Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 20, 2011 10:56 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> So, any progress/updates on the attempt to replace udev with busybox's mdev? >> >> As for my case, it's working well on XenServer and VMware ESX / >> vSphere (haven't found the time to test a VirtualBox installation >> yet). >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: So, any progress/updates on the attempt to replace udev with busybox's mdev? As for my case, it's working well on XenServer and VMware ESX / vSphere (haven't found the time to test a VirtualBox installation yet). Except for one annoyance: Now, I've done the steps put forth

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 19, 2011 11:58 AM, wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:41:43AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > > On Nov 19, 2011 6:56 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:38:42 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > > > > > > You can copy the ebuild to your own private overlay > > > > ( /

[gentoo-user] Device notifier and LVM device

2011-11-19 Thread Dale
Howdy, As most know, I started using LVM a bit ago. I noticed something odd tho. KDE's device notifier thingy sees the LVM partition and even gives the mount/unmount option. This makes me wonder. I'm concerned that I may click that thing by mistake. I already did it once but luckily I wa

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC with multiple targets

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
David W Noon wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:49:04 +0100, Kamil Domański wrote: > >> I've been trying to figure out a way to emerge GCC with multiple >> target architectures. > > Try using the crossdev package. Yeah crossdev _rocks_. #gentoo-embedded is a good place to get help, as well as the

[gentoo-user] Re: Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
Pandu Poluan wrote: > Great! BTW, if the ebuild goes into overlay, it could use a newer EAPI, > couldn't it? Sure. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)

[gentoo-user] What provides font 7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz in Gentoo?

2011-11-19 Thread waltdnes
Specifically, -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1, is loaded from that file. Here's what lead me to ask... - I installed xfreecell on a fresh system - I couldn't get it to start, it complained about not being able to open a font, but didn't specify which one (thanks !NOT

[gentoo-user] Re: udev with separate /usr and no initramfs

2011-11-19 Thread Steven J Long
Some fool wrote: > Following the debates over the summer, about plans to require an > initramfs for udev, I put together a slightly different approach using > the dependency tracking in openrc. It's outlined (in Unsupported Software) > at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6866484.html Just wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim stops installing when it runs installman.sh

2011-11-19 Thread 1990 dqgcs
Thanks for reply! I am sorry to tell you i have installed vim by emerge ,but i failed ,so i try to use vim7.3.266'source code for debug :( .Now what could i do?i am almost crazy now!!! 2011/11/20 Mick > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 14:01:56 James Broadhead wrote: > > On 19 November 2011 02:44, 1990 d

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim stops installing when it runs installman.sh

2011-11-19 Thread 1990 dqgcs
I am sorry i have not made it clear,I meet the situation when i use "sudo emerge vim" after "sudo emerge --sync && sudo emerge -auvDN", So,i try to install my own vim for DEBUG,what should i do now,could i not to install man page? 2011/11/19 James Broadhead > On 19 November 2011 02:44, 1990 dqgc

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot run texmf-update for some reason.

2011-11-19 Thread Stroller
On 18 November 2011, at 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > A couple of interesting messages doing updates this afternoon. A quick > bit of Googling didn't uncover anything obvious... > > - Mark > > * Messages for package app-text/dvipsk-5.99_p20100722: > > * Cannot run texmf-update for some reason. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim stops installing when it runs installman.sh

2011-11-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 14:01:56 James Broadhead wrote: > On 19 November 2011 02:44, 1990 dqgcs wrote: > > Hi Everyone > > I am very sad i failed to install vim in gentoo ,without vim i could not > > do anything :( > > I download vim-7.3.tar.bz2 not emerge because i can modify Makefile to > > fin

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't tether the phone and use it as a modem anymore

2011-11-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 17:32:27 Mick wrote: > Has something changed in the bluetooth configuration over the last six > months or so? I can't seem to be able connect to rfcomm anymore ... > > I can connect to the phone, l2ping it, etc, but when I use kppp to dial, > the modem does not respond. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Hans Müller
On Saturday, 19. November 2011 20:08:36 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly small > > amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your > > applications have certainly no

[gentoo-user] Can't tether the phone and use it as a modem anymore

2011-11-19 Thread Mick
Has something changed in the bluetooth configuration over the last six months or so? I can't seem to be able connect to rfcomm anymore ... I can connect to the phone, l2ping it, etc, but when I use kppp to dial, the modem does not respond. Also, there's no rfcomm showing under ifconfig -a, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 15:57:58 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > >> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: > > >>> I've changed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag 19 November 2011, 14:42:07 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: > >>> I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of > >>> memory > >>> err

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 19, 2011 7:28 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: - >8 snip > And, finally, yeah..that isn't just "not much", that's a terribly small amount of memory. Assuming you've kept the software current, some of your applications have certainly not been maintained with 600MB of system memory in mind. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2011 01:29 PM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of memory error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the kernel. The error as far

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Nov 19, 2011 6:31 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: > > > I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of memory > > > error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Nov 2011 09:13:33 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: > > I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of memory > > error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the > > kernel. > > > > The error as far as firefox is conc

[gentoo-user] Re: Out of memory error

2011-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/18/2011 07:42 PM, Mick wrote: I've changed the title ever so slightly. I am getting an out of memory error with kernel-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 too, so I can't blame it on the kernel. The error as far as firefox is concerned is the same. Is this a firefox bug, or is my decrepit old laptop incapa