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On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:31:44 +, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk)
wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load restart" (in
<20170318223144.17e0e...@digimed.co.uk>):
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:28:27 +, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> Otherwise the second assignmen
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:16:24 +, Peter Humphrey
(pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] modules-load
restart" (in <4385990.55jxZYQh37@peak>):
> On Friday 17 Mar 2017 17:28:27 David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> To use multiple lines, you need to re-interpo
list from the first
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> XftFontInfoFill: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf: 0 (14 pixels)
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nto the documents font specifications that do not match the
installed fonts. The other PDF viewers possibly use a fuzzy matching
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I compiled x11-libs/fltk without xfl but it did not make any
> difference.
The flag is named xft. It won't help unless flpsed is written in C++ and
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expect from Helvetica and Arial, here are a
couple of Wikipedia articles:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial>
These articles contain sample text rendered in the respective fonts.
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to Helvetica is probably Arial. However, flpsed is definitely looking
for Helvetica, not Arial.
I would start by deleting the *.ttf files in that directory (or move
them elsewh
a C manifest constant. Unfortunately, it
is only mnemonic to the developers of flpsed; it means nothing to the
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 13:50:33 -0700, Thelma (the...@sys-concept.com) wrote
about "Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts" (in
<169d7ee4-a369-de54-3f4c-daafc5474...@sys-concept.com>):
> On 03/06/2017 01:33 PM, David W Noon wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:27:23 -0700, Thelma (the.
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:47:39 -0500, John Covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com)
wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user]
media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 won't compile" (in
):
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:09:28 -0500,
> David W Noon wrote:
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>> The new version o
tes the old gstreamer plugins, so these
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> David W Noon writes:
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>> The a look at <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587730> and see
>> if it is the same as the symptoms you are seeing.
>
> I don't see a segmentation fault but I don't know how to recognize
> that in the massive outpu
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:18:39 +0200, Helmut Jarausch
(jarau...@skynet.be) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't
anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore" (in
):
> On 06/25/2016 09:39:32 PM, David W Noon wrote:
s probed first and its drives get "a", "b" and "c" in
/dev/sd?, and those letters are assigned in device address order on
the controller.
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> /dev/fd0.
Does your /etc/fstab have "noauto" on the line for the floppy?
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iEYEARECAAYFAlRw/CkACgkQRQ2Fs59Psv9WVACgueWFqRDbSfWcMs6UWUo
that all the data (i.e. digits) be read
and a frequency table built. The only problem is that to read all the
digits of Pi could take rather a long time. ... :-)
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:18:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick (n...@digimed.co.uk)
wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work"
(in <20141018211836.63981...@digimed.co.uk>):
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100,
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:58:40 +0300, Gevisz (gev...@gmail.com) wrote
about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work" (in
<5442aa74.8212980a.2836.7...@mx.google.com>):
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:18:34 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> You're welc
for which purpose.
If you modify the ebuild then you *must* update the manifest. If you
don't modify the ebuild then there is no need.
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etc/portage/patches/. The
ebuild should have the following lines added:
src_prepare() {
epatch_user
}
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for interfaces that
connect the machine to the Internet or my LAN.] I certainly do not want
to go back to "eth0" and the like -- or worse still, udev's
"predictable" names -- as these are not mnemonic in any way.
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; On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:42:31PM +0100, David W Noon wrote
>
>> If you specify -march=k8 in your CFLAGS, you should get pretty
>> decent object code from GCC.
>
> I've used "-march=native" since it became available, because it's
> one less thing to w
ntoo.
If you specify -march=k8 in your CFLAGS, you should get pretty decent
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me volume as / and be done with it. It removes a whole lot of
> painful scenarios that are going to keep on biting you as the rest of
> the world moves on and progresses
That then devolves the I/O characteristics of /usr/bin and /usr/lib
into those of /bin and /lib, which would make a slow sy
sr/local/portage
and that fixed things. This assumes you use a userid of "portage" in a
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:17:47 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears:
> 120917 Philip Webb wrote:
> > 120917 David W Noon wrote:
> >>print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression)))
>
> That works pro
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote about Re:
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> 120917 David W Noon wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python
> > 2/3 :
> >> print ' ',eval(e
agged
by Python 3.x can be detected early (i.e. a few years back). So, try
using
#!/usr/bin/python2 -3
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easily. Something like:
mencoder ./input_file.wmv -o ./output_file.mpeg
might do the job without further ado.
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:41:19 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] new mobo : Eth0 recovered:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2012 01:21:33 David W Noon wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:59:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> > > Plain text is what I have always specified. Kmai
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:14:46 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:18:27 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
>
> > Claws-mail also has that option, but it applies globally, and there
> > are some email messages
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:53:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote about
[gentoo-user] Re: new mobo : Eth0 recovered:
> On 23/04/12 21:34, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages?
> > Please ... pretty please ... :-)
>
> A
old typeface to the list.
Any chance of you reconfiguring KMail not to send HTML messages?
Please ... pretty please ... :-)
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etc/fstab for the filesystem(s) where
you want extended attribute support. If you do that before you reboot
(as above) then you will have full extended attribute support.
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:26:43 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On 29/03/2012, at 20:01, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > At present, the first thing I see when udev starts is a failed
> > attempt to run /usr/sbin/alsactl to restore t
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:08:40 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the daemons that
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:33:50 +0200, Willie WY Wong wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:43:00PM +0100, Penguin Lover David W Noon
> squawked:
> > In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly
>
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the d
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var
> > -- and anything else --
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re:
> > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:00:43 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package
> > in world
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:03:18 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +0000, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > I need to fsck / before I mount /usr, /var and everything else.
>
> Now it makes sense, but can't
as in 1988.
These days I live even further away than Texas, as I am in Luton,
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:55:35 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 AM, "David W Noon" wrote:
> > I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
> > (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:41:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about "Re:
> > [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk enc
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:47:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about "Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption":
>On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +0000, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running
>> inside an initramfs, one canno
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +0000, David W Noon wrote:
>
> > > Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs?
> >
> > One needs e2fsck to do a "preen
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:47:33 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:28:28 +0000, David W Noon wrote:
>
> > I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
> > (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. T
ipt that will build an
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> Any suggestions?
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instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of
their traders.
Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior
City folk are.
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require a graphical desktop. [Both vim and
Emacs can run in a text console.]
You might also start reading comp.os.linux.development.apps on Usenet,
if you don't already do so.
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given that many
of the people coding these scripts don't bother checking return codes,
this could be "asking for the moon on a stick".
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500, James Wall wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts. These scan
> > the current logical volumes and
that, back up the contents using tar, dar, cpio or whatever your
favourite archiving tool happens to be.
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:35:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David W Noon
> wrote:
> > [BTW, can you ditch the HTML please? This is an Internet mailing
> > list, and it has long been considered poor Neti
has long been considered poor Netiquette to use HTML messages.
Plain text is perfectly adequate to convey information, and is much
lighter to transport and render.]
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> David W Noon writes:
>
> > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think
> > the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the
>
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:45:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:25:31 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
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> > > Well, then you already know what to do.
> >
> > Indeed I do.
>
> If your d
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:42:04 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > They work currently.
>
> So you want all the new functionality, but without needing to do
> a
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:13:55 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > I don't know if the kernel offers any particular blessing to any
> > hotplug handler.
>
&g
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:56:44 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > I expect to switch my simpler systems away from udev to mdev. This
> > loses some functionality
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:33:35 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think
> > the idea is. As I w
and then I think is better to go all
> > the way and mount / read-only.
>
> Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea.
To say the least.
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orrible?
>
> It's definitely huge.
Compared to LibreOffice?? ROFLMAO!
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rds,
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han the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file
is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.]
Welcome to progress.
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"pointer"
Driver "evdev"
MatchIsPointer "on"
EndSection
The bit about "XkbLayout" "gb" should do the trick. [Just be aware that
there is a national lang
hierarchy will reflect the options
that were in your old .config file, with newer features [i.e. not in the
earlier kernel] set to defaults.
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s confident that the change to make menuconfig
was working.
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until they
all disappear.
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country, as we aren't allowed
to own guns.
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sub-shells has been
deprecated since about 1993. See:
http://compute.cnr.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ksh+1
and scroll down to the bottom of page 11. You are better off using the
more modern $(command ...) notation.
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