Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I > > noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror > > (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I > > always hit a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:44:09 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > syncing the tree is not installing anything, all it does is update > > the list of what is available. Any comparison with Windows is > > irrelevant anyway, Linux is not Windows. yeah, in unix you can read files more than once a

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:12:08 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi,everyone! > > > > > > I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. > > > And when I start my gentoo,the error is : > > > > > > …… > > > 202.114.26.194 > > > 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 > > > ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:55:43 -0500 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This makes me curious - is it possible to switch between using and not > using TV out or external monitor without restarting X and > switching .conf files? usually on a laptop pushing Fn+Fx button will change between LCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in gdm. If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select that in gdm as "custom"). I dont know for kde. I always forget about fancy point-&-cl

Re: [gentoo-user] large .avi video files, re-encode ?

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:27:16 + Dave S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 28 December 2006 17:40, Strong Cypher wrote: > > could you give us the original format of your video ? > > The .avi files were directly generated by a screen capture program > > Dave the avi format is a container

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:27:46 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/12/28, Oliver Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello Chuanwen > But everytime I do > #/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start or > #/etc/init.d/sshd start > the error is still all the same : MYIP already taken on eth0. > How

Re: [gentoo-user] Has xorg or something changed?

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:58:52 + Stewart Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > A while ago I set up a twin monitor system using two graphics cards. > All worked fine until I carried out an update. During the update I > noticed that a lot of X11 files were updated but thought nothing of

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:46:59 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The command line installer is highly recommended, as it is more likely to boot on a given (especially uncommon) computer and is a more trustworthy install method. > Here is the hardware of my machine which I got it from

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:46:59 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The command line installer is highly recommended, as it is more likely to boot on a given (especially uncommon) computer and is a more trustworthy install method. > Here is the hardware of my machine which I got it from

[gentoo-user] freecell clone?

can anyone help me find a linux freecell clone? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] install CD of Hewlett-Packard server

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:32:08 +0300 "Andrey Gerasimenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: use: nodetect nosmp and noapci noapic set on using the livecd? Perhaps you'd have better luck with a minimal. > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:55:50 +0300, Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Oh,God! > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:09:37 +0100 Mihamina Rakotomandimby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ go an have a cup of coffee ] that is a _Very_ good idea... > But one question. Is not there any way to get portage try another > source? Why does portage try only freedesktop.org server? It appears >

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

you can name the kernels in /boot anything, so long as the name is referenced in /boot/grub/grub.conf correctly. you can decrease the boot time by giving your dhcp client a timeout value in seconds. I use 10 seconds for my desktops, because if my dhcpserver isn't responding by then, it's proba

Re: [gentoo-user] I want my xmms

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:43:48 +0100 Robert Cernansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:05:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Throughout this thread many people have commented on audacious > > being a resource hog of monumental proportions. Every single one o

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU compile problem

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:20:39 +1100 "Adam Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gcc -g -Wl,-shared -o qemu-i386 elfload.o main.o syscall.o mmap.o > signal.o path.o osdep.o thunk.o vm86.o libqemu.a gdbstub.o -lm > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l > d: errno: T

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 "Joshua Schmidlkofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R lighttpd / > > -- > > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this > with Gentoo? > > Sincerely, > Joshua I think

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:07:00 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just checked and it seems that the OEM firmware on the netgear > drops all ssh attempts to connect. :( Im sure your router's firmware isn't allowing ssh connections. The router itself does not offer ssh access to anyone. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Found eth0, what's depreciated

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:43:09 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Good call Karl; I had been thinking of an older system when I > modprobed what I thought was my card. It still didn't work after a > modprobing, but I compiled it straight in, and it worked just fine. > > Thank you, Karl. >

Re: [gentoo-user] webapp-config

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:50:40 +0100 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > could anyone give me a short tip, how to query which webapps > should be upgraded (-> list of all webapps which have a newer > version available) ? > > thx `emerge --upgrade -pv world` will show you t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:29:52 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if you want to take advantage of > gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely > want a dedicated solution -- the PCI bus just can't keep up. Maybe > there's a solution in PCIe or PC

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc slots

version. I also wanted to make sure you're following the gcc 3.x -> 4.x upgrade guide online, because you'll need to, if you don't want a borked system. best of luck, --dan. > Hi All, > > I just upgraded to gcc-4.1.1. gcc-config -l shows that gcc-3.4.5 is >

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

> I don't have much experience with USB devices or how udev handles > them in /dev. All my experience which is quite limited would suggest > that it is still a permission issue. You could find the (ephemeral) > device file(s) and check the perms on them and then issue the groups > command to che

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

choice dmesg: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice anything else you think would be helpful? Just ask. --dan. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:39:07 -0500 PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I once experienced something similar on my [i686 Pentium II > (Klamath)] server. I don't remember exactly what part of gcc was > compiling at the time of the "hang", but I found switching kernel > versions helped. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:11:46 + Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:04:14 -0600, Dan wrote: > > > here's the output from the system log, i use metalog so > > that's /var/log/everything/current. > > > > Jan 14

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

t nat -v -L" which ends up showing you the packets in and out of each chain and each rule, which is highly convenient for configuring firewalls. Best of luck. -- dan. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:28:10 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: The appearance of USE flags (which is what we're talking about) is unrelated to whether or not you have the package installed already-- a USE flag does not appear or disappear based on whether you have the relevan

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- very inconvenient!

I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2 won't compile, it complains that some members are missing from a struct. USE="-avi" skips that, then in transcode 0.6.14-r2 I am told tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B/avifile/transcode -- SOLVED

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:17, Dan wrote: I'm trying to emerge K3B -- I've asked in the IRC channel with no response, which usually means I'm doing really stupid. Anyway, avifile-0.7.43.20050224-r2 won't compile, it complains that some

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVED -- now what?

This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had clone DVD. Source:Dual Layer DVD in one drive, Destination: Single Layer blank in burning drive. Press Go, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVED -- now what?

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:36, Dan wrote: This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had clone DVD. Source:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVEDAGAIN

Dan wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 15:36, Dan wrote: This is indeed a wonderful list. "Everything is going extremely well". -HAL K3B is running well, looks good but it has no DVD Video copying option that I can find. On windows I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge K3B -- SOLVEDAGAIN

Dan wrote: 9to5 looks like the tool for the job! Thanks for your help! Except of course that I get "no support for DVD reading configured - exit" I've emerged libdvdread and transcode, forcing the dvd flag on but I still get the same result. mplayer has no trouble playin

Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?

Gentoo Shadow wrote: > dear friends, > > 1) how to band(block) porno web url(s)+web contents using squid-cache > server? > > 2) which filtering tool is de best for a internet-cafe? On 10/16/05, *fire-eyes* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

[gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. I get a mess: i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error -SOLVED - [blush...]

Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. useless error messages Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? I tried again with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86". As always, it just emerges the same packages anyway, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error

Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:28 +1000 Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Please please do NOT hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - doze equivalent for dvdrip for a linophobe friend

Antoine wrote: Hi, I am really embarrassed to ask this question but I have spent a couple of hours searching and couldn't find anything even remotely as good as: emerge -av dvdrip a couple of clicks, legal (in France it is even LEGAL to copy rented dvds!!!) backup of dvd. Why are things so m

[gentoo-user] OT -- gcc .o linking and undefined references

Hi everyone, I'm doing something really obviously wrong, but I don't know what. I can gcc -c -o file.o file.c and get a binary object. I do this for the main and two "helper" .c files This works, then I get a bunch of .o files. then you usually do gcc -o and gcc does the linking. In t

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

Pingveno wrote: I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant

[gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

- The file is there: $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\ Teddys\ rum.mp3 -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul 2 2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3 The only thing I can see that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

On Saturday 20 February 2010 18.57:20 Stroller wrote: > On 20 Feb 2010, at 16:45, Dan Johansson wrote: > > ... > > If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output: > > --8 > > <--

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man > pages, they are covered in "ESC".  This does not occur when using normal > user accounts or the root account through su.  Wondering what is going > on.  Thanks. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

> on. Thanks. And I have the exact opposite on one of my rigs. Viewing man pages as a normal user and it get cluttered with ESC..., but view the same page after doing a 'sudo su -' everything is OK. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *

[gentoo-user] Changed behavior of portage when using FEATURES="getbinpkg"

3 /usr/portage/packages/sys- apps/portage-2.1.7.17.tbz2 -> ../All/portage-2.1.7.17.tbz2 prod: # ll /usr/portage/packages/sys- apps/portage-2.1.7.17.tbz2._checksum_failure_.IJVYZY -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 568929 Mar 5 17:53 /usr/portage/packages/sys- apps/portage-2.1.7.17.tbz2._checksum_failure_.IJVYZY What

[gentoo-user] Xinerama and Xrandr

the monitors and the "Desktop effects" works great. And the other GUI's does not give me that Xlkib error message. But now the only way to start a GUI on the second Monitor is to prefix it with DISPLAY=:0.1 or use --display :0.1. Does someone have any suggestion how I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

On 16 March 2010 12:41, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have run into a problem which I cannot explain.  I am trying to run this > script in a amd64 installation: > > xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg && oocalc \ > Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v DATA/data.ods' > > On a x

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

On 19 March 2010 08:42, Mick wrote: > Is there some bash incantation I can use then with OOo compiled from source, > to keep the terminal open until I close OOo? I guess something like this might do the trick: while pgrep ooffice >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done Although I'm not at my Gentoo box

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

If one tries to modify the ebuild and test a change, the system issues a file size error. How do you get around that? --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman wrote: > From: Paul Hartman > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 11:11 AM

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 > disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. > ... > My comment about RAID was that I am learning the hard (alas expensive) > way that not all disks can actuall

[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

Hallo, Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? I get a "Connection to 207.98.216.138 Failed" and downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports "It's not just you! http://gentoo-wiki.com looks down from here." Regards, -- Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

On Friday 02 April 2010 16.50:56 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > Hallo, > > > > > > Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

On Friday 02 April 2010 17.06:31 Dan Johansson wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2010 16.50:56 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson > > wrote: > > > > Hallo,

[gentoo-user] Bug

I run KDE on my system and my clock is wrong. I corrected several times from KDE, which sets the time to next boot, when it reverts to the old setting. This looks like slight bug. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dale wrote: > From: Dale > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn. > To: gentoo

[gentoo-user] KVM and Networking setup

ted again after local. What would be the correct syntax for /etc/conf.d/net for this setup (still at baselayout-1). Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug

have much more complex issues to discuss shortly. Thanks. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dale wrote: > From: Dale > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bug > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:12 PM > dan blum wrote: > > I run KDE on my system and my clock

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

I have the same problem when I exit KDE 4.3.3 and xorg 1.6.8. When I try re-emerging the xorg server I got error messages (blocked packages) see below: * Use eselect news to read news items. Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 [4.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

be wrong. Why aren't the xorg and kde packages communicating? Dan --- On Mon, 4/19/10, Philip Webb wrote: > From: Philip Webb > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7. > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:20 AM > 100418 dan blum wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug

o use this function to change its time and date? Where would one find the source package for 'date'? Dan --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dale wrote: > From: Dale > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bug > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:12 PM >

Re: [gentoo-user] No Mousewheel in X and ctrl-alt-backspace not working

If you are still having trouble with xorg, the best source of error information is the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, which is created every time you run xorg. Also, the Gento web site has several articles on xorg which can provide additional help, although not all information is in one place. The

[gentoo-user] Akonadi + DBUS

When I start KDE I get the error: Akonadi server not registered with d-bus. Not sure if this is very important. If anyone knows of a solution to this problem please let me know. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server upgrade

I also upgraded the drivers after a xorg upgrade. The correct drivers need to be emerged: ie. x11-drivers/XF86-input_mouse x11-drivers/XF86-input_keyboard + the video drivers. If you are not sure what drivers you need, just execute qlist /media-video. --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Peter Humphrey wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating python

The current Python version is at least 3.1. When I had an issue with an upgrade to version 3.1 from 2.6, my KDE and x crashed. When I reported this to Gentoo, I was told that this was not even a bug. My solution was to reload tho complete system. My guess that part of the problem may be that yo

[gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk

split (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

You could still be looking at a hardware failure situation here. I have seen hard drives with absolutely perfect SMART attributes pass all the tests but still show the classic signs of a hard drive beginning to fail. A significant slowdown is one of those signs. What I would suggest is that you

[gentoo-user] tbz2 "flag"

ut I can not figure out how to enable this "flag" on host-B. Suggestions? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

Re: [gentoo-user] tbz2 "flag"

On Saturday 12 June 2010 18.22:06 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Dan Johansson schrieb am 12.06.2010 17:28: > > I have two Gentoo Hosts that are (should be) 100% equal except on the > > following points: > > a) Hostname > > b) IP > > c) One Host has FEATURES="

[gentoo-user] Cups printing

I doing anything wrong or is this a bug. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to an embedded microSDHC card?

card) in addition. > How to access this internal SD card or how to debug the problem. > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. Do you have the " Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y) kernel parameter set

[gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65

I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently. When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine. Can anyone clue me in on how to emerge an older version of the program. Thanks.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Conrad SATA-II PCI Controller

[OT] Does anybody know if the "4 PORT SATA II RAID PCI-KARTE" http://www.conrad.ch/goto.php?artikel=973451 works with (Gentoo-) Linux. On the product description page it only lists Wintendo. And if yes, which kernel driver? -- Dan Johansson, <http

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Conrad SATA-II PCI Controller

On Tue, September 22, 2009 09:52, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:44:54 +0200 > Dan Johansson wrote: > >> [OT] Does anybody know if the "4 PORT SATA II RAID PCI-KARTE" >> http://www.conrad.ch/goto.php?artikel=973451 works with (Gentoo-) >> Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

Arthur D. wrote: > Hello, happy Gentoo users! I'm new on this distro, so I'm sorry if you > consider to be stupid what I gonna say. > > Many of us prefer editors other than nano. Some of us believe in ideas of > freedom and choice which Gentoo provides us with. But... > > There're ones who prefer

[gentoo-user] [OT] PGP User Groups?

Hello list, I've noticed that with linux geekery comes the pursuit of PGP-based email privacy. A great many frequent posters to this illustrious list boast PGP keypairs and frequently sign their correspondences. Some of you even have photo ID's of yourselves in your public keys! (Hello Neil!)

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

Arthur D. wrote: > The first option works fine, but ... how much time should the user > spend to get things just work as expected? Plainly put, Gentoo isn't an easy-to-use distro. If it were, I don't think I would be using it, paradoxically enough. If spending a little time learning about and pl

[gentoo-user] setxkbmap does not work after upgrading to KDE4

following components: keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols:pc+ch(de_nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev) geometry: pc(pc104) Error loading new keyboard description Any suggestion on what could be wrong? Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj

Re: [gentoo-user] setxkbmap does not work after upgrading to KDE4

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 20.51:52 Dan Johansson wrote: > After upgrading to KDE4 the other day my keyboard mapping stopped working. > I traced it back to setxkbmap. Manually entering setxkbmap (with extra > verbosity) gives the following: > > $ setxkbmap -model logicd -lay

[gentoo-user] Can not get Hotkeys to work after update to KDE4

ycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False 8<--- Any suggestions? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

[gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

-8<-- I can not see why it works if I first deletes all USE flags (-*) and the just sets the USE flags I need again. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

On Thursday 29 October 2009 19.52:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: > > Today when I do an update world on one of my serves I get the following: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage strangeness with imagemagick

On Thursday 29 October 2009 20.16:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:08:27 Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Thursday 29 October 2009 19.52:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag 29 Oktober 2009 19:39:27 schrieb Dan Johansson: > > > > Today when

[gentoo-user] Howto put a "submenu" on the Panel in KDE4

In KDE3 I was having some of the sub-menus from the "Application Menu" direct accessible from the Panel. I can not figure out how to do this in KDE4. I can only add the complete Application Menu" to the Panel but not a sub-menu. Any tips on how to solve this? -- Dan J

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow samba transfers from gentoo to gentoo, any way to improve them?

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:56 AM, App Des wrote: > I have a gentoo server running stable fully updated, and I share a folder > with samba on a gigabit network. > > The client dual boots Gentoo (stable again) and Windows 7. > > Under windows 7, getting a file from the server achieves around 70MB/s >

[gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

Hello list, Currently I have two terabyte hard disks in a RAID1 configuration using software RAID. What I'd like to do is add a third disk and arrive at the end with a RAID5 array. The problem is I have limited disk space and not enough room to back up all of the data on the array in its current

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating RAID: Degraded RAID5 from RAID1?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, andrey larin wrote: > let suppose > sda and sdb is raid 1 md1 > and new sdc > remove sdb from raid > mdadm /dev/md1 -f /dev/sdb > mdadm /dev/md1 -r /dev/sdb > then create degraded raid 5 > don't forget md1 is still running > mdadm --create /dev/md2 --level 5 -n 3 /

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon concurrent access on device

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: >> On Saturday 28 November 2009 13:58:42 Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Hi list! >>> >>> I recently updated one of my systems to KDE4. Now I have the problem >>> that only one application can access the audio output at a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine which mobo without opening case

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I determine the motherboard make and model?  I mean without > opening the case. > > Various hardware reporting tools such as uhinv and syscriptor do not > give that information (far as I can tell). > > In fact syscriptor cannot even re

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

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

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

On 10/12/2009, Joshua Murphy wrote: > One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it > (working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still > applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh > and emerging some packages. Most recently

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Boot

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Mikie wrote: >> I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS >> root. >> >> My question is: >> >> Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for >> certain root dir? >> >> Should Tmp  be local

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my > desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a > file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped. > > I'm not ruling out the cabl

[gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

.cgi?id=266678 but that did not help. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin does not find my CUPS-Printers

On Sunday 31 January 2010 12.02:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 30 Jan, Dan Johansson wrote: > > As of lately my Firefox-bin (running on AMD64) does not find any of my > > CUPS Printers, only "Print to File" and "LPR" are available for printing. > > From

[gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

e old kernel again with full functionality? Regards, Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** pgpdAZT9lAn7Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote: > --- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to > > re-emerge some kernelmodules > > (madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do thi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:48, Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote: > > > --- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

On Saturday 21 May 2005 15.46, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote: > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > What portage version are using? > > > > My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86. >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge after kernel upgrade

On Saturday 21 May 2005 18.04, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 21 May 2005 15.46, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > > What portage version are using? > &g

[gentoo-user] [OT] deadkeys in OpenOffice

I'm having some problems with deadkeys in OO. In every other application the deadkeys works fine (like Kmail) to enter chars like åäö. But in OO nothing happens when i try to enter a special char (¨ + a to create a ä). Any suggestions on what could be the problem. Regards, -- Dan Joha

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