Alan McKinnon wrote:
Then the reader itself is probably horribly broken. Or has been built to
comply to "whatever broken Windows is doing today"
My USD card reader JustWorks(tm) everywhere with everything. And they are dirt
cheap, about the price of the smallest SD card I can buy.
Time for a ne
110202 Brian Waters wrote:
> I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
> -- I heard it "just works" and that is a Good Thing --
> only to find that I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again.
When I set up my little EEE netbook 2009 , I considered alternatives,
but quickly decided th
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Dale wrote:
> In GIMP under the file menu, there is a option to get pictures from a
> camera. I have never used that but I guess that is where hal comes in. It
> may be something else but that is all I could find.
Christ, it's like .dll hell all over again.
Ther
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:08 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Paul
Hartman did opine thusly:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, walt wrote:
> > On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote:
> >>> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >
Brian Waters wrote:
I can't imagine why the GIMP would depend on HAL... lol.
And for the record, yes, I am not on Gentoo right now.
- BW
In GIMP under the file menu, there is a option to get pictures from a
camera. I have never used that but I guess that is where hal comes in.
It may
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, walt wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into
Back around 2000, we still had CRT monitors, not LCDs. The cheaper
monitors shimmered badly in GUI mode and were hard on my eyes. One of
the factors that drove me to linux back then was that, except for web
browsing and spreadsheets, I could do most of my work in a true text
console (and I don'
I can't imagine why the GIMP would depend on HAL... lol.
And for the record, yes, I am not on Gentoo right now.
- BW
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did
> opine thusly:
>
>> Brian Waters wrote:
>> >
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did
> opine thusly:
>
> > Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > > I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files
> > > (actual file it hangs on can vary) and
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did
opine thusly:
> On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote:
> > I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8
> > All seems to be well apart from
> > a) Normal Users cannot shutdown
> > b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can th
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:59 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> Brian Waters wrote:
> > Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
> > (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
> > I'd much rather be back on Gentoo
Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files
> > (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the
> > build hangs.
> >
> > Anyone s
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files
(actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the
build hangs.
Anyone seen this before? - it is happening on only one of my systems and
I google isnt showing me any similar situations.
I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files
(actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the
build hangs.
Anyone seen this before? - it is happening on only one of my systems and
I google isnt showing me any similar situations.
BillK
On 02/01/2011 12:05 PM, Jarry wrote:
I would like to avoid
it [fsck], as it is rather large partition (2TB) with a lot of
files, and fsck takes quite long time...
The ext4 wiki site claims that fsck runs 2 to 20 time faster than
ext3, depending on the number and size of the files contained in
On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote:
On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into the PC.
That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on ot
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/03/2011 12:59 AM, Brian Waters wrote:
[...]
It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
wondering what
Brian Waters wrote:
Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
(I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box,
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters wrote:
> Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
> (I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
> I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
> with PulseAudio means that sou
Thanks Canek, that's perfect because for this upcoming install I'm
planning on using acpid for power management anyway. I don't think
power management is something that should run as a regular logged in
user, and it causes problems like your laptop not sleeping when you're
logged out with the login
On 02/03/2011 12:59 AM, Brian Waters wrote:
[...]
It's been a few months since I've been around, and I'd like to know if
HAL has been fully deprecated yet. I'd like to avoid using it if at
all possible, since that seems to be the way of the future. So I'm
wondering what versions of udev and X ser
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Waters wrote:
[...]
> So I'm
> wondering what versions of udev and X server (and any other packages,
> dbus maybe?) I need to unmask in order to get rid of the HAL
> dependency.
Using GNOME, the only package that depends by default on HAL is
gnome-power-manag
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
>> first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then
>> the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything w
Hi there. I recently took a few months off from Gentoo to try Ubuntu
(I heard it "just works", and that is a Good Thing) only to find that
I'd much rather be back on Gentoo again. (The fact that Ubuntu ships
with PulseAudio means that sound it basically broken out of the box,
and I'm excited for Xf
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:29:22 walt wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
> > first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then
> > the kernel re-reads the partition table and every
On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote:
I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8
All seems to be well apart from
a) Normal Users cannot shutdown
b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount).
I understand very well your frustration because my gnome desktop goes
through periods w
On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then
the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine
after that.
That sounds to me like a bug :)
On 15:41 Tue 01 Feb , Joshua Murphy wrote:
>
> The trick I've been using for... a couple years now, across various
> machines (no cron involved), is syncing one box that shares portage
> *and* my distfiles on nfs, portage R/O, distfiles R/W, then when it's
> done syncing and starts its own met
On 22:08 Tue 01 Feb , Nils Holland wrote:
> I guess it's probably the way this machine "works", and feel that the
> reference to acpid sounds like a very promising way to fixing this. As
> such, thanks to everyone who pointed me into that direction - I'll
> have a look and see if it works!
R
On 15:16 Tue 01 Feb , Dale wrote:
> I also googled a bit and it does appear that the booting check resets
> the counter. At least that was what one poster said. May not be the
> case now but thought I would mention it.
Yep, the check at boot that gets executed after the specified maximum
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Gentoo Lite Users,
I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8
All seems to be well apart from
a) Normal Users cannot shutdown
b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount).
I have followed xfce guide using use flags as suggested.
Us
Am 02.02.2011 09:41, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:17:11 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Sure. But what are the extras in S2R-context? What do I miss?
>
> The most obvious is the ability to abort a suspend or resume.
That was my impression as well. I don't really need that
>From: Peter Humphrey
>On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote:
>> And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the
>> systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine &
>> dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my
>> laptop twice as
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since a few weeks I have a strange effect with my USB stick.
>
> According to fdisk there is one partition on it
> /dev/sde1 38 7839719 3919841 b W95 FAT32
>
> which I haven't changed for a long time.
>
> Wh
Iain Buchanan writes:
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:19 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above
> > about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have
> > 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible.
netfab wrote:
Le 02/02/11 à 01:23, Dale a tapoté :
Is this a bug or am I missing something, again. ;-)
Bug #353362 : http://bugs.gentoo.org/353362
Wow, it is a bug this time. Where is my Raid. Let's kill that bug.
lol Guess it will be fixed when I sync later on. Yepp
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:17:11 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > Tuxonice also includes kernel patches, so it isn't only using what the
> > kernel provides. You can use the tuxonice scripts with a vanilla
> > kernel, you just miss out on the extra features.
>
> Sure. But what are the extras
On 02/02/2011 09:23 AM, Dale wrote:
I run --depclean every once and a while to see if anything is not needed
anymore. Sort of do a little house cleaning. When I run it, it gives me
this message:
Calculating dependencies... done!
* Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
* the follow
Le 02/02/11 à 01:23, Dale a tapoté :
> Is this a bug or am I missing something, again. ;-)
>
Bug #353362 : http://bugs.gentoo.org/353362
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