Regards,
> David Shen
Could you d/l this script:
http://slackwarebox.dyndns.org:88/HOW-TOs/alsa-info.sh
and pastebin.ca the output?
I have a T61 with working sound and webcam built-in mic.
Bruce Hill
--
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
the man."
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:50:52PM +0300, zhen wrote:
> Hi.
> Does anybody know how to make links from thunderbird to be opened in
> firefox? I know there are options in about:config
> (network.protocol-handler.app.http etc..). They worked before I updated
> firefox to 3.5.4. At some moment I notic
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
> squawked:
> > On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
> >> unmute?
> >>
> > To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer
> > is
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
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 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
>
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:14:48AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> ok. but it looks like the gmail web client encourage top post ;)
That doesn't make it easy to read. This is how we see it when you top-post:
A: Because you are doing it wrong.
> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon
> >> wro
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:30:15PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> > The Advanced Scripting Guide is brilliant. It's my gospel when Bash
> > scripting, although I'll admit I haven't looked harder for anything else.
> > If there is any better guide out there, I would love to hear about it.
>
> I agre
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:53:43PM +, bn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am updating my Macbook Pro installation. While many programs I updated
> often, the basics (Xorg, kernel, etc.) were taking dust since... well, a
> lot. I only found time with these holidays. This is therefore probably
> the first thr
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:02:52PM -0200, João Matos wrote:
> Hi list.
>
> I'm still reading the oficial documentation, but I don't think it will be
> enough, so, if anyone of you know some documentation more detailed, I'd
> appreciate reading it.
emerge -av app-doc/linux-kernel-in-a-nutshell
--
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're
> using the EXT4 filesystem:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
>
> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developer
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:29:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP
> (802.11n)
>
> Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my
> laptop as other devices in the house also get affected. When this
> happens I usua
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:55:31PM +0100, "ifj. Stefán István" wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I need a kernel
> module that hadn't been compiled before.
> Is there any way to compile only that new module, and not compiling the
> whole kernel and all of
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:00:05PM +0100, mindrunner wrote:
> someone calls me stupid and dumb, because i am sharing my opinion.
> this never happened to me on a dev-mailinglist.
> I came here to help out gentoo users. not to flame war.
> If I want this kind of conversation, i would sign in to gull
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:56:57AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> Please, don't take Volker seriously as anyone who represents the basic
> discourse here. I black listed him a year ago but unfortunately his
> rudeness still leaks through. While he is technically capable, far more
> than me certain
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:00:35AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>
> Don't worry re VAH : he writes like that, but there's no ill-will
> & often he has something useful to say. Most of the time,
> Gentoo-User is polite + intelligent & a good source of Linux education.
> In this case, as someone else
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner:
> > volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you
> > do not know me.
>
> everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I ave
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:28:45PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
> However, seems like Amazon US ships those bod boys too:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005V71EKW/ref=amb_link_363831362_3/187-3646152-7108162?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=0B019H36JMGD79M4GQKB&pf_rd
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 01:23:03PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
> ;-) I've built quite a few in my time as a Gentoo user, and one or two
> when I was still using Debian.
>
> Configuring a kernel is more difficult than the available documentation
> might lead one to believe.
>
> There are many
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 01:49:03PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
> hate is a natural reaction if something you don't need and don't want is
> forced upon you. If it is also based on lies, hate is a valid reaction. A lot
> of people don't need nor want pulseaudio or systemd. Now it is forc
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:24:32PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
> >
> > Say Dude,
> >
> > I have a question (well, two actually)
> >
> > My name is Alan and I've been subscribed on this list for 7 years.
> >
> > What's your name, and
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 07:14:29PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Bruce Hill
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Other than your use of profanity, that post was worth making a sticky.
>
> I try not to use profanity most of the time. In this particular
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 07:50:04PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Bruce Hill
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > It offends me.
>
> That's too bad. In public mailing lists profanity happens a lot. I
> suggest you not to read LKML; Linus is
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 09:02:18PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
> I'm atheists, and I don't see any relation between being or not a
> religious person, using profanity, or that we respect each other. The
> three of them are orthogonal, I think.
>
> I try to respect every member of this lis
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 03:57:52AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> FWIW, swearing here is rare. Usually it's understandable when it
> happens.
>
> Threads like this current one are also rare. Unfortunately of late they
> usually involve Lennart, and that's understandable too:
>
> In trying to so
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:37:03AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:21:06 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > If we also stick to helping someone with their problem, and refrain from
> > replying about how bad or useless we think an app or ideal might be to
>
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:17:50 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> >
> > Oh, really? Didn't get the memo. I suppose all my machines (laptops,
> > desktops, servers and media center) running with Gentoo+systemd (and
> > what is more, *without* OpenRC) are a fidget of my imagination.
fidget is what l
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:28:52PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
Duly noted and appreciated ... thank you.
--
Happy Penguin Computers >')
126 Fenco Drive ( \
Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^
supp...@happypenguincomputers.com
66
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:20:42PM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev. Yeppie !! Me, I'm
> looking forward to seeing how this works and giving it a test run when it
> gets ready. Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, I hope.
>
> I wonder what
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:52:25PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local
> >> map MAC addresses to IP addresses.
This is what your /etc/dhcp/dhcp.conf would look like on the router, or how it
should be configured wherever DHCP is h
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:39:40AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to assign fixed IP numbers to computers of a local network.
>
> Using dhcp as in
>
> modules="wpa_supplicant"
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -iwlan0"
> config_wlan0="dhcp"
>
> works just fine but depends on dhcp fo
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:26:18PM +0100, Cr0k wrote:
> >
> Hello,
>
> Can't you answer correctly to the mailing lists? Each one of your mails goes
> into my standard Mailbox, while I did a rule to make it goes to a gentoo-user
> folder...
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cr0k
Can you learn to trim? ;
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:42:45PM -0800, Willie wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that
> whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like I
> did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random times.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:59:34AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Anyone else run into this problem with udev-171-r9? I updated
> yesterday and my CD/DVD, which has been /dev/cdrom1 since I built the
> machine 2 1/2 years ago, is now called /dev/scd0.
>
> Machine is x86_64, mostly stable.
>
> - Mark
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:54:15AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Thanks Bruce. That at least goes a long way toward explaining why the
> system is acting the way it's acting. Threw me for a loop I must say.
>
> Interestingly I don't have the elog file you show above. (Not sure I
> should, just sa
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:44:08AM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am using a Thinkpad X301 with a DVI Monitor connected to the mini
> displayport.
> That worked perfectly for years, but with Kernel 3.6 (and 3.7rc) the DVI
> Monitor stays black on boot and it is not visible in xrandr. As
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:46:59AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> I don't see any news blurbs warning about it, but with everything going
> on with udev, systemd, etc, I'm not risking updating unless/until I know
> it is safe.
>
> Tia...
>
> Charles
Have you read the requirements in
/u
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:17:17PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> RDEPEND="virtual/init
> kernel_FreeBSD? ( || ( >=sys-freebsd/freebsd-ubin-9.0_rc
> sys-process/fuser-bsd ) )
> elibc_glibc? ( >=sys-libs/glibc-2.5 )
> ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses )
> pam? ( sys-auth
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:17:17PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
Hey, should be no worries now ... openrc-0.11.5 got moved to stable today, so
it should work fine with >=sys-fs/udev-181 (stable udev atm).
--
Happy Penguin Computers >')
126 Fenco Drive ( \
Tupelo, MS
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 06:09:47PM +0100, Norman Rieß wrote:
>
> Setting nomodeset does not solve the problem.
>
> Regards,
> Norman
Sorry I didn't have the time to reply ... RL is consuming me.
You can search on the Linux Kernel Mailing List https://lkml.org/ to see if
this bug is there, also.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:25:27PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm building a minimal Gentoo system but I always get the following error
> when I try to chroot into the final system:
>
> /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or dir
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:23:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> /usr/src/makeover
> ***IMPORTANT*** The arch/x86 directory is specific to 32-bit i686
> kernels. Adjust accordingly if you use a different architecture.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> make &&
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:59:43PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> have a couple of of IBM "clickety-clack" 104-keyboard specials that were
> being thrown out by my former employer a few years ago. I love them.
Had to leave mine in China when we moved back last year. If you want to get
rid of one.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:02:18PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
> I have added rc_net_wlan0_provide="net" to /etc/rc.conf, but scripts like
> sshd still wont start, and when executed report "WARNING: sshd is scheduled
> to start when net.eth0 has started".
>
> Why does sshd appear to be specifically
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:01:27PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
> I don't see how, so that probably means i'm ignorant of something i need to
> know. Can you please elaborate?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Bruce Hill > wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 27,
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:57:46PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Anyone knows how to dig into /sys to find the serial number of a device (say,
> a USB pen)? I few days ago I found by trial and error something like
> $ cat
> /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:06.1/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/host13/target13:0:0/
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:31:10PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
> It is a matter of programming, not looking. I need a program that creates the
> symlink when the device is plugged in. Think mdev (more precisely, a
> complement to mdev that would take care of a few particular devices, to allow
>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was
> just curious about finding some app that might receive text message
> sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number
> which I'd rather kee
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 06:23:52AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off
> with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated
> key.
Where do you get numlock as a kernel option?
It is a BIOS option, but a
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 08:06:43AM +, Mick wrote:
>
> You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep
> numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a
> difference.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
Though there is no /etc/conf.d/numlock, Mick's post caus
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote:
> I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my
> workspace, and random user files under my home directory across
> multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which
> makes daily incremental backups of
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today
> & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do),
> instead of a long list of interactions with the router
> there's 1 line "dhcpcd[1035]: sending commands to mas
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable.
>
> The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the
> way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new
> openrc stable
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:20:36PM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> That's been my experience too. I run @preserved-rebuild when it tells
> me to but revdep-rebuild rarely finds anything. Thing is, it has a time
> or two. It is best to run revdep-rebuild and be sure than not to and
> run the risk of not
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:48:24PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > What is @preserved-rebuild ?
>
> It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to
> be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of
> libraries.
>
> > workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserve
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:27:03AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >
> > This is an incredibly inefficient way of testing for broken symlinks,
> > it
> > takes about 100 times as long to run (over ten seconds on my netbook)
> > than
> >
> > find -L /usr/share/man/ -type l
>
> What about
> ap
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:27:03AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >
> > This is an incredibly inefficient way of testing for broken symlinks,
> > it
> > takes about 100 times as long to run (over ten seconds on my netbook)
> > than
> >
> > find -L /usr/share/man/ -type l
>
> What about
> ap
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:48:24PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
> > emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set
> > emerge: no targets left after set expansion
>
> So you have nothing that needs rebuilding. Portage will warn you when the
> set it
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:48:03PM +, James wrote:
>
> I guesses but the / is blank?
>
> df
> /dev/sda2 61438696 51276944 10161752 84% /mnt/gentoo/boot
> /dev/sda3 61438696 51276944 10161752 84% /mnt/gentoo
>
>
> /mnt/gentoo/boot is populated (mounted correctl
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:53:01PM +0100, Francesco Turco wrote:
> Hello.
>
> A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook
> I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as
> opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184
>
> The
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:05:24AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Of course, all this assumes that your version of portage supports
> @preserved-rebuild
>
> To use it, you simply notice the portage message right at the end of an
> emerge and run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" - it's just a regular
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:05:30PM +, James wrote:
>
> Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating
> NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped
> many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded
> linux running on many different flavors of ARM
> processors.
>
> RUSSELL is KING, a
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:55:53PM +, James wrote:
> Bruce Hill happypenguincomputers.com> writes:
>
>
> > Wish my Samsung Galaxy S could have it's piece of crap Android system
> > replaced
> > by arm-linux -- if not it will drive me back to an iPhone.
&
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 01:06:23PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2012 12:10 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote:
> >
> > It's nice to see a chip designer not falling into the intel trap of
> > trying to rape every customer for every last cent they have!
> >
>
> Don't get me started on that...
>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:44:45AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> NUMA is also an option in the kernel. Should also be fully transparent.
> I got one machine with NUMA and only had to set an option for it.
>
> Does anyone know how to check it's working properly?
dmesg | grep NUMA
--
Happy Pengu
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:49:23PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> Would everyone here be in favor of a dedicated server over a cloud server
> from a host with good cloud infrastructure? The cloud server concept is
> amazing but from what I'm reading a dedicated server at the same price
> point far outperfo
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:19:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:39:03 -0600
> Bruce Hill wrote:
> >
> > My data is allergic to "the cloud" ... too much pixey dust.
>
> If I get up from my desk, walk down the corridor and turn right, I fi
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >
> > Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability
> > compared to dedicated?
>
> Potentially? Yes.
>
> In reality? No.
>
> It's not the virtualization that breaks, it's all the surrounding
> infrastructur
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:41:45AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> Right now, I have /usr on a separate partition so I would need a init
> thingy to boot. When I switch to eudev, that won't be required, from
> what I have read anyway.
>
> I didn't want the init thingy to begin with either.
>
> Dale
L
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:25:08AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> Pretty much yea. I started making a init thing when they were talking
> about not supporting /usr on a separate partition. Then about a month
> ago eudev was announced which means we can boot with /usr on a separate
> partition and no ini
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:48:12AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> Well, it appears that one version is stable:
>
> root@fireball / # equery list -p eudev
> * Searching for eudev ...
> [-P-] [ ] sys-fs/eudev-0:0
> [-P-] [ ~] sys-fs/eudev-1_beta1-r1:0
> [-P-] [ -] sys-fs/eudev-:0
> root@fireball / #
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:20:05AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-12-14 10:39 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > What Mark wrote you is golden. I might only add that if you put:
> >
> > >=sys-fs/udev-181
> >
> > into
> >
> > /etc/portage/package.mask
&g
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:52:12AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> I have the flu, nasty one at that, and I really don't need to add hal to
> my list right now. That said, the Doctor called and the blood tests
> said I was healthy as a horse, other than being sick as a dog. :/
> Sort of like software,
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:18:21AM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> I will try some more desperate tricks today, like reconnecting the USB pile
> to see if it at least boots the disks again - is my choice between disks and
> keyboard? I will find out. My best guess right now is that booting
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:24:10PM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> That's what I've been using.
>
> But the hardware failure is illogical too; why would USB and SATA fail at the
> same time? Or why would southbridge fail when it had been running perfectly
> fine?
>
> I don't really think
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
>
> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point gru
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> That was the original reason for having / and /usr separate, and it
> dates back to the early 70s. The other reason that stems from that time
> period is the size of disks we had back then - they were tiny and often
> a minimal / w
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > * X now has hardware acceleration
>
>I ran "emerge -pv --deep --newuse world" to make sure everything was
> OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the
> changes in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf. While I wa
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
> > wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
> > Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:38:26PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> > Rather than downloadhelper and a web browser, try:
> >
> > mingdao@workstation ~/test $ youtube-dl
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI
> > [youtube] Setting language
> > [youtube] XITHbsUUlYI: Downloading video webpage
> > [yout
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:25:13PM -0800, walt wrote:
>
> that. There are some questions that require a group of old farts, and you
> have
> found one in this mailing list :)
Something smells ... bad ... here. :(
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:38:15PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 19.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Walter Dnes:
> > 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing
> > wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard
> > Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've a
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments?
pastebins?
Your dropbox postings lost me after reading:
Please enable browser-cookies to use the Dropbox website.
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:41:10AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that gentoo strips attachments. At any
> rate, I summarized as much as possible and only put the the full logs
> at the end.
>
> As for the cookies, so many sites require cookies and/or
> javascrip
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:05:44PM +0100, Teodor Spæren wrote:
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> The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla kernel
> from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since gentoo-sources
> is a patched kernel.
With all due respect, Gentoo is the only distro
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:52:27PM +0100, Teodor Spæren wrote:
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> That is my concern. If I get it working with a vanilla kernel, and then
> booting into the system,
> emerge do not work, it was all wasted.
You may want to consider a swap file:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
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> Now, also, from my understanding, this was already the case for some
> time (maybe even years?). And that's why I've asked for more details.
>
> So, if the udev you use is OK with no initrd, what is in the new udev
> that actually
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:25:02AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2012 10:00 PM, "Dale" wrote:
> > I have not
> > tested the theory but that is what people have been saying. Not only is
> > my /usr separate but it is on LVM partitons too.
>
> If I recall correctly, easy repartition
This time it has 4 attachments; afaik there were zero attachments the first
time (deleted email here so can't check now). No worries, files here now.
Do you have a /var/log/messages (might be in rotated, gzipped one even) that
includes the 3.6.10 *and* 3.7.1 boot?
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:05:25AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> <<< SNIP >>>
> > No initrd...
>
> YET!!! ROFL
>
> When eudev goes stable, then we can disregard that yet. ;-)
>
> Dale
devfs still works wonderfully ... for p
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 01:23:16PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> > The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should
> > it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to
> > resize easily. If I put / on L
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:36:06PM -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> One of the reasons I left Mandriva was because of the init thingy. If I
> wanted one and liked having one, I would have never switched to Gentoo.
> The init thingy was not the only reason but it was one of them. The
> reason I do not wan
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:23:13PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
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> Then came the decision to move udev inside /usr, forcing the issue.
> Now, it'd been long understood that udev *itself* hadn't been broken.
> The explanation given as much as a year earlier was that udev couldn't
> control what *othe
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:34:00PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
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> I'm also interested in Bruce's history about initrd. Sounds like if
> that worked today I'd just use it to make an initrd and be done with
> it. Unlike you, I guess, I don't have any political position on these
> images that get used
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
> Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.
> > Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram
> > filesystem)
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
> > Bruce Hill wrote:
> >
> >> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.
> >> Som
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
>
> No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim
> that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is "why?
> because it won't work") and links to an article that explains why some
> udev rules wo
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:38:30PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote:
> >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
> >> Bruce Hill wrote:
> >>
> >>> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but i
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:56:52AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a
> multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per
> day, even a temporary outage means the CIO, COO, and CEO breathing down
> your neck.
Who is
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:53:33AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > emerge -av app-text/wgetpaste && wgetpaste /path/to/3.6/.config
> > /path/to/3.7/.config
>
> 3.6.10 .config -- http://bpaste
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