On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is:
>
>none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
>
> Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of
> emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to
> b.g.o.??
Odd, t
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!
>
> Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache
>
> Cons: The 4KB physical sectors are a problem waiting to happen. If you
> misalign your partitions, disk performance can suffer. I ran
> benc
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 07:21:20PM +0100, Shoka wrote:
> I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running.
> I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several
> configuration options for getting this driver to work.
>
> The gentoo os is running on a lenovo
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me
> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using
> default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the
> worst value it could be
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:25:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about
> it. In short, I've found two things:
>
> a) "cfdisk" might work while "fdisk" does not.
Interesting. My personal experience has been the opposite: cfdis
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>
> > Hi Willie,
> >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me
> > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using
> > default value
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:16:15AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Simpler than that, just add -hal to xorg stuff in package.use and then
> run emerge -uvDNa world. It will rebuild a couple things, maybe even
> just xorg, then everything is back to the old way. This allows hal to
> be their for other thi
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:39:45PM +0100, Laurent Kappler wrote:
> I'm using Haxe/Neko and we have a wrapper for ImageMagick, but as no one
> did really use it often the last version is made for IM 6.4.7.
> So I might download the ebuild 6.4.5 in a hurry, then we will update the
> Haxe library.
Hi list:
What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want?
The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex
management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF
file, java throws a file-not-found error on "xdg-open". But I have
xdg-utils install
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:15:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh - and that
> > > loading of kparts? The messages are sent by dbus.
> >
> > I don't have konqueror nor do I use KDE/Gnome. And never will.
> then why do you eve
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:07PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it.
Heh, somehow it didn't occur to me that might be the case. Thanks.
So after reading the script, xdg-open is not for me since I do not use
a well known DE.
Cheers,
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:17:01AM +0100, pk wrote:
> Yes, but... As I see it this is mainly a convenience to the programmer
> and no benefits to the users. Which, if I extrapolate, leads to todays
> "nice" GUIs/DEs that can sing and dance and includes the proverbial
> "kitchen sink".
> I use gent
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote:
> I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The
> third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is
> flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery)
> tools.
> I a
Damian:
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Damian wrote:
> I understand, but that isn't what I want, because when I boot up, I
> don't always start up mpd.
>
> > Maybe a combination of both
> >
> > rc_after="mpdscrible"
> > rc_need="mpdscrible"
> >
> > in /etc/conf.d/mpd could also work.
>
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:54:10PM +0100, Damian wrote:
> > (d) What versions of openrc and baselayout are you using?
> openrc is not installed, and the baselayout version is 1.12.13.
I am thinking that Dirk's advice maybe OpenRC/baselayout2 specific.
Which is perhaps why those configuration varia
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:20:52PM +0100, hp_sebastian wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:45:49 -0500 German Lopez Cortina
> wrote:
> > What can be this
> >
> > / bin / sh: lzma: command not found
> > make [2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.lzma] Error 1
> > make [1]: *** [arch/x86/b
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the
> weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. Because
> they startle me a little.
>
> I first tried different start sectors around
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:45:30PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> I have updated to the latest stable (G)vim 7.2.303
> & suddenly can no longer copy+paste from Vim into Open Office:
> it doesn't work at all with Gvim & unpredictably with Vim in a Konsole.
> I can copy+paste from Most in a Konsole to O
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
> > > If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
> > > to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:42:40AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Which copy+paste? high-light with mouse and middle click to paste?
>
> Yes: are there other methods ? -- it also doesn't work
> if I high-light with 'v' & the (left-)arrow key(s).
In Gnome at least you can high-light with mouse, rig
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:18:21PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> I didn't know that one (smile), but only the 1st half works here;
> when I R-click in the OO file, there's no 'paste' option
> & using the 'paste' button on the toolbar gives
> "Requested clipboard format is not available".
Okay, so OO
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help
> her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a
> regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and
> time consuming
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> When I run
> emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update
> --with-bdeps=y world
>
> !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies:
>
> virtual/jdk:1.5
>
> !!! All ebui
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:38:06AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd?
>
> (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org)
>
> There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either
> of those ends in a gui.
Heh
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:14PM +0100, Damian wrote:
> So I tried to see how xdg-open works, but the man page didn't give me
> any useful information. The related command, xdg-mime, doesn't work as
> I expected.
I asked a similar question a week or so back.
> But xdg-open (and therefore beagl
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:50:09PM +, Mick wrote:
> Yesterday I updated my system and after a series of:
>
> revdep-rebuild --library libjpeg.so.7
>
> and
>
> revdep-rebuild -v -i
>
> I thought all was good to go. Unfortunately, I now noticed that I cannot
> open
> encrypted messages
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:32:00PM +, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 21 February 2010 15:08:28 Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:50:09PM +, Mick wrote:
> > > Yesterday I updated my system and after a series of:
> > >
> > > revdep-rebuild --
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:31:34AM +, Mick wrote:
> Since invoking gpg on the CLI does not ask for a passphrase and it returns:
>
> gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry
>
> I assume that the problem is with pinentry. Is there some other
> application involved here that I should look in
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:31:34AM +, Mick wrote:
> Since invoking gpg on the CLI does not ask for a passphrase and it returns:
>
> gpg: problem with the agent: No pinentry
>
> I assume that the problem is with pinentry. Is there some other
> application involved here that I should look in
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> Does Foxit Reader support editing pdf files (By editing I mean making notes
> in them etc.), I've been having some trouble finding a pdf-reader that
> allowed that.
> If anyone has any suggestions as to what pdf readers (oth
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:01:37AM +0900, daid kahl wrote:
> I've tried xpdf, epdfview, evince, kpdf, and acroread.
> I want something fast for big files, prints well, and has an interface that
> doesn't remind me of pure and natural X. I don't mind the little page
> overview as a side-tool, but
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 02:21:39PM -0600, Neal Hogan wrote:
> I use mupdf with OpenBSD and I like it (vi-like bindings). Not too
> sure if Gentoo has the port/package. A quick "gentoo mupdf" google had
> a few hits . . . but I didn't look at any of the links to see what
> they were talking about.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +, Mick wrote:
> eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --no-detach --debug-level guru --log-file gpg-
> agent.log)"
> gpg-agent[7276]: enabled debug flags: command mpi crypto memory cache memstat
> hashing assuan
>
> The log file shows:
> ==
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:01:12AM +, Mick wrote:
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] starting a new PIN Entry
> gpg-agent[6741]: can't connect server: `ERR 67109133 can't exec
> `/usr/bin/pinentry-qt': No such file or directory'
> 2010-02-25 06:48:32 gpg-agent[6741] can't connect to the PIN
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/
> tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive
You need the -C flag. See man tar.
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
D
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:45:27PM +, Mick wrote:
> > So maybe file a bug? I
> > don't know whether this is a configuration/USE issue or something
> > hardcoded in the distribution.
>
> I will file a bug, but I am not entirely sure what I should file it under, so
> that it does not get reject
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:54:13AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need
> portage on its own, maybe /var as well?)
/var if you are worried about log files piling up. I don't put portage
on its own, but I use reiserfs for /
> - some kind
Hi list:
My netbook has a eGalax Touchscreen. Does anyone have experience with
them?
(a) I first tried their driver at
http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm
but it crashes the computer when logging out from X. I may play with
it a bit more to see if I am doing something
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:51:21PM +, Mick wrote:
> > Please do write a page on the Wiki (or at least a summary of what you
> > did to this mailing list). This will be some handy information to
> > have.
>
> I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the Windows 7
> boot manager
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
> > > > cluster size maybe.
> > >
> > > I think reiserfs with the notail o
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote:
> There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem
> corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope
> it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging
> in the server cupboard yes
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote:
> >from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you
> >edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of
> >LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok?
>
> Many thanks for this suggestion, how
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +, Stroller wrote:
> I don't think this is a problem. I would love to know what others
> think of the `smartctl` output:
>
>
> r...@sysresccd /root % smartctl -H /dev/sda
> smartctl version 5.38 [i486-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
> Allen
> Ho
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
> >In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption
> > problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have
> > you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote:
>
> Many thanks for your help, Willie!
>
> About 13 items. Is this unlucky?
>
> http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png
>
Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Is it
upgraded recently? Any config files
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to
> >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work
> >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work
> >>> Compiling source in
> >>> /var/tm
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime
>17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.09
You call it Agrajag and talk about stability? You big tempter of fate
you.
:)
W
--
Willie W. Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:07:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:23:01 Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime
> > >
> > >17:58:52 up 51 days,
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote:
> >>
> >>Many thanks for your help, Willie!
> >>
> >>About 13 items. Is thi
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:41:04AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to
> compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system?
atom is not amd64.
Building stuff on my netbook is slow(er). My netbook has an N270 at
1.6GHz, with 1G ram. Most build j
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:21:06AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> i kanda thought about that for the usb stuff. but i have not resolve
> it. may be i also need the pmout package to allow me to mount the usb
> disk?
>
> the big problem now is the battery information. i really have no idea
> where to look
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:23:14AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:58:48 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
>
> > > One thing i would worry is that how long will the atom cpu take to
> > > compile my whole gentoo ~amd64 + kde4.4 system?
> >
> > a
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.
>
> Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5.
-sigh- now I am unmerging skencil. I used to use it years ago. But now
I am getting the same problem you described.
W
--
Wil
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it.
> It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work
> (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file).
>
> The user interface is full of breakage: i
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:59:34PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for
> > postscript support?
>
> Looks that way, though I'm not sure exactly what it uses skencil for.
> I would have sworn I had inkscape installed without skencil and
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote:
> You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!!
Why is that surprising? My laptop does not have an always-on internet
connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I
"sync by hand" when I have time, roughly twice eac
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?:
>
> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote:
> >> You run yo
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:37:28PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:44:06PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried Mutt (smile) ?
> >
> > Not if it uses HAL :)
> >
> Hells to the no.
>
> I u
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:05:12PM +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> > I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to
> > me, with the possible exception of a run-on "if".
> >
> > The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been
> > involved in a th
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:57:59PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> >...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too
> >forgiving and fuzzy!
>
> By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign
> speeches should be wri
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then.
> GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing
> skills or lack thereof. LOL
>
How'bout google picasa?
W
--
Willie W. Wong
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >How'bout google picasa?
> Isn't that pretty large too?
>
> r...@smoker ~ # equery size kview
> * kde-base/kview-3.5.10
> Total files : 110
> Total size : 1.09 MiB
> r...@smoker ~ #
Yes, it is large, but it has loads of
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:27AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
> > I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently
> > (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info & maybe
> > something to help:
> >
> > http
Recently X has spontaneously crashed on me several times. Each time it
is triggered by opening up a new webpage in a new tab in Firefox. The
URL of the webpages are random, so I don't think it has to do with any
particular site (and those url often open fine on subsequent visits).
The message tha
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:57:32AM -0400, AJ Spagnoletti wrote:
> This is a late reply and you might have already solved the issue,
> however, I was running into this problem as well, and it was resolved
> for my by backing my X packages back down to stable as I was running a
> stable kernel. Anoth
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote:
> Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel
> 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help.
Actually, I am still on kernel 2.6.30; with .32 something's not quite
right with the KMS and on boot my la
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin
>
> I learned something new, thanks :)
To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor.
fd/0 = stdin
fd/1 = stdout
fd/2 = stderr
You can create your own file descriptors and use them to manipu
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I need dev-texlive/texlive-pictures because it seems that's what
> provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I
> currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this
> particular programming language shoul
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19:13AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I have very bad experience with acroread-9.3.2.
> Some printers (claiming to support postscript level 3) just hang.
> When I first 'print' to a file,
> gv only shows some part of each page and evince just hangs.
>
> Has anybody sim
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user
> > maintenance mode. How do I do that?
>
> At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot.
> Press "e"
> Move cursor to the "kernel" line
> Press "e"
> Move curs
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:39:01PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote:
> what exactly is this reserved block count? is it about the number of inodes?
> does that mean that, by default, regular users can only use 95% of the
> inodes? and why did I use all these inodes? I don't think I have that many
> smal
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you
> > have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the
> > blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in question (IIRC) is
> > only for /hom
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them.
> >
> > Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" in your
> > /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally
> > reboot.
> >
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote:
> > Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel
> > 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help.
>
> Actually,
Hi list,
I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean
out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting
output that I haven't seen before:
The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found
media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1
dev-
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean
> > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated
> > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to
> > those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree.
> Each one of those pa
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 03:05:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is
> fallible, as no-one knows better than I do.
You just don't remember someone knowing it better. :)
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0200, pat wrote:
> I have Dell Latitude E4300 notebook where the wifi and bluetooth (BT) is
> turned on by one HW switch. So, on windows if the switch is turned on there is
> possible to turn off one of these devices (from windows try stop the device).
> Is there
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree.
> > > X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig,
> > > like so...
> > >
> > > <*> Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
> started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot
> errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't
> like to make a fi
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you
> mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;)
Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are
you sure there's no kerne
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> He has this uncanny ability of almost
> always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying "Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almo
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then:
>
> unmerge libpng
> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> same with revdep-rebuild
> re-
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:52:09PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've
> been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and
> following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still
> haven't been
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:54:33AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing
> the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I
> use don't do that.
>
> It is usually better and prefer the "answer to
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote:
> 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开
For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you
doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list?
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
Data aeq
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy :
> >
> > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> > Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Ga
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole
> thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the
> depth of what's capt
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> >> in
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> >> in
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> does he speak for all of you ?
>
> --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 ---
> lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in
> OSS-QM. we arent interest
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has
> something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me
> via email.
Usually "is there an option..." questions are well-answered by "man
". And in this case
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I
> regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown
> proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard.
>
> How do I get the mouse
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1).
> However, a crapload of files still remain in
> /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way
> after trying to emerge openoffice
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:08:43PM +0530, Penguin Lover Kaushal Shriyan
squawked:
> file `which autossh`
> /usr/bin/autossh: POSIX shell script text executable
>
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/268077/
>
> I dont see any of my env variables being called in that bash shell script.
>
> Please suggest a
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:52:40PM -0600, Penguin Lover Maxim Wexler squawked:
> My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything
> and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need.
You are a brave, brave man.
With 4+8G, how much non-system space do you have left
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38:50AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando
> wrote:
> > I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I
> > reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing.
> > If I start mc in the screen nothings h
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:34:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
> 090912 Lars Gust?bel wrote:
> > I've been using fvwm2 for years now ...
> > I have a graphical system monitor on my third desktop ...
>
> Can you have multiple desktops with Fvwm ?
> I couldn't find anything about it i
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cra...@gmx.de
squawked:
> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> system monitor a la gkrellm but
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