Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Dale
ld but want to be certain before I set all that up.  I'm pretty sure I can dig around and find a hard drive somewhere.  While at it, I wouldn't want grub or anything to pick it up.  Since grub does so much automatically, would it "detect" that install or would it ignore it?  Thanks. Dale :-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:08:08 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> If you are using rsync or cp -u you could start the copy then stop at it >> certain points to let the SSD cool, then start it again.  It will >> basically pick up where it left off. > Don't

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Michael
rder sound devices for alsa is not absolutely necessary. Removing modules for any unwanted devices will of course disable them and alsa will automatically pick up whichever device is left. I tend to use asound.conf to make sure the order of devices is respected whatever DE I tend to boot into at

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

2020-08-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
ing image file as a basis, IM needs to pick a default background colour, which in your case seems to be black. > and can find nothing in the internet about it. Have you tried the IM website? https://imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/ https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#backgrou

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
round > > the filesystem. > > > Is there a page which details the differences or features of each profile? > Not that I'm aware of. Keep in mind that the numbered profiles aren't intended to be "choices" for a user to pick between. It is more about version control

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 released

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 >

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 would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
these directories with certain data during boot, and when run only during boot (as it is supposed to be) there is nothing wrong with it. Why are you focusing on /tmp and /var/tmp? These entries are exploitable everywhere. To pick a relevant example, app-portage/eix installs the following: $ cat /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] BIOS can not find boot partition

2021-01-24 Thread Andrea Conti
stages of GRUB when BIOS-booting from a GPT disk. It does not need to be formatted or mounted, and as long as it has the proper flags grub-install should be able to pick it up on its own. andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Simon Thelen
dn't, but now I think I'm going to have to. Is there a > reasonably efficient way to do this? I have 500GB spare space on /dev/sda, and > the machine runs constantly. Pick your favorite of gzip, bzip2, xz or lzip (I recommend lzip) and then: mount USB-3 /mnt; cd /mnt; lzip * The archiver yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

2021-12-22 Thread Grant Edwards
some video editing software to find the exact > millisecond I want to cut, it STILL cuts it in completely the wrong > place ... If you're trying to do cuts with a muxer (without re-encoding), you can only cut at certain pre-defined points in the stream, and the software will have to pick one o

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with KOrganizer and Google calendar

2021-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 November 2021 17:32:54 GMT Jack wrote: > I see a checkbox for "Enable interval refresh", but if I turn this off, > when will the desktop pick up any changes made to the calendar on other > devices? I'll try turning it off - hopefully the "refresh" or

[gentoo-user] KDE upgrade dependency problem

2021-12-10 Thread Jack
around this, or does it just mean I can't upgrade any of kde-frameworks from 5.85 to 5.88 until kde-plasma 5.24.something is marked stable or I unmask it? I'm not in any great rush, but it means emerge @world always fails, and I've got to individually pick out those packages I CAN upgrade. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons?

2021-12-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
sounds like you have the same rationale as I do: "no, I don't want to run the 4am backup job in the middle of the business day just because it wasn't run at 4am." If you pick a dumber cron, the crontab entries are run only at the specified times.

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

2022-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
ate 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. -- Neil Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

2023-03-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 March 2023 02:46:18 GMT Matt Connell wrote: > On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 18:36 +, Michael wrote: > > The kernel has IA32_EMULATION compiled in: > > > > # grep IA32_EMULATION /usr/src/linux/.config > > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y > > Small nit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

2023-04-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 03:58:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I did a emerge -ef nvidia-drivers and it still fails.  I was hoping that >> would pick up the needed files.  Guess not.  I decided to do some more >> digging.  I noticed that the same version

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

2023-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 03:58:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > I did a emerge -ef nvidia-drivers and it still fails.  I was hoping that > would pick up the needed files.  Guess not.  I decided to do some more > digging.  I noticed that the same version is still in the tree.  I > copied the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
a 'design of experiments' set of tests? For instance: 1) Pick 1 semi-large package that spawns a few extra jobs to get built 2) Remove the binaries from your system 3) Ensure all the source is prefetched 4) Build the package with no options measuring load-average Repeat 2 - 4 using a few different o

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -aDNvu world fails

2008-03-29 Thread Mark Knecht
but rather run emerge -pvDuN world, pick an app that has some dependencies, emerge that app to pick up stuff and work my way through the list until I'm down to just a few. I never emerge everything I see in the list since most are dependencies themselves and I don't want to add them to my world file

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Dale
at the end of the build too. Kind of important. I got lucky and happened to see it... Thanks, Mike I just did a reinstall on my rig and it did the exact same thing. I had to mask the one it installed and re-emerge the older one that does work. Isn't there some way for it to pick the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
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 top, to read mine.I can hardly say it is *logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

2007-06-01 Thread Dale
but for some reason the ISP modem would not pick up/respond. My modem would start the handshake but the ISP's would continue ringing. After trying out about a dozen different telephone Nos or so, I managed to find one (virgin.net) which worked without a problem; i.e. the ISP's modem would pick

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

2005-07-24 Thread Ian K
, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread Raymond Lillard
IPs and are linked together via a RoundRobin DNS. Their sole purpose would be to check mail being sent to them against a list of known users @ourdomain.com and possibly filter spam as well. Messages that satisfy the filter would then be forwarded to the main mail server where we would all pick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Creating new named colors

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
, MediumSlateBlue, etc) correctly, but unfortunately, these named colors do not *precisely* match my desktop. I've been using gcolor2 to pick the colors of my desktop, and I just noticed that it also saves 'named' colors. So I thought, can't I just 'pick' a color, name it, and then I could use it like all

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

2009-10-16 Thread Stroller
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 screen. I'd guess you might

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 up for as little

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

2010-01-10 Thread Dale
, 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 that same ball. Yes, it is negative. It sure is because it has had a negative effect on others, not just me either. As bad as I hate M$, one thing I can say, they have

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

2010-01-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
(dropped the ball has a clear implication of a serious mistake). Look at how many people have jumped to side with you in this complaint 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 that same ball. Red Hat are simply doing

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

2010-01-10 Thread Dale
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 that same ball. Red Hat are simply doing

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-16 Thread Mick
/usb/lp0 (found this notation when googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing happens when I try to print. This is the cups driver (in kernel) which ought to pick up your usb printer and use it without problems. However, according to your logs ... there seems to be a clash

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 August 2010 00:11:12 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/11/2010 01:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I refuse to implement password expiration policies and have a vast array of literature to back me up when some dimwit damager gets on his expiration high horse. My users pick their own

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice - AKA passwords

2010-08-11 Thread Bill Longman
some dimwit damager gets on his expiration high horse. My users pick their own passwords - I present a list of 5 from apg and let them pick one. Accounts do expire if they go unused for 90 days, but not passwords. What put me onto this policy? I found Gartner recommending password

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Mick
LOL, what the hell is going on? Porgage went crazy or what? This has been in unstable for many months now. Basically there's now a virtual for $EDITOR and $PAGER so you can pick the one you want. If you don't pick one, portage will take the default and --depclean is likely to remove the others

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
starting... (Control-C to abort)... Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9 LOL, what the hell is going on? Porgage went crazy or what? This has been in unstable for many months now. Basically there's now a virtual for $EDITOR and $PAGER so you can pick the one you want. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
such a situation. A program with such a particular knowledge can hardly be called general-purpose. Joost, Either make the ETL tool pick up where it stopped and continue as it is the only that knows what it was doing and how far it got. Or, wrap the entire script in a single transaction. Alan

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

2016-05-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
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 use git all day. All > of the com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-13 Thread Dale
ure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display manager? The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't work. That may explain the black screen. If it after you login, did you select the write session? At

Re: [gentoo-user] ro /

2017-01-13 Thread Dale
It is different from checkrestart. I might add, I also used checkrestart afterwards and it seemed to pick up a couple things needrestart didn't. I'm not yet sure what the deal is on that. I'd try them both and then either pick one that does what you want or use them both. Oh, I am pretty sur

Re: [gentoo-user] Something strange with use flags

2018-11-22 Thread Dale
ecause they are not in the ebuild IUSE anymore (hence the %). >> >> From man emerge >>> %suffix newly added or removed > Ok. Why these packages should be rebuild then if the corresponding > use flags just do not exit? > > The percent s

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
'bootctl status'. > > Bootctl and efibootmgr seem to operate orthogonally, at least in some > > respects, which doesn't help me to uderstand what's going on. > > If you follow the UEFI spec and store one kernel per EFI/ > subdirectory, the UEFI firmware will pick them up o

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Dale
g is, I can boot the old >> kernel of that version or even boot a older kernel if needed.  It gives >> me a lot of booting options.  Maybe someone can figure out a way to make >> those scripts name kernels that way??  >> >> I plan to clean older ones out eventually and I us

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

2020-09-28 Thread Dale
age in just a few minutes.  > There's a great extension for Firefox (and I'm sure equivalents exist for > all > browsers supporting extensions) allowing you to cherry-pick and remove > all > "dirty" content (advertisements, multimedia, silly CSS, etc.) before >

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

2020-07-19 Thread Grant Taylor
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 to pick the program that you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-27 Thread Rich Freeman
g 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 the next LTS is stable and se

RE: [gentoo-user] doing gentoo install disrupted

2022-04-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
> > > happening today due to space weather. The computer will be off until > > > tomorrow and disconnected. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can pick up where you left off at pretty much any point in a Gentoo > > install.

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

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
. With client network nodes, manual configuration of static addresses is very unusual. With network appliances...I don't know. Probably static, except for some cases like printers where common names seem to have good IPv6 support, and pick up addresses from RAs. (For the love of God, people, put

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
a better understanding of user land. For experts, yes. To be blunt, you are not an expert, not even close. But hey, it's your system and your time you'll expend. If you break it, you get to keep all the little tiny shards. Pick a profile that suits what you want to use the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

2017-02-05 Thread Dale
graph about the USE-flag ‘threads’ example). It let me rethink how > I handle USE (which is even similar your way) and it might be worth to > consider why a package maintainer defaults a flag on/off. > [1]  > <https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a59f08ffe21bcf984ee82fd7125e0

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-19 Thread Dale
sions > 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 year.  They have a pr

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 top, to read

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Openmoko Freerunner as USB client

2009-10-17 Thread Stroller
On 18 Oct 2009, at 00:09, Alex Schuster wrote: ... 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 up for as little as $50 or so. It needs no SIM - you just connect it to your office wifi instead

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
. This is the cups driver (in kernel) which ought to pick up your usb printer and use it without problems. However, according to your logs ... there seems to be a clash: There is a message in syslog that is being repeated hundreds of times: May 15 22:25:55 [kernel] usb 1-2: usbfs: interface 0 claimed

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

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
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-0:0:0:0 And you should now get your symlinks. [1] BMDMA is the controller type in all

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

2011-01-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
** /Do not/ enable SCSI Generic support[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

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 purs...@ca.inter.net 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. Thanks for the offer the other

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 aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net 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

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
profile list If that works, pick whatever profile is closest to what you use and set it. That *should* take care of your first problem. No complaint from selecting 3, then 6. You got lots more coming I bet. It already seems to be telling me don't. Man portage works, but portage --help produces

[gentoo-user] Git for gentoo users?

2016-05-26 Thread James
spend a while getting used to git, there's no way around it. You just have to pick a project and force yourself to use git all day. All of the commands have the wrong names: * Want to check out a repository? There's `git checkout`, but that's not what it does. You want `git clone`. * Want to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-14 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
screen appeared after logging in. If it after you login, did you select the write session? At first, I wasn't sure which one to pick. There is a couple at least KDE related. I think I had one that said plasma and one that said KDE wayland. I have seen wayland talked about and tried it but I

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Dale
of -1.  I'm not sure on the -gentoo one.  Thing is, I can boot the old kernel of that version or even boot a older kernel if needed.  It gives me a lot of booting options.  Maybe someone can figure out a way to make those scripts name kernels that way??  I plan to clean older ones out eventually

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] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Dale
uch a while before that.  Even with a virtually direct hit, the surge protectors kept working.  Not long after that, they wanted a UPS for their computer but also wanted one for the TV, since the dish box takes a while to reload after the power blinks.  So I helped them pick a fair sized UPS for the pute

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-16 Thread Wols Lists
. But at the moment, my computing focus is on (at work) learning to be a power-user/developer in Excel, and at home I'm working on a database called ScarletDME - that's DME as in Data Management Environment I think. It's (finally) an Open Source Pick database. Think back to "the database is the com

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-29 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
and Windoze. Something that I can pick up at Walmart or Circuit City would be best. I think the Logitech Quickcam is the general answer to that question. I think the cheap one is around 30-40US, though. Yup, works like a champ. Had to go get the driver, but once I did, it just stood

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
that the GPL is working AS DESIGNED. What's wrong with that? Red Hat don't lock you out from their stuff. The fee you pay is in return for a promise from RH that if you have a problem with their stuff and phone them, they will pick up the phone and talk to you. If you don't like the fee structure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiser4 status

2008-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
for them (yes, I look at you Redhat and Suse). Which proves that the GPL is working AS DESIGNED. What's wrong with that? Red Hat don't lock you out from their stuff. The fee you pay is in return for a promise from RH that if you have a problem with their stuff and phone them, they will pick up

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir -- SOLVED?

2008-02-28 Thread felix
/profile' (to pick up the changes made by eslect) then ran 'info emacs' and it indicated it was for version 22.1. This is, I believe, the expected behaviour. I had not thought that env vars were at work, so that might have been a problem if I ever got that far, but I was always getting emacs-21 info

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, this is very dangerous. Why not modeling/storing the *runtime* dependencies and doing an *clean* MVCC ? Isn't this what slotting was meant for ? ;-P Imagine using a binary distro where the packager didn't pick this up and you are left stranded with no easy way to fix it... Then the package

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
. Instead, the amount of information posted should be condensed to only the important pieces. Michael: Alan's reply was harmless. You're not entitled to pick on him unless you posted correctly in the first place. So, I *am* entitled. Thanks! You're asking for help - provide as much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Stroller
, but you're demonstrating yourself to be a clueless idiot. Alan's reply was harmless. You're not entitled to pick on him unless you posted correctly in the first place. So, I *am* entitled. Thanks! No, you're not. You're asking for help - provide as much information as possible and please don't

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Schmarck
? Just because you see things differently then I do? Alan's reply was harmless. You're not entitled to pick on him unless you posted correctly in the first place. So, I *am* entitled. Thanks! No, you're not. But you said, that I am. Could you please stop changing your mind? You're

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-30 Thread Grant
stated and probably go pretty high on the speed scale doing it too. Should the adapter itself make a lot of difference when driving an external antenna? I think I'm going to use one of these with my laptop and an external antenna and I may need to pick up weak signals: http://www.newegg.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: emerge -DuvatN world doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
-meta package only pulls in, what's wanted (per USE flags). If you want to pick and choose, emerge the packages you want, there's no need to add extra USE flags and another layer of complexity when the current system handles both all-in-one and selective installs just fine. Well, I disagree. I

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-18 Thread Mick
a DVD at the time - which I did not try). You could try rebuilding it in case some library linkage is borked (and revdep-rebuild fails to pick it up): # emerge -aDv media-libs/libdvdread BTW. win32codecs are necessary to play wmf and other types of files, so I would always set this flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cell phone as modem

2007-12-05 Thread Grant
it. All in all, I think it makes sense to pick one of the five options whenever traveling to a specific destination (dial-up, wireless, GSM, CDMA, satellite) based on what you know will be available. Do yourself a favor and don't hope it will work out when you get there. That has ended in disaster

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging LIRC with LIRC_DEVICES

2008-01-05 Thread Aline de Freitas
the variable in /etc/portage/app-misc/lirc; however, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging LIRC with LIRC_DEVICES

2008-01-05 Thread BRM
. Per recent thread, I thought I just needed to set the variable in /etc/portage/app-misc/lirc; however, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

2008-01-13 Thread Jesús Guerrero
well. The only thing I don't like is having to run ttmkfdir fonts.scale, mkfontdir, /etc/init.d/xfs restart everytime I want to add a new font. But I guess it's a small price to pay. Thank you guys! You usually don't need to. Kde should pick the fonts just the same moment you install them

Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

2008-01-13 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
need to. Kde should pick the fonts just the same moment you install them. Other X programs need a re-building of the font cache. That is done when X is restarted, but you can also do it manually on a term with something like this: xset fp rehash That will re-read all the font dirs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: License issues [was:Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

2008-01-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
is when a company or individual, to save time and money, decides to pick (or usurp, depending on one's point of view) an already existing piece of code and adapt it to their needs, without respecting the rules set by the author of such code (remember that the original author(s) of a GPLed code

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread John
syslog-ng, if you could advise on a config that may pick something up in logs -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-14 Thread John
been working, maybe a update has done this and i have missed it. Is this common? Using syslog-ng, if you could advise on a config that may pick something up in logs Sorry - shutdown no longer works and systems goes to black screen Seems as though reinstalling nvidia drivers has made

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

2009-01-15 Thread John
-gentoo-r7 Card is Geforce GO 6100. PC is laptop and logout has been working, maybe a update has done this and i have missed it. Is this common? Using syslog-ng, if you could advise on a config that may pick something up in logs I had a similar problem on my HP Compaq laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
of DAEMON_SLEEP? Denyhosts doesn't pick up on certain types of PAM auth regular expressions. If any of those appear in your logs during those 200+ attempts, Denyhosts is probably not reading them. I've already reported it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248047) if you want to add anything

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:29:01 -0800, Grant wrote: Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'? Not if these are build-time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Christopher Walters
to pick one part of a person's message and criticize it, while ignoring the remainder of said message. Especially when said message is supporting your points. Regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJJjJZZAAoJEIAhA8M9p9DAQGoP/1Lsc7EVsfwE7u4MRyExw4kr

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-24 Thread Mike Kazantsev
security is overally a good thing, making some aspects of it a pain in the ass is what I just can't understand in people: it may take ages to pick the root password (provided you have right anti-brute daemon installed), but they will make their lives miserable over it, while leaving the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

2009-03-13 Thread Beau Henderson
this, but the approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into that local, and now customized, portage tree. -Sean I'm not sure if this is any use to you, but what I tend to do with my workstation and laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
been made. Looking at the glibc 2.8 release notes, it doesn't look like it but I wanted to check before upgrading. It makes me nervous. :) If there's an issues, revdep-rebuild will pick them up. Ok, good. Sometimes, glibc is all fsck'ed up. Like sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1. It looks great

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

2009-04-06 Thread Momesso Andrea
are just symlinks for a running installation, you can pick up one, or make your by hand. Livecd releases are updated livecds with updated tools. Personally I don't think gentoo developers should invest lot of manpower in releasing updated livecds, while they could improve the handbook in the chapter

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Hartman
are confusing profiles and livecd releases, that are different things. Profiles are just symlinks for a running installation, you can pick up one, or make your by hand. Livecd releases are updated livecds with updated tools. Personally I don't think gentoo developers should invest lot of manpower

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-10 Thread Dale
and the keyboard don't work, you're screwed. There is really no back up at that point, not for me at least. Here's to waiting on hal to upgrade some more. Maybe eselect can help us pick our keyboard and mouse and poke in the correct information so that they work. Maybe running xorgconfig can do

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Jorge Morais
a new bugfix release (like gimp 2.6.6) is released, I want to see if other distros consider the bugfixes important enough to pick it; I chose Debian because I am somewhat familiar with it; and Debian testing because AFAIK Debian stable only rarely picks updates

[gentoo-user] Re: Sparse files and df

2009-05-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
occupied by files that actually have a filename. The files you deleted are still there if the torrent client still has handles on them; they just lack an entry in the directory and therefore du doesn't pick them up, but of course df does since it's not looking at files individually but asks

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

2009-05-24 Thread Dale
dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] kde-base/libkdegames-4.2.3 [4.2.2] What am I missing here? Shouldn't the upgrade or world pick up the the need to upgrade these packages, or do I need some syntax to check my (kde 4) sets to see if any of them need updating? (missed something here). And why

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
ath0 in any other configuration file ... where else could wpa_supplicant pick this from? Have you tried grep -r ath0 /etc ? Yes, of course: === # grep -r ath0 /etc /etc/conf.d/net:#wpa_supplicant_ath0=-Dmadwifi # For Atheros based cards /etc/conf.d/net

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Hartman
configuration file ... where else could wpa_supplicant pick this from? On my system I've got ath5k for wifi, too. It uses wpa_supplicant and my device is wlan0 and all works well enough. I switched 2 machines from madwifi to ath5k and only had to make 4 changes to my configuration: 1. Edit /etc/modprobe.d

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