Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies for media-libs/phonon-vlc

2014-11-25 Thread Walter Dnes
how to do it in package.use... media-libs/phonon-vlc -debug qt4 You had "-qt4" which says to disable qt4 support. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-16 Thread Walter Dnes
ution for syslog-ng is to add an "openrc" USE flag. Build in support for whichever flag is set. When experimenting, people might want to set both "openrc" and "systemd" USE flags for syslog-ng. If systemd users have to set the "systemd" flag for some ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-15 Thread Walter Dnes
gt; systemd support should not implicitly disable it under openrc. I disagree. He's telling the build that it's running under systemd, but there is no systemd running. That's a problem with them pesky computers... they do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
t Note that multiple other compression options are possible. If the above line doesn't work, try... ls /proc/config.* ..and see if you have anthing similar. E.g. for config.bz2 use bzcat, etc, etc. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:18:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > What worries me is that Lennart has been able to get modifications > > done to the kernel, e.g. kdbus. I know this'll sound paranoid, but how &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Walter Dnes
ystemd to run the linux kernel? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
hm/makelog.txt 2>&1 -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications makelog.txt.gz Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
m This way, I'll always be invoking the latest version. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-04 Thread Walter Dnes
ber root. I ran "make". I got the familiar gcc screens of text output. But there's nothing installed in ~/.local. Should there be a "make install" command somewhere? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cookie_monster

2014-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:37:06PM -0500, »Q« wrote > On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:32:02 + (UTC) > James wrote: > > > Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > > > > You also mentioned "flash cookies" in passing. They're a totally > > > diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] cookie_monster

2014-10-29 Thread Walter Dnes
al, and then immediately click on the video link in my browser. This gets the videos going, and keeps them going until they finish. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

2014-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
> Failed to get a SDP description from URL Some bad news... you just published the entire URL, including the full IPV4 address. Take it offline *NOW*. Possibly some good news... you say that you can't access it remotely. Does your ISP block servers on your account? That may save you.

Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

2014-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
* is the remote machine's firewall blocking the camera's IP address ? * is the camera set to only stream to a specific IP address (range) ? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

2014-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
re the CPU-specific stuff. Can I assume that you're actually "streaming" from both computers? Or are you playing back a recorded file locally, as opposed to streaming live from the remote? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

2014-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
has a lot of flags to pick and choose from. This includes some CPU-specific flags. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] screen / tmux wierdness

2014-10-05 Thread Walter Dnes
override /etc/screenrc. If you don't have ~/.screenrc, screen will default to /etc/screenrc. If you want an instance of screen to start with a nonstandard config file location, use.. screen -c The setting to change, in whichever file you use, is... # # Set C-a as command prefix escape ^A

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:45:44PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote > > > > > > Grasping at straws now. What are your CFLAGS and full USE flags? I >

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
gs? I suggest running the command... emerge --info | grep "^\(CFLAGS\|USE\)" This captures default USE flags that aren't explicitly listed in your make.conf. Out of sheer curiusity, what sizes do you get if you use "-O2"? I believe that turns off loop-unrolling.

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Walter Dnes
a flag I have that you don't have. See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36695 for a short discussion ".eh_frame bloat issue - solution found". The busybox people go to extreme lengths to keep the size of busybox to a minimum, so you can't go wrong by following th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread Walter Dnes
s predicatbly "eth0". Now, it's different on every different model. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] [Security] Update bash *NOW*

2014-09-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:54:10PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote > On 25/09/2014 02:58, Walter Dnes wrote: > > [snip] > > > ...with malicious stuff, and it could get ugly. app-shells/bash-4.2_p48 > > has been pushed to Gentoo stable. The same "env" command resu

[gentoo-user] [Security] Update bash *NOW*

2014-09-24 Thread Walter Dnes
p-shells/bash-4.2_p48 has been pushed to Gentoo stable. The same "env" command results in... bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa: missing default device

2014-09-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:22:12PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 05:49:10PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > > > > > * I toggled those settings and rebuilt, but the result is still

Re: [gentoo-user] "stack-protector-strong" option results in gcc error

2014-09-23 Thread Walter Dnes
e. Upgrading gcc is painful, so I appreciate the maintainers not forcing a rebuild with every version bump. That's the philosophy behind "stable". The tradeoff is that we have to wait longer for "new and shiney" stuff. For those who want it, you can always keyword a l

[gentoo-user] "stack-protector-strong" option results in gcc error

2014-09-22 Thread Walter Dnes
~] uname -a Linux d531 3.14.16-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Sep 22 20:43:33 EDT 2014 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa: missing default device

2014-09-22 Thread Walter Dnes
mand... cat /proc/asound/cards ...on your PC? On my system, it's... [d531][waltdnes][~] cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xfdff4000 irq 44 -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa: missing default device

2014-09-20 Thread Walter Dnes
[ ] Build Creative CA0132 codec support |[ ] Build C-Media HD-audio codec support |[ ] Build Silicon Labs 3054 HD-modem codec support | -*- Enable generic HD-audio codec parser |(0) Default time-out for HD-audio power-save mode I haven't bothered with HDMI on this machine. Does yours look similar? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
u Then the USB key shows up as an option in the boot-order menu... complete with manufacturer name and model of the USB key. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:33:56PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:59:21 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I still get... > > > > [thimk][root][/usr/src/linux] (grep -q 'CONFIG_MODULES is not set' > > .config || make modules_install) &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 09:43:27AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:52 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > AFAICT the only time depmod runs is during the "modules_install" > > > phase. Do you do "make modules_install" when buildin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-15 Thread Walter Dnes
ed repositories: * gentoo: 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2 3.3 2.5-jython 2.7-jython 2.7-pypy-1.7 2.7-pypy-1.8 2.7-pypy-1.9 2.7-pypy-2.0 * No packages need to be reinstalled. > What is your "ll" command? I have it aliased to run 'ls -laF|less' but > yours is obviously something else. alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -al' -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:31:47AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:24:35 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I still have the problem. Is there a way to manually run depmod? > > depmod -a 3.x.y [thimk][root][/usr/src/linux] depmod -a 3.14.14 depmod: QM_MOD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:58:44PM -0700, walt wrote > On 08/13/2014 03:51 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Going from 3.12.13 to 3.14.14 using "make old config" and then the > > standard build (64 bit). At the DEPMOD stage near the very end I get... > > > >

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-13 Thread Walter Dnes
cross-compiling here 2) out of disk space; nope, I've checked and have plenty of space 3) out of memory; on a Lenovo Thinkpad with 6 gigs of RAM? And yes, /usr/src/linux-3.14.14-gentoo/scripts/depmod.sh line 57 is... "$DEPMOD" "$@" "$KERNELRELEASE" $SYMBOL_PREFIX -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Walter Dnes
compress them again. It provides zero benefit and creates extra work. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread Walter Dnes
; Jeez Neil. If you can remember two things at the same time, you may > have me beat. < scratches head > Now where did that mouse go? > > Dale They say that memory is the second thing to go. I forget what the first is. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Walter Dnes
n, but I believe that regular users need to be members of group "plugdev" to be able to access and unmount the USB drive. Because this is done independantly of the GUI, I don't think it'll set up an icon automatically. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:07:52AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > On Sunday 03 August 2014 00:38:34 Philip Webb wrote: > > 140802 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > In Gentoo, *ANY* kde app which runs on the kde infrastructure requires > > > phonon, and one of aqua/gstreamer/vlc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 06:57:17PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On 01/08/2014 05:16, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > >> how much do you have to install if you deactivate all use flags for > >> okula

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread Walter Dnes
gstreamer and its gazillion plugins. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Walter Dnes
ktop environment doesn't provide me that much extra functionality. I suppose some of my inertia is due to starting to use ICEWM and *BOX back when I had a Dell with 256 megabytes of RAM and an 8-megabyte ATI video card. That machine lasted for 7 years or so. My current one is over 6 years old. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Walter Dnes
-base/libkexiv2-4.12.5:4/4.12 [ebuild N ] kde-base/okular-4.12.5-r1:4/4.12 Total: 35 packages (34 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 309,990 kB -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Walter Dnes
s will have additional cpu-specific flags, and AMD cpus will have their own unique additional flags. Your set of flags may be different, depending on what applications you use, and what you want to do with the machine. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Walter Dnes
-0.html Can you post the contents of your /etc/conf.d/net and also the output of the "rc-update show" command? That should help narrow down the potential sources of your problem. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] acroread woes

2014-07-25 Thread Walter Dnes
ea of text, hold down the right mouse button whilst dragging the mouse pointer. The selected area is automatically copied to your clipboard. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
s mounting as a *local* > and *normal* user. > Then you don't need the mtpfs command, any group, any custom udev rules, ... Pulling in gnome-base/gvfs and media-libs/libgphoto2 isn't that big an issue. The question is... will I be able to mount from a straight text console, especia

Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
hat'll have to wait until after I get back from a trip next month. I want the tablet working properly when I go on the trip. The camera is actually quite good for a tablet. When I get back, I'll get the tablet rooted, and maybe go to CyanogenMod. "Nuke and re-pave". -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
mount: entry for /home/waltdnes/tablet not found in /etc/mtab I had to unmount as root... [d531][root][~] fusermount -u /home/waltdnes/tablet I experienced similar problems with simple-mtpfs, so that's not a solution either. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

2014-07-24 Thread Walter Dnes
-u /home/waltdnes/tablet I experienced similar problems with simple-mtpfs, so that's not a solution either. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-27 Thread Walter Dnes
pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" 2) Check your USE flags (in both make.conf and package.use). I have an older Dell with an Intel. I have "mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" USE flags. AMD cpus benefit from "

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Walter Dnes
works, you can delete a file, but any app that has it open will continue to see it, even though no other apps can. As soon as the last filehandle to the file is closed, its space is finally released. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-22 Thread Walter Dnes
27;re on site B, using profile B, making tracking you more difficult and less reliable... one... two... three... awww. 3) If you have a whole bunch of websites open, and one of them crashes Firefox, or hangs it so you need to kill it, you don't end up taking down all your browsers. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
; analogy you started with a sub-compact and now have a ginormous SUV! > > I think that's call progress. ;-) > > The Internet has grown and technology develops to deliver all this new > functionality that lynx can't really provide. Much of Firefox+Chrome+Webkit-gtk2 i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-14 Thread Walter Dnes
ect is still alive and being developed, but it doesn't yet support Javascript, let alone plugins. It'll be a while before it's usable on most of today's web. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with performance when booted using systemd

2014-06-06 Thread Walter Dnes
to rebuild/upgrade the video driver every time you upgrade your kernel. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
root http://buildroot.net/ and http://buildroot.net/about.html It's nominally aimed at cross-compiling for embedded systems, but it looks like it handles just about everything. I'm not a developer, so I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but it sounds interest

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and amixer

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:36:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Yep, its the same, but when I tried to restore as a regular user (which > I normally don't do) it complained about the .lock file and restored to > some strange values which invol

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and amixer

2014-05-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On my system... [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /var/lib/alsa/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7749 May 28 17:32 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd Update Issue

2014-05-27 Thread Walter Dnes
mvmware" Can you check your make.conf and your package.use files? You seem to have weird "inin" suffixes and "com" prefixes in your output. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-23 Thread Walter Dnes
Recent Gnome will not work without systemd... period... end of story. If you stay away from systemd, you'll have to stay away from Gnome. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-20 Thread Walter Dnes
ould would work on my notebook (640 * 2 = 1280) and on my 24" desktop monitor (640 * 3 = 1920). -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Walter Dnes
the regular fonts to double their width? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-17 Thread Walter Dnes
partition style. The concept of "Logical Volume Management" is also useful for an encryption/decryption layer on top of an encrypted USB key. lvm2 is a mandatory dependancy for cryptsetup. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency problem - how to decipher this one

2014-05-14 Thread Walter Dnes
2, or abi_mips_n32, or abi_mips_n64, or abi_mips_o32. I.e. if you're running on AMD or Intel, add the line... dev-libs/atk -abi_x86_32 -abi_x86_64 -abi_x86_x32 ...to /etc/portage/package.use In both cases (Plan A and Plan B), execute the command... emerge -1 atk ...immediately afte

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread Walter Dnes
AU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. As you've noticed, that doesn't work very well. You need to get rid of the Nvidia binary blob drivers. The options are... Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so - Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Running cryptsetup under mdev

2014-05-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:11:02AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 05:34:52 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, mdev != udev. People running RAID have problems too. > > I know it isn't. I just find it strange that LVM can't work wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
s webpage recommends *NO* loop support in the kernel. This may be important, i.e. loop-aes may provide the support, and clash with the kernel code. Time to head off to bed tonight. I'll try again in the morning. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:45:01PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 02:31:08 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm trying to set up USB-key-encryption for use with a laptop. I'm > > running mdev instead of udev on the laptop, so lvm doesn't work. >

[gentoo-user] Problems with loop-aes

2014-05-06 Thread Walter Dnes
e loop device. Here's what happens (passphrase is properly entered)... [aa1][root][~] loop-aes-losetup -F /dev/loop0 Password: ioctl: LOOP_MULTI_KEY_SETUP_V3: Invalid argument Anybody have any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote > On 04/29/2014 12:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Another couple of things I didn't realize. According to > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dm-crypt I have to build in support fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
> and the project page for the command line tool cryptsetup (with Linux > Unified Key Setup - LUKS) here: http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/. Who should be notified about this? I don't think kernel help text (except for Gentoo Sources patches) is handled by Gentoo developers. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
entries. Any comments on whether I'm better off with or without LUKS? I also intend to use ext2, because I understand that a journalling fs is murder on USB keys. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cpufrequtils can't find expected /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq

2014-04-24 Thread Walter Dnes
tive" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 800 MHz (asserted by call to hardware). -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] cpufrequtils can't find expected /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq

2014-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
abase ...so that wasn't any help. Am I missing some kernel setting? Note that I'me running mdev instead of udev. Could that be the problem? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?

2014-04-21 Thread Walter Dnes
e > it's invoked from. > > [Wanders off stage-left, muttering and scratching his head...] *AFTER YOU CHROOT* what are the contents of /proc/self/mounts and /proc/mounts ? Can you copy either of them into /etc/mtab and have the correct result? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
ther does grub-2, just legacy grub. I've installed Gentoo with lilo a lot of times over the past several years (since November 2004), and I have never had to tweak /etc/mtab. This implies one of... * either the behaviour of /etc/mtab has changed. * or grepping "mount" output i

[gentoo-user] Output of "mount" and "cat /etc/mtab" inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
stall process. I want to check whether blank /etc/mtab is my fault or not. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-19 Thread Walter Dnes
guess the root partition, and fails miserably from the chroot. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
/mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/sr0/mnt/dvdauto noauto,users,ro 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 # Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/fd0 dont exist, kernel configuration seems good

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
quot; of course. Is this an old machine with a built-in floppy drive or is this an external USB-connected floppy drive? An external USB-connected floppy will show up as /dev/sd? just like an external hard drive or a USB key. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-18 Thread Walter Dnes
est performance and one > less headache. I've been using "-march=native" for years. Is there any circumstance, other than a really old gcc, where it doesn't work? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-15 Thread Walter Dnes
worry about. That's why I didn't ask about CFLAGS. "echo | gcc -### -E - -march=native" spits out a whole bunch of diagnostic output. In my case, it includes "-march=amdfam10", so "-march=native" looks better. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-14 Thread Walter Dnes
res ---> Processor family (*) ---> ( ) Athlon/Duron/K7 ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 Which one do I go with? * I believe that "pni" == "sse3" (with *TWO* "s") Is that correct? * The cpuinfo output shows "sse4a". Is that the same as the "sse4_1&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Screen-Overlay problems after update

2014-04-14 Thread Walter Dnes
on problem with nvidia video cards using the nvidia binary blobs. I ran into it some time ago. If you don't want to get rid of the nvidia card, try the Nouveau open-source drivers. You won't get all the acceleration that the Nvidia binaries provide, but at least you probably won't get

Re: [gentoo-user] Stabilization of netifrc-0.2.2, "extra testers wanted"

2014-04-08 Thread Walter Dnes
;#!/bin/sh" and hope+pray that /bin/sh symlinks to something bash-compatable? Or if bash is too heavyweight, howsabout explicitly specifying "#!/bin/busybox ash" and making sure that scripts run properly under it? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-03-21 Thread Walter Dnes
al's ideas. E.g., if this list did that, I would use... :0 fhw * ^X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org * !^Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org | formail -i "Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org (Gentoo users)" I do this to the few lists I run into that I want/ne

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown for non-root users?

2014-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
/001 *NOTE*. Use "visudo" to edit any sudoers file. Do not edit directly with vim/nano/emacs/etc. "man visudo" for further details. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] webkit-gtk version/slot confusion

2014-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
estion... I had always thought that it was the major version number of the ebuild that determined the major version number of the package, not a weird extension attached to the end of the version number of the ebuild. What gives? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-26 Thread Walter Dnes
to build. * I remember when KDE and GNOME were zippy on machines with 64 megs of RAM. The sad part is that the GNOME desktop had more features then than it has now as it moves towards becoming GNOME-OS. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-23 Thread Walter Dnes
it to do A, and it decides to do B, I will be extremely p'd off. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-11 Thread Walter Dnes
e once a week, the first 6 syncs would be mostly wasted. Yes, your final sync would be smaller. But your machine and the server would have to go through the file-comparison process 7 times, instead of once. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:28:43AM +, Kerin Millar wrote > On 10/02/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for > > the emerge update process? > > It's the principle of least privil

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Walter Dnes
R portage:portage "$(portageq envvar PORTDIR)" > > There is no subsequent requirement not to invoke emerge --sync as root. What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for the emerge update process? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Walter Dnes
the executable be specified, as well as any options. Do not use the $* commandline parameter in the sudoers file. It probably works, but is too wide open. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:06:19PM +, James wrote > Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > > > In your bash profile (if you use bash), howsabout > > export PS1='[\h][\u][\w]' > > > Actually, I go for a fancy "technicolour prompt" &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:42:22AM +, Martin Vaeth wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > USE="-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}" > > > > If you want to look at it that way, what I've > > really done is to replace the default USE flag set with my own defaults >

Re: [gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
033[00m\]][\[\033[01;34m\]\u\[\033[00m\]][\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]] ' Either way, the host name shows up at the beginning of the prompt. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
ge that badly. If you want to look at it that way, what I've really done is to replace the default USE flag set with my own defaults, which are more appropriate for my machine and my usage. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make connection attempts in Git timeout sooner?

2014-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
e only thing you can do is use the "timeout" command to launch git as a subcommand, e.g. timeout 1m git fetch The downside of this approach is that if the git server is feeding data very slowly, your git client gets killed after the time limit, even if it's 90% of the way throu

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

2014-01-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 02:29:51PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > Yes, I know that's bad grammar and a preposition is something you should > never end a sentence with. That is a rule up with which I will not put. (Sir Winston Churchill) -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop

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