Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:20:51 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
>
>> A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
>> openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
>> openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd
Mick wrote:
> I have noticed this phenomenon which I am not sure I can explain very
> satisfactorily. Just after midnight (GMT) any attempt to resync proves
> futile:
> ==
> # eix-sync
> * Running emerge --sync
>
Starting rsync wit
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > Look at lspci -v. It lists quite a few kernel drivers
> I'm not sure I follow you.
It was just to answer your 'quip' that grep is my friend. I understand the
difference between a driver lock to hardware, and one that's part of X.
It was just an exampl
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:44:28 Dale wrote:
>
>> 'm not sure but I think the command had something to do with seeing
>> what was used to do direct rendering or something. Anybody recall what
>> I am thinking about?
>>
>
> xdpyinfo?
>
>
I don't recall that
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Weren't you looking for the X video driver? You won't find that in lspci,
> it's
> a user-space driver loaded by the X server. You may well find information
> related to 3D rendering and frame buffers though.
>
>
Mine does:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:34:26 Dale wrote:
>
>> Mick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the
>>> way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to
>>> e.g. use xpdf to open pdf f
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>
> no, you have to do -e system first because system does not belong to world
> anymore (for a couple of month it does not belong to world anymore. 6 or
> something like that).
>
>
>
>
I was sort of in the discussion on -dev about this one. From my
understandi
081224 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
>> FYI & others', there's a very nice lightweight FM called 'vifm',
>> which is in Portage & uses Vim-style commands in a terminal;
>> no FM cb faster & it's highly configurable with many features.
>> When I want to do heavy lifti
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
>>> last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> 081223 Mick wrote:
> > I am running Fluxbox which is lighter than KDE
> > and when I just want to poke around a GUI quickly
> > I have found that Konqueror takes quite a few seconds to fire up.
> > Gentoo (file manager) pops up in no time at all and
I have noticed this phenomenon which I am not sure I can explain very
satisfactorily. Just after midnight (GMT) any attempt to resync proves
futile:
==
# eix-sync
* Running emerge --sync
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://88.156.78.16/gentoo-
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2008 18:00:52 BRM wrote:
[snip...]
> I let cups find the printer and I tell it to use the .ppd file I got from
> linuxprinting.org. It shows the printer configuration page, where I set A4
> paper, then I get a security erro
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:54:52 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Maybe because you *do* use kdeprefix. Maybe it's better without it,
> >> like here, where it works ;D
> >
> > I get the same order on this computer, which does not have KDE4.
>
> That's because you don't have it.
>
> `echo
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 00:20:51 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
> openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
> openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd like to
> preserve your setting
I get a lot of these lately:
* Updating desktop mime database ...
* Updating shared mime info database ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms'
Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst'
Unknown media type in
A very very quick fix: rename or move your ~/.openoffice directory and
openoffice should start out with fresh everything. I don't know how
openoffice handles backups and caching though, so if you'd like to
preserve your settings maybe you could look into the subfolders there
and see if the backuped
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> DSA / RSA
> tun / tap
tun - to uniplexed node?
tap - to any person?
it makes some vague sense
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:28:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> no, you have to do -e system first because system does not belong to
> world anymore (for a couple of month it does not belong to world
> anymore. 6 or something like that).
Unless you have @system in /var/lib/portage/world_sets,
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:38:47 -0800, Grant wrote:
> # eselect profiles list
> !!! Error: Can't load module profiles
> Killed
profile not profiles.
--
Neil Bothwick
Oxymoron: Reagan memoirs.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 22:05:25 Grant wrote:
> >> Going from non-hardened to hardened may run into some downgrading
> >> problems, however, in view of the above. For example, hardened devs
> >> still have not put gcc4 in stable (at least on x86, I don't know about
> >> amd64), so if you have g
>> Going from non-hardened to hardened may run into some downgrading
>> problems, however, in view of the above. For example, hardened devs
>> still have not put gcc4 in stable (at least on x86, I don't know about
>> amd64), so if you have gcc4 installed, you'll need to downgrade. Along
>> the same
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 19:51:37 Willie Wong wrote:
> Going from non-hardened to hardened may run into some downgrading
> problems, however, in view of the above. For example, hardened devs
> still have not put gcc4 in stable (at least on x86, I don't know about
> amd64), so if you have gcc4 in
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
> >> >> >> I've looked over this:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you
Hi!
I have some strange problems with Firefox (up to date ~amd64):
1. On some pages some gif files (CAPTCHA) is not shown,
2. Some pages results in Firefox error message:
"Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or
unsupported form of
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:55:20AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked:
> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
> do that.
I don't know much about amd64, so I don't know how the 'multilib'
thing wo
>> >> >> I've looked over this:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
>> >> >>
>> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
>> >> >
>> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try
>> >> > to choose one?
>> >>
>> >> I
>> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
>> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
>> do that.
>>
>> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
>> accomplish the entire thing?
>>
>
> Are you wanting to switch *to* hardene
Hi,
Things got a bit heavy round here the last few days, so here's something
light.
I must be getting very old, I have a hard time remembering the difference
between similar things these days. I'd just gotten over Pluto no longer being
a planet and had to revise "My Very Excited Mother Just Se
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
> >> >> I've looked over this:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >> >>
> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >> >
> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try
>
Hi,
I have an OpenOffice spreadsheet that every single time I open it I get a
recovery dialog that I have to confirm. The recovery always fails, the
document then always opens correctly with no missing data. It was created
with ooo-3 and so far has always been opened with ooo-3.
The dialog giv
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:55 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
> do that.
>
> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
> accomplish the entire thing?
>
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:17 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" wrote:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
>
> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
> But I want to
> put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition.
>
> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there i
>> I'm really surprised to hear that. Can I switch my laptop from a
>> hardened profile to a non-hardened one? I know I've been told I can't
>> do that.
>>
>> You think an 'eselect profile set 2 && emerge -e world' will
>> accomplish the entire thing?
>>
>
> Are you wanting to switch *to* hardene
Grant, I've had a similar problem when I installed 2008.0 hardened instead
of the desktop. Here is a link to the post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713346.html
I would suggest that after you select your desktop 2008.0 profile to run the
following:
emerge --sync && emerge -uDNav world
--Ri
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 08:39:17 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
Which one?
I have a very new high spec Dell and have already done the very painful
process of finding out what hardware does not work. I could save you the
pain...
the iwl3945 does not reliably start the 394
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:11:00 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > In cases where a quick command to display something doesn't exist, it's
> > usually because it never occurred to the developer that there could be
> > another way I find in my own experience that I usually kn
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:34:26 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the
> > way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to
> > e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:44:28 Dale wrote:
> 'm not sure but I think the command had something to do with seeing
> what was used to do direct rendering or something. Anybody recall what
> I am thinking about?
xdpyinfo?
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:28:55 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > grepping a log file is the most natural way for an experienced unix admin
> > to do it. It's a useful skill, all newbies should be encouraged (but not
> > required) to learn it. Sometimes we experienced admin
>> >> I've looked over this:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
>> >>
>> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
>> >
>> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try
>> > to choose one?
>>
>> I read a while back that changin
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
Not here
% echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:28 -0800, Grant wrote:
> >> I've looked over this:
> >>
> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >>
> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >
> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try
> > to choose on
On 2008-12-23, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> Half the fun of Gentoo is knowing that you're kinda on your
> own.
I find the opposite to be true: I'm much _less_ on my own with
Gentoo that I was with any other distro. There's a Gentoo
guide or howto for almost everything I've tried to do (some of
of
>> I'm getting this:
>>
>> !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore.
>> !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:
>> This profile is deprecated. Please update to a 2008.0 profile
>> using eselect profile.
>>
>> and I have:
>>
>> # ls -l /etc/make.profi
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 07:12 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm getting this:
>
> !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore.
> !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:
> This profile is deprecated. Please update to a 2008.0 profile
> using eselect profile.
>
>
I'm getting this:
!!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore.
!!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:
This profile is deprecated. Please update to a 2008.0 profile
using eselect profile.
and I have:
# ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
> Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
> last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
Not here
% echo $PATH
/usr/loc
Actually you shouldn't need any open source or 3rd party software for
repartitioning Vista. From what I heard vista disk manager allows you to
resize it's partitions. You may want to try that first, if it doesn't work
then try one of the other suggestions.
For backing up your data, I would suggest
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
Not here
% echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bi
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:04:06 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
> >> last in KDE 4 sessions. There's no problem at all.
> >
> > Not here
> >
> > % echo $PATH
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/
Hi list,
I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
upwards with eve
On Monday 22 December 2008 18:00:52 BRM wrote:
> - just add the HP USB printer as a normal printer on the Network Server,
> connected via USB.
This is what happens, starting from a clean system (mke2fs, then restore a
known good backup of a freshly built system), and cups installed with
USE="ac
081223 Mick wrote:
> I am running Fluxbox which is lighter than KDE
> and when I just want to poke around a GUI quickly
> I have found that Konqueror takes quite a few seconds to fire up.
> Gentoo (file manager) pops up in no time at all and uses less resources.
FYI & others', there's a very nice
In <6e2210230812221647n528ecdf4w5f4b20d1d1d6f...@mail.gmail.com>,
"Mark David Dumlao" wrote:
> I gave the reason why, I described what probably caused it,
> substantiated that there is something that could be done about it,
> and even was the one that took action on it.
And then made lots of oth
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