Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
s of the process, why not spawn 2 or 3 emerges automatically? Each one could do it's own "tree" of packages and dependencies that don't affect the other... would be nice IMHO. cya, -- Iain Buchanan People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. -- Ken Kesey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
e.conf does NOT have a ~ Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're proven to work, or work better. hth, -- Iain Buchanan "Success covers a multitude of blunders." -- George Bernard Shaw -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate / Suspend Problems on a Desktop

2008-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; > fire-eyes / Fieldy I have a similar problem with my laptop - hibernate works fine, but resuming leaves me with a blank screen. I can press the power button and the system will shut down cleanly. I have an nvidia card, but I've stopped X and unloaded all modules. Did you get anywhere?

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
ailed on device eth2 ; Operation not supported. > > Any other suggestion? > Thanks, > Luigi how about iwconfig eth2 power all ? Perhaps you could write a postup script that pings slowly: ping -i 30 your.isp.com hth, -- Iain Buchanan Vulcans worship peace above all.

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
verything at once! You risk jumping from a non-working solution to a non-working solution, then giving up! Just try the couple of options suggested - you'll probably get it working soon. hth, -- Iain Buchanan I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus Caesar -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
lly the same, with the exception of some classes (like [:punct:] or [\d]). egrep may need some extra escaping so as not to confuse your shell. The best way to test is to use the real program, so see if you can get info out of your logs to help. hth, -- Iain Buchanan I tripped over a hole that was sticking up out of the ground. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
the very beginning. I was indeed assuming ? was at the beginning when I added the ^... > Perhaps I missed something by the way, can you guys enlight me? -- Iain Buchanan The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] for mobile GPRS cards Nozomi module works

2008-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
; anyway I have a perfect - moveable linux laptop! > Thank y all! That's great! for everyone in Australia, this site is invaluable: http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/ I've been "touring the country" with it for a while now, and it works great! (well... as good as our belove

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ty of reviews around: http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-looks-even-more-tempting-295983.php -- Iain Buchanan I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime, or arrested for one. -- "Ratsy" Tourbillon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
g. Then start start the vmware init.d service, see if it works. (don't run vmware). stop vmware, run vmware-config again, and then add in your options. Start the vmware service again... and cross your fingers :) There might also be some useful messages in dmesg, or syslog (can't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
ugging you! I hope you have a few spare clock cycles for all this compiling :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
ind email from list 2. click reply button 3. delete text 4. change subject 5. write email 6. send or 1. find email from list 2. click email address in "to" field (new email to that recipient is created) 3. write subject 4. write email 5. send woohoo! one step shorter and closer

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:16 -0400, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:23:51 +0930 > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > David - at this point I'd try a couple of things. Since you've > > upgraded your linux-headers, it's a good idea to recompile your >

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
anks to this thread. btw, are we > hijacking it? :-) no, the discussion has progressed along related topics, as Stroller pointed out before this is fine, and the threading should be continued even if the subject changes. Some people like to add (was: HIJACKING THREADS) to the end of the subject if t

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:16 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: > > > 1. find email from list > > 2. click email address in "to" field (new email to that recipient is > > created) > > 3. write subject > >

Re: [gentoo-user] htaccess file

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
rying the usual exploits that didn't exist. It's probably safe to leave or delete as you see fit. don't know about the rest of your questions :) -- Iain Buchanan Nothing can be done in one trip. -- Snider -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Claws-mail (was: Re: HIJACKING THREADS)

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:13 -0500, »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930 > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your "from" account > > depending on what mail folder you're in when

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net postup help

2008-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
t;return 0 > } > > Can anybody help with this? looks fine to me. What's happening, (or not)? Any error messages, or any output at all? Maybe you're using iwconfig too soon (before association), but I'm only geussing. Full paths could also help. HTH, -- Iain B

[gentoo-user] claws mail question

2008-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
und "matrix", but it doesn't do 3, 4, or 5 (only works on maildir, not imap). I can't find anything else... TIA, -- Iain Buchanan A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida (emacs or vi (gnome or kde) ...))

2008-06-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
w it works for them. Distribution doesn't matter, so long as it's linux. Then check kernel and Xorg versions. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. -- Marcus Procius Cato -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] digital camera - Longshot!

2008-06-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
d.free.fr/) has done a lot of webcam work. You might want to try the media-video/gspcav1 ebuild and the spca driver and see. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose)." -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] weird gnome vol control behaviour

2008-06-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
ilt-in speakers, not the headphone or digital outputs). I've played with various options in /etc/conf.d/alsasound and other misc things, but I can't seem to make a difference. I never had this problem with my last ~x86 laptop, but it had different hw. thanks for any tips! -- Iain B

[gentoo-user] no spel cheking

2008-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
also revdep-rebuild'ed. Please help! I suk @ spleeling... -- Iain Buchanan Power, n.: The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail

2008-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
the messages as already accessed, and doesn't touch it (unless you specifically say "filter"). I've put this together from bits and pieces of experience, so it's probably not technically correct, but I hope you get the general idea :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan "It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." -- Alfred Adler

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
le. I used it to install this laptop :) see http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html I would appreciate any suggestions and improvements to the steps, if you end up trying it. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The truth will set you free. Unless Chuck Norris has you, in which case, forget it buddy!

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.

2008-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:39 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: > Maybe you have just what the Germans call "Ein Brett vorm Kopf" Brett is a worm head? What have you got against Brett? ;) -- Iain Buchanan What is the robbing of a bank compared to the found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1554 (82878-82927)

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:10 -0500, toefraz wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- Iain Buchanan Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere, you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
ey use a Linux kernel with the low latency and real-time options, which only hands over run time to windows when it decides it can. I was reading about it a while back... If you want I could dig up some more? cya, -- Iain Buchanan You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. - Al Capone

[gentoo-user] very wierd gnome-panel behaviour

2008-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
panel and they come back with the default layout, but the problem is still there! I do have two displays, using separate X screens, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I haven't found anything on google about this either... thanks for any help! -- Iain Buchanan Time

Re: [gentoo-user] very wierd gnome-panel behaviour

2008-08-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:53 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > don't quite know how to describe this one, but it's really annoying! > > My gnome panels are somehow remembering two sets of settings (by > settings I mean applet placement, etc). [snip] >

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ember!) > That would make it even cooler, not having to crawl below the desk to > press the button on the box itself ... you could also make it a launcher on your panel / desktop. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:31:52 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain Buchanan schrieb: > > Otherwise, go to system preferences > keyboard shortcuts. From > > there you may be able to map the button to the "suspend" action. >

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
elpful. Also, add yourself to the cc list: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222113 to give it some weight. You can put the ebuild in your local overlay (as I have) to get hibernate-script-1.99 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe a little incompatibility is the spice

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage mirrors difference???

2008-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
e advisory before the other one, and you just synced while they were different. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
you haven't actually said what is / isn't working! What's the output from the client when you try and ssh in with the command "ssh -p 2202 "? -- Iain Buchanan Don't go easy on each other just because you're brother and sister. I want to see you both fighti

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage mirrors difference???

2008-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
pk wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: pk wrote: Hello, [snip] Right now I have a GLSA warning on the european configured one: 200808-12 [N] Postfix: local... On the other one there is no GLSA warning, although both wants to upgrade to postfix 2.5.5 how did you run glsa-check? With 'aff

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
pam issue... And as much as you might like sudo, sometimes it just ain't suitable. eg: sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) -- Iain Buchanan I have a friend whose a billionaire

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_gov

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo video camera security system

2008-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
but most cheap motherboards have multiple usb nowadays. -- Iain Buchanan Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
t's not your hw. Another option is reseating the mpci card, or even trying a different one. Otherwise try and match your kernel and ucode versions with someone who has it working... But I'm sure you've thought of that :) -- Iain Buchanan The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
lable from VMware, and that works with 2.6.26 for me. Or you could try the vmware overlay. what? Which version of workstation doesn't work with 2.6.26? vmware-workstation-6.0.4.93057? -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #35: working as designed

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the wrong path. I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're trying to run hasn't been compiled with the new lib versions. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan "Life and death are seldom logical."

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Suspend/Resume Problems

2008-09-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
esume behaviour. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I'm greatly disturbed by my process list saying that a process started 3 minutes from now. carpaski: it's the latest in kernel scheduling. it can actually plan ahead to see where resources should go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
gdb prompt: (gdb) thread apply all bt and post the output This might not show much, if you use openoffice-bin, we'll see. -- Iain Buchanan [Peter gets fired] Peter Griffin: Hey, Lois, the lost my job smells great. Hey, Meg, could you pass me the fired my ass for negligence? Lois Grif

Re: [gentoo-user]

2008-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ronnie Collinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nor writing, it appears. -- Iain Buchanan Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. -- Hans Liepmann

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
#x27;t take too long). In between each "emerge -C" see if openoffice-bin still works. If you find it stops working at some point, please file a missing dependency bug! If you unmerge all 8 packages, and openoffice-bin still works, then it was probably disk space related. Thanks, --

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
27;t remember. you can pretty much unpack any gentoo bootable live cd to a usb drive, then run grub over it, and it's bootable (on newer systems). I hear this guy wrote a howto: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html -- Iain Buchanan The horizon of many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
managed separately for the two displays. * Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths. So can xinerama / twinview :) -- Iain Buchanan When things go well, expect something to explode, erode, collapse or just disappear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
out my blog for how I did it: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/08/nvidia-xinerama-on-dell-m6300.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR: what is it?

2008-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
s message might go away for this instance. -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #23: improperly oriented keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
mess with the MAC address it reports to DHCP servers? what happens when you ping from the erroneous box to the dhcp server, and sniff the actual traffic on the dhcp server to see what it sees. Then ping a different box and see what that sees, etc. -- Iain Buchanan Any clod can have the facts

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
get around the convulted mess created by the authors of that browser. I can't help you further with that one - IE is way outside my area of expertise. Good luck. you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I would have thought that was, er, basic functionality..

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
anual/blah.doc.bz2 cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2 -- Iain Buchanan One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Iain Buchanan writes: Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi all While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the decompr

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Markos Chandras wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + FYI that's alsa-lib not alsa-libs :) might confuse someone reading later. alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines -- Iain Buc

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
+ 83 Linux ...but according to swapon, it's not... [d530][root][~] swapon -a swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument What did I did? And how do I straighten it out? mkswap /dev/sda6 swapon /dev/sda6 ? -- Iain Buchanan They had to edit the first ending of 'Lone Wolf McQuade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
: In function 'void shameless_plug()': plug.cpp:4: error: 'One' was not declared in this scope plug.cpp:4: error: expected `;' before 'of' make: *** [plug] Error 1 how about some printf's (or cout's for you noobs) -- Iain Buchanan The pollution's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
en I can always keep an eye on the relevant RSS feeds, but it was mostly just curiosity on my part. Thanks either way. worthwhile for getting juicy info like --keep-going but otherwise not really necessary. -- Iain Buchanan Alea iacta est. [The die is cast] -- Gaius Julius Caesar

[gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
w how shredder would have falsely received them. weird. maybe its a trick (or treat?) -- Iain Buchanan A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger. -- Proverbs 15:1 Quite funny quote actually, made me think of "A soft jube turneth away egging of thy f

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
amount of physical ram in your system. actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. If you have too little swap, tuxonice will "abort gracefully

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being l

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
know it's trustworthiness either. -- Iain Buchanan Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
--verbose to show reverse dependencies. Now, I have to leave you with something to do to find the _exact_ syntax in your situation :) -- Iain Buchanan A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware fails: Virtual Machine Monitor does not start

2008-11-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
ion of the kernel you have, and use the portage version (please!). Then let's see if we can stick to one product+version+install_type at a time. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I have a map of the United States. It's actual size. I spent last summer folding it. People ask me where I live, and I say, "E6". -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?

2008-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
-- Iain Buchanan If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
rting after it will wait until you have an address. Things you might have done to change the default behaviour include RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, and RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc. You can set them to "no", and "yes" respectively and see if the following scripts wait... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan When you're in command, command. -- Admiral Nimitz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
g? I'm following http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/ioprio_set.2.html I know this is a C-ish question, only loosely related to gentoo but I'd really appreciate any help!! TIA, -- Iain Buchanan The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its message and then disappears. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:10 +1100, Christian Marie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:23:09AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to use: > > > > _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); > > _sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: [snip] > > > Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist > > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
compatible with recent headers or something :( See my thread on "_syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20" if you can help!! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Style may not be the answer, but at least it's a workable alternative. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
et driver then I'd advise you > to stay away from 2.6.21-rc1. It's bad enough to make one wanna club a > dolphin. speaking of which, I never got the forcedeth module working on my nforce 1 board - which board have you got? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan The price one pays for pursuing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
; fact that "ours" is almost-exactly-but-not-quite-perfectly-the-same. or Flamefox? or Hotfox, or Earthcat or Plasmadonkey, or Iceweasel... oh, we ruled out that one... but something that won't change with new firefox releases is a good idea. cya, -- Iain Buchanan In Seattle, W

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

2007-02-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
mail-clients wont help - any package is potentially open to crashing. Take the time now to find out why, and save yourself time in the future, IMHO :) but glad it's working again. cya, -- Iain Buchanan Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
FIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ before ./configure usually does the trick. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
more help on the synce ml or synce-windowsmobile5 ml. There are few synce experts, and that's where they all seem to be :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synce and gentoo : crash RAPI driver

2007-03-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
quot;out"? the synce mailing list is still active, but even more active is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - your question might not be wm5 specific, but no doubt someone there can help! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? -- Charlie McCarthy

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
t a time if you have 2 sticks. You could also try the memtest bootable cd. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
tted with a tiny bit of dust on one of the pins? you never know... If it fails on the big compiles like gcc, kernel, etc., then I would bet it's the RAM... cya, -- Iain Buchanan This is a good time to punt work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
had to at work, but never liked it (I promise I didn't inhale :) And I still know nothing! -- Iain Buchanan To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D. -- B. Duggan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New kernel 2.6.20-r6

2007-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ut the capability of your HD. What exactly 0x6000, 0x8, 0x4, and 0x1 are, I don't know. Something to do with cable types, and so on, I think. someone more into the kernel could probably help more here I think :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan linux: the choice of a GNU generation ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd is too noisy in syslog

2007-04-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
the right thing. Who owns the dhcp server? Is it yours? How is it set up? Is it a PC or off the shelf box? I would be looking there for the answer. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan : The hierarchy is excessive. So is the anarchy. :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
t order. so in short, is there any way around this? Can I tell nautilus to stop being "clever"? I had a look in the options, but I can't find it. (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that will fix everything ;) TIA, -- Iain Buchanan Gomme

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC > > "HD" HD video camera. (The first "HD"

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
hexadecimal files, but unfortunately it suffers from the same problem as nautilus here. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan "How do I love thee? My accumulator overflows." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
...[ ok ] * Backgrounding ... $ but then nothing happens, ever, to wlan0... can someone give me some pointers here? google wasn't much help, nor the wpa_supplicant website. Yet _without_ wpa_supplicant, I can connect fine, so I know the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while > working along with > ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper cannot manage encryption by itself. ah, so simple! Thanks, it works now :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:27 +0800, Crayon wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that > > will fix everything ;) > > Yeah, good old konq just does the right thing :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
kernel .config file somewhere? Perhaps there's a problem there... -- Iain Buchanan The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. -- Anthony Burgess -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 08:50 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 00:32 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > > >> Mouse support is compiled into my kernel (genkernel) > >> Although the section for keyboard is there, there isn

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
g. slocate already has such a "feature" (so long as you have cron installed) /etc/cron.daily/slocate contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. -- Iain Buchanan No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sic

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
> >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided" but it doesn't seem to > > > >> help. should there be a = before the package name? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! -- Iain Buchanan My philosophy is: Don't think. -- Charles Manson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
nit failed vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22 and a low 640x480 console resolution. anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
my overlay. works fine. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554798.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; you have to registers, not if you just want to read the list :) -- Iain Buchanan The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
(if you want to go that way). all on your live-cd of course. There is a not-too-bad list of live CD's here: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php but I don't so much like the top of the list :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Ctrl+Option+Command + P + R dracus - YE GODS! That'

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
keep up the smoke and mirrors. Stop being so nice everyone, you'll attract more newbies! I think I'll raise a bug about this. -- Iain Buchanan A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] gnome cvs binding

2007-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
... any hints? when I search google, all I get are millions of hits that have nothing to do with gnome cvs gui's, because of the keyword "cvs". thanks! -- Iain Buchanan A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
> > Try badram-sources. I've never used them, but they should do the trick. I > think you can find them in the custom-kernels overlay. ha! good luck trying to compile the kernel with faulty RAM. Can you remove one stick, or borrow some from a friend / other machine? That mi

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