Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved

2015-11-07 Thread covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- once I > get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying gnome, > console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console -- > control-alt-f1 or anything does not work. If I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread Marc Joliet
On Friday 06 November 2015 22:31:26 Dale wrote: >waben...@gmail.com wrote: >> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Regarding better motherboard my preference is one that use 100% >>> Jpanese capacitors, if I'm not mistaken Gigabit is one of them. >> >> Nearly six years ago I've bought four Gigabyte

Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved

2015-11-07 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:23:53 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with > > it and I discovered I had an old version not sure how that got to stay > > and I tried to install the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved

2015-11-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 08:44:13 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Looking at the ebuilds, it appears that nvidia-settings is installed > > by the nvdidia-drivers package, controlled by the tools USE flag. Try > > setting that flag and unmerging nvidia-settings. > > hmmm, tools seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: > On Friday 06 November 2015 22:31:26 Dale wrote: >> waben...@gmail.com wrote: >>> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Regarding better motherboard my preference is one that use 100% Jpanese capacitors, if I'm not mistaken Gigabit is one of them. >>> Nearly six years ago

Re: [gentoo-user] problem which makes gnome unusable partially solved

2015-11-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:23:53 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with > it and I discovered I had an old version not sure how that got to stay > and I tried to install the latest one, which had two effects -- it > downgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:45:18 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Does Gentoo support Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller > in Intel i5 Yes. -- Neil Bothwick Why is the word abbreviation so long? pgpOmOgZHtn1q.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Portage cleaning up 32bit preserved libs (x86_64/amd64)

2015-11-07 Thread bitlord
Hi list, I have a problem with cleaning/removing 32bit libraries on my x86_64 system (amd64 multilib). At one point I needed skype for something, and it needs a lot of 32bit libs (abi_x86_32) everything was fine, little fight with freetype+harfbuz (circular dep). And after some time I'm happy

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread thelma
On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: [snip] >> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). >> The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD > > Get 1 SSD for the OS, software and your home directory. (240GB is usually > enough) > And 1 big HDD for your data. > > Keep

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 08/11/15 05:22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > [snip] > >>> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). >>> The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD >> >> Get 1 SSD for the OS, software and your home directory. (240GB is

[gentoo-user] Users of the pecl-syck package

2015-11-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Does anyone use dev-php/pecl-syck? If so, please speak up at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565014 Otherwise it will eventually be masked for removal.

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions

2015-11-07 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 7 November 2015 at 20:21, lee wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev writes: > >> On 6 November 2015 at 17:28, lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be surprisingly easy. >>> It's working fine, though I'm getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage cleaning up 32bit preserved libs (x86_64/amd64)

2015-11-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, November 07, 2015 7:19:22 PM bitlord wrote: > Hi list, > I have a problem with cleaning/removing 32bit libraries on my x86_64 > system (amd64 multilib). At one point I needed skype for something, and > it needs a lot of 32bit libs (abi_x86_32) everything was fine, little > fight with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem which makes gnome unusable

2015-11-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, November 06, 2015 1:46:08 PM walt wrote: > On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500 > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- > > once I get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying > > gnome, console 12 in my case,

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread thelma
On 11/07/2015 02:52 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/11/15 05:22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> [snip] >> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD >>> >>> Get 1 SSD for

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe questions

2015-11-07 Thread lee
Alon Bar-Lev writes: > On 6 November 2015 at 17:28, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> finally I got set up pppoe, which turned out to be surprisingly easy. >> It's working fine, though I'm getting a warning when the pppoe interface >> is brought up: >> >> >> heimdali

Re: [gentoo-user] git and apache

2015-11-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/07/2015 07:18 PM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know how to put a copy of a local repo onto a web server > (apache) so that the repo can be pulled via http? If this is a one-off job, you can just scp your full local copy (for example, repo.git) to a public location accessible via the

[gentoo-user] git and apache

2015-11-07 Thread lee
Hi, does anyone know how to put a copy of a local repo onto a web server (apache) so that the repo can be pulled via http? The instructions I'm finding suggest to init a bare repo --- into which I can't get the files because when I try to pull from the source repo, I only get 'fatal:

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-07 Thread thelma
On 11/07/2015 02:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:45:18 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> Does Gentoo support Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller >> in Intel i5 > > Yes. There might be some problems, see: Early Intel Skylake Linux Users May Run Into A