Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC. It only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel in a trial run. :-) However, I'm now trying to get X up and running. The X Server Configuration HOWTO,

[gentoo-user] glibc+ipv6 loopback resolving issues

Hi, I'm having some issues wih resolving of the loopback ip address with glibc's gethostbyaddr() / getnameinfo(). I have a setup with the following (abbreviated) /etc/hosts file: ==8 ::1 ip6-localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost ==8 When using gethostbyaddr() or

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. Nevertheless, it isn't the latest version. To get that you need an entry in