On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang:
> > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think.
>
> Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel?
>
> Bye...
>
> Dirk
the option is not available with 64bits - maybe not needed.
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> > Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
> > everything from the old drive to the new drive with:
> >
> > cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/
>
> "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > > Grant wrote:
> > > > Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying
> > > >
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dale wrote:
> I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
> then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
> mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
> CD, then what? None of this mat
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to
> troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know
> where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told,
> years later, that wearing shoes there m
btw, it is not about capabilities - it is about willingness. Most people are
not willing to deal with the crap that is html-emails. They are no good. They
are huge, they are risky, they make everything harder.
And no-html is the norm for almost every mailing list (except maybe outlook-
express-f
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
> > different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
> > thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a little oblique
> >
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> > and which data is not copied?
>
> ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
> you use ACLs or extended attributes you h
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> User Relations bug 251931
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
Access Denied
You are not authorized to access bug #251931.
Please press Back and try again.
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> >> User Relations bug 251931
> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
&
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote:
>
> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were
> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made
> impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming
> him of the problem until late.
no. His ma
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
>
> >> And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how
> >> to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling
> >> and behaving li
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote:
>
> *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you
> answer his questions about Gnome?*
well, I saw his mails - and I did not react to them, because I don't use gnome
since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user.
N
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Stroller wrote:
>
> One reason your post generated so many responses is that *everyone*
> has posted once in HTML and been asked not to.
not me. And others did not too. Because 'no html' is a common thing for user
related mailing lists.
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote:
> > since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user.
> > Not using gnome makes me skip gnome threads automatically - the few
> > things I remember back from the 1.4 days won't help anyway.
>
> I run KDE as well (so maybe I'm biased to com
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the
> > way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to
> > e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .do
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
> >> >> I've looked over this:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >> >>
> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >> >
> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you even bother to try
>
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
> >> >> >> I've looked over this:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> but I'm still not sure if I can choose any of the above.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ... why? Do you have a specific question? Did you
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Not impressed. Hopefully this critical message would be summarized at the
> end of the build too. Kind of important. I got lucky and happened to see
> it...
it was. Also:
elog
and
elogv
the tools are there. It is your fault of not using
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> > it was. Also:
> > elog
> > and
> > elogv
> >
> > the tools are there. It is your fault of not using them.
>
> Great, please demonstrate how I was to
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> > after the emerge you read the messages with elogv and downgrade. No harm
> > done.
>
> I'll be sure to try that, thank you. However, would not avoiding a bad
> up
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, »Q« wrote:
> In <200901010423.25783.volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de>,
>
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > That is why you have to go to nvnews first and then upgrade.
>
> Where is nvnews?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:27:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing
> > > > instead of
> > > > breaking my system?
> > >
> > >"That proposal is ludicrous and completely counter to th
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Alan McKinnon said:
> > The software does not have the slightest vaguest foggiest concept of what
> > the RIGHT and the WRONG drivers are. That's a human being's conclusion.
>
> Apparently it did, hence the warning.
the ebuild w
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said:
> > but as long as X is not restarted, the upgrade doesn't break anything.
> > You come back, you read the elogs, you downgrade the drivers and
> > everything is fine a
On Donnerstag 08 Januar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:20:00 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Is this adding some value that I don't understand? What does it do
> > that using revdep-rebuild doesn't?
>
> revdep-rebuild fixes broken packages, @preserved-libs prevents the
> breakage
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Playing videos with mplayer produces an output of
>
>
> Your system is too SLOW to play this!
>**
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > are you using composite? if yes, don't. Or install the latest nvidia
> > driver.
>
> In my initial posting I mentioned the driver, which is installed on my
> PC
>
> > > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82 USE="acpi gtk -custom-cflags
> > > (
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 15:15]:
> > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > > are you using composite? if yes, don't. Or install the latest nvidia
> > > > driver.
> > &
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 15:35]:
> > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 15:15]:
> > > > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 15:55]:
> > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 15:35]:
> > > > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> But may be my experience is to old in this special case.
>
> By the way:
> xv is a lot of [CENSORED] with my NVIDIA card. I had a lot of trouble
> to find a way to regulate brightness and such on a per application
> basis. The only way I foun
On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann [09-01-11 19:11]:
> > On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > But may be my experience is to old in this special case.
> > >
> > > By the way:
> > > xv
On Dienstag 13 Januar 2009, Andrea Momesso wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-
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> Comment: http://getfiregpg.org
>
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> c/MieFDwKD0oeLXgzaN4F09F8OpN8eR/4EtsLSQE5v3e74vJq/Nzzuzi9u+lcz++
> f1ye+fIrdoai
On Dienstag 13 Januar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:53:17 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > great, sending a mail to a public ml that nobody can read. ...
>
> That's not quite true, I could read it :P
as I said... :P
On Mittwoch 14 Januar 2009, David Relson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:01:28 +0100
>
> Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > 2009/1/14 David Relson :
> > > I noticed the "taint" message and don't think that's right. How do
> > > I identify the tainted module?
> >
> > Jan 13 21:35:04 osage Pid: 13119, comm
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> >> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else?
> >
> > You can:
> >
> > 1) use pam as described by Mike
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers"
>
> Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_config since sshd
> is the only se
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> >> >> an ssh config setting, in shorewall, or somewhere else?
> >> >
> >> > You can:
> >> >
> >> > 1) use pam as described by Mike
> >> >
> >> > or
> >> >
> >> > 2) use sshd_config "AllowUsers"
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot, I went with 'AllowUsers root' in sshd_c
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure
> only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to
> explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there
> different types of users so that some can only lo
On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old
> machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron
> Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI
> FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's
> got a
On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote:
> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old
> > > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron
On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Alejandro wrote:
> >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann
> >>
> >> > On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant
On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> I need some help with my memory.
>
> Recently when I quit the X server, the following can be seen in the
> sys log:
>
> Jan 20 18:06:34 e-nibbles mtrr: no MTRR for e800,200 found
>
> and on the TTY where I issued X init,
On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:22:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann
squawked:
> > On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Willie Wong wrote:
> > > Hi list:
> > >
> > > I need some help with my memory.
> > &
On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> well. I couldn't resist and I emerged kde4.2 with something like this:
>
> sudo emerge @kdebase
>
> Now I want to upgrade Qt to 4.5beta but (see below)
>
> Is there any obvious way to solve this that can't see because it's 2AM
>
On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > a) why do you want to install 4.5 beta?
>
don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;)
> To see if it solves a nasty bug in systray when composite is enabl
On Mittwoch 21 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > don't try the beta, try qt-copy ;)
>
> Ohhh... Let's try that then :)
if there are bugs with kde that are caused by qt, qt-copy should always b
On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently updated my dell Inspirion 8100's software after I found to
> my suprise I could no longer play video fast enough to watch. I did a
> kernel upgrade from 2.6.24 to 2.6.28, with a number of
> reconfigurations, including moving
On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit
> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer
> works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for
> java to work?
> >>>
> >>> Wh
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, James Homuth wrote:
> > I'm getting more than a little irritated with
> > its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program
> > with an optional PAM plugin.
>
> What's so bad/hard about pam that
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann :
> > On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> >> What's so bad/hard about pam that everyone wants to remove it?
> >
> > what is so good/usefull about pam that one sh
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant wrote:
> Well, I deleted my kernel .config. Is there any way to magically
> re-create it from the compiled kernel image or any other way?
>
> - Grant
ls /boot
ls /boot
boot config-2.6.28r4.old grubmemtest86plus
System.map-2.6.28r4 Syst
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > in the past pam breakage caused login trouble,
>
> In the past... Like when there's were not enough documentation or it
> was too cryptic?
>
>
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote:
> >>> But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a
> >>> reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up
> >>> with problem
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but
> >>> it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries.
> >
> > I have a server
On Dienstag 27 Januar 2009, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works
> great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product
> tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes.
>
> I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid
On Mittwoch 28 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've decided to try out KDE 4.2. I unmasked all the packages that I
> needed, but when I was emerging kde-base/ksysguard I got the following
> error:
>
> Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libkdeinit4_ksysguard.so
> [ 98%] Built ta
On Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote:
> Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt
> packages?
I am not sure anymore - if you look into the ebuilds you should be able to see
it.
On Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009, Tomas Linhart wrote:
> Before I start again - what is "the right order" for emerging the qt
> packages?
I am not sure anymore - if you look into the ebuilds you should be able to see
it.
On Freitag 30 Januar 2009, Hung Dang wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message:
>
> .
> [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE="kdeprefix kontact
> semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook" 0 kB
> [ebuild NS ] kde-base/step-4.1.4 [4.2.0] USE
On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I emerged KDE-4.2 (RC first, final now) and Phonon wasn't getting any
> backend. No video, no sound.
I have 4.2+kdeprefix and systemsettings show me the xine settings.
eix phonon
[I] kde-base/phonon-kde
Available versions:
On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
>
> Ok. Thanks. Maybe there's something broken deeper in my box.
which phonon related packages do you have installed?
>
> >> I never needed more than one KDE version at the same time, but I like
> >> to have it separate from the rest of the system
On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Samstag 31 Januar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> >> Ok. Thanks. Maybe there's something broken deeper in my box.
> >
> > which phon
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage
> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When
> did this happen? Is x86 the same as i386?
yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage
> >> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote:
> Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using
> it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-)
who needs an initramfs?
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote:
> >> Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using
> >> it all the
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Tom wrote:
> >who needs an initramfs?
>
> Not me ;)
>
> But seeing this discussion, I've finally realised that I'm a dumbass.
> For ages now I've been manually copying the kernel, the system.map and
> the config around my filesystem. I've always wondered how on earth
> p
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2006.0 minimal LiveCD
> iso? According to this:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
>
> "If you want to use the minimal CD on a smaller key or boot a system, you need to follow the procedure describ
On Montag 02 Februar 2009, Miernik wrote:
> After running 'emerge -uD world' I have many things messed-up, besides
> the unability of firefox to do DNS resolve for most (but not all) URLs.
> ssh also can't DNS resolve some hosts (but ping can on the same hosts).
>
> All my manpages look like this:
On Dienstag 03 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since a short time many (not all) packages fail to build with a message
> like
> /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgomp.la
>
> The problem is that I have upgraded to gcc-4.3.3 so there is no path
> /usr/lib/gcc
On Dienstag 03 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system
> similar to BSD "ports" where you build packages from source.
> The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get
> better performance because all executables are optimized f
On Mittwoch 04 Februar 2009, Momesso Andrea wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter
> > > of performance optimization but
On Mittwoch 04 Februar 2009, James Ausmus wrote:
>
> Freecol is a great game that is in Portage and can provide for hours of
> entertainment - it's a Java-based clone of Sid Meier's Colonization, one of
> the best turn-based strategy games ever. Might be a little much for a
> 7-year old, but might
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 00:05:55 Paul Hartman wrote:
> > Almost the same as mine, except I still have lots of font stuff in my
> > xorg.conf -- do those go somewhere else? or are they unneeded in
> > xorg.conf at all these days?
>
> Fonts a
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Sebastián Magrí wrote:
> > The installation experience with the traditional method must be
> > mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is
> > deprecated...
>
> That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not eas
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Sebastián Magrí wrote:
> >>> The installation experience with the traditional method must be
> >>> man
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
> >
> >>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a
> >>> differ
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
>
> > I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a
> > different manner to the way the thing will be used.
>
> Because installation is boring. The easier it is, the better.
wrong. The installation needs a certain d
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
> >>>
> &
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-02-05, Dirk Uys wrote:
> > The type of user I don't like is the ignorant type. Innocent
> > users are ok, they don't know, but ignorant users choose not
> > to know.
>
> Surely there are things you use without knowing how they work.
> Y
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> Hey guys.. random Linux question.
>
> If i have a bash process running on my machine that i am not 'attatched' to
> is there anyway to access it and see what it is doing short of just killing
> it?
>
open files: lsof
everything else: strace
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
> > [...]
> > To be honest, I am surprised this notion of "optimised executables" has
> > stuck around long enough that you've heard it, but it's an old joke to
> > many of us who were around in 2004.
>
> But AFAIK, it *was*
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who
> > don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if
> > something does n
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
>
> I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what
> to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
> >>
>
On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > and gentoo was never meant for the clueless.
>
> Ah, come on Volker, say what's true. My 81 year old dad uses Gentoo
> and he cannot
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more
> > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten
> > it unless you take features off from bash
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know how to configure the kernel for a machine with
> AMD790GX/SB750 chipsets?
>
> Especially what to specify for
>
> SATA
AHCI. Please set ahci mode in bios.
> Audio
repends on the chip used. Probably a hda realtek. In th
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2009 14:36:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what
> > you are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part
> >
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if
> > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over
> > > quickly.
> >
> > The kde ioslave for info
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
> for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled to
> use the "generic x86_64" option, so they can be used on an AMD64 and an
> IA64 system. In addition, all kernel options are either directly in the
> kernel, or modul
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Christopher Walters wrote:
> >> for 64-bit systems, Debian and its child Ubuntu, have packages compiled
> >> to use the "generic x86_64" option
and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
info?
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read
> > info?
>
> You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the
> discussion.
>
> I know you are not
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I
> have grub menu of:
>
> * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz)
> * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old)
> * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1)
>
> T
On Samstag 07 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> > On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> >> > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to
> >> > read
On Sonntag 08 Februar 2009, Hung Dang wrote:
> Hi all
> I know that there is an option in GNOME which allows the computer
> keyboard, mouse and screen to freeze for a certain time for example 3
> minutes for each hour.
> I wonder if there is something similar in KDE?
FREEZE?
sounds stupid, but:
kti
On Mittwoch 11 Februar 2009, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this
> list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations
> running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop
> to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an
>
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