On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> It can be done with udev rules. See webpage
> http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/526#null The suggested udev rule is...
Walter,
Thank you for the link, that is great info!
> Because this is done independantly of the GUI, I don't think it'l
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Wang Xuerui wrote:
> Just a side note... These 3 things don't play well with a Linux
> ecosystem, as you might know. They're M$ technologies after all (-:
Hi Wang,
As you suspected, I knew the solution was not going to involve
DDE/OLE. I included them to encoura
Hello,
Which package(s) do I need that allow:
1. A USB drive is inserted
2. The drive is mounted in some location automatically (e.g. /media/usbstick)
3. (2) happens even when the drive is an NTFS or FAT32 drive.
4. (1)-(3) happens even if I am not running a "GUI"
5. (1)-(3) happens even if I
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> GPG_AGENT_INFO tells ssh to use gpg-agent.
Hi Rich,
Are you saying that the ssh software checks for the presence of the
GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable? It find it odd that ssh
hard-code the names of all possible agents. Also, I thought
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Why not do the obvious thing instead?
>
> Run keychain and have it unlock your keys *once* when the workstation
> boots up. ssh then always uses that key as it is unlocked.
Alan,
Thank you. FYI, I do not have a problem typing my password 10
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Mick wrote:
> I think that the idea of keeping your passphrase in the clipboard is frowned
> upon for security reasons. Not only because of any potential memory leaks,
> but because you may inadvertently paste it in GUI fields/areas you were not
> meant to
Mick,
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Typically they are launched from a bash profile, or an X11 startup
> script. KDE/Gnome look like they have it in their default scripts.
> Just grep -r gpg-agent /etc and you'll find where it is being loaded
> if you didn't add them to your own
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> In any case, I suspect that gpg-agent is actually serving passwords to
> openssh, so the file you want is ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf - it probably
> contains the line "pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry". If you trust
> all your X clients you can
I am trying to ssh into a site using PKI. I have a private key in my
.ssh directory that requires a passphrase.
ssh is asking me for my passphrase using a terrible program called
"pinentry". It's terrible for a bunch of reasons, and if you are
interested you can just google "pinentry sucks".
pi
Hello,
I have a small system:
- 6GB drive
- ext4 partition mounted readonly
- swap partition that is not listed in fstab and not enabled. (I will
swapon it every few weeks or so if I need it for a large compile job)
- 2 GB RAM
When the system boots it processing video from a USB camera. The
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Éric DUNAND wrote:
> Btw, if you intend to try the intel sdk for opencl, it actually
> computes on the cpu, not the integrated graphics.
Eric,
Thank you. I will try to use beignet as I am using Intel hardware.
Chris
Hello,
At the moment I am running and receiving my network connection from
init.d/wicd. init.d/net.eno1 is not running and I do not want it to
run.
Now I want to connect to a VPN: /etc/init.d/openvpn start
Apparently as a dependency to init.d/openvpn, something launches
init.d/net.eno1.
Q: Why
Hello,
Regarding the following snip from
/usr/portage/media-libs/mesa/mesa-10.0.4.ebuild:
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
opencl? (
>=sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r1[video_cards_radeon,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
>=sys-devel/clang-3.3[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
>=sys-devel/gcc-4.6
Hello,
The following page describes kernel, VIDEO_CARDS, and portage settings
for nvidia video cards:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers
Is there a similar page for Matrix MGA G200 video card?
In particular, I would like to know:
1. What kernel settings should I use?
2. What V
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chris Stankevitz
wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from
> opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8?
This is solved:
1. opencv has USE=cuda. I have opencv-2.4.5 installed.
2. I had these mask rules:
# 2013-12-24 Hold off on CUDA
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You did post emerge output using -t and it shows up at the top level
> which is a bit odd, it implies portage wants to update opencv anyway,
> not as a result of it being a dep.
I agree it's odd and I agree it appears that portage isn't upd
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to
> have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but
> you have masked that in package.mask
Hi Alan,
I attempted to mask only opencv greater than 2.4
Hello,
Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from
opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8?
I would not expect portage to want to do this because:
1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system)
2. >opencv-2.4.5 is masked
Thank you,
Chris
=
jane ~ # grep opencv /etc/po
Where is the proper place to specify the gentoo network configuration nowadays?
I do not have a file called /etc/conf.d/net.example on my hard drive.
That surprised me.
The handbook talks all about eth0, but my machine does not have a
eth0. It has eno1. Perhaps the handbook is not up to date?
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
> > But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot
> order in BIOS after that.
>
Michael,
Thank you, that worked perfectly.
Chris
Hello,
My / (root) lives on /dev/sdb1. My /dev/sda has no partitions and no data
except for what I presume is the mbr written by lilo. [history: sdb is an
SSD and I never wanted to use the slow sda]
I have been playing with ZFS on a USB drive and I am ready to create a
zpool on /dev/sda.
ZFS r
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Indeed. The original use-case for NFS is no longer relevant whereas the
> design for smb *is* what suits most folk.
Alan,
What can I say. Thank you for your explanation. You wrote exactly
the words I needed to hear. For some reason, it
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Most NFS servers in the real world are thus file shares and permit
> read-only access to all users.
Alan,
Thank you for explaining this in english for me. I am a bit blown
away that it is taking me so long to figure out that NFS might not
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That's how it is supposed to work. nfs is a Unix filesystem, it obeys
> Unix user and permissions (unlike say VFAT or smbfs where it has to
> fudge these things). NFS will mount the filesystem using whatever is set
> on the server. You canno
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Put the mount in /etc/fstab with the noauto and users or user options.
Neil,
Thank you. I did this; however, as soon as I mount, the directory
becomes owned by root and I cannot write to it. Please consider:
jane cstankevitz # grep nfs
Hi,
Is it possible to mount an NFS share from XFCE4? I suspect the answer
might have something to do with gvfs or fuse, neither of which I know
anything about.
Ideally after emerging or USEing I will have a "Connect to server" entry in
my XFCE4 menu.
If this is impossible, then I'd be ok with a
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon
>> wrote:
>> It
>> sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a
>> PITA.
>
>
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files
> are owned by whoever mounted the drive.
Neil,
Thank you.
Chris
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You don't need chown/chmod at all. FAT has no concept of owner and
> permissions, so the kernel fudges these. Basically, when mounting the
> stick it pretends every file on it is owned by the user that mounted it
> and everything has permissi
Hello,
Please consider a USB "stick" that is unformatted but is to be used by
multiple people/machines. Ideally your instructions will work for all
people/os/WM, but if necessary please assume that everyone is running
gnome under linux
1. How should I prepare this device so that it can be plugge
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Mick wrote:
> I'm not sure CUDA will make a noticeable difference (will
> it?
You will not notice CUDA. The only people who want CUDA are those who
have written software specifically to work with CUDA. This is mostly
the engineering/research community. CUDA is
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Mick wrote:
> I'm reading all these messages about Nvidia driver versions causing problems
> and I'm wondering if for my next box I should just stick with radeon, which
> has not really given me any trouble for as long as I can remember.
Mick,
I've been running
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Marc Stürmer wrote:
> When working under X11 in a terminal and I type "exit" in the shell, the
> terminal does not close itself anymore.
I had the same problem and fixed it with:
echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
This downgra
Hello,
Portage recently told me this:
* You need to add kmod-static-nodes to the sysinit runlevel for
* kernel modules to have required static nodes!
* Run this command:
* rc-update add kmod-static-nodes sysinit
Will you please help me parse this statement?
Interpretation A:
* You need to
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Ok, so... is there or is there not a way to prevent ruby from being
> installed?
Yes
> I've tried adding -ruby and -test to package.mask for
> thin-provisioning-tools, and even tried adding them to USE= in make.conf, to
> no avail...
Follow t
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote:
> False. These packages should already have this use flag set by default in
> a vanilla Gentoo setup. Perhaps you masked something related to ruby
> already?
Hans,
You are correct.
A year ago I added RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" to my make
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you
>> update to this version and don't use FEATURES="test" it should not pull
>> in ruby anymore.
>
> I don't have FEATURES="test" and it still wants to pull all the ruby crap
Hello,
If possible please phrase your response in a way that will make sense
to someone who was no idea what is ruby, has no desire to learn what
is ruby, and who doesn't [directly] even want ruby on his system.
True or false: The correct way to appease portage's error message
below is to add a b
Hello,
I got no feedback from eclipse, so I thought I would try here:
I debug a multithreaded program using Eclipse (which uses gdb
underneath). Somtimes (but usually not) xorgs will seizes for 1-3
secconds during a "step" operation.
When I say xorg "seizes" what I mean is that the display free
Hello,
Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) the
mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm looking
for a level of detail like this:
When you insert a USB device, the kernel sends out a notification A.
Userland daemons such as B can catch this signal. A
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> All old ebuilds are always available in CVS:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-client/chromium/?hideattic=0,
> which you could put in a local overlay.
>
> Don't forget to file a bug so the science team knows abo
Arg...
dev-lang/v8-3.19.18.19 breaks sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4.
Downgrading to dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 breaks www-client/chromium-29.0.1547.57
Can't downgrade www-client/chromium below 29.0.1547.57 because there
is no older version in chromium.
Bonus: I'm afraid to upgrade my kernel since I us
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:12 PM, »Q« wrote:
> It looks like maybe the best way to tell which ebuilds support which
> kernels is to read the conditional for the ewarn message in each
> ebuild.
If this sort of problem spreads it might be good to build into portage
some kind of blocker/keyword mecha
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447566
This bug describes a problem people are having with nvidia/kernel. My question:
Are "regular" nvidia users who run a completely stable system (with
only stable nvidia-drivers and stable gentoo-sources) affected by any
of this?
I run a stable system
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote:
> Is anyone able to run Gnash or Lightspark in Gentoo?
I take my 64 bit gentoo laptop everywhere and have never installed
flash (or similar) on it. I told youtube that I use HTML5 which gives
me access to ~33% of videos. I use virtualbox to r
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> Leaving LC_COLLATE unset will cause strings to be sorted according to
> the normal rules associated with your locale.
Mike (or anyone else),
For which applications does setting LC_COLLATE affect sorting:
a) Any C++ application that uses bool
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> Run "eselect locale", first with the "list" parameter and then the "set"
> parameter as appropriate. It's easier.
Kerin, all,
Thank for your help. SVN (and I'm sure other apps) are happy now.
Chris
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You
> generally do this by setting the LANG variable in
> /etc/conf.d/02locale.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect3
Mike,
Tha
Hello,
I am using svn to update a repository. Somebody added files to the
repository with weird characters in the filename. SVN refuses to
update the respository unless I first:
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
I don't know or really care what that mumbo jumbo means, but I would
like an answer to t
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You probably already spotted this but just in case
>
> stable sdk is v2.02.0807.1535
> stable toolkit is 4.2.9-r2
Alan,
I did not notice that. Thank you, it all makes sense now!
Chris
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 01/07/2013 23:18, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> It says it's going to downgrade nvidia-cuda-sdk,but it doesn't say why.
> For that:
>
> $ eix dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
> * dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
> Availa
Hello,
I'm particularly paranoid about my CUDA setup. I do not understand
CUDA except enough to declare that if my machine has CUDA 4.2
installed my life will be easy. This is because I compile software
that supposedly needs CUDA 4.2.
Can someone please translate the emerge -Dauv snip below int
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/udev?id=97595710b77aa162ca5e20da57d0a1ed7355eaad
>
> From there you can find the code that does the renaming in udev.
Thank you for the description and links... that was the kind of in
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
>
> That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
Hi Philip,
Is this a true statement:
Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda.
Therefore som
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Regarding this string "eth0":
>>
>> 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem?
>> (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*"
>
> It's just a name.
I'm interested in a bit more resolution here. I belie
Hello,
Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?
How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer?
When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"?
Thank you,
Chris
Hello,
A USB serial device is identified by the characters "/dev/ttyUSB0".
One might call this string a "device on your filesystem" and it can be
opened/closed just like any other entry in the filesystem.
An ethernet device is sometimes represented by the string "eth0".
Regarding this string "eth
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:30 PM, staticsafe wrote:
> emerge ntp && ntpdate pool.ntp.org
Thank you!
Chris
Hi,
What is the gentoo equivalent to this ubuntu command:
apt-get install ntpdate && ntpdate pool.ntp.org
The first command installs ntpdate, a program that uses ntp to
immediately set the clock, even if it is going to be a large
adjustment. The second comment tells ntpdate to sync the clock.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Are you using a self-configured kernel? What sound chip is in your laptop?
> What driver are you using? If it's an Intel codec, have you tried enabling
> all different variants of that codec in the kernel?
Nikos,
Thank you for your hel
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> At the risk of starting a flamewar, did you recently install a "sound
> server" (e.g. pulseaudio/phonon/whatever)? Can you temporarily disable
> it and see how the sound comes out?
Walter,
Thank you for your tip. This is the sort of thinki
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:28 AM, James wrote:
> Good luck, Good Hunting!
James,
Thank you for your tips. I tried to reproduce the problem on the same
hardware using a different OS (xubuntu 12.04). The problem did not
occur on the different OS. Therefore I rule out hardware problems.
Do you h
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Eliminate hardware failure as a cause by trying it from a live CD.
Neil,
Thank you. I tried with a xubuntu 12.04 64bit live cd. There was no
problem. I conclude that there is no problem with my hardware. I
also conclude that there is a
Hello,
My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone
has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume
knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like.
This happens whether I am listening a beautiful song or whether I'm
listening to 'white
Hello,
1. When my machine boots, just after I tell lilo which kernel to load,
lilo reports "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second
stage"
2. I chose lilo over grub because of some gentoo handbook comment
about multilib that frightened me.
3. My machine boots fine. I have to be pay
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote:
> So your package seems to be masked by an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask.
Matt,
Thank you. I read that very section but missed the definition of "#" somehow.
FYI in this case the package is masked by the devs and unmasked by me
in /e
# emerge --oneshot --ask wxGTK
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R #] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.9.4.1
Hello,
In the above emerge instance, a "#" symbol appears in the emerge
output. What does this mean? "man emerge" seems to ski
Hello,
The file
/etc/conf.d/net
reports that I can seen an example format at this location:
/usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example
On my machine that example file does not exist. Did I do something
wrong or is this just a documentation oversight?
Thank you,
Chris
PS: I'm trying to find a wa
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Chris Stankevitz
wrote:
> Q: How can I retrieve a count of USB transmissions that failed or were
> retransmitted? (analogous to ifconfig on ethernet)
Short answer from linux-usb: This is not possible. For lower latency,
try the -rt kernel.
Chris
Hello,
Some background: I'm running an experiment that is sensitive to USB
latency of a few milliseconds. During a typical overnight run I
encounter a handful such "latency events" and I am trying to
understand why they happen. If you can recommend kernel
settings/hacks that will decrease USB la
Hello,
I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always "just
worked". I use wicd although I don't really even know what that
means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc.
I now have a problem. Please point me toward the tools I should use
to diagnose and fix the problem
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote:
> When in kernel usb printer compiled in, then must compile cups without
> usb. Now all run. Well done. Thanks for support.
Silvio,
Thank you for sharing. How did you figure out what the solution was?
Chris
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Trausch wrote:
> I have used Lexmark lasers (mono and
> color) for
> They work with
> standard PostScript drivers out of the box
Michael,
Are you saying that you were able to print to your Lexmark laser printers by
more or less following these steps:
1.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> More or less.
Hrm. I have the same printer and I had to visit brother's website and
download some kind of binary to get it working. I was hoping to
emerge cups and have it "just work" but that was not the case for me.
Then again I don't even
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> For my Brother printers, having net-print/cups and
> net-print/foomatic-filters, is sufficient. I'm not doing anything with
> scanning or the like, though.
Michael,
Are you saying that you were able to print to your brother printers by
more
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
> series. My old 2.6.x kernel ...
FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A quote:
So what are the big changes? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Chris Stankevitz
wrote:
> Questions (3)-(5)
This should have said (2)-(4).
===
The problem is "solved" in the Ubuntu sense. I suspect that I
encountered some kind of portage bug or oddity on the way.
I "solved" the problem by:
1.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Every time that a USB device is inserted or removed, an
> "event" is triggered by the kernel. What's required is an "event
> handler" that reacts appropriately to those events. This is usually
> udev, but mdev will also work. I've replaced
Thank you to all who are following this.
I used emerge -vptd to get some debugging info. This is the reason
emerge wants to bring in the ~amd64 to my stable system:
Parent:(xfce-base/thunar-1.4.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
Depstring: || ( >=gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1[udisks,udev]
>=gno
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> To make things easier, please post the output from emerge --info.
Neil,
Great idea. Output attached.
PS:
emerge -pv thunar[udev] pulls in gnome-base/gfvs-1.12.3
emerge -pv gvfs pulls in gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1
Thank you,
Chris
Portage 2
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>=sys-fs/udev-171, which is stable. Are you sure you don't have
> anything in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
I know it sounds absurd, but... I have no package.keywords file. My
package.use is small and benign. My make.conf is also ben
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> Can I see your USE
Canek,
Thank you for your help. My USE flags are pretty benign. I'm
beginning to suspect something is grossly wrong with my setup. Below
I will post my USE line from make.conf and my entire package.use.
# make.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> The problem seems to be the use of static libraries
I temporarily worked around by adding "xfce-base/thunar -udev" to
package.use. Somehow building thunar with udev introduced the mess.
Chris
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> Try reemerging world with USE="-static -static-libs", and then try to
> emerge thunar also with USE="-static -static-libs".
Canek,
Thank you for your help. I
1. added "-static -static-libs" to /etc/make.conf USE.
2. emerge --newuse -
I installed xfce4-meta and was a little surprised to see it did not
come with thunar. When I tried to install it, portage became upset.
Question: is it normal that I would have to ~amd64 a bunch of packages
and deal with slot conflicts and static-libs to install a file
manager? FYI I am running
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> For the release to use new packages with their new magic features,
> every other package using those packages must also be recompiled
I see now.
> The only sane way to deal with this is to peg
> the packages at version levels and stick with
Hello,
Can someone refer me to a source that explains how when I plug in a
USB "thumb drive" it appears on my XFCE4 desktop (or any other WM)?
Ideally the answer will use words like:
daemon
hal
udev
policykit
consolekit
/etc/init.d/*
hotplug
gvfs
mount
automount
pmount
gnome-volume-manager
udisks
Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many:
ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and
questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge.
Supposedly gentoo lacks being able to have a system "just work"
without thinking about anything. B
Hello,
I installed twm to test my xorg as per the gentoo install docs. Works great!
Then I decided to install what I thought would be a lightweight WM:
xfce4 with "emerge -vat xfce4-meta". Unfortunately emerge didn't want
to continue without some changes from me involving USE flags gudev,
polic
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time
> format, currency format, etc
Josh,
Thank you. I now understand what a "locale" is. It is surprising to
me that the string "en_US.UTF8" tells the OS about currency,
date/ti
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Dale wrote:
> LANG="en_US.UTF8"
> LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8"
Dale,
Thank you, I used the same.
> P. S. Welcome to Gentoo and the world of constantly learning. Just
> when you learn something, something changes and you get to learn it all
> over again. :/
:)
Chris
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> That's a very new change just announced globally today and only for
> new installs. Take a look at eselect news for more info.
What a coincidence! I went with the older stage3 approach.
Thank you,
Chris
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I use America/Los-Angeles myself.
Mark, Paul:
Thank you, I went with America/Los_Angeles
Chris
Hello,
Section 8c of the handbook tells me:
===
You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in
the /etc/env.d/02locale file:
===
Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
===
Q1: Do I have the possibil
Hello,
Following the handbook, I am now setting my timezone. I am in Los Angeles.
Should I select:
a) /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
b) /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific-New
c) [your answer here]
"man Pacific" didn't help.
Thank you,
Chris
FYI,
stage3-amd64-20120621.tar.bz2 creates a file /etc/make.conf
handbook says to edit to /etc/portage/make.conf
Chris
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> you really shouldn't complain about being given choices...
>
I apologize, it was no my intention to complain. In the future I will make
a decision and not complain. Thank you to everyone for your assistance!
Chris
Michael,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Portage doesn't know what you want to do, so it does the safe thing and
> lets you decide. Either,
Somewhat tongue-in-cheek:
I don't know either. I don't want udev, udisks, hwdb or even know
what they are. Somebody else wants
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> I think Chris' question is more about why he has to manually activate
> this USE flag, as it seems to be necessary anyway, in his case.
Alex,
Yes this is correct. I see now I was far too wordy in the OP and
thank you for your terse transla
Hello,
Background:
I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This
file is filled with all sorts of "personal preference customizations"
of my system. This file does not contain "required system USE flags".
A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag
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