Re: [gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambrosio wrote: > checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) > checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in > @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_p

Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 08:17:09 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more > video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each > time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video > drivers and try to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Currently the disks are showing up as /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be /sda, but with 2.6.32-gentoo it's coming up /hda. Bottom line question -

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. What to do about it? It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as "OK" but when I login it is not running. Look at the logs -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 02:59:58 James wrote: > >/etc/X/xorg.conf file? > > > > It might be that with your video card you *must* have an xorg.conf, > > although I think that most cards will run with a basic > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11- input.fdi > > this dir is empty? OK, xorg elog (I t

[gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

hi, my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video drivers and try to load them, and complains that the module does not exist. i guess som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > High Memory Support to be precise :) In your case CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > > should do. > > > > Processor Type And Features > > => High Memory Support > > => off / 4Gb / 64Gb > Hi Iai

[gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. What to do about it? It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as "OK" but when I login it is not running. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in >> > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 19:08 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > How does memory get reported up to the kernel? Is that something in > > the kernel (i.e. - choosing the proper chipset support or something) > > or is it purely the return from some sor

[gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

[gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

[gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > One of my machines smoked last week so when tearing it apart for spare > parts I noticed the the PC2700 CL 2.5 memory is what my wife's machine > uses and she had only 512MB so I took the opportunity to throw in a > couple of DIMMs. When I boot

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

>/etc/X/xorg.conf file? > It might be that with your video card you *must* have an xorg.conf, although > I > think that most cards will run with a basic /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11- > input.fdi this dir is empty? > I have not seen the errors you are getting in your log before, but I notic

[gentoo-user] BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

One of my machines smoked last week so when tearing it apart for spare parts I noticed the the PC2700 CL 2.5 memory is what my wife's machine uses and she had only 512MB so I took the opportunity to throw in a couple of DIMMs. When I boot Linux (and I'm writing this from Linux running the new memor

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On 18 Jan 2010, at 23:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... If we are truly trying to make Linux more accessible, with things like the plug and play hal offers, should we even be contemplating editing config files? XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII characters, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On 18 Jan 2010, at 17:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of your configuration data beforehan

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:50, James Ausmus wrote: Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key anymore. I reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world that ever used that key

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> > I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for >> > me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer). >>

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

=== On Mon, 01/18, Stroller wrote: === > I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the > switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, > that the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC and > negotiating as gigabit speeds? === ethtool eth0

[gentoo-user] Re: Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On 01/18/2010 09:53 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just as code is read many more times than it is written, so is a package configured by the end user many more times than the config parser studied by the developer. Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a configuration design

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

On 18 Jan 2010, at 22:13, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ... gottl...@allan ~ $ su Password: su: Authentication information cannot be recovered gottl...@allan ~ $ On my Linux boxes I get the same as everyone else. My Mac apologises to me. :/ Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 18:23 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: > >> > >>> In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand > >>> that most people d

[gentoo-user] [OT] Something like Webresearch for linux

I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to webresearch: http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind of things that allows you to make a hierarchy of folders and has some useful search c

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su

On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2010/1/18 walt: Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. What do you see? (I'm rul

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a configuration des

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package virtually unusable

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:34:04 +0200, Arttu V. wrote: > Solar's one-liner is likely working perfectly here. The one-liner just > doesn't find any binaries with the ancient SSP symbol, and thus args > for qfile are empty -- leading into qfile printing its usage. Does this mean using the --no-run-if-

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII > > characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if > > your program uses XML configuration files, it should include a means > > of editing those fil

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > Being my sometimes helpful self. lol > > Password: > su: Authentication information cannot be recovered > > > That normal I guess? Then I'm not! I get $ su Password: su: Authentication failure -- Neil Bothwick Someone who thinks logicall

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and had to do a hard shutdo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:43:58 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed > and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present. > > But yet an X display happ

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:56 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: Another option (I know - too late for you, but might be useful for someone that runs across this on Google), is to press I during the initscript processes - enters "Interactive Boot" mode, so you can Y/N individual

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

Zeerak Waseem wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb > wrote: > >> At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt wrote: >> >>> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your >>> results? >>> >>> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you >>

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

walt wrote: Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear with me ;

[gentoo-user] iwlwifi or 4965 mailing list

Hi, can anyone find a mailing list for the iwl 4965 project? From here http://intellinuxwireless.org/ it seems the "ipw3945 and iwlwifi mailing list" are the same, and I think the 4965 is in the iwlwifi project... I can only find a 3945 devel list at sourceforge: https://lists.sourceforge.net/li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

On Monday 18 January 2010 15:09:39 James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I suspect that you probably have fallen victim to the great conspiracy of > > baselayout doing away with rc.conf and not screaming it LOUD ENOUGH to > > make sure that we set up the XSESSION variable so that the appropr

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2010/1/18 walt : > >> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your >> results? >> >> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you >> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. >> >> What do you see? (I'm rul

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: > > In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand > > that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and > > had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actu

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a > > configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package > > virtually unusable. Given a choice be

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for > > me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer). > > It cost around $25 USD. I don't know if it is better or worse

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually pull the plug to do any good. Luckily

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a > configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package > virtually unusable. Given a choice between me as a developer struggling > with a config parser versus

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:56 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: > Another option (I know - too late for you, but might be useful for > someone that runs across this on Google), is to press I during the > initscript processes - enters "Interactive Boot" mode, so you can Y/N > individual startup scripts, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:36 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: > > Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key > > anymore. I > > reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see > > Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole > > world t

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:07:21 walt wrote: > Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your > results? > > As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you > would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. > > What do you see? (I'm ruling

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for > me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer). > It cost around $25 USD. I don't know if it is better or worse than any > other brand but it se

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt wrote: Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, jus

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010/1/18 walt : > Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your > results? > > As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt.  Now, where you > would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. > > What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt wrote: > Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your > results? > > As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you > would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. > > What do you see? (I'm ruling

[gentoo-user] A quick test of su

Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your results? As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear with me ;) Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

James Ausmus wrote: I'll try to stop being a smart-ass, but it's just one of those kind of days... -James I have those days too. They tend to come in bunches tho. ;-) Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] when emerging: " Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2" messages

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is > listed at the end of the emerge process: > > Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2 > > May I ask for advice? > > Never seen that issue before, but maybe try to re-emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: > > And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the > Magic > > SysRq keys. Did -- not do anything, or a single press of > > the power button (which should send an

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: > And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the Magic > SysRq keys. Did -- not do anything, or a single press of > the power button (which should send an ACPI shutdown signal, causing the > system to self-power-off)? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: > In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand > that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and > had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually pull the plug to do any > good. Luckily I knew how to get

[gentoo-user] when emerging: " Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2" messages

It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is listed at the end of the emerge process: Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2 May I ask for advice? Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Dale wrote: > James Ausmus wrote: > > >> >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale > rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >>That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do >>much in that situation. >>Dale >> >> >> Pshaw... ;) >> >> --,

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

James Ausmus wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale > wrote: That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do much in that situation. Dale Pshaw... ;) --, or, if that doesn't work: --R - Of course, method 2 only works if you

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

Hello fellows, Now, it has support to search at database with eix, to install and unistall packages. Here two more shots of the new interface: http://yfrog.com/5gkportagetray06p, http://yfrog.com/5gkportagetray07p You just need to rebuild the package using the ebuild I sent before. Hope you li

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale wrote: That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do much in that > situation. > Dale > > Pshaw... ;) --, or, if that doesn't work: --R - Of course, method 2 only works if you have the "Magic SysRq keys" (or whatever it's called) option

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote: +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? XML allo

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote: >> +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? >>> >>> XML allows you to gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Mike Edenfield wrote: > XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that > can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries > that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of your > configuration data beforehand. This means I, as a develo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this nearly 4-year-old bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 The solution is presented as: qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanel

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

On 1/18/10, Grant wrote: >>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it >>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this >>> nearly 4-year-old bug: >>> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 >>> >>> The solution is presented as: >>> >>> qlist -o $(qli

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote: +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that can be read, changed, an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,  My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

On Monday 18 January 2010 17:12:41 Grant wrote: > > # qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs qfile > > Usage: qfile : list all pkgs owning files > > > > Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV] > > -e, --exact * Exact match > > -f, --from * Read arguments from file

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

One more thing. The file transfer speed is min(max(HDD),max(NIC),max(others)) so it will depend on your HDD, your network and other reasons. I find out that using sftp command seem to be faster than NFS or Samba. Could you try sftp and check if it is faster or not? Then check the dmesg as well as n

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not > > just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? > > XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that > can be read, changed, and stored by well-te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > pk writes: > >> Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are >>> custom settings regarding the X session done? >> >> Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old >> xorg.co

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>> My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm >>> building a new machine. Most parts are on ord

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Harry Putnam wrote: > Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed > and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present. > > But yet an X display happens when I type `startx', apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>  My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm >> building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change >> these days is the motherboards I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Harry Putnam wrote: pk writes: Harry Putnam wrote: For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are custom settings regarding the X session done? Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old xorg.conf since that will override what's in .

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On 1/18/2010 5:10 AM, Dale wrote: +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries that

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, pk wrote: Btw, devicekit has been renamed to udisks. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc2NA The whole of DeviceKit was not renamed, just the DeviceKit-disks program was renamed to udisks. And yes I think it all u

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

Dale wrote: > Stop lurking and just join me. lol ... "Darth Vader: Luke, join me and I will complete your training..." ;-) Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:03 -0500, James wrote: > All, > > I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or > answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) > > I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything > I've emerged since I set my system up, pref

[gentoo-user] Re: see what's been emerged

On 01/18/2010 05:03 PM, James wrote: All, I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably in chronological

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:10:59AM -0600, Dale wrote: > +1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not > just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed? XML is handy for nested configuration, where various options apply to specific subsets of other configuration items. I coul

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

Thanks Anton...much appreciated! -j On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Anton Bobov wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:03:26 -0500, James wrote: >> I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or >> answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) >> >> I'm trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

I guess I had deleted that email -- shame...many thanks for pulling up the answer. I greatly appreciate it! -j On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > James writes: > >> All, >> >> I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or >> answer for the life of me..

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, pk wrote: > Btw, devicekit has been renamed to udisks. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc2NA The whole of DeviceKit was not renamed, just the DeviceKit-disks program was renamed to udisks. And yes I think it all uses XML config files too, li

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

Hi. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:03:26 -0500, James wrote: > I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or > answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) > > I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything > I've emerged since I set my system up, pref

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

pk writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are >> custom settings regarding the X session done? > > Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old > xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/ OK, let m

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm > building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change > these days is the motherboards I want to purchase no longer support > EIDE/ATAPI interfaces so I'

[gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

walt writes: > On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I >> missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now. >> >> So my first question i

Re: [gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

James writes: > All, > > I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or > answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) On 2009-06-28, the answer was this: for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name "*.ebuild"\``; do basename $f .ebuild; done > I'm trying to find a file

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

>>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it >>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this >>> nearly 4-year-old bug: >>> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 >>> >>> The solution is presented as: >>> >>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__gu

Re: [gentoo-user] exaile + XFCE + global shortcuts

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:55:46 + Mick Mick wrote: Hi Mick, > > Thank your for bringing it to our attention! I've been on a > > lookout for an amarok replacement. > > > > I just installed it so I'm not up to speed with it to answer your > > question, but I am having a similar problem. When I

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3 > > It's the kde screen where you put your login and passwd. > > It flashes for a second or 2, like the passwd is accepted, but > > kde cannot start. > > If I do not auto start kdm via rc-update, then I can log in as a user > > and X start

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it >> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this >> nearly 4-year-old bug: >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909 >> >> The solution is presented as: >> >> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -

[gentoo-user] see what's been emerged

All, I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :) I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably in chronological order. Where / how can I obtain this

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox not starting after login with SLIM

Hi, sorry for late reply. I was on a business trip. Mick's link got me to the solution of the problem. Related information can also be found under http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml echo 'XSESSION="fluxbox"' > /etc/env.d/90xsession solved my problem. (Now I've got to find out wh

[gentoo-user] tvtime overscan not centered

I recently got my old TV tuner card out of the closed and decided to set it up. The kernel's v4l2 drivers support my card and it works just fine with tvtime. However, tvtime's overscan setting doesn't center the image correctly; when increasing the overscan value (to get rid of some random cr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my > desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a > file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. > > I'm not ruling out the cabl

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:50:55AM +, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my > desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a > file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. > > I'm not ruling ou

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:14, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50, Stroller > wrote: I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC a

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