Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/12/2012 12:29 AM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Michael, > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and >> lets you decide. Either, > > Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: > > I don't know either. I don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Michael, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and > lets you decide. Either, Somewhat tongue-in-cheek: I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know what they are. Somebody else wants

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/11/2012 07:30 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate >> this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. > > Alex, > > Yes this is correct. I see now I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate > this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case. Alex, Yes this is correct. I see now I was far too wordy in the OP and thank you for your terse transla

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 11 Jun 2012 08:16:49 Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more > > verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? > > Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E > to edit, and remove

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/11/12 12:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > OK, I've added that to 00_default_settings.conf. I'm not sure whether I > need rewrites though. > Your htaccess had some rewrite rules, that's why I suggested it. > The fog is beginning to clear. Thanks. > > I still can't get server-side includes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 June 2012 02:58:08 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > If you want to allow [rewrites] in an htaccess, you'll need at least, > > > Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > AllowOverride FileInfo Options > > > in the main config or your vhost config. OK, I've added that to 00_default_set

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI - time to mask ati-drivers above 12.4 if you're < Radeon 5400

2012-06-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 11. Juni 2012, 13:04:14 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > On 06/11/2012 11:26:56 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > 12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, > > so if you're using them you probably want to; > > > > # echo ">x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4" >> /etc/portage/pac

[gentoo-user] Traffic shaping - downstream data

2012-06-11 Thread Datty
Hi all I'm looking for some help setting up traffic shaping on my internet connection. I have a bit of an odd setup in that I run a remote VPN server that all of my traffic is pushed through and out on to the internet. As I understand generally it isn't possible to shape incoming traffic but as I

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash and constant errors.

2012-06-11 Thread Dale
Top posting for obvious reasons. ;-) I was thinking it could be this but this is the first time I have ever ran into this with adobe-flash. I wanted to sort of check into it before doing anything that may cause "issues' such as just redoing the manifest. I did think about it tho. Now to go re

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote about "[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb": [snip] >A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag >"ruby_targets_ruby19" to a bunch of packages on my system. That is not really coded as a USE flag. You should put that in /etc/m

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash and constant errors.

2012-06-11 Thread William Kenworthy
I get this, commonly with adobe-flash and google-earth. I suspect that they change the file content or dynamically regenerate it faster than portage can track them/my local repos update. The only fix I have been able to come up with is check as far as possible where the binary came from and regene

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI - time to mask ati-drivers above 12.4 if you're < Radeon 5400

2012-06-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/11/2012 11:26:56 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, so if you're using them you probably want to; # echo ">x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4" >> /etc/portage/package.mask And if you're not concerned about 3D or power saving, maybe think

[gentoo-user] adobe-flash and constant errors.

2012-06-11 Thread Dale
Howdy, I been trying to play around with versions of adobe-flash to see which version a) works and b) doesn't crash or cause other problems. Anyway, I was using one version, the 10 version, for a bit but am having issues so I wanted to try a newer version. It seems tho, no matter what version I

[gentoo-user] FYI - time to mask ati-drivers above 12.4 if you're < Radeon 5400

2012-06-11 Thread Adam Carter
12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series, so if you're using them you probably want to; # echo ">x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4" >> /etc/portage/package.mask And if you're not concerned about 3D or power saving, maybe think about using the "radeon" driver from xf86-video

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:43:32 -0700, Keith Dart wrote: > I use syslinux everywhere, and on my desktop. It is already well > documented on their website and wiki. At the time I really needed to know all about isolinux, on a tight deadline, the wiki was down, and remained down for the next month's

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 > Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Today emerge is asking me to add "=sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb" to > > package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me > > and I would like to get your opinion about how to properly satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Background: > > I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This > file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations" > of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE f

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more > verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still does not app