Re: [gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible

2007-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(in /etc/init.d) to depend on nfsmount. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] advice for a desktop search package?

2007-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
with KDE4, and from what I've heard works fairly well with KDE3. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Wesnoth version

2007-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, the packaging for Wesnoth could use a little love. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to show urxvt's name in windowlist?

2007-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
here, IF they can. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpxWb98fe0k1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. (At least, Nautilus /should/ respect those.) You might have to do something like: LC_ALL=POSIX nautilus from a xterm-like application. You can use env | grep ^L from a new xterm-like seesion to see what nautilus sees by default. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or not and then pipe the list of problematic packages to a file. Does anyone know what the the name of that tool is or any other tool that might have a similar behavior to the one I just described? emerge options world || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do :; done -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

2007-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. e2/3/4fs? Certain errors inside those kernel modules (even if they are compiled in) will cause the fs they are working on to go read-only. I suggest a full fsck when you can get the time and to check any self-diags and/or SMART info your disks provide immediately. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/Chicago, America/Kentucky/Monticello, posix/US/Central, or right/America/Indiana/Knox (All the timezones supported by your libc are under /usr/share/zoneinfo.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings

2007-04-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
uses UTC for all it's time values. You have to do some magic that I don't know to get Linux/BSD ntp daemons to play well with windows *and* properly correct for time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build

2007-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, you'll also need to rebuild all modules. You'll also want to re-install anything you had to rebuild. [1]: Remove the module from /lib/modules to make sure you don't try and load it twice. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage tarballs

2007-04-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
pick up any CFLAGS customizations gradually. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.

2007-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.': Just a small request of the gentoo stage developers... Wrong list man. You either want gentoo-dev or (not a mailing-list) bugs.gentoo.org. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
you recently upgraded your firewall, if any, and blindly used etc-update with checking your firewall config? You should also check your nsswitch.conf to make sure it is set up correctly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorizedoutput?!?

2007-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to release the package to those users that have **VOLUNTARILY chosen to test new packages* by running ~ARCH. I'm not saying don't run ~ARCH at all; but if you do, you have chosen to test the software and should file bugs, even if that takes some time. Nazis Godwin!! -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 05 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?': 31334 I think you meant 31337. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 23:17:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip: Rant re: portage's stupid color behavior] Amen. I'm not sure *exactly* what the solution is, but portage needs help in the color department. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Top-posting etc. (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu)

2007-04-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
material and stopping when they reach the signature separator. New users often simply type their reply, without touching the quoted material resulting in a top post (see above). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find eth0?

2007-04-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and ethernet over firewire can cause your only NIC to show up with a different name. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
enough, I find that quite human-readable, compared to some programs outputs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu

2007-04-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Sylvain Chouleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Thermal cpu': I have found the source of my problem: 1) Don't top post. 2) 65 C isn't a problem. My laptop regularly runs 85+ C under load. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT DNS] common way to discover nameservers for an IP

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it in those various man pages. You probably want: dig NS -x $IP -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
different layouts in /etc (which is normally part of the same mount as /) and, in particular, will install (and confuse each other with) distro-specific scripts in /etc/init.d. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd don't create resolv.conf

2007-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
page that control it's behavior. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpFBVh1gl66q.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-03-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
satisfy that dependency. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpQFaxdTmTTZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
prompting for two passwords; each twice). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpoTjncOxB7x.pgp

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. How do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 03:09:33 Remy Blank wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: troll ZFS? /troll You say troll, I say possibility; I'll certainly consider it. Actually, I would be very interested in using ZFS for my data. The troll was more about the fact that the ZFS license

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Surely, a filesystem should not shy away from sanity checks that can be done with little

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wouldn't mind and interactive prompt to force mounting a damaged filesystem, but I'd need a way to turn that off for unattended systems. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
by the filesystem is good. /me is looking for a new favorite file system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-benchmarks like emerge --sync and find '/usr/portage' /dev/null actually ran faster than ext3. That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: Help - system reboots while compiling)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: /me is looking for a new favorite file system. troll ZFS? /troll You say troll, I say

[gentoo-user] kmail + sieve

2007-03-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpPVYKWFwofu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail + sieve

2007-03-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] kmail + sieve': Until recently, using managing seive filters in kmail just worked. Unfortunately, now I get an error: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] Busybox update fail

2007-03-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
]: *** [applets/busybox.o] Ошибка 127 make[1]: *** Ожидание завершения заданий... make: *** [applets] Ошибка 2 While some on the list may be able to read this, you'll normally want to generate your errors in the C locale before posting them here or in bugzilla. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
mdadm Check mdadm --misc --help and mdadm --manage --help. I believe there's a --zero-superblock mode, but you'll have to check the spelling. You'll use it like mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hda. HTH -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
until they are imported. Delete them, then run 'udevtrigger udevsettle' (as root) and see if they are recreated. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

2007-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header': On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:03:32AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] getting rid of raid header

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name

2007-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
always known and loved (ethX by PCI device number). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, as the docs say (and as many proprietary, out-of-tree modules expect). So what's the best way and _why_? /usr/src/linux symlink to current (generally running) kernel. Because that's what the docs say so that's what Gentoo supports. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] ot Light Scribe

2007-03-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to find anything to support this. http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803 Looks non-free though, and I haven't seen an ebuild anywhere. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID

2007-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
some speed in the sections where you can make A's segments bigger. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Speed up GoogleEarth on an ATI RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]?

2007-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
be using the wrong driver or glx library; I've fairly sure this is supposed to be 'ATI' when using fglrx. Anything interesting in grep -E '\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: [gentoo-user] quick kmail question

2007-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of middle-clicking links, since I use kmail+akregator inside kontact and akregator wants to use a khtml tab inside itself if I don't middle-click. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] quick kmail question

2007-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Konqueror - Settings - Configure Konqueror Web Behaviour - Advanced Options Select Open as tab in existing Konqeuror when URL is called externally. Hrm, maybe it would be best if you read the email before replying to it? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la

2007-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la': I'll let you know what my revdep-rebuild says. Following up, I had to rebuild: =dev-cpp/cairomm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la

2007-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 March 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 05 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Cedega no keyboard input

2007-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 17:37:35 Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:55:17 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Cedega no keyboard input': On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:10:39

Re: [gentoo-user] Can portage clean up after a failed installation?

2007-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
clean those up by itself or do I have to do it manually? Easier that manually, but still not ideal: # Free up some space emerge nexuiz emerge -C nexuiz -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta

2007-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
split packages and install all the monolithic packages you need. It's possible you may need to run revdep-rebuild (from the gentoolkit package) and/or reinstall keryl after you fix your kde issues for it to work. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] iptraf vs iptables (mangle access)

2007-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
forwarded packet passes though both the pre-routing and post-routing chains, so you are counting every packet (at least those that are not dropped in the FORWARD chain) twice. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta

2007-03-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 March 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta': On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:54:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Your problem is that you are trying to mix them. That is difficult or impossible and is AFAIK

Re: [gentoo-user] Cedega no keyboard input

2007-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
had started the full-screen game) using alt-tab (or similar shortcut) to manually select to DirectX HAL (?) window. I was able to fix the problem by turning down that Focus stealing prevention. HTH but YMMV. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Cedega no keyboard input

2007-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
windows grab the mouse, the WMs never get click events? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of your post into a non-interpolated string! ;) My thing is getting to the bottom of the page in one key stroke. Maybe I need to man less and read a bit. :/ I believe 'G' should do this. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a while back, and when it changed to being the default, my asoundrc broke playback. You might try deleting (or at least removing any dmix/dsnoop entries from) that file. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS Variable in-kernel drivers?

2007-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-cleanup http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/02/18/alsa-improvements-part-3 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging gcc.

2007-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
? No. (Or, probably not.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to use the name as a trademark/brand at some point in the future and the pre-existing project may have undermind that. IIRC, there was also a similar issue with the name Pheonix. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps

2007-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
PAM modules that control limits. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25

Re: [gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light

2007-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
actually do not use them so I think gnome-light should be enough. emerge -C gnome emerge gnome-light emerge -a --depclean -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

[OT] Shamelessly copied (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade)

2007-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it was one of the Neils that first posted it (at least to the gentoo-* lists). A: It reverses the reading order of the conversation. Q: Why's top-posting so bad? A: Top-posting and insufficient quote trimming. Q: What's the most annoying thing on mailing lists and USENET? -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...

2007-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
file, and goto the 'Command Character' node. I'm thinking you probably want to mess with the escape or defescape commands, probably throwing them into your screenrc or somesuch. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is read by sh, bash, and zsh (at least), for all (?) shells. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key

Re: [gentoo-user] ot - video encoding

2007-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-friendly. I don't do enough transcoding to have any recommendations other than mencoder, because I got familiar enough with it to do what I needed and stopped looking for anything else. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo way of handling pre-built kernels

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, and you can set up named groups and subgroups to make life even easier. Never used tentakel, but IIRC there's another parallel-shell tools available that works over rsh/rlogin/ssh called psh. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 23:14, paulie.x wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napsal(a): On Thursday 22 February 2007, jcd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding': Hi. I converted my system to UNICODE with assistance http://gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?

2007-02-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 February 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?': And please turn off the HTML posting. Aha! That's why I couldn't read his messages. I just assumed he'd encrypted them or something, so I was ignoring them. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
so bad? A: Top-posting and insufficient quote trimming. Q: What's the most annoying thing on mailing lists and USENET? Please don't top-post. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
whole drives instead of multiple partitions.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(or not)? Probably not, but if you are actually running 2.6.17-gentoo-r8, then I'll need to see the output of dmesg around the time you modprobed rt61. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with UNICODE and man pages encoding

2007-02-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
think it's more likely controlled by an nroff USE flag or configuration file than a portage configuration files. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that will start X and bring up the standard KDE stuff like kicker, kwin, and kdesktop. Maybe Gnome has something similar, or at least a xsession that you can edit and use? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
be helpful for at least some people if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: Plain-Text Only, No Top-Posting, No Thread Hijacking, Attachments Only By Request (and consider private mail), and Trim Quoted Material. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Use all the Gentoo support options (IRC/email/forums) and read the wiki. Have another, working system available (dual-boot maybe) until you trust your Gentoo system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
this. It has a maximum size (which can be changed by a remount) but will only allocate enough ram to hold what is currently placed on the filesystem. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to ask us how to do use them. :) The best way to develop you linux skills is to use them. :) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
how to use the uncompressed data by looking for a cpio header. Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-) Not that I've found. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
userland tools to setup. initrd/ramfs really isn't crap, but they are generally unnecessary (unless you have '/' on EVMS/LVM/software-RAID) on Gentoo. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Hans-Stefan Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo': Hallo, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47, Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: storm1 hsbauer # /etc/init.d/gfs start * Starting gfs cluster

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 19 February 2007, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisał(a): So, you can simply find the KEYWORDS variable in the ebuild you are trying to use and add one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

2007-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
once I figure out a good way to use paludis instead of emerge for the remerge part). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that doesn't build with gcc 4.x (kqemu), so there's some reason to still stay on 3.4 if you are cautious. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
header. It also possible that there's a different entry point now. I seem to remember the location of the syscall table is recently changed to something like randomized per-process at some point in the 2.6.1x line. That may have changed how you need to be calling things. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

[gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
earlier today and I still haven't seen it yet. Same with a comment I sent to gentoo-desktop around the same time. Before anyone asks, no, I am not using gmail. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I wanted. This might result in significant disk space savings, but YMMV. I now have ~90 packages from the kde-base category instead of the ~350 pulled in by kde-meta. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 February 2007 09:42, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/': Any insider tidbits on liveCD 2007.0 ??? I've not been hearing anything about it good or bad, so I still expect it sometime in February. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
are? Double check your fluid levels. If they are all fine, what weight oil are you using? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] System reporting information

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
also http://www.linux-stats.org/ (and it's matching package: list) which generates some Gentoo-specific statistics. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
two years without progress at one point. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp3E4wXuur9c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, higher Hz wins.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpSNP3nVPY4k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the HD often; it's not tuned for such craziness and probably performs worse than other filesystems in that case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 25 January 2007 20:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage': On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature. Might as well include a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

2007-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the masked dependencies required all at once? No. An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

2007-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 22 January 2007 00:12, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2007 09:55, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote What is say the top ten or twelve programs that would be good

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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