Neil Bothwick wrote:
I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find
a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send
alerts to people from a monitoring program.
An alternate way to send alerts is to send an email to their mobile phone.
Tony
I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got
it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if
it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other
compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed
increase but
I have a problem with sunbird (app-office/mozilla-sunbird-0.7).
I cannot set the start time of an event. I try to set it and it
defaults to 08:30 and is unchangeable.
No bug under BGO and no help from Google.
Anyone else seen/have this problem?
Tony
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While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.8-r5
protected: 4.11-r1
omitted: none
'Selected' packages are slated for
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:10 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.8-r5
protected: 4.11-r1
omitted: none
'Selected
Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo?
Tony
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Dan Cowsill wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo?
Tony
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I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another
drive, i.e., an external USB drive, is plugged in? The /dev references
may change but the
Michael Schmarck wrote:
· Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another
drive, i.e., an external USB
Josh Cepek wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Michael Schmarck wrote:
· Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references
I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days
now. Anyone else having problems with the list?
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Has anyone used the Linux version of the Bibble photo editing software?
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Just updated udev to 114 and it left me an einfo with the following:
You still have the directory /etc/dev.d on your system. This is no
longer used by udev and can be removed.
However I _DO NOT_ have an /etc/dev.d.
Should I file a bug report on this?
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Is there any way to make pushd and popd (Bash built-ins) silent? As
it is, when the execute, the directory is echoed to the output, making
it difficult to use the commands in a script. For example:
OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; popd)
echo $OLD_VER
/boot ~
Frank Gruellich wrote:
* Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20. Sep 07:
Is there any way to make pushd and popd (Bash built-ins) silent?
[snip] For example:
OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; popd)
echo $OLD_VER
/boot ~ kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 ~
For that exact
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in
the states.
Will the DVD play in Mplayer?
Tony
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forgottenwizard wrote:
On 19:34 Thu 27 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2007-09-27, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in
the states
Neil, back on 15 July, you stated that you used ntfs-3g with only the
in-kernel fuse modules.
When I try that, I get the following error:
error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
I find I have to use sys-fs/fuse to be able to
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello Iain Buchanan,
hey, stop answering, this was to Neil!
Hey! ! was asleep! :)
As Alexander has already posted, you still need sys-fs/fuse to provide
the libraries, but it defers to the kernel for the modules (which saves
rebuilding it each time you
Nick wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote:
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita:
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here
Weather has just released a beta app for linux.
Check it out - http://linux.weatherbug.com/
Tony
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I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after
several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now
it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about:
gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)
libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 and virtual/libstdc++
virtual/jdk and
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after
several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now
it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about:
gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)
libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 and virtual
On several emerges I see the message
Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve Gentoo.
Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo?
Tony
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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 22:19:23 Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
On several emerges I see the message
Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve
Gentoo.
Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
Tony
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Jarry wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in
the first sata-port, and sdb the one in the second port
(according to the info in motherboard
Stroller wrote:
On 5 Nov 2007, at 05:17, Jarry wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in
the first sata-port, and sdb the one in the second
I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros.
Gentoo has a 32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64 but this guide only
discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit
Gentoo. I was wondering if it could be used, suitably modified, to
chroot from my x86_64
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600
Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros.
Gentoo has a 32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64 but this guide only
discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment
I used to be able to view Nasa-tv
(http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) in Firefox with
mplayerplug-in. This no longer works however. The plug-in starts to
connect then says Stopped for any method (windows, realplayer, or
quicktime) chosen.
I feel that it is a changed use flag but I have the
Thufir wrote
Also, how were you generating that list, please?
thanks,
Thufir
emerge -pv mplayer, for example. Then cut and paste.
Would you please post yours so I can compare my USE flags to yours?
Thank you,
Tony
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Benno Schulenberg wrote:
When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the
screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode
won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there --
because it is possible to select for example the last entry with
Up
Thufir wrote
You don't want my make.conf, do you?
thanks,
Thufir
It might help. Thanks.
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:38:41 + (UTC), James wrote:
There seem to be several devices, based on USB2 that connect to
a computer and can receive ATSC (HDTV) or traditional broadcasts.
The ones I've found for N. America all require Vista (uck).
I've used a
Kelly Stewart wrote:
Can i please get some help unsubscribing from this mailing list please?
Send instant messages to your online friends
http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
Send a blank email (no subject necessary) to:
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That should do it.
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I've been looking at LiveUSB's lately, specifically ones for Gentoo.
Found one on the Gentoo Documentation and another on Pendrive and
several others. Problem is that all of these do not allow you to save
changes.
Has anyone made a persistent Gentoo LiveUSB? Google hasn't helped
here. Most
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out.
Since a USB stick is seen as a hard drive, why can't I do a standard
install to it? Is it because until lately they haven't been large
enough? I'm
I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it. However
I'm uncertain just what to backup.
Currently I'm backing up:
/home/tony/
/etc/
/var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases)
Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are some
more things in /var that should
Tom Martin wrote:
/var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose
everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same
packages.
Good idea. Thanks!
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Just got my laptop back up after having been down for awhile and it is
in dire need of an upgrade. After syncing, a -uDvp world showed about
100 packages needing upgrading, one of which was gcc, from 3.3 to 3.4.
I decided to do it first since most packages seemed dependent on it so
headed over to
Richard Fish wrote:
snip
# emerge -uav gcc
# gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
# source /etc/profile
# emerge --oneshot -av libtool
# revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5
# emerge -Duv world
Watch out for a portage or python update though...and don't forget the
python-updater if
I'm thinking about getting one of the Dell Widescreen Ultrasharp LCD
displays.
Has anyone used one under Gentoo (x86) and how good is it?
Tony
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Which one are you looking at? I have the 2005FPW (the 20
widescreen). I got a great deal on it by watching hot-deals.org
everyday until there was a sale and an Internet coupon. I upgraded
from a 19 nonflat CRT.
The 2005FPW is the one I'm considering. Dell has 20%
Dale wrote:
snip
Can someone tell me where in the world this is stored? This is nuts. I
couldn't change ISPs even if I wanted to since it works this way. I
would have to reinstall looks like. That sounds like winders.
Try:
find directory -name '*' -exec fgrep -l search phrase \{\} \;
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:09:01 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
find directory -name '*' -exec fgrep -l search phrase \{\} \;
This search all files for the search phrase.
Using find with a separate call to grep for each seems a slow way to do
things. What's wrong
My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began
getting these messages in my logwatch:
Time Reset
time stepped -0.133773
time stepped -0.662954
time stepped +0.271164
time stepped +0.461200
time stepped -0.787647
snip
Time Reset 25 times (total: -1.239782 s
Brandon Enright wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:32 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began
getting these messages in my logwatch:
Time Reset
time stepped -0.133773
time stepped -0.662954
time stepped +0.271164
time
Harry Putnam wrote:
Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter)
/etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms?
I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X.
Further, testing just now with a silly test entry:
cat ~/.inputrc:
## C-x C-r reread init files
Brandon Enright wrote:
So from your output a couple issues stick out. You're only peering with
one machine which generally doesn't work so well. You're probably
better off just using ntpdate periodically if you are only going to
sample one server.
Also, the delay on the server you are
Is there any way to search the Gentoo docs?
I have tried google:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=vixie-cron+ssmpt
+mailbasenum=10hl=enbtnG=Google
+Searchas_epq=as_oq=as_eq=lr=lang_enas_ft=ias_filetype=as_qdr=allas_occt=anyas_dt=ias_sitesearch=www.gentoo.org%2Fdocsafe=images
(search
Since emerge -inject is depreciated, the way to tell emerge that a
package is already installed is to list it in package.provided.
It seems there is some confusion as to where package.provided should be
placed. The portage man page talks about /etc/make.profile/ but I have
seen other
I had noticed that in the portage manpage but thought it meant I had to
make my own profile. Guess not. Anyway, created /etc/portage/profile
and placed package.provided there. Worked like a charm.
Thanks Zac.
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:53 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote
Has anyone successfully used the CyMotion linux keyboard under Gentoo?
How do you like it? Is it available in the US?
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Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:17 +0200, Jarry wrote:
Sorry, for asking such a trivial question, but how can I find which
packages have been emerged on my system? As time goes, I lost track
of what I installed...
# equery list
Bye
find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2
Elsewhere I had asked a question regarding the Cherry CyMotion Master
Linux keyboard. While researching it, I ran across a German Gentoo Wiki
page on configuring the keyboard
(http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/Cherry_CyMotion_Master_Linux).
I noticed the page was not in the english Wiki
Mark Shields wrote:
I have a Microsoft natural multimedia keyboard and wish to use the extra
available keys (the multimedia keys mostly, volume up/down, pause, stop,
rewind/fast forward, mute). Are there any packages in portage that will
allow me to do this? Of course, if there isn't, a
Gary Richards wrote:
I think somebody on this list was looking for one of those new Cherry
CyMotion Linux keyboards. There's a new seller on eBay that has them.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
snip
And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
available. It takes around 15 hours :(
So when are the Openoffice people
Sorry that the subject is not very informative.
I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or
program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on
packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information
that might be of help to the devs. No
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote:
I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a
deadlock/crash since.
Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support
I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+ and Have the Preempt Big Kernel Lock
turned on in my 2.6.19 kernel and have experienced no
Alex Fansky wrote:
Hello.
I am using kde-3.5.6 and gmplayer as frontend to mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2. When I
doubleclick on the video file, it is opened in new mplayer window. Is there
any ways to make it be played in already runned mplayer instead of previously
opened movie, like it do MS
Neil Bothwick wrote:
At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be
doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only
need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use a script that
removes all but the last two, and also cleans out
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the average age of the gentoo user here?
Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸ žÚ(¢¸j)bž bst==
I'm 64.
Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor Technology SOL-20
in 1979 or 1980.
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't
be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel,
you only need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use
a script
I wonder why I do not have a ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc file?
Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks: SOLVED!!
In my (user) home directory there is .kde/share/config/kaccessrc file.
The file has two sections: Bell and Mouse.
I modified the first two entries of Bell section like this:
I agree. I don't think I have changed any of the settings. Thanks
Anno v. Hiemburg wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I wonder why I do not have a ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc file?
Because you never changed your settings away from the system defaults? The
config files in the home
I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take
effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't
logout without first exiting X.
So, I'm wondering if there is any way to re-log the user without exiting X?
Tony
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Zac Slade wrote:
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:34, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take
effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't
logout without first exiting X.
So, I'm wondering if there is any way to re
Mark Knecht wrote:
I'm still trying to fix my Myth frontend box. Bummer. I've got X
working again by going back to older udev. Myth is working if I use a
keyboard, but my remote controi has stopped working. (Darn emerge!)
Anyway, if I restart lircd I see this message:
myth14 ~ #
12:57, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Maybe I'm not doing something right. From KDE's konsole, I invoked a
new shell with bash -l and then ran id but it did not reflect the
new group.
No you did nothing wrong. I double checked it and it's as I feared. You
have
to log out and back in for the changes
For the last few days I have had a cron problem. It started when I was
trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script. Don't know
what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a
notice like the following:
I just discovered something (I think). Probably everyone else already
knew it but didn't tell me. Shame on all of you!
Do all audio cd's have the mp3's and ogg files on them also
I happened to look at one with konqueror and noticed several files and
directories on it. The cd was not
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
On Wednesday, May 3 2006 17:03, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I just discovered something (I think). Probably everyone else already
knew it but didn't tell me. Shame on all of you!
Do all audio cd's have the mp3's and ogg files on them also
I happened to look
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
On Wednesday, May 3 2006 17:23, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Does is also get the filenames, etc. from CDDB?
Tony
As far as I know, yes it does do a cddb lookup for the cd. Although
personally
I've always preferred kaudiocreator for cd ripping in kde.
I
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I
thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your
most/least favourite X terminals, and why?
Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating
into a subset of
In process of switching to nVIDIA drivers and following advice found in
forums to use the latest drivers. They recommend adding USE flag
dlloader and re-emerging xorg-x11. I notice from
/use/portage/profiles/use.local.desc that it enables the dynamic module
loader instead of the ELF one.
So my
Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr. squawked:
From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports
the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an
X based off of the xf86 tree which,
However,
you'll need kdelibs to be compiled against it if you want to hear sounds in
kde (and I mean sounds generated by kde, not sounds from amarok...)
Not sure what you mean by this. Should arts be installed before
emerging kdelibs?
Or something like this: USE=arts emerge kdelibs
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Sat, 20 May 2006, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
However, you'll need kdelibs to be compiled against it if you want to hear
sounds in kde (and I mean sounds generated by kde, not sounds from amarok...)
Not sure what you mean by this. Should arts be installed
I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to
check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with
emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the
emerge, it will fail the md5 check.
How can I do this?
Tony
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Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to
check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with
emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the
emerge
Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's
correction fixed the problem also.
Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release
that may be some weeks off, you might consider
Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's
correction fixed the problem also.
Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release
that may be some weeks off, you might consider
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. No problem,
but I think I will then have to recompile all non-kde but related apps,
such a k3b, that were compiled against the old libraries. Right?
Using
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I should have included that in my original email, of course:
$ grep USE /etc/make.conf | grep -v ^#
USE=berkdb innodb
I have no /usr/portage/package.use
$ grep USE /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
USE=alsa apm arts avi
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:04, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. No problem,
but I think I will then have to recompile all non-kde
Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/26/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first.
You don't need to unmerge 3.4 _first_. You can do it after you have
merged 3.5
maxim wexler wrote:
Hi group,
The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E.
Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub
prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the
entire grub session:
grub root (hd0,1)
grub kernel /vmlinuz vga=794 #1280x1024(so I'm told)
grub
I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a lot
of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.
I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably
Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous
configuration. It seems that if I just kept the
Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in
/etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in
/etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and
should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with the appropriate
package?
Tony
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James Colby wrote:
List members -
I have a laptop that I dual boot with windows and gentoo. My gentoo
installation has software suspend working. When I run the hibernate
script the system hibernates and then powers down. When I press the
power button on my laptop I am then presented with my
I was going to switch to nptl (only) but emerge ignored my additions to
make.conf. Then I noticed that my profile is default-linux/x86/no-nptl
so that answers that question.
Can I change my profile to default-linux/x86/2006.0. Any repercussions?
Here is my emerge --info:
Portage 2.0.54-r2
James Colby wrote:
On 6/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When Windows _SUSPENDS_ (we're not talking hibernate right?), it never
relaay stops running. It shuts down the display and the hard drives and
sort of goes to sleep. So when you power back up, it simply resumes
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I was going to switch to nptl (only) but emerge ignored my additions to
make.conf. Then I noticed that my profile is default-linux/x86/no-nptl
so that answers that question.
Can I change my profile to default-linux/x86/2006.0. Any repercussions?
Here is my emerge
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:10:36 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
don't forget to check the useflags (with ufed), and don't forget
emerge --newuse -a world
You'll need to add --update --deep to catch packages affected by the
changed USE flags.
Did. Thanks and all is
William Kenworthy wrote:
Are there any known glitches in using the nvidia drivers with an
athlon64?
They work together for me.
Tony
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
Note that I'm _NOT_ talking about those modules that have to be compiled
in such as for your filesystem. This is about the other ones.
I generally like to load
Teresa and Dale wrote:
Care to guess how much I like modules:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 4551892 12
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I would have that one in there if I could. I never did like them.
Why?
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Those who would give up
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