Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: This revision makes 2 changes... A) The removal of udev is now standard instead of optional. udev-181 and higher will be pulling in kmod, and anything else that kmod depends on. Removing udev will avoid unnecessary

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:27:05 -0400 (EDT) Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: This revision makes 2 changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:27:05AM -0400, Daddy wrote Having personally long considered Lennart Poettering a 'spawn of the devil' my question is ... is this your reaction to systemd? It's my reaction to the Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: First, my class is old fart. Though I'm always in IRC, mailing lists and forums are more my speed. [snip] Kindest regards, Bruce Hill

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 4:27 PM Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: We have spare parts so tomorrow I'll build a test machine. My Gentoo knowledge is quite limited, seeing as how we moved back

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-11 Thread Daddy
On March 11, 2012 at 5:20 PM Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Bruce, Aren't you a bit younger than me? If so, I'm a old fart too. ;-) [/Bruce] BTW folks, I have met Bruce, and family, in person and we have talked in various ways for years. We live about 75 miles apart. My lady

Re: [gentoo-user] How can i use GRUB to boot my windows?

2012-03-09 Thread Daddy
On March 9, 2012 at 7:08 AM 赵佳晖 jiahui.tar...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried that , but it didn't work . But it comes the error : Error 11: Unrecognized device string. I can't figure out why it comes... Post your /etc/fstab and grub.conf please.

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant media-gfx/gqview

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 10:34 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120308 Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? I use Gwenview to review collections Feh to browse from a terminal: I've used them a long time

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Daddy
On February 29, 2012 at 2:43 AM J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: snipped Also, it is already set up with LVM and ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? Sure!