[gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

2007-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
At times, I don't see the point of so many groups. Here's my "/root/bin/u_add" script, which I invoke as... u_add newusername #!/bin/bash useradd -g users -G audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s /bin/bash $1 -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/in

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread ruscook ozbike
Neil Walker wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Sabayon is just gentoo with a different installer, correct? No, it's a binary distribution and a horrible mess. So as long as you do your emerge sync && emerge -u world. you never need to install a new version, right? That is about the m

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Dale
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > 2007/4/29, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Chuanwen Wu wrote: >> > After "emerge -uDN world", >> >> Not very informative. More useful information you could have >> provided with the output of 'genlop --list --date 2 days ago'. > genlop is from which package?I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/4/28, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: · Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi,guys! > > After "emerge -uDN world",the font in xfce4 becomes weird. Define "weird", please. The font is out of the control of my .fonts.conf.The english characters are unclear as you can see in annex e.png

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/4/29, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chuanwen Wu wrote: > After "emerge -uDN world", Not very informative. More useful information you could have provided with the output of 'genlop --list --date 2 days ago'. genlop is from which package?I don't have it in my gentoo. > I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] how to open a chdired rxvt?

2007-04-28 Thread anhnmncb
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:08:55PM +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > DestroyFunc FvwmTermDoc > AddToFunc FvwmTermDoc > + I Exec exec $(cd ~/doc && rxvt) > > # Keybind > Key C A MC FvwmTermDoc > > -- > Daniel Vrcic > -- solved, well done! Thank you, Daniel Vrcic. My way: Key C

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread Neil Walker
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Sabayon is just gentoo with a different installer, correct? No, it's a binary distribution and a horrible mess. So as long as you do your emerge sync && emerge -u world. you never need to install a new version, right? That is about the most dangerous thing yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread ruscook ozbike
ruscook ozbike wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, ruscook ozbike wrote: Hi all, I realise this is the gentoo forum, but I've had this problem out on the sabayon forum (which is not as busy as here) and got no feedback as yet. So, I'mputting my question out her

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread ruscook ozbike
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, ruscook ozbike wrote: Hi all, I realise this is the gentoo forum, but I've had this problem out on the sabayon forum (which is not as busy as here) and got no feedback as yet. So, I'mputting my question out here as well. I just went t

Re: [gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, ruscook ozbike wrote: > Hi all, > I realise this is the gentoo forum, but I've had this problem out on the > sabayon forum (which is not as busy as here) and got no feedback as yet. > So, I'mputting my question out here as well. > > I just went to upgrade to 3.4 loop 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off > XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole > system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. > > ++ kevin > > On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tho

[gentoo-user] Installer (Sabayon 3.4 Loop 1) can't detect s/w RAID disks / fails with /etc/fstab mount error

2007-04-28 Thread ruscook ozbike
Hi all, I realise this is the gentoo forum, but I've had this problem out on the sabayon forum (which is not as busy as here) and got no feedback as yet. So, I'mputting my question out here as well. I just went to upgrade to 3.4 loop 1 (live/install DVD) and it won't detect my existing Sabayo

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought I had it configured for KDM, t

[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I thought I had it configured for KDM, things are not going well. rc-update says xdm is in default (and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Activate_Graphical_login says this is a good thing. /etc/conf.d/xdm says DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" and /etc/rc.conf just has a comment to look in that place, plus XS

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Chuanwen Wu wrote: > After "emerge -uDN world", Not very informative. More useful information you could have provided with the output of 'genlop --list --date 2 days ago'. > I guess maybe because when I "etc-update",I change some files.But > I don't know which files. You don't make regular bac

[gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

2007-04-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, btw, ghc could provide? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-04-28 Thread Randy Barlow
On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote: > So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could > set up sendmail to deliver mail for me... I really wouldn't recommend using Sendmail, especially not for just sending mail and not receiving mail. So my recommendation is t

[gentoo-user] switching to graphics mode tty extremely slow

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel D Jones
My system is extremely slow to switch back to a graphical TTY. I'm not talking about X starting up but just switching TTYs. For example, if I'm sitting at the KDM login screen and I hit CTL-ALT-F2 and switch to a text mode TTY, it takes only a second to get a login prompt. When I hit CTL-ALT

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Ralf Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage >> tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple >> 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! > > OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. Uhm, any particular reason, why switchin

[gentoo-user] Re: the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi,guys! > > After "emerge -uDN world",the font in xfce4 becomes weird. Define "weird", please. > Anyone know how to fix it? Probably not, as your description is very unclear. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-04-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was wrong. One look at the sendmail configuration file actually > angered me because of all the crap I would no doubt have to go through > to get it working. Yep. That's why I never had a closer look at sendmail. If possible, I replace it everywhere. > So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing CFLAGS

2007-04-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> BTW: What exactly are the benefits from using march instead of > >> mcpu? Is there a noticeable difference in speed anyway? With mcpu > > [...]

[gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,guys! After "emerge -uDN world",the font in xfce4 becomes weird. I am sure the file ".fonts.conf" is not changed and when I use gnome,everything is Ok! I guess maybe because when I "etc-update",I change some files.But I don't know which files. Anyone know how to fix it? Thanks in advanced!

Re: [gentoo-user] how to open a chdired rxvt?

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Daniel Vrcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-04-28 12:12]: > * anhnmncb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-04-28 11:39]: > > hi, list: > > I want to bound a key-binding to open a chdired rxvt. Say I'm in fvwm > > and the working dir is ~/, then I want to open a rxvt, which working > > dir is ~/doc, so I try: > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing CFLAGS

2007-04-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Samstag, 28. April 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: >> BTW: What exactly are the benefits from using march instead of >> mcpu? Is there a noticeable difference in speed anyway? With mcpu [...] > usually march is faster on the given cpu, mcpu is more comp

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound card problem [SOLVED]

2007-04-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
I don't know why, but unloading all sound modules and running /etc/init.d/alsasound restart was enough to solve the problem. I don't know if it'll come up again when I restart my computer. Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > Yesterday I was sent [1] a new kernel config through this list that > solved th

[gentoo-user] Sound card problem

2007-04-28 Thread Iván Pérez Domínguez
Yesterday I was sent [1] a new kernel config through this list that solved the main problem I was suffering. A new one has shown up: the kernel module i810_audio detects my sound card. Even alsa detects my sound card (alsaconf shows it's name). However, I cannot access card #0, alsamixer is incapab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:01 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! > > OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that. > It may simply

Re: [gentoo-user] how to open a chdired rxvt?

2007-04-28 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* anhnmncb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-04-28 11:39]: > hi, list: > I want to bound a key-binding to open a chdired rxvt. Say I'm in fvwm > and the working dir is ~/, then I want to open a rxvt, which working > dir is ~/doc, so I try: > rxvt -hold -e bash -c "cd ~/doc" That should be: (cd ~doc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-28 Thread Ralf Stephan
> > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple > 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for tha