Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Justin
On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as > an official guideline/checklist on how to consid

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping > /dev/sda stays /dev/sda always Good idea. Or use LVM. > - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need > portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) I like to have many partitions. When m

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, wrote: > Hi, > fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do: >  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness i found a similar file at /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness. i think they are the same :) > > should give something like > > levels:  13 25 38 50

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > cluster size maybe. > > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. There's no nee

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/2/10, walt wrote: > This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this > stuff? > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expecting a discussion then perhaps you'd care to narrow it down a bit: which part o

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On 1 March 2010 18:09, Mick wrote: > On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin wrote: >> Thanks for the howto, Mick.  I followed it on my Windows Vista Home >> Premium 64; got "The operation completed successfully" all the way >> through, but on reboot I don't get a boot menu. > > Can you please post

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On 2 March 2010 10:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small >> > cluster size maybe. >> >> I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. > > The data I've seen indicates tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:30:24 Tanstaafl wrote: > Well... my local overlays (that I set up a long time ago) are > there... and portage obviously 'touches' those, so... should I move > them as well? I wouldn't. I'm happy with the new default arrangement: mainstream packages under /usr/portage;

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 01 March 2010 22:47:36 Neil Walker wrote: > There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it > work with 2.6.33. Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-02 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the locations there. That didn't work for me; the current layman script still references the old location; which is why I added the soft link.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread walt
On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, walt wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expecting a discussion then perhaps you'd care

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:09:06 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it > > work with 2.6.33. > > Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers > with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:07 PM, walt wrote: > On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >> >> On 3/2/10, walt  wrote: >>> >>> This article was a big surprise to me.  Am I the last one to hear about >>> this >>> stuff? >>> >>> >>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: > On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: > > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > > considered for stabilization, but is there any document t

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
Lie Ryan said: > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > arch manager would notice? The general policy is here: http://devmanual

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: >> On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: >> > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" >> > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-02 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:56:58AM -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > On 03/01/10 18:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0500, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > > > >>> Or you can edit /var/lib/layman/make.conf and change the > >>> locations there. > >> > >> That didn't work for me; the curren

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Neil Walker
Peter Humphrey wrote: >> There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it >> work with 2.6.33. >> > > Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers > with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site. > emerge =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-19

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2010 22:47:36 Neil Walker wrote: > >> There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it >> work with 2.6.33. > > Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers > with 2.6.33 and

[gentoo-user] Re: Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Lie Ryan
On 03/03/2010 04:52 AM, Mark Loeser wrote: > Lie Ryan said: >> I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile >> and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for >> stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the >> arch manager would notic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:07:21 walt wrote: > On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > > On 3/2/10, walt wrote: > >> This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about > >> this stuff? > >> > >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=new > >> s&ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-02 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:07 -0800, walt wrote: > I've also not heard of the "NoSQL" movement before The "NoSQL" movement is long-lasting and continuous. It just changes names every few years :-)

[gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs Konqueror - cpu goes to 100% and the browser stays unresponsive. I've tried variou

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs > Konqueror - cpu goes

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: http://forum.thinkbike.co.za and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so convenient). Every so often, with no

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common >> > denominator that comprises Unix. Which is to say, almost a

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > convenient). Every so often, with no pattern I can find, this site hangs > Konqueror -

[gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf

2010-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
For quite a long time I've been using things like: vga=0x31A On the kernel line in grub.conf Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. ## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:48:36 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 20:37:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > > convenient). Every so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] attach a perl script to daemon services

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:26:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 06:16:09 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: > >> > FWIW, Solaris syslogd is like other basic tools on Solaris: > >> > standards compliant in that it caters for the lowest common

Re: [gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > For quite a long time I've been using things like: > vga=0x31A > > On the kernel line in grub.conf > > Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found > somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. > > ## 640x480

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:29:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 02 März 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There's a vBulletin forum I frequent: > > > > http://forum.thinkbike.co.za > > > > and my usual browser is Konqueror (just because kparts makes it so > > convenient). Ev

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:53:29 Dale wrote: > > without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about > > javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a > > tremendous amount of cpu load. > > > > > > Not knowing the site either, my weather radar site loc

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo [SOLVED]

2010-03-02 Thread daid kahl
On 22 February 2010 01:33, daid kahl wrote: >>> I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch >>> over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things >>> worked out. > >> Zsh is a wonderfull shell, but it does have a steep learning curve, due to >> its >> many f

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-02 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:53:29 Dale wrote: without looking at that site - is there any flash stuff? What about javascript? nspluginviewer is still a bitch - and buggy js can cause a tremendous amount of cpu load.

[gentoo-user] do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux?

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
hi, both lvm2 and zfs are copy-on-write snapshot system. do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] emerge uclibc fails after upgrade of linux-headers

2010-03-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there I am trying to build a minimal system for my 128MB USB stick, based on uclibc. I’m in the process of rebuilding system after upgrading gcc from 4.1 to 4.3. During the upgrade, linux-headers was updated from 2.6.23-r3 to 2.6.30-r1. After such an update, the c library needs to be rebuilt a