Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
svendor/10-input-policy.fdi ... sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r2 (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi) so why are you copying these files by hand? -- Iain Buchanan A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem.

[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
a-drivers-190.53-r1 x11-wm/compiz-0.8.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4 any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Harp not on that string. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
/ move them later. IMHO recovery from tiny boot disks is easier without LVM too. -- Iain Buchanan Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
, or any drive failure while one of the drives were removed. And the deterioration in performance while each disk was removed in turn might take more time than its worth. Of course RAID 1 wouldn't suffer from this (with >2 disks)... -- Iain Buchanan Keep on keepin' on.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
re, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect hardware RAID and how do you get around it? (Never set up a HW RAID card before) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan You know you're using

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
es having to open up your laptop / pc if you didn't order the drive separately or you've forgotten. -- Iain Buchanan polygon: Dead parrot.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:27 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Frank, > >>As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you > >> tha

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:31 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > so long as you didn't have any non-detectable disk errors before > > removing the disk, or any drive failure while one of the drives were > > removed.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 06:59 +, Neil Walker wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec > > 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? > > > > It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
tworkmanager and getting the current network state -- Iain Buchanan She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good. -- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
uld also be the senders clock is wrong... Otherwise I'd get a can of bug-spray, spray your cat5 and phone cables and see what falls out ;) -- Iain Buchanan Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin

[gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
The firmware at the above link hasn't changed (according to cksum). Google searches only produce the source code, which is pretty but doesn't help. The error detection around the print message hasn't changed since -r1. Any ideas? I'm stuck using wireless, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ut to a file... I think you wanted "do echo $entry"? or the simpler "find $HOME >> found"? anyway, it shouldn't have corrupted your filesystem, but it looks like it did. > Any ideas on how to fix this? you probably want to shutdown and fsck your filesystem. Then,

Re: [gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 08:48 -0800, Kaddeh wrote: > Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304265 and then > update to 2.6.32-r5 thanks, that wasn't there when I started looking :) I'll see what they find (in the mean time, Go Flaky Wireless!) -- Iain Buchanan Whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
rted using NetworkManager and the networkmanager USE flag for evolution... -- Iain Buchanan You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
our website. There are a plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let you sell them online. Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own hosting. -- Iain Buchanan "My education message will resignate amonst all parents." George W.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ncodings tight localhost would ssh via somehost. Use localhost if you can ssh directly to the box, or the actual hostname accessible via 'somehost' if you have to go via a gateway. I use net-misc/tightvnc. If you can ssh to the box, you can vnc to it. You could run skype as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
zip files. In either case you just had to open index.htm and the rest was done (as mentioned, so long as you have java in your browser). -- Iain Buchanan A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
ave an older initrd that has your HD drivers in it (such as ATA), but the newer kernel you've probably just built (is that what you mean by "a bit of an update"?) doesn't. Check for an initrd, and tell us what "a bit of an update" means :) You could also compare con

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0612_01CAB0FD.6FF40D00" Stroller: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-27-501489522 > Stroller. -- Iain Buchanan A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail. -- Jerry Ogdin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 05:38 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? ... I think it's something to do with "nox" but I'm not sure exactly how. Either that or start using the minimal boot CD's - only about 100MB an

[gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
mounting the RAID partition that I'm not sure about. Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? thanks for any suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan "Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture." --Baker's Third Law of Design.

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ... > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > further? > > If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > ... > > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
nce had a similar problem, we > ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put > the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other > server's array. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +, Stroller wrote: > On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > >> On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Can I randomly

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
h open arms though. > > You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update > that bad then? out of touch would be rolling your own config update tool, like me ;) It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo... -- Iain Buchanan In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
In Outlook you can tell it to prepend the standard "> " before the original message in the menu somewhere. So back to your problem - you can boot but just how far? Can you log into X? What were the updates you applied? (Please list them all). What boot messages do you see? How do you l

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ilt snapshot feature so maybe that's what the mirrors are for... I'm having some luck chasing up the original CDs so I think I'll try that first. thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
ATA. And the drives will be changed from hda to sda, so be prepared with a boot disk to change fstab. -- Iain Buchanan The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype && pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789181-highlight-pulseaudio.html > http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup agreed, try and solve the pulseaudio problems first by looking at the tips on those guides. Also you might find this useful: http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/09/some_exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
rstanding at least. I could be wrong on that. I've transferred thousands of emails between evolution, thunderbird, claws and back again, no probs (except for the time it took). I assume seamonkey shouldn't be any different (although they may all end up blank?!) -- Iain Buchanan Order

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
e exception of a run-on "if". The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned" -- Iain Buchanan In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
will kill it for sure! (ok, maybe not, but you know the mythical man month...) -- Iain Buchanan Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- Tom Lehrer

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; as a subset). > > (Looks like I only have off-topic contributions to this thread.) me too. "usually always" is also a colloquialism which means "almost always" ;) ie. not quite always, but close to it... at least it usually always means that. But hey, if we w

[gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ernal disk not always there? Any other suggestions? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
ounting, I was thinking of the machine dying, hence leaving the disk in a non-shutdown state. thanks for the tips :) rsync will at least get me going quickly. Yesterday I tried iotop to with dd - some slowness but otherwise quite nice. -- Iain Buchanan Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are so long they can't afford the disk space.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
two disks are both 160Gb with the same sector size... It might be easier to do the fdisk-ing by hand. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
s such as /proc, /dev and /home. actually, lower case x is --one-file-system or "don't cross filesystem boundaries". Upper case X is --xattrs or "preserve extended attributes" :) -- Iain Buchanan When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
> is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan: > > Hi & thanks, > > > > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > [...] > > > >> If you can live with just one big partition as

[gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is there anything that can do this? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night. -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
er how max_user_watches would handle being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan we should send him a commemorative gentoo crack pipe for all his contributions to this project

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
ctories to watch. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
w much changes at any one time. I'm considering LVM for it's snapshot capability, but I'd still have to rsync root. I would prefer a file notification method as well, so I can just rsync the file that just changed. So far all the file monitoring tools are based on individ

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug > ridden zombie is still around? thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? -- Iain Buchanan I am a friend of the working ma

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle > being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! > > thanks, To answer my own questions, I'm now trying this: # echo 10

[gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
aps the ext3 options were different (ie. different amount of "reserved" space) but that would make the "Avail" columns different, and shouldn't make the "Used" columns different. any thoughts as to why my USB partition is full? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Most people h

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
to different mounts so (I hope) this should only copy the one partition. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: > > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file > > --delet

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
reason. I've added "--exclude /usr/portage/distfiles" to the rsync options, since there's no need to back up my distfiles, but I'd like to know why it's not working... -- Iain Buchanan It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
get around it seems to be another --exclude directive. At least I understand what's going on now :) thanks for all the suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my > > ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: > > Why not set $DISTDIR

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
rk at /mnt/portage/local. Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) -- Iain Buchanan Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
-r1 x11-proto/xproto-7.0.17 net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2 sys-power/pm-utils-1.3.0-r3 media-fonts/urwvn-fonts-3.05 sys-auth/nss-mdns-0.10 dev-libs/totem-pl-parser-2.28.3 sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc2 sys-fs/udev-154 sci-geosciences/googleearth-5.1.3535.3218 gnome-base/librsvg-2.26.3 media-gfx/g

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:05 -0400, Chris Reffett wrote: > It was probably the wpa_supplicant update, see bug 320097 on > bugs.gentoo.org. spot on! I didn't see it because I was searching for NetworkManager bugs, not wpa_supplicant bugs :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Being a mime

Re: [gentoo-user] New GPS & Gentoo?

2010-05-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
t care for them, but some do) * etc > Maybe searching out free wireless connections for > bandwidth? not sure how many plain GPSs have wifi. hth, -- Iain Buchanan One person's error is another person's data.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New GPS & Gentoo?

2010-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
oking for. Very cool if it's built in or easily addable > to the Garmin 1490T. ah, I see. No doubt there is free wifi POI you can download. In my experience, free WIFI doesn't determine where I go. If it's free when I get there, then good, otherwise I'm there anyway! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
some are pre-built for the device. Would be good to get you started before you've customised it the way you like. That's an Australian company, but the boards come from http://www.soekris.com/ so you may be able to order from them and build / buy your own case. hth, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the > > net5501) per year at work: > > http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php > > A

[gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
t exception: invalid resolution requested! Anyone know about SDL? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
low noise, and many are fanless. Many come with gigabit (good for the router), multiple usb, sata, and so on. Some have sockets, some have the cpu built in. The Atom D510 is even dual core! have fun putting it together! -- Iain Buchanan Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
with drive failures than previously reported." I recall there were some summaries of this article, but I can't find them right now. An interesting read. Basically, you might not be able to get reliable warnings of impending failures. Keep Good Backups (so say we all) -- Ia

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Doesn't run here. Something to do with getting the available > > resolutions: > > > > Anyone know about SDL? > > I really don't, but I'm just wondering

[gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
respond to caps lock. There are various other utilities, but they all seem panel or krell based. Is there a way I can run a generic command when caps lock is pressed? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan R&D Phone: 138

Re: [gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to get the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock state > displayed in an OSD? Still looking for a good solution, but the best I've come up with so far is this: 1. add to .xbindkeysrc: "/

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
here's one I prepared earlier ;) This is from 2008: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html and these are some notes of mine on syslinux which may help a bit too: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2010/02/syslinux-from-linux.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Del

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
s a Google SOC project to integrate NetworkManager with Gentoo config files. Last time I looked it seemed to be mostly working. There's a blog somewhere *looking* http://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/ try that out. Don't think there's a command line interface to NM though so don't know h

[gentoo-user] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
d metacity --replace; and X still crashes (the usual volume overlay isn't shown here either). And get this: I tried changing the volume from the X login screen, and X crashes!! hmm. Any ideas? Thanks, as always, in advance! -- Iain Buchanan Complex system: One with real problems and imaginary profits.

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] Volume change overlay crashes X

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm using ~x86. After a few compile problems > the only noticeable problem I'm having is with the volume change overlay well, not anymore. I re-synced; emerged; broke X; fixed X; and now it's all working again.

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

2009-11-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
lar. Any other suggestions would also be welcome. never tried WICD. nm (and nm-applet) ftw! -- Iain Buchanan Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence ... -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

[gentoo-user] LifeCam cinema or other webcams

2009-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
need the flashy look. The cheapest I can find one is AU$89. [1] http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/productdetails.aspx?pid=008 thanks! -- Iain Buchanan R&D Phone: 138

Re: [gentoo-user] LifeCam cinema or other webcams

2009-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 02:33 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 09 November 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > * preferably not spca drivers, as they seem a bit behind lately > > * no logitech quickcams, due to their problems with skype > > what p

Re: [gentoo-user] Resuming after hibernate

2009-11-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
ny stale ssh connections? I find that they clean themselves up fairly well. In fact, if I hibernate and resume in enough time, an existing ssh won't be disconnected (and still works). -- Iain Buchanan COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. Dijkstra

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa SPDIF+analog at same time

2009-11-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
or IEC device (can't quite remember), and although it was a slider, it only worked in an on or off fashion. Not much help for you I know, but I can't run the same mixer anymore to find out. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resuming after hibernate

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
matter, the console font setting is forgotten as well. I > have VGA=6 in lilo.conf (probably works in GRUB as well), which defaults > to an unreadable 80 columns x 60 rows display. Did I read that right? You have a setting in lilo.conf that makes your font unreadable? Then why do you hav

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Resuming after hibernate

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
is a reason? Probably I need switch to native swsusp?.. what about the normal `hibernate` script? I'm not exactly sure what s2disk is, and I've never used it... -- Iain Buchanan Neurotics build castles in the sky, Psychotics live in them, And psychiatrists collect the rent.

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa SPDIF+analog at same time

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:11 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > I played around with some IEC settings, no effect. sorry, that's all I've got :( -- Iain Buchanan There is no sin but ignorance. -- Christopher Marlowe

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
s? localhost in /etc/hosts? Sounds weird but in the XFree86 days I had not mapped the word localhost to 127 properly, and X behaved very slow. Just a wild guess though. Alternatively, reboot to make sure you've unloaded / reloaded modules. What did you upgrade from? 7.x? 6.x? -- Iain Bu

[gentoo-user] change signature based on recipients (evolution)

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
mitations and I found the gui a little immature. (In both cases immature meaning slightly buggy or still being developed, not meaning stupid/childish :) kmail is out since I run gnome. any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Wash: "Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, o

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 091111 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:31 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Since upgrading to Xorg-x11-7.4-r1 , Xterm & Xpdf are very slow to open: > >> Xterm takes c 6 sec to start &am

Re: [gentoo-user] change signature based on recipients (evolution)

2009-11-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 00:26 +, Stroller wrote: > On 10 Nov 2009, at 23:24, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ... > > Does anyone know of such a plugin for evolution? Or some way around > > it > > based on outgoing filters perhaps? I would be happy for the mail to >

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
worth seeing what the problem was with the stable version? Why did you pick 185.18.36-r1? Is there a requirement for the 18x series? The latest "unstable" (but not masked) is 190.42-r2. -- Iain Buchanan "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

2009-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:12 +, Mick wrote: > The localhost issue in /etc/hosts only affected KDE as far as I > recall. Unfortunately not. I've had it a few times with gnome, but not since the early days... I think it was an X issue, not related to the DE, afair :) -- Iain Buch

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers problem on xorg 1.6.3.901-r2

2009-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
0.60 Then decide whether you want to downgrade to the previous stable, or upgrade to the latest unstable. I'm running unstable 190.42-r2 and so far it's quite "stable", but as we've seen, every system is different! (I'm on ~x86, so quite a bit of my system will diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI

2009-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
root password to log in to X, then what's to stop them changing anything you do now? -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #112: The monitor is plugged into the serial port

Re: [gentoo-user] [micro HOWTO] Adding custom mount options for gnome-mounted drives

2010-01-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:14 -0800, walt wrote: > gconftool-2 --type list --list-type=string \ > --set /system/storage/default_options/ext2/mount_options \ > "[noatime,nodiratime]" nice, thanks! -- Iain Buchanan Be careful of reading health books, you migh

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
But seriously: warn people, sure. Learn about security & ebuilds, sure. Ban them? Not such a good idea IMHO :) > Cheers, > Mark catchya, -- Iain Buchanan Ralph's Observation: It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry.

[gentoo-user] evolution segfault and other b0rkage

2010-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
6 0xb719f873 in bonobo_main () at bonobo-main.c:311 #7 0x0805e2ec in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffee74) at main.c:732 (gdb) -- Iain Buchanan Labor, n.: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: evolution segfault and other b0rkage

2010-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:08 -0800, walt wrote: > On 01/11/2010 03:11 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've done some updates around Jan 4 - 8 which has borken evolution - it > > segfaults when retrieving imap mail. I had a look at the trace and >

[gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
des" "DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Has anyone done a dynamic mode change with nvidia xinerama? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If you have nothing to do, don't do it here.

[gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
trouble resuming a 4965 "Golan"... any ideas? thanks -- Iain Buchanan Stult's Report: Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?

2010-01-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
:54 orpheus NetworkManager: wireless_get_range(): (wlan0): couldn't get driver range information (22). Jan 18 15:16:54 orpheus NetworkManager: constructor(): (wlan0): Device unsupported, ignoring. and the same in dmesg. I don't get it! -- Iain Buchanan Excess on occasion is

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

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ng in both cases. So yes, the developer must give a fallback method of using the keyboard / mouse, but not against the incorrectly packaged / configured system. In Gentoo you often end up with an incorrect system, hence revdep-rebuild and so on. -- Iain Buchanan It's more than magnificent-it's mediocre. -Samuel Goldwyn

[gentoo-user] iwlwifi or 4965 mailing list

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
eforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw3945-devel thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan "I suppose you expect me to talk." "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." -- Goldfinger

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

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
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 al

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

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
apparently it's a kernel config issue. High Memory Support to be precise :) In your case CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y should do. Processor Type And Features => High Memory Support => off / 4Gb / 64Gb -- Iain Buchanan Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde

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

2010-01-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:30 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > High Memory Support to be precise :) In your case CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > > should do. > > > > Processor Type And Features > > => High Memory Sup

Re: [gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

2010-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ed in though. If you want a terminal-services type model, then you can set up vnc to run as root and take users to the gdm (or other) login manager. Search Google for the instructions. I've seen it working, but never done it myself. I would definitely put it behind ssh in this case. HTH, --

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 12:52 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the > > resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also > >

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