Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 23:23:07 Jake Moe wrote: > I haven't followed this entire thread, but is there any chance this > isn't really a "Cisco" device as you know it, but a rebranded > "Linksys"? After seeing a picture of the device, and reading that it's > a "Small Business" router, I'd suspect i

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-25 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Jake Moe
I haven't followed this entire thread, but is there any chance this isn't really a "Cisco" device as you know it, but a rebranded "Linksys"? After seeing a picture of the device, and reading that it's a "Small Business" router, I'd suspect it's a device that came out of their acquisition of Linksy

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions?

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: > > ...using the directfb for vo gives > > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like > > I always dreamed -- but only as root! > > > > Obviously there's a permissions

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions?

2011-04-25 Thread Indi
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: > > ...using the directfb for vo gives > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like > I always dreamed -- but only as root! > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... Oh jeepers, I've made a silly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 19:20:55 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Thanks for the site. After looking around there a while I'm not > > seeing how to gain a terminal to execute any ios commands. > > > > Neither ssh or telnet are accepted at the router

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 18:37:31 Harry Putnam wrote: > Mick writes: > > On a typical Cisco router you should be able to download/edit/upload > > the configuration file from/to the router using tftp and a text > > editor, or minicom and a serial cable if the router has a serial > > port, > > When

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Thanks for the site.  After looking around there a while I'm not > seeing how to gain a terminal to execute any ios commands. > > Neither ssh or telnet are accepted at the router. This page shows how to enable the telnet service via a hidden

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs

2011-04-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick writes: > On a typical Cisco router you should be able to download/edit/upload > the configuration file from/to the router using tftp and a text > editor, or minicom and a serial cable if the router has a serial > port, When I export the config file, its a binary file, not accessible by tex

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > > remove the older 2.6 python package

[gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions?

2011-04-25 Thread Indi
Greetings, My old thinkpad is showing its age lately, especially when using mplayer to play avi or mkv files. Fooling around with various options and config arguments has revealed that using the directfb for vo gives sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like I al

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my > new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. > It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime.  Do I have to do > recursive copying o

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > remove the older 2.6 python package. > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funni

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Mick. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > On Saturday 23 April 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:18:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Maybe I should disable doc, but it seems "wrong" to me, to miss out on > all this potentially useful information (which admittedly I never use). The potentially useful information is installed anyway. USE=doc enables the potentially useless in

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30P

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Stroller
On 25/4/2011, at 11:07am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> ... >> The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile >> (amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in >> /etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need >> it in /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. A happy Easter to everybody who celebrates it, and a very good day to everybody else! On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:07:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile > > (amd64/10.0/desktop)

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and > > enable it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra > > documentation that general users don't need, man/info/html pages are > > included by default (at least, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > > > What Neil is sayin

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE > flags in the