Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync daemon with transmit timeout

2007-09-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
oops :) just found the timeout option for the configuration file... don't know why I didn't see that before... thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. -- John Cage

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

2007-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
, post back with the output of `dmesg | grep -i suspend` after you've tried to resume. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Bender: Hey, that's my last beer, you bastard. I'll kill you! Fry: I'll kill you too, buddy, I'll kill you too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
I live, that don't use DST. You need to set /etc/conf.d/clock to GMT (if your bios keeps time in GMT - up to you) and set /etc/localtime to London, or whatever. I think... I get confused sometimes :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

2007-09-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:58 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: On 9/10/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 5. mix two (or more?) audio sources into one audio+video file, with some simple crossfade [snip] Oh, and point #5 you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but most likely with your revdep-rebuild, you can specify -X to get the latest version of the packages. Otherwise it will try and use the currently installed version, which isn't what you want when in the middle of a large upgrade! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Order

[gentoo-user] keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

2007-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
around? I noticed there are quite a few versions in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers, but maybe not for long?! thanks, [1] see previous post Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185825 -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au Homer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

2007-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
and each of them had the fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! error that I talked about before :( I even posted on the ati forums and no one could help... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high

[gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

2007-09-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
suggestions? I have been looking on google, but there are so many bad shareware programs that my results get flooded with rubbish! TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Can you program? Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] migrating to emacs 22.1

2007-08-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A hammer sometimes misses its mark - a bouquet never. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

2007-08-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
that right or wrong! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I had the rare misfortune of being one of the first people to try and implement a PL/1 compiler. -- T. Cheatham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules at later times until the cd fills up, no need to re-burn the whole lot! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Something must be Done This is Something Therefore, This must be Done -- The Thatcherite Syllogism -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: no need, just download the slax modules. Slax is great like this - especially if you install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules at later times until the cd fills up, no need to re-burn the whole lot! sorry, scrub that, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
. my intel cooler sounds like a jet starting! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In the days of Old Terra there were experts in poisons, deviously clever persons who dealt in what were known as the powders of inheritance. -- Filmbook excerpt, Royal Library of Kaitain

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:16 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Graham Murray writes: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm compiling a program blah.cpp with g++ 4.1.2. I've rebuilt lots of my system with 4.1.2. I'm copying the binary onto another gentoo system which has gcc 4.1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:51 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 17 August 2007 06:50:25 Iain Buchanan wrote: /etc/env.d $ grep LDPATH * | grep gcc 05compiler:LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6 05gcc:LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-lin ux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
revdep-rebuild, so you may want to try without -X, see if you get an error. And to get the previous behaviour with the new revdep-rebuild I think you'd use -e. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

2007-08-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
happens with real mice wheels, but a real wheel doesn't scroll as fast as my touchpad, therefore I didn't see it as often. In any case, I would like to know how you disable this firefox mouse / history control also. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #425: stop

[gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
with g++-3.4.6 and LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6, but that didn't make any difference. Could it be because I've rebuilt libstdc++-v3 and gcc-3.4.6 with gcc-4.1.2? google hasn't helped me much here, so I turn to this lists infinite wisdom ~:) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: why not just rm -r /usr/lib/gcc/x86-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6 ? because I want to keep gcc 3.4.6! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au * JHM wonders what Joey did to earn I'd just like to say, for the record, that Joey

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
download a portage snapshot like you were doing a new install, then copy it over /usr/portage. Hopefully when you say you've corrupted portage you're referring to /usr/portage, and not /var etc... Don't know if there are any dangers with this - I've never tried it. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:34 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:23 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: [...] My own little workaround: echo 'LDPATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:23 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: [...] My own little workaround: echo 'LDPATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib' /etc/env.d/04basic-ldpath env-update I tried that, but eix still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
of it was trial and error to get the best picture - the help I found about various options was very minimal. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files. -- an anonymous UCB CS student, to an instructor who had typed rm

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
filesystem over firewire, and others may differ. I do predict though, that with the ease and speed of USB filesystem transfers vs firewire, that any hard drive video camera from the cheapest to the expensive amateur models will soon have (if not already) this option. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: Hi, Iain Buchanan wrote: so I ran `revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.6` but that got stuck on eix: src/eix: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by src/eix

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but maybe it will do? cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you push the extra ice button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't get any ice. If you push the no ice button, you'll get ice, but no cup. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Is this a problem? I've kind of run out of steps to follow now! I'm sure I came across this in my last gcc upgrade, but I can't remember how I fixed it... Any hints? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 03:00 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag, 13. August 2007, Iain Buchanan wrote: src/eix: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by src/eix) emerge -e world after system? I was trying to get out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
the way you want. Or just do what I did: convince your brother-in-law to buy it, then take it straight off him to play with :) Thanks for the advice. no worries. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Let me take you a button-hole lower. -- William Shakespeare, Love's

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: While we're on the subject... [snip] But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) why, what happens in November? Vista SP1? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You know you're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) why, what happens in November

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of them is very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
be the same as the info pages... would anyone agree? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] I get a feel that you are not an average person so your impressions are not valid for them. hahaha!! If you know who this mythical average person is, let me know so we can pay her $$$ to test all of our software!! ;) -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:22 +0200, Xav' wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote : Hi, for a while I've been seeing errors like this: fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! [snip] Essentially it led me to `mount | grep shm` [snip] and of course, this is already enabled. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/17/07, Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote : Hi, for a while I've been seeing errors like this: fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! I had this problem because the way shm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
grub at them without using another bootloader. you mean as long as grub understands the kernel and filesystem, you can tell grub to load the kernel directly, with provided arguments. I think :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Kevin: Dad, the fish got away. Joe Swanson

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting cruisecontrol - initscript

2007-07-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
options to start-stop-daemon when you've got it working. This helps you stop the daemon later. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #206: Police are examining all internet packets in the search for a narco-net-trafficker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
, google only showed 1 match! I am running ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1 [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1691647 [2] http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html#176878 thanks for the help, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
) though. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PPTP connection to Windows server 2003 vpn

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
the interface doesn't exist!! yeah, that won't work unless you have an ip address... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. -- Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
for the advice, -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) -- Phil Hands -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
/debug, which you can then delete at your convenience, without rebuilding. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Subject: Bug#42432: debian-policy: Proposal for CTV for Draft for Proof of Concept for Draft for Proposal for Proposal for CTV for a CTV to decide on a proposal

Re: [gentoo-user] Way to sync emails with SynCE?

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
at. First though, you might want to check on the synce-users list if this feature is even supported (I don't think so). As yet, I think they only have file, contact, todo, and calendar sync support... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au To a Californian, the basic difference

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

2007-06-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
performance... on a RV350 Mobility Radeon 9600 M10. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Sent messages not being saved in Sent Items folder

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
. From then on I haven't had a problem! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry, your email wasn't compliant, you forgot the rant and /rant. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:48 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:18:58 +1200 Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: Genoo Everything. given Everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
EverythingElse =~ EverythingElse 0 I agree! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will never solve - politics. -- Gavin Baker, ca 1996, An unusually cynical moment inspired by working on a large project beseiged

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:21 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to figure out how to find the gentoo-user specific pages in gmane, but the interface is not super-intuitive. I may give it another try today. :) http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user HTH, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
is running before you log out / in. Hopefully one of those works! cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read. -- Alberto Moravia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ati-drivers

2007-06-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
of steps, and I've been using ati-drivers for years... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I must rule with eye and claw -- as the hawk among lesser birds. -- Atreides assertion (Ref: BG Archives) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] controlling xscreensaver throttle

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
resume from suspend it's unthrottled. AFAICT, when resuming, suspend2 actually restarts xscreensaver, so its state was lost. I think the above solution could work here too. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Deek If the user points the gun at his foot and pulls the trigger

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
simple like top? load it and then press '1' to swap between a composite cpu and real cpus. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -- Thomas Jefferson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreens under linux

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
it less than desirable... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au RFC 882 put the dot in .com, not Sun Microsystems -- Seen on Slashdot -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] getting rid of python-2.3

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
depend on =dev-lang/python-x.y, so nothing seems to specifically need python 2.3, is this right? I've been trawling through google, but haven't found anything at all about this, so any links would also be good. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au We have met the enemy, and he

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of python-2.3

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:46:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: can I recompile all the packages that require python-2.3, and then uninstall it? Run python-updater to recompile anything that was built against older python versions. cool

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote: According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. hm, it has been a while since I last read the handbook. There were a small number of files to rsync back then :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux (Ubuntu) on a USB drive doesn't save

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
be saved... you could add another partition to the key for persistent storage perhaps? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreens under linux

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
a mouse as well? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au People that can't find something to live for always seem to find something to die for. The problem is, they usually want the rest of us to die for it too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ideas?! ;) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
not know exactly everything you want to install... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. -Alfred Lord Tennyson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
them, but they should do the trick. I think you can find them in the custom-kernels overlay. ha! good luck trying to compile the kernel with faulty RAM. Can you remove one stick, or borrow some from a friend / other machine? That might help with your backups... cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
of course. There is a not-too-bad list of live CD's here: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php but I don't so much like the top of the list :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au dracus Ctrl+Option+Command + P + R Knghtbrd dracus - YE GODS! That's worse than EMACS

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
, you'll attract more newbies! I think I'll raise a bug about this. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome cvs binding

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
google, all I get are millions of hits that have nothing to do with gnome cvs gui's, because of the keyword cvs. thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
want to read the list :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My philosophy is: Don't think. -- Charles Manson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22 and a low 640x480 console resolution. anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
/viewtopic-t-554798.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
to help. should there be a = before the package name? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
such a feature (so long as you have cron installed) /etc/cron.daily/slocate contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn't a relevant choice to pick, but I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:27 +0800, Crayon wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that will fix everything ;) Yeah, good old konq just does the right thing :) just to confirm that konqueror sorts

[gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
pointers here? google wasn't much help, nor the wpa_supplicant website. Yet _without_ wpa_supplicant, I can connect fine, so I know the card and ndiswrapper are working! TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
with ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper cannot manage encryption by itself. ah, so simple! Thanks, it works now :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
prefixes like + and _ I put there to have the entries sorted on top. Fortunately, Thunar does no such tricks. well, thunar looks great - I just installed it hoping it would help my hexadecimal files, but unfortunately it suffers from the same problem as nautilus here. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan

[gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
around this? Can I tell nautilus to stop being clever? I had a look in the options, but I can't find it. (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that will fix everything ;) TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Gomme's Laws: (1) A backscratcher

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC HD HD video camera. (The first HD is for high def!). Anyway, the great feature is it records

RE: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd is too noisy in syslog

2007-04-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au : The hierarchy is excessive. So is the anarchy. :-) -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
. someone more into the kernel could probably help more here I think :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au linux: the choice of a GNU generation ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
promise I didn't inhale :) And I still know nothing! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D. -- B. Duggan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
bit of dust on one of the pins? you never know... If it fails on the big compiles like gcc, kernel, etc., then I would bet it's the RAM... cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au This is a good time to punt work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
sticks. You could also try the memtest bootable cd. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
. There are few synce experts, and that's where they all seem to be :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
/ before ./configure usually does the trick. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

2007-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
to crashing. Take the time now to find out why, and save yourself time in the future, IMHO :) but glad it's working again. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
-the-same. or Flamefox? or Hotfox, or Earthcat or Plasmadonkey, or Iceweasel... oh, we ruled out that one... but something that won't change with new firefox releases is a good idea. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
to stay away from 2.6.21-rc1. It's bad enough to make one wanna club a dolphin. speaking of which, I never got the forcedeth module working on my nforce 1 board - which board have you got? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The price one pays for pursuing any

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: [snip] Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist before attempting to connect? net.eth2

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
with recent headers or something :( See my thread on _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 if you can help!! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
them to no, and yes respectively and see if the following scripts wait... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When you're in command, command. -- Admiral Nimitz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/ioprio_set.2.html I know this is a C-ish question, only loosely related to gentoo but I'd really appreciate any help!! TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its message and then disappears

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

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:10 +1100, Christian Marie wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:23:09AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I

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

2007-01-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
me more about it or send me a link to a proper website which could enlighten me? try these exact searches in google (include the site.. bit) INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.gentoo.org and INPUT_DEVICES VIDEO_CARDS site:http://www.gentoo-wiki.org cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X configuration problem

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
and then this one: X -version Hope you're getting somewhere! [1] http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Do Debian's 2.6.18 problems exist in gentoo?

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
-kernel. You can also see what patches have been applied by looking at the ebuilds. to those not familiar with gentoo: there is also a vanilla-sources ebuild, which installs the kernel exactly as it is from kernel.org, with no patches, if you want to go that way. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
solution, but at least it would do it automatically. sorry I can't help any further :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] AIGLX and Compiz: No GLXFBConfig for default depth

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work. compiz: Failed to manage screen: 0 compiz: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 the only thing on google I found was a suggestion to re-install the nvidia drives, but I'm using the x11 drm drivers... any ideas? thanks, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] X configuration problem

2007-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
=keyboard mouse synaptics VIDEO_CARDS=ati radeon vesa fbdev fglrx you may use a different set of drivers of course. See google on these for more info :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after

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