Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 10 December 2013 15:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 10/12/2013 20:28, Bruce Hill wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work > >> under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2013-01-06 Thread Norman Invasion
On 24 December 2012 22:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make > sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. > As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html > I too ran into a situatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-11 Thread Norman Invasion
On 11 December 2012 12:36, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello list . . . > So I’m interested in you opinion and own experience about the following > arising questions: > > * From my observations, the benefit of 64 bit over 32 is much smaller for an > Atom than it is for my Core2. Am I right to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange console font: "m" looks like small "M"

2012-10-19 Thread Norman Invasion
On 19 October 2012 15:08, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Gentoo on one box and noticed one > strange thing when I'm in console: > > Small letter "m" looks more like "M" reduced in size. > And small "w" looks more like small and rotated "M". > How can I fix it??? If by "console" you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Running programs compiled with a different gcc version

2012-05-20 Thread Norman Invasion
On 19 May 2012 16:23, Urs Schutz wrote: > Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file > converter and image editor. One of the requirements for > installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 > and installed it with portage. > After switching gcc with gcc-config and . /etc/p

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 12 May 2012 11:05, Alex Schuster wrote: > Norman Invasion writes: > >> On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wrote: >> > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > [...] >> Apologies: I haven't followed this thread from the beginning, > > Which

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-12 Thread Norman Invasion
On 11 May 2012 21:40, Alex Schuster wrote: > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > > I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel > with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a > minute, several times. When I do this by opening the file in

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 10 May 2012 14:01, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion > wrote: >> On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my >>> videos on,

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my > videos on, eventually.  The prices are coming down now.  I keep seeing > these "green" drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. >  When comparing them to a non "gree