Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> I have a better question. Why is a 82 year old woman using Gentoo? If
>> she installed Gentoo, updated Gentoo then she must be able to do
>> something with Gentoo, right?
>>
>> Dale
>
> Sorry for this Dale, but if this list g
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Dale wrote:
> I have a better question. Why is a 82 year old woman using Gentoo? If
> she installed Gentoo, updated Gentoo then she must be able to do
> something with Gentoo, right?
>
> Dale
Sorry for this Dale, but if this list gets to the end of the year and
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one
>> of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason
>> to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what
>
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:26:04 -0800
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon
>> wrote:
>> > Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is
>> > one of them. It has no good reason to be there,
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:26:04 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
> > Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is
> > one of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good
> > reason to not be there, but you alread
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one
> of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason
> to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what
> you want.
> --
> Alan Mc
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 07:09:40 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 +
>
> Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
> >
> > BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the
> > CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal:
> >
> >
Mick wrote:
> On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
>
>> I think you misunderstand or I didn't make myself clear. I'm not saying
>> it was udev that did this. I am pretty sure it was the kernel. All
>> this happened when people with older IDE drives, myself included on my
>> old machine, had t
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:05:19 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote:
>I really don't see why I'm the one getting banged on here but
> that's life sometimes. I saw a problem for a couple of months. It
> frustrated me but not enough to do anything about it. Solving it
> finally bubbled up high enough on my lis
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 +
Mick wrote:
> On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
>
> BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the
> CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal:
>
> $ eject
> eject: tried to use `/mnt/cdrom' as device name but it is no
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 01:15:10 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2013 8:08 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
> >Sorry for wasting bandwidth. I suspect it's time for me to
> >
> > unsubscribe and just read gentoo-user in a list somewhere. Sad, but
> > flotsam & jetsam I suppose...
> >
> > Over an out,
On Jan 7, 2013 8:08 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It
> >> isn't the root cause of this change because it d
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It
>> isn't the root cause of this change because it didn't change on my
>> systems. All I know is that ID_PATH (f
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It
> isn't the root cause of this change because it didn't change on my
> systems. All I know is that ID_PATH (from the old file) used to work
> and no longer does. Whatever
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
> I think you misunderstand or I didn't make myself clear. I'm not saying
> it was udev that did this. I am pretty sure it was the kernel. All
> this happened when people with older IDE drives, myself included on my
> old machine, had to switch to the
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-01-07, Dale wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
>> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*.
>
> It's been som
On 2013-01-07, Dale wrote:
> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*.
It's been something like 6-8 years hasn't it?
> I don't have, and have
> no
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you
>> will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by
>> NeddySeagoon.
>>
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608
>>
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dale wrote:
> This links goes to a specific post in the thread. Don't scroll or you
> will have to dig. The one to look far if it messes up is the post by
> NeddySeagoon.
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6362608.html#6362608
>
> More info:
>
> http://www.
Dale wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
>> On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>
I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
was. The
William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
>>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
>>> was. The new devices for CD/D
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:53 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
>>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what
On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
>> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
>> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't hav
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't have, and have
> not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on th
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick wrote:
>
>>> Maybe this post will save someone else some time.
>> Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't
>> it
>> a bug?
>>
>> PS. I also have cd & dvd /dev links missing.
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Mick
>
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Mick wrote:
>> Maybe this post will save someone else some time.
>
> Thanks Mark, but why do we have to make this file changes ourselves? Isn't it
> a bug?
>
> PS. I also have cd & dvd /dev links missing.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
I'd say it's a bug. Waiting for it
On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 20:44:07 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to
> > dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine
> > but now I see it's on every machine I've l
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:44:07 -0800
Mark Knecht wrote -
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to
> > dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine
> > but now I see it's on every machine I'v
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to
> dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine
> but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this morning. Not a
> single machine has /dev/cdrom
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