Hi Lord,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote:
(it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I
also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh -
Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a
tar
Hi Richard,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:22:37, you wrote:
I think it is important to note that these names were not invented by
the Gentoo devs working the ebuildsthey are straight from the
x.org project's distribution [1].
Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying that! After reading their
I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset
wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the
support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X
wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual
great Gentoo HOWTOs
Hi Andrew,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote:
try adding
'Section DRI
mode 0660
Group video
endsection'
to your xorg.conf
Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time
ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work!
and no those are
Hi Rumen,
on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 06:31:56, you wrote:
Have you changed any USE-flags in /etc/make.conf?
Add the 'v' option to see USE-flags too.
Sometimes this could happen with slotted packages when there's an upgrade
for some minor slot-number version (requires =...), but only for
It started on Wednesday: after syncing, I had about 150 ebuilds marked
as remerge. I thought, WTH, let portage have its way and remerge
everything while I sleep. So I did---and today it's the same! 151
ebuilds and all of them for remerging the same version. Here's some of
them:
[ebuild R ]
Hi Tom,
on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 01:07:18, you wrote:
Could you please paste the command line you used to generate this list?
emerge -DNuta world
right after emerge --sync
regards
Matthias
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Hi Ow,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-03 at 15:37:55, you wrote:
I have a few files which I would like to share to some housemates, but I
don't want these files to be opened by everyone at the same time. (limit
stress on my PC etc)
So, what I would like to do is some sort of library checkout mechanism.
Hi Anthony,
on Wednesday, 2005-12-28 at 10:38:12, you wrote:
1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others
(eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for
different purposes and people already have these addresses.
As Alexander has pointed out, fetchmail
Hi David,
on Thursday, 2005-12-29 at 13:53:17, you wrote:
$(ls *.jpg)
ick!
(incidentally, http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html#ls)
Well, it's bad in two ways, and even the example on the above webpage is
wrong. For one thing, ls is useless here. For another, it will break
on spaces
After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my
world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that
deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones.
In particular, it was dev-tex/latex-beamer and its dependencies, pgf and
xcolor. Nice to see
Hi Devon,
on Monday, 2005-12-19 at 23:13:52, you wrote:
I'm going to reboot again and experiment a bit to see if I can nail down
what triggers the abberation.
Just an idea, haven't followed the thread: could it have to do with the
new timer frequency setting under Processor Type and Features?
Hi Mark,
on Tuesday, 2005-12-20 at 07:40:42, you wrote:
[thin client]
I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in
some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't
start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's
running Gnome
Hi michael,
on Sunday, 2005-12-11 at 23:44:22, you wrote:
Any suggestions welcome. If you want to tell me why you like it or don't
like it even better.
www-servers/fnord is probably the smallest that doesn't do ugly things
like tux's processing HTTP at kernel level. I haven't used it but from
Hi Hemmann,,
on Wednesday, 2005-11-16 at 16:14:18, you wrote:
but xine does it right without the need of editing the conf, so in my humble
opinion, xine is better - I am lazy ;)
Depends on your keyboard. On a US keyboard, {}/[] are just fine, of
course on a German one it will be as unintuitive
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both
the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions?
regards
Matthias
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I
Hi Anthony,
on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote:
The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my
server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the
installation.
My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the
minimal amount of
Hi Daniel,
on Monday, 2005-10-24 at 11:33:47, you wrote:
Take a look at this... PDF is the proprietary modification of ps,
added some tags and some compression (that can easily be repeated with
lots of advantages in any compressor). And, well, read for yourself.
This is obviously a few years
Hi maxim,
on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote:
it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all
out dandruff!
Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be
done. Just back up the drive with
dd if=/dev/hdX conv=noerror bs=4096 | gzip
Hi Dave,
on Thursday, 2005-10-13 at 13:50:53, you wrote:
The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to
have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general
state of flux.
ACK. This will also keep fragmentation down and thus performance
Uh...why was the management in the subject line? Because I forgot yet
another question:
What dou you guys use for LDAP data management?
I've tried quite a few tools now. app-admin/diradm seems the only usable
one so far. net-nds/directoryadministrator segfaults on startup;
net-nds/gq works until
Hi romildo,
on Thursday, 2005-09-15 at 09:47:53, you wrote:
I have a bunch of ppm image files that I want to print,
putting 2 images per page. How can I do that, please?
If you know LaTeX, you could try writing a shellscript that prints a
LaTeX document that includes two images per page, run
Hi gentoo-user,
on Friday, 2005-09-16 at 02:54:33, you wrote:
Or there might be something in the netpbm package...
Uh...silly me! I overlooked the part where you said they're PPM already.
So just skip the anytopnm :)
cheers!
Matthias
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I'm still trying to set up OpenLDAP here. For some reason, SASL doesn't
work, but from the error message I guess it has to do with a missing
entry in the LDAP database itself:
Sep 14 15:42:34 clue slapd[24202]: slapd starting
Sep 14 15:42:40 clue slapd[13526]: conn=0 fd=13 ACCEPT from
Does anyone have an idea what the Eclipse ebuild doesn't like about
Unifont?
huxley ~ # emerge -DNupt dev-util/eclipse-sdk
These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] media-fonts/unifont (is blocking
Hi waltdnes,
on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote:
Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well
with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money
on a UPS.
Not if all you want is to give your home system 5 minutes to shut down
in a
I think there's a bug in one of the updates these days: if you have
Japanese activated in /etc/make.conf:LINGUAS, emerge wants to install a
new set of Japanese man pages, which however is blocked by groff-1.19. It's
not a big problem here as I just wanted CJK support for this machine at
a
Hi Matt,
on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 17:28:21, you wrote:
Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on
what people like/disklike in a window manager.
It's been XFCE here for a while. When I ran NetBSD years ago, nothing
but fvwm would run at decent speed (not that there had
Hi Matt,
on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 14:54:46, you wrote:
I'm not trying to do anything complicated like protect a LAN or include
a DMZ or run an ftp server or anything like that. I'm just looking for
a quick and easy way to add another layer of protection to my desktop by
closing all unused
Hi Nick,
on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 20:30:14, you wrote:
arp will rely on the box having actually done something within arp's
cache period.
What's more, ARP resolves IP addresses to MAC addresses and the IP
address is what the OP wanted to find out in the first place.
I'd try in this order:
1.
Hi Michael,
on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 16:51:54, you wrote:
Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
[gibberish]
That's because fdisk tries to interpret the data it finds as a partition
table, but actually there is none. Floppies aren't supposed to be
Hi Jonathan,
on Thursday, 2005-08-18 at 16:42:56, you wrote:
I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At
least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main
machine and then let the others sync off it.
That's what I was thinking...OK, I'll just
I just set up a local rsync mirror using app-admin/gentoo-rsync-mirror.
Now I'm just wondering if it's necessary to do it like suggested and put
a separate portage tree under /opt? I mean, apart from syncing to the
official Gentoo mirrors it's read-only anyway, so pointing my rsync
daemon to
To reactivate this old 486 laptop that's been sitting in my basement, I
set out to install it with a tiny Gentoo system and use it as a DSL
router. The HD is 1.3 GB, so a full glibc-based system wouldn't be much
of a problem, but I wanted to experiment with embedded stuff anyway,
so...
Well, I've
Hi Grant,
on Friday, 2005-06-17 at 09:07:48, you wrote:
I was writing an email using vim in mutt and I accidentally hit
ctrl+alt+backspace which exited X. Is there any way to recover that
email?
Vim saves backups in *.sw?-files. Mutt's tempfiles are named
/tmp/mutt-$HOSTNAME..., with ...
Hi Neil,
on Monday, 2005-06-06 at 09:08:53, you wrote:
Have you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar
machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD
world` on the copies, but you may get away with minimal effort.
You can if you use a shared
There's some SuSE-based workstations around me here I have to take care
of. I guess they won't have to bear SuSE for much longer though.
The alternatives I can imagine now are Debian and Gentoo. Personally I'd
prefer Gentoo, but I don't feel like reinventing the weel by writing my
own deployment
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 20:55:43, you wrote:
So you're actually trying to reuse even the compilation work performed on
the 'first' (let's call it 'master') machine and avoid compiling on all
the others when you do an emerge --update world for instance?
That was my idea, or rather
Hi A.,
on Thursday, 2005-05-19 at 13:59:38, you wrote:
I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something really
automatic, [...]
iface_eth0=dhcp
ifconfig_eth0=( dhcp 194.199.136.151 )
[...]
# esearch quickswitch
Yeah, I guess he knew that ;-)
I'm just wondering: where can I
Hi Gabriel,
on Saturday, 2005-05-14 at 23:07:25, you wrote:
I'm assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as your subnet mask. If this is
the case, I don't know how to make it work -- but it's unnecessarily
difficult. Try to set up this:
(INTERNET)
|
[ ?.?.?.? ]
[ DSL MODEM ]
Hi Neil,
on Thursday, 2005-05-12 at 22:18:23, you wrote:
I'm running ~amd64 and ~ppc. I don't know if it's in the older
baselayout, but there are a lot of differences between testing and stable
baselayouts.
My RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING had been set to no already, and I don't have support
for the
I have a feeling I'm missing something very obvious here, but I'm still
at a loss:
I have my laptop's ethernet set to use DHCP. Obviously, on the road this
will fail. But then the net service that postfix (and a bunch of other
stuff like sshd) depends on is not there. Of course I could edit the
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