Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

2010-01-19 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 08:17:09 Xi Shen wrote: >> hi, >> >> my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more >> video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each >> time when i ran 'X -configure', if

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Even easier, hit e at the GRUB menu and add "gentoo=nox" to the kernel > > options. > I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down > here somewhere. That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal st

Re: [gentoo-user] when emerging: " Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2" messages

2010-01-19 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:53 AM, James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is >> listed at the end of the emerge process: >> >> Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2 >> >> May I ask for

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:50, James Ausmus wrote: Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key anymore. I reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world that ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Even easier, hit e at the GRUB menu and add "gentoo=nox" to the kernel options. I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down here somewhere. That turns off almost everything, whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 18:23 -0600, Dale wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote: In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote: Being my sometimes helpful self. lol Password: su: Authentication information cannot be recovered That normal I guess? Then I'm not! I get $ su Password: su: Authentication failure I'm not normal so I sho

[gentoo-user] Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Jon Hardcastle
Hi guys, I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version of the smartmontools drive database. Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken to the chaps there and they say to run configure with '--enable-drivedb' and then copy over the the current SVN v

Re: [gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

2010-01-19 Thread Yuri Ambrosio
Ok, after installing perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib no problems. Thanks ;) 2010/1/19 Alan McKinnon > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambrosio wrote: > > checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5) > > checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm > in > > @INC (

Re: [gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

2010-01-19 Thread Crístian Viana
shouldn't perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib be listed as a dependency on the openoffice ebuild? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Yuri Ambrosio wrote: > Ok, after installing perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib no problems. Thanks ;) > > 2010/1/19 Alan McKinnon > > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambro

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2010-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.01.2010 21:50, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I wonder if /var and /home should be on the ssd or not. It is very nice > to have a silent machine ... but maybe this does more harm than good. I had repeated I/O-errors while having /home on the ssd, with kernel 2.6.32-tuxonice and 2.6.32-tuxo

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > > I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down > > here somewhere. > > That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal > startup of everything bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down here somewhere. That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal

[gentoo-user] problem compiling Avahi

2010-01-19 Thread SpaceCake
ild.sh, line 534: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * econf failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... Currently the disks are showing up as >> /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be >> /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be >> /sda,

Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more > video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each > time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video > drivers and try to load them, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:11 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote > >> down here somewhere. > > That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal > > startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit > > of

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:55:20 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal > > startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit > > of a sledgehammer for this particular nut. > > Each of my machines has a no-x run level

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:09:37 -0600, Dale wrote: > I hope some manufacturers don't shoot themselves in the foot while > removing keys. o_O They'd have to be using a pretty extreme method of key removal for that to be a risk :P -- Neil Bothwick Always proofread carefully to see if you any wor

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-19 Thread Joseph
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote: On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. What to do about it? It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as "OK" but when I login it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote: > I've rebuilt these same packages over several times. Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually? > I think the @preserved-rebuild tool is bonkers It's a good idea, and much better than the old "break it then fix it" a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Something like Webresearch for linux

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:58:37 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to > webresearch: >http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html > > Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind > of things that a

[gentoo-user] help with transistioning to iSCSI

2010-01-19 Thread Doug O'Neal
This is not a gentoo-specific question but please bear with me. The computer center I run has a fairly large beowulf cluster, a set of database servers, and several other specific-purpose servers for a total of around 175 systems. Currently there are a half-dozen servers with local raid arrays u

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: > On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote: > >On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: > >>I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both > >>machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. > >>What to do about it? > >> > >>It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD sho

[gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Jon Hardcastle writes: > Hi guys, > > I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version > of the smartmontools drive database. > > Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken > to the chaps there and they say to run configure with > '--enable-drivedb' and

[gentoo-user] Re: Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: >> > I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down >> > here somewhere. >> >> That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su

2010-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
100118 walt wrote: > On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> 2010/1/18 walt: >>> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you >>> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. >> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered > Here is what I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down here somewhere. That turns off almost everything,

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:11 -0600, Dale wrote: I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down here somewhere. That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Jon Hardcastle
--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Harry Putnam wrote: > From: Harry Putnam > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 15:10 > Jon Hardcastle > writes: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest > trunk

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-19 Thread Joseph
On 01/19/10 16:12, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote: >On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: >>I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both >>machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. >>What to do about it? >> >>It start manually just fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd does not start at boot

2010-01-19 Thread Joseph
On 01/19/10 16:12, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote: >On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote: >>I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both >>machine "cupsd" does not start at boot. >>What to do about it? >> >>It start manually just fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-19 Thread Crístian Viana
so you set VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"? I'm using "virtualbox" on both variables and it's not working. I'll try that as you said. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana > wrote: > > hi! > > I'm runn

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed to return a charstring containing the typed password, but it instead returns a null pointer whe

[gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the utility via wine with no luck.

[gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Avahi

2010-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/19/2010 04:13 AM, SpaceCake wrote: Hi, I have problem to compile Avahi. As far as I see there was several bugs related to this package in the past, so I've tried to perform the steps in those bug reports to fix this issue (recompile python, python packages, playing with useflags etc). U

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread ubiquitous1980
Grant wrote: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the > utility

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Avahi

2010-01-19 Thread Arttu V.
On 1/19/10, walt wrote: > On 01/19/2010 04:13 AM, SpaceCake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have problem to compile Avahi. As far as I see there was several bugs >> related to this package in the past, so I've tried to perform the steps in >> those bug reports to fix this issue (recompile python, python pac

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant wrote: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 17:26:40 schrieb Grant: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, w

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: Here is what I see on both machines: $su Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here Segmentation fault I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed to return a charstring containing the typed password, but

Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su

2010-01-19 Thread pk
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Being my sometimes helpful self. lol >> >> Password: >> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered >> >> >> That normal I guess? > > Then I'm not! I get > > $ su > Password: su: Authentication failure Evil spi

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: > Of course, I use Gentoo on my headless servers, so I am glad that server > software - Dovecot or Courier for IMAP, Apache, Samba - all have > plain-text configuration files I can edit with vim (which I have been > learning to utilise better recently). But even if these switched t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread pk
Dale wrote: > I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you > want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config > file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't > pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't use hal

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a >> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the >> utility via win

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a >> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the >> utility via win

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a >> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the >> utility via win

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED]

2010-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:26:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote: > > On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote: > >> Here is what I see on both machines: > >> > >> $su > >> Password: <= I type Ctrl-d here > >> Segmentation fault > >> > >> I've traced this problem to t

[gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Cunning
I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is pressed and released. Another depression/release of the control key removes the

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:12:09 Jim Cunning wrote: > I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that > kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a > single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is > pressed and released.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >>> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >>> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a >>> Windows (not DOS) flashing utili

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII > > > characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if > > > your program uses XML configuratio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Dale wrote: I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: > > Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never > > letting the user see the contents of the XML. > > Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter whether it is XML or > something else. The key is that is has a user

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote: > You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not > or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as > pissed as I was tho. > nah, you just found a new target: KDE-4 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you > to the link labelled D > > I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or k

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 20:23:53 schrieb Grant: > >> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in > >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > >> Windows (not DOS) flashin

[gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Jon Hardcastle writes: > Thanks for your input! Wow that is alot more complicated that I had > hoped! > > I am already using the masked version of Smartmontools but the 5.39 > version does not include 1 of the HDD I use and as I have got a > whole load more of that exact model of drive on the way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote: You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as pissed as I was tho. nah, you just found a new target: KDE-4 I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 18:24, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant wrote: I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA". I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the utili

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 19:34, Grant wrote: ... XP on a USB stick It sounds like a Windows machine is necessary to build it, but once it's built it would be really handy. I have found my attempts at building this or a CD-based PE very frustrating indeed. It seems like an awful lot of aggro w

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Grant
>> >> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >> >> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in >> >> other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a >> >> Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it?  I tried running the >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jan 2010, at 16:44, Jon Hardcastle wrote: ... the HDD I use and as I have got a whole load more of that exact model of drive on the way I would like it to. You know that using a whole load of the same disk increases the likelihood of simultaneous failure, right? I'm sure you do know

[gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card

2010-01-19 Thread Michael George
I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat and put songs on it. That's all fine. However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it fine. When I plug the player into my Mac,

[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-19 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > I've rebuilt these same packages over several times. > > Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually? with this 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' i.e. the tool. > > I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card

2010-01-19 Thread James Ausmus
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George wrote: > I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees > the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat > and put songs on it. That's all fine. > > However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 15:15:20 Harry Putnam wrote: > In fact, whatever way you do it, can you give some kind of example? No trouble. Here's a section of my grub.conf: - title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.32-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda5 v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I > believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more > code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was > working to soon. If it was worki

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card

2010-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:43:35 -0500, Michael George wrote: > However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it > fine. When I plug the player into my Mac, it puts two devices on the > desktop. When I plug it into my Linux box, /var/log/messages only lists > /dev/sdc (not /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2010, at 18:24, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant wrote: >>> >>> I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility >>> is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Grant wrote: > I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility > is said to be "Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA".  I've flashed the BIOS in > other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a > Windows (not DOS) flashin

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-19 Thread hkml
Hi Alan, thanks for your reply and sorry for the late response (I was kind of offline). > Everything above this line is fascinating but completely unrelated to your > post. Please omit such in future I just wanted to motivate that I didn't just install gentoo and then ask my questions immediatel

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card

2010-01-19 Thread Michael George
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:15:42PM -0800, James Ausmus wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George wrote: > > > I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees > > the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat > > and put songs on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

2010-01-19 Thread ubiquitous1980
James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote: >> >> >>> I've rebuilt these same packages over several times. >>> >> Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually? >> > with this 'emerge @preserved

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About the change from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2010-01-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote: I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was working to soon

[gentoo-user] Re: Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey writes: > See? I don't have to remember any options, I just key up or down to the > config I want. Easy. Nice... thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Cunning
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. > > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you > > to the link labelled D > >

[gentoo-user] squid - allowing only one domain

2010-01-19 Thread Joseph
I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working (using iptable + squid) iptable: ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner UID match squid ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:3128 owner UID match sq

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox, Gentoo, and USB thumb drives

2010-01-19 Thread David Relson
I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided? Regards, David osage relson # df -h File

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound in KDE-4

2010-01-19 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 14:50:40 bn wrote: > >> Seeing you're using (like me) an Intel HDA... have you selected the >> correct *codec* in your kernel? I had trouble with my sound card until I >> figured that out. > > Ah, now that is a rev

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

2010-01-19 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: > so you set VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard > mouse"? I'm using "virtualbox" on both variables and it's not working. I'll > try that as you said. > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen wrote: >> >> On Mon, Ja

Re: [gentoo-user] X -configure find video drivers that do not exist

2010-01-19 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > >> my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more >> video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each >> time when i ran 'X -configure', if can sti