Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:50:59 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > I protect the root fs with a passphrase and all other volumes with a > > keyfile stored in this fs. No need to mount anything (however, I _do_ > > need an initramfs because of this).

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:09 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > You have a problem to which you do not know the solution, so how are >> > you supposed to know what is important and what is not? >> >> As it seems, I knew what was not important.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> ... >> In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand >> that right? >> ... >> Get real. > > When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as > an "aggressor" it

Re: [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

Hi! === On Monday 31 March 2008, you wrote: === > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:12 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Is there such one? > > emerge -l package | less? I have tried it. Unfortunately, it is slow and ... well, it doesn't show Changelog to me :-) Say, this is full output: emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: What I hate is when I come here and ask a question then right after hitting the send button, I realize it was something stupid I did. Sort of makes me really think before I hit the send button now. LOL It's hitting the send bu

[gentoo-user] Attempting to compile (patched) Qemu

All, I'm trying to compile a patched version of Qemu, found here: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ The patched version has support for virtualizing OS X. However, when attempting to compile, I get the following fatal error: make -C i386-linux-user all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/qemu/i3

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

> > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 > > > > for either end of the connection, but I'm having trouble making it > >

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

Mick schrieb: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:32:47 +0100, Stroller wrote: > When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as > an "aggressor" it probably means you need to take a break for a while RFC 1: Count to ten before hitting send. -- Neil Bothwick Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Matt Edens wrote: > Oops forgot the link to the website. > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ck/projects/uvesafb/> Thanks Matt, I have followed spock's instructions in the first place. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > Hi All, > > > > I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and > > thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and > > wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're describing someone who has annoyed you on the Internet as an "aggressor" it probably means you need to take a break for a while (a

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

It is a running gentoo system in this case But it doesnt make a difference to me. I want to know generally. anyway I will try what everyone wrote here and we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > > Hi A

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare > > quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build > > fails with the error: > > It doesn't need gcc-3

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: > What I hate is when I come here and ask a question then right after > hitting the send button, I realize it was something stupid I did. >  Sort of makes me really think before I hit the send button now.  LOL It's hitting the send button that gets you to the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi All , > > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy > it to another physical machine , while the original system is still > running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to > shutdown the system are not acceptable ) > > S

Re: [gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:12 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Is there such one? emerge -l package | less? -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

Oops forgot the link to the website. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matt Edens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had problems getting this to work also, but was able to get it > working finally >

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

I have had problems getting this to work also, but was able to get it working finally after being directed to the authors website and following his instructions. What I did was get a 2.6.24 kernel working for me fully with no errors then proceded to follow spock's instructions to get uvesafb workin

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:50:59 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > I use a variant of this, where keys are stored on a dedicated > > partition. The pre_mount and post_mount (which unmounts the > > filesystem) ensure that the keys are only visible for as long as it > > takes to mount the other filesyste

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:24:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least > once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) You're not, plenty of us are married :-) -- Neil Bothwick I understand the answers, the questions throw me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

Uwe Thiem wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:39:09 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > > You have a problem to which you do not know the solution, so how are > > you supposed to know what is important and what is not? > > As it seems, I knew what was not important. Just have a look at the > real root cause of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:48:54 -0400, Hal Martin wrote: > You cannot use tar unless you create an exclude file, as it will copy > the contents of /dev and /sys, which means the entire contents of RAM, > and anything that is currently being generated by your devices will be > copied as well. > > Per

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

Hello On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:29:39PM +0300, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to > another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( > means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: > Hi All , > > I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy > it to another physical machine , while the original system is still > running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to > shutdown the system are not acceptable ) > > So

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

Mick schrieb: Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely failed to get uvesafb to work. When it boots up it

[gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

Hi All , I've been wondering how one can clone an entire gentoo system and copy it to another physical machine , while the original system is still running ( means , ghost , acronis and other tools that force me to shutdown the system are not acceptable ) So , someone told me to try just "tar" th

[gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

Hi All, I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely failed to get uvesafb to work. When it boots up it comes up with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at > > > least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) > > > > Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happe

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good > > to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of > > information posted should be "condensed" to on

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at > > least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) > > Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me more than once > a day. o_O Dale, Somehow I jus

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > > > You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. > > Who dictates that? I don't know. Ask Alan, as he tries to dictate which post are allowed and which not. Mich

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me more than once a day. o_O Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] fast CLI package-Changelog viewer

Is there such one? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 dispatch-conf questions

Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question 2: I also have replace-unmodified=yes, but I often see files that I > never even looked at before. What about that? That's because dispatch-conf saves every file it processes in it's archive directory. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:47 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > However, the setup doesn't work. I'm not asked for the passphrase, the > > > mappings are not created. What did I forget? > > > > That the mappings are created all in one go before any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:34:38 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > You were not supposed to post such a comment in the first place. Who dictates that? There is no list moderation except the self-moderation of the users, an none of them have objected to light-hearted comments by Alan, or other, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:07 + (UTC), Michael Schmarck wrote: > I don't. I disagree with his most important point: It's no good > to post as much information as possible. Instead, the amount of > information posted should be "condensed" to only the important > pieces. You have a problem to wh

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So, you may want to replace your "/dev/input/mouse1" for mice and see if > > > that fixes things. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm sure the devs have a good reason for not making > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 the default libstdc++ but /I'm not going to try > to guess what it may be ;-) Me neither :-) Like I replied to Rudmer, now that I understand what the thing actually does, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot > > of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old > > compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade of dhcpcd

econti написа: Hi all, yesterday I upgraded dhcpcd, now at boot time I receive this message: err, eth0: Failed to lookup hostname via DNS: Name or service not known Even so, the IP is correctly assigned by the router. Could anyone help me to understand? ;-) Bye emilio Hi, Look at the new

[gentoo-user] Upgrade of dhcpcd

Hi all, yesterday I upgraded dhcpcd, now at boot time I receive this message: err, eth0: Failed to lookup hostname via DNS: Name or service not known Even so, the IP is correctly assigned by the router. Could anyone help me to understand? ;-) Bye emilio -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org maili

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare > quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build > fails with the error: It doesn't need gcc-3.3, but that it the default it tries to install if no

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:09:53 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia > motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a > bit of concern. > [ebuild N] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p16658 USE="aac alsa dvb dvd mmx > opengl perl py

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:50:47 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > However, the setup doesn't work. I'm not asked for the passphrase, the > > mappings are not created. What did I forget? > > That the mappings are created all in one go before anything is mounted, > so you can't put the keyfile for /v

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

Hi, On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of > error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old > compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could > mount/chroot/quickpkg gcc and install it on the

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

Hi, I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could mount/chroot/quickpkg gcc and install it on the host) While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

Am Sonntag, 30. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file > > > on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a

[gentoo-user] MythTV ebuild reports the wrong video cards - I think

Hi all, I'm in the process of installing MythTV on a VIA Epia motherboard I have and have come across something that's causing me a bit of concern. I do an: emerge --pretend mythtv and have a look at the output. Amongst all of the new/updated packages there is the line for the MythT

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file > > on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a plaintext file > > on /var. > > See below. But while w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote: > One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell & > Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their > website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the > UK, other "brands" of computer whic

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage   > seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more   > forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. > There are a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptfs

Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: > My goal is to open a Luks-mapping for /var with a gpg-encrypted file > on /boot and then open a mapping for /var/tmp with a plaintext file > on /var. See below. But while we're at it, can anybody tell me what's the advantage of a gpg-encrypted

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

On Sunday 30 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, you may want to replace your "/dev/input/mouse1" for mice and see if > > that fixes things. > > Still can't fix the problem. Hmm, what does xorg.0.log spit back out? I assume t