As it turned out, I needed to emerge xf86-input-keyboard---at which
point keyboard function was recovered, but mouse function was dead.
Then I emerged xf86-input-mouse.
The second thing I had to do was comment two lines in my xorg.conf:
dri and xtrap.
That was pretty easy.
Alan Davis
"...can t
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:53:41PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
> >
> > DRI is a kernel option.
>
> Interesting link, thanks. I see that for some ATI cards kernel support
> is needed, as you say. It doesn't seem
I have done alot of upgrades lately, including an emerge -uDvaN world
. When I got home after leaving this to run, the machine started up,
but in gdm no keyboard or mouse input is happening. So I did the
following:
1. put evdev into the INPUT_DEVICES section of /etc/make.conf
2. installed
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 05 July 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> Matt Harrison wrote:
>>
>>> Grant wrote:
>>>
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
wondering about dial-up. Does
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Stroller wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote:
> > I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
> > pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
>
> $ eix ^ntop
> [I] net-analyzer/ntop
> Available versions: 3.3
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Dale wrote:
> Matt Harrison wrote:
> > Grant wrote:
> >> I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
> >> via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
> >> wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
> >>
On Saturday 04 July 2009, Mark Shields wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I know that rrdtool dump will export the rrd data into XML, but is there
> > something to either directly or via rrdtool create a CSV file for me?
> > Will probably want to run this on
On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote:
I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and
xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created
one for libdri.so...
I'd be more worried about this than the keysym e
On 5 Jul 2009, at 18:29, Daniel D Jones wrote:
...
What I'd like is a button on my KMail toolbar that, when pressed,
forwards the
selected email to a specific email address and moves the email to
the Spam
folder. Any help in configuring this would be greatly appreciated.
May I suggest a
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote:
I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and
xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never
created
one for libdri.so...
I'd be more worried about this than the keysym errors. I have xorg-
server-1.6.1.902
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 20:26:23 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> > The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted.
>
> Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetup. Or which
> would be asked at the prompt if I would not give it.
OK, now I get it. But those are two different
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> > Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text
>
> The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted.
Um, I mean the passphrase I specify with --key-file to cryptsetup. Or which
would be asked at th
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text
The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted.
> even if it's in a
> binary file on some server which probably no one will ever see and identify
> as a boot partition. I have
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> > Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> > > And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it?
> >
> > It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I can
> > find again. And meanwhile I also have
I have Spamassasin running on my mail server rather than on my desktop box. I
therefore can't run the Anti-Spam Wizard on KMail, since it correctly fails to
detect a spam filter as installed. I have a mailbox configured on my server
for
spam. Any mail sent to that mailbox is used to train Sp
On 07/05/2009 09:12 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, walt wrote:
I started getting the same 'expected keysym' messages recently but my
X continues to work okay anyway, so I think that's a red herring.
Everything else works, just the keyboard is hosed, and
Matt Harrison wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>> I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
>> via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
>> wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
>> laptop's internal modem work, or would I be bet
On Sat, July 4, 2009 22:54, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 04:22:59AM +0200, Penguin Lover Jes?s Guerrero
> squawked:
>
>>
>> On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jes?s Guerrero wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't filter anything. Just de
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, walt wrote:
> I started getting the same 'expected keysym' messages recently but my
> X continues to work okay anyway, so I think that's a red herring.
Everything else works, just the keyboard is hosed, and those keysym
messages sure seem suspiciously coi
Hello Walter,
Your response is much appreciated (see notes below).
David
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:24:41 -0400
Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:39:31PM -0400, David Relson wrote
>
> > > Perhaps you should try to enable the svga use flag?
> >
> > Worth a try, though VGA graphics are
There are few ext3 to ext4 migration notes/guides. Can anybody advice the most
elaborate safe one?
Any thoughts?
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:20 PM, James wrote:
> bump
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, James wrote:
>> Okay, I've gotten a little further by moving some of the runscripts to
>> /etc/runlevel/boot.
>>
>> I still, however, can't seem to get /usr/ nfs mounted before some of
>> the bo
On 07/04/2009 07:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is
the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous
working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2.
I learned a while back I could get by without
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 16:28:22 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> >
> > And how do you protect the key on the stick? What if you loose it?
>
> It's a long sentence from The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy I can find
> again. And meanwhile I also have a gpg-encrypted backup of the s
Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> Am Samstag 04 Juli 2009 14:51:54 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> > Dirk Heinrichs writes:
> > > having said that, you can even do w/o
> > > initramfs, just put everything into /boot (which should be a separate
> > > partition, then). Again, see my reply to David for the details.
Grant wrote:
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
external one?
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:39:31PM -0400, David Relson wrote
> > Perhaps you should try to enable the svga use flag?
>
> Worth a try, though VGA graphics are all that's needed ...
You need svgalib not for the resolution, but for the ability to do
graphics on a text console. Before you build a
On 5 Jul 2009, at 11:33, Grant wrote:
I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
$ eix ^ntop
[I] net-analyzer/ntop
Available versions: 3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd}
Installed versi
Grant wrote:
> I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
> via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
> wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
> laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
> externa
I have good equipment and good methods for connecting to the internet
via ethernet, wireless, or cell phone while travelling, and I'm also
wondering about dial-up. Does it work well on Gentoo? Should a
laptop's internal modem work, or would I be better off buying an
external one? Has anyone foun
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
> Roger Mason wrote:
>
>> How can I install libtermcap?
>
> if you like a real libtermcap, check for libxtermcap that comes with the
> schily
> source consolidation:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/
Many thanks Joerg, that worke
I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
pretty high. Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
- Grant
Roy Wright wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all
>> the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I
>> might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now.
>>
>> Total: 238 packages (2
On Sunday 05 July 2009 04:14:46 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I am trying to install cb2bib from an overlay. The ebuild is on
> gentoo bugs. On this machine, over time, I have gotten qt to settle
> down, but now it's a mess. I have tried to install some dependencies
> with emerge -1 , but since I have
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi all,
I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all
the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I
might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now.
Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117 in
Hi all,
I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all
the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I
might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now.
Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117 in new
slots), Size of downloads: 390,805 kB
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