Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 06 January 2011, KIM WHALEN did opine thusly: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: > > On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: > >> Sorry, I did > >> # echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> > >> /etc/portage/package.mask > >> f

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:49 on Friday 07 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: > Hi there, > > Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is > expected? > > $ locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:31:52 Dale wrote: This is ntp.conf but I omitted the parts that are commented out. server 64.6.144.6 server 67.159.5.90 server 67.59.168.233 server 204.62.14.98 Have you tried switching servers? I'm using server 0.au.pool.ntp.org s

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:31:52 Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after > > ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of > > 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf > > and /etc/conf.d/ntpd. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntpd. This might help us see more detail of what is happening.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:51:38 KIM WHALEN wrote: > I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the "emerge > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" worked. However, running Xorg -configure > still fails. you don't even need that. cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Ide

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF

[gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-06 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_G

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf -> txt

2011-01-06 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which > are of test and "ASCIIbased tables", to pure text > (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). app-text/pdftk http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Is very cool for all things PDF on linux. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:46 -0600, Dale wrote: > kashani wrote: > > On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: > >> I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd > >> is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... > >> > > > > I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/07/11 09:51, KIM WHALEN wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: > Sorry, I did > # echo ">=x11-driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: > > On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: > >> Sorry, I did > >> # echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> > >> /etc/portage/package.mask > >> first > > > > Good, you're now trying to in

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
kashani wrote: On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain in the ass. IIRC it was combination of crap defaults, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no problems

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct version. then tried it again and got the following error.

[gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread walt
On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct version. then tried it again and got the following error. Your kernel was configured to include nvidiafb s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-06 Thread Grant
>>> But watch out -- after the eselect, you'll need to move your php.ini >>> from e.g. /etc/php/apache2 to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3. >> >> Here I get confused.  I believe a "development version" of php.ini was >> installed to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/php.ini.  It included a >> development value for e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Thanasis
on 01/06/2011 07:31 PM Dale wrote the following: > > Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse > than ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at > a time. That's probably because you didn't put -s in the start up options in /etc/conf.d/ntpd: # See n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Jacob Todd
The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no problems with syncing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:31:30 -0600, Dale wrote: > Well, I tried openntp for a good while last night and it was worse than > ntp. It was adjusting the clock by something like 20 seconds at a > time. Even ntp wasn't that bad. ntpd won't shift the clock by too much at a time. If your clock is fu

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread kashani
On 1/5/2011 12:04 AM, Thanasis wrote: I think you should prefer openntpd over ntpd, because I think openntpd is developed by openbsd, which means more secure ... I tried openntp a couple years ago. It was a giant pain in the ass. IIRC it was combination of crap defaults, poor docs, and plain

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: > I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What > creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has > brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, walt wrote: On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot o

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X

2011-01-06 Thread KIM WHALEN
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, walt wrote: On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote: On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graph

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: > > Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of > > /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn > > From the ChangeLog: > > *eix-0.22.1 [...] > - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of > /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it s

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

2011-01-06 Thread Vaeth
> Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of > /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn >From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If you want continue to use it, set OBSOLETE_NOWAR

Re: [gentoo-user] The pound sign SOLVED

2011-01-06 Thread Mike
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:31:17PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > different fonts maybe? > Turns out after some more research that it was that the locale was not set. Mike. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: > >> Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the > >> adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as > >> you can see it stays about the same. I woul