Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 08/29, Simon Hunt wrote: === And you don't get freezes or anything? === No, everything seems to be working fine now. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Keith Dart
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Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Keith Dart
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[gentoo-user] impolite emerge

2009-08-22 Thread Keith Dart
It seems that emerge can be rather impolite at times. [ebuild I FU ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404 ;-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 08/20, Allan Gottlieb wrote: === =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0* required by ('installed', '/', 'www-client/epiphany-2.24.3-r10', 'nomerge') === The latest version of epiphany is 2.26.3. try unmerging your epiphany first. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 08/21, Beau Henderson wrote: === Not if your @stable. === But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

[gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-19 Thread Keith Dart
experience, was not a fun upgrade/downgrade) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-19 Thread Keith Dart
several Gentoo systems, well, it starts to become a little burdensome... Each Gentoo system is unique in the world. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-19 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: === The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error messages. === X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-17 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 08/17, Dale wrote: === So, another possible cause dealt with. Still watching for others tho. === Any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-17 Thread Keith Dart
and environment variables: # $1 - interface name # $6 - ipparam name case $6 in ipparamvalue) ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev $1;; esac -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 08/15, Dale wrote: === Have you tried emerging xorg-server with hal disabled? That is assuming you are using the 1.5 or 1.6 version. === FYI, I am using the latest X server with hal enabled and the evdev input driver and it all works fine. -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
it, but it is probably something else. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/16, Keith Dart wrote: === Try it, but it is probably something else. === BTW, another thing to try is to just comment out any input configuration in (e.g. for mouse or kbd driver) in your xorg.conf file. With hal/evdev it is now entirely automatic and having those in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing IPs in a hosted environment

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/16, Grant wrote: === My new IP seems to be on at least 2 spam lists. === It might be better to just get them off the spam lists. ;-) Most of them have an automated system where they can re-check your IP and adjust the list. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing IPs in a hosted environment

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-16 Thread Keith Dart
that can determine if the problem is in the X server, or the Linux kernel input/event subsystem. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update

2009-08-12 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 08/12, Neil Bothwick wrote: === start() { su - user -c /path/to/program/binary } === That works as long as the binary forks and runs as a daemon. If not, you will probably have to use the start-stop-daemon helper program. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 08/02, Christer Ekholm wrote: === Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :) === That's probably why it's there now. ;-) Thanks for the clarification everyone. I was wondering the same thing. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python 3.1 safe as default python?

2009-08-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 08/03, Christer Ekholm wrote: === I think that the comma on line 41 in /usr/bin/emerge is simply not valid in python-3 === Right. http://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.0.html -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-16 Thread Keith Dart
for the clarification. One down... -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
the 3D acceleration I'd recommend you switch to that. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
noticed that. I did notice a definite speed and stability improvement after switching to the open-source drivers. The ati-drivers also crashed my system occasionally. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
from the facts from the official web site. That's all I have to go on. Well, there is also my experience with it... There is one thing I know for certain: This is the first ATI card I ever bought or spec-ed, and it will be the last one. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
full support of features in open-source drivers for the Xorg server that are stable and fast without any 32-bitness then perhaps I will reconsider. But I don't expect that to happen any time soon. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6

2009-07-12 Thread Keith Dart
. It is possible to have multiple versions of it installed on a system. Alternatively the ghc package could use some maintenance. It's the only one I know of that has that dependency locked to 5. for a quick fix you can lock readline to 5 in /etc/portage/package.mask -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
that is not in the guide or it just don't like my hardware. My mouse is a old P/S2 type mouse. It's not even as complicated as a USB thingy. Did you add the acpid, hald and dbus to the default runlevel? -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
that). -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread Keith Dart
. === Oh, I see. Well, regarding the Intel graphics (I have the same thing) I found that it is related to the mesa version and X configuration, anyway, not the X server version. I currently have the latest X server but with mesa-7.3 and it works fine. -- Keith Dart

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
a permanent record and a change to view them at the end of a ebuild set. -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
the hal use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if that helps you. -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:18:35 -0700 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: Set the hal use flag and emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev. See if that helps you. Also make sure you have this in your make.conf: INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Remove mouse and keyboard sections in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
if that helps. -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server mouse and keyboard woes

2009-07-10 Thread Keith Dart
(~X) then you are on the bleeding edge of open source development. Therefore occasional breakage is to be expected. File a bug, make it better. If you want stable, then use Ubuntu LTS release, or CentOS. Stable, but boring. ;-) -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Is grep broken?

2009-07-01 Thread Keith Dart
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

2009-06-23 Thread Keith Dart
to a reasonable size. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Keith Dart
On May 31, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Adrian wrote: Many moons ago I purchased a Linux Cool Keyboard. The great thing about this keyboard is that a. it has great tactile response and b. it has a cover which folds down to protect the keyboard when not in use. I had one too. :-) Had to replace it with

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread Keith Dart
hardware and/or BIOS. It may not be a Linux or Gentoo problem. -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 4:07 PM, KH wrote: You can do whatever you wish as long as USE contains all you need in the end. Example: USE_FOO=this n that USE_BAR=some more flags BLAH=whatever else there might be USE=${USE_FOO} ${USE_BAR} ${BLAH} Thank's. That is exactly what I was looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 00:33:12 Keith Dart wrote: But that will likely break, or render useless, the ufed tool. If you don't use that, you probably should. Why? Makes it easy to change USE flags. You see the flag name, current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Changing USE flags is easy enough already, isn't it? I don't think I want any program meddling in my make.conf, thanks. No, I have not yet memorized all of them, and they change frequently. But suit yourself, I like ufed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

2009-05-26 Thread Keith Dart
On May 26, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Dale wrote: Memorized all of what? Open a text editor and edit make.conf. What do you need to memorize? If you use KDE, you can edit them with kwrite which is about as easy as it gets. Heck, I been using Gentoo for years and I don't recall ever using ufed.

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-24 Thread Keith Dart
that installed Python 2.6 for you. You can always unmerge the specific old version afterwards. e.g. emerge --unmerge =dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 HTH, Keith -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-24 Thread Keith Dart
. Oh, didn't read the whole thread. -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =

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