[gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-07-20, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 14:16:06 Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2011-07-20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Every time after you emerge xorg you're meant to remerge its drivers (evdev being one of them). Usually

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread Grant Edwards
without the hard drive. That's what I did with my IBM Thinkpad a few years back, and IBM couldn't have cared less. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want to read my new at poem about pork brains

[gentoo-user] Re: Need for revdep-rebuild

2011-07-25 Thread Grant Edwards
within a day or so. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I've read SEVEN at MILLION books!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-28 Thread Grant Edwards
they were still needed later in the build). The third time, it worked. :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FUN is never having to at say you're SUSHI!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-07-29, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I

[gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
always safe to do 'make menuconfig', and always has been (at least since the 0.97 days when I started running Linux). You just have to select all the options correctly. All that 'make oldconfig' does is start you out with something as close to your old kernel configuration as possible. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
. It took me an embarassingly long time to figure out what had gone wrong... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Did an Italian CRANE at OPERATOR just experience gmail.comuninhibited

[gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I wish I was on a at Cincinnati street corner gmail.comholding a clean dog!

[gentoo-user] Update to make breaks lots of things...

2011-08-08 Thread Grant Edwards
of that? [I don't suppose anybody knows off-hand which version of make introduced all the breakage?] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My vaseline is at RUNNING... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Update to make breaks lots of things...

2011-08-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-08, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Monday, August 8 at 18:30 (+), Grant Edwards said: I don't think this is Gentoo-specific, but I've noticed that a recent update to make is causing makefile breakage. For example, trying to build a Linux 2.6.28 kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread Grant Edwards
the combined brainpower that you have had respond to this question. So you're going to provide ISP and WiFi service at the OP's remote site? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! World War III? at No thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
. It's amusing for about 30 seconds ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FUN is never having to at say you're SUSHI!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
solution is that? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm using my X-RAY at VISION to obtain a rare gmail.comglimpse of the INNER

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've read the xset man page, I've tried the 'c' option, and it does absolutely nothing. ?To the best of my recollection, the 'xset c' command has

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: b) old school pc-speaker in your computer Even then, how do you play a recorded sound file containing a typeblock-hitting-platen sound through

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-08-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the motherboard, and xset c still does nothing. not playing a custom sound file. Which is what the OP asked for. Hey, it wasn't my idea. Talk to Volker for

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Does 'xset c' work for you? Well, it works as far as it sets the key click value successfully (if you xset q you can see if it's set) but there's

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: You guys are still re-inventing wheels. You keep saying that, and we keep asking what the simple solution is. Why won't you answer? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change,

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
it into a browser. And then it doesn't always do the right thing. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My vaseline is at RUNNING... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-06, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge. It does however seem to work pretty well

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
install comprises over 500 files. That's still huge in my book. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I have the power to at HALT PRODUCTION on all gmail.comTEENAGE SEX COMEDIES!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Grant Edwards
. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Everybody is going at somewhere!! It's probably gmail.coma garage sale or a disaster Movie!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-27, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 09/26/11 16:13, Grant Edwards wrote: That's hilarious. The Linux developers are _constantly_ changing APIs in ways that break existing device driver code. There are repeatedly wholesale re-designs of some APIs that happen

[gentoo-user] Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
scrolling by at about 9600 baud. Is Qemu dead? Or just dying? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! What UNIVERSE is this, at please?? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:14:53 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I updated to the ~x86 version (0.14) -- while the guest OS installs and runs OK, kernel acceleration (kqemu module) is no longer supported, and without it Qemu is really slow

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Qemu dead?

2011-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-28, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to use Qemu to do some test installs of Ubuntu server. ?I've used Qemu successfully in the past, but it seems to have hit a dead end

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-27, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag 26 September 2011, 20:13:53 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-09-26, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Hi, Happened upon this interview

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-29, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch 28 September 2011, 17:15:34 schrieb Grant Edwards: Regardless, my point was that Linus's statement that it's unacceptable to break things seemed rather disingenuous given the API churn that Linux has compared

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-29, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch 28 September 2011, 17:15:34 schrieb Grant Edwards: Regardless, my point was that Linus's statement that it's unacceptable to break things seemed rather disingenuous given the API churn that Linux has compared

[gentoo-user] Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
this? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Boy, am I glad it's at only 1971... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-03, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 sometimes result in directory trees in the wrong places (/dev/sda seems consistent

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-03, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards: Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not detected in a predictable order, so my

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-03, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 03 Oct 2011 20:01:16 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.10.2011 20:40, schrieb Grant Edwards: Just recently I've run in to problems because my hard drives are not detected in a predictable order, so my fstab that mount /dev/sdb1

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
was a mention that some filesystems (e.g. VFAT) don't support labels. Though all the good ones appear to. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is this TERMINAL fun? at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
it happen. Looks I'll be moving to grub2. Yikes. What a monster... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Can you MAIL a BEAN at CAKE? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
? Is that using /dev/sda1 or a label? In order to use a label, I _think_ you need some special magic in an initrd (at least that used to be the case according to what I've googled). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Where's th' DAFFY

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
and it's own set of init scripts. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Could I have a drug at overdose? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-04, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:49:56 -0500, Dale wrote: Subject line says it pretty well. ??Is grub2

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
before too long and we'll be forced to either use grub2 or stop whinging and voluteer to maintain grub-legacy. :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Didn't I buy a 1951 at Packard from you last March

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-04, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No that's a completely different issue. But the warped thinking that produces it is exactly the same. QOTW! -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I need to discuss

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: That it's not true. It connects to whatever init system do you have (OpenRC, SysV, systemd

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
it (bearing things like being able to understand the filesystem etc.) I know how bootloaders like LILO and grub-legacy work. What I don't understand is the statement that grub2 is somehow aware of the booted OS's init system. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FROZEN

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
understand the basics of EFI and how it might relate to these problems? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Didn't I buy a 1951 at Packard from you last March gmail.comin Cairo?

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: Then any boot loader will need to call something to start it. Understand this: any Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-04, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-05 Thread Grant Edwards
something to be passed to the OS. And that's what it does, without understanding anything about pid#0. And the set of init scripts that belong to grub2 are just to try to auto-magically generate the config file? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! They collapsed

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?

2011-10-05 Thread Grant Edwards
set of init scripts. You forgot the part where I said at first glance under Ubuntu, it appears that or somesuch. And it's simply not true. Maybe with the best of intentions, but that's disinformation. To me, /etc/init.d/grub-common is an init script. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-06, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In my server I have a few disks which must be running 24/7, but I also have a single big hard-drive, which is used only for a few minutes every day, just for backups. How could I power disk off when not needed (and on again when needed) in

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement

2011-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-06, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote: Am Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:27:14 -0400 schrieb Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com: On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote: most of the oh it's so weird-whining often comes from just not being used to it. flip your door lock

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement

2011-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-06, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote: Am Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:23:32 -0400 schrieb Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com: nothing forces you to switch to grub2. True in theory, but not in practice. the purpose of theory is to predict what happens in practice. if it

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement

2011-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
the trusty old xorg.conf file until the whole HAL thing blew over. I'm going to ignore grub2 for as long as I can, but I don't think it's going away the way HAL did... ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like some JUNK

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: change and improvement

2011-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
time to upgrade. And usually on a weekend, so when the whole thing goes sideways you've got at least one day to fix it before regular business hours start. Unless it's a consumer server not a business server, then you don't have a weekend for fixing stuff that goes wrong. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

2011-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
back. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! PUNK ROCK!! DISCO at DUCK!! BIRTH CONTROL!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: inkscape emerge

2011-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-07, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-07, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: emerge -p --depclean will show you what packages are installed which you didn't explicitly ask for, and which are no longer depended upon by any explicitly-selected packages

[gentoo-user] How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
[...] How do I configure a second IP address for an interface? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I have the power to at HALT PRODUCTION on all gmail.comTEENAGE SEX

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax I found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=2#doc_chap1 But, it doesn't work. Here's my /etc/init.d/net file

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-17, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to configure a second IP address for eth1 using the syntax I found at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4chap=2#doc_chap1

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-17 Thread Grant Edwards
-but-250.nnn is on eth0. And eth2 is used only by a VM client OS. Yea, it's a messy, but it's still easier than using 4 different machines -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I appoint you at ambassador to Fantasy

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
and it's included in the system profile. iproute2 is a more powerful and flexible package, but it's not included by default. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want to mail a at bronzed artichoke

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-18, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:19:32PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: And the lack of eth1:1 is presumably explained if the system is using the iproute2 module instead of the ifconfig module. My current theory is that iproute2 is getting used because

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-18, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-10-18, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: From /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.7.0/net.example: ## # INTERFACE HANDLERS # # We provide two interface

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure eth1:1 ?

2011-10-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-20, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:19:32PM +, Grant Edwards wrote My current configuration works: modules_eth0=( !plug ) config_eth0=( 192.168.8.4/16 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.254 ) modules_eth1=( !plug

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommended printer?

2011-10-21 Thread Grant Edwards
. It knows Postscript so there are no hassle with drivers, postscript is what Unix apps produce when they want to print. I've had it for 6-7 years and haven't had to buy toner yet. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Th' MIND is the Pizza

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
using USB-SATA gateways? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! How many retured at bricklayers from FLORIDA gmail.comare out purchasing PENCIL

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Disappointing USB3 performance

2011-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-24, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 24.10.2011 22:02, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-10-24, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought an add-on USB3 adapter and outboard USB3/sata docking station, and I've been comparing the performance with my old e-sata

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-27 Thread Grant Edwards
shell-scripts to drive them. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it NOUVELLE at CUISINE when 3 olives are gmail.comstruggling with a scallop

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Grant Edwards
a second time. You can create your own presets with whatever encoding settings you want. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! World War III? at No thanks! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-01, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Grant Edwards If you mean you want the files encoded at a resolution of 1024x600, you can tell handbrake what output resolution you want. ??You'll get far better results by encoding to the desired

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn my audio up?

2011-11-03 Thread Grant Edwards
into her green audio out jack. You had to turn all the volumes up to 11 to hear much, and it sounded awful. I plugged in a $20 USB audio out dongle with a real line-level output, and now it sounds great. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are we live

[gentoo-user] Re: udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-07 Thread Grant Edwards
appreciate it virtualbox is also pretty broken at the moment. Broken in what way? I am happily using it without any issues. I use it regularly as well without any problems. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Everybody is going

[gentoo-user] Re: udev rules for an iPod Touch?

2011-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
developer thinks it's crap. Big deal. No matter what you point at, there's a linux dev who thinks it's crap. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hello, GORRY-O!! at I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD

[gentoo-user] Re: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules and kernel sources

2011-11-10 Thread Grant Edwards
(or if you've never built a kernel), you'll have to re-generate at least the files required to build modules. Try doing make modules_prepare in your linux source directory. The full story is in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt sectio 2. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-11 Thread Grant Edwards
it to boot into text mode with all the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost tolerable. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I own seven-eighths of at all the artists in downtown

[gentoo-user] Re: The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
from which you want to serve files. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If I felt any more at SOPHISTICATED I would DIE gmail.comof EMBARRASSMENT!

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Grant Edwards
to be controlled by the actual driver. The connection was with USB and worked perfectly. I doubt USB support has disappeared suddenly. And you're using the open-source VB? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'll eat ANYTHING

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

2011-11-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this, but this seems not to have been maintained for a while, either,

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

2011-11-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-24, Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:26 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a nice way to do this,

[gentoo-user] Re: experience with rsnapshot

2011-11-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-25, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I noticed that there was no real restore, Um, it's a regular file sysmte, so you use cp -a to restore. but as you say you can usually find what you are looking for. I will probably try on an experimental basis. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

2011-11-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-20, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. If the maintainer implemented that, he'd be promptly inundated with all manner of support question none of which he can answer accurately. A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-28 Thread Grant Edwards
times, just waiting a day or two and trying again would fix the problem. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's a hole all the at way to downtown Burbank! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: CLI DVD copy?

2011-11-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-11-30, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? All the things I'm finding in Google point to dvd::rip or other GUI apps. I tried a

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition

2011-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
get some incomprehensable error message when you try to do the 'setup' command. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ! The land of the at rising SONY!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition

2011-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-05, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 05 Dec 2011 21:58:44 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-05, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: You can only have one primary bootloader, either grub from Gentoo or grub2 from Mint, it cannot be both. But it looks like that's what

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
a cliff. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm using my X-RAY at VISION to obtain a rare gmail.comglimpse of the INNER WORKINGS

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
I have tried. Definitely. The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question. Whoever writes these docs deserves a heap of accolades for his efforts. The Gentoo docs are indeed brilliant. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-07, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 December 2011, at 23:25, Grant Edwards wrote: ... The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question. I tried Ubuntu, hated this *so* much

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-08 Thread Grant Edwards
to be pretty low. :-( Really? Yes, really. When searching for answers to Ubuntu questions, I've learned to ignore the user forum. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I own seven-eighths of at all the artists in downtown

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux drivers that have to work with a

[gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-13, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I'm sure they are. In the interview [1], Lameter said that quote NASDAQ uses a modified version of the Gentoo Linux distribution. /quote modified version? That practically screams ricers! to me :-D I didn't know there was such a thing as

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread Grant Edwards
the DVDs to the computer and when you play them back you get all the menus and special features and whatnot. If you want you can create ISO images and burn them to dual-layer-DVDs, but you don't need to do that to play them with all the features. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
-- for example you can generate a 4.7G ISO image from a 9GB original. assuming the DVD player isn't specifically looking for something that was on the original disc such as specifically encrypted blocks of data, etc. Am I getting closer? Indeed you are. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
sitting next to my TV... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I am a jelly donut. at I am a jelly donut. gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-17, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 17 December 2011, at 20:39, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-17, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Store these on a Samba share, then use something like the PlayOn HD Mini or the Western Digital TV Live! to watch them

[gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2011-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-12-23, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I been trying to get this to work right for a goood while now. I'm confused here. I have some videos that I download that are split up. Some have two or three parts and a few 4 or 5. What I can't get is this, I can't seem to

[gentoo-user] ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
not want to rebuild everything capable of supporting ipv6, since there are only a few selected programs that I'll be using with ipv6. I thought I might have to rebuild glibc, but it doens't list ipv6 as one of it's use flags. Any hints? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-01-06, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: I've enabled ipv6 support in my kernel and it appears to be working on the lo interface: # ip -6 addr show lo 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 16436 inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft

[gentoo-user] Re: ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
than I expected... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Half a mind is a at terrible thing to waste! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
the anser for Debian, but for Gentoo all it found was somebody else asking the qeustion (with no answers). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I know things about at TROY DONAHUE that can't

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? I want eth2 up but with no IP address. ?Just doing an ifconfig eth2 up worked fine until I

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