[gentoo-user] Switching from X to textmode resets textmode to 25 lines

2010-06-13 Thread Walter Dnes
I switch between the X gui and true textmode a lot. To get the most out of textmode, I set /etc/conf.d/consolefont to CONSOLEFONT="lat1-10" This puts the normal VGA console into 80 columns X 40 rows. Setting vga = 6 in /etc/lilo.conf (or equivalant GRUB config file), in combination with l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:32:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:03:51 +, Mick wrote: > > Thanks I used reiser4progs to check and repair the fs. The weird > > thing is that I had to repeat this on the /var partition, after I > > zero'ed it, reformatted it and reinstalled gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-13 Thread Harry Putnam
pk writes: > On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a >> windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to >> left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am. > > I'm not alone then...

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:27:20 +1000, Adam wrote: > My modules file contains; > modules="vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock" > But the vm modules arent loaded. dmesg has nothing. What am i missing? I have no vmware modules in that file, the modules are loaded by the vmware init script. -- Neil Both

[gentoo-user] Cannot copy directories into webdav

2010-06-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have set up a directory to have webdav access like so using /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf: ServerName ServerAlias demo-site DocumentRoot /var/www//htdocs Dav On AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/.basic

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-13 Thread walt
On 06/12/2010 05:56 PM, Adam wrote: My modules file contains; Which 'modules' file do you mean? /etc/conf.d/modules modules="vmmon vmnet vmblock vmci vsock" modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} acpi-cpufreq" module_acpi_cpufreq_args_2_6="" modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} fuse" module_fuse_args_2_6=""

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread Jose Juan Montiel
Hi, yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). I follow all step of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or something similar) fail... I would like to know how to skip a fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-12 5:17 PM, David W Noon wrote: >> On 12 Jun 2010, at 12:35, David W Noon wrote: >>> ... Dovecot, but quickly replaced by dbmail. >> Can I ask you why? > Certainly. > > I wanted the messages to be stored in a single, dedicated logical > volume in my DASD farm. Dovecot always stored t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Jose Juan Montiel writes: > yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). Welcome! > I follow all step of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i > finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or > something similar) fail...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Jose Juan Montiel wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). > > I follow all step of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i finally > go to install gnome...  in the latests package (mailclient or

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-13 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:20:02 +0200, Tanstaafl wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?: >On 2010-06-12 5:17 PM, David W Noon wrote: >> I wanted the messages to be stored in a single, dedicated logical >> volume in my DASD farm. Dovecot always stored them in each user's >> ~/Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting windows 7, extended partitions, and the mbr

2010-06-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:05:43 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:47:37 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:52:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:10:06 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> I am now ready to install linux (and grub). >> >> Can I have all

[gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge

2010-06-13 Thread Walter Dnes
Any time I insert/remove a USB key, or when iptables has something to say, it shows up on all text consoles, not just number 12. This seems to be happening after a recent update. I'm running syslog-ng 3.0.6. I have not manually touched any config files. Searching through Google turned up an

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot copy directories into webdav

2010-06-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:06:26PM +0100, Mick wrote > Any idea what I'm missing here? The directory I am trying to write > into is owned by apache: What user are you when trying to write into the directory? -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread Stroller
Hi Jose, Please don't hijack threads. Previous discussion & explanation: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg71515.html On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:32, Jose Juan Montiel wrote: yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). I follow all step of http://www.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc conf.d/modules

2010-06-13 Thread Adam
> I missed your reference to openrc last time. Do you see any interesting > messages when you run /etc/init.d/modules restart? sphinx adam # /etc/init.d/modules restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service * Loading module acpi-cpufreq ... [ ok ] * Loading module fuse ... [ ok ] * L