Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo vs. LVM

2010-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:03 on Saturday 04 September 2010, walt did opine thusly: > On 09/04/2010 07:11 AM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM > > Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM

2010-09-05 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In oss.el...@googlemail.com (Al) writes: >2010/9/4 Konstantinos Agouros : >> Hi, >> >> I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM >> Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized >> the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: >> >> #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 04 September 2010 08:23:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Something seems screwed in your config. Try creating a new test user > and login with that one. See if it still happens there. You're right. I did that and info:grub was displayed properly in Konqueror. Now to find what's gone w

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Stroller
On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:15:01 +0100, Stroller wrote: Needed to use: PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com" I've got it without that, Portage 2.1.8.3. $ grep ELOG /etc/make.conf PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" PORTAGE_EL

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:30:55 you wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote: > > On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote: > > > On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: > > >> I stop apach& mysql, run the update, dispatch-conf and then restart > > >> them both. Haven't had problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-05 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 September 2010 10:29:29 you wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 23:30:55 you wrote: > > On Saturday 04 September 2010 22:43:01 kashani wrote: > > > On 9/3/2010 10:53 PM, Jarry wrote: > > > > On 31. 8. 2010 20:30, Mick wrote: > > > >> I stop apach& mysql, run the update, dispatch-con

Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 & bug 291916

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 13:20:06 Philip Webb wrote: >> Today I ran into bug 291916. >> I updated my Asus EEE netbook to Baselayout 1.12.13 & got the messages >> "assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist" etc ; >> downgrading back to Baselayout 1.12.11.1

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. Most of wh

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2010 14:58, schrieb John Blinka: > Hi, all, > > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a > new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. > > I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly > prefer to the 1600x900 dis

Re: [gentoo-user] is Hal required for a Synaptics touchpad ? -- SOLVED

2010-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
100904 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.09.2010 14:13, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I successfully removed Hal from my desktop machine some time ago. >> Today, I tried removing it from my ASUS EEE netbook : >> I dropped 'hald' from the default runlevel, >> & recompiled Xorg-server + Xf86-input-synaptics w

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-05, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a > new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. > > I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly > prefer to the 1600x900 display on t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Al
2010/9/5 John Blinka : > Hi, all, > > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a > new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. > > I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly > prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more mode

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:14:18 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2010, at 15:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:15:01 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > > >>> Needed to use: > >>> > >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="use...@mydomain.com mymailserver.com" > >> > >> I've got it without that, Portage 2

[gentoo-user] Trying to configure alsa for INTEL HDA (ATI)

2010-09-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, on my mobo there is the following audio related PCI-items (exerpt from lspci): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) The current lsmod gives me: snd_hda_codec_atihdmi 1807 0 snd_pcm_oss32995 0 nvidia 10064990 28 snd_hda_

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: > Having my own domain, I run my own mailserver -- but it's not on my > gentoo development machine. I read the emerge python code, > specifically mail.py, to find how PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is handled. > Reading the code lead me to (finally) realize that I need to have a > PORT

[gentoo-user] Re: creating ssh account without directory browsing

2010-09-05 Thread Kalkin Sam
Hi, Young padawan Tamer Higazi spoke: > Everytime I uncomment: "ChrootDirectory /work" and I try to connect, I > receive this message on the console: > > Write failed: Broken pipe > > > Any ideas?! Yes RTFM and Google :) man sshd_config and look at ChrootDirectory entry: All components of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: > On 2010-09-05, John Blinka wrote: > > Hi, all, > > > > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a > > new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant > Edwards did opine thusly: > >> On 2010-09-05, John Blinka wrote: >> > Hi, all, >> > >> > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a >> > new laptop - one that will run Ge

[gentoo-user] [Chong Yidong] Re: bug#6987: 23.2; failure adding --group-directories-first to dired-listing-switches

2010-09-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Chong has fixed this *already*. allan --- Begin Message --- Allan Gottlieb writes: > emacs -Q > (setq dired-listing-switches "--group-directories-first -l") > M-x dired > > Although typing s in dired correctly alternates the sorting between > "by name" and "by date", the mode line always says "b

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-05, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 05 September 2010, Grant > Edwards did opine thusly: > >> On 2010-09-05, John Blinka wrote: >> > Hi, all, >> > >> > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a >> > new laptop - one tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Al
> > How do you explain the widespread popularity of portrait mode for > printed material?  Text is much easier to read in tall, narrow, > columns.  The more lines of code you can see at once when editing > source code, the fewer the bugs.  Both those have been experimentally > verified. And I like

[gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-05 Thread Ajai Khattri
This box hasn't been updated in awhile: # emerge -uDtav1k portage * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-ap

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-05 Thread Dale
Ajai Khattri wrote: This box hasn't been updated in awhile: # emerge -uDtav1k portage * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:42 on Monday 06 September 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: > >> Yup, and 16x9 sucks -- it's just an excuse to ship smaller, > >> lower-resolution displays labelled with bigger numbers. > >> > >> > >> > >> Complete ripoff. > > > > If you have 16:9 at 1280*