Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
I doubt that could ever work. How would you deal with an ebuild moving from unstable to stable? On 27 May 2010 2:22 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any reasonable way to keep any stable installation (those done without using ~x86 in package.keywords) in /usr while anything

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox startup

2010-05-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 May 2010 03:53:48 Madhurya Kakati wrote: The xdm conf file has display manager as gdm. I guess changing that to xdm would help. No it won't. /etc/init.d/xdm will launch whichever DISPLAYMANAGER= you have set up in /etc/conf.d/xdm. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting gentoo into /usr and /usr/local

2010-05-27 Thread justin
On 27/05/10 02:22, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any reasonable way to keep any stable installation (those done without using ~x86 in package.keywords) in /usr while anything installed as unstable (using ~x86) under /usr/local ? best regards, mcc As per definition

[gentoo-user] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Hi, First, I would like to apologize for the out-of-topic post. I will keep this as short as I possibly could. Does anybody know Dr. Francis T. Seow, the former Solicitor-General from the Republic of Singapore? I want to contact him but can't seem to find his email address or telephone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 May 2010, at 01:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? If you have copied from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb then `md5sum /dev/sda / dev/sdb` will compare both drives. You're probably safest to compare a partition at a time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Andrea Conti
I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the smart attributes (smartctl -A, esp. the reallocated

[gentoo-user] Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject Plea for Medical Help/Assistance. But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been

[gentoo-user] emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the other programs I use for this and that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Something happened on the way to X : solved

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Selon Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com: alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Installing Gentoo on my computer... with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx INPUT_DEVICES=evdev everything's fine until I emerge xorg-server, which returns: [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] Re: [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject Plea for Medical Help/Assistance. But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 17:45 +, James wrote: Folks, I just had to share this. So I read the Linux journal, mostly to do my part to keep publications about Linux alive. Occationally they write about something cool, though

Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps

2010-05-27 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Grant wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? -

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and all the other

[gentoo-user] Re: danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-27, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: So I read about a very cool submarine game today on LJ: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/danger-deep Only to discover it's already in portage. KUDOS to the Gentoo game devs for being on top of this one Doesn't run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like seamonkey, firefox, pigdin, gtkam and

[gentoo-user] Grub USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread alain . didierjean
I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just ignores key strokes... Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub to read a USB keyboard at boot time ? -- ~adj~

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.05.2010 16:42, schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr: I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just ignores key strokes... Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub to

[gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Mick
Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: ST9500420ASG vendor: Seagate physical id: 0 bus info: s...@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just ignores key strokes... Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: *-disk description: ATA Disk product: ST9500420ASG vendor: Seagate physical id: 0 bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-27 Thread Steve
On 26/05/2010 20:32, Brandon Vargo wrote: I hope the above helps. Thank you very much... that was very informative. Unfortunately, I now discover I fibbed when I said I had SASL auth set up - I only thought I had... When I correctly configure thunderbird, I get the following postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? % whatis hdparm hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters SATA is still ATA, using the same basic command set but over a different

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix question about auth and blocklists...

2010-05-27 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:24 +0100, Steve wrote: On 26/05/2010 20:32, Brandon Vargo wrote: I hope the above helps. Thank you very much... that was very informative. Unfortunately, I now discover I fibbed when I said I had SASL auth set up - I only thought I had... When I correctly

[gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread CJoeB
Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread CJoeB
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID problems - Is udev at fault here?

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/25/2010 05:37 PM, walt wrote: On 05/24/2010 11:44 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: ... 05:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) The only experience I have with a JMicron controller is an outboard eSATA docking station (a great product) and it

[gentoo-user] Re: new user can't run X apps

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/05/2010 01:41 PM, Grant wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user... Are you also using X as yourself at the same time newuser is trying to use X?

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs, things like

[gentoo-user] Re: Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 11:34 AM, CJoeB wrote: ... As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load... I've snipped a lot because I don't use kde and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --keep-going but it doesn't

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 07:39 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 05/27/2010 02:42 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks. I'm doing a fresh install onto another hard drive. Just felt like doing a fresh one instead of copying. Anyway, I got most everything installed. I was doing my last set of installs,

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: Doesn't run here. Something to do with getting the available resolutions: Anyone know about SDL? I really don't, but I'm just wondering if you are looking at the 0.3.0 source

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-05-27 17:20]: I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Bogo Mipps
On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select Import -- Camera, my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-27 Thread Dale
Bogo Mipps wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select Import -- Camera, my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub USB keyboard

2010-05-27 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows the BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just ignores key

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? % whatis hdparm hdparm (8) - get/set SATA/ATA device parameters SATA is still