Re: [gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

On 22:37 Fri 17 Feb , Nils Holland wrote: > I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to > record "local" logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via > ssh, everything works fine, but I can do millions of local, non-X11 > plain vanilla terminal logins with

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > NOTE: To others discussing the various positives and negatives of > Windows file systems please note that I had no choice in the matter. > The only thing this piece of equipment accepts on it's USB port is > VFAT. If you run into any unreadabl

Re: [gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow, > despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced > poor suggestions) currently. I suggest using bittorrent, it always achieves the best results for me for downloading linux IS

[gentoo-user] Marvell 9128 controller and SSD in Gentoo

Hi, I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3 chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always exclusively from the perspective of Windows users complaining about Marvell drivers, lack o

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Grant wrote: > LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some > little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? > Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always > come back to: > > Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT

[gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

Hi, I want to compile hydrogen cleanly. Since the ebuild of hydrogen fails to compile because the system "linux3" is not known (which happens even when compiled on a linux-2.6*-booted machine)... I was pointed to patch which fixes this problem, but unfortunately it only opens the way to the next

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

On Feb 18, 2012 6:46 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > This revision removes a couple of steps in the process, so there's > less stuff involved. If only software developers worked that way . > > * Busybox stable is now past the buggy version that didn't work with > mdev. There is no need to keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

Walter Dnes writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > > > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... > > I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case > it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having > problems playing

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

Paul Hartman writes: > I wonder if you copy the movie to /dev/shm first (so disk I/O is not > an issue) does it still have problems? At least this can potentially > eliminate disk I/O as the cause if something else weird is going on. > :) Yes, this helps. As does copying the movie to another part

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:47:36 -0800 Grant wrote: > LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some > little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? > Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always > come back to: > > Invalid Boot diskette- Enter

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:29:48PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one... I had ***EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM ON A FRESH INSTALL***. In My case it was a 4+ year old Dell with onboard Intel GPU that was having problems playing NHL Gamecenter Live streams at the

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

>> LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some >> little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? >> Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always >> come back to: >> >> Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A: >> >> Cracks about how

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:06:09PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17.02.2012 19:55, imacake/LK wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command > > line interface, but nevermind). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

This revision removes a couple of steps in the process, so there's less stuff involved. If only software developers worked that way . * Busybox stable is now past the buggy version that didn't work with mdev. There is no need to keyword version 1.19.2 * The virtual/dev-manager-0.ebuild has be

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:32 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files >> on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. >> I think I want to match only the na

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -0800, Grant wrote: > LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some > little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? > Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always > come back to: > > Invalid Boot diskette- E

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, m...@trausch.us wrote: >> rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort >> of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas: >> >>  - FAT has limitations on file

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, Manuel McLure wrote: > Add "FAT considers two filenames that are the same except for case as > the same filename" to that list. NTFS has the same limitation. I had forgotten about that. FAT is always case-sensitive. While it is possible to change the rules slightly for NT

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, m...@trausch.us wrote: > rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort > of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas: > >  - FAT has limitations on file sizes. >  - FAT cannot store permissions or ACLs >  - FAT doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.02.2012 19:55, imacake/LK wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command > line interface, but nevermind). > > Now it fails to emerge: http://pastebin.com/sngZLVgj emerge --info > gdk-sharp: http://p

[gentoo-user] PAM and utmp

Hi folks, well, I did some searches on this already, but without success, so I thought I'd ask here. Following issue: I have the strong feeling that my ~x86 Gentoo box no longer seems to record "local" logins into /var/run/utmp. When I use screen or login via ssh, everything works fine, but I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 12:41:25 schrieb Grant: >> Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in >> portage?  Something minimal preferably but with flash support? >> >> - Grant > > konqueror or chromium. Kon

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 12:41:25 schrieb Grant: > Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in > portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? > > - Grant konqueror or chromium. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On 02/17/2012 03:12 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. > I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The > eSATA drive needs to be vfat due to

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

On 17 February 2012 20:47, Grant wrote: > LOL.  Except not really.  Am I totally screwed or is there some > little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? > Everything was fine until it was rebooted.  Multiple reboots always > come back to: > > Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diske

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:37:19 -0800 Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know how to beautify it just a bit? Smoother fonts and > maybe just a bit of edge roundness? > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:51:18 -0800 Grant wrote: > > Ouch, is copy/paste in midori working for anyone? I seem to be bitten > by this

[gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT diskette into A: Cracks about how if the system is old e

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:12:40PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files > on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. > I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The > eSATA drive

[gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

Hi, I'm looking for what rsync options I can use to copy existing files on an ext3 file system to an external eSATA drive formatted with vfat. I think I want to match only the name, creation date & file size. The eSATA drive needs to be vfat due to limitations of the audio/video device it will b

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 > schrieb Pandu Poluan : > > > On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am one of those guys

[gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now it fails to emerge: http://pastebin.com/sngZLVgj emerge --info gdk-sharp: http://pastebin.com/qSsGXsnT Help!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too. >>> >>>  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to >>> this thread.  It passes *MY* "acid test".  I'm a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

>>> Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and >>> midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will >>> look into too. >> >>  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to >> this thread.  It passes *MY* "acid test".  I'm a paying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

>> Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and >> midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will >> look into too. > >  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to > this thread.  It passes *MY* "acid test".  I'm a paying subscr

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On 02/17/2012 02:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The MythTV overlay is not serviced by layman. Instead, it includes > a script called from /etc/portage/postsync.d/ to update itself > after every emerge --sync. > > Basically, there are two

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

András Csányi пишет: I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim, but I haven't find any answer for this. A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is set up in xorg.conf than it will be okay. It do

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ebuilds do not update themselves, something else does. > > All an overlay is, is an alternate bunch of ebuilds laid out in the > same format as the portage tree. Layman is nothing more than a nice > bunch of scripts that automate the inst

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On Feb 17, 2012 6:10 PM, "Marc Joliet" wrote: > > Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 > schrieb Pandu Poluan : > > > On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am one of those guys who are again

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

Am Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:29:40 +0700 schrieb Pandu Poluan : > On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P > > > > > > > > Congratulations! The first c

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:39:24 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 > > Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >> The change was done in the mythtv overlay > >> (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a > >> resyn

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 > Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> The change was done in the mythtv overlay >> (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? >> I understood that overlay gets updated only when there is a mythtv >>

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 > > Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync > > the portage tree and every time thereafter. > > > > Editing the ebuild is no

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

On 02/16/12 22:47, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, "Grant" > wrote: >> >> I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way >> to get in touch with a good person for the job? >> >> - Grant >> Diego seems to be mad about the same

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On 02/17/2012 08:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 > Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the > portage tree and every time thereafter. > > Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more > complex route. Instead, put t