Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> > If the soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can li

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Sat, 11/20, Willie Wong wrote: === > > If that were indeed the case (that they are forcing migration away > > from pseudotransparency and into real transparency), then it'd have > > been nice if the +/-tr tags throw some error text rathe

Re: [gentoo-user] Some possibly useful info on HAL

2010-11-20 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've copy/pasted below a new post to the devicekit-devel mail list. I can't vouch for the accuracy of any of it, but it did catch my attention: === There seems to be a lack of information in a central place about

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:54:36 +0100, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. > Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that > symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as > soon a paths get changed. app-misc/syml

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

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +, David W Noon wrote: > >Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a > >logical partition for more than six years. > > You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering > non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standar

[gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as soon a paths get changed. look at the example: $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista/ wxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 11/20, Willie Wong wrote: === > If that were indeed the case (that they are forcing migration away > from pseudotransparency and into real transparency), then it'd have > been nice if the +/-tr tags throw some error text rather than just > being silently ignored. === I did some expe

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question... Swithcing from "no multilib" to "multilib"

2010-11-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 07/22/2010 03:14 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0200 Andrea Momesso > wrote: > >> That's impossible, isn't it? >> >> Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a >> chroot? >> >> Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE > > animations have no effect on that. > > 2.6.36-ck-r2 has BFS as scheduler. I thought your were not using BFS :

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/20/2010 10:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I put it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:12 on Saturday 20 November 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Been using e17 for years :-) > > But you use kde too, right? How do you choose which one to use today? Until about a year ago I primarily used e17 but a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > > About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did > > feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I > > put it down to running a huge compile in

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

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil > > > > Bothwick did opine thusly: > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:13:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.11.2010 16:36, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos > Chantziaras did opine thusly: > >> On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: >>> 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to >>> desktop responsiven

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2010 11:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What I

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:04:10AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote: > I had previously used method 3, with an entry in my ~/.Xdefaults for > it, that worked fine. It stopped for some reason with this new version. > I suspect they may have removed the "hacks" they talked about and now > depend on a properly

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36:01AM +0800, fei huang wrote: > ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to > 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still > missed something? > Go ahead and file a bug, but as pseudotransparency was never official

[gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-20 Thread walt
On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Been using e17 for years :-) But you use kde too, right? How do you choose which one to use today?

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

2010-11-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 13:26:03 David W Noon wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > >Short of measuring the latency with some system (which I wouldn't know > >how) I have experimented with setting the /boot partition on primary > >and logical partit

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

2010-11-20 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/20/10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a logical > partition for more than six years. GRUB user, meet a LILO user? :) -- Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: >On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +, David W Noon wrote: > >> Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot >> have /boot on a logical partition -- on

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still missed something? On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:11 AM, fei huang wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: > >I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a > > upgrade to version 9.09, > > > > it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been > a

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

2010-11-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil > > Bothwick did opine thusly: > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:13:50 +, Mick wrote: > > > Short of measuring the latency with some system (which I wouldn't know > >

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

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +, David W Noon wrote: > Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot > have /boot on a logical partition -- only a primary partition, as BIOS > interrupts will only access raw drives and primary partitions. % fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine sends "emerge" text output to stderr, not stdout

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:32:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > But harmless. The severe delays you noticed were the result of a > > broken modem/router failing to recognise that IPv6 was not available > > and trying to use it anyway. The usual fix for such a problem is a > > firmware update. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: >I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a > upgrade to version 9.09, > > it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always > working for me. > > > post a snippet of my config file

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

2010-11-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: >On Friday 19 November 2010 19:19:34 David W Noon wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:00:04 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: >> >> [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to dis

[gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
hi: I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a upgrade to version 9.09, it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always working for me. post a snippet of my config file here, thanks. URxvt.transparent:true URxvt.shading:20 URxvt.tintColor:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 November 2010 05:31:15 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2010 17:53:31 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > >> What different behavior? > > > > As I said, from the command line ls shows the year for any file > > more than 12 months old, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-20 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 00:06, Stroller wrote: > > On 19/11/2010, at 8:45pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> I just want to beware of anything unusual instantly, preferably by >> email. This is a single or two user laptop. > > I've been meaning for some time to look for something like this myself. I'm > pe