On Tuesday 02 March 2010 08:33:07 Mick wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 10:11:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not
> > > cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. T
On Monday 01 March 2010 10:11:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not
> > cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. The philosophy
> > is simple - if we feel we can't trus
Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman:
> Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and
> experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's
> advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things
> that you say "I wish I set mine up th
This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this
stuff?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 01:17:06 Mick wrote:
> Thanks Alan, your insight in this is much appreciated. I've been trying
> different things and keep coming back to fluxbox. Having spent time some
> years ago to set it up just-as-I-want-it in terms of the menu with all my
> apps, as well as the
On Monday 01 March 2010 21:17:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 22:28:42 Mick wrote:
> > > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X
> > > screens. KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I
> > > want it to just
> > >
> > > use the same set
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> > Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations
> > there.
>
> That didn't work for me; the current layman script still references the
> old location; which is why I added the soft link.
You have to set the locatio
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not
> having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel
> module.
SOLVED:
Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned
to your NVIDIA
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not
> having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel
> module.
>
>As a starting point I'm following this guide:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
>
>My nvidia device
Mark Knecht wrote:
> and from this nVidia page seems to be supported by the 173.xx series drivers:
>
Yes, but I don't think they are compatible with the 2.6.33 kernel. There
was a
patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with
2.6.33. Try
that.
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 00:04:08 Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not
> having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel
> module.
>
>As a starting point I'm following this guide:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvid
On Monday 01 March 2010 22:28:42 Mick wrote:
> > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X
> > screens. KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want
> > it to just
> >
> > use the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets
> > must b
Hi,
I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not
having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel
module.
As a starting point I'm following this guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
My nvidia device is (I think) a GeForce 6 family car
On Monday 01 March 2010 22:19:45 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-03-01 1:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf
>
> Also - why /var/lib/layman, and not /var/lib/portage/layman? It looks a
> little odd just dumped in there all by itself.
Becuase layman is not par
On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote:
> I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy"
> which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be
> considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as
> an official guideline/checklist on how to consid
On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> [KDE4 problems]
>
> > And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes
> > it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no
> > longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using i
On Monday 01 March 2010 19:22:29 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote:
> > And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is
> > to soon to remove KDE 3?
>
> To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the
> KDE framewo
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote:
And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is
to soon to remove KDE 3?
To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the KD
On 2010-03-01 1:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf
Also - why /var/lib/layman, and not /var/lib/portage/layman? It looks a
little odd just dumped in there all by itself.
--
Charles
On 2010-03-01 2:02 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> I did; I simply moved the whole layman directory. Works.
Yeah, but I didn't start off using layman when I added my first local
ebuild a long time ago, so they are not under layman - they are at the
same level - ie, /usr/local/portage contains:
/app-adm
On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote:
> And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is
> to soon to remove KDE 3?
To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the KDE
framework. Not much the KDE devs can do about that except encourage the
On Monday 01 March 2010 20:30:24 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-03-01 1:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> > So layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step;
> > after moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage
> > pointing to the new location; i.e.
> >
> > cd /usr/lo
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
this. And there are these annoy
On 03/01/10 13:26, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
(this is a rather obvious fix...)
eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the
presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman
to /var/lib/layman. It offers t
On 2010-03-01 1:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> So layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step;
> after moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage
> pointing to the new location; i.e.
>
> cd /usr/local/portage; ln -s /var/lib/layman layman
Thanks, I was plann
On 03/01/10 13:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-03-01 1:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
So layman users choosing alternative A. now may want to add a step;
after moving the directory, put a soft link in the /usr/local/portage
pointing to the new location; i.e.
cd /usr/local/portage; ln -s /var/lib/layma
On Monday 01 March 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> If any dev from the vmware overlay reads this, please fix this one:
>
> Calculating dependencies / * Digest verification failed:
> *
> /var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-
> 7.0.1.227600.ebuild * Reason: F
On Monday 01 March 2010 17:39:47 Lie Ryan wrote:
> I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy"
> which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be
> considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as
> an official guideline/checklist on
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
> On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
> cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
> this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very
> unstable, and taking 5 minut
On 03/01/2010 08:08 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
(this is a rather obvious fix...)
eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the
presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman
to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location
change.
(this is a rather obvious fix...)
eselect news has a new notice, advising of the pending change of the
presumed location of the layman directory from /usr/local/portage/layman
to /var/lib/layman. It offers three ways to deal with this location
change. I chose alternative A. (actually moving the di
On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:51:21 Mick wrote:
>> I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the
>> Windows 7 boot manager (bootmgr.exe) which is the successor to
>> NTLDR to chainload GRUB from it and so leave the Windows
>> installation
If any dev from the vmware overlay reads this, please fix this one:
Calculating dependencies / * Digest verification failed:
*
/var/lib/layman/vmware/app-emulation/vmware-workstation/vmware-workstation-7.0.1.227600.ebuild
* Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification
* Got: 3619a7454b53411695537b5
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:30:40PM +0100, Daniel Wagener wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:34:30 -0800
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >
> > Guess I'll have to wait for some nvidia installation instructions.
> > Thanks!
>
> you may try the wiki though...
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
And
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:34:30 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Guess I'll have to wait for some nvidia installation instructions.
> Thanks!
you may try the wiki though...
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
On 3/1/10, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On 03/02/10 01:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
>>> through anyway.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>
>> Confirmed, though I can still ping it.
>>
>
> Guess I'll have
Alex Schuster wrote:
[KDE4 problems]
> And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes
> it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no
> longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to
> become really stable and usable.
And another week
On 03/02/10 01:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
> through anyway.
>
> - Mark
Confirmed, though I can still ping it.
I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy"
which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be
considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as
an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a
package? Is the 30-day po
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 03/02/10 01:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
>> through anyway.
>>
>> - Mark
>
> Confirmed, though I can still ping it.
>
>
>
Guess I'll have to wait for some nvidia installation ins
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana wrote:
> yeah, it's really down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gentoo.org
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
>> through anyway.
>>
>> - Mark
Coo
yeah, it's really down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gentoo.org
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
> through anyway.
>
> - Mark
>
>
--
Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get
through anyway.
- Mark
Harry Putnam writes:
> All fail when aclocal is trotted out. I don't see recent threads here
> about it... googling turns up a herd of bugs involving aclocal but
> then newest is 2008.
>
> The newest threads here that even mention aclocal date around Jan 20.
>
> I didn't change the compiler (gc
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not
> cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. The philosophy
> is simple - if we feel we can't trust you, we would not have hired you.
That is sensible, if not
On Monday 01 March 2010 11:08:27 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > my setup here is a running Postix MTA which stores all incoming mail
> > into a single file (per user) in mbox format (/var/spool/mail/$USER)
> >
> > I'
On Monday 01 March 2010 03:47:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:07:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Don't read my post as literally meaning they must type the 7 characters
> > "sudo su". Read it more as "use any feature of sudo you feel like to
> > get a root shell, but you must use
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my setup here is a running Postix MTA which stores all incoming mail
> into a single file (per user) in mbox format (/var/spool/mail/$USER)
>
> I'm desparately looking for a mail client with a GUI which can handle
> that.
Hi,
my setup here is a running Postix MTA which stores all incoming mail
into a single file (per user) in mbox format (/var/spool/mail/$USER)
I'm desparately looking for a mail client with a GUI which can handle
that.
I didn't manage to configure Thunderbird(-3.0.1) (it always tries to set
up an
On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: standards
> > compliant in that it caters for the lowest common denominator that
> > comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost always useless for real work.
>
On 28 Feb, Stroller wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> If I want to automagically replace text in a file, I can use `sed`. I don't
> believe that `sed` can be invoked in such a way to change the file in place,
> therefore two commands are necessary:
>
>$ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' f
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