Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:10:37 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: > Just finding the ebuild. Can't sink -- no ISP. Good news, I've > uncovered the shell, ctl+alt+t,FYI. I've found a fairly speedy wifi > spot in town, so I can download whatever I need -- just don't know what > that is. Just sync at th

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

2009-02-28 Thread maxim wexler
--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > From: Neil Bothwick > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo.. > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Received: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:53 PM > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:22 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler > wrote: > > > When I do a sear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which USB device on which controller?

2009-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:54:43 -0800, Grant wrote: > Taking a different approach, since I have 2 USB controllers (EHCIx1, > OHCIx1) why can't I operate one webcam on one controller and one > webcam on the other controller so they can both function? Because they're 1.1 devices and you have only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 18:39]: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > > > etc. etc. ... > > > what does file say about the offending files? > > I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which USB device on which controller?

2009-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Grant wrote: > Sounds like it's a 1.1 device to me. Yep, that's what it sounds like to me too. Dale >>> >>> But that's OK isn't it?  I don't need 2.0 speeds between each webcam >>> and the controller, I just need the increased overall bandwi

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Hi Sebastian, > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > > etc. etc. ... > what does file say about the offending files? I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, but what I see when I *type* into Emacs (such as in this mail message). But in c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

2009-02-28 Thread Robert J. King
On Saturday 28 February 2009 10:21:40 am Grant Edwards wrote: > I see. I don't plan on installing to the HD, so it's not > something I need to worry about ... except I guess installing > to a USB flash drive is logically equivalent, so I probably do > have to worry about it. I wonder if Linux and

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

2009-02-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-28, Robert J. King wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2009 11:32:04 pm Grant Edwards wrote: >> > >> > 1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac >> > partition patch. Simple update of portage and then grub >> > fixes this. >> >> Do the livecds now use grub? I tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

2009-02-28 Thread Robert J. King
On Friday 27 February 2009 11:32:04 pm Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > 1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac > > partition patch. Simple update of portage and then grub > > fixes this. > > Do the livecds now use grub? I thought they used syslinux. > Maybe I'm thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

2009-02-28 Thread Robert J. King
On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:05:58 am KH wrote: > Pleas no top posting > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? my apologies

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which USB device on which controller?

2009-02-28 Thread Grant
Sounds like it's a 1.1 device to me. >>> >>> Yep, that's what it sounds like to me too. >>> >>> Dale >> >> But that's OK isn't it?  I don't need 2.0 speeds between each webcam >> and the controller, I just need the increased overall bandwidth of a >> 2.0 controller so one of the 1.1 webcams do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 11:35]: > > > Dear Sebastian, > > > > there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things > > The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT="cp1250". I would > not understand how the font could have an influence on the charac

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

2009-02-28 Thread KH
Robert J. King schrieb: > It is done often. Writing this on an 24" Intel iMac running Gentoo w/ kde. > Just a few gotchas that I ran into: > > 1. The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac partition patch. > > Simple update of portage and then grub fixes this. > 2. Nvidia bina

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Eray Aslan
On 28.02.2009 12:34, Florian v. Savigny wrote: [...] > I'll follow your suggestion and re-post the problem on gentoo-user-de, > although I think running into that sort of problem might happen to > anybody who uses a European language other than English (one of those > covered by iso-8859-1, more pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Florian v. Savigny
Dear Sebastian, thank you for your thoughts. I am afraid switching to UTF-8 for everything, although I see that this is the sound thing to do eventually, is not currently an option for me - there are far too many things which depend on that. (Also, it would tend to obscure or complicate the pro