Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Because nine years ago, Linux desktop software didn't use interprocess
> communication. Of course things will still work, but not necessarily
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication
http://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/ipc/ipc.html
D-Bus is just a YAIPC (Yet-Another-I
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or
> mail app that they are offline?
I don't have a network connection manager and I don't need that function
in a browser, mail client or any other app.
> And don't start with sockets. That w
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing that
> when DOS fell out of fashion.
> 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone?
> 3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it.
What's wrong with lpr?
> Multimedia but
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
And you obviously do?
> If you start konqueror - for example, it is dbus telling konqueror to start
> as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh - and that
> loading of kparts? The messages a
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> besides being not really usefull anymore? Are you sure you have lpr? Which
> ones do you have? And do you have it configured for the right printers? What
> if
> you don't have lpr but cups?
Of course I use cups, don't be silly. Of course built without D-Bus suppor
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> well, just look at all those ubuntu users. Just for starters.
Hm. And those ubuntu users have a choice? For the record, most people
using wireless anywhere are using OS's from Redmond or Cupertino
(Apple). They don't care about D-Bus either...
> yes, it has. There i
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I would like to point out that this is 'gentoo user' not 'talk about any os'
> or 'windows support'. You might be surprised to learn that gentoo is a linux
> distribution. So why do you bring windows or apple up?
Because most of those "millions of users" you were r
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Note that they are inventing a new protocol, not a new idea.
Which is basically (if you read between the lines) what I've been trying
to say the whole time. Although it may be my english is no sufficient to
let that "shine" through... (English is not my native language).
>
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Is it really so hard to understand that dbus replaces functionality THAT YOU
> ALREADY HAVE MULTIPLE TIMES?
Nope. Besides, it doesn't _replace_ unix domain socket, named pipes
etc.; it merely adds another layer on top of them.
> dbus is a net gain - it takes multiple impl
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> openoffice depends on libwpd
> libwpd depends on libgsf
> libgsf pulls gconf in.
Hm. I actually have OO (non-binary version) installed althoughI dislike
bloat... However, I don't have gconf installed (USE: -gnome, globally in
make.conf). I run stable so that, of cour
Dale wrote:
> What did you use in place of k3b? Is it a GUI or command line?
cdrecord. I also have installed, but I haven't used it yet, XFburn...
Best regards
Peter K
Andrey Vul wrote:
> I've set Radeon DRI from module to built-in and now this is the result:
> (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed
> (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed.
>
> I'm using 2.6.31.12 with -rt and -tuxonice patchsets.
Maybe stupid questions but is the fir
Andrey Vul wrote:
> The real question here is why isn't radeon-ucode a dependency of
> xf86-video-radeonhd ?
Well, the radeon-ucode is only for r6xx/7xx chips so pulling it in for
r5xx would be pointless... I just noticed that you have a radeon hd4200
which is a RS880 chip. Not sure if this is su
Andrey Vul wrote:
> According to git, all the r7xx except for rs880 are on the
> working/testing list. Which sucks, tbh: why did I bother to get
> integrated when I could've gotten a better motherboard (with 1394
> support) and a $50 graphics card?
According to this RS880 should be supported but
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man
> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal
> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going
> on. Thanks.
Q: Have you tried "... su -" (the dash
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html
> With "sudo su - " the man pages do not have ESC throughout. I have
> learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is
> bad practice and that the correct command is $ sudo su -
No nee
On 2010-03-07 18:53, Mick wrote:
> Good news! I seem to have solved it somehow ... it started showing up after
> I
> configured the framebuffer for the VTs. Could this be related? Is it now
> using the fb to render X, or the radeon driver? How can I tell? (glxgears
> is
> 4 times slower
On 2010-03-13 20:15, Jarry wrote:
> obelix ~ # emerge --sync
Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage...
Checking server timestamp ...
> timed out
> rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at
> rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6]
Retrying...
It's the se
Hi,
I just saw this on slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/28/0052234/Open-Source-Deduplication-For-Linux-With-Opendedup
Anyone using it with gentoo? Experiences?
Best regards
Peter K
On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up
>> once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That
Sounds a bit like:
http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/
Although it may be different in your case...
Best regards
Pe
On 2010-04-30 15:24, Kraus Philipp wrote:
> I must test a software with a older version of the glibc. I run the
> 2.11.1 now but for one tool I need a previous version (2.6.1).
> How can I compile the glibc without changing my system glibc. I would
> like to set the previous glibc with the LD_PATH
On 2010-05-06 16:31, Mark Knecht wrote:
>Does anyone possibly know of any tools in Open Source for exploring
> DSP filter design? Something that might allow me to write equations,
> stimulate the filter, see the results in a GUI?
This probably doesn't answer your question completely (haven't
On 2010-05-22 16:19, luis jure wrote:
> guys, ever heard of trimming your quotes?
+1
On 2010-05-23 14:09, Adam wrote:
> You need to emerge ati-drivers-8.721. Despite the numbering, its
> actually the latest
No 8.721 is a beta version (10.4-beta), 10.4 is the latest. See
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310367
... especially comment #59 and #63.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2010-06-06 22:13, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I disagree that we all are accustomed to Cntl-v etc. That is more a
> windows phenomena... long time linux (X) users are more accustomed to
> left mouse highlight... middle mouse paste, I think, at lest I am.
I'm not alone then... :-D
About your proble
On 2010-07-04 11:57, Mick wrote:
> It's part of /bin/busybox I think so running qfile time will not show it up
> and which time won't get you closer either.
I just got curious when the OP posted this so I tried to do a 'which
time' and equery b time but no go... But still I have the 'time' comma
On 2010-07-04 14:13, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> $ type -a time
> time is a shell keyword
And the world makes sense again... ;-)
Thanks!
Best regards
Peter K
On 2010-07-23 20:37, Mick wrote:
> which means that it's the default. What should I do with it, wait until the
> default profile gets rid of it, or do something different?
You can disable xcb for cairo. Put -xcb after x11-libs/cairo in
/etc/portage/package.use. Although xcb will eventually repl
Hi!
Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)
so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts
below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,
or parts thereof are not redrawn, just cleared, which makes it hard to
see web pag
(seems like this message got lost somehow...)
Hi!
Yesterday I got an update of said apps (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey)
so I updated them (see list of version and possibly related parts
below). Now all of them exhibit a strange phenomenon: Often, the window,
or parts thereof are not redrawn, j
On 2010-07-27 01:58, Jake Moe wrote:
> I had a similar issue the other day with Thunderbird (I've been trying
> Chromium lately, so I can't comment on Firefox). I ended up changing
> drivers from fglrx to radeon, and the issue went away. I also was
> seeing a slow "redraw" of xterm windows when
On 2010-07-26 17:07, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Good luck. I have tried the radeon driver from time to time, but never had
> any real success with it. Well, it is working now on one machine, but I
> need TV-Out, and I have temporarily given up on finding out what's wrong
> there, and stick to old k
On 2010-07-26 18:16, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> -> ./test.m
> octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: LockSemaphoreInfo: Assertion
> `semaphore_info != (SemaphoreInfo *) ((void *)0)' failed.
> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core'
If anyone else encounters this, I've found a solution to my problems:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst_10.6.2F10.7_:_black.2Fgrey.2Fwhite_boxes.2Fartifacts_in_firefox.2Fthunderbird
http://phoronix.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-24323.html
Apparently it's the new 2D accel
On 2010-07-29 06:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. I posted the same question on the octave users
> list but no answers.
Maybe vacation time so most users are offline? I'm on vacation but still
online... :-)
If you know C you could check out the semaphore.c file to see what
On 2010-08-01 11:01, Xi Shen wrote:
> Aug 1 16:56:03 david-gentoo kernel: [ 715.671669] ACPI: If an ACPI
> driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the
> native driver
>
> how to fix this problem?
Use the ACPI module (appropriate for your motherboard) instead of the
it
On 2010-08-02 17:49, Bill Longman wrote:
> I just saw, this weekend in fact, that the newer Phenoms, in fact most
> of the recent K10 CPUs, do not work accurately with the atk0110 so when
> the driver starts to load, it flatly refuses. I have a 9750 Phenom and
> that one works great. Works fine in
On 2010-08-03 18:20, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Why are you using fdisk on a logical volume? To my knowledge (which of
course may be outdated/wrong) an LV doesn't contain a partition table so
looking for it with fdisk -l shouldn't
On 2010-08-03 23:57, Bill Longman wrote:
> He's not doing on a physical volume, they just happen to show up. He's
> just using "fdisk -l" to generally see what volumes are out there.
Ah, ok. Misunderstanding from my side...
Best regards
Peter K
On 2010-08-10 16:13, James wrote:
> Adam Carter gmail.com> writes:
>> Interesting - sounds similar to what i get - see my thread "Some corruption
> after gnome 2.30". I rebuilt world and still have the problem. So
> perhaps.there
> is something lower level than gnome/kde that causes this issue.
On 2010-08-10 22:06, James wrote:
> You are GENIUS,
If you say so... ;-)
...but other people have walked this path before me so I'm only passing
on the knowledge... glad I could help.
Best regards
Peter K
On 2010-08-12 23:46, dan blum wrote:
> I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently.
>When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine. Can
>anyone clue me in on how to emerge an older version of the program.
I assume you are talking about the xorg-server? Mask your cur
On 2010-08-14 00:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> But JACK just stops working at random. Sometimes it works, but after a
> a while it doesn't anymore. And when that happens (which happens sooner
> rather than later,) restarting JACK (with qjackctl) doesn't help; only
> rebooting the machine does,
On 2010-08-14 10:36, Paul Hartman wrote:
> I downgraded to kernel 2.6.34.3 and everything runs smoothly again. No
> more hangs or sluggishness. It would seem that something in 2.6.35
> series kernels does not like my computer, or something in my computer
> does not like 2.6.35 series kernels.
Not
Philip Webb wrote:
> Can you have multiple desktops with Fvwm ?
> I couldn't find anything about it in the manual
> & dropped further investigation of Fvwm as a result.
Virtual desktops are part of the X window manager specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down
> *without* actually shutting down ther system?
I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if
this might be your problem?:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/253535
MfG
Peter K
Carlos Moyano Cubillos wrote:
> it's a new installation on a new laptop (Dell Studio 15)
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Latitude_E6x00
It may not be the same model but look at the bottom...
Best regards
Peter K
Dale wrote:
> Same here. The others work but not the hue part. Not sure what it does
> but I couldn't see any difference when I changed it. Isn't that like a
> red/green balance thing?
Quite off-topic but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeRjRxYhz6U
...related to hu(e)? Perhaps not... ;-)
Bes
Dale wrote:
> I hate to say it this way, but hal just plain sucks. I may play with it
> some later but I'm getting sick of hal big time. It's starting to
> really leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Then you might like this:
http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2009/Notes#head-754e4968dd043dcf2166dff
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> What he didn't know is that my colleague works in Security. He's the firewall
> admin, the VPN admin, the packeteer admin and all sorts of other admins too.
> It real funny, every day Mr. Special parks in the disabled bay, his internet
> doesn't work.
BOFH![1] ;-)
[
Dale wrote:
> I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
> well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need..." ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Harry Putnam wrote:
> If my setup using no hal, and xorg.conf is going to become outdated
> and stop working anytime soon?
I seriously doubt the xorg.conf is going away in the foreseeable future
so I wouldn't worry. I haven't heard any of the developers on xorg mail
list talking about this either
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to
> be incorporated so no I didn't
The 'oldconfig' option needs your old .config for input (that where
"old" comes from :-)
I usually manually go through the 'make menuconfig' as well after doing
this to
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That turns on the journal which will wear out an SSD in short order, so ext2
> is indeed the better file system
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/
Best regards
Peter K
Subject pretty much says it all. I'm just wondering where it went...
I've tried searching on b.g.o. and google but to no avail (my
"google-fu" may be limited). Does any one know?
Best regards
Peter K
Hi,
Recently I switched from Slim to XDM. Now I get this message (as in
subject), whenever I try to start a particular SDL app. I tried playing
with xauth but it doesn't help. Strange thing is I can start things like
firefox and other apps, it's only xrick (classic game based on SDL) and
some othe
Dale wrote:
> One reason I mentioned the Mars thing, I recall them having a puter on
> Mars or something that had a hiccup and they thought they had lost it.
> Somehow it just popped itself back up tho. I guess it was trying to
> find some code that did work and finally did. I remember them say
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I know it is just one line in the shell
> export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
> but I don't know what file to put it in.
>
> It would be acceptable, but not preferable, if this was set for all
> users; the only requirement is that it is set for user gottlieb.
For all users: /etc/p
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Does that get sourced by the gnome panel so that launchers see it?
> I hadn't thought so, but will try it.
Hm... X/xDM is started from a virtual console (mine is usually started
from VC-7, which is the default). That's where your login should happen,
so everything started
Hi,
Does anyone know if there's a way to configure xconsole to not display
control characters (at least that's what I think it is)? Currently
xconsole displays this when XDM starts:
[32;01m*[0m Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ...
[A[152C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m St
Willie Wong wrote:
> Those are ANSI escape codes. My google-fu is not up to telling me how
> to set xconsole to ignore them, but it seems possible that xconsole
> just cannot handle ANSI codes?
Yes, that's what I was afraid of... However, it seems many people uses
xconsole a bit differently by c
Dale wrote:
> You say they dropped support. I call it dropping the ball. Same thing.
Sorry for "butting in"...
As I understand it, KDE development is mostly driven by volunteers (like
most OSS projects). Yes, some are probably paid/employed by interested
parties but this doesn't really change
John H. Moe wrote:
> play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and
> AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem:
>
> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902
> libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO).
Not sure if this is the solution but judging from what
John H. Moe wrote:
> Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
libdvdread is part of the mplayer project so I would try mplayer mail
list. Other than that you could try what Ubiquitous1980 or Joerg
suggests. Sorry, I don't have any other ideas, but I think mplayer mail
list is the safest b
Harry Putnam wrote:
> So, where would I make such a setting in the new arrangement?... I
> suspect I could force a return to xorg.conf... but would sooner
> understand how to utilize the new proceedure.
xorg.conf still works fine with the latest incarnations of Xorg. If you
are refering to HAL an
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> entirely removing hal in favour of DeviceKit.
Xorg is removing HAL support; as of xorg-server-1.8 HAL is no longer
used. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc2Mw
Devicekit will not replace HAL entirely:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL
Btw, devicekit has bee
Harry Putnam wrote:
> For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
> custom settings regarding the X session done?
Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/
Best regards
Peter K
Dale wrote:
> Stop lurking and just join me. lol
... "Darth Vader: Luke, join me and I will complete your training..."
;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed
> and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present.
>
> But yet an X display happens when I type `startx', apparently
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> Being my sometimes helpful self. lol
>>
>> Password:
>> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
>>
>>
>> That normal I guess?
>
> Then I'm not! I get
>
> $ su
> Password: su: Authentication failure
Evil spi
Stroller wrote:
> Of course, I use Gentoo on my headless servers, so I am glad that server
> software - Dovecot or Courier for IMAP, Apache, Samba - all have
> plain-text configuration files I can edit with vim (which I have been
> learning to utilise better recently). But even if these switched t
Dale wrote:
> I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you
> want, and can, to "force" it to do what you want. Thing is, the config
> file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't
> pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't use hal
BRM wrote:
> The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you
> are debugging the UI or the program itself.
>
> While a UI is important; a good UI is key.
And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody knows how to use
it. Why bring in another extra (translation
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Another layer can be good, if properly abstracted. A good example is KDE's
> popups when you plug in a hotswap storage device. You get a context-sensitive
> popup asking you what you want to do and the choices are sane. You say what
> you want to do and don't worry about
Dale wrote:
> You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not
> or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as
> pissed as I was tho. lol I'm just not going to try putting it on here
> again. It didn't work. I couldn't configure the thing so that i
Hi,
(Sorry if this is off-topic but I really don't know where to turn to...)
Anyone with experience/knowledge about MTRR/PAT and who can tell me
where to find information about these things so that I might see if
there's a problem or not? I've tried google but in this case they're not
my frie
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've run into this problem a number of times on my Linux systems. In a
couple of cases what where essentially scratched disks played on both
my HT DVD player as well as Windows but would not play i
Andrey Falko wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:49 AM, pk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What kernel version are you using? How are you compiling your kernel
(i.e. with genkernel or manually)? If you are manually compiling your
kernel, can you send us your .config file?
gentoo-sources-2.6
Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Canon PowerShot A95 camera that until today worked fine. Gtkam
> could see it and download my pictures. I'm on the same old kernel but
> did upgrade some stuff recently.
UDEV?
Also, there might be other stuff that messes with the udev rules
(libgphoto2, which is
Grant wrote:
> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I
> get:
>
> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" re
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't
> even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all.
> The
> problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and it's design is a mish-
> mash of stuff throwwn together
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I'm not sure who's criticizing DeviceKit, but it isn't me :-)
I guess it was me... :-)
I find this thread interesting:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/045561.html
...especially this:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-May/045574.html
Which
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> As I see it, at the bottom of the stack you have a kernel and at the top a
> user space app (the X server will do for an example). Plug in a USB device
> that the app can use, and the kernel needs to make a node in /dev for it if
> it's not already there. The kernel shoul
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> - only Linux has udev. Other OSes may not need, want or be willing to touch
> udev with a bargepole.
Yes, udev is linux only. Replace udev with whatever is available on
other platforms in that diagram. I just used linux as an example...
Sorry for not making it clear.
> Bu
Hi,
I upgraded dhcpcd to 4.0.13 a couple of days ago and now it seems that
it has started to act as a dhcp server, without me changing any
configuration files. How can I stop it from acting as a server (I
already have a server in my adsl modem)? I tried googling but it seems
most hits I get are ho
Mick wrote:
> All three examples show a solid blue rectangle in FF and Konqueror and
> go in a terrible loop of opening more and more tabs in Opera.
You also have this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG_in_Firefox
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20061213/
Best regards
Peter K
Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I try to keep up to date, but I am not a computer scientist, so I often will
> tolerate some sloppiness in the system, and may overlook maintainance.
You can certainly overlook maintenance with Gentoo, and mainly do
security updates only. The problem is that Gentoo is in a
Mark Knecht wrote:
>These days I'm trading stock index futures for a living. I have
> data files that I analyze in Excel over the weekend to help me make
> decisions about how to trade the coming week, but I'm always fighting
> Excel as it really isn't intended for the sort of math I want to d
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> /home/mccramer>virtex texfile.tex
> This is TeXk, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt plain.fmt
> I can't find the format file `plain.fmt'!
>
>
> /home/mccramer>locate plainfmt.tex
Go to http://www.tug.org/texi
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> ...and dont forget to do a
>
> ls -R . > ls-R
>
> in the according root directory, from where are all
> *.fmt are installed, otherwise kpathsea will fail to find the file.
Oh yeah, forgot about that.
> But what was the idea behind "tex" to behave like compilin
James wrote:
> this may ease your pain.
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
No, coreboot support for newer Intel chipsets/motherboards is not good.
Not due to unwillingness from the developers but lack of interest from
Intel to support them with needed info.
http://www.coreboot.
Dale wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before,
> right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is.
>
> I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was
> a nightmare, AGAIN. I want my old way back to s
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> has anybody experienced problems with grub-1.9x .
> Since I take an Ext4 boot partition into consideration
> I'd need either a patched grub-0.97 (GoSC patch) or
> grub-1.97.
> Has anybody tried an Ext4 boot partition?
>
> Many thanks for sharing your experience,
Unf
Hi,
When I sync'ed a couple of days ago I got this:
x ~ # emerge --with-bdeps y -DupN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 VIDEO_CARDS="(-fglrx%*)"
[ebuild R ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re-
> compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL never
> worked really well here.
As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters (fglrx, radeon, etc.) only
controls what drivers sho
Stroller wrote:
> The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used by
> system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think the
> FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing,
> particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so
Alex Schuster wrote:
> I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher versions
> did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with newer kernels I
> was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was a while ago. I tried
> ati-drivers-9.6 a month ago when that c
ssword:
> $ grep File.big foo
> /home/stroller/File.big
> $ locate File.big
> $
I get the same behaviour as you:
# updatedb -v | grep -i file.big
/home/pk/file.big
# locate file.big
#
Files below that ~4Gb shows up as normal...
I have nothing out of the ordinary in my updatedb.conf e
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> My box is 64 bit. Strolelr and Peter, are yours 32 or 64 bit?
Mine is 32bit. It's quite puzzling why that would matter in this case...
Best regards
Peter K
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> just calculate the result of 2^32
I know this but why would file size matter to slocate?
Best regards
Peter K
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