Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
ust look at the nvidia-settings source... Does anyone know if the nvnews forums are good with this kind of thing? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan I always wake up at the crack of ice. -- Joe E. Lewis

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

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 11:54 +, Mick wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2010 05:51:50 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Are you sure that the driver recognises the wireless NIC as wlan0? Does > ifconfig -a show it as wlan0? > > If yes then this looks like a driver problem. not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:07 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > The only way I got nv-control-dpy to do anything was to use > --dynamic-twinview and then xrandr to try and change to the new mode, > however it didn't quite work, leaving one screen black (except for the > cursor). In th

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; which I pass on to xrandr. This lays out the monitors in the right order, but now the external LCD is black except for the cursor! There's stuff on it (I can drag windows to and from it, click on icons)... Any more ideas? Please?! -- Iain Buchanan "He expanded his chest to make it

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
wanted to get away from doing anything manually, and have the screens appear correct regardless of how I have them plugged in :) I'm almost there... -- Iain Buchanan Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
nt to risk turning the drive into a brick to get rid of > it when it's not really there anyway? Because it's annoying? Because it's wrong? Because it's there? You could possibly turn off SCSI CDROM support in your kernel: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=n if you don't use it for anythin

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting virtual cd in usb hard disc

2010-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
sking the wrong guy that question :) IMHO, yes; IHisHO maybe not. -- Iain Buchanan Chamberlain's Laws: (1) The big guys always win. (2) Everything tastes more or less like chicken.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 07:41 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > You're right... completely OT... not if they use Gentoo... :p -- Iain Buchanan Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. >From the top of the moun

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with the word "cloud"... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #189: SCSI's too wide.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:00 +, Stroller wrote: > On 29 Jan 2010, at 05:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with > > the > > word "cloud"... > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technolog

Re: [gentoo-user] dlna & Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
at it must not require > the use of any particular brand of software to operate? what contract? "Sorry buddy, that's just how they make 'em. Take it up with the manufacturer" is what I'd expect to hear. Either that or "You want to do what? What's Linux?" -- Iain Buchanan "Turn on, tune up, rock out." -- Billy Gibbons

[gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
tworkManager won't bring up wireless, so it's a useless "hack". I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested in why I'm getting a "." message. NetworkManager bug or misconfiguration error? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan I do not know myself and God forbid that I should. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
do you have working here?" "The finest in New York!" (gratuitous movie quote...) -- Iain Buchanan When you speak to others for their own good it's advice; when they speak to you for your own good it's interference.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
ged recently, so maybe sun-jdk is now masked on your system, hence the need for something else. What is the complete emerge output? Look for any masked or license restricted packages. I added this to /etc/portage/package.license: dev-java/sun-jdk dlj-1.1 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"?

Re: [gentoo-user] dlna & Gentoo

2010-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 15:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 14:12:10 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > what contract? > > I don't know how it is where you are, Australia :) > but in the UK, as I understand it, > every sale is deemed to embody

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dlna & Gentoo

2010-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
r other than IExploder? surely there is an "open" product that could be nicely controlled, maybe / maybe not linux. Finding and testing it before you buy might be the issue. -- Iain Buchanan No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -- William Blake

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 03:12 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan: > > What is the complete emerge output? Look for any masked or license > > restricted packages. I added this to /etc/portage/package.license: > > dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 02:36 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010 06:13:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > What does "it" mean in the sentence "What time is it?"? > > "The present; the moment we're existing in." > > More

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested > > in why I'm getting a "." message. NetworkManager bug or > &

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 00:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > The 50k of messages all look like this: > That's definitely not right. Even with full debugging enabled no app should > emit that amount of logs. an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
stuck, try kill -15 -1 from your user login (not root) to kill all your processess. Again, maybe a kill -9 -1 is required. It will log you out of the ssh session. If that fails (as you can tell I've done this before) try an acpi shutdown. If that fails, use the magic SysRq, but I don&#

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > b. use wicd instead, which is decidedly not a piece of shit > > > > I had a look at that, but it doesn't do 2 things that I use > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I appreciate the humour, but so far for me, it's Just Worked(TM). Even > > with this log file annoyance, it's still "working". > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me > > > now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
-serial (or plain old serial if you want). Plonk your own version of a tiny binary protocol on it an voila! Why manufacturers crap around with complicated high-level non-compliant non-standards is beyond me. end rant :) -- Iain Buchanan It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulato

Re: [gentoo-user] Naming servers on a network with one IP

2005-05-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
did a similar thing at home with various services (I used to have 3 machines but I scaled back to 1!) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo unattended installation!

2005-05-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
the filesystem on it, and it wouldn't be too much further from there to write your own install dvd. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Users with access to shell!

2005-05-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 08:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [stuff] apart from all the other great suggestions, another good trick is to mount the /home partition as "noexec" which stops users running apps they download and install locally. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
opy (like toms root boot) and then mount the cdrom drive instead of trying to chain-boot the cdrom drive? Then at least you can un-pack the contents onto your harddrive, install grub and get going that way. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
/stage3file.bz2 > and here I had a error: > tar: illegal option -j does bzip2 exist? you could do something like bzip2 -cd | tar -f "-" or something... I hope I didn't lead you up the garden path with toms rootboot, it was just an idea, but afaik, it has been updated more rece

Re: [gentoo-user] mozsvg question...

2005-05-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
but I seem to be able to view (some) svg's. Simple ones are ok, but for more complicated svg's, firefox has a bit of trouble... you could also try `emerge -upD --newuse world` to see if anything else is affected. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Console resolution on laptop

2005-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
ally I don't use lilo, so I don't know if your lilo syntax is correct or not... Also, what video card is in your laptop? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation on an old notebook with a little help from my desktop pc

2005-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:00 +1000, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >>Hi, I have a decent desktop with gentoo, and an old and slow > >>Pentium-266Mhz notebook, where I would like to install Gentoo. > >> > >>Can anyone suggest

[gentoo-user] OT: customising nautilus desktop icon right-click menu

2005-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
top/foo.desktop file? I had a look on freedesktop.org, but it only seemed to reference gnome-type menus (which apparently use .desktop files as well) and not desktop menus. Any help greatly appreciated, Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo deployment scripts?

2005-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD world` on the "copies", but you may get away with minimal effort. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] meta-question: how can I receive the messages that I send to the ML?

2005-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
the list from sending you your own posts. >From the headers in messages from this list, I found List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so you could try that and see what the options are. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuild entire system - recompile all installed packages

2005-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
really solve any discrepancies in emerge, or why you get different results from looking in different places, but a "close your eyes and push the big red button" approach would be to `emerge --oneshot` everything output from: find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 | sed 's/\/var\

[gentoo-user] evolution locale

2005-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
I start it from the shell, the locale is correct. I even tried making the launcher run `bash -c "evolution"` to try and get the environment from bash, but no luck. any ideas? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution locale

2005-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > However, when I start evolution from an applet launcher, it seems to > > ignore this locale, but when I start it from the shell, the locale is > > correct. I even tried making the launcher run `ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo

2005-06-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
alled (but unmounted) so when we needed something that we forgot, just mount the drive and cp it over! In fact, we even left the system dual-booting into the 'lite' and 'normal' gentoo for a while till we ironed out all the bugs. This may be a bit of extra work, but it creates a small install! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution locale

2005-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > >>Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> > >>>However, when I start evolution from an applet launcher, it seems to > >

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash no longer updating the bar

2005-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
there are some fbsplash changes, and no doubt if gentoo-sources-2.6.12 requires splashutils-1.1.9.6 or greater, then perhaps the converse is also true. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-panel

2005-06-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
and for some reason, loading that applet made all my panels "lockup" until it had loaded (about 10 seconds) during which time I could click on other applets, but the clicks were stored up for this period of time. So you could try watching your panels, looking for an applet that may be ta

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution locale

2005-06-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:29 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > > > > > > Iain Buchanan wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] HTTPS/CA

2005-06-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
can jerks break > into my box? Seems to be to be pretty solid, so I must be missing something. 1. Change my ip to one that you trust. 2. Break into a box you trust which may not be so locked down as yours is... maybe :) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: evolution locale

2005-06-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ANG="en_AU" and evolution shows the correct (localised) date format. Regards, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 2.6.12 doesn't play nice with ati

2005-06-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
00 M10] Anyone else had problems with similar combinations of software / hardware? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nezvannyi gost'--khuzhe tatarina. [An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion] -- Russian proverb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] text browser with frames and javascript that actually works

2005-06-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
nd forwards them to 192.168.1.2) then, with the ssh open in the background, connect your graphical browser on your pc to localhost: and viola! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 2.6.12* hoses ati and bcm4400

2005-06-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ith it, however, with 2.6.12 they seem to be gone, so I'm not so worried about it. I would be interested in hearing from any one else who had success / failure with the 2.6.12* kernel and ati drivers. Many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
ftp was trying ssl first with an embedded device that didn't support it, before trying normal ftp. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2005-06-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr > vga=0x318 secondly, you cant mix video= and vga= thirdly, what errors (if any) did you get? don't forget this step - you might find people don't answer w

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
verall, more didn't work when used as a usb keyboard than a ps2 keyboard) so you could try ps2 if it has that option. Lastly, I had no luck whatsoever if the particular key didn't show up in xev in the first place. Sorry! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] apache2 ignoring -D ? (userdir, php4)

2005-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
_html and on my php scripts, the only thing I can think of now is the -D options in /etc/conf.d/apache2 seem to be ignored. Is anyone else having this (or similar) trouble? Many many thanks if you can help me!! -- Iain Buchanan He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path o

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 ignoring -D ? (userdir, php4)

2005-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:53 -0400, Michael Haan wrote: > On 7/5/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:58 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Not sure whether this is an apache2 or php problem or both: > > > > > > so t

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 ignoring -D ? (userdir, php4)

2005-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, thanks for the reply On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:34 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 16:58 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Not sure whether this is an apache2 or php problem or both: > > > > so this all says it _should_ be working. I've checked per

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED! apache2 ignoring -D ? (userdir, php4)

2005-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
the suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Bugzilla HOWTO

2005-07-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap5 figure 5.1 and the show button didn't work. In fact, none of the links did. Should I file a "blocker"? ;) -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
om 2.6.11. So, any ideas on what's going on? Something udev related? google only returned the usual "init not found", MARC showed nothing and I can't connect to gmane, anyone know whats going on there? Many TIA! -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems

2005-07-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:36 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >-install: applet not found > >/init: 41: In: not found > >/init: 45: cat: not found > >/init: 150: sed: not found > > > > Apparently it is a problem with busybox config

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with rp-pppoe/adsl...

2005-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ppreciated. I don't actually use pppoe, so I hope this helps you in some way. -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
just don't register as keypresses in any standard way. I would like comments on why, and what methods, if any, may be available to detect such keys. Surely with the plethora of cheap multimedia keyboards out there, there is some way. -- Iain Buchanan Don't worry about the world coming

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
r, but be careful. Then log out and in again. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)

2005-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
stores this information so that I could edit it from an ssh > login. even so, I think this is your best path to follow. Surely you can find out where mythfrontend stores these files. I don't have mythtv installed, but I would try, in order, the mythtv website / google; and then "grep -ri" (brute force approach!) starting from /etc. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 19:41 -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote: > * On Tue Jul-19-2005 at 04:26:05 PM +0930, Iain Buchanan said: > > It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb > > ones) have some or all "extra" keys that just aren't visible outsi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes

2005-07-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 09:47 +0200, Robert Svoboda wrote: > * Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-19 09:10]: > > I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting > > them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't &g

RE: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
nue regardless of what deps are met? Ideally if a lib fails, you only want to continue with packages that don't require that lib. Otherwise you have to fix it, and rebuild other packages anyway... -- Iain Buchanan Comedy, like Medicine, was never meant to be practiced by the gener

Re: [gentoo-user] perl's Chatbot::Eliza

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
till is the amazing thing it was a couple of > decades ago when Weizenbaum wrote it. ;-) WOW! how amazing and yet how obvious! I _have_ to try this out - this is something to show off... -- Iain Buchanan By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ple FSs to rsync and -x as well. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo & GRUB help

2007-12-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
ible that your bios / grub have swapped the drive assignment around during boot. Try all your (hdx,y) combinations with grub completion until you find one that has /gentoo on it. > Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot or > /. it shouldn't interfere with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
ove that when you run ls -la /gentoo/bzImage > you can see the kernel image you are trying to boot, right? not quite! root is (hd1,1) which is hdb2. This is grub's root device, ie your boot partition (if you have one). The kernel line specifies the linux root as hdb1. so `ls -la /bo

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
dm/Xorg related I guess. As this is the laptop that I take to work > and my holidays end today all suggestions are welcomed! :) This happens to me when one of my services has errors, or fails to start. Look for any [ !! ] or other messages on vt1. btw, this assumes you can switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
haven't updated in a while Hopefully someone will fix any holes I left, otherwise this should work! -- Iain Buchanan There's a lot to be said for not saying a lot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm fails to emerge

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:28 +, Mick wrote: > Can anyone perhaps suggest a fix to allow me to emerge did you look in bugzilla? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165553 what -sources are you using? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156518 HTH! -- Iain Buchanan Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
/linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/01/12/0152208.shtml > > So, I recon we were slashdotted... Haha, that's funny, in a way. But sad when I think why. Gentoo used to make Slashdot headlines for good reasons... I've been subscribed to the -dev list for a little while, and it's not al

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
n still use the latest install CD, and do an update. However, the install CD is only one indication of Gentoo's problems. The out of date website, the newsletter releases, the sad responses to the "how are we doing" question on gentoo-dev... Anyway I digress... -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
gt; > Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? > > Electronic Engineer or Electrical Eng. Similar, but different. -- Iain Buchanan There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
then either b. will happen, or he'll just return to the background... -- Iain Buchanan Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
y packages. In fact, given the "love" that the collective devs have for DRobbins, I can see them either say "no", or nothing at all. Which means either DRobbins, or someone else, will take Gentoo and fork it. The two distributions will probably grow to hate each other, althou

[gentoo-user] what's going on at Gentoo

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
ntoo dying tomorrow. If it is going to die, it won't be for a while. cya, -- Iain Buchanan "How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars." -- Steve Martin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
hose copyrights and logos to be in. I thought it was only the legal document that allowed "Gentoo Technologies" to be a not-for-profit organisation? The logo's, domain name, etc. were transferred to Gentoo Technologies before they applied for 501(c)(6) Not-For-Profit status, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
install it on the first drive and then use partimage to > create an image of it, which thereafter can be unloaded in whichever > partition/drive you desire. Use Grub to chainload it accordingly. sorry to jump in late, but can't you avoid all this hassle, and tell VMware to use a virtual dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
. I still wonder why they all invent their own, special > > way of compiling a kernel. > > Nice thing about genkernel (and other such tools in other distributions) > is, that they also create an initrd. what about mkinitrd? > I suppose the initrd is the driving factor for developing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
omeone to compile a > > kernel without having in-depth knowledge of one's hardware and kernel > > options ? how about just providing a .config file then? -- Iain Buchanan Windows 2000 will be released as soon as Windows 98 finishes loading. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing via GRML

2008-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
I think you need an initrd for that too. cya, -- Iain Buchanan "I used to think that *I* was stupid, and then I met philosophers." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing via GRML

2008-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:15 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: > > what about making a nice flash splash?! I think you need an initrd for > > that too. > > Nobody really needs this, it's just eyecandy. Doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
dark I should have that ONE completed. > ;-) > > Dang, 14Mbs both ways. < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere > > > Dale didn't you say aDSL was on the way? May it speed to your line! -- Iain Buchanan The meek shall inherit the Earth. (But they're gonna have to fight for it.) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
205,439 kB > > Made some progress so far. LOL We just upgraded to 8Mbit at work... Makes an emerge --sync nice :) Nicer than 1.5Mbit anyway. I know there are faster speeds out there, but for now "8Mbit is enough for anyone"! > Dale > > :-) :-) cya, -- Iain Buchanan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -- Aneurin Bevan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 19:50 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Read Neil's reply. He hit the nail on the finger. That's worthy of sending to Scott Adams! I hope he hit the nail on the (it's) head, not on his finger :) -- Iain Buchanan "ER...HO. HO. HO."

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 06:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Heck, if the price is right, I'd order them. I try to order a new > >> Gentoo install CD when it comes out, been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Headlines on packages RSS feed gone?

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
I searched b.g.o for > a bug but didn't find anything. I think there are some infra upgrades going on atm: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54374 didn't see p.g.o there but maybe related. cya, -- Iain Buchanan Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: Peopl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:09 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > not quite the same :) "emerge -u world" would download one package, and > > compile it, download the next, compile it. So the total time is t

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
There is currently a looong discussion (flame?) going on about this on gentoo-dev: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54402 which quotes the appropriate "standards". HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Emperor Palpatine: Soon the Rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Release Engineering meeting tomorrow

2008-01-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
will be > posting logs of the meeting on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng > project space after the meeting, in case any of you miss it. > -- Iain Buchanan Where does it go when you flush? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
this is the case here. You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from there. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
in xmms and play! However, I'm sure there was some plugin I needed... It was called "tone generator" or something... sorry for being vague, but it's been a while since I used this method :) If you want me to do some more digging, then let me know! HTH, -- Iain Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
s borrowed from beep, which was in turn borrowed from xmms, so the documentation no doubt got lost in the many transitions... all I can find is a vague xmms reference to "Tonegen". You might try looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I find more, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > all I can find is a vague xmms reference to "Tonegen". You might try > looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I find more, I'll let > you know. all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in aud

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
king at the file, it doesn't make much sense to compile it alone. -- Iain Buchanan Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs (MACINTOSH) -- Topic on #Linux -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
e c file, it says #ifdef LINUX #include #define DSP "/dev/dsp" #else #include #define DSP "/dev/dspW" #endif so you have to define LINUX. There are a few other things too, something like this should do it: gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c --

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
tring. so I'm having a few issues. Of course, 3D performance is horrible. I've tried searching various forums, but I can't find anything that fixes the dri error. I've checked xorg.conf has "Load dri" and Section "DRI" Group"video"

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