Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

2022-01-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
ove that it will then upgrade to the stable version, so that my > system will be pretty much just stable packages. I'd use ~ instead of = so it will accept -r1, -r2, etc. variants of that version, to pick up any bug fixes. Once one of those variants, or a higher version, becomes stable yo

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > applications. Well, that was a hostage to fortune. Today, afte

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

2020-06-07 Thread antlists
new ones popped up to make sure they were secure.  Thoughts?? Some had to be redone ... Elliptic Cryptograph Curve or whatever it's called. The basic maths is secure, but the NSA got a standard released (you have to pick a set of constants) where the constants had been nobbled. DJB has rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:46:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: > At least it isn't just me.  Sometimes I think bugs/bad features pick on > me.  While annoying, I guess it is harmless.  It just seems that as long > as it has been doing this, someone would have raised the hood and looked &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller has a cool idea: > On 16 Oct 2009, at 12:58, Alex Schuster wrote: [I want a Linux PC to act as USB mass storage device] > The hack that springs to mind is to see if you can pick up an Openmoko > Freerunner with a broken screen. I'd guess you might be able to pick > one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-10 Thread Dale
hat point. They did what they did and you can call it anything you want. I call it dropping the ball and it is not going to change. Can you tell that yet? then why is Redhat having to pick up that ball? If KDE hadn't dropped the ball, then Redhat wouldn't have to pick up t

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 120720 Dale wrote to me as OP: >>> If you need help with this, i'd be glad to help you pick parts >>> for your build. The biggest thing is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-27 Thread Rich Freeman
Anytime I'm using either out-of-kernel modules or more experimental features in the kernel (zfs, nvidia binary drivers, btrfs, etc) I tend to carefully control what kernel series I'm running. I pick an LTS that is supported and stable for everything I'm doing, and stick with it until

Re: [gentoo-user] Git for gentoo users?

2016-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
. Thankfully, > I keep duplicates of the codes in an old fashion directory tree > structure;(circa 35 years now). > > Better yet MO writes:: > > > You'll spend a while getting used to git, there's no way around it. You > just have to pick a project and force yourself to u

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-19 Thread Grant Taylor
mutually inconsistent Gentoo mail server docs, omitting the bits I don't need and interpreting the rest. Bits I don't need? Database backend, web-mail access, web admin tools, fancy multi-user authorisation, any other baroque complexity. There are a LOT of ways to do this. You need t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] IPv6 usage patterns (static, DHCPv6, RA, mDNS, ?)

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
nother /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ node gets tweaked which causes interfaces to stop listening to RAs. Consequentially, Linux machines running as routers tend to get their IPv6 addresses statically configured. With client network nodes, manual configuration of static addresses is very unusual. With network ap

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-19 Thread Dale
d Firefox extensions > don't work on Pale Moon (my "daily driver"). I notice the existance of > a "net-vpn" category in the repo, too. What works for people here, and > how well? What are your experiences? > I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a y

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
in, but the receiver didn't pick up any > signal (I made sure all the right settings are selected on the > receiver). > > So my question... Is optical output supported in ALSA and the driver > for Intel High Definition audio controller? Do I have to compile with > any speci

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
rk at /mnt/portage/local. Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) -- Iain Buchanan Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
set > > to /mnt/portage/distfiles in each make.conf. > Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my > server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! I tend not to run emerges when away from home, although the lack of a local copy does prove

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
t; strong connections to some APs, but it can't even find others that the >> laptop's internal card finds and connects to no problem. > > > Maybe the USB dongle doesn't support as many bands as the internal WiFi? eg. > Dongle is B/G only, while internal is A/B/G? >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:49, Grant wrote: ... That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one. Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior?

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
>> That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult >> AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is >> attached instead of the strong directional one.  Could a failing >> antenna exhibit this behavior? > > I&

Re: [gentoo-user] Install from Hell, now it's bash-2.05b

2005-05-23 Thread Walter Dnes
hed before I go to bed. I'll pick things up tomorrrow after work. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Situation

2005-06-27 Thread Colin
he CD drive so, I'm back at the livecd root # prompt. How do I continue from where I left off or do I have to start all over again? Of course not! Just set up your network, mount your partitions and /proc and then chroot back into /mnt/gentoo. Then just pick up where you think it left off.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying contents /boot from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda2

2005-07-27 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
db1 to /dev/hda2. If so would anyone know the correct command so I pick up any hidden files ,etc. -- Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 25/07/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Emerging LIRC with LIRC_DEVICES

2008-01-05 Thread BRM
wever, emerge doesn't seem to be picking it up. It does pick it up if I set it in /etc/make.conf, but I'd rather limit it to just the building of LIRC. I already emerged lirc by setting it on the command-line; emerge wants to rebuild lirc - for example, I had to set LIRC_DEVICES on the c

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dependency ?

2009-06-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
ant to wait for mirrors to pick up the mask and do "emerge --sync" again, please mask this version until the mistake is fixed: echo "=media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r6" >> /etc/portage/package.mask See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274092 for details and put your email add

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
DSL for the past 5 years or so. > It is supposed to be here next week. They put the cards in the DSL box > today. YEPPIE If I don't get DSL this time, my next post may be > from jail. I'm going to drive my uninsured 3/4 ton pick up right over > their shiney new DSL

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Dale
rap like that. Expected date, *9-9-2009*. :-@ I was planning to test DSL on this little update. Total: 26 packages (8 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 2 new, 15 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 142,546 kB Now it is a >15 hour download. I'm starting to picture my 3/4 ton pick-up on top of that D

Re: [gentoo-user] software for editing mp3 songs

2009-01-02 Thread meino . cramer
Dale [09-01-02 17:42]: > Hi folks, > > I mentioned in another thread that I recently got me a new cell phone. > I would like to know what software a person can use to take a mp3 song > and edit it down. You know, pick out the 15 or 20 seconds that you want > to use as a ring

Re: [gentoo-user] software for editing mp3 songs

2009-01-02 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Dale [09-01-02 17:42]: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I mentioned in another thread that I recently got me a new cell phone. >> I would like to know what software a person can use to take a mp3 song >> and edit it down. You know, pick ou

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7 won't load network!

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
gt; config in from the previous tree, then I run menuconfig and search for > > lines ending in [NEW] or [DEPRECATED]. > > How is this different from using make oldconfig, apart from the UI? I don't know; I just pick up my clues where I can. Perhaps there's a difference in h

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-08 Thread pk
ortage.com site > interface, it might make things real easy. > > Just think, you search for a device like a Kensington Mouse or keyboard. > A list is presented of what features a config which has been created > will do for that device, you pick and download it into the proper > dir

Re: [gentoo-user] The big clean up

2007-08-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 27 August 2007 03:28:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Some files did turn out to be from currently installed packages (curl, > gnuplot, glade, ...) that revdep-rebuild didnt pick up - a bit of a > worry ... Probably the most reliable version of revdep-rebuild currently in the tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 17 September 2007, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Somewhat puzzled that a emerge -upDv world before I remerged flac did not > > pick these up . . . > > That can happen if sdl-sound is not in the worldfile and is not depended > upon, directly or indire

[gentoo-user] Re: congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread James
compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Installed versions: 96.43.05 So some provisions have to be made, as the older card is barely supported any more. I do need X11 to run JFFNMS on these systems. Or maybe I'll just pick up either anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently |> tu

Re: [gentoo-user] A few questions on trying to install

2008-07-21 Thread Alan E. Davis
Comments for this thread have been helpfu. I have done a test install from the live install cd. For now, I guess, 74 GB is enough for the entire system, leaving out my older /home directories and archives, so I just let the installer pick a preferred partitioning configuration. Next I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

2008-09-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
. I think he understands that by now. His question is more like: If eix tells me that an update to vigra is available, then why does emerge -uD world not pick it up? sorcerer, what is your arch, and what is the outputs from 'eix -e vigra' and 'emerge -pv media-libs/vigra' -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-05 Thread Dale
ke kde-meta:4. > > I used it the last time I tried KDE4 and it did just as was expected, > except is added =cat/pkg-vers, which I changed to ~cat/pkg/vers so I > could pick up and fixes. > > > You can tell it not to put versions tho. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # autounmask -h

Re: [gentoo-user] dll.conf file in portage?

2007-03-06 Thread Mick
ane then what is that file doing in portage tree > as said by him rather than in /etc/sane.d ? Thank you both. I also have it in /etc/sane.d/ as slocate tells me: # slocate dll.conf /etc/sane.d/dll.conf However, slocate does not pick up the /var/tmp/portage/dll.conf file - why is that? Meanw

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? This from the GCC website about 4.2.0 release changes: IA-32/x86-64 * -mtune=generic can now be used to

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:30 -0400, Denis wrote: > After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' > flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems > like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? Yes. > We don't have gcc-4.2.0 in our portage availa

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-25 Thread Randy Barlow
On Thu, May 24, 2007 12:38 pm, Denis wrote: > My aim is to build a fast, stable system for my > computations, which ultimately brought me to another major decision: > 32-bit or 64-bit... I run simulations which I write in C and > numerical computations which I run in Mathematica (which has just >

Re: [gentoo-user] skype

2007-06-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
ect file: No such file or directory > revdep-rebuild doesn't pick any thing up > Do I have to rebuild Qt? or another package? which one provides that > library. I've tried down-grading to the previous version but that's now > been package.masked It seems the new version of

Re: [gentoo-user] skype

2007-06-18 Thread Ilya Hegai
le: No such file or directory revdep-rebuild doesn't pick any thing up Do I have to rebuild Qt? or another package? which one provides that library. I've tried down-grading to the previous version but that's now been package.masked This is a real pain in the buttocks. How can I ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
portage did apply the patches from that directory while > the most recent one does not. > > I consider this auto-patching feature quite useful and would like > to use it, but currently I don't know how to do that. And also, is > portage supposed to pick the patches up a

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-10 Thread Carlos Hendson
in32codecs use flag enabled. You can do this with equery or eix (or other equivalent tools). equery uses mplayer eix mplayer Use the information from the the wiki to help you pick the right flags and required packages: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MPlayer For example, the mplayer output posted

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
s inside > [ebuild ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way. It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are changes. -- Neil Bothwick -Come, come, why they couldn't hit an elephant from this dist- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
ways, it is a nightmare. If something is unmasked, I have to go find the file that unmasked it. I have several since I use autounmask for most of it. Then add in that the new autounmask part of emerge seems to pick a random file to add too. At that point, not much makes sense anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-25 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: This will never change, because you can't pick up a turd by the clean end. ROFLMBO That is so true. I have to add. I subscribe to some service that emails security problems, usually when they are fixed but anyway. I get a LOT of those related to flash. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?

2011-07-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Dale wrote: > As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system.  I'm in the > process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my breath it will > change anything.  So, I'm wanting to try a unstable version of both gcc and > glibc. Do what you w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

2011-09-26 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
lly-signed system (Windows 9 / OS XI or so) or a cracked > boot, with little in the way of switching between the two, at least > initially > > I know which one I'd pick if it came down to it :) And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will surely find out a way. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-23 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-23, luis jure wrote: >> on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2 >>> will support. Which option you gonna

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
ular user. xdm and other X login managers will still work. The "suid" USE flag is enabled by default in the xorg-server ebuild: IUSE="${IUSE_SERVERS} ipv6 minimal nptl selinux +suid tslib +udev" Since you disabled it on your own, you now get to pick up the pieces. It's what you wanted.

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
bvious and unavoidable: there are 231 parts that currently are in my world file, and I do not know what all of them do. I can cherry-pick a few that are obvious throw-aways by removing them from world, and waiting to see if they get updated anyway because they're actually needed. Does anybody ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
d play these pictures in a row sliding from one side to the > other and back repeatedly. > > By the way is it possible to automate the extraction of the smaller > pictures no doubt it should be possible to do it "automatically". Have a look at `convert --crop`. You could set

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
edly. >> >>By the way is it possible to automate the extraction of the smaller >>pictures > > > no doubt it should be possible to do it "automatically". Have a look at > `convert --crop`. You could set it up in a script to pick out the > pieces. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Iptables Tarpit

2006-03-08 Thread Dave Jones
> > iptables: No chain/target/match by that name > The standard Gentoo-sources kernel does not include the TARPIT target. > You need to pick up an updated kernel iptables source from > netfilter.org <http://netfilter.org> --- snip--- Simply adding "

Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)

2006-03-13 Thread Jim
> Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there > thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! > > wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the > -nc option and it reports 'already there, not > retr

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world

2006-03-14 Thread Unknown
m where it > > was stopped. > > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) > > emerge -e world without compiling every package again? > > OK, I can answer this myself (I hope correctly) : &quo

RE: [gentoo-user] resume emerge after reboot

2005-04-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
he last lines in the file. After that, you should be able to just issue the original emerge command, and it should pick up where it left off. > -Original Message- > From: Tamas Sarga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:20 AM > To: gentoo-user@lis

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Glenn Enright
right click on gkrelm and look for sensors under plugins. If everything is working, there should be a big list of checkboxes there you may enable. if you modprobe these modules *after* starting gkrellm it wont pick them up tho. -- I WILL NOT CUT CORNERS " "" " "

Re: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD

2005-11-15 Thread Raymond Lillard
. I'm guessing that you need to rewrite the boot block with the grub shell. man grub does dd use any sort of error checking? No. Any suggestions? Yes. they way I do it every time, is create the partitions and use rsync. Then you know every file will be copied correctly, and you can

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2005-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
OK. Yes, KDE is still slotted. > I use kdm and can select what version of KDE I want to login to. I also > used that to select between KDE, Gnome, IceWM etc when I was testing the > waters. Just thought you would like to know that. Kept me from having > to edit rc.conf to pick what

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2005-12-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: >>I use kdm and can select what version of KDE I want to login to. I also >>used that to select between KDE, Gnome, IceWM etc when I was testing the >>waters. Just thought you would like to know that. Kept me from having >>to edit rc.conf to pick

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Teresa and Dale
that will work better if you are running into the same timeout problem I used to have. You may want to try "mirrorselect -i -r". Please, make a backup of make.conf before you run that. Some have ran into problems with it messing up the file. Just pick the mirror that is closest and

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-16 Thread Mick
ke: OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde oowriter2 And see if you get different results. Yeay! Result! Gnome and KDE look cool. 'none' looks yukky. So, I guess mine picks up none, which is puzzling given my USE flags - I mean, what's the point setting flags then? How can I make OOo pi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : SMA to TNC connector for WRT54GC -> Airlink Reverse TNC

2006-05-20 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
I'm searching for a Reverse SMA to TNC connector for this. Anyone knows where I can find it in the near vicinity of San Jose? Thanks. These connectors are common in Amatuer radio and although I cant give you an exact location on where to pick one up (sorry a quick check of a couple sites

Re: [gentoo-user] What is available besides samba

2006-08-14 Thread Yann Garnier
: > For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there > anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick. Though as far as I know the only one Windows can actually mount (as a drive) is Samba. I think that

Re: [gentoo-user] Borg 1.1 is out, when can we expect it in the repos?

2017-10-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, October 8, 2017 6:48:14 PM CEST Viktar Patotski wrote: > Hi, > > The proper to get it done is to submit an upgrade request to > https://bugs.gentoo.org/ . And then even probably provide ebuild for > maintainers to pick it up. > > Best regards, > Viktar > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] insane backends

2017-11-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
everywhere. > > That doesn't matter much beyond compile time, which is not excessive : > Xsane will interrogate the scanner & when it's told it's an Epson V550 > it will load the appropriate driver & go from there. > From the point of view of system mainte

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for both AMD64 and Intel?

2017-12-05 Thread Manuel McLure
nt the "s"'s... very > carefully; sse3 != ssse3). > > Thanks! I have successfully rebuilt the system with "-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" (and switched to gcc 6.4.0/profile 17 while I was at it) and everything seems to be running fine. Hopefully I can pick up a micro-ATX LGA11

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice cannot use oxygen theme

2013-08-19 Thread Wang Xuerui
ion it seems we're all misled by your description. Your real question is "Why a GTK application won't pick up KDE's theme settings", and the answer is it simply doesn't know about Qt in the first place. I downloaded the archive you used and ldd'd all the libraries, n

Re: [gentoo-user] PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:08:03 +0100, Mick wrote: > > That's one of the benefits of using OpenWRT/DD-WRT. You can ask on the > > forums or search the Wiki to see what features are available - or even > > RTF(online)M. As long as you pick a fully supported device, all the &g

Re: [gentoo-user] PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 07:30:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:08:03 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > That's one of the benefits of using OpenWRT/DD-WRT. You can ask on the > > > forums or search the Wiki to see what features are available - or even > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-28, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of >> some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for >> the bootloader dur

Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

2015-10-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I'd say the method is the same as with any other laptop: pick one > specific model, look into its hardware (this[1] and a liveCD may be > handy), search for drivers, search "gento" + , > follow the handbook. >

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error

2017-03-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 15:57:14 I wrote: > >> So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm running >> an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from >> it. > Hasn't made the slightest di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update a portage package

2014-09-14 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:02:36PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You have two options. If the ebuild supports it, put the patch file > in /etc/portage/vat/pkg-version/ and re-emerge it. Many ebuild will pick > up user patches like this. > > Alternatively, run "ebuild prepare

Re: [gentoo-user] Returning to chrooted environment?

2014-12-19 Thread Mick
ver I type appears on two terminals > > simultaneously. How do I enter in a stage where I left off and try to > > finish installation? Thanks a lot > > Repeat your earlier steps in the same order up to the point where you > started installing stuff (you don't need to

[gentoo-user] Bluefish-2.2.2 on KDE - no main menu icons

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
New box, new user profiles and new KDE installation. Same problem: The bluefish application no longer shows icons for its main menu. Hovering over the main menu buttons reveals text tool-tips, but the buttons themselves are blank. I was under the impression that Bluefish will pick up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-27 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-01-24 21:59, Michael Jones wrote: You really can't run Gentoo safely for very long without paying close attention to what you are doing - with both installs and upgrades. I don't know that this is true. I've had the same set of use flags configured on all of my Gentoo computers for 5-

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
/mnt/phone Yep, I second that recommendation. There are also a couple free FTP servers that work well. I've had good luck with FTPServer by Andreas Liebig, but there's really no reason to pick FTP over SSH/SCP/SFTP. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Isn't this m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heartbleed fix - question re: replacing self-signed certs with real ones

2014-04-19 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > Encryption still works, at least for some attackers. The fact that burglars > can pick locks doesn't mean that you should leave your door unlocked. FWIW I just checked my bank's website encryption ... they *still* use RC4!!! O_O I guess they are keen to make sure all

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
file to create the N'+1 file? conf-update allows you to merge the new and old files, prompting you to pick which to use on each differing section, with a further option to edit the lines. That way you can keep your changed lines but still add lines relating to new config options

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Dale
Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:46:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: >> At least it isn't just me.  Sometimes I think bugs/bad features pick on >> me.  While annoying, I guess it is harmless.  It just seems that as long >> as it has been doing this, someone woul

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-16 Thread Stroller
e any shares, and have to use what is already configured. The software allows export of data to an USB stick, but I would like to avoid having to move the stick around to the Linux PC afterwards. The hack that springs to mind is to see if you can pick up an Openmoko Freerunner with a broken sc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
upport[2] Build/install/reboot and you should now see your two CD drives appearing as sr0 and sr1. udev should now pick them both up, and write a new 70-persistent-cd.rules file, with the IDE drive having a different ID_PATH, something like: ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (1) which CPU ?

2012-07-20 Thread Dale
Alecks Gates wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 120720 Dale wrote to me as OP: >>> If you need help with this, i'd be glad to help you pick parts >>> for your build. The biggest thing is to make sure things work together. >> T

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Dale
Qian Qiao wrote: Ok, i top post, just for you, :) Imagine someone who wasn't following the thread need to do to pick up this thread: 1. Scroll all the way to the bottom, read Ted's message. 2. Scroll a bit upwards, to read you message 3. Then scroll all the way to the to

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:19 PM, John Blinka wrote: > Could you elaborate on this?  Don’t know css, but could pick it up.  I’m > assuming that web pages already contain css code to direct their > appearance.  yes. > So you apparent

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Stroller
GUI module for the Qt toolkit You do not need to emerge qt. Just emerge the stuff that uses qt and let portage pick the bits needed. I wasn't aware that x11-libs/qt-gui was the "new name" for x11-libs/ qt. Especially since I had both installed. However I have now unmerrged

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + checksums

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Hartman
ain bitterly because the hash in the > manifest will fail. Then you will know something is wrong. > > If I trojan the ebuild and the portage tree to match my trojaned sources, you > will probably not pick it up. This would be very risky indeed for me to do as > I can't be sure

[gentoo-user] Re: Print server with hplip

2010-04-29 Thread Grant
ote printing. I > have the client's IP in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and the server's IP in > /etc/cups/client.conf but the client won't pick up the server's HP for > printing. > > Could there be any extra configuration required for remote printing > when switching fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
o do with anthing? I'm not saying it "kinda works"; I'm saying it works great. Much better than anything else I have tried. > At the end of the day I want to pick a sound system and use it. > I do not want one forced on me. This is OpenSource; nobody is "forcing"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
>>> That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult >>> AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is >>> attached instead of the strong directional one.  Could a failing >>> antenna exhibit this beh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Crawford
tick, > but I'm missing something (I'm not that good in reading the scripts :-/ > Can anybody have a pick at it and tell me what is it looking for? > > -- > #Joseph This looks very promising- if you keep on compiling things without any more kernel panics, bad ram must have

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
o buy from a store with a liberal return/exchange > policy...of course it always helps if it says "supports linux" on the box! > > -Richard This is exactly why I stick with Proxim or Buffalotech, they aren't the usual moving targets like some other vendors. It's also ni

[gentoo-user] ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-06 Thread reader
ity is working behind the scenes, keeping track of the connections that your machine is participating in. I don't see that on a machine where I've tried to pick every iptable and contrack setting for the kernel I could find. Including the ones on that page that are still around.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
conclusion? How would attracting users who are > > unwilling to read documentation and get their hands dirty increase > > the number of potential developers? > > Taken to the extreme, if *all* the ubuntu users (to pick on ubuntu > for a minute) suddenly switched to gentoo I would

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Dale
hould it be avoided completely? James Not sure if the flag is safe but I don't think portage will pick up on changes to CFLAGS. You will have to do a emerge -e for all the packages to be compiled with the new setting. You could also just change it and let the packages update over t

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-01 Thread Michael Niggli
> work with kernel modules or with external modules ... or with both? > It should work with both - from its perspective, there shouldn't be any difference between in-kernel or an external module, actually :-) So if it doesn't work already with -Dwext, you might want to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Sullivan
omised DSL for the past 5 years or so. > It is supposed to be here next week. They put the cards in the DSL box > today. YEPPIE If I don't get DSL this time, my next post may be > from jail. I'm going to drive my uninsured 3/4 ton pick up right over > their

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