Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 06:39:16 Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel > > is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it > > maps the numeric keypad to the right-hand

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread covici
Mick wrote: > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 06:39:16 Yohan Pereira wrote: > > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel > > > is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it > > > maps the numeric k

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:58:45 + Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start > > because of missing dep/slot conflict/blocking/masking whatever... > > Though it would be nice if there was some flag, probably mainly o

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-02 Thread kwkhui
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 16:12:02 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:58:45 + > Graham Murray wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > > > --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start > > > because of missing dep/slot conflict/blocking/masking whatever...

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 06:23:52AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off > with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated > key. Where do you get numlock as a kernel option? It is a BIOS option, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 08:06:43AM +, Mick wrote: > > You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep > numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a > difference. > -- > Regards, > Mick Though there is no /etc/conf.d/numlock, Mick's post caus

Re: [gentoo-user] intel HD graphics 4000 and viewing DVDs

2012-12-02 Thread Jackson
On 12/02/2012 03:02 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Dec 01 2012, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.07.2012 10:22, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 27.07.2012 22:57, schrieb Michael Mol: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 27.07.2012 22:22, schrieb Michael Mol: On Fri, Jul 2

[gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my files to a separate disk with rsync. At the moment, I have my sync

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread covici
Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 06:23:52AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off > > with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated > > key. > > Where do you get numlock as a kernel o

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Randy Westlund wrote: > I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my > workspace, and random user files under my home directory across > multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which > makes daily incremental backups of my files

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: > I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my > workspace, and random user files under my home directory across > multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which > makes daily incremental backups of

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel >> is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it >> maps the numeric keypad to the right-hand home position (J->

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Mick wrote: >>> Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to the >>> keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function as >>> the num pad. >> >> You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off > with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated > key. I booted back into 3.5, and the "NumLk" doesn't toggle num-lock like it does in 3.2. In 3.5, the "N

[gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do), instead of a long list of interactions with the router there's 1 line "dhcpcd[1035]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process". There's also a new display in Gkrellm 'sit0', wh

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
As soon as you said "svn" I got the idea you want revisions of files you send to storage, which is a fine idea. Backups are fine, but if you have to work at the granularity of "yesterday or maybe the day before" it can become cumbersome. To my mind the first question to answer is how do you want t

[gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
My recently-built machine has an SSD for everyday storage + an HDD for less often used stuff + back-ups (in dir /y ). To avoid having to re-install the system if the SSD collapses one day, I wanted to make a simple back-up copy of vital files on the HDD. There are lots of apps in 'app-backup' & I

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 08:06:43AM +, Mick wrote: >> >> You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep >> numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a >> difference. > > Though there is no /etc/conf.d/numloc

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: > What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It > would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already > clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order net-misc/unison Think of it as a two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread covici
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > >>> Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to > >>> the > >>> keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function > >>> as > >>> the num pad. > >> > >> Y

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 >>> Install gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 into >>> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18/image/ category >>> media-libs * ERROR: me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >> I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels > > That pretty much sucks. Is that configurable sowewhere? > This is not my experience. I'm using 3.5.* everywhere and haven't had this prob

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >>> I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels >> >> That pretty much sucks. Is that configurable sowewhere? >> > > This is not my experience. I'm u

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
ive had my own issues with the gstreamer libs. but its with rebuilding, for some reason its failing saying there isnt a make file On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: > > >>> Source compiled. > >>> Test phase

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External monitor is stretched 4:3

2012-12-02 Thread Grant
> > >> >I've connected my laptop to a lot of HDTV's and whenever I switch > > >> >the output to display on both screens, black bars appear on the > > >> >left and right of my laptop screen so it displays at 4:3, and the > > >> >HDTV output is 16:9 but looks horizontally stretched.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> /etc/init.d/numlock on/off will change the state of the lights on my >> keyboard. Have you tried that? > > On my system it's start/stop rather than on/off. You can also just use > the setleds utility di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:08:23 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > You can also just use > the setleds utility directly, but either is hard to do, > > keyboard doesn't allow you to enter the letters u,i,o,p,j,k,l,m :) set[tab][tab][tab]... :) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 25: New York c

Re: [gentoo-user] intel HD graphics 4000 and viewing DVDs

2012-12-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:10:30PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote > I am getting a new laptop. (likely dell 6430). > The two graphics options are intel HD 4000 and nvidia NVS 5200M. > Dell is as expected suggesting the 5200M. > > I do not need 3D or fast response. Dell hinted that DVDs might not pla

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 04:13:34PM -0600, Kevin Brandstatter wrote > ive had my own issues with the gstreamer libs. > but its with rebuilding, for some reason its failing saying there isnt a > make file Desparate measure... try temporarily setting MAKEOPTS="-j1" in your make.conf file. It sho

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread John Campbell
On 12/02/2012 12:41 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 Install gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 into /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18/image/ cat

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:08:23 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> You can also just use the setleds utility directly, but either is >> hard to do [when the] keyboard doesn't allow you to enter the letters >> u,i,o,p,j,k,l,m :) > > set[tab][tab][tab]... :) Lo

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It would be nice to move everything to the background, but I've already clobbered a few files by calling this in the wrong order

[gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Mol
So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a wrapper around other virt models. Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool formats it supports? -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Westlund
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 12/2/2012 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:21:40 -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: >> >>> What utilities do you guys use? Is there a better way to do this? It >>> would be nice to move everything to the background, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today > & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do), > instead of a long list of interactions with the router > there's 1 line "dhcpcd[1035]: sending commands to mas

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Joseph
Here is a good example on using "rsync" http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html I've modified the first one for 7-days incremental backup. -- Joseph On 12/02/12 12:21, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my ho

Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
121202 Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today >> & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do), >> instead of a long list of interactions with the router >> there's 1 line "dhcpcd