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

2007-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
into a simple misconfiguration at this point. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpQCSJZ8RRJp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put policy routing

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
source-based routing in local.start, and you'll probably have to keep doing your policy routing there as well. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

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

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
function as both a shell (if bash starts misbehaving cause readline, glibc, or something else it links to is broken) and tar, as well as a host of other programs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
needs to be rewritten, so that something that's wrong that you probably can't fix (well, unless you want to head over to the lkml and become a patron). That said, there may be a work around by disabling IRQ sharing which I think can be done by changing your config. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel': On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:42, Timur Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Jan 21 21:32:17 bonsai pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp249kfPdgC1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers

2007-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy pgpw5OVvI8JYG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers

2007-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to use DRI. If you feel like experimenting, you might try an testing or masked version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati, which provides the radeon driver for Xorg. Though, my box shows no versions available that is greater than stable. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 15 January 2007 06:34, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': Hmm.. maybe you think eix behaves like esearch. eix always looks in the vdb so whether you run update-eix before or after an upgrade is

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:38, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c': On AD 2007 January 13 Saturday 12:22:25 PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't apologise, if you know it's wrong, don't do it. Not only do I get two copies of your mail, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 13:22, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as

Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

2007-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 19:08, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've also attached a longer system update script that I use, for reference. I've been taking a look

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 11 January 2007 08:50, John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:30, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: add =cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask That too isn't a valid atom

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 03:40, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting': Most decent mail clients have a far better option, highlight the part of the message you wish to reply to before hitting Reply and only that text will be quoted. I

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:43, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] moving to ADSL': I'm about to switch from cable to ADSL anytime soon, and I'm trying to prepare the computer for the big change, given that there will be a time gap without internet access and that I

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:15, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL': On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Firstly, ignore those that want you to buy another piece of hardware to do something your computer is perfectly capable

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 17:20, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL': On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Well, I knew you'd need a ADSL modem. Some of these (IIRC ours even) can be configured to handle all the pppoe-ness

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 09:53, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': I am not sure what you mean by this, but I do hope you'll consider using a normal commodity PC as your router. He's already got a home router. Some Netgear model (see

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 11:43, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want to take advantage of gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely want

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:16, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions': Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. So is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2007-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 January 2007 00:43, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?': (Actually, I think that it would be even better to have the etc-update/dispatch-conf step done before the ebuild qmerge step, so that the user's chosen config file

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 15:44, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1

2007-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:15, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1': Hi, I'm still re-emerging everything on my box. I run into a boo boo on occassion. Some I have been able to fix myself. I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1

2007-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:56, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: What version of linux-headers do you have installed? I believe this is complaining about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 January 2007 15:44, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': On Friday 5 January 2007 21:25, Mick wrote: OK. I don't think I need to run a full VPN. I just want to securely connect to my router at home while I am

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

2007-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:47, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver': Anyway, I wonder why all people still try to install the alsa-driver package. In the case of some drivers (such as intel hd audio) I have found the userspace drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:49, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms': Incidentally, I just did a similar comparison on my machine between audacious and amarok, and found that amarok consistently uses at least 2.2 times the amount of memory that

Re: [gentoo-user] pruning distfiles

2007-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 12:31, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] pruning distfiles': On 04 January 2007 20:18, Stuart Howard wrote: On 04/01/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, just went through /usr/portage/distfiles and deleted what I though

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 December 2006 04:20, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised': After yesterday syncing (~amd64) gnupg package was upgraded (and de-slotted). Now - via KMail, KGpg, gpg CLI - my long-used password suddenly become a 'bad

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2007-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:32, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised': I have masked 2.x version as need to work. I'm not pgp guru and wil wait for other's opinions. I didn't find a bug filed, although there was one for the

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 10:01, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 30 December 2006 22:00, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user': Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I find myself doing stuff like: $ ping ip of ISP nameserver or similar, because hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 05:38, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server': I want to install gentoo in my Hewlett-Packard server.It's my first time to install linux in a server.I want to know that which *.iso I should download and burn

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since then i've experienced complete freezes of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:20, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki': I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised

2006-12-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 December 2006 04:20, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] gnupg upgraded, problems arised': After yesterday syncing (~amd64) gnupg package was upgraded (and de-slotted). Now - via KMail, KGpg, gpg CLI - my long-used password suddenly become a 'bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. The output of equery files vmware-modules shows modules in

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 22:41, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': On 12/25/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:04, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short': On 12/23/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. * Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for valid reasons? well, after some discussion @ gentoo-dev, it's now a little bit clearer: The bugs are not completely valid yet (but soon will be), since libpq (=8.0.8

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 02:46, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed like apache with the 2.0 branch,

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 04:48, Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': You want to update world and, at the same time, not to update anything. I can understand that if your goal is not to update world, as Portage thinks when you say -u

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 07:23, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable': That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other downloading with cron? man 5 crontab -- If there's one thing we've established over the years,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 10:51, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] emerge console colours': Where do they [colors for emerge] defined? In the portage source, IIRC. They may be configurable in recent versions, but I do not recall any documentation for them. -- If

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': I understand the portage system enough to mask the packages I don't want, but then there's the problem of other updates requiring that package. Well, either (a) the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:54, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql': since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for valid reasons? Sometime he does jump the gun

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:43, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:18:41 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I can't think of any method to get real numbers. Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :) Damn you. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 04:46, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': On 20 December 2006 11:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: Or do what Ubuntu did and default all installs to use their time server, they can get a good estimate of the number of users

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo

2006-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:18, Jakob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo': I have a Core2Duo T5600 1,83 MHz in my notebook. Today I read on the GentooWeeklyNewsletter to use -march=nocona (and an amd64 profile) for Core 2 Solo/Duo 3. They mentiont to use a amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo

2006-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:48, Jakob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo': Thaks for the quick reply. On http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags they say for 32bit use: CFLAGS=-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer Is this wat you meant for better -march

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo

2006-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 14:56, Jakob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo': do I have to run emerge -avuD world after changing to -march=prescott? No, that's not required. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo

2006-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 14:46, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS Core2Duo': What is your strategical vision to this (use C2D as 32-bit or 64-bit) alternatives? All (well, very nearly all) the software I need is available in 64-bit versions, partially

Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture for Pentium4 Prescott-2M

2006-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 December 2006 21:44, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture forPentium4 Prescott-2M': However, I had always been told to not use x86_64 (CHOST) unless it was an Itanium. (Can anyone else add to this?). You're just plain

Re: [gentoo-user] $PATH

2006-12-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 17 December 2006 16:56, Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] $PATH': El Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:41:23 +0100 Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: You don't need to export the variable... You do, unless you plan to use that variable only instead of the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync connecting to 1.0.0.0 [OT, maybe]

2006-12-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 December 2006 06:37, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] emerge --sync connecting to 1.0.0.0 [OT, maybe]': I am even unsure if the problem is the router or the laptop configuration or both, hence the OT. Any suggestion? Probably some bad DNS server...

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba ebuild problem

2006-12-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 December 2006 06:44, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Samba ebuild problem': I'm getting this when I emerge samba. Is this an outright bug, or something wrong on 'my side'? ./configure: line 3210: syntax error near unexpected token `;' ./configure:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync connecting to 1.0.0.0 [OT, maybe]

2006-12-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 December 2006 08:38, marco restelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync connecting to 1.0.0.0 [OT, maybe]': On 12/16/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably some bad DNS server... Could you post the contents of /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

2006-12-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 December 2006 04:29, Roman Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal': Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. I don't get the 'joke?' in your signature... It's a pun on the word decline. Mr.

[gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip)

2006-12-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 16:57, Thomas Rösner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip': Then there are containers: mp2 (only mpeg2), mp4 (only mpeg4), avi (anything, but limited), ogg (anything), mkv (anything and more, not in DVD::Rip last

Re: [gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip)

2006-12-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 13 December 2006 08:29, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Media container formats (was Re: [OT] Specifying file size in dvd::rip)': On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:57, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: A quick comparison can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 09:38, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses': I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford dictionary nuts, or is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s': Hi, if you don't use openoffice a lot, it is not worth to compile it. Just use the binary package. It will take some seconds more to

Re: [gentoo-user] Media Player

2006-12-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 03 December 2006 06:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Media Player': im looking for a basic easy to use dvd player program something that isn't too touchy basically. I like kaffeine, though other KDE users swear by kmplayer. Codine is a KDE frontend for xine that

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc emerging: ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY

2006-12-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 01 December 2006 05:28, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] lirc emerging: ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY': After installing sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19 I have tried to reinstall lirc and got the error shown below. Where is my fault?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:17, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:45, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:51, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice': On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I use Konqueror near exclusively; I was an avid Opera user before I switched to Linux. May I ask what led you to change

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 15:00, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] browser advice': I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. I don't know, nor care, whose fault it is (Google's, firefox's or mine, for not having telepathic gifts), I just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness

2006-11-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 17:45, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HDD I/O and UI responsiveness': I read somewhere that they are trying to 'nice' the drive usage like they do the CPU. That may help if you can find it and enable it. I think it is in some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 November 2006 07:38, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?': Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. What about /boot? -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that

Re: [gentoo-user] Using LINGUAS on a per package basis like with USE

2006-11-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 13:06, Fernando Canizo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Using LINGUAS on a per package basis like with USE': BTW, if someone gets curious about why I'll want to do something like this, I'll explain: I get very annoyed by the translation teams. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 19 November 2006 12:52, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades': I converted to KDE modular some time ago with considerable trepidation. Now I'm faced with the updates that came out this week, and I'd like to take advantage of the

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 17 November 2006 00:27, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!': How come when I emerge something, my 'esearch' isn't updated until the next time I do an 'esync'? But I *DO*

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 November 2006 08:56, Brian Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot': I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my chroot. I don't want to move

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: hotplug / coldplug / udev ...

2006-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 November 2006 10:01, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Semi OT: hotplug / coldplug / udev ...': I have some doubts about the way hotplug / coldplug / udev work. What really happen when you plug a (again, i.e.) pendrive in your computer? Which programs take

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo requires password twice

2006-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 20:39, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] sudo requires password twice': Can someone paste/send me their (stock) /etc/pam.d/sudo file? Sent via private mail. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast

Re: [gentoo-user] the most secure shared network system? Coda/NFSv4/others?

2006-10-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 29 October 2006 06:48, 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] the most secure shared network system? Coda/NFSv4/others?': Hello. My purpose of using a network file system is to back up my web server. For some special reason the backup application I am using need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 16:09, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding': Sorry, I'm just not that wireless savvy, but everything looks fine to me. Again, keep in mind that I've never used wpa_supplicant so I don't know if that changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 14:12, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding': I tried the following in /etc/conf.d/net : modules_ath0=( !plug ) but it still goes into backgrounding. That shouldn't happen. Please post the output of:

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to emerge -- clean

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 14:39, Turi Tropea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] failed to emerge -- clean': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: Rescue this file from the Gentoo portage tree CVS attic (It should be under the eclass directory) and place it in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 12:01, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding': I tried the following in /etc/conf.d/net : modules_ath0=( !plug ) but it still goes into backgrounding. That shouldn't happen. Please post the output of: equery b

Re: [gentoo-user] asterisk zaptel-1.2.9.1 error

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 11:47, Régis Décamps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] asterisk zaptel-1.2.9.1 error': * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. You should

Re: [gentoo-user] failed to emerge -- clean

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:33, Turi Tropea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] failed to emerge -- clean': !!! kdesvn-repo.eclass could not be found by inherit() Rescue this file from the Gentoo portage tree CVS attic (It should be under the eclass directory) and place it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding

2006-10-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 October 2006 16:07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding': How can I execute this from the command line? You should just be able to type it in or cut/copy and paste from my original email. bash (and indeed most shells) don't

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:53, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? Gentoo provides defaults for both values. Your value in

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED

2006-10-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 October 2006 10:34, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf spells disaster-RESOLVED': One of the files dispatch-conf over-wrote without telling me or leaving any record was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 which meant 8250.ko failed to load.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

2006-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': Interesting discussion here: I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 12 October 2006 01:42, PaulNM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question': Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So usually not. Just being a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 09:07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': Some say that RSA is widely considered more secure than DSA. DSA is mathematically stronger than RSA. However, that doesn't mean much since most attacks don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication

2006-10-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:51, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] RSA Vs DSA keys for SSH authentication': RSA has the advantage of allowing longer key lengths From what I understand, the DSA algorithm has no particular ties to the 1024-bit key length

Re: [gentoo-user] new package in an portage overlay tree - howto

2006-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 October 2006 04:10, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] new package in an portage overlay tree - howto': I'd like to add dev-lang/D for the language D in my overlay tree. Even the very first ebuild Path to my overlay tree/dev-lang/D/D-xxx.ebuild digest

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 October 2006 05:39, Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod': I have acquired an iPodNano and have been playing about with that. I've been able to do everything I need to do using GNUpod, yet there is an oddity.Any MP3 file I encode on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod

2006-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 October 2006 12:34, darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT: encoding MP3 files for iPod': quoth the Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: I've fairly sure metadata can be stored either at the beginning or end of the file (I know FLAC can do this). As for Flac

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:52, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?': On Saturday 07 October 2006 06:50, Grant wrote: I think I'll stick with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd That won't work on CSS scrambled

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 03:13, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:53:55 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it would be sufficient to specify a /29 netmask (255.255.255.248). However, we

Anycast (was: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not)

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 08:05, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': On Friday 6 October 2006 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Anycast is virtually unused anywhere. I'd imagine it could be used in some crazy layer 3 clustering solution

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 11:59, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?': dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd This is it's a standard store-bought DVD, this will end up copying the encrypted (CSS) data to your HD, which will add CPU overhead

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