Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 17:00:41 Albert Hopkins wrote: .. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: good thing that apic has nothing to do with memory at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 30 April 2011 14:57:27 Albert Hopkins wrote: Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D dead man walking :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore

2011-04-30 Thread Thanasis
on 04/30/2011 09:57 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D ...all except spam ...

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:53:26 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is the usb support the main difference between the bin versus non-bin packages? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember. I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull in any KDE libs save one, which has kde-meta in the world file. Not even my mythtv box, which

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP And all of these machines are using the kde profile? Of course not.  Why would you put a server (or anything else) in the kde profile unless you wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstalling older Packages

2011-06-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package Sigh. 2011 and *still* using CVS?!

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 20 at 20:39 (+1000), Adam Carter said: I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode? Yes, when run as sh in POSIX mode (i.e. if it were called as bash --posix).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: The stage4 (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed QCOW is about 120MB) The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you need to convert it to raw before you can import it.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-27 Thread James Wall
Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said: 2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image. If you let me know what controller virtualbox natively uses I can add that to the kernel config.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every 5 minutes: INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry in /etc/inittab. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread James Wall
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer

2011-07-05 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tuesday, July 5 at 11:27 (-0400), cov...@ccs.covici.com said: I tried to use kms, but it conflicted with the nvidia driver and did not give me as much screen size in the console as uvesafb. Yeah, you can't use the nvidia driver and KMS at the same time. You'd have to use the nouveau

Re: [gentoo-user] Lexmark X5650 working in Gentoo Linux?

2011-07-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, July 7 at 21:18 (-0600), Carlos Sura said: I was thinking if there was any chance if anyone of you have this printer installed to tell me how to get it work for me... Or a howto, tutorial, manual? According to openprinting.org, it's a paperweight.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 9 at 08:39 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said: Fair enough, except this thread is about encfs not working :( Unfortunately. But that's not to say encfs doesn't work. When I have a problem with a bash script, I don't just up and switch to zsh :P (although I hear people do such

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu command line manager (rc scripts)

2011-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: Hi, I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer boots. Is there any such project? libvirt (can also manage Xen): http://libvirt.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] best cflags and cpu for gentoo qemu virtual machine

2011-07-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 16 at 16:54 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said: The mother machine will be Core I7 4 cores. What cpu and CFLAGS should I use to get the best performance out of this vm? A router is not going to be CPU-bound. Should matter little either way.

Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-25 Thread Adam Carter
have booted successfully from the sdb. Thanks Neil and Albert!

Re: [gentoo-user] IRC active time?

2011-07-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wednesday, July 27 at 08:07 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active? #gentoo is a 24-hour channel. In UTC, if possible :) (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) It really doesn't matter.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage. Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. :-) -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-09 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Friday, September 9 at 13:53 (+0200), Moritz Schlarb said: I don't think so! NetworkManager generates a configuration file on the fly for wpa_supplicant, so you still need it, you just don't need to configure it anywhere else than NetworkManager! Well, not entirely through an on-the-fly

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync failed

2011-10-23 Thread Hartmut Figge
Albert W. Hopkins: You should be able to delete /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2011 (or edit the file and fix it... it's pretty straighforward) and continue from there. Done the edit. Works. Thanks. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] booting fails, something with openrc?

2011-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.11.2011 15:48, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: So a couple of people I've heard of so far have an issue with the parallel setting and the latest openrc. You should report a bug if there isn't one already. Might be that one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391945 Didn't browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-27 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:53 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: Need login details. There are none. When you first log in (as root) you are forced to set a password.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.

2011-11-30 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: (2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect. AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I checked[1]. Anyway you might want to try the classic. Works for me. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 07:23 +0100, András Csányi wrote: Dear Stefan, Nowadays I'm using it just at home for private. I would be so happy if it would be a gentoo my workspace! :) I use Gentoo at home and at work, and am running GNOME3 at both locations. No problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo penguins

2020-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
y; and I'm not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) pgpBteNfby4WV.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 on a 64bit system?

2021-02-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
e and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." (Albert Einstein) pgptUdAvAAOZj.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 15:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: [..] Also you should disable locking on distfiles if you use it over NFS: FEATURES=-distlocks. -a Why would I need to disable locking

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:30 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] now I have another issue, because my microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
. 5. Install GRUB on the MBR. Worked for me. YMMV. I could have also removed the utility partition to get more space, since I do have a backup. But I left it on there as I don't really need the space. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
is that partimage appears to be a smarter/faster/slightly-easier alternative to ntfsclone and/or dd. And gparted is of course easier to work with than working w/ fdisk/ntfsresize directly. HTH -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ( was : Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

2007-07-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
. Anyway I still hold that oldconfig is the safe bet. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I kill a daemon from an ebuild file?

2007-07-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
in ways like starting/killing processes. A simple ELOG message is the preferred method. Nevertheless, the -dev list is probably the better forum to answer your question. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?

2007-09-12 Thread Steve L.
, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread James Colby
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:37:48PM -0500, Whitt Madden wrote: I will second Albert's message. I didn't unmerge Beryl, and unlike Albert I did have some issues. On 9/13/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote: All - Does

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with Xorg 7.2 and i810

2007-09-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
to be running fine. Granted, I haven't updated fusion in a few days (and now I'm afraid to :-). Could it be your config? Did you re-emerge all your drivers and protocols after you upgraded xorg-server? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 9/26/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:31 +0200, Pol wrote: I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my laptop I am living in northern italy Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo user should do

Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

2007-09-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:31:58 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes (during the boot phase)? I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
and community. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weatherbug for linux

2007-10-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
domination LOL. ** Estimate. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new box

2007-10-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
). But as always YMMV. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
the old behavior back or any workaround to achieve the same goal - all users should be limited by default at creation time. Oh do they do that now? That was that nasty Red Hat extension. Nevertheless, override the default behavior: # useradd -m -g users xyz -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that the behaviour of useradd -m xyz has changed from putting the newuser in group users (xyz:users) to putting the user in a group with same name (xyz:xyz) I would appreciate any advice on getting the old

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:45:49 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that the behaviour of useradd -m xyz has changed from putting the newuser in group users (xyz:users) to putting the user in a group with same name (xyz:xyz) I would appreciate any advice on getting the old

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, ppl I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple

Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject

2007-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
-2.14, thus the block. Blindly changing the USE flag may or may not solve the block and could possibly create even more issues for you. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition

2007-11-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
hope for you (beyond re-installing). Likely mkswap has destroyed your filesystem metadata (and data) and There's probably no sane way of recovering from it other than a restore. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange beeps from windows

2007-11-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
simply by going to Preferences/Sounds/Method and selecting No Sounds. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:33 -0600, Joseph wrote: How did you transfer bootable CD into a stick? The short answer is who says it has to be a bootable CD image?. There are plenty of USB-based linux images out there... just use one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashes

2008-10-23 Thread Simon
Good try Albert, however I already had version 2.22.2 (which is how to solve the issue)... Thanks, Simon Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48:47AM -0400, Simon wrote: Hi, recently (dunno why or when exactly) firefox has started crashing when loading certain pages. Two

Re: [gentoo-user] ENCfs and unclean umount

2008-12-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Albert, that's goiod news !!! :) I thought it was vice versa... This makes things a lot easier for me! Kind regards mcc Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08-12-08 05:58]: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 05:32 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since my box goes in heavy overload (sys CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] QMAIL WERD PROBLEMS

2007-03-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
;). All those points (except the last, unfortunately) can pretty much be applied to any piece of software I use (bash, python, vim, Gentoo...) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after DST change

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
). The timezone data is in the timezone-data package (not surprisingly). My understanding is that if you live in the United States and have any version released after 2005 you should be okay, but you can always see what your time zone data looks like with the zdump(8) command. -- Albert W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...

2007-03-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
package maintainers thought was worthy of interrupting my build. Builds should only be interrupted if they cannot continue. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] profile upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1

2007-03-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
understanding that it is ok. As always YMMV. You may want to check bugzilla. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags for tif/tiff

2007-03-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
be that the program that generated them uses a non-standard/incompatible format. It's hard to say without an actual error message. I've found ImageMagick's identify(1) command to be very helpful with determining if a file is indeed the format the creator claims it to be. -- Albert W. Hopkins

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.

2007-03-24 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:59 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: How about your bank ? ; ) Agreed. My (major U.S.) bank's web site works fine in Epiphany. In fact as late as 2003 I went to a (physical) branch and I was surprised to find that they still used Netscape

Re: [gentoo-user] Complaint about nano postinst message

2007-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
as much help as he can get. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] aRTs is driving me nuts!

2007-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
on a noatun. The IS 250, BTW, offers AWD as an option. Don't u wish you could USE=awd emerge =cars-lexus/is_250-2007 ;-) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:09, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-01 Thread Galevsky
Just my two cents: don't forget to use temporary email boxes like yopmail.com, these boxes can be very helpful for the kind of tests you may run. Gal' 2007/6/1, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: testing if apache works is easy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE

2007-06-10 Thread rebus_rdk
... :( On 6/10/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 14:28 +, b.n. wrote: By the way: I am looking for a good, general Python IDE on Linux. Most people advice Eclipse+PyDev. I tried it and it looks good, but it's damn too memory intensive (I need to use

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm without initrd

2007-06-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
on LVM though YMMV. Refer to the FHS for what should be contained in the root fs. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel does not boot up on remote host

2007-07-05 Thread Galevsky
=gentoo-sources-2.6.20 running kernel. So, errors cannot come from drivers or such things, but specific xen options. Does anyone know any xen option able to prevent the kernel to boot up ? Many thanks for your support, Gal' 2007/7/4, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 21:54

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb. FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Machine Cleanup

2007-07-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
flags. Depending on your requirements, it may save time just to re-install. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

2007-07-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
/she specify what is meant by major version since, historically: 2.6.22 ^ ^ ^ | | +--- Revision | +- Minor version +--- Major version And therefore .20 - .21 would not be considered a major version change by most accounts. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem

2009-08-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 12:08 -0700, Andrey Falko wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:13 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote You may not have do that. All 3 of my systems with Intel graphics run KMS with X with no xorg.conf at all. But since you're running stable YMMV

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's a laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine. So this evidence also leads me to believe that something happened hardware-wise, though I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [UPDATE]

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 07:01 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: In case anyone is listening, I did plug in an external keyboard (it's a laptop) and the extra keys on the external seem to work fine.  So this evidence also

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:17 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: This is a weird script. It's a ruby script that creates a web server, but the web server listens for... It runs a python script that uses python-xlib to listen for key presses, and when a key is pressed it uses curl to open

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-08-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 04:39 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:34:25PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: The OP was over 3 months ago. I think a lack of response speaks volumes compared to responding so late. It was a thread that was DOA. Why did you decide to dig

Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!

2010-08-24 Thread James
Albert, Thanks for the response. dd for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer put on the drive. The disk isn't bad -- if it was then I wouldn't have the ability to recover the files via foremost / scalpel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's either something he would have to deal with when he

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:52 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk. I've been told by someone that it works with vmware (not sure what version). This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and the latest portage snapshot. http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do portage

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, July 31 at 12:08 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said: On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote: Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem. He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage. Or perhaps I'm just not understanding

Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-26 Thread Vishnupradeep
Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ? Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/ Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/ My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/ On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.orgwrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade of xorg-server

2008-01-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 17:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 'new version' means 1.4. And yes, 1.4 has some annoying bugs - like the leds of the keyboard not working anymore. Strange, updating the 1.4 caused my keyboard leds to START working ! Same here. My LEDs indicators were wrong prior to

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Galevsky
Tank you. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver. since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs? The nv driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found

2008-03-27 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's a damn good reason why rhythmbox does does depend on -meta. That will never happen, so you should get over it. The GNOME 2.22 versions of Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer depend on gst-plugins-meta. So you should get over it. --a

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread b.n.
Albert Hopkins ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote: where could I look to understand what's different between the two systems? The DVD drive? :) I thought about that. However I wanted to be sure that I don't miss something at the software level, before accepting

Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble

2008-04-13 Thread Hal Martin
Is Mac OS X able to play the DVD? That should determine if it is hardware, not software. -Hal b.n. wrote: Albert Hopkins ha scritto: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote: where could I look to understand what's different between the two systems? The DVD drive? :) I thought about

[gentoo-user] Re: Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread reader
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

2008-05-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hey. I like old fashioned. How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I write

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:50 +0200, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). I forget, but I tried it a while back and didn't see positive results. In my

[gentoo-user] OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

2008-05-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
Well after acquiring my first very own mobile phone only three years ago I've come to destroying it last night. So now I'm in the market for a new phone. I'd prefer something Linux/OSS friendly, but I really have no idea right now what's out in the (U.S.) market other than iPhone which I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

2008-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2008, at 19:29, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I know OpenMoko and Android are pretty much not available to the masses at this point. I think that's a little debatable. The OpenMoko Freerunner is in production this week, and will surely be shipping this month. The final prototype

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 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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? In the U.S., Thanksgiving. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion

2007-09-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:47 -0400, James Colby wrote: All - Does anyone know if there is an upgrade path from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion. I am currently running Beryl on my laptop and would like to try out the new Compiz-Fusion. Do I need to unmerge the Beryl packages before I install

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: Note the chage: PAM authentication failed *only* occurs when I run under strace and only then when I run as a user. This is normal, since the suid is ignored when the program is straced. As Norberto said, can you post the full output

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that someone doesn't know that. If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to know what the jumper is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive (which are prone to error). Some bioses also support swapping device priority

Re: [gentoo-user] /tmp directory: best policy for clearing?

2007-10-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:05 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: Somenow I've overlooked that my /tmp file has been filling up with large files for over a year. May I ask what is a reasonable way to handle the /tmp directory, without deleting large files that are maybe only a few days old?

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

2007-10-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:01 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: i deleted previous /var/lib/postgresql in order to be able to emerge the new version, so i am clueless... So, you deleted your databases??

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