Francisco Rivas wrote:
> 2.- Remy have you some problem with your configuration or it's only to know?
My original question was meant to get feedback *before* doing the
update. I updated yesterday, and everything works well. So there's no
question anymore.
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James wrote:
> blocks B x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0)
That's because none of the current ati-drivers work with xorg-server-1.3.
> One thing that I as never really comfortable with is this make.conf
> entry that I ended up using shich I gleaned from sev
Thanks for the feedback.
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to
> 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I
> tried the "testing" version of ati-drivers.
Yes, b.g.o has quite a few bugs open for ati-drivers related to 2.6.20,
that's
I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using 7.1 with
the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel
gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same configuration done
the update? Does it work for you?
(Yes, I know, binary drivers suck. I'm not trying to star
Florian Philipp wrote:
> Should I even try to backup sys? Is it important for rebuilding the system
> after rm -rf / ?
No, /sys is like /proc, it's dynamically create by the kernel.
And please, don't hijack threads, i.e. don't reply to another arbitrary
message, but post a new one.
-- Remy
Daniel Iliev wrote:
> So, "emerge -pv gentoo-sources" wants to install the new kernel source,
> while "emerge -DuN world" doesn't. How come?
Is gentoo-sources in your world file?
$ grep gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world
If not, the behavior you see is normal. Just add
"sys-kernel/gentoo-sour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know I've once known and used a command that listed the nameservers
> serving a given IP.
dig -x 123.45.67.89
HTH.
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> RAID-3?/5/6 can self-repair like this, but the checksumming is done at the
> stripe, rather than inode level.
AFAIK, RAID-5 doesn't self-heal except for the specific case where a bad
block is detected by the hardware, so the RAID driver knows which drive
has the b
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>
>> ZFS?
>>
>
> 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 was explicitly
designed to be GPL-2 incompatible, hence preventi
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> /me is looking for a new favorite file system.
ZFS?
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marco restelli wrote:
> Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> I have been using ndiswrapper.
I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by udev as follows:
Find out the module alias used by udev:
cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias
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marco restelli wrote:
> Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> I have been using ndiswrapper.
I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by
Erik wrote:
> Sometimes the display just stays on forever as if it has
> completely forgotten that it should shut off after 1 minute. I always
> have kcontrol->Peripherals->Display->Power Control open, because
> changing a setting, changing it back and pressing Apply fixes the
> problem, but on
Carl Adams wrote:
> Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
I don't have a solution for your problem, but a warning for people who
rename their printer devices with udev.
Starting with the latest stable CUPS, when using "usb:/dev/*" device
URIs, the device node must be below "/dev/usb", and must be the re
Randy Barlow wrote:
> Well, just wanted to write back and say that this sort of seemed to have
> worked. I'll give it the test of time, but the screen did in fact just turn
> off on its own! Thanks Remy!
Always glad to (sometimes be able to) help.
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Randy Barlow wrote:
> DPMS used to work just find on my laptop in X 6.8-7.0, but when I
> upgraded to 7.1, all of a sudden DPMS stopped working.
I've had something similar, where DPMS would work initially, and switch
the screen off after the configured timeout, then switch on again for no
apparent
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On boot, I get an error when loading speedstep-centrino that a device or
> resource is busy. But I can then log in, rmmod all these modules and
> manually modprobe them in the above order, and it works fine.
I had the same effect when trying to update from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17
Huib van Wees wrote:
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: considering hdb1 ...
> md: adding hdb1 ...
> md: created md1
> md: bind
> md: running:
> raid5: device hdb1 operational as raid disk 0
>
> raid5: not enough operational devices for md1 (2/3 failed)
You need to mark al
Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> I know that I can execute a umask every
> time the users log in to insure that all new created files will have
> the correct premissions, but is this really the correct what to
> handle this problem?
That's one way of doing it, which I have seen used on RedHat
distribu
James wrote:
> /usr/share/X11/xkb shows:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root12 Sep 4 03:24 compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
> /var/lib/xkb does not exist.
You could try to re-create the directory with the info below, or maybe
re-emerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ll -d /var/lib/xkb
drwxr-
maxim wexler wrote:
> What does the group think?
I don't know about the group, but I use etc-update and keep all of /etc
in a Subversion working copy. This allows quickly seeing any changes
made on updates and emerges, reverting changes if anything breaks, and
keeping track of the reasons for spec
pk wrote:
> Does anyone know why they have appeared? I don't have them installed
> previously and I am quite skeptical about "netkit-rsh" since it installs
> rexec, rlogin and rsh.
Me too, since it installs them setuid root.
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Mick wrote:
> I have looked around and have found confusing info regarding which is a
> better
> key cipher to use for ssh authentication. Some say that RSA is widely
> considered more secure than DSA. Some say that it doesn't really matter, as
> long as you use a large enough bits setting in
b.n. wrote:
> I am looking for the python bindings to FUSE, since I want to write a
> little thing taking advantage of it.
> Unfortunately in the portage tree I can only find bindings for ruby and
> perl, but not for python. It could be the moment to learn ruby or perl,
> but it would be another
darren kirby wrote:
> In any event, he would often say 'bother', as others might say 'rats'
> or 'darn' ie: when something trying happens. I think the sig is just a play
> on this coupled with Pooh trying to connect with a slow modem connection..
Aahh, now I see. Thanks for the explanation.
(\m
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> "Bother," said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps.
I'm not a native English speaker, and I wonder about these Pooh jokes
(which seem to be especially frequent in your taglines, Neil). Would
anyone care to explain to me where the joke is? I'm sure it's
Noack, Sebastian wrote:
> The workaround is to hack /etc/init.d/checkroot to call `dmesg -n 1` on
> startup, even though in /etc/conf.d/rc is a variable RC_DMESG_LOGLEVEL
> which is set to "1" by default, but it doesn't affect anything.
There is a typo in /etc/conf.d/rc, the variable should be cal
Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> some forms I might want to keep.
You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete".
Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.
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sdoma wrote:
> emerge -u says, that pam-login is blocked (blocked by shadow)...
> I ``emerge -C shadow'' .. and emerge tells me, that pam-login is
> blocked by shadow.
> I unmerge pam-login, and emerge tells me, that openal is blocked by
> amother package ... ``emerge --pretend openal'' doesn'
>> Use the following:
>>
>> setfacl -m d:u::rwx,d:g::rwx,d:o::rx /home/stefi/kepek/
>>
>> i.e. also give it a default execute permission.
>
> Thanks, it works know, though I don't understand it.
The default user, group and other ACLs of a directory are ANDed with the
mask passed to the open() or
Stefán István wrote:
> Okay, I think I have to use acl. I've read its documentation, and set up the
> following acl's:
>
> setfacl -m d:u::rw /home/stefi/kepek/
> setfacl -m d:g::rw /home/stefi/kepek/
> setfacl -m d:o::r /home/stefi/kepek/
>
> Now, if I create a file in this directory, it's perm
Mark Knecht wrote:
>How can I keep net.eth0 off unless I turn it on by hand? I am not
> loading forcedeth explicitly but it's getting loaded anyway.
Set the following variable in /etc/conf.d/rc:
RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*"
This will disable hotplugging for all network interfaces. If you only
Stefán István wrote:
> Is there any way to tell
> the Linux to automatically set the rights to 664 or 775 in this common
> directory (and only in this)?
This is normally done by setting the umask to 002 instead of 022 for all
users (in /etc/profile), and creating a separate primary group for eve
Walter Dnes wrote:
> The
> most recent change on my system was the upgrade to gcc 4.1.1, and the
> accompanying rebuild of system and world, a few days ago.
It's due to the baselayout update. There's a typo in /etc/conf.d/rc that
was fixed a few days ago. Change the following line:
RC_DMESG_LOG
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:21:34 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>
>>> # emerge kisofs
>> I'd guess this is a little typo: should be mkisofs.
>
> It is, aybe y '' key has stopped working :)
:-)))
And I almost went to have a look at this new KDE application "kisofs"
for burning
David Grant wrote:
> I did and I totally screwed up my system. I managed to fix it eventually
> by booting to a live CD and untaring the quickpkg I made into the /
> directory.
Yes, I saw your posts on bug 125868 [1].
> ... and secondly, don't
> do it until you get some responses back from others
Has anybody tried updating glibc to the latest stable 2.4-r3, but
without also updating gcc to 4.1.1? Any problems?
>From the ebuild, >=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4 should be supported.
I'd like to do the updates separately if possible.
Thanks.
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Sven Köhler wrote:
> First thing that i see is:
> where the hell is /dev/sda1? Yes, there should be a FAT partition on
> that xD card, but it's not there.
>
> So first step:
> Re-create a primary FAT partition without formatting it (for example use
> cfdisk)
This is worth a try. However, I would
Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:17, Remy Blank wrote:
>> I couldn't find an
>> english locale that displays the date as dd.mm. (though I
>> didn't look for all too long).
>
> $ date
> Tue Sep 5 14:02:19 BST 2006
> $ echo $LC_T
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Pupeno wrote:
>> Is there some international locale
>
> Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. :)
Not quite. I would like to have my computer completely in english, but I
hate the mm/dd/yy date format of en_US (and IIRC en_GB as well), so I
have to set LC_TIME to
Dan Johansson wrote:
> Everything works
> fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the following
> error:
> Starting up RAID devices (mdadm)
> mdadm: No arrays found in config file
(snip)
> Any ideas why mdadm (mdadm -As) can not find my arrays at boot time.
Actually, your a
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I've just installed thunderbird to take a look at ebay's rss feeds.
> When adding an feed it always hangs while validating the feed.
> I found some forum postings saying that this issue had been fixed
> w/ 1.5.0.1, but I've installed 1.5.0.5.
>
> Can anyone help ?
I'm afr
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> I am changing development from window to linux now, it took a long
> time but I finally convince my boss to change, what I was holpping to
> know is if there is any nice development IDE for linux like MS visual
> studio. I had heard about anjuta, there is something else
Randy Barlow wrote:
> Something funny that happened on my laptop with this was that somehow
> net.eth0 (wired network) tries to start at the boot run level every time
> and will just sit and wait for an IP. This never happened before I
> upgraded, and doesn't happen on my other machine. It's
Willie Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:43:15PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman
> squawked:
>> I've noticed that the whereis(1) command gives multiple results for
>> some queries.
My guess is that it's (partly) due to the following definitions in
/etc/man.conf:
MANPATH /usr/share/man
Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Well you almost got it right. The clamp is just a basic transformer
> being the secondary winding. Since AC current flow changes both in
> amplitude and direction, induces a current flow in the secondary
> winding, "the clamp". The current is then rectified and the measurement
Iain Buchanan wrote:
> um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord,
> because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in
> opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only
> the active going through the clamp...
Or only the neutra
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> thanks for the tip to "dispatch-conf". Again learned something new :)
> This is what I was just looking for.
I keep my /etc as a Subversion working directory. With an additional
script, file ownership and permissions are stored in an SVN property.
That way, I can always see
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> If you've done so and it still doesn't work,
> try grepping through ~/.kde for XF86AudioStop and such: maybe they
> are doubly defined somewhere.
Did that, but could only find one definition for each. Setting the
symlinks you suggested in your previous message didn't
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Meanwhile I've figured out
> how to create actions such as "Mute" and "Volume Up" and assign
> them shortcuts.
I didn't have to do anything to get those working, except make sure kmix
is loaded on login. It seems that it automatically interpreted the
volume controls co
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Remy Blank wrote:
>> I had slightly changed the "inspiron" xkb mapping so that they
>> generated the right events (XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop,
>> XF86AudioPrev, XF86AudioNext). Then, I defined a few keyboard
>> shortcuts in t
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:16, Jonathan Chocron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> - If I first emerge a package, for example kmail, with emerge kmail, and
>> later, during an upgrade phase, do an emerge --oneshot kmail, will kmail
>> be removed from world ?
>
> That's one fo
Daniel wrote:
> I have no idea where to go from here. Any suggestions?
You can emerge it with:
FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge xorg-x11
But it is probably a bug. You should check on bugs.gentoo.org if it is
already reported, and file a new bug if not.
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Arnau Bria wrote:
> I solved it adding next at top of rules:
>
> -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -p udp -j ACCEPT
While the first line is mostly harmless (well, even that's not really
true, but let's keep it simple), the second line opens your firewall to
*all* incoming UDP packets,
Stephen wrote:
> Some stats, not sure if they will help:
>CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
>CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
>CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
>MAKEOPTS="-j3"
>FEATURES="distccd"
Not the solution to your problem, but if you want to use distcc, your
FEATURES should be "distcc" and no
Martin Larsson wrote:
> Remy Blank wrote:
>> has the following permissions:
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 3244 mai 20 08:49 gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>> So you might just want to try and chmod it to 664.
>
> Trying that gave me:
> (null): file ../../pango-1.4.1/pango
Martin Larsson wrote:
> But attempting to run it as myself, I get:
> (vmware:7809): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module
> file
> '/opt/vmware/workstation/lib/libconf/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
>
> I've added myselft to the vmware-group, but gdk-pixbuf.loaders is:
> # l
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm missing libdb so Apache won't run.
>
> emerge sys-libs/db
>
> failed due to missing the java compiler, javac.
Add the following line to /etc/portage/package.use
sys-libs/db -java
This will disable the java USE flag for sys-libs/db, and will avoid
requiring java
Richard Fish wrote:
> Just two more tipsfor 1920x1200 resolution, you will need to add:
>
> svga.maxWidth = 1920
>
> to the .vmx file for your virtual machine. Otherwise it maxes out at
> 1600x1200.
>
> Also I recommend using the Gentoo ebuild, rather than downloading
> directly from vmware
Richard Fish wrote:
> But yes, I run 1920x1200 on my laptop, and VMWare is easily capable of
> that resolution. It also runs quite fast at least for 2d operations.
> VMWare installs a custom, accelerated graphics driver for windows
> guests, and I am estimating it makes the graphics run at maybe 5
Richard Fish wrote:
> But the CPU is mostly native. (...)
> This is what makes VMWare so much faster
> than something that actually does emulate a processor like qemu.
Just a quick note: using kqemu-1.3-pre5, qemu also executes both user
and kernel code natively, and should therefore achieve about
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> My text color is black, as my background is white, which is, BTW,
> the best to read for the majority of people (if you're not handicapped,
> that is). That's so, because the contrast between the text and the
> background cannot be higher than with black on white (or white
Richard Fish wrote:
> I use konsole, for no other reason than it is the default in my
> favorite DE. My configuration is pretty minimalistic, no tab or menu
> bars.
Same here. I use no special terminal features at all, except the
scrollback, which is pretty standard everywhere.
I sometimes use s
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006 08:47:00 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
>>You must be root to mount
>
> If you specify both the device and the mount point, mount will use those
> instead of fstab, so you need to be route. if you only specify one (...)
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:31:52 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
>>sync2cd
>>
>>It's in portage, but the latest version 0.9 is in ~ARCH.
>>
>>And it does store the permission and ownership information along with
>>the files.
>
> T
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:32:45 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>> Is there any backup tool, which simply copies the contents of one
>> partition, which is larger than one DVD, to DVDs "as plain as
>> possible" -- means copies the contents that way, that I simply can
apix kernel wrote:
> how does "it" knows how big is the line in order to print the DONE
> part just before the end of line.
There are two ways I know of:
- If you use bash (I don't know about other shells), look at the
COLUMNS environment variable:
echo $COLUMNS
- Use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl
JimD wrote:
> Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/?
> My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little
> compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed.
sync2cd
Doesn't do compression, but stores your files as-is, spanning multiple
DVDs. W
Paul Stear wrote:
> I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs
I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks.
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Bo Andresen wrote:
> My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines
> the escape sequences. Guessing by testing with xterm isn't really a optimal
> way to find out...
man console_codes
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Chris Bare wrote:
> I just upgraded to BIND 9.3.2 and now when I try:
>
> /etc/init.d/named start
>
> it says:
>
> * WARNING: "named" has already been started.
Kill all named processes:
killall named
Tell the init script that you have done so:
/etc/init.d/named zap
Start named:
/et
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> [ebuild N] app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8 -X -cjk +cups
> -emacs +gtk 2 kB
That's the reason.
> PS my USE flags are:
> USE="logrotate -X -gnome -motif -kde -qt -png"
Add -gtk to your USE flags.
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Marco Calviani wrote:
>i would like dhcpcd to leave logs in /var/log/dhcpcd.log
>
> How is it possible to implement this, noting that i'm using syslog-ng?
You could try the following in my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
(assuming your log source is called "src"):
destination dhcpd { file("/va
Stuart Howard wrote:
> OK well I give up
I did, too...
> Transfer 39Mb file from
> gentoo -> XP share using winXP copy trans time >=5 mins [gentoo smb
> directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted]
I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting
observation. If I
> I had the display corruption on logout also (happened when I try to
> switch to a console or restart xdm too). After going back and forward
> through many version of ati-drivers, it mysteriously disappeared! I
> have been playing around with a lot of kernels and ati-driver versions
> to try and
Has anybody had any luck with x11-drivers/ati-drivers and the latest
stable kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1?
I have been using the latest stable ati-drivers (8.14.13-r3) with
gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 for a few months and it has been absolutely
stable. Now a hal update seems to need at least 2.6.1
Daevid Vincent wrote:
> vmware ~ # revdep-rebuild --help
> Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS]
(snip)
> I've tried it this way:
> revdep-rebuild -Xav
> revdep-rebuild -av --package-names
> revdep-rebuild -av -X --package-names
I'm not quite sure, but
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>For me, it has always been as easy as adding "-user-net" (or since 0.8,
>>"-net user") to the qemu command line, and enabling dhcp in the client OS.
>
> I wonder why I don
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The
> big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running
> in the guest OS.
>
> Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe
> even a step-by-step guide :) ?
For me, it has always been as easy as
Holly Bostick wrote:
> 2. emerge gtk-engines-qt, which will allow you to tell GTK apps-- via
> the KDE control center-- to use a KDE theme and font.
That was a really cool tip. Thanks Holly!
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Miguel wrote:
> Hi, im tunnig a postgresql server and i want to know what is the default
> value for
>
> kernel's PAGE_SIZE
>
> Is this a gentoo especific value or aplies to linux kernels in general,
> i mean, any distribution?
This is a processor-specific value, and on x86 it's 4096 bytes. It's
Holly Bostick wrote:
> And the drivers build and install fine... then this:
>
> |>>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance...
>
> ==>--- cfgpro obj /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video/fglrx.ko
> ==>--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-gentoo-r4/video
> ==>--- cfgpro dir /lib/modules/2.6.13-ge
Kevin Philp wrote:
> /etc/init.d/mysql start - says mysql has already started but it hasn't
> (ps aux | grep -i my* shows nothing)
If you are sure mysql isn't started, try:
/etc/init.d/mysql zap
Then start it again:
/etc/init.d/mysql start
BTW, this is not mysql-specific. If a service crashes
Remy Blank wrote:
> Well, I don't like to shout victory too early, but I have had no crash
> for the last three days, even with dbus and hald running.
Ok, I was a bit too fast on that one. The frequency of the lock-ups
seems to have lowered, but they still happen. And always righ
I have been struggling for a few months with hard lock-ups when using
laptop-mode. Every 3-4 days, my laptop would freeze during the night,
with no message in the syslog, and for no apparent reason. The hard disk
activity light would always be on in the morning, which somehow made me
thing that it
Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> I am getting quite frustrated over such a simple thing. Now, I have three USB
> storage devices: a USB flash disk, a mobile phone and a camera. I want those
> to automount with my users permissions. They now mounts under /media/usbdisk
> with root permissions. Where on
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:43:34 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
>
>
>>On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound
>>were updated, so I was asked to run etc-update, I accepted the update,
>>and that was it.
>>
>>On
I thought I knew how configuration files in /etc were updated by portage
until I updated alsa-utils this evening on two computers. Both had 1.0.8
installed, and I updated both to 1.0.9a with:
emerge -uDpv alsa-utils
On the first one, both /etc/init.d/alsasound and /etc/conf.d/alsasound
were updat
Mark Knecht wrote:
>Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had
> financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive
> before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written
> new partitions on which are different sizes and different file
> systems.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I'm sure I've seen this mentioned before, but can't find it. I need a way
> to find the current Gentoo runlevel (not the numeric one) in a script. I
> can check the level booted by grepping /proc/cmdline, but that fails if
> the runlevel was subsequently changed with rc.
# c
David Morgan wrote:
> emerge wtf
> wtf sol
Thanks for the tip!
Typically *nix: small program, does only one thing but does it well.
I like the man page.
-- Remy
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Bob Sanders wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 08:46:43 +0200
> Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers.
>>
>
> I doubt that. Maybe at 16x9 - 1600 x 900, but not 1600 x 1024. Or perahps
> Dell paid ATI to support that one
Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> It's Thunderbird, for one...
>
> Add this to user.js (create it if it doesn't exist)
> //mozilla thunderbird: check all imap folders for new mail.
> user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);
I have that in my user.js, with a comment saying that this only ap
Nagatoro wrote:
> Remy Blank wrote:
>
>>This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes
>>misses new messages in subfolders, and only finds them when you click on it.
>>
>>I'm not sure if this is a Thunderbird or a courier-imap pr
Ron Nelson wrote:
> Go in to the properties for each folder you want it to show new messages
> in, under General Information click the box that says: Check this folder
> for new messages.
> That should take care of it.
This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes
misses n
Holly Bostick wrote:
> But this whole episode has at least gotten me to finally upload my own
> key, so I've (hopefully) signed this message.
>
> Can you all get the key (since I know the list doesn't have it, it's a
> good test as to whether I've done it right)?
Yep, works here.
-- Remy
Rem
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 6/9/05, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Alternatively, you could setup syslog-ng to send the logs to another
>>machine.
>
>I don't know about this. I seem to have gone backwards:
>
> 1) If I turn off syslog-ng then it
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:07:58 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
>>>What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5.
>>
>>It seems to be the value configured in /etc/laptop_mode/
>>laptop_mode.conf:
>
>
> I have no su
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:10:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>>myth11 root # cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
>>>2
>>
>>Mine says 0 (cause I'm on AC right now)
>>
>>on Battery it changes to 2
>
>
> What do the numbers mean? On my iBook it switches between 0 and 5.
It seems to be
Mark Knecht wrote:
>I got back to looking at this item this evening. dmesg is now full of this:
>
> pdflush(185): WRITE block 14947712 on hda3
> syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3
> syslog-ng(5341): dirtied inode 936889 (messages) on hda3
> kjournald(869): WRITE block 1
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