hi,
after trying many time, i am again trying to install the gentoo on my
macbook pro 4.1 . after pessing 2 days with it, still i have some problem:
1. sound not working (tried most of the solutions that available online
2. wifi not working
3. touchpad not working ok (two fingurs scroll working, b
hi,
after trying many time, i am again trying to install the gentoo on my
macbook pro 4.1 . after pessing 2 days with it, still i have some problem:
1. sound not working (tried most of the solutions that available online
2. wifi not working
3. touchpad not working ok (two fingurs scroll working, b
On 2009-02-08, Dale wrote:
> I have a FX5200 here and this works well.
>
> r...@smoker / # equery list nvidia
> [ Searching for package 'nvidia' in all categories among: ]
> * installed packages
> [I--] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 (0)
> [I--] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.09
On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:32:53 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Naga wrote:
> > I've reinstalled KDE-4.2 from portage at least 3 times, and in between
> > compiling it from svn. The svn copy always works ok, the portage one is
> > always missing Oxygen.
>
> Do you have kde-base/kdebase-desktopthem
Grant Edwards wrote:
> I can't seem to find an nvidia driver version that works with a
> PCI FX5200. Versions later >= 173.15 don't support the 5200
> series. I tried several 173.14.xx versions, and they all build
> and the nvidia module loads, but Xorg dies with an illegal
> instruction signal w
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 +
Ian Lee wrote:
> but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??
You can try putting
XTerm*background: #001800
XTerm*foreground: #A8A8A8
to ~/.Xresources
WFM
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Hi all,
I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb:
0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the
media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles:
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:54:27:
error: asm/se
I can't seem to find an nvidia driver version that works with a
PCI FX5200. Versions later >= 173.15 don't support the 5200
series. I tried several 173.14.xx versions, and they all build
and the nvidia module loads, but Xorg dies with an illegal
instruction signal when it starts. (Xorg runs fine
He wrote the lines of his post upside down, because he thinks you're
wrong to top-post.
If you read it as:
Usually, you have to
umount it before you
put it too sleep. There's
almost always something
waking it up if it's
still mounted.
It makes perfect sense & you don't need to ask any furthe
El Dom, 8 de Febrero de 2009, 1:42, Harry Putnam escribió:
> Jesús Guerrero writes:
>
>
>>> There should be no posts beyond this point proclaiming how tuff it is
>>> to use emacs if you have no network on a fresh install... Or having
>>> to suffer through learning info to learn emacs to
Jesús Guerrero writes:
>> There should be no posts beyond this point proclaiming how tuff it is
>> to use emacs if you have no network on a fresh install... Or having to
>> suffer through learning info to learn emacs to ah but who knows.
>
> So you word is definitive and infallible.
Where di
>> But you can use wicd for most anything from unencryped, to WEP, to WPA
>> and WPA2. Wicd is just plain easy.
>
> The only thing I wish it would handle, that the latest NetworkManager
> does, is 3G modem connections.
Why choose wicd over NetworkManager?
- Grant
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:46:26 -0500, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> But you can use wicd for most anything from unencryped, to WEP, to WPA
> and WPA2. Wicd is just plain easy.
The only thing I wish it would handle, that the latest NetworkManager
does, is 3G modem connections.
--
Neil Bothwick
Manual
>>> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
>>>
>> There's also wpa_gui.
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Do you know how to read?
>> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
>> Do you know how to write?
>> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
>>
>
>
On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Liviu Andronic
wrote:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Grant wrote:
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling.
Does
There's also wpa_gui.
Liviu
--
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
Do you know how to w
On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Grant wrote:
I have to admit I'm a little sick of constant /etc/conf.d/net and
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
anyone use a network management app they're happy with? Especially
one that works well with xfce4?
- Grant
Have
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Grant wrote:
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
>
There's also wpa_gui.
Liviu
--
Do you know how to read?
http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
Do you know how to write?
http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.ht
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:43:04 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> If i have to do *multiple* installs for several copumters, which I do
> not use myself, I choose debian, because fai rocks.
>
> Shouldn't this fai be adopted for Gentoo? I should investigate if this
> is possible...
Did you look at
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:01:39 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I have to admit I'm a little sick of constant /etc/conf.d/net and
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
> anyone use a network management app they're happy with? Especially
> one that works well with xfce4?
wicd
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as
> if the disk is in sleep
> mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
> again...
That's why I mentioned laptop-mode-tools. If configured properly, it
ensures that the driv
* James Homuth (ja...@the-jdh.com) [07.02.09 18:29]:
> if Gentoo needs anything, it's a more accessible method of installing for
> those users who can't actually see the screen. Don't get me wrong, I love
> the distro for several reasons, but if I were to install linux locally on
> any of my deskt
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [07.02.09 18:25]:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
>> Repeating something does not increase its validity.
>
> That's why I didn't repeat it in the
I have been using wicd and it works quit nicely.
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Grant wrote:
> I have to admit I'm a little sick of constant /etc/conf.d/net and
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
> anyone use a network management app they're happy with? Es
in both drives i try to spin down i use ntfs as filesystem...
2009/2/7 Dale
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
> > you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
> > because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
> >
>
> If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Ever
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
> because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
>
If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it
updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the
gurus n
> Mine is a true external serial modem. I make sure it says it works with
> Linux or someone else tells me it does without the extra drivers. It's
> just that some don't include wvdial and other dialers at times. I don't
> know which ones do or don't and since I am on dial-up it is a HUGE deal.
you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep?
because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep?
2009/2/7 Nikos Chantziaras
> still mounted.
> waking it up if it's
> almost always something
> put it too sleep. There's
> umount it before you
> Usually, you have to
>
> Danis
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> El Sab, 7 de Febrero de 2009, 19:37, Dale escribió:
>
>> Jesús Guerrero wrote:
>>
>>
>>> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 23:55, Dale escribió:
>>>
> [...]
>
>>> If you like Mandriva and you install it to use it, then it's
>>> ok, but to install it just to use
El Sab, 7 de Febrero de 2009, 19:40, Harry Putnam escribió:
> Jesús Guerrero writes:
>
>
>> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 22:00, Harry Putnam escribió:
>>
>>> Grant Edwards writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallm
El Sab, 7 de Febrero de 2009, 19:37, Dale escribió:
> Jesús Guerrero wrote:
>
>> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 23:55, Dale escribió:
[...]
>> If you like Mandriva and you install it to use it, then it's
>> ok, but to install it just to use it as a Gentoo installer it's a weird
>> thing to say the l
I have to admit I'm a little sick of constant /etc/conf.d/net and
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does
anyone use a network management app they're happy with? Especially
one that works well with xfce4?
- Grant
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> where? Because of the 'xemacs is even better'? Well, you are stating all the
> time that info is perfect for big things like bash - and then you are
> critizing me for stating unsupportable hard facts? Pretty ironic, don't you
> think?
Hehe... maybe so. You'll
Jesús Guerrero writes:
> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 22:00, Harry Putnam escribió:
>> Grant Edwards writes:
>>
>>
The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
>>>
>>> Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
>>>
El Sab, 7 de Febrero de 2009, 13:19, Neil Bothwick escribió:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:10:31 +, Frank Schwidom wrote:
>
>
>> I expect, if LANG is set to html (if this locale would exist), that if
>> a file a.html contains <>> and i make 'cat a.html' then '<' sould
>> appear on the console.
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 23:55, Dale escribió:
>
>
>> This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD,
>> boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it
>> install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reb
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 23:55, Dale escribió:
> This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD,
> boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it
> install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL
> your software is alrea
El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 22:00, Harry Putnam escribió:
> Grant Edwards writes:
>
>
>>> The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee
>>> invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman.
>>
>> Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
>> largely correct.
>
[...]
> I recomm
still mounted.
waking it up if it's
almost always something
put it too sleep. There's
umount it before you
Usually, you have to
Danis Petkakis wrote:
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as
if the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as th
ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if
the disk is in sleep
mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up
again...also
'hdparm -C /dev/sda' shows the disk active/idle...i also tried with 'hdparm
-S12 /dev/sda'
but couldn't tell whether
I use to have a white text on black xterm, but since my last reinstall I
have not been able to change the colours.
I have copied the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color to
/etc/X11/app-defaults and changed the options to
*VT100*foreground: gray90
*VT100*background: black
I have XFILESEAR
Frank Schwidom wrote:
Hi,
im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html.
HTML is NOT a character encoding. Therefore, you cannot do that.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>
>> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
>>
>
> Repeating something does not increase its validity. You stated that
> Gentoo needs a GUI installer. The number of people using it without
On Sat, February 7, 2009 12:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
>
> Repeating something does not increase its validity.
That's why I didn't repeat it in the fir
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
Repeating something does not increase its validity.
That's why I didn't repeat it in the first place maybe?
You stated that
Gentoo needs a GUI install
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there any open sourced software, with which I can use
the SecurDisc funtionality of my LG HL-DST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
DVD burner ?
No.
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Remy Blank mailto:remy.bl...@pobox.com>>
>
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
> > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they
>
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P
Repeating something does not increase its validity. You stated that
Gentoo needs a GUI installer. The number of people using it without one
shows that is simply not true.
You wa
On 2/6/09, Willie Wong wrote:
> I lost your original mail, so sorry if this is not threaded properly.
Ok, I have to be sorry about my slow replies as well. My excuse is
that I'm so used to pressing ctrl+c, ctrl+v etc when composing mails
that I've already killed X twice just while trying to type
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:48:33PM +, AllenJB wrote:
> you can move the package to your own overlay and maintain it there under
> the package manager. Why on earth would you choose to install manually when
> you can use the package manager?
Simply because I never looked at overlays.
>
> Yo
Chris Lieb wrote:
I recently switched to KDE 4.2 (completely removed KDE 3.5.9 and emerge
@kde-4.2) and fired up my system update script. I noticed right away
that the title bar of Konsole did not update to show my progress in my
emerge -u... world. In fact, it only showed the user name and dir
Sebastian Günther wrote:
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]:
Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI
installer ;)
No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you
install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read th
he...@brankie.xs4all.nl wrote:
Hello,
I have been using ezmlm for the past few yeears to manage some mailing
lists. Now emerge is warning me that these packages are masked for
removal. So what shoud I do next:
- stick with ezmlm as long as it keeps functioning
- uninstall ezeml an reinstall f
2009/2/7 Remy Blank
> Danis Petkakis wrote:
> > hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> > saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> > concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not
> > being accessed after a defined
> > period of time...is that
Danis Petkakis wrote:
> hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power
> saving scheme as far as hard disks are
> concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not
> being accessed after a defined
> period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do
2009/2/7 Pongracz Istvan
> Does this bug report is of any help?
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139855
>>
>> --
>> Andrés
>>
>>
I updated that bugreport.
Cheers,
IStván
hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power saving
scheme as far as hard disks are
concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not being
accessed after a defined
period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that would be
really appreciated
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:10:31 +, Frank Schwidom wrote:
> I expect, if LANG is set to html (if this locale would exist), that if a
> file a.html contains <>> and i make 'cat a.html' then '<' sould
> appear on the console. Is the locale system flexible enough to do this?
That's not what locale is
>
> Does this bug report is of any help?
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139855
>
> --
> Andrés
>
>
Hi Andrés,
Thank you, I missed this bugreport.
Anyway, I fixed the compiler issue by modifying the code a little bit:
The first problem caused by an additional reference operator (&).
T
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:56:15PM +0100, b.n. wrote:
> Frank Schwidom ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote:
> >> Frank Schwidom wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is
> >>> there any existing known package?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:48:07 -0500, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> While I do like how the handbook is aranged, I'd much rather go
> through condensed manpages
That's the problem, not all man pages are, or can be, condensed. As I
said before, man is fine for short reference documents, but some programs
On Feb 7, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:25:07 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
You'd expect to find a list of contents, chapters and an index
in a printed reference book, electronic documentation should
be no different.
Perhaps, but I think info is an awful
Hi,
is there any open sourced software, with which I can use
the SecurDisc funtionality of my LG HL-DST DVD-RAM GH22NP20
DVD burner ?
Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Have a nice weekend! :)
mcc
--
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unless it's absolutely n
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:08:46 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to
> read info?
RTFM of course ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:25:07 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > You'd expect to find a list of contents, chapters and an index
> > in a printed reference book, electronic documentation should
> > be no different.
>
> Perhaps, but I think info is an awful implementation. A single
> large man
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:17:04 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> *Install* Mandrake, to install Gentoo?
>
> Where were you when Klaus invented Koppix...
An installed distro is better if you have work to do. When I ought this
Eee PC, I couldn't install from the default Xandros, so I installed
EeeXbu
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:58 -0600, Chris Lieb wrote:
> I don't want to do UnionFS since that requires me to patch the kernel,
> which is more work than I have the time for.
cd /usr/src/linux
patch -p1
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:02:42PM -0200, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Gentoo has -from my point of view- only one benefit: if you're a
> developer, you'll love Gentoo as every dev-dependency is already
> installed. Other than that, I see none.
Learning.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:55:26 +0100
he...@brankie.xs4all.nl wrote:
> I have been using ezmlm for the past few yeears to manage some mailing
> lists. Now emerge is warning me that these packages are masked for
> removal. So what shoud I do next:
> - stick with ezmlm as long as it keeps functioning
Hello,
I have been using ezmlm for the past few yeears to manage some mailing
lists. Now emerge is warning me that these packages are masked for
removal. So what shoud I do next:
- stick with ezmlm as long as it keeps functioning
- uninstall ezeml an reinstall from source
- find a new mailinglis
Am Samstag, 7. Februar 2009 07:16:28 schrieb Hilco Wijbenga:
> I can only find "notitles" in /etc/make.conf
Konsole profile, not portage profile.
Bye...
Dirk
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