On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote:
Hello all,
First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system,
and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm
actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am
not entirely sure which vi
Hello all,
First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and
am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually
doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely
sure which video card I have. I've already checked out lsp
On 06/10/2009 02:44 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Do others see value - getting 64-bit memory management, new CPU
flags, etc., but keeping the apps 32-bit for compatibility?
Personally, no. I see more value in a true multilib Gentoo.
Unfortunately, Gentoo's multilib is "fake". You can't build 3
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Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I lurk on the LKML, say hi once in awhile, ask a question once in
> awhile, and try to read at least the interesting to a non-programmer
> posts. I was curious about this one that came up today. Seems like
> this is a natu
> Jason Carson schrieb:
>> Hey Norman,
>>
>> I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it
>> resulted
>> in the following errors...
>>
>> *Bringing up interface wlan0
>> * Configuring wireless network for wlan0
>> * Scanning for access points
>> *no access points
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:55:49 -0500
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mike Kazantsev writes:
>
> >> Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not
> >> until I've reached the login prompt.
> >
> > But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes
> > up - grub i
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Roy Wright writes:
>
> > So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
> > option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the
> > second part of the boot where the lines look like:
> >
> > blah
Mark Knecht writes:
>> And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've
>> downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28.
>> (not genkernel on this one)
>
> I think he was hoping that you would find something in your
> chroot/var/log/messages file or something
Mike Kazantsev writes:
>> Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not
>> until I've reached the login prompt.
>
> But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes
> up - grub is loading it as a last step of it's execution, so any kernel
> configur
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:52 -0500
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Summary:
>
> What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch)
> right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up.
>
> Details:
>
> I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several
> k
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Roy Wright writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install
>>> media.
>>
>> So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
>> option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
>>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
>>
>> You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does
>> this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partit
Roy Wright writes:
[...]
>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install
>> media.
>
> So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
> option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the
> second part of the boot where the lines look
Mark Knecht writes:
>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
>
> You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does
> this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition
> and could that be part of the problem?
Yes, as advis
I decided to check out Firefox 3.5_beta4-r1 and Thunderbird 3.0_beta2 in
one of my machines (from the "mozilla" overlay). They both emerged fine
without problems. They even run without problems (I'm sending this from
TB 3) except that I can't change their configuration. In both Firefox
and T
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've just completed first part of a fresh install.
[snip]
What I see on reboot:
Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is
mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text
begins scrolling by and never stop
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I've just completed first part of a fresh install.
>
> Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted.
>
> It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the
> highlights are:
>
> eix
> genkernel
> gentoolkit
>
I've just completed first part of a fresh install.
Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted.
It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the
highlights are:
eix
genkernel
gentoolkit
gentoolkit-dev
gentoo-sources
grub
lynx
ntp
reiserfsprogs
rsyslog
vim
v
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
>
>> I've attached my xorg from my G4 eMac, hopefully it will be of some help.
>
> Actually, that config works without any changes!
>
> I merged in the monitor and screens config from my old config and I
Jason Carson schrieb:
Hey Norman,
I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it resulted
in the following errors...
*Bringing up interface wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* Scanning for access points
*no access points found
* Failed to confi
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
I've attached my xorg from my G4 eMac, hopefully it will be of some help.
Actually, that config works without any changes!
I merged in the monitor and screens config from my old config and I have
my desktop back again. The only difference as far as I
Hi,
I lurk on the LKML, say hi once in awhile, ask a question once in
awhile, and try to read at least the interesting to a non-programmer
posts. I was curious about this one that came up today. Seems like
this is a natural for Gentoo.
I have a Gentoo 64-bit setup but have had lots of troubl
Stroller wrote:
On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?
This is
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:10:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> How long does it take to sync the brand new Fedora 11 release?
Don't know.
> How long should it take?
Don't care :)
--
Neil Bothwick
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Summary:
What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch)
right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up.
Details:
I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several
kernels but I think beginning with changing from one KVM to another a
few mn
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > >
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > let me guess:
> > > > > South Africa?
> > > >
> > > > Cor
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > let me guess:
> > > > South Africa?
> > >
> > > Correct first time :-)
> >
> > It's not hard to work out ;-)
> >
> > >Received:
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > let me guess:
> > > South Africa?
> >
> > Correct first time :-)
>
> It's not hard to work out ;-)
>
> >Received: from nazgul.localnet
> > (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > let me guess:
> > South Africa?
>
> Correct first time :-)
It's not hard to work out ;-)
>Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za
--
Neil Bothwick
Remember the good old days, when CPU was s
>>
>> On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote:
>>> H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this...
>>>
>>> * Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support
>>> * Enabling drivers:
>>> * HostAP driver enabled
>>> * Wired driver enabled
>>> * Prism54 driver enabled
>>> * Madwifi dr
>
> On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote:
>> H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this...
>>
>> * Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support
>> * Enabling drivers:
>> * HostAP driver enabled
>> * Wired driver enabled
>> * Prism54 driver enabled
>> * Madwifi driver enabl
> Jason Carson schrieb:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel
>> driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using
>> Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in
>> "master mode" but for some reason it is sta
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:26:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
> > > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> > > > emerge and
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
> > On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
> > > first an
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote:
> On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge
> > and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and
> > if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_M
On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge
> and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and
> if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?
As others have pointed out, caches, pro
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:20:49 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > > find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
> > >
> > > No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:59:39 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > How does this handle quoted filenames?
>
> correctly.
Are you part Vorlon ;-)
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think.(Horace Walpole)
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:21:32 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > command "file 1 file 2 file 3"
> >
> > or
> >
> > command "file 1" "file 2" "file 3"
>
> The latter.
Thanks, and bye-bye xargs (not that I used it very often).
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On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:52, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > -exec command {} +
> > This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
> > selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
> > selected file name at t
On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
> >
> > No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this is
> > execplus (since 19 years).
>
> If it's been a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
> > -exec command {} +
> > This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
> > selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
> > selected file name at the end; the total number of
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> -exec command {} +
> This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
> selected files, but the command line is built by appending each
> selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the
> command will
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
> > > This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation.
> > > You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-)
> > >
> > > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
> >
> > ah, thank
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
>
> No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this is execplus
> (since 19 years).
If it's been around 19 years, why doesn't Google know anything about it?
W
2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling
>
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
> > On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> >
> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> > zsh: argument list too long: qfile
>
> This is not a zsh limitation but a
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> If it's been around 19 years, why doesn't Google know anything about it?
> What is it?
from the manpage of "find", it even compares it to the xargs method:
-exec command {} +
This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the
2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling :
> Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>
>
>> > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
>
>> The right way to handle any size for the list returned by "find", is
>> by using "xargs" :
>>
>> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
>
> No, this is d
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation.
> > You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-)
> >
> > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
>
> ah, thank you - I just copied from Neil (and ha
Mickaël Bucas wrote:
> > You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} +
> The right way to handle any size for the list returned by "find", is
> by using "xargs" :
>
> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans
No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> >
> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> > zsh: argument list too long: qfile
>
> This is not a z
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:48:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Definitely.
> >
> > I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get
> > them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better
> > quality bi
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
>
> qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> zsh: argument list too long: qfile
This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation.
You may have longer arg l
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote:
> > On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> > > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
>
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> > emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
> > first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch
On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
zsh: argument list too long: qfile
bash
energy ~ # qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
bash: /usr/bin/qfile: Argument list too long
bash -
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for
> instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding
> mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome.
There's another factor that some projects will change
On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?
This is undesirable be
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500
Dale wrote:
> > Also, be careful when you parse the output of the command. Most of the
> > .pyc and .pyo files in the python2.5 directories are byte-compiled
> > version that python generated dynamically the first time they are
> > used. For example: /Numeri
On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote:
H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this...
* Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support
* Enabling drivers:
* HostAP driver enabled
* Wired driver enabled
* Prism54 driver enabled
* Madwifi driver enabled
* nl80211 driver en
2009/6/9 Mick :
> 2009/6/9 Philip Webb :
>
>> After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files
>> I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there.
>> I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc & then did 'startx'
>> & yes the desktop menus & the panel menu had vani
2009/6/9 Philip Webb :
> After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files
> I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there.
> I swapped to my KDE version of ~/.xinitrc & then did 'startx'
> & yes the desktop menus & the panel menu had vanished.
> Then I started
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:05:05 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> > >
> > > which avoids checking all the symlinks.
>
> In case that you find implementation works correctly, this will
> not change anything unless either /usr/lib or /lib are sym
090608 Philip Webb wrote:
> 090608 Mick wrote:
>> I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency:
>> kde-base/mimelib
>> Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD)
>> I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue)
>> an
Jason Carson schrieb:
Greetings,
I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel
driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using
Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in
"master mode" but for some reason it is starting up in "mana
Willie Wong wrote:
> > qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f)
> >
> > which avoids checking all the symlinks.
In case that you find implementation works correctly, this will
not change anything unless either /usr/lib or /lib are symlinks.
If you however use find -L, -type f will find
Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * 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.
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Also, I think emerge used to have the --digest option. Basically it
> tells emerge to skip checking the digest. I didn't see it in the man
> page so it may not be there anymore.
It was dangerous, because it ignored digests for all packages emerg
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:16:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an
> emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI
> first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from
> GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable?
You can use
> Jason Carson wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently
>> many
>> distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the
>> nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I
>> tried
>> editing the defconfig f
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 02:27:39 Dale wrote:
> That's sort of what I was thinking. It was generated when it was
> started up the first time. I also noticed some things that I installed
> in the Seamonkey directory too. Adblock was one of those.
>
> Tho there was a good many of them, I suspect mo
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