Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptsetup lvm2 blocker

2009-04-10 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Momesso Andrea (momesso.and...@gmail.com) [10.04.09 16:13]: > > > How should I handle that? > First look in the bugzilla, I found the bug immediately... Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _ ASCII ribbon campaign Karl Marx | ( ) aga

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 01:21]: > On Monday 20 April 2009 01:03:59 Liviu Andronic wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with > > corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see > > below). I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 20:48]: > > Hello, > > I've been trying the following grub.conf boot > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 > > but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format > appears to be > > ke

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 22:29]: > Sebastian Günther wrote: > > > > > This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can > > be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post > > mine a

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

2009-04-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]: > > since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the > video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled > into the kernel. Only if you don't want to use it: this parameter is necessary to

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Michael P. Soulier (msoul...@digitaltorque.ca) [25.04.09 20:59]: > So, is grep the best approach to answer, "what the heck is that?" :) > No, eix is: emerge eix man eix > Mike HTH Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _ ASCII ribbon campaign

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-26 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [26.04.09 18:49]: > > It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world and displays > all packages it finds that are dependencies of something else in world, but I > haven't found one, and prefer the manual approach above. > #!/bin/bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-30 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling (joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de) [30.04.09 12:31]: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > BackupPC should cope with this. It uses rsync over SSH, so only needs to > > transfer new/changed files, and will restart where it left off if the > > connection fails (this happens to me someti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nitin Kanaskar (nitinv...@gmail.com) [02.05.09 19:15]: > Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - > packages, versions... > But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this > is right. I am a graduate student doing research on > vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking > for older

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading gnome 2.24 to 2.26

2009-06-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Yasin (yasin5...@yahoo.com) [01.06.09 05:52]: > i just want to upgrade my gentoo gnome from 2.24 to 2.26 how to and what must > i do ??? > read the handbook about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des

Re: [gentoo-user] no battery state/info in minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 04:43]: > Hi group, > > Just booted into the latest iso on my netbook and first I wanted to > check the battery state: > > #cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state. > > No such file. Looked all over /proc/acpi/. Nothing in /var/log/messages. > Search

Re: [gentoo-user] layman tree (re)location - /usr/local

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mike Kazantsev (mk.frag...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 17:22]: > Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me > from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree > from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage? > > I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] no battery state/info in minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:37]: > Ok, I see it /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/battery and bind, uevent and > something in pink beneath that but I can't read them "permission > denied. But I'm logged in as root > Well this is the kernle module, drivers are always the wrong choice

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into > a state where it says > init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart > or sh

Re: [gentoo-user] ctrl-alt-del change for minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:41]: > Hi group, > > I note that ctrl-alt-del no longer shuts off my netbook. It gets to > 'remounting file sytems read only' then stops. I have to hold the > power button for about 5 secs to get the thing to shut down. > > Is there a new, appr

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]: > Hi all, > > I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very > basic needs very well, except from those two things: > > * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The > characters don't show o

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-10 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [10.06.09 11:49]: > This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that. > Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the > eye-candy... Same with me, but this helped me to a nicer XDM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 18:15]: > > I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as > my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far > ahead of installed packages. > I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates

Re: [gentoo-user] About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: > > There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard > emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not > masked, it should `just work' [tm]. > > When I read the bug rightfully, procmail did not build w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [14.06.09 19:46]: > Sebastian Günther writes: > > > * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: > >> > >> There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard > >> emerge on a package that is out

Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency ?

2009-06-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:15:02 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff > (3.8.2-r6) today. I got the error messages > > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your > request: > - sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE:

Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX

2009-06-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
Am Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:58 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > after removing tetex and installing texlive-2008 by following > his guide > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml > I run into a mysterious problem: > All my *.tex-files are handled as they would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore

2009-06-29 Thread Sebastian Günther
Am Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0200 schrieb Marco : > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote: > > [...] > > > It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago, > > that may be incompatible with your card. Have y

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > > I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo > > compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost > > jacking around with kde d

Re: [gentoo-user] modules in use

2008-12-05 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05.12.08 20:56]: > How can I tell which modules of those listed by `lsmod' are actually > being used? > The third column of lsmod is headed with Used by and consists of a number and a list of modules which use it. Everything with a 0 is not used. HTH Sebastia

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-29 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Miernik (pub...@public.miernik.name) [29.01.09 11:09]: > > Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken > care of, and I don't want to wait with my upgrade of the rest of the > system. > doesn't emerge --skipfirst ring any bell? HTH Sebastian -- " Religion ist d

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [01.02.09 00:23]: > > On 31 Jan 2009, at 22:54, Grant wrote: > Oh I get it, the computer doesn't want me to see the Obama video. Yes that's funny. >>> >>> Oh, what an intelligent machine you've got ;-p >>> Did it already point you to Tarpley's

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Arttu V. (arttu...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 13:37]: > Hello, > > > For example, KOrganizer edit menus still show shortcuts for copy, > paste, etc as ctrl+something (ctrl+c for copy). However, when I'm > adding a new event or todo and press ctrl+c to copy some text around > -- boom, X closes itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Frank Schwidom (schwi...@gmx.net) [06.02.09 19:43]: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote: > > I want to handle html-files like UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 files. > ??? Where, why, whatfor? I still not get it. -vv More context: Any specific app, any special purpose and what's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]: > > Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI > installer ;) > No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read the documentation, bec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 23:56]: > > This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD, > boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it > install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL > your software is already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [07.02.09 18:25]: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P >> Repeating something does not increase its validity. > > That's why I didn't repeat it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* James Homuth (ja...@the-jdh.com) [07.02.09 18:29]: > if Gentoo needs anything, it's a more accessible method of installing for > those users who can't actually see the screen. Don't get me wrong, I love > the distro for several reasons, but if I were to install linux locally on > any of my deskt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [07.02.09 22:42]: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:43:04 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: > > > If i have to do *multiple* installs for several copumters, which I do > > not use myself, I choose debian, because fai rocks. > > > > Sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Segfaulting cryptsetup in init

2009-02-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Johan Blåbäck (johan.bluecr...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 09:40]: > hi, > > I'm setting up this old computer of mine and why not encrypt it. I have > done this on several computers before, but never have I gotten these > kind of errors. > > the other programs in the init seems to run as they should;

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA config problem

2009-02-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Naga (nagat...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 19:35]: > > In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series > kernel or use a live alsa ebuild. > Why can I listen to music and watch DVD with my hda-intel, if it's broken? > /Regards > Naga > Curious Sebastian -- " Religio

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login from terminal?

2009-02-11 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Chuanwen Wu (wcw8...@gmail.com) [12.02.09 05:41]: > Hi, > My gentoo worked very well in the past two years. But today I found > that I can't login it from the terminal, but ssh login is OK. > > Have anybody ever encountered this problem? > Any help will be appreciate! > man securetty HTH Seba

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [14.02.09 08:29]: > > On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:40, Justin wrote: > > Except that here, ntp-client seems to start *before* the network, so fails > to find the ntp-server. > > I'll investigate this more later. > > Stroller. > > > If you have baselayout2 and op

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 15:45]: > > of course konqueror can block ads and scripts without 'extensions' > Well, since you have to install most of the kde stuff *and* mysql: definetly a no go... Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. "

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 23:31]: > On Sonntag 15 Februar 2009, Sebastian Günther wrote: > > * Volker Armin Hemmann (volkerar...@googlemail.com) [15.02.09 15:45]: > > > of course konqueror can block ads and scripts without 'extensions&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-15 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mike Williams (m...@gaima.co.uk) [16.02.09 00:50]: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 22:57:24 Sebastian Günther wrote: > > Which useflag magic do I have to use to achieve that goal? > > -mysql > > Seems ebuilds have the ability to turn on use flags for themselves that the

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [16.02.09 02:10]: > > On 15 Feb 2009, at 21:51, Sebastian Günther wrote: >> * Stroller (strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) [14.02.09 08:29]: >>> >>> On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:40, Justin wrote: >>> >>> Except t

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) [21.02.09 10:55]: > Hi, > > I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver > to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. > > Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl > it always tries to find Nvidia's ope

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dim the display brightness

2009-02-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 10:19]: > Hi, > > I cannot find the way to dim the brightness of the display on my > laptop. It doesn't seem to be nothing useful in /proc/acpi neither I > can find anything in google. > Did you enable the apropiate acpi drivers in the kernel? They depen

Re: [gentoo-user] How to dim the display brightness

2009-02-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 19:21]: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sebastian Günther > wrote: > > * Damian (damian.o...@gmail.com) [23.02.09 10:19]: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I cannot find the way to dim the brightness of the display on my >

Re: [gentoo-user] Command for sync history

2009-02-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.02.09 05:56]: > Hi, > > I read and even used this command several times but I can't remember > what it is now. I searched the forums and even searched through the > 30,000 emails from this list and can't find it. I did search through > the emails, not read them

Re: [gentoo-user] Command for sync history

2009-02-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.02.09 07:53]: > > It's not IF you remember it. I was thinking genlop at first then eix > but "q" never even crossed my mind. > Well, as a Trekkie, Q comes automatically in my mind when thinking about omnipotent... Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a ftp client script

2009-02-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Weifeng Liu (weifeng...@gmail.com) [27.02.09 09:02]: > Thanks Morten, but that AIX server only provides telnet access. :( > No FTP, but telnet? Who on this shiny planet is administring this nightmare? If I were you I woud refuse to work with such a setup. Sorry had to rant... Sebastian --

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-27 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [27.02.09 18:30]: > > Dear listmates, > > (I did try to use a more specific mailing list, and tried > gentoo-admin, but it seems there's nobody around.) > > I recently updated my kernel from 2.6.17 to 2.6.27, and it seems that > the new kernel causes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 11:35]: > > > Dear Sebastian, > > > > there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things > > The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT="cp1250". I would > not understand how the font could have an influence on the charac

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding

2009-02-28 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 18:39]: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > > > etc. etc. ... > > > what does file say about the offending files? > > I was not actually talking about files when I mentioned Emacs, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash and ACPI issue - laptop lid

2009-03-12 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Saphirus Sage (saphirus...@gmail.com) [12.03.09 00:53]: > I've been trying to setup my laptop to enter ACPI S3 (suspend to ram) > when I close the lid. I currently have the scripts setup as such: > /etc/acpi/events/lid > event=button[ /]lid.* > action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh Looks norma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where is my automounting coming from?

2009-03-16 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [16.03.09 02:43]: > Grant wrote: > > When I plug my USB cell phone into my laptop I get an icon on my xfce4 > > desktop which mounts the volume if I double-click it. The icon > > doesn't appear on another Gentoo laptop and I can't figure out why. I > > though

Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

2009-03-17 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk) [12.03.09 10:49]: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version > > (including -r0) of the base version. > > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know it >

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian Philipp (li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net) [20.03.09 19:09]: > fei huang schrieb: > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. > > > You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [20.03.09 17:18]: > fei huang wrote: > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. > > Install it anyway and use the "autologin" feature. I know that KDM > sup

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* fei huang (daniel.huang...@gmail.com) [20.03.09 16:12]: > su - myname -c startx& > > any ideas? RTFM: -, -l, --login Provide an environment similar to what the user would expect had the user logged in directly. !>> When - is used, it must be specified as the la

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Steve (gentoo_...@shic.co.uk) [23.03.09 20:27]: > Steve wrote: > >> destination sshguardproc { > >> program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard" > >> template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n")); > >> }; > >> program() only takes 1 argument: the programname. Any thing you want to pass, you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 19:54]: > Mick wrote: > > > > $ mount | grep sysfs > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) > > > > However, I do not have sysfs in /etc/init.d/sysfs. > > > > Same here. Both the confused part and the not have the init script > sysfs. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [24.03.09 22:54]: > > r...@smoker / # equery list openrc > [ Searching for package 'openrc' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > r...@smoker / # equery list baselayout > [ Searching for package 'baselayout' in all categories among: ] > * installed pac

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [25.03.09 21:04]: > On Friday 20 March 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang > wrote: > > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows > > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [01.04.09 23:44]: > > Hi group, > > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of Win98! Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de p

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo using systemrescuecd and wifi

2009-04-01 Thread Sebastian Günther
* maxim wexler (bliss...@yahoo.com) [02.04.09 01:04]: > > > > > > > Can anybody help? I hate Xandros, it reminds me of > > Win98! > > > > Well: use Xandros to install gentoo. > > Xandros has already used up *all* of the HD on one partition. I can't > format the drive without destroying the OS

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Wyatt Epp (wyatt@gmail.com) [03.04.09 20:00]: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I > had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the > danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [04.04.09 03:55]: > > I thought about it and I would still like an installer. People asked me > "I want that too" after they see what Gentoo can do and is about. I > could help them learn to keep their Gentoo healthy and running, but I am > not willing to

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Alan McKinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) [04.04.09 09:57]: > > emerge --lock > I find this suggestion very good, and would like to ask the more experienced participants, if such thing was thought of before. I'm thinking about some options to freeze a system totally, servers would like this,

Re: [gentoo-user] profile 2009?

2009-04-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Xav' (x...@linuxant.fr) [06.04.09 20:28]: > To get back with releases, I'm waiting for releases a full well tested > version of stage releases, as i don't agree with those saying that > weekly stage build are good enough to have "updated" stage. > A stable stage tarbar is not well tested? How

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale (rdalek1...@gmail.com) [07.04.09 15:58]: > > This is not working for me either. Is this a option that I have to > enable in make.conf or something? I did my sync last Saturday so it may > be that the news was after I sync'ed and I missed it. > read the whole thread, dale: These news ar

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [07.04.09 18:46]: > > However, I have failed to: > > 3. Effect a left click when I tap on the synaptics pad. > 4. Double click on the synaptics pad. Just a double check: you did recompile the synaptics driver from xorg? Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems

2009-04-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 11:27]: > Hi all, > > I have two major problems with my 9600 ATI (RV350) graphic card > > - With the free radeon driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1) : > After few minutes, while emerging or working with some software (Gimp), >

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems

2009-04-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 12:46]: > CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI=y should also be there, for this an internal > check if your platform has the possibility to use MSI. > > #CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI is not set, and i don't see the line in make > menuconfig. > I suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI radeon problems

2009-04-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Jacques Montier (jacques.mont...@numericable.fr) [08.04.09 13:59]: > > Next step, i try to emerge ati-drivers... > Thanks a lot for your help ! Don't forget to build a new kernel also... > > BTW: no html please... Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " | _ ASCII ribbon

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Norberto Bensa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [25.05.08 16:52]: > Quoting Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Is there a problem with signed messages? > > Signed messages doesn't make any sense on a mailing list. > Why? -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNT

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23.06.08 11:09]: > > xfburn is based on non-portable (linux only) code. If you ever like > to use a different OS, you should know that you will not find this software. > Well, if he is asking such a question, I doubt he will switch OS any soon. But, I th

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23.06.08 12:09]: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and that > > > is not supported by cdrecorde? > > > > he just gave a range and cdrdao comes in the alphabetical order

Re: [gentoo-user] h

2008-06-26 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27.06.08 00:12]: > and this is why nobody uses brute force. > > There a better ways to crack keys. NSA has tons of experts in mathematics and > cryptoanalysis. Plus very sophisticated hardware. I am sure for most ciphers > they use something much more

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-29 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29.06.08 13:38]: > Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So, mkisofs.c is the "Program" and cdrtools is a "work based on the > > Program", right? > > If you believe this and what you claimed later, then the GPL would be > a definitely non-free l

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-30 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30.06.08 10:48]: > The GPL however limits the usability of OpenSource as OSS and claims this > is in order to save OSS. The GPL allows GPLd software to use any kind of > software but disallows other OpenSource Software to use GPLd software. > The main point

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-07-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01.07.08 10:50]: > > There _is_ an evil conspiracy at least on Suse. Suse told me that they cannot > use unmodified original software and they need to modify my software. > But that's not an evil conspiracy against you, that's the normal policy of SuSe: t

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-03 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: > Hi folks, > > After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me > a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to > create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying the file is to > large. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Florian Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 11:20]: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100 Recheck your grub.conf. Maybe you have the wrong root parameter and/or path to the kernel image. Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-05 Thread Sebastian Günther
* KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05.07.08 13:24]: > Hi, > > after reading some emails from the list I have been trying to unmerge > cdrkit and to emerge cdrtools. I aslo hat to unmerge dvd+rw-tools and kino. > Anyway I am still not able to emerge cdrtools. > > !!! Cannot write to '/usr/include/scsilib/s

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 10:33]: > > the link under license is leading to nowhere. On the project page I have > not been able to find a license, too (fast overview). > > Where can I find the license? > All licenses can be found under: /usr/portage/licenses/ And emerge -s cdrtools shows

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 12:44]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And the issue is not the licenses itself, but the mixing of the > > licenses in one project. > > Your problem is not to understand the difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 16:13]: > Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper limits > on tar? > Maybe it is more a problem of the specific fs, where you try to create it. If there the

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 21:52]: > Sebastian Günther wrote: >> * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 16:13]: >> [usage of reiserfs] Last time I saw a reiserfs, that I needed to maitain was with SuSe 6.3, so I don't know if there could be a problem, but

Re: [gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 02:03]: > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (hd0,2) > > As expected hd0 is the disk > > grub> setup (hd > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 > > Again confirming that hd0 is a valid disk (as is hd1, but that is an > external scsi that d

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 11:17]: > > Short answer: in a democracy, your freedom ends where you may start to > influence the freedom of others. > No, that's anarchy you describing, in democracy the majority decides were your personal freedom ends. > > > Long answer: >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 13:14]: > Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know I should not feed trolls but > > > Here is a fact for you: Every mainstream binary distro dropped cdrtools. > > It is their right to choose which packets they want to distribute and >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-07 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 17:28]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 13:14]: > > > Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I know I should not fe

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 17:46]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please finally stop your FUD! > > > > > > The CDDL definitely is a free license and Sun will definitely not publish > > > any packages

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08.07.08 12:19]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm just stating that that OpenSolaris hardly counts, because the whole > > thing is under CDDL. > > Which btw allows SUN or any other to restrict acces

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing (was: emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools)

2008-07-08 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08.07.08 15:10]: > Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some hints to you: > > If you replace nail A by nail B, it still remains a nail. > > If you believe that "the schily makefilesystem" refers to > "scripts used to control compilatio

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 11:22]: > Sascha Hlusiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 16:12:43 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The cdrtools tarball includes a file called "Makefile" in every > > > > direc

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing (was: emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools)

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 11:57]: > Well this is because you did oversee important facts in the GPL as many > people > do who claim to have read the GPL. > > As I did already explain the legal facts for using the program "the schily > makefile system" (you should read it

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing (was: emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools)

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 15:14]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you _carefully_ read the GPL (lawyers do it, I did it but Debian > > > doesn't), > > > you will find the following important fact: >

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 15:21]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You obviously missread the GPL. See your other mail that verifies that you > did > not understand the GPL correctly. > No, the only thing is that I don't ap

Re: [gentoo-user] on cdr{kit,tools} and licensing (was: emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools)

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 15:47]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You would need to reread the GPL until you understand this ;-) > OK, Jörg, your the only person on this fricking planet, who actually understands the GPL. Nor d

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 20:04]: > The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add > > splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > to my grub.conf > > Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was > unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? > Your

Re: [gentoo-user] [I--] [ ~] net-analyzer/ndoutils-1.4_beta7 (0)

2008-07-12 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Kaushal Shriyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [12.07.08 09:47]: > Hi > > I am curious to know what does this means [I--] [ ~] > net-analyzer/ndoutils-1.4_beta7 (0) > > I ??? This means it is installed on your box. > ~ ??? This means it is from the unstable tree > (0) ??? > This means it is in slot 0.

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