Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
it was a handful because we gave you bogus ideas?! ;) cya, -- Iain Buchanan It is not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
these methods cover the fact that you might not know exactly everything you want to install... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. -Alfred Lord Tennyson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote: > According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want > _all_ > distfiles. hm, it has been a while since I last read the handbook. There were a small number of files to rsync back then :) -- Iain Buchanan Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux (Ubuntu) on a USB drive doesn't save

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
a RAM disk? In which case, changed you made wouldn't actually be saved... you could add another partition to the key for "persistent" storage perhaps? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreens under linux

2007-05-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
nd then why not have a mouse as well? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan People that can't find something to live for always seem to find something to die for. The problem is, they usually want the rest of us to die for it too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreens under linux

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
libration, which makes it less than desirable... -- Iain Buchanan RFC 882 put the dot in .com, not Sun Microsystems -- Seen on Slashdot -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] getting rid of python-2.3

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
isted depend on >=dev-lang/python-x.y, so nothing seems to specifically need python 2.3, is this right? I've been trawling through google, but haven't found anything at all about this, so any links would also be good. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of python-2.3

2007-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:46:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > can I recompile all the packages that require python-2.3, and then > > uninstall it? > > Run python-updater to recompile anything that was buil

Re: [gentoo-user] controlling xscreensaver throttle

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
l X displays, but even if xscreensaver is throttled before > that, upon resume from suspend it's unthrottled. AFAICT, when > resuming, suspend2 actually restarts xscreensaver, so its state was > lost. I think the above solution could work here too. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If the user p

Re: [gentoo-user] how do i know my SMP is working and setup right?

2007-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
out kde, but have you tried something simple like top? load it and then press '1' to swap between a "composite" cpu and "real" cpus. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -- Thomas Jefferson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating ati-drivers

2007-06-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
I can't remember any sequence of steps, and I've been using ati-drivers for years... -- Iain Buchanan "I must rule with eye and claw -- as the hawk among lesser birds." -- Atreides assertion (Ref: BG Archives) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ngElse - Gentoo =~ 0 > EverythingElse =~ EverythingElse < 0 I agree! -- Iain Buchanan "The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will never solve - politics." -- Gavin Baker, ca 1996, An unusually cynical moment inspired by working on a large project b

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

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 09:21 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried to figure out how to find the gentoo-user specific > pages in gmane, but the interface is not super-intuitive. I may > give it another try today. :) http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user HTH, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed 2007.0 automount

2007-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
gnome-volume-manager is running before you log out / in. Hopefully one of those works! cya, -- Iain Buchanan The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read. -- Alberto Moravia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Sent messages not being saved in Sent Items folder

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
to my original folder. >From then on I haven't had a problem! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No DRI for ATI 9250 and xorg 7.2?

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry, your email wasn't compliant, you forgot the and . -- Iain Buchanan Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally realize you were right, they'll

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:48 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:18:58 +1200 > "Kent Fredric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 6/11/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 21:13 +1200, Kent Fr

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

2007-06-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
er nor the ati radeon driver give me very good performance... on a RV350 "Mobility Radeon 9600 M10". cya, -- Iain Buchanan No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile something with debugging information

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
; instead of 'nostrip', because it doesn't leave your binaries full of debugging info, but puts it into /usr/lib/debug, which you can then delete at your convenience, without rebuilding. cya, -- Iain Buchanan Subject: Bug#42432: debian-policy: Proposal for CTV for Draft for Proof o

Re: [gentoo-user] Way to sync emails with SynCE?

2007-06-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
o look at. First though, you might want to check on the synce-users list if this feature is even supported (I don't think so). As yet, I think they only have file, contact, todo, and calendar sync support... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan To a Californian, the basic difference between the peo

Re: [gentoo-user] PPTP connection to Windows server 2003 vpn

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
68.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0 > > is says the interface doesn't exist!! yeah, that won't work unless you have an ip address... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. -- Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
e memory, but I'm not sure) thanks heaps for the advice, -- Iain Buchanan Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) -- Phil Hands -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ints about libGL.so, depending on weather I start it plainly or by using VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force. I've tried all sorts of things - from USE_SHIPPED_GTK to xorg-x11 opengl to reinstalling & recompiling modules, but no luck. Google is unsympathetically silent on this one :( Please help! thank

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
y. Now to try vmware-workstation and see... -- Iain Buchanan All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading Files to Windows CE

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
on the way, at the least try 0.14. You may not want the entire list of packages, probably just synce-hal, synce-sync-engine and synce-gvfs. gvfs will give you nautilus browsing of your device ;) -- Iain Buchanan The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields

Re: [gentoo-user] "Illegal instruction" error

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
- running flat out almost 24/7 is > probably outside of it's design spec :-) naaah. Flog it. If it can't handle it, it's a design fault ;) -- Iain Buchanan "It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend-to-disk stopped by xhci-module...

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 00:38 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > AFAIK they can be used with the standard swsusp stuff, although I've only > used it with a tuxonice-sources kernel. yup, hibernate script works with vanilla or tuxonice, both ram and disk :) -- Iain Buchanan It's no

[gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
c-2.12.1.so b4e03000-b4e05000 r--p 00154000 08:07 5587283/lib/libc-2.12.1.so b4e05000-b4e06000 rw-p 00156000 08:07 5587283/lib/libc-2.12.1.soAborted I have no idea how to debug this - I've rebuilt lots of stuff and still no dice... any help would be greatly appreciated :) -- Iain Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
ching virtual dekstops and moving windows and such. GL screensavers seem to be ok though. Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > > My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D -- Iain Buchanan The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense -- Picasso

[gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
t was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb for firefox. Not that much really. any ideas? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan Chuck Norris once skewered a man with the Eiffel tower.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:16 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > > So it looks like its RES to me by just looking at it. Did you RTFMan > page? for top? no. I should add I wasn't sorting by the RES field, even though that's in the top listing. -- Iain Buchanan Snake: Adios-s-s, dos amigos-s-s!

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
eks ago. I'll set it lower and watch... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Calculon: I was all of history's great acting robots: Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 > schrieb Iain Buchanan : > > [...] > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't n

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 16:32 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Seriously take a > > look at your swapiness value. The default value cannot be right every > > particular case. > > it's 60. That seems a little high based on what you told me, but I have > no reference

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
the store as someone mentioned. Yes you will be able to install Linux on it for sure. Still not sure about 100% hardware compatibility. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
h, IMHO, there's no difference to a laptop or desktop in this regard. Push it to the limits I say ;) -- Iain Buchanan serendipity, n.: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision ;-) no probs, but no need to reply to me AND the group, just the group reply will do :) -- Iain Buchanan He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known. -- Sir Richard Burton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and > > whatever else it might be! > > > > I'm getting bad performance when

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 10:13 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > git-1.7.3.2-r1 prefix it with ALL, ie search for "ALL git-1.7.3.2-r1". Because the bug is resolved it won't appear in basic searches. alternatively you could do an advanced search and select the statuses that you were inter

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Gb + 900Mb... sounds like a memory leak to me. Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong. -- Walter Dwight

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap > > usage is up again. It's firefox: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES S

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
t can i check ? > what is the right way to configure it ? what hibernate? vanilla? tuxonice? I assume disk but you could also be talking about ram... it can all be managed by (and I highly recommend) using hibernate-script. It will handle blacklisted modules, starting/stopping services,

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:41 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:09, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly > > the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other > > things are

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
ng windows and virtual desktops is now back to it's snappy old self... Let's hope I see some change in swap usage too. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If it's too good to be true, it's probably a rigged demo.

[gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?

2010-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
x27;m considering performance, heat, power, noise, and anything else you can think of. The 295 is passively cooled, 23W each, whereas the 420 is active cooled but only 40W, or so they say! any tips much appreciated :) -- Iain Buchanan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
oot loaders and so on. Then the remote assistant can just boot it (from usb key even) and press go! -- Iain Buchanan I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor else # AC adaptor is off-line! echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor fi then call that script from local_start(). HT

Re: [gentoo-user] need help tuning distcc

2006-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
ure scripts can only happen locally - sometimes there are compiles or at least CPU intensive tasks going on here (esp if you have a slow cpu) so unfortunately, distcc doesn't speed _every_ compile up by drastic amounts, but when it does - it does! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Running Windows on a

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency

2006-09-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
1/desktop or ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/server HTH, -- Iain Buchanan When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Allow a user to restart net.wlan0?

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
only way to get it back is to stop and start it). so for example, you could also say username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/fdisk -l which would allow username to run the safe fdisk -l, but not the unsafe fdisk. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan In the next world, you're on your own. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
ding though. But that can easily be made up with a beefier system. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Be consistent. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 11:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I personally like the COMPRO DTV-300 sorry, that's really a Compro Videomate DVB-T300 :) -- Iain Buchanan I thought YOU silenced the guard! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
ost back with results if that still fails! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usb-> seriial(minicom) problem

2006-10-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
2 > pr port /dev/bus/usb/002/002 did you actually manually check for the device /dev/ttyUSB0? apart from that, I'm not sure what could be wrong... -- Iain Buchanan Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with th

Re: [gentoo-user] About Gnome desktop

2006-10-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
ot;? gdmsetup is part of gdm. Do you have gdm installed? Even though you're running gnome, it's possible not to have gdm... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
gnome, udev and kernel version. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About Gnome desktop

2006-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
#x27; in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gdm-2.14.9-r1 (0) > * end * did you try running gdmsetup manually? find out where it is and specify the full path, as root: /usr/sbin/gdmsetup -- Iain Buchanan Denver, n.: A smallish city located jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
course! well spotted Andrew! you need to start gvm - run `gnome-volume-manager &` from a terminal, then logout and back in again, and see if it works. After that, you could try the preferences for gvm, (in preferences > removable drives and media) and make sure automounting and such is ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80%

2006-10-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
m-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350 based) which there never was before. In fact, x11-drm gives me FASTER frame rates that fglrx 8.29.6!! That's right, FASTER! *woot* anyway, I'm off to try composite :) -- Iain Buchanan For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80%

2006-10-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 15:46 +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2006 13:21 schrieb Iain Buchanan: > > As of x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 there is support for the 9600 (RV350 > > based) which there never was before. > > In fact, x11-drm gives me FA

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ry the gconf key: gconftool-2 --type bool --set /system/storage/display_internal_hard_drives true How did your versions of software compare with those listed in comment #68 in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107784 ? Other than that, I'm out of ideas... sorry! -- Iain Buchanan The ans

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
given that you got it to work somewhere along the way, (and you can mount manually) I'd say it's software related. Now that you kind-of have things happening, what does /var/log/messages show when you plug in a usb disk? cya, -- Iain Buchanan I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xsm and dependency...

2006-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
dependency of xsm... so why is xsm being pulled in when xorg-server hasn't been updated?? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Gravity brings me down. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge swt failed: cannot find -lGL

2006-10-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
g the x11-drm driver. I don't know what to look at next - any hints? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge swt failed: cannot find -lGL

2006-10-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 10:55 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just performing a routing update recently, and swt failed with > this error: > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > cannot find -lGL I worked around it by doi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how thorough is #emerge --sync?

2006-10-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
as I can. 4. if it's a very popular app, like gnome, then I look for unofficial ebuilds and put them in my overlay. If you try any of these options (unmask, overlay, or unofficial ebuild), then be prepared for issues / bugs. But that's what the game is all about :) HTH, -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge swt failed: cannot find -lGL

2006-10-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 10:04 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 03:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > [SNIP] > > I worked around it by doing this: > > $ cd /usr/lib > > $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so > > > > but I don'

[gentoo-user] xorg can't work with hotplugged mice?

2006-10-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
nning with a working usb mouse (/dev/input/mouse2), and then unplug the mouse, then /dev/input/mouse2 stays there. Until I restart X or switch to a console and back (then it disappears)... strange!! does _anyone_ reading use X and _not_ the /dev/input/mice device? I would be interested to hear fro

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg can't work with hotplugged mice?

2006-10-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > from time to time I remove mice and plug them in, as I move my laptop > > around locations. Sometimes I also start my laptop without

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg can't work with hotplugged mice?

2006-10-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 21:12 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/22/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because the touchpad has to be configured differently to the usb mice, > > otherwise things like "emulate3buttons" don't always work (on the &g

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Mouse going crazy in gnome [SOLVED?]

2006-10-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
now if it > starts going screwey again... A KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) switch is a hardware device that lets you use one keyboard, video & mouse one 2 to 8 (or more) computers. Very neat, especially for server rooms. Anyway, I had the same problem as you, and changing the protocol fr

Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?

2006-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
1% or smaller. Try `df -h` and see what it says. See if the difference is really all that great. If so, there may be other reasons you have less than you think... HTH! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte [2] http://www.answers.com/topic/gibibyte-1 [3] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units

Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?

2006-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:17 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:12 -0700, Grant wrote: > > I have a 320GB hard drive > > yes, a 320 "gigabyte" hard drive, as opposed to a 320 > "gibibyte"[1][2][3] hard drive. Technically 1 gigabyte is on

Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?

2006-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
berspace just like real life, > I'll reply to my own posting... you two?[sic] > You can use tune2fs -m 0 to change the ext2/ext3 reserved blocks > percentage to 0 to 'recover' some of that space. 0 may not be such a good idea. Leave at least 50MiB for root... Depends how yo

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
me rates. With other version of ati-drivers (including 8.28.8 and 8.29.6) the cpu usages stays low for all 3d, and I get crap framerates... don't know if this is your issue, but it sounds similar. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If you knew what to say next, would you say it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 01:44 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 01:25, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > > > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. > > > > what aiglx fla

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help with Evolution-2.6

2006-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Switcher Appearance > Hide Buttons (should not be checked) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes. -- John Gill, "Patterns of Force", stardate 2534.7 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
ine? I assume you did kill and killall as root? -- Iain Buchanan It's the thought, if any, that counts! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 03:08 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 02:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: > [SNIP] > > > By default equery only queries your installed packages (the specific > > > versions). > > > > > > # equery -N u

Re: [gentoo-user] issues with equery (WAS: AIGLX responseness [...])

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
n -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vga -via -vmware -voodoo" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB there's an "-aiglx%" in there... -- Iain Buchanan Menu, n.: A list of dishes whic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Your alternative for Google Picasa

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
of your albums in so many ways. You can show exif data, slideshows, even set up an ordering process, and lots of other cool stuff. The greatest thing about Jalbum is it uses html and javascript - so it can run completely in a browser with no server-side scripting necessary. Great if you want to pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility

2006-11-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
ooth headset in an environment with > other devices utilizing the 2.4Ghz band? I use bluetooth in our office, with 2 802.11 b/g access points, and a handful of laptops / pda's and I haven't noticed any interference. I doubt the bandwidth is "throttled" though... YMMV! -- Iai

[gentoo-user] compiling libsynce from svn

2006-11-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
rc/wm5/librapi2/tools' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wm5/librapi2/tools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wm5/librapi2' make: *** [all] Error 2 thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. -- Erwin Knoll -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Physikalen Speicher- und Swapverbrauch Anzeigen

2006-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
> > Eine anzeige wieviele Zugriffe auf welchen Bereich im Swasppeicher > gemacht werden währe auch schön :-) what desktop environment are you using? If you're using gnome or kde, they should come with their own graphical monitors, like gnome-system-monitory. HTH, -- Iain Buch

Re: [gentoo-user] bugzilla ban ?

2006-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
7;m absolutely not welcomed. bgo is not a forum for discussing behaviour, patches, modus operandi, etc, in such a long form as was done on your bug. Perhaps you should take it to the gentoo-dev mailing list, or forums or whatever? cya, -- Iain Buchanan Keep a diary and one day it'll keep yo

[gentoo-user] mouse wheel scroll moves back / forward in firefox

2006-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ith: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" I can't always reproduce it, so it's hard for me to tell... thanks for any suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan Riches cover a multitude of woes. -- Menander -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] usb port replicator with full linux support

2006-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
ket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=CO-UH6260 This one I found says "won't work with Dell" - why not? All my other usb devices work with this Dell laptop... any links / tips would be appreciated. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.

[gentoo-user] [OT] printing protocols

2006-11-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
the difference? Are some features supported better on some protocols? Are some faster / less resource intensive? I'm using cups and gimp-print to get the driver for it. I'd appreciate any info. Thanks! -- Iain Buchanan Let's do it. -- Gary Gilmore, to his firing s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] printing protocols

2006-11-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:38 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > My question is really what's the difference? Are some features > supported better on some protocols? Are some faster / less resource > intensive? One disadvantage: acrobat reader doesn't show the printer in it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] printing protocols

2006-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
have been having some printing issues with it lately, as well as performance issues (it crashes a lot!) But I think I've solved those now, so I'll go back to it an emerge -C acroread! thanks! -- Iain Buchanan Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
echo "Starting firewall..." > iptables -P INPUT DROP > iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT done! Now everything is firewalled, and only lo is trusted. However, I haven't s

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
lready: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155452 it will probably be marked wontfix or something like that. You could make it practise to run eupdatedb everytime you run emerge --sync, but that's up to you. cya, -- Iain Buchanan What color is a chameleon on a mirror? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Restaffing the 11th Userrep seat

2006-12-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
deserves a bit of recognition for his efforts, and placing him in the position would do that. So, I've said both yes and no! In the end, I guess the decision is up to the team what method they choose. cya, -- Iain Buchanan When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

2006-12-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
out xvid: you must specify one > or a valid combination of 'bitrate', 'pass', 'quantizer' settings. dunno... try leaving of the "pass" option and see? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Free Speech Is The Right To Shout 'Theater' In A Crowded Fire. -- A Yippie Proverb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DVD drives

2006-12-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
why I ask. If they say CD-RW, then yes (all those do). Hope this helps (and I hope my ISP is working so this will get through!) -- Iain Buchanan Landru! Guide us! -- A Beta 3-oid, "The Return of the Archons", stardate 3157.4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs.

2006-12-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
to hibernate while vmware is running, and when I resume, vmware works just as before! Not much help for you, but at least you know it _can_ work. cya, -- Iain Buchanan If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot install advice

2006-12-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
boot! at least that's how I do it... -- Iain Buchanan I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot install advice

2006-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
d it's commercial > software). Even though Partition Magic is commercial, it is one of the few pieces of software I'd happily buy. In my experience, it's had no trouble resizing WXP partitions to make way for linux. cya, -- Iain Buchanan senility, n.: The stat

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