[gentoo-user] aircard suggestion

2011-02-03 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am interested in trying an aircard with gentoo and I would appreciate suggestions; hardware and provider service. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.02.2011 01:27, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:43 on Friday 04 February 2011, Nils > Holland > did opine thusly: > > I'm not in a position to give a fully definitive answer to 1) ... > >> 2) /etc/make.conf contains a note that one should not change the CHOST >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:05 on Friday 04 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: > On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can > >> have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 w

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:43 on Friday 04 February 2011, Nils Holland did opine thusly: I'm not in a position to give a fully definitive answer to 1) ... > 2) /etc/make.conf contains a note that one should not change the CHOST > lightly (not that I'm planning to) and links to a nice doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
> Until one day one of their bright spark techies had a brilliant idea. They > hired a bunch of pretty girls wearing tight skimpy "New! Improved! Check > Our > Promotion!" outfits to stand outside the front door handing out free > complimentary CDs. > > Yes, you guessed it. Within the hour the peri

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/04/2011 02:05 AM, walt wrote: On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and colour depths. Is there a way to set

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT MODE*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:15 on Friday 04 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: > On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> As much as I like the convenience of automountin

[gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, well, it's not that a certain thing I'm intending to do has pointed me to it, but I've just noticed that something I've taken for granted for years is something I probably fail to understand correctly. And as I'm always eager to learn, I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-03 Thread Nils Holland
On 18:20 Wed 02 Feb , walt wrote: > > The ext4 wiki site claims that fsck runs 2 to 20 time faster than > ext3, depending on the number and size of the files contained in > the ext4 filesystem. > > I have no experience with ext4 (yet), but I would welcome comments > from those who do. Well,

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: As much as I like the convenience of automounting as a luser, all of my bofh instincts cry out that lusers shouldn't be allowed to mount a filesystem! Thi

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT MODE*, so that lat1-?? fonts would look normal, witho

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday 03 February 2011 06:07:55 Walter Dnes wrote: > Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper > monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of > the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web > browsing and spreadshee

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   This is going to be trivial for anyone who actually programs. > Thanks in advance. > >   How do I link to a library I installed using portage? If someone > could show me an example make file that would be great. Don't know about nvcc b

[gentoo-user] Re: [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >   How do I link to a library I installed using portage? And in this case it was simple once I found the right examples: nvcc -lta_lib ta-lib-ma.cu -o ta-lib-ma Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > What do I link to? > > I've tried various things like this but none seem to find the library > correctly: > > mark@c2stable ~/CODE/CUDA/Mark $ nvcc -L/usr/lib64/libta_lib > ta-lib-ma.cu -o ta-lib-ma > /tmp/tmpxft_0a8b_-13_ta-lib-ma.

[gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] Linking to a non-standard library installed using portage

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is going to be trivial for anyone who actually programs. Thanks in advance. How do I link to a library I installed using portage? If someone could show me an example make file that would be great. I've no real experience in C and what I did have was in Windows years ago so I'm under

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >  Recently, however, video drivers for both Intel and ATI have switched > over to some brain-dead framebuffer mode that renders regular > consolefonts microscopic.  Also the line lengths are ridiculously long. Sounds like KMS perhaps. Try to ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone here using RTL8192CU wifi device in Gentoo?

2011-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 January 2011 16:22:03 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with RTL8192CU chipset. Drivers >>> are available from Realtek's website, and are u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB stick recognition problem

2011-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 08:08 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Paul > Hartman did opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, walt wrote: >> > On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Johannes Kimmel
On 02/03/2011 07:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web browsing and spreadsheets, I could do most

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, John wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gentoo Lite Users, > > I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8 > All seems to be well apart from > a) Normal Users cannot shutdown > I resolved this using exec ck-launch-session startxfce4 to start xfc

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-03 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 02/02/2011 23:59, Brian Waters a écrit : > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships > with PulseAudio means that sound it bas

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-03 Thread Dale
Brian Waters wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Dale wrote: In GIMP under the file menu, there is a option to get pictures from a camera. I have never used that but I guess that is where hal comes in. It may be something else but that is all I could find. Christ, it's like .dll

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL

2011-02-03 Thread KH
Am 03.02.2011 00:20, schrieb Brian Waters: > Anyway, I digress. Maybe I'll start a thread on that when the time comes. > > - BW Hi, you might want to take a look at the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-highlight-.html Regards kh -- _ ASCII ribbon c