Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:00 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with > > some update to the tree > > What does "co-coincides" mean? It's when two coincidences are mutually coincident. That or something involving a hot bedtime drink

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:34:46 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > The only automation in my case is eix-sync followed by emerge -uND > --fetchonly @system @world It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day from cron to get mailed about any security risks. -- Neil Bothwick Q. Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 4:08 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:00 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with > > > some update to the tree > > > > What does "co-coincides" mean? > > It's when two coincidences are mutuall

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 4:13 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:34:46 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > The only automation in my case is eix-sync followed by emerge -uND > > --fetchonly @system @world > > It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day from > cron to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 Feb 2012 07:30:01 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: > > On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a > >> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works > >> is

Re: [gentoo-user] favorite smartctl test?

2012-02-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 Feb 2012 02:44:00 Grant wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how far gone an old Maxtor HD of mine is. It > does have S.M.A.R.T. support. Is there a favorite smartctl command > for making this determination? 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' says: > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test re

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-24 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: > On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE > > 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop > > it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetoo

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:30:23 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day > > from cron to get mailed about any security risks. > I'm a bit scared running glsa-check automatically. I may have > misunderstood, but my thought is that glsa-check c

Re: [gentoo-user] A few suggestions for emerge world via cron

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 7:06 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:30:23 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > It would be worth adding glsa-check to that list. Run it every day > > > from cron to get mailed about any security risks. > > > I'm a bit scared running glsa-check automatically. I

[gentoo-user] Master list of all Overlays

2012-02-24 Thread James
Hello List, Does 'Layman -L' yield a comprehensive list or does it just poll from a subset of the different Overlay from a select number of sites? Does such a list exist that references (most) all Overlay repositories and the Overlay ebuilds therein? Are there sites that are known not to trust?

[gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant
I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: > I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE > flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is > the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and > remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? I believ

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:14:18 -0800 Grant wrote: > I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE > flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is > the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and > remove it as necessary in package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-24 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
I have never been able to pair in a2dp mode and pulseaudio with either kdebluetooth nor gnome bluetooth, only blueman seems to be doing a good job for that On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: >> On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin At

Re: [gentoo-user] Master list of all Overlays

2012-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:25:53 + (UTC) James wrote: > Hello List, > > Does 'Layman -L' yield a comprehensive list or does > it just poll from a subset of the different Overlay > from a select number of sites? layman -L lists all overlays the gentoo overlay infrastructure knows about. Obviousl

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: >> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a >>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works >>> is a very powerful

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:27:52 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 24, 2012 4:08 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:00 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides > > > > with some update to the tree > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant
>> I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE >> flag to /etc/make.conf.  The only difference I've noticed so far is >> the lack of color in vim.  Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and >> remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? > > I leave it off a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
El 24/02/2012 09:31, "Juan Diego Tascón" escribió: > > I have never been able to pair in a2dp mode and pulseaudio with either > kdebluetooth nor gnome bluetooth, only blueman seems to be doing a > good job for that In GNOME (both 2 and 3), you just add the bluetooth headset, and in the sound sett

[gentoo-user] Re: Master list of all Overlays

2012-02-24 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > Sort of like choosing wives - > you can get lots of recommendations out there, all meaningless thanks for the feedback. On the subject of wives; it's easier to rent rather than rent-to-own or owning one outright, imho. thanks Alan, James

[gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am having lots of problems with USB. The board has two usb3 connectors and most of the ti

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved] KDE Replace Kwin with something else

2012-02-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 02:14:01 schrieb Ignas Anikevicius: > On 24/02/12 02:01, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I find metacity.desktop and openbox.desktop > > in /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/windowmanagers/, so I guess you have to find > > awesome.desktop, and put it there. Or create such a file your

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it > could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on > "Accept" on every site is about the stupidest thing you can do. > > I'm unsure how the warning looks when y

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 24, 2012 11:37 PM, wrote: > > Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > having lots of problems with USB. The boar

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it >> could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on >> "Accept" on every site is about the stupides

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:34 AM, wrote: > Hi.  I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > using windows with no problems.  However, when I am trying to use the > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > having lots of problems with USB.  T

[gentoo-user] nvidia module, __raw_spin_lock_init

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Mol
Is anyone else able to get nvidia-drivers 290.10 to load into a kernel from gentoo-sources 3.2.1-r2? This box has been headless for so long, I really don't have a good baseline comparison. When I try to load the module, I get "nvidia: Unknown symbol __raw_spin_lock_init (err 0)". -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using > Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am > also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with Youtube or other > Google sites. If there's a way a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 Feb 2012 14:13:29 james wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > The thing is that apple smartphones and tablets do not offer flash. > > Desktop volumes are in decline, while smartphones and tablets sales are > > increasing. This could be seasonal of course, but if the future moves > > a

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia module, __raw_spin_lock_init

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Is anyone else able to get nvidia-drivers 290.10 to load into a kernel > from gentoo-sources 3.2.1-r2? This box has been headless for so long, > I really don't have a good baseline comparison. > > When I try to load the module, I get "nvidia:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia module, __raw_spin_lock_init

2012-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Is anyone else able to get nvidia-drivers 290.10 to load into a kernel >> from gentoo-sources 3.2.1-r2? This box has been headless for so long, >> I really don't have a good baseline com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Master list of all Overlays

2012-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:18:57 + (UTC) James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Sort of like choosing wives - > > you can get lots of recommendations out there, all meaningless > > thanks for the feedback. > > On the subject of wives; it's easier to rent rather than > rent-to-

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

2012-02-24 Thread James Broadhead
On 23 February 2012 21:29, Grant wrote: > [snip] > > I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power cable > fixed it.  Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's integrity > with and without S.M.A.R.T. support? [I] gnome-extra/gsmartcontrol [1] Available versions: (~)0.

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

2012-02-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:55:21 + James Broadhead wrote: > On 23 February 2012 21:29, Grant wrote: > > [snip] > > > > I'm amazed but disconnecting and reconnecting the IDE and power > > cable fixed it.  Which is your favorite tool for testing a HD's > > integrity with and without S.M.A.R.T. sup

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:34 AM, wrote: > > Hi.  I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > > using windows with no problems.  However, when I am trying to use the > > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > > havi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:35 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: > >> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > >>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a > >>> PC user can watch their vid

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread pk
On 2012-02-24 17:34, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > having lots of problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:17:34AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config > > files in /boot? > > I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. > > But w

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 > Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > > > >> The only thing I can currently think of

Re: [gentoo-user] screen locker

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:10:45AM -0800, Grant wrote: > [snip] > > I've been using xautolock for years and years. What's good about it is you > > can have any 'locker' you want. For now, I'm using feh in slideshow mode. > > For another, you can specify another program as a 'killer' such as a suspe

Re: [gentoo-user] Master list of all Overlays

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:25:53 + (UTC), James wrote: > If 2 different repositories have different > (hacked ebuild) then where do you get > information as to which one you should use? > Sure testing them both is warranted, but maybe > there is a site where these Overlays are close > to becoming

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, wrote: >> You might try posting to the usb-storage mailing list, people working >> on the USB3 drivers are there and might know more about that specific >> chipset and what those messages really mean. >> >> https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/mailman/listinfo/usb-sto

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:14:18 -0800, Grant wrote: > I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE > flag to /etc/make.conf. The only difference I've noticed so far is > the lack of color in vim. Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and > remove it as necessary in package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make > menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From > what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous part that > should be avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:02:38 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' > > make menuconfig. Menuconfig will

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make >> menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From >> what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous

Re: [gentoo-user] screen locker

2012-02-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:16:35 -0800 schrieb Grant : > >> [snip] > >> > I've been using xautolock for years and years. What's good about it is > >> > you > >> > can have any 'locker' you want. For now, I'm using feh in slideshow mode. > >> > For another, you can specify another program as a 'killer

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my mobo incompatible with Linux?

2012-02-24 Thread covici
pk wrote: > On 2012-02-24 17:34, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system > > using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the > > board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am > > having

[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote: On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something

Re: [gentoo-user] do you USE="minimal" in /etc/make.conf?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant
>> I try to run a minimal system in general so I added the minimal USE >> flag to /etc/make.conf.  The only difference I've noticed so far is >> the lack of color in vim.  Do you add minimal to /etc/make.conf and >> remove it as necessary in package.use or the other way around? > > I read somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread ny6p01
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:02:38PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make > > menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From > > what I've read

[gentoo-user] Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant
I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 4:54 AM, "William Kenworthy" wrote: > >8 snip > > Work supplied an ipad for me - what a pain. So many sites use flash its > relegated to "toy" status even for web browsing. For my Cisco > Netacademy work Ive installed win7 in qemu and access via rdp so I can > use view flash

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. There, you se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Grant
>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system.  Is there a >> safe way to do this?  The fallback thing in grub has never worked for >> me.  When does that ever work? > > > You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. >  There, you select an entry, press

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread Dale
ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:02:38PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make >>> menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old conf

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/02/12 04:00, Grant wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? Oh crap, you said "remote system". Somehow I missed that. Ignore my previous post since o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Grant wrote: >>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system.  Is there a >>> safe way to do this?  The fallback thing in grub has never worked for >>> me.  When does that ever work? >> >> >> You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: >>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a >>> safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for >>> me. When does that ever work? >> >> >> You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. >> There, you se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 9:14 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > >> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a > >> safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for > >> me. When does that ever work? > > > > > > You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 9:16 AM, "Dale" wrote: > >8snip > > > That is true BUT the docs are for 100% certainty. Well, 99% at least. > They almost always have the safest way to do anything but not > necessarily the most used way. There are lots of things I do > differently from the docs and my syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-24 Thread Henson Sturgill
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using > > Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am > > also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with Youtube or other > > Google sites. If the

[gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread John
Hi folks, I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. I've got ADD in the extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' (command line and such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some command line stuff but nothing more than getting time

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. I've got ADD in the > extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' (command line and > such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some command

[gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot with an error in dmesg which says invalid option acl whereas I'm able to mount it using the mount command from the CLI. For now I'm using a script in local.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread John
On Friday, February 24, 2012 21:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" wrote: > > Have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo-based, but it comes with binary > repository (although you can easily use portage if you want). > > It offers 'out of the box' support for KDE4, xfce, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread Carlos Sura
On 24 February 2012 22:04, John wrote: > On Friday, February 24, 2012 21:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" wrote: > > > > > > > Have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo-based, but it comes with binary > > repository (although you can easily use portage if you want). > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to > the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot > with an error in dmesg which says invalid option acl whereas I'm able > to mount it using th

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat 25 Feb 2012 09:35:22 AM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to > > the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount durin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:13:07AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > The speed gains of building for specific submodels of CPUs might > be there, but they're minimal. Benchmarks have shown (can't find > the article, it was on Phoronix) that after -march=i686 you get > diminishing returns. In th

[gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

2012-02-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (made by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland. I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have to admit of not haveing much knowledge about these things, though. That is the reason for asking fo

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read fan speed of my graphics card?

2012-02-24 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 07:27:35 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > to supervise the speed of the two fans of my Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (made > by MSI) graphics card I need a way to read it in userland. > > I tried lm_sensors for this but without any success -- but I have to > admit of not haveing m