Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-30 Thread Chuanwen Wu
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, You should change your server-layout to something like Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen Screen1

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, you may want to replace your /dev/input/mouse1 for mice and see if that fixes things. Still can't fix the problem. Hmm, what does xorg.0.log spit back out? I assume that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a plaintext file on /var. See below. But while we're at it, can anybody tell me what's the advantage of a gpg-encrypted

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage   seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more   forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. There are a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote: One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the UK, other brands of computer which are

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a plaintext file on /var. See below. But while we're at

[gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a bit of concern. I do an: emerge --pretend mythtv and have a look at the output. Amongst all of the new/updated packages there is the line for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could mount/chroot/quickpkg gcc and install it on the host) While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Hi, On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could mount/chroot/quickpkg gcc and install it on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:47 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: However, the setup doesn't work. I'm not asked for the passphrase, the mappings are not created. What did I forget? That the mappings are created all in one go before anything is mounted, so you can't put the keyfile for /var

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:09:53 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a bit of concern. [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p16658 USE=aac alsa dvb dvd mmx opengl perl python

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build fails with the error: It doesn't need gcc-3.3, but that it the default it tries to install if none

[gentoo-user] Upgrade of dhcpcd

2008-03-30 Thread econti
Hi all, yesterday I upgraded dhcpcd, now at boot time I receive this message: err, eth0: Failed to lookup hostname via DNS: Name or service not known Even so, the IP is correctly assigned by the router. Could anyone help me to understand? ;-) Bye emilio -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade of dhcpcd

2008-03-30 Thread Rumen Yotov
econti написа: Hi all, yesterday I upgraded dhcpcd, now at boot time I receive this message: err, eth0: Failed to lookup hostname via DNS: Name or service not known Even so, the IP is correctly assigned by the router. Could anyone help me to understand? ;-) Bye emilio Hi, Look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm sure the devs have a good reason for not making sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 the default libstdc++ but /I'm not going to try to guess what it may be ;-) Me neither :-) Like I replied to Rudmer, now that I understand what the thing actually does, I

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-30 Thread Chuanwen Wu
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, you may want to replace your /dev/input/mouse1 for mice and see if that fixes things. Still can't fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of information posted should be condensed to only the important pieces. You have a problem to which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. Who dictates that? There is no list moderation except the self-moderation of the users, an none of them have objected to light-hearted comments by Alan, or other,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:47 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: However, the setup doesn't work. I'm not asked for the passphrase, the mappings are not created. What did I forget? That the mappings are created all in one go before anything is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

2008-03-30 Thread Benedikt Morbach
Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question 2: I also have replace-unmodified=yes, but I often see files that I never even looked at before. What about that? That's because dispatch-conf saves every file it processes in it's archive directory. When

[gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Is there such one? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me more than once a day. o_O Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. Who dictates that? I don't know. Ask Alan, as he tries to dictate which post are allowed and which not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me more than once a day. o_O Dale, Somehow I just knew

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of information posted should be condensed to only

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me

[gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely failed to get uvesafb to work. When it boots up it comes up with

[gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi All , I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the system are not acceptable ) So , someone told me to try just tar the

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely failed to get uvesafb to work. When it boots up it

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Hal Martin
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi All , I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the system are not acceptable ) So ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:29:39PM +0300, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:48:54 -0400, Hal Martin wrote: You cannot use tar unless you create an exclude file, as it will copy the contents of /dev and /sys, which means the entire contents of RAM, and anything that is currently being generated by your devices will be copied as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:09 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: You have a problem to which you do not know the solution, so how are you supposed to know what is important and what is not? As it seems, I knew what was not important. Just have a look at the real root cause of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:24:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) You're not, plenty of us are married :-) -- Neil Bothwick I understand the answers, the questions throw me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:50:59 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: I use a variant of this, where keys are stored on a dedicated partition. The pre_mount and post_mount (which unmounts the filesystem) ensure that the keys are only visible for as long as it takes to mount the other filesystems.

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Matt Edens
I have had problems getting this to work also, but was able to get it working finally after being directed to the authors website and following his instructions. What I did was get a 2.6.24 kernel working for me fully with no errors then proceded to follow spock's instructions to get uvesafb

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Matt Edens
Oops forgot the link to the website. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Espock/projects/uvesafb/ On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matt Edens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had problems getting this to work also, but was able to get it working finally after

Re: [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:12 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Is there such one? emerge -l package | less? -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Tim
Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi All , I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the system are not acceptable ) So ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: What I hate is when I come here and ask a question then right after hitting the send button, I realize it was something stupid I did.  Sort of makes me really think before I hit the send button now.  LOL It's hitting the send button that gets you to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build fails with the error: It doesn't need gcc-3.3, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
It is a running gentoo system in this case But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally. anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi All ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as an aggressor it probably means you need to take a break for a while

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Matt Edens wrote: Oops forgot the link to the website. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Espo ck/projects/uvesafb/ Thanks Matt, I have followed spock's instructions in the first place. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:32:47 +0100, Stroller wrote: When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as an aggressor it probably means you need to take a break for a while RFC 1: Count to ten before hitting send. -- Neil Bothwick Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

2008-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mick schrieb: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-30 Thread Grant
I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it work well.

[gentoo-user] Attempting to compile (patched) Qemu

2008-03-30 Thread James
All, I'm trying to compile a patched version of Qemu, found here: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ The patched version has support for virtualizing OS X. However, when attempting to compile, I get the following fatal error: make -C i386-linux-user all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: What I hate is when I come here and ask a question then right after hitting the send button, I realize it was something stupid I did. Sort of makes me really think before I hit the send button now. LOL It's hitting the send

Re: [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! === On Monday 31 March 2008, you wrote: === On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:12 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Is there such one? emerge -l package | less? I have tried it. Unfortunately, it is slow and ... well, it doesn't show Changelog to me :-) Say, this is full output: emerge -l

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Schmarck
Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as an aggressor it probably means