We've all heard about the DontZap fiasco, caused by a few whiners. I
managed to restore that, but there seems to be even more lost
functionality. "MagicSysReq" no longer works in X. In addition, I've
made a slight change in /etc/inittab...
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/usr/bin/chvt 1
...which should
At Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:09:15 -0800 walt wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the
>> "physical buttons". For example moving the wheel to the left reports
>> button press 13
>> button press 6
>> ...
>>
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:32:41AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> I am still haveing one "EE" in my Xorg.0.log which says the
> following:
>
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in you
Sebastian Beßler writes:
> Am 14.12.2009 21:39, schrieb Roger Mason:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a radeon 9600 in an Apple G5 with two monitors.
>> I've tried both Xinerama and MergedFB.
>
> Hello,
>
> the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style
> xorg.conf with
Willie Wong writes:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler
> squawked:
>> the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style
>
>> xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:26:15AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked:
> Willie Wong writes:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler
> > squawked:
> >> the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style
> >
Roger Mason writes:
> Zaphod style? What is that?
Two headed
On 12/16/2009 2:54 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:32:41AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I am still haveing one "EE" in my Xorg.0.log which says the
following:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file tha
Marcus Wanner [09-12-16 17:04]:
>
>
> On 12/16/2009 2:54 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:32:41AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >
> >>I am still haveing one "EE" in my Xorg.0.log which says the
> >>following:
> >>
> >>(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX modul
Willie Wong writes:
>> Zaphod style? What is that?
>>
>
> You perhaps are not familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the
> Galaxy. A picture is worth a thousand words:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/gallery/tv/zaphod2.shtml
> Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox.
>
> (Unfortunately you don't get
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
> I did by hand and now I have another problem:
>
> (II) Loading extension RECORD
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
> (II) UnloadModule: "dri"
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
> (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
> (WW)
Alex Schuster [09-12-16 19:12]:
> meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
>
> > I did by hand and now I have another problem:
> >
> > (II) Loading extension RECORD
> > (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
> > (II) UnloadModule: "dri"
> > (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (modu
Am 20.11.2009 00:05, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on
> the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src
> should be on a harddisk.
What do you think about /home ? ssd or hdd ?
I tend to ssd
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How
would you take it from there? I'm looking for something quick and
easy. My data isn't too
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:49:07 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How
> would you take it from there? I'
On 12/15/2009 10:05 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
At Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:09:15 -0800 walt wrote:
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the
"physical buttons". For example moving the wheel to the left reports
button p
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Does that get sourced by the gnome panel so that launchers see it?
> I hadn't thought so, but will try it.
Hm... X/xDM is started from a virtual console (mine is usually started
from VC-7, which is the default). That's where your login should happen,
so everything started
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How
> would you take it from there?
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 06:05:04 Walter Dnes wrote:
> We've all heard about the DontZap fiasco, caused by a few whiners. I
> managed to restore that, but there seems to be even more lost
> functionality. "MagicSysReq" no longer works in X. In addition, I've
> made a slight change in /etc
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or what ever)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo.
Darik's Boot and Nuke is a good projects for wiping.
http://www.dban.org/
On 12/16/2009 10:49 AM, Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
> more). I've got a bootable USB key that wi
Hi, gentoo,
I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent on that setting, or do I have
to start again from scratch? I've perused the emerge man page, but not
Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 21:44:29, Alan Mackenzie a écrit :
> Hi, gentoo,
>
> I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
> VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
> only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent on that setting, or do I hav
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Grant wrote:
> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
> more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How
> would you take it from there? I'm l
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:24 +, Mick wrote:
>
> First I'd mount the partitions and then emerge/use shred:
>
> # shred -v -n 25 -z -u /mnt/a_partition
>
I wouldn't even mount it. I'd shred the entire block device (may take a
while) then repartion/reinstall.
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:06 -0800, walt wrote:
> > If you look at the amazon page you can sort of see the left and
> right
> > arrows.
>
> I think a mouse that complicated would make me crazy.
There was a time when Windows and Mac users criticized X11 because it
had too many buttons (3).
Nowad
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 01:34:33 Dale wrote:
> > A real world scenario would be a bank server doing transactions. Those
> > big irons do never ever get shut down.
> > (But they also don't ever get really updated ;)
> >
> > Did you know, that they still use cobol-code from decades ago. The cod
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 01:03:01 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 10:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > bottom line your system is screwed and you think it is qt4.6
>
> If it got screwed, certainly not by me.
>
emerge -e world
retest, compare, post results. No other way to be
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
> VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
> only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent on that setting, or do I have
> to start again fro
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 01:34:33 Dale wrote:
A real world scenario would be a bank server doing transactions. Those
big irons do never ever get shut down.
(But they also don't ever get really updated ;)
Did you know, that they still use cobol-code from decades ago.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
> presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
> I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I
> could possibly
On 12/16/2009 1:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Alex Schuster [09-12-16 19:12]:
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
I did by hand and now I have another problem:
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
(II) UnloadModule: "dri"
(EE) Fa
On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. H
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:06:00 Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 21:44:29, Alan Mackenzie a écrit :
> > Hi, gentoo,
> >
> > I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
> > VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
>
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, gentoo,
>
> I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
> VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
> only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent on that setting, or do I have
> t
Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. How
would you take it fro
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the disk.
hi,
I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using
and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I
added it to packages.mask. but as I run glsa-check in a cron job, if
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 16:25:43 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 01:34:33 Dale wrote:
> >>> A real world scenario would be a bank server doing transactions. Those
> >>> big irons do never ever get shut down.
> >>> (But they also don't ever get really updat
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
>>> install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
>>> more). I've got a bootab
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 06:26 +0800, Bruce Hill wrote:
> What settings do you use for all those events? I have a mouse with
> right/left
> buttons, scroll wheel that also tilts right/left, and two side
> buttons.
> Nothing works atm but regular right/left, scroll wheel to scroll and
> press to
> past
In linux binaries, in any linux distro, I've discovered the same strings
which I believe may be due to a virus or trojan.
Yet, clamav, rkhunter, chkrootkit do not detect abnormalities.
Whether I run 'strings' on the binary files or view with vim or gedit, here
is what is always seen inside the bi
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:56:00PM -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote:
> As a 30-year veteran of the IBM mainframe programming environment, I
> can say
> with authority that most of the enterprises that use them for
> mission-critical business applications (banking, stock-brokerage, etc.) are
>
Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I'
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-06/msg00112.html
They are GCC related.
Second result for _Jv_RegisterClasses on google :p
I spent the day recovering from a Gentoo upgrade, and thought I'd document
the experience in case it helps someone else.
I'm running a custom kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 on amd64, though I don't think
the rarer hardware is relevant.
I tend to put off upgrading my Gentoo box because anytime I do, some
2009/12/16 Jesús Guerrero :
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hi, gentoo,
>>
>> I've just emerged xorg-x11, and noticed that I had a wrong setting for
>> VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf. Does emerge have a facility to rebuild
>> only those portions of xorg-x11 dependent
At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:36:45 -0500 Albert Hopkins
wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:06 -0800, walt wrote:
>> > If you look at the amazon page you can sort of see the left and
>> right
>> > arrows.
>>
>> I think a mouse that complicated would make me crazy.
>
> There was a time when Windows an
At Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:16:30 +0100 pk wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> Does that get sourced by the gnome panel so that launchers see it?
>> I hadn't thought so, but will try it.
>
> Hm... X/xDM is started from a virtual console (mine is usually started
> from VC-7, which is the default). That
At Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:26:57 +0800 Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down,
>> presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except
>> I don't use the latter as I
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE="-X -debug -gpm -svga". The last step of the gcc
upgrade is "emerge -eav world". dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294843 A
Hey everyone,
This guy (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-806844.html#6097354) says
that -march=native and -march=core2 differ. Which one do I choose for my
Core i5 CPU?
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 20:22:33 Bruce Hill wrote:
> I appreciate you addressing the previous FUD in such a professional manner.
Just thought that I should set the record straight. :-)
Leslie
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:01 PM,
wrote:
> In linux binaries, in any linux distro, I've discovered the same strings
> which I believe may be due to a virus or trojan.
>
> Yet, clamav, rkhunter, chkrootkit do not detect abnormalities.
>
> Whether I run 'strings' on the binary files or view with vim
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Dale wrote:
> Joshua Murphy wrote:
>> That is, of course, when shredding individual files, where the final
>> location and initial locations for them may not wind up being the same
>> place on disk. When 'shredding' a whole partition, though, the file
>> system its
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Tom Bennet wrote:
> I spent the day recovering from a Gentoo upgrade, and thought I'd document
> the experience in case it helps someone else.
>
> I'm running a custom kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 on amd64, though I don't think
> the rarer hardware is relevant.
>
> I t
"Jason Carson" writes:
> Hey everyone,
>
> This guy (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-806844.html#6097354) says
> that -march=native and -march=core2 differ. Which one do I choose for my
> Core i5 CPU?
As long as you are only building binaries for the system you are
building on, then use -ma
hi,
i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb,
ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot
find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed?
--
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David Shen
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