Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make a new user with default .blah files. Does it happen for the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

2008-02-26 Thread felix
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:22:15AM +, Graham Murray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? 'eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

2008-02-26 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Here's my progress so far: I installed the 2.6.23-tuxonice-r10 kernel, ati-drivers-8.40.4, hibernate-script-1.97-r4, and radeontool-1.5-r3. After this hibernate to disk started working but only from the console with xdm shut off. The logs showed an extra_pages_allowance is currently only 500

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 February 2008, »Q« wrote: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. I think you may have gotten better solutions for your situation, but md5deep (in portage) is like md5sum but with directory recursion. I'm probably not suggesting

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?

2008-02-26 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Volker, on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:15:22PM +0100, you wrote: http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php don't panic. Just because something works in a lab, does not mean that it works outside of it too. So they were able to freeze some ram and get some information of it. So

[gentoo-user] problem with kernel and net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng

2008-02-26 Thread Fei Liu
Hello, Group, I am trying to install and use NetGear MA111 usb wireless network. I followed the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Prism2_USB_on_Gentoo http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Prism2_USB_on_Gentoo But I get errors when I try to install the kernel module. linux-wlan-ng-0.2.8 #

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:02 +, Stroller wrote: On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

2008-02-26 Thread Graham Murray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs-22

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

2008-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:03 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: I then added `ProcSetting extra_pages_allowances 7500` to suspend2.conf ah yes, this is a great one isn't it?! This had me stumped for a while. It might a higher number for future driver versions, so always check if you have the right

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1418 (76078-76127)

2008-02-26 Thread mvidela
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Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 24 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Christopher Copeland wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

2008-02-26 Thread Christopher Copeland
On 26 Feb 2008, at 19:51, Stroller wrote: Thanks. I think this has been suggested before for my backups - IIRC it has a useful --ignore-path or --exclude-path command which can insure you all the users' Documents Settings, without the useless temp Temporary Internet Files. rsync

[gentoo-user] System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Marzan
System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 I receive the message above after running k3b. I have my system locales set in /etc/locale.gen. I believe it is UTF-8. Moreover, idn --debug --quiet corroborates k3b warning. Is there anything I can do? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

2008-02-26 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6

Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

2008-02-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and slow?

[gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

2008-02-26 Thread Dale
Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62

Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

2008-02-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: