means I should look at the bug to stabilize Gnome 2.30 (#324077) instead? -- TIA, Nuno J

[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
for someone to add another address to Reply-To? (Does the list management software overwrite the header or just appends its address?) Such a way would suit the OP and people who don't want duplicate messages at the same time. Meanwhile the OP might want to add a request to be CC'ed to his signature. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Friday 02 July 2010 12:01:09 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Is there a way for someone to add another address to Reply-To? (Does the >> list management software overwrite the header or just appends its >> address?) >> >> Such a way would

[gentoo-user] Bug about possibly incomplete bugfix

2010-07-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
uced by the fix for that first bug, and then should have its own request. (And, as I can't change the first bug - which is FIXED, a separate bug would be initially marked as OPEN, which suits the case of a new, IMHO still unsolved issue.) But what's the most polite thing to do? -- N

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug about possibly incomplete bugfix

2010-07-11 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Saturday 10 July 2010 19:21:28 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> What's the policy when you think that a change made due to a FIXED bug >> needs more changes? Should you just comment it, fill another bug or >> change the state (I can't do

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
t the handbook hopes to achieve. As hinted above, the intended result > appears to be least hassle for the gentoo devs and document writers with > maximal guarantee that your box will work afterwards regardless fo how long > it > takes or number of cpu cycles burnt. It's not necessarily the most convenient > way. > > I have not had to rebuild world due to a compiler upgrade since sometime > around the late 3 series (there was a C++ ABI change). The one which involved emerging libstdc++-v3, and which rendered the whole system unusable due to a chicken and an egg? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
orld just happened to fix. And which could have been solved with revdep-rebuild (or at least running it here after removing the previous version solved it - I just followed flameeyes guide). Emerge -e was like buying a new car when it would have been cheaper and easier to just replace the fault part(s). -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
irrors.163.com/gentoo/"; > > what's the difference? except the url... If that was a newline, that's the only difference. If it is not, there is no difference. Do you, by any chance, have a custom FETCHCOMMAND? My /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example shows a default of 5 tries (-t 5), using wget. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
on his messages, but not on yours (both this and the other one). Maybe it's something other than a space and it is ignored by some MUAs? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva
a larger resolution (even if the mode isn't listed, read the output: it says what the maximum resolution is --- if it is below 1920x1280, you're out of luck (unless the value is bogus, of course)). (But i don't know if ati binary drivers are compatible with xrandr...) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
(Sorry for the late replies) Matthew Summers writes: > wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >>> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert >>> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? [...] > Use the GIMP, Luke.

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Paul Hartman writes: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert >> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? >> >> Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fi

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alex Schuster writes: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> > Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to >> > convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? >> > >> > Ghostscript does th

[gentoo-user] [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Michael Orlitzky writes: > On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert >> a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? > > A laserjet? =) That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any

[gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression

2011-03-06 Thread Nuno J. Silva
re, control in home row), it's used in some applications, like anything that uses readline (if in Emacs mode; it seems readline also has a vi mode) and Emacs itself. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating world

2011-03-29 Thread Nuno J. Silva
g it's been many years since I used > KMail. > > The =20 is usually caused by a quoted-printable message, meaning either > your newsreader cannot handle quoted-printable or the mail-to-news > gateway is screwing it up. I'd say something is screwing it up. Unless someone typoed here, the =20 is shown as ==20. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Nuno J. Silva
edited. That would have been interesting > when I tried to boot up. You just need to feed linux with the right parameters, so it finds the root filesystem. Grub id's themselves should remain the same, I suppose. Also, as GRUB allows you to edit commandlines, you can do this by trial and error (but a good initial guess is still worth it). -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice

2010-10-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
ow happens to have just the code from OpenOffice and go-oo. But the future will tell us if there will be enough differences to justify an ebuild. As it's now a different project, it's pretty possible differences will arise. It also depends on whether Oracle and go-oo will want to incorporate changes from LibreOffice. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I unmask package and mask just its one version?

2010-10-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
hanged. - add regex support: this would allow exclusion on .unmask, but the syntax may not be the best, and it must ensure it doesn't break with existing atoms (there are atoms using asterisks and package versions have lots of stops) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
e complicated") solution would involve some sync mechanism between both operating systems so that one can tell if the other already changed the clock. Unless windows now supports UTC clocks, you have to live either with this or with an always on winter clock on windows. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
oot set up that is causing this problem. It is a problem caused by the settings needed for Linux to live with Windows on the same computer. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Mick writes: >> > On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > All my calendars (el

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > Mick writes: > >> Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into >> MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux >> side fix for my dual boot set up? > > Y

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick writes: > On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Mick writes: >> >> > I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot >> > with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
s not deal with hard links, or am I mistaken? -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James >> did >> opine thusly: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to m

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf -> txt

2011-01-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
s that may result in a better output. I think using -layout will help you with the tables. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
n VGA mode. Although I like to have framebuffer in the console, I don't think it's actually needed in the bootloader. Also, I suppose it'll be a PITA to configure that (or slow to run it) on some older computers. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
is running in the operating system, not in the bootloader (although that may be in the GRUB roadmap). Someday we will need a bootloader to load grub. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
f it could only receive vim commands, it would be perfect! :p Maybe this will do, I never tried it. ,[C-h f viper-mode] | viper-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `viper.el'. | | (viper-mode) | | Turn on Viper emulation of Vi in Emacs. See Info node `(viper)Top'. ` -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
ry Check also /dev/cdrom*. Maybe it got another name, as there are at least three rules to symlink that drive (if it matched all rules, udev would create the three links, but the third rule looks different). > Why is it not being mapped correctly? Is the rule above not correct? > I'

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mike Edenfield writes: > On 1/12/2011 11:31 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Michael Sullivan writes: >> >>> OK, for several years I have not had a /dev/cdrom. My workstation has >>> an internal cd-rom drive, which gets mapped to /dev/hda, and an external >&

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
hen the error message : "failed to create symbolic link `//boot/boot` : > Read-only file system. > > What's going on ??? I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when that happens. just do dmesg | tail after the error, to check the last lines in the log. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Jacques Montier writes: > Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : >> Jacques Montier writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. >>> I create primary partition sda3 for boot wit

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
to be added in > as new things come out. I still wonder where computers will be in say > 10 or 20 years. Stuff can be finished, given the /current/ requirements. But requirements change. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
ems, one can always have a separate /boot in ext2, and use other filesystem everywhere else. It makes a grub update less urgent. Also, if they change - again - the way hard drives are accessed, just because some "oh, 8GiB is so big, no disk will ever be that large" barrier was hit, people may need some fix to access a kernel which is 129 PiB away from the first block. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
n't have new and faster processors? Larger hard drives? > Faster DVD type media? More memory that is usable? I can think of a > LOT of things that have changed in just the past ten years. Well, I think it's still possible to use INT13 for disk access :-) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:13 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Nuno J. > Silva did opine thusly: > >> Well, I think it's still possible to use INT13 for disk access :-) > > > You horrible person. > > I just went 13 years without

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
> or there is a workaround in the firmware of your drive already. I think pk wanted to point that, as cdparanoia read the disks, that means they probably are CDs. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
I think it's (fortunately) possible to have wm-independent (and X-independent) automounters. But the last time I used one was several years ago. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost & Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
` Either way, shouldn't 'emerge openoffice' reinstall it? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
y is > cheap and all, but still ... that's just excessive Well, GCC has issues like this, with the file insn-attrtab, which, I suppose, is generated and processed at least twice (due to the bootstrap nature of the GCC build process). Although there's not a specific value, even with 512 M

[gentoo-user] Re: Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
ctually add 6GiB of RAM, you'll probably be able to do it all from RAM (8GiB for the file, and the other 2GiB for whatever else is running). It is better to see it as BillK describes - not a way to extend your memory, but a way to store not-that-frequently-used pages when you need to load something else. It saves money, but it's still expensive - on time. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Microcode update AMD

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
ead text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Nuno J. Silva
C Bhaktivedanata Swami Prabhupada, > Founder Acharya & Permanent Sole Initiator of the Hare Krishna > Movement the permanent person, not the estate, state, representative/s > or representative organisation/s etc." > > Wait, what... huh? I think the expression you're looking for is "non sequitur". -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras writes: >> >>> On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, >>> hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com >> >> I am a

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
t mean it's "non sequitur". I just think it goes too far for a description about the font, nothing specific against philosophy. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
and control goes back to the shell. But I have no idea how to change it - I know it works differently in some terminals, but I never tried to figure out how and why. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I drastically reduce quality. -- Nuno J.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: >> How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I >> uninstalled it a few days ago and re-installed 23 because 24 was just >> too buggy to be usable. > > Well, I am sure there's a emacs comm

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:49:33 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> But seriously, like the other suggested, I would mask that specific >> version of emacs. > > Emacs is slotted, so you can mask the entire 24 range if you want with > > app-editors/emacs:24 > virt

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-10-08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> >>> Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: >>>> How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I >>>> u

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-09, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-10-09, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > >> I think you were hit by some incompatibility between additional emacs >> packages and the emacs version. Do you have any external elisp files? >> If not, did you run emacs-updater? > >

[gentoo-user] Re: External monitor is stretched 4:3

2012-12-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-01, Grant wrote: >> >I've connected my laptop to a lot of HDTV's and whenever I switch >> >the output to display on both screens, black bars appear on the >> >left and right of my laptop screen so it displays at 4:3, and the >> >HDTV output is 16:9 but looks horizontally

[gentoo-user] Re: broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-11 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: >> On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: >> > Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel >> > updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the >> > config option is

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example not found

2012-12-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-15, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > The file > > /etc/conf.d/net > > reports that I can seen an example format at this location: > > /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example As dale found, it's under a compression suffix. In fact, most (all?) of the stuff that goes under /usr/share/d

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-14, Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you > have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives > a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and > /usr/src to other places. My /usr never has all

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-16, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> That was the original reason for having / and /usr separate, and it >> dates back to the early 70s. The other reason that stems from that time >> period is the size of disks we had back then -

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/12/12 12:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: >> >>> On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All the >>> critical single user binaries are in root and built statical

[gentoo-user] ALSA mixer as a capture device with Intel HDA cards

2012-12-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Hello, Today, I got a bit curious, and wanted to get some sound from a computer which does not have any speakers at the moment. Mostly for fun, I thought about using arecord and then listening to the file. I decided to have a look around the mixer, with no luck. I remember alsamixer showing an o

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 > Michael Mol wrote: > > > This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely: > >> Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code the >> system might require while launching. > > Now there are

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-20, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012, 11:45:34 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: > >> 3) Most software packagers write their binaries to a PREFIX defaulting >> to /usr/local, or /usr, as opposed to /. Determining which ones belong >> in / or /usr can sometimes be

[gentoo-user] Re: slideshow on USB stick

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Joseph wrote: > Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV? > > In the past I've used "dvd-slideshow" but that is a bit of work. I had to > re-size the pictures add background music etc. > DVD only holds 4GB USB sticks have larger capacity. It de

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > >> On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 >> > Michael Mol wrote: >> > >> &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 >> > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > >> >> On 2012-12-

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Michael Mol wrote: > On Dec 23, 2012 12:46 PM, "Nuno J. Silva" wrote: >> >> On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wr

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Dale wrote: > Bruce Hill wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: [...] >>> Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI >>> >>> I use dow

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 19.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Walter Dnes: >> 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing >> wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard >> Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my des

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:03:25 +0200 >> nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: >> >>> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 >>>> nuno

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA mixer as a capture device with Intel HDA cards

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:59:50 +0200 > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Today, I got a bit curious, and wanted to get some sound from a >> computer which does not have any speakers at the moment. Mostly

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: > Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: >> >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:03:25 +0200 >>>> nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2012-

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Teodor Spæren wrote: > Hello! > > I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I > think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu > and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have > added 512mb of swap since I knew the r

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: >> [...] >>> From my understanding, if I upgrade my system to the later version of >>> udev and bypass the init system, my system will not

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> Now, also, from my understanding, this was already the case for some >> time (maybe even years?). And that's why I've asked for more details. >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim >> that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is "why? >> be

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? -> what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Michael Mol wrote: > Now, question: could I not create a "/usr" service and make things > dependent on /usr come after it's been mounted? That seems the single, core > missing piece. This suffices for /usr on regular partitions. The problem is with more complex stuff which, I assum

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: > Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >>>> No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim >>>> that

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: > Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: [...] >>> I might add, I have ALWAYS had a separate /usr. Darn near a decade >>> now. It has never failed to boot because /usr was on a separate >>> partition. NOT ONCE. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: >> On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: >&g

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello All, > > I know this is WAY off- topic, but I have seen topics in many different > areas, probably some gentooers will be glad to share experiences. > > I am trying to create some videos for a M$ Office presentation. Some are > from "recordmydesktop", w

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-31, Francisco Ares wrote: > 2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva > >> On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: [...] >> Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations >> will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: > On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> ... >> The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say >> chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. > > But h264 in an

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 > Analuin Abyssbeholder wrote: > >> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: >> >> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by nethack (argument) >> # /usr/portage/profiles/packag

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Philip Webb wrote: > 130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >>> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: >> If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask >> the version in Po

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, > etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. > > Does anyone know which font to install? > > These are the fonts presently installed on my machi

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Stroller wrote: > On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: >> ... >> I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that > one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. > > AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to "bitro

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing new kernels - saving dumps / strip down kernel options

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: [...] > * I remember a thread here where this was discussed already: > > How do you guys get to your .config for a recent kernel? "make > oldconfig" doesn't always work out best, I recall? > > My kernel config is maintained along for years now and has sur

[gentoo-user] Re: pgo not selected for firefox 18

2013-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-12, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 11.01.2013 13:00, schrieb Adam Carter: >>> >>> I had noticed it a while ago, it appears to be hardmasked: >>> >>> >>> # Jory A. Pratt mailto:anar...@gentoo.org>> (15 >>> Dec 2012) >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Isn't IcedTea OpenJDK, or at least the name of the bundle OpenJDK + build system? > Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" : > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell >> wrote: >> > On 0

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-30, Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page, and > the only thing left that I'm unsure/concerned about now is the > persistent net rules changes... > > The very last line on the wiki page says: > >> 4. Known problems >> >> Stale 70-persis

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page > > You should probably also read: > >http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictably-non-persistent-names > > and: > > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page >> >> You should probably also read: >> >>http:/

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Dale wrote: > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> >> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" >> mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the >> same behavior... >> > > I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev update > w

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Dale wrote: > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: >> On 2013-03-31, Dale wrote: >>> Pandu Poluan wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" >>>> ment

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:44:18 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I'm just hoping people will be able to find a solution to this that >> works well for them. I especially wish that for those managing a remote >> system with little or no physical access.=20 > > Well I ju

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-01, Michael Mol wrote: > > On 04/01/2013 03:26 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > >> You know that both udev and eudev have exactly the same issue with >> separate /usr right? >> The problem there isn't in the udev code, but it has to do with what is >> happening in rules that other packages in

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/04/2013 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >>> The most important para to me in the news item was: "The feature can also be >>> completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line." I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-20, the guard wrote: > > > > Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards > : >> On 2013-04-20, the guard wrote: >> >> > The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I started >> > rebuilding it and got a bus error. I've googled and found suggestions >> > to lowe

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