On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr
wrote:
> 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've
> never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in
> any way. If there is such an option, disable it.
Sometimes referred to as "virus
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>>This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better
>> results also.
> [snip]
>
> These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older
> computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS wo
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly
> explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my
> head in shame and apologise for the noise! ;-)
I believe you'll be hearing from Dale in the near
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now
>> suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all parts
>> of my RAID5
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Laurent Kappler
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm tryin to emerge ImageMagick version 6.4.7.0 while current in portage is
> 6.5.7.
>
> How could I do that??
Here you can download ebuilds for all previous versions and then put
it in your local overlay:
http://sources.gentoo.or
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see
> signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making
> it come in with new profiles or something.
Some lvm tools/packages have replaced others that don't h
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
> version?
> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
> go to different slots.
> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Well, in 4.3.x I eliminated it after the first try, because it took so many
> resources of my machine, that I could not use it for something else. So, you
> mean, in 4.4.x it takes only a 10% of the resources it took with 4.3.x? LOL,
> althou
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hi, Gentoo,
>>
>> My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
>>
>
> Just one more reason.
>
> Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed?
>
> If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed.
> Some CPUs
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Stroller
wrote:
> Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised "don't try
> using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the whole KDE
> environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead of Kmail".
>
> I kept my gob somew
Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and
experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's
advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things
that you say "I wish I set mine up this way the first time..." or have
learned from experience
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> protip: if you are running badblocks (or ddrescue) on a probably damaged
> device - attach it with an usb adapter. That way your box is still usable.
+1, i had a bad drive and it's so much easier to unplug/replug the USB
instead of r
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> For quite a long time I've been using things like:
> vga=0x31A
>
> On the kernel line in grub.conf
>
> Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found
> somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago.
>
> ## 640x480
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens.
> KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use
> the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the
> sam
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing
> function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself.
AFAIK it is on the Amarok to-do list now that the speed is good enough
to replace mysql, but no
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dale wrote:
> Also, if you file a bug report somewhere, I got to the site, click on a
> thread then try to go back to the home page by clicking on the link in the
> top box. So far, it has not been able to get past that point. Oh, my CPU
> is at 100% doing whatev
2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey :
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise
> things pretty much worked out of the box... almost. As I have discovered
> - even though video is working flawlessly, my audio has gone AWOL. No
> matter how many goats and virgins
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
> netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
> netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
> netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.
>
>
> I assume these are kernel op
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan
>> wrote:
>> > netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
>> > netstat: n
2010/3/5 Dmitry Makovey :
> On 03/04/2010 08:37 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> 2010/3/4 Dmitry S. Makovey :
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I have just bought Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 and much to my suprise
>>> things pretty much worked out of the bo
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader wrote:
>> - SSD vs 1rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files.
>> I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway.
>
> SSDs can make things snappier for boot times. Having lots of ram for
> disk cache eliminates the benefit after
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale wrote:
> ubiquitous1980 wrote:
>>
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
>>>
>>>
I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I
have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this d
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i usually use my linux system with root account. i think it is not
> good, so i created a normal user account for myself. but i found that
> i cannot access many system resources, like usb disk, battery
> informatiion, etc.
>
> i am already
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> now i have a damn wired good news. all the problems i talked about are
> gone. :) i can access my usb disk, i can see the battery info.
Congratulations :)
This reminds me to attempt to solve why my laptop has no battery info.
I think I need to cr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Damian wrote:
> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs:
>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196
>
> It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if
> somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem.
I don't use gvfs
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> No you're not. But it is far easier to miss important changes without
> oldconfig to point them out to you by shoving them in your face.
That's how I use it. I do oldconfig as a kind of "kernel config diff"
and then follow it by menuconfig a
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-03-10 12:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> equery can be unreliable. If emerge --depclean -a wants to remove one
>> of both of them, let it, otherwise leave well alone.
>
> Understood, thanks...
>
> Just to be sure... the -a in the 'emerge -
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mick wrote:
> I see in the amd64 FAQs this:
> ==
> Can I get Adobe Flash working?
> Yes. Just emerge adobe-flash. Adobe has provided a 64-bit Flash
> plugin starting with version 10.0.22.87. If you don't need the 32-bit
> plugin, then r
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess.
>
> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so that my users can read/write
> freely there.
>
> This line, does not do it:
>
> grep hdd7 /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdd7 /home/reader/spool reiserf
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> I've done this before but have lost my notes about I guess.
>>>
>>> I want to mount a device /dev/hdd7 so t
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:59:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>> Yes, Gwenview has been quite useable for some time now
>> & the KDE 4 version is a bit of an improvement generally.
>> Useable alternatives are Thunar (icon view) & Feh (thumbnail vi
Just a quick note for publickey-only sshd users that if you upgrade to
openssh 5.4 the AuthorizedKeysFile entry in sshd_config may need to be
updated or else you won't be able to login to your system.
If you have:
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
(which is the default example in the config
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Trying to emerge emacs-24, testing with:
>
> emerge -vp =emacs-vcs-24.0.
>
> I'm told its masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
>
> But when I look there, I see:
> # Ulrich Mueller (10 Mar 2010)
> # Emacs live ebuilds. Use at you
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote:
>
>> Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently.
>
> I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is
> the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin.
>
> I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the
> wireless "works fine", but is not right.
>
> When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 an
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup
> using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half
> and all's been working well.
>
> I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote:
> Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> [...]
>>
>> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB
>> green drives. []
>> - Mark
>>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> What do you mean by "green drives"? I had been told - but never searched for
> c
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> I was very impressed by Windows 7 recently. I installed it for a customer
> and it seems wonderful. I even considered trying it myself, but I realised
> that the inability to copy settings from one profile or machine to another
> is a *complete*
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mick wrote:
> Is INTEL_TXT needed on a kernel for a laptop?
>
> The kernel (2.6.32-r7) advises:
>
> "If you are unsure as to whether this is required, answer N."
>
> Although I understand the general principle of this, I don't know what impact
> it may have on day
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and
>> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes
>> stable, and is used in real linux applicati
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dale wrote:
> Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm hoping for
> some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of
> random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to be a slideshow but if done
> in random order, th
Hi,
Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month
with bad RAM modules), I got this error today:
[48055.741389] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[48055.741393] ata3.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[48055.741398] ata3.00: cmd 60/20:08:38:1
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to compile ffmpeg with vdpau - direct NVidia hardware
> acceleration. This is a configuration flag for ffmpeg.
>
> Setting the "vdpau" use flag seems to set the configuration flag, but
> also brings in the "x1
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Neil Walker wrote:
> On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers.
>>
>
> I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific
> drivers have always worke
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Daniel Quinn
wrote:
> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe I'd
> configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue someone
> here has run across in the past so here goes:
>
> My computer is a pretty impressiv
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dale wrote:
> Daniel Quinn wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if this is a hardware issue or not, but I thought that maybe
>> I'd
>> configured my kernel incorrectly and that this might be a known issue
>> someone
>> here has run across in the past so here goes:
>>
>> My co
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 26 Mar 2010, at 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> Setting up and testing my new system (after wasting nearly 1 month
>> with bad RAM modules), I got this error today:
>>
>> [48055.741389] ata3
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 26 Mar 2010, at 22:21, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH
>> voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12
>> SA
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/10 17:08, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM,
>> 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to compile ffm
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have a lot fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts. and i even have all
> the fonts from m$ win7. but when i ran xlsfonts, i got only a few
> fonts listed. like this:
>
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
> -misc-fi
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Xi Shen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently
>> (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info & maybe
>> s
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year
>>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't
>>> been bumped for 5 years.
>>
>> That
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:19:02 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I also tried to burn this with tkdvd but it failed too. I don't think
>>> the media is bad. It doesn't appear to be k3b since the other program
>>> fails too.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, mikey wrote:
> Hi I have an external drive that I would like mounted with HAL, so
> that it doesn't mount on boot (which takes ages for it to spin up) and
> so that I can add and remove it easily.
>
> As I understand it udev rules are the way of doing this.
>
> I
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:29 AM, mikey wrote:
> I don't blame people for not wanting to touch this with a barge pole,
> it's a complete nightmare. I have had success to a degree in that I
> created a .fdi file which gives my device a pseudo label of music so
> it now gets mounted as /media/music a
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> I'm trying to blacklist firewire-ohci and firewire-core but I'm doing
>>> somet
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Your media was either accepted after several tries by the drive for unknown
> reasons and is now usable in general again or you are observing a problem
> caused by "hald". Note that hald does not care about the CD/DVD/BD Writing
> process a
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote:
> I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb;
> sdb is not even partitioned.
> I think I could do:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
> but I need to boot from CD isn't it?
Yes, basically, boot from USB or CD and use ddrescue to clo
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com?
> I get a "Connection to 207.98.216.138 Failed" and downforeveryoneorjustme.com
> reports "It's not just you! http://gentoo-wiki.com looks down from here."
Looks like his other website
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using
>> > > it for any reasons of data security, ru
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>> wrote:
>>> On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
> I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of
> programs that depended on dev-libs/boost. The boost testsuite always
> fails in my computer due to insufficient disk space, I usually simply
> skip the test for boost and jus
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of
>> programs that depended on dev-libs/boost. The boost testsuite always
>> fail
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
>>> I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of
>>> progra
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
>> wrote:
>> > Your media was either accepted after several tries by the drive for unknown
>> > reasons and is now usable in
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> >> Would a HAL preprobe FDI like this prevent it from interfering with
>> >> burning?
>> >
>> > Could you explain what this means?
>>
>> I was just
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 April 2010 20:56:30 Butterworth, John W. wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Do you know if someone makes a change to a copy of apache hosted on a
>> public mirror, will the sync between the servers determine that it's
>> corrupted (via 'bad
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Arnau Bria wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I forgot to mention that I should use "linux uvc driver" (recommend
> build in kernel), but, in menuconfig, I don't know what driver
> choose.
Hi,
It is CONFIG_USB_VIDEO_CLASS
It is under: Device Drivers, Multimedia Support, Video ca
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> On the screen that usually shows the progress, it says "Fatal error at
> startup: No space left on device." The main screen where I select files
> shows there is space left. It shows about 1Mb or so left.
Do you have enough free space in /tmp to
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:13:26 -0700
> schrieb Mark Knecht :
>> A couple of packages in this OpenRC upgrade aren't building. I hope
>> they are less important. So far groff and help2man have failed so I
>> did --resume --skip-first and moved on f
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to
> experience Gentoo.
>
> OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless.
> The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old
> friends li
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-04-12 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> I use the --keep-going always, it was a great addition and especially
>> helpful when there is a bad package that won't compile for a week or
>> two, it makes i
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want
> to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200
> pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD)
> with 1980x1200 pixel monitor?
>
> Graphics card is a (info vi
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> I'm not a gnome user but I can try this if you want (135 packages to
> emerge in my case), or if you have more specific info about which part
> doesn't build I can try only the specifics.
I went ahead and emerged gnom
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, stosss wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM, wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want
&g
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found.
>ExtUtils::Depends not installed
If part of your transition was upgrading from perl 5.8 to 5.10 you
need to run perl-cleaner like the ewarn says i
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Checking if your kit is complete...
>> Looks good
>> MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found.
>>ExtUtils::Depends not installed
>
> If part of y
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> cruncher mark # cat .xsession-errors
> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Cannot find Xclients
> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: line 203: exec: xterm: not found
> cruncher mark #
>
> cruncher mark # eix -I xterm
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Notes about what I think happened here:
> 1) I missed the message about running perl-cleaner so I had to do that.
> 2) I had a gcc build that didn't allow the profile to get set so
> emerge -1 gcc fixed that.
> 3) After that I tried emerge -e @
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK, so I've been pushing forward and finally I'm emerge -e @world
> clean. xfce still doesn't work right. It's in fact pretty unusable at
> the moment as it has no menus at all, but it's only a backup
> environment so I'm going to ignore that f
Saw this message from an emerge today:
* Messages for package x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0:
* Usage of hal is strongly discouraged. Please migrate to udev.
* From next major release on the hal support will be fully disabled.
* Both hal and udev flags are enabled.
* Enabling only udev!
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> Saw this message from an emerge today:
>
> * Messages for package x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0:
>
> * Usage of hal is strongly discouraged. Please migrate to udev.
> * From next major release on the hal support will
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, dan blum wrote:
> I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from
> KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting.
> This looks like slight bug.
Check this option in your file /etc/conf.d/hwclock
# If yo
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote:
> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text
> on this page.
>
> http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html
>
> There is supposed to be different text each time you hit the 'next'
> slide, but I see none. Kinda
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/14/2010 11:38 PM, Tony Miller wrote:
>> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I cannot see the text
>> on this page.
>>
>> http://musictheory.net/lessons/html/id10_en.html
>>
>> There is supposed to be different text each tim
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 12:28 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tony Miller
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I've noticed that in linux(in all browsers), I
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that
>> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the
>> generic "_
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that
>>> installed. I decompile
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> I would also try media-fonts/freefont-ttf if you don't have that
>> installed. I decompiled the flash on that page and it's just using the
>> generic "_
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM, walt wrote:
> On 04/15/2010 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> ...I decompiled the flash on that page...
>
> Wait a minute. Am I the only one here who wants to know how to decompile
> a flash app? I don't believe that, so please
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Mick wrote:
> Any idea what the 'wifi' USE flag actually does in
> www-client/mozilla-firefox? Is it merely to know when the machine is
> on/off line and therefore try to connect to the Internet?
It enables Necko WiFi (and depends on wireless-tools). What does th
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras writes:
>
>>> Read more details here:
>>>
>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.6-upgrade-guide.xml
>>
>> HAL is deprecated and will not be supported in X anymore, so it's not
>> the "new" way ;)
>
>
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:14 PM, dan blum wrote:
> I see 'date' is a binary file. Does kde also use this function to change its
> time and date? Where would one find the source package for 'date'?
$ equery b `which date`
* Searching for /usr/bin/date ...
sys-apps/coreutils-8.4 (/bin/date)
(if
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2010 18:26:14 Stroller wrote:
>> On 18 Apr 2010, at 23:35, Mick wrote:
>> > ...
>> > OK, I found what the problem was ... the AP is currently transmitting
>> > on channel 13, which it seems is outside the capabilities of the b43
>>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Mick wrote:
> Hmm, it's stuck in US mode for some reason. Firmware?
Maybe you're right, I googled and found some info that the old
broadcom driver didn't support channels 12 and 13 for some reason with
certain hardware. However, it appears b43 is the "old" driver
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote:
> /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0
This part jumps out at me.
Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? Is it really IDE and not SATA?
And isn't /dev/fd/0 a floppy device? Are you burning from a floppy to
an IDE drive?
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> Hello Daniel
>
> The all-in-one printer is connected via USB. The following versions are
> installed:
>
> net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1
> net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1
Try to blacklist & rmmod the usblp module. I had to do that for my HP
USB printe
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Joerg Schilling
wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Dale wrote:
>> > /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0
>>
>> This part jumps out at me.
>>
>> Is /dev/hdd your new DVD burner? I
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 20 Apr 2010, at 13:17, Mick wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> "Introduced in Gecko 1.9.1: Code with UniversalXPConnect privileges
>>> can monitor the list of available WiFi access points to obtain
>>> information about them including their SSID, MAC add
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> K3b suddenly cannot find any burning device of my system.
> Hald is running. vlc can acces the drive for playing dvds.
> kdebase-runtime-meta is installed. k3b was recompiled without
> problems. The Configuration dialog of k3b states for both
>
1 - 100 of 1956 matches
Mail list logo
