Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. > > For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit > If not I was thinking copy to my home folder and symlink > /v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 07:16:03 James wrote: > > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avoiding > > having firefox installed - don't emerge it. > > Yep, I get it, manual_labor. > > > I was looking for a silver bullet, > so I can just auto prevent installing anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:40:51 Stroller wrote: > Every time you bottom post with more than a page or screenful of > quoting, a top-posting is justified. Every time you find you have a screenful of quoted text you should just trim out the extraneous crap and return the mail to sanity. As I

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. >> >> For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. >> > > eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit > > >> If not I w

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-25 Thread KH
Michael Sullivan schrieb: > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directorie

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-25 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: After a few more minutes of looking at the bug list, it appears that it's caused by the stable build being rusty. Given the references to "lib64" in your output, I assume you're running on amd64. Is that correct? If so, a quick-n-dirty workaround might be to add the follow

[gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo

2009-03-25 Thread David
I wrote an entry in my blog about gentoo, and created a little script to make gentoo handling a bit easier, and whant to share it will all gentoo users to see if it could help them to understand gentoo better (specially for noob ones), and simplify its handling. I think it is not spam, since it

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > I don't mind top posting in private emails but not on the list. Who is > it with that signature with the backward questions about top posting? This one? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:38:53 +0100, David wrote: > The link: > http://stormbyte.blogspot.com/2009/03/gentoo-easy-handling.html "Gentoo works with two kinds of software trees: the stable tree, and the unstable one;" Not true, the two trees are stable and testing. Unstable software is generally ha

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, KH wrote: > Michael Sullivan schrieb: > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > > -j /dev/sda6), I m

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I don't mind top posting in private emails but not on the list. Who is >> it with that signature with the backward questions about top posting? >> > > This one? > > A: Because it messes up the order in which peop

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread James Skinner
Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. On 3/25/09, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:57 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I don't mind top posting in private emails but not o

Re: [gentoo-user] A blog entry about gentoo

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:38:53 David wrote: > I wrote an entry in my blog about gentoo, and created a little script to > make gentoo handling a bit easier, and whant to share it will all gentoo > users to see if it could help them to understand gentoo better (specially > for noob ones), and si

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: >> > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive.  I se

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread laurent
Dale a écrit : Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: Hi, I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread laurent
Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:37:50 laurent wrote: Hi, I need to clean disfiles or move it to /home/var/ftp/disfiles. For first is there a tool to emerge that will manage the distfiles. eclean - part of app-portage/gentoolkit If not I was thinking copy to m

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:15 +0100, laurent wrote: > yes it's exactly that, I did not choose the install partitionning. So I > moved portage, www and now disfiles from /var to /home/var. > For the other ones I did add a symlink also. Should I do that for > disfiles? What do you mean by permissio

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It > does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. It doesn't mater what device is used to send the email, it is the recipient that is affected by the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Saphirus Sage
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > >> Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It >> does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. >> > > It doesn't mater what device is used to send the email, it

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: > > But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or > > portage and it's in your home directory owned by you. > > > > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home > > looks owned by root. /home is not your home directory.

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread laurent
Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:03:34 laurent wrote: But this is not a good idea, as distfiles will be owned by root or portage and it's in your home directory owned by you. drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 mar 24 20:19 home looks owned by root. /home is n

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:08 +0100, KH wrote: > Michael Sullivan schrieb: > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > > -j /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:17 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive.

[gentoo-user] Manifest is empty

2009-03-25 Thread laurent
Hi, >>> Verifying ebuild manifests !!! Manifest is empty: '/home/portage/local/layman/ovh-overlay/app-admin/rtm/Manifest' I tried ebuild layman.ebuild manifest Appending / to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... '/root/layman.ebuild' does not exist. What should I do ? It's blocking my emarge world grrr thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest is empty

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 15:22:39 laurent wrote: > Hi, > > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests > > !!! Manifest is empty: > '/home/portage/local/layman/ovh-overlay/app-admin/rtm/Manifest' > > > I tried > ebuild layman.ebuild manifest > Appending / to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... > '/root/layman.ebuild' does no

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest is empty

2009-03-25 Thread laurent
Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Wednesday 25 March 2009 15:22:39 laurent wrote: Hi, >>> Verifying ebuild manifests !!! Manifest is empty: '/home/portage/local/layman/ovh-overlay/app-admin/rtm/Manifest' I tried ebuild layman.ebuild manifest Appending / to PORTDIR_OVERLAY... '/root/layman.ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > > Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It > > does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. > > It doesn't mater what devi

[gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is using Firefox, and I have not been able to determine what makes this one special -- I do not h

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
... not sure what this really has to do with Gentoo specifically, but... Anyway I don't have a font called "Symbol" or any font alias called "Symbol". I do, however, have a font called "Wingdings", for example.

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > > Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It > > > does make it hard to follow a thread

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-25 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > I was looking for a silver bullet, > > so I can just auto prevent installing anything that > > uses kde 3 * > In that case, I would find a convenient package.keywords in a kde overlay and > symlink to it from /etc/portage/package.mask/ Interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in > browsers. Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see > the font properly, in a variety of browsers. The one who could is > using Firefox, and I have not

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: >> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys >> forgive me for the few times I answer on this list using my mobile >> device. > > What? There's no down a

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: >>> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys >>> forgive me for the few times I answer on t

[gentoo-user] WARNING - sunstudioexpress-2009.03 crashes my system

2009-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi a warning to you all. Trying to emerge dev-lang/sunstudioexpress-2009.03 spawns infinitely many bach process until the system is dead! Has anybody else made this experience, as well? Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, G

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING - sunstudioexpress-2009.03 crashes my system

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi > > a warning to you all. > > Trying to emerge dev-lang/sunstudioexpress-2009.03 > spawns infinitely many bach process until the system is dead! > > Has anybody else made this experience, as well? This sounds like a challenge :) I'll t

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING - sunstudioexpress-2009.03 crashes my system

2009-03-25 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helmut Jarausch escreveu: > Hi > > a warning to you all. > > Trying to emerge dev-lang/sunstudioexpress-2009.03 > spawns infinitely many bach process until the system is dead! > > Has anybody else made this experience, as well? > > Helmut. > I've alre

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING - sunstudioexpress-2009.03 crashes my system

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: >> Hi >> >> a warning to you all. >> >> Trying to emerge dev-lang/sunstudioexpress-2009.03 >> spawns infinitely many bach process until the system is dead! >> >> Has anybody else mad

Re: [gentoo-user] Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any usable 2D floorplan software for Linux? I'm not aware of anything specifically for floorplans. I think you might be able to get by with something like Kivio or other Visio clones.

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > ... not sure what this really has to do with Gentoo specifically, but... > > Anyway I don't have a font called "Symbol" or any font alias called > "Symbol".  I do, however, have a font called "Wingdings", for example. The situation is the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I have discovered that the symbol font does not render reliably in >> browsers.  Only one of my audience (of about a dozen people) could see >> the font properly, in a variety of brows

Re: [gentoo-user] Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Is there any usable 2D floorplan software for Linux? > > I've tried sweethome3d, but it seems to be missing a lot of > very basic features. The 2D floorplan part of it doesn't seem > to work very well (I don't care about the 3D stuff). > > So

[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Christer Ekholm
Dale writes: > Albert Hopkins wrote: >> >> Uh.. you don't "disable" it. You simply don't use the alias. >> > Oh, OK.If it is set up to add that > option, how do you tell it not to use it? You can type backslash before a alias to not use the alias. alias ls='ls --color' now ls lists with co

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:16:51 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: > >> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys > >> forgive me for the few times I answer on

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-03-25 Thread KH
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009, KH wrote: > >> >> Pleas try an name your mails. This maes it a lot easyer to support you >> an to ind answers if somebody is searching for the same problem in the >> futur. >> >> Subect could be: /home - gnome-settings-daemon has c

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:00:15 +0100 laurent wrote: > Another question about emerge -v world, I go a empty manifest on layman. > What should I do to fix that ? cd /usr/local/portage/layman/someoverlay/some/package && \ repoman manifest -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100 laurent wrote: > > But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you > > decide > > to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? > > > Because I let my server host install it with their default disk layout. > When I reali

[gentoo-user] Re: Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-25, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Is there any usable 2D floorplan software for Linux? >> >> I've tried sweethome3d, but it seems to be missing a lot of >> very basic features. The 2D floorplan part of it doesn't seem >> to work very well (I don't care about the 3D stuff). >> >> Some people re

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Paul Hartman >> 1. "Symbol" is not a defined CSS font family. Your choices are: serif, >> sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace. > > I've changed the CSS to use the font-family property which accepts > act

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:38:31 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: >> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html > > Yes they're easy. My question is about whether they have any effect > on use of Symbol So far I see no evidence of it. They shouldn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-03-25, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I have a latptop that's set up to dual boot Gentoo and XP. In > the past I booted into XP to run one or two apps (mostly H&R > Block Tax Cut).  The NTFS partition is rather small, and > every time I

[gentoo-user] Re: Floorplan software for Linux?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-25, Mark Knecht wrote: > http://www.fs-driver.org/ Cool, I'll have to remember that. > I like the vmware solution better though as I can use Windows > from within Gentoo. It's fun to see a complete Windows desktop > in a window, but it has it's problems also. Overall it's > probably

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I did originally, but as I had to send it three different times and my > message body wouldn't copy and paste correctly, I guess one went through > that didn't have a subject line. It would help if gmail would show me > the mails that I send in to mailing lists... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-25 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 March 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang wrote: > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. > > I agree with Sebastian, you should try "slim" > > h

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) [25.03.09 21:04]: > On Friday 20 March 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang > wrote: > > > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows > > > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that

Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Mick wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM, fei huang > wrote: >> > I don't have any "xdm", "gdm" stuff but would like to start my windows >> > manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >> >> I did originally, but as I had to send it three different times and my >> message body wouldn't copy and paste correctly, I guess one went through >> that didn't have a subject line. It would help if gmail would show

[gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-25 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Hello, I've got a problem concerning syncing of some overlays with layman: "layman -s vmware" * Running command "/usr/bin/svn up "/usr/local/portage/layman/vmware""... svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could not connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) * *

[gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Thanasis
Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse?

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread KH
Thanasis schrieb: > Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > > Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? > > > Hi, Tux is on vacation for 2.6.29 He will be back in some month. Tuz is a animal whic

[gentoo-user] Re: linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE1MA

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thanasis schrieb am 25.03.2009 21:50: > Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > > Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tux-takes-tasmanian-vacation Rega

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Michael Sullivan wrote: >> >>> I did originally, but as I had to send it three different times and my >>> message body wouldn't copy and paste correctly, I guess one went through >>> that didn't have a subject line. I

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: > Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > > Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? It's not a mouse, it's a Tasmanian Devil which isn't a roden

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Mar 2009, at 07:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 03:40:51 Stroller wrote: Every time you bottom post with more than a page or screenful of quoting, a top-posting is justified. Every time you find you have a screenful of quoted text you should just trim out the extr

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread AllenJB
Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. This is a general support list used by many users of a wide range of experience, therefore you can not expect to be able to enforce any standards, either way. In addition, please keep language clean on this list. AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Hartman writes: > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Thanasis
on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? >> usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm >> >> Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised

[gentoo-user] How to configure a recent X11 ?

2009-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, one reads at several places that 'xorg.conf' is dead we now have to write hal-fdi-policy files. Especially after upgrading xorg-server X11 doesn't come up anymore since there is a "race condition" between hal and xorg. Does anybody know of a "transition guide" on how to write xorg.conf toget

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? - snippage

2009-03-25 Thread Roy Wright
AllenJB wrote: > Can you ALL please take this off-topic conversation off list. +1 > In addition, please keep language clean on this list. +1 Well said.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
gOn Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: > I sort of covered this a while ago but in a nutshell, when I send a > email to this list, I don't get a copy back. I have a copy in my sent > box but not a copy that comes back from the list. I view this list > threaded so it can confuse me if I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 23:51:30 Thanasis wrote: > on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > >> usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > >> > >> W

[gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI color escape sequences. grotty apparently outputs ANSI color escape sequences regardless of whether or not the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure a recent X11 ?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > one reads at several places that 'xorg.conf' is dead > we now have to write hal-fdi-policy files. > > Especially after upgrading xorg-server X11 doesn't come up > anymore since there is a "race condition" between hal and xorg. > > D

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape > sequences) out of "man"? I know I can always drop down 2 levels and do somthing like this: bzcat /usr/share/man/bash.1.bz2 | troff -Tascii -mandoc | grotty -bcu >man.txt But, I'm surprised tha

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape > sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt > doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI > color escape sequences. > > grotty apparently outputs

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-25, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape >> sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt >> doesn't work anymore, because the default output contains ANSI >> color escap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-03-25, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> How do you get a plain ascii file (no backspacing, no escape >>> sequences) out of "man"? Running it through col or colcrt >>> doesn't work any

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:56 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > gOn Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: > > I sort of covered this a while ago but in a nutshell, when I send a > > email to this list, I don't get a copy back. I have a copy in my sent > > box but not a copy that comes back from the

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: > on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: > >> Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > >> usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Graham Murray wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > > >> There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the >> "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the >> reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. >> This makes it harder to reply

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > gOn Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: > >> I sort of covered this a while ago but in a nutshell, when I send a >> email to this list, I don't get a copy back. I have a copy in my sent >> box but not a copy that comes back from the list. I view this list >> thread

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: > > My problem is that I'm never sure if my emails actually get to the list. > If I send a question in and don't get it back, and nobody responds to > it, what else am I supposed to assume, except that my original post got > lost somewhere on the Internet... > > > I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dale wrote: > I have searched the net, asked on this list a while back and nothing > disabled the spam filter on google. I tried several different ways but none > of them stops google from marking them as spam. I think they know people > are trying to disable it

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:56 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> gOn Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: >> > I sort of covered this a while ago but in a nutshell, when I send a >> > email to this list, I don't get a copy back. I have a c

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get plain ascii from "man"?

2009-03-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-03-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Edit /etc/man.conf and add -c to the commandline for TROFF, >> NROFF and JNROFF. Then "man program | col -bf" or your method >> of choice should work. There is a note in the man.conf >> comments about it. > > That didn't work for me. Does it work for you? D

[gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-25 Thread Tom
Hi I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to boot cds. Let me explain before you say 'huuhh!?' I bought a new dvdwriter a couple of week

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Michael Sullivan > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 16:56 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> gOn Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Dale wrote: >>> I sort of covered this a while ago but in a nutshell, when I send a email

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-25 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:14:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: > > > > Top-posting is totally fine when email

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Thanasis
on 03/26/2009 02:22 AM Jerry McBride wrote the following: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: > >> on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: >> >>> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: >>> Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html >> >> Yes they're easy.  My question is about whether they have any effect >> on use