Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jul 2007, at 17:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007, Stroller wrote: I believe that even Linus - who is noted for his long-standing opposition to v3 - would change his mind were he to experience this. They're using the operating system _I_ wrote to lock me out of

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Dommett
Stefán István wrote: (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz is the reason all the other modes are being disabled: (II) NV(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (vrefresh out of range) (II) NV(0): Not

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TiVo ... did not allow modified, and therefore potentially Compromised, devices connect to their network. This does not sound like theft of code, it sounds like sound network protocol. If you wish to maintain a secure

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The preamble of Version 2 was almost unchanged from the original preamble written for the first GPL license. It was eloquent. It was convincing. It was awe inspiring. ... It is hard to explain my feelings about

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:38, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It was *barely* within the word, and definitely not within the spirit of the GPL. Don't beleive me? Ask anyone at the FSF or RMS himself. They wrote the thing. ... Tivo had no option,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ... You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html This manual is very excellent. I believe you can also get it in PDF format - I printed it out over 3 years ago

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Stefán István
Thanks for the help, it works now! But one thing is still not clear for me: why isn't xorg able to determine the horizsync and vertrefresh rates automatically? Istvan szerda 18 július 2007 15.22 dátummal Steve Dommett ezt írta: Stefán István wrote: (II) NV(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ... You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html This manual is very excellent. I believe you can also get it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:02, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the following worked: [snip grub.conf] I would've

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: it takes just as much power to spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. So ... spin it down after a few more minutes? -- hendrik Thanks for the report, I found it very interesting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:53:45 +0100, Mick wrote: If you have some reason not to mix one OS', or distro's boot files, kernels, etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version of grub then you can install grub separately in the new OS partition (instead of the MBR) and chainload

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-18 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/18/07, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: it takes just as much power to spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. So ... spin it down after a few more minutes? -- hendrik No, only spin it down when the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jul 2007, at 16:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I don't know. I think the overview is pretty clear http:// www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Overview, and leads into the remainder of the documentation quite well. ... The big stumbling block is getting people to grasp that grub is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The TiVo thing was completely within the word and spirit of the GPL. It was *barely* within the word, and definitely not within

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': What should I do, in your opinion? Probably LGPLv3, which will allow GPLv2 (and proprietary) projects to use it without requiring the combined work to be GPLv3. Actually, I'm probably going to take a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-18 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/18/07, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/18/07, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: it takes just as much power to spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. So ... spin it down after a few more

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': However, this is not the point. The point is that Tivo SOLD people hardware This is the salient point for me, too. If hardware was still owned by TiVo (in reality, not just in name) I'd have no

[gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part): CFLAGS=-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs

[gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems

2007-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: Gut reaction, firewire. I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes. Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking support, or you

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Joshua Doll
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hello list, I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:33:20 + (UTC), Hendrik Boom wrote: After my son, Henk Boom, who was an earlier gentoo adopter in my household, showed me just where the net.eth1 symlink had to go, it all boots properly. Thanks. I had never dreamed that firewire would be recognised as an ethernet!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:57 +0100, Stroller wrote: I have in the past considered putting grub.conf on a FAT32 partition - I'm not 101% sure that'd work but I've never tried because I never actually saw the usefulness. It will work, provided you call the file menu.lst, because the GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Stroller wrote: On 17 Jul 2007, at 17:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007, Stroller wrote: I believe that even Linus - who is noted for his long-standing opposition to v3 - would change his mind were he to experience this. They're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel da Veiga writes: I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part):

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail client usage?

2007-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but the code will run on any x86 CPU. emerge world --emptytree

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': a) nobody is forced to buy a tivo. If you don't like it, don't buy it and you don't have problems. TiVo isn't forced to use GPLv3 licensed code -- if they don't use it, they don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) ---8---8 4.1.2 Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 07:16, Dale wrote: Elias Probst wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of

Re: [gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 15:23, Stefán István wrote: Thanks for the help, it works now! But one thing is still not clear for me: why isn't xorg able to determine the horizsync and vertrefresh rates automatically? You could try adding: Option DDCModeTrue under Section Device.

[gentoo-user] nfs error: permission denied when executing a command

2007-07-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i have a problem with NFS. A partition mounted on machine gentoo1 is correctly exported and mounted in gentoo2 (that is, it is possible to read and write on it). However whenever i try to execute a program from gentoo2 that it is stored on the exports of gentoo1, i get the Permission denied

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation problems)

2007-07-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] English sucks (was: Re: Installation problems) On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: permission denied when executing a command

2007-07-18 Thread Glenn Sieb
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi, i have a problem with NFS. A partition mounted on machine gentoo1 is correctly exported and mounted in gentoo2 (that is, it is possible to read and write on it). However whenever i try to execute a program from gentoo2 that it is stored on the exports of gentoo1, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Thufir
On 7/18/07, Александър Л. Димитров [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) ---8---8 4.1.2 Load

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation I agree. Just back up /etc, make a copy of your world file and any other config files you may need and start from scratch. At least then you KNOW for sure where

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 18:49:00 Alex Schuster wrote: What I want to know is, will my software, compiled with the above settings, run in the new processor? I think this will not work well, because your current system has Athlon-specific CPU instructions which the Intel machine dows not

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 20:38, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/18/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation I agree. Just back up /etc, make a copy of your world file and any other config files you may need

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:37:34 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation Except you can continue to use the machine this way. -- Neil Bothwick Do not underestimate the power of the Force. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu, but the code will run on any x86 CPU. emerge world

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:00 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Another method, which I would use, would be to change your CFLAGS to what you would like for the new processor, but use mtune= instead of march=. This will also optimize for the cpu,

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs error: permission denied when executing a command

2007-07-18 Thread James Ausmus
On 7/18/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a problem with NFS. A partition mounted on machine gentoo1 is correctly exported and mounted in gentoo2 (that is, it is possible to read and write on it). However whenever i try to execute a program from gentoo2 that it is stored

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jul 2007, at 18:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... Linus has said it several times that he was ok with the thing Tivo did. And Tivo is the reason for that clause in GPLv3. I've seen no evidence that he said this AFTER spending a big chunk of his own money on hardware, plugging it into

[gentoo-user] Re: ps -e

2007-07-18 Thread Mateus Interciso
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:29:40 +0200, Cahn Roger wrote: Hi all, I'm with thunar and xfce. I can't bring up cdrom or cdrw when I put in a cd or dvd. I must do it with a terminal, and then I get an icone on the desktop and it works well. In contrary, the usb-key works normally and an icone

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
Hi Mick, Thank you for bringing this thread back in a direction which might help me. :D On 18 Jul 2007, at 19:26, Mick wrote: ... With regards to the OP getting twm running, that should be the default WM if Xsession is used. Does your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc contain something like

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash masking

2007-07-18 Thread Nico
2007/7/16, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On July 15, 2007 03:09:41 pm »Q« wrote: I emerged netscape-flash-9.0.48.0 before it was masked. I assume that emerge got the correct tarball, else it would have been caught by the checksum checking, and because about:plugins in Firefox says File name:

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread James Ausmus
snip If anyone has time to change XSESSION=Xsession and log on to their machine as a new user I would be grateful to hear what results they get. I can't help wondering if this is a little-tested option and can't help hoping it's broken globally. Did so - changed DISPLAYMANAGER=xdm and

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007, Stroller wrote: On 18 Jul 2007, at 18:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... Linus has said it several times that he was ok with the thing Tivo did. And Tivo is the reason for that clause in GPLv3. I've seen no evidence that he said this AFTER spending a

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Dan Farrell
Have you used ~/.xsession ? That's what I do for a 'custom' session. Search for xsession in the X manpage for more information on this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:30 +0200, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) [snip] Note

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] I get a feel that you are not an average person so your impressions are not valid for them. hahaha!! If you know who this mythical average person is, let me know so we can pay her $$$ to test all of our software!! ;) -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Thufir
On 7/19/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don't exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for. They have their point,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 06:48:38 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2007, Stroller wrote: On 18 Jul 2007, at 18:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [C]ould ANYBODY claim to be surprised by say Tivo? Yes they can, since the move to DRM/TPM/etc. devices was unannounced and a

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
As soon as I saw this thread I knew it was trouble. I was able to resist posting for the first couple of days - I do wish I had maintained this restraint. On 19 Jul 2007, at 00:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: if somebody buys locked hardware, it is his own freaking fault. Or could

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jul 2007, at 01:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: ... If TiVo was renting ... the devices, I would probably be on the other side of this discussion. Oh, absolutely. There's entirely no reason for someone to have the right to install software on a device they don't own. But IMO on a

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash masking

2007-07-18 Thread Nico
I've uninstall netscape-flash because of a problem with files in my ~/.mozilla/plugins/ but, now it's hard masked, do I (we) have to use the media-libs/libflash instead ? thx for advice oops, my fault, There is a bug filled here : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185141 Waiting for

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:59 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? Routers: The router issue was probably missed by a number of people simply because in the states it is

[gentoo-user] ADSL network

2007-07-18 Thread sain yan
Hi My box can`t link to internet , I using rp-pppoe I think it work fine, when run pppoe-start I get internet IP and the right DNS informention in /etc/resolv.conf ,but ping google.com , unknewn name, ping IP is rest why?? -- == I'm sorry for my poor english!!!

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:42 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? If you don't like the GPLv3, you probably didn't *really* like the GPLv2 and might be more

RE: [gentoo-user] ADSL network

2007-07-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: sain yan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ADSL network Hi My box can`t link to internet , I using rp-pppoe I think it work fine, when run pppoe-start I get internet

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Elias Probst
Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number:

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Dale
Elias Probst wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) Regards, Elias P.

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Holthaus
Hi! I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) Regards, Elias P. Well, I don't know about yours but mine says they were all sent at the same exact

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Dale
Patrick Holthaus wrote: Hi! I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) Regards, Elias P. Well, I don't know about yours but mine says

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread b.n.
Personally I'm quite happy with both GPLv2 and GPLv3. Frankly, my only real, serious concern is the fact that the two licences are incompatible. The fact compatibility has not explicitly allowed sounds plain crazy to me. This means that GPLv2-only projects won't exchange code anymore with

[gentoo-user] Mail client usage? (was: XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Elias Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: Hi there, I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) I'm curious -

[gentoo-user] emerge hydrogen fails

2007-07-18 Thread b.n.
...with the following last lines: (I can't find an obvious error, it just seems the ebuild dies, but maybe that's just me not having experience in c/c++ programming.) i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -pipe -g -w -pipe -march=athlon-xp -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail client usage? (was: XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the list and one post has shown up. At least that's how it looks like over here on the GMane side of things. I received it multiple times, too. Bye... Dirk --

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:16:06 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I don't know about yours but mine says they were all sent at the same exact time. So why are they arriving at different times? Are we sure this is him and not something else? More importantly, they all have the same Message-ID. However,

[gentoo-user] Multiple Messages (was: XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:16:06 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I don't know about yours but mine says they were all sent at the same exact time. So why are they arriving at different times? Are we sure this is him and not something else? More importantly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail client usage? (was: XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the list and one post has shown up. At least that's how it looks like over here on the GMane side of things. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail client usage?

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the list and one post has shown up. At least that's how it looks like over here on the GMane

[gentoo-user] Re: Mail client usage?

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the list and one post has shown up. At least that's

RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: b.n. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:29 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3?? Personally I'm quite happy with both GPLv2 and GPLv3. Frankly, my only real, serious concern is the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote: Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three paragraphs. The full story is in the info pages, but the way they are written

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote: Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three paragraphs. The full

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Dan Cowsill
I read a little bit of the new license, and restrictive though it may be and also strange for a pillar of the open source community to suddenly change is directive so drastically, I am still comforted. I believe the essential beauty of this community is that we cannot be governed by software

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The TiVo thing was completely within the word and spirit of the GPL. It was *barely* within the word, and definitely not within the spirit of the GPL.  Don't beleive me?  Ask anyone at the FSF or RMS himself.  They wrote the thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] XSESSION=Xsession doesn't work!

2007-07-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jul 2007, at 07:03, Elias Probst wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 23:01:12 schrieb Stroller: I'm fairly experienced with Linux and have been using Gentoo for over 3 years, ... Probably, you're not that fairly experienced regarding the usage of your mail client. ;-) With the use

[gentoo-user] notebook lcd resolution problem

2007-07-18 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I bought an MSI notebook with a 17 LCD display and a GeForce Go 6100 vga card. My problem is that I can start xorg only in 800x600 or less resolution, but according to the manual it should operate in 1440x900. Attached you can see my X config file and the log file. It seems to me that