cently eradicated Gnome from my systems. I'm strictly XFCE
now. I'm happy and thankful to the xfce developers to have that choice.
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nates the need for a middle layer boot loader altogether.
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=== On Wed, 02/09, Dale wrote: ===
> Now some of you know how much I hate windows. Of course, DOS wasn't
> much better,
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Yep. I've been using Linux on my desktop since version 1.2, and
UnixWare before that. Some Mac in there too. I avoid Windows like the
plague that it is
e, has ever tweaked
those it may be unstable. So try all defaults, or "safe settings" first
if you haven't already.
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=== On Sat, 02/12, Peter Humphrey wrote: ===
> That was the obvious first step.
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Well then, I would use this as an excuse to get a nice new system. ;-)
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tter. I use extlinux on all my Gentoo
systems now.
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. No
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in the kernel but it is not bringing it up :-(
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The system maps MAC addresses to device names, to try to keep the
ordering consistent. The fix, when you change NICs, is:
# rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
T
tPixmap and .tintColor, and it works again.
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. So, try going through all the control panel configuration
areas, even if you don't change anything, and check the configs.
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=== On Thu, 12/09, Dale wrote: ===
> bit, it says " ping: unknown host google.com".
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Your DNS (name resolution) is not configured. You ISP has probably
provided a couple that you can use. Add the name server IP addresses
to /etc/resolv.conf file.
nameserver x.x.x.x
ub and connect all hosts (including modem, to
it.
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d net-dns/openresolv. Clear
everything out of /etc/conf.d/net file. Reboot your boxes.
You should be good to go then.
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=== On Fri, 12/10, Dale wrote: ===
> The subject pretty much says it all. Anyone using xorg-server-1.9
> yet?
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I'm using it now. Works fine. But of course that really all depends on
what kind of video card you have and what driver you use.
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hes is minimizing.
But I agree it would be better to build those drivers as modules, in
any case.
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k0110
It seems more sensors are being made available through ACPI interfaces,
but many drivers still use direct access to the chip.
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=== On Fri, 01/07, James wrote: ===
> Any other thoughts / ideas?
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Works for me on my Lenovo Edge. Use the new "InputClass" section rather
than "InputDevice" in the config. Make sure to use '"MatchIsTouchpad"
"o
install just to configure it. Bah.
I found extlinux. Sweet simplicity. Works great, less filling. It's
what I use from now on.
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g" "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
EndSection
Of course you also need in make.conf a line like this:
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
This is the new (latest, AFAIK)
=== On Sat, 01/08, Daniel D Jones wrote: ===
> Is there any reason python shouldn't be set to version 3? Are there
> backwards compatibility issues that will break things?
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Yes, many. It will be years more before the Python world is fully
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It's a pain to get working initially.
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=== On Sun, 02/06, Kfir Lavi wrote: ===
> Any thoughts?
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Try also enabling backlight control drivers.
I also have an Intel laptop and it works fine, and the backlight
controls also work.
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tups. So I'm happy
to some success stories with it, since I've been holding off on taking
that plunge.
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otivated to go do it. :)
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urns out I like that one better, anyway. :-)
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d image support.
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this thing. The systemadm
tool segfaults on me. on the plus side the shutdown is much faster.
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't tell me anything.
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lag set. Yet, polkit is requiring
pambase with consolekit.
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1 policykit
#required by sys-auth/polkit-0.107-r1[pam], required by
sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r1[policykit]
>=sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r1 consolekit
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ded it specially to
package.use just to "make sure". Same result. Something is wrong with
the logic there.
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, but I can't figure out
what it is.
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myself. Where do I add that? It looks
like /etc/systemd/user?
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FWIW I hate grub2. ;)
I'm a big fan syslinux/extlinux.
But recent Linux kernels can be compiled as UEFI apps, thus don't need
a boot loader (e.g. grub2) at all (in theory).
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end.
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:)
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gested.
I'm using netctl on one VM now. I'm... ok with it. for now... it did
seem to break during one update, so I think it's still in flux. And the
configuration is a bit confusing.
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he wiki site.
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ration.
I didn't see this "netifrc". Is that documented somewhere?
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ld be called like this:
print('\n', s, '\n', '=' * len(s))
This works as-is in Python 2, unless you have this at the top of the
file:
from __future__ import print_function
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Re , Helmut Jarausch said:
> What remote desktop do you use?
ssh. ;)
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with Intel chipset and even ran compiz on it.
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you using systemd?
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