Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

2009-09-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover > > meino.cra...@gmx.de squawked: > >> on my way to the "best" window manag

Re: [gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing

2009-09-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:51:33PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: > I need a program to print "Address labels" that come in > on an 8 1/2 x 11" (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange > 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution > for labelnation: > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/17

Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc

2009-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:02:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Peter Humphrey squawked: > root (hd0,4) > kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 > softlevel=no-x > > When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at > the standard 80x25, then w

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:37:15PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse > button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text > (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried > pressing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:18:15PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > 090922 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:06:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >>> It sounds like you may have STFP disabled in your sshd_config. > >> From that file : > >> # override default of no subsyst

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:56:20PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > No one responded about the possibility of using the keyboard to do the > paste ... and man gpm is silent about it as well, does that mean its > not really possible to copy with mouse and paste with keyboard? I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems

2009-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > debug1: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version 1.2.17 > debug1: no match: 1.2.17 > Protocol major versions differ: 2 vs. 1 > Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer > > It looks as if the U

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:17:13PM -0500, Penguin Lover James Erickson squawked: > today i installed two quad core Intel Xeon > E5450's (Harpertown). i notice in /proc/cpuinfo i no longer have a vmx > flag as i had with my previous Intel E5405's. i have also noticed that > my /dev/kvm device is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Rsync Failing with no route to host, when there is...

2009-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:37:45AM +0100, Penguin Lover Nevynxxx squawked: > I have a server that appears unable to rsync for emerge --sync. > > When I try I get: > > >>> Starting rsync with rsync://204.74.99.100/gentoo-portage... > >>> Checking server timestamp ... > rsync: failed to con

[gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

2009-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On my laptop the terminal emulator is currently aterm. (I know, I know, I really should switch to rxvt-unicode already. But I am about to get a new machine soon, so am too lazy to deal with it now.) But when I ssh into other computers, and issue echo $TERM it shows kterm. Now this has caused me a

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

2009-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:39:44PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nils Larsson squawked: > > Now, at work, the machines run some custom version of linux and I am > > not sure what the terminals are. And I also often use the VT and not > > use X on my laptop, so I am disinclined to set TERM in .bashrc. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

2009-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:57:34PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > I also have aterm and tried ssh with two different machines. Both return > rxvt > which is what echo $TERM gives when in a local terminal. > Okay, this is progress. I didn't think to check this before. But apparently echo

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:42:15AM +0200, Penguin Lover Andrea Momesso squawked: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea > wrote: > > I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. > > > > I can't find a way to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?

2009-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:04:03PM -0500, Penguin Lover David Juhl squawked: > I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. > The network I am on is really strict on email attachments and no usb > drives are allowed, so I possibly thought of a website that uses ssl and >

Re: [gentoo-user] program to solve assignment problem?

2009-11-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: > Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems? > Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15) > for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 = > 700. (A solutio

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo USB Keyboard

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:56AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stefan G. Weichinger squawked: > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > > > I still get no output/event for those upper seven keys ... oh my. > > At least I got a cleaned up xorg.conf for now ;-) > > > > It ain't that important although I would li

Re: [gentoo-user] [possibly OT?] Bash-4 mailcheck oddity

2009-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:28:02PM +, Penguin Lover Etaoin Shrdlu squawked: > On Thursday 05 Nov 2009, Willie Wong wrote: > > > Hi list: > > > > Finally upgraded to Bash-4 on my home desktop, and discovered a bit of > > odd (as compared to Bash-3) behaviour

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:04:44PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Hi there! > > > I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 > > system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but w

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb

2009-11-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:59:22AM -0500, Penguin Lover Albert Hopkins squawked: > Could you change your locale so that we can see the error messages > in English? In addition, please also include a few more lines of the failed compile. Right now the command that is generating the error is not sho

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:54:45PM -0700, Penguin Lover Maxim Wexler squawked: > you guys are killing me -- the problem goes away when the ac cord is > plugged in. I open files watch videos surf the web and so on -- no > problems. I'm no expert, but that would seem to suggest that the fs is > OK, n

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:54:45PM -0700, Penguin Lover Maxim Wexler squawked: > Roy Marples, who is a(the?) openrc developer, roped me into using git > to do whatever git is supposed to do and now it's much worse. > /dev/sd1 and 2 fail to mount as before PLUS many init services fail to > start PLU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:29:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >> There is a tool I've used in the past called PasswordMaker. It uses a >> master password and a flexible set of parameters to generate passwords and >> if

Re: [gentoo-user] question about wireless setting

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:46:51PM +0900, Penguin Lover ?? squawked: > localhost ~ # lspci > > 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] > Network Connection (rev 02) > localhost ~ # iwconfig > > lono wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete needs net-libs/ortp ??

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:48:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > > I would just love to help... but your Chrome Messenger seems to be b0rked. W -- Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1089 days, 9:27

Re: [gentoo-user] kopete needs net-libs/ortp ??

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:24:02AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~net-libs/ortp-0.7.1". > (dependency required by "kde-base/kopete-3.5.10-r4" [ebuild]) > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-3.5.10" [installed]) > (dependency required by

Re: [gentoo-user] tunneling or redirect attack?

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover laurent squawked: > Is it a common thing, or really easy to do, to redirect the content from a > server to another one? > > Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all data > travelling there?? You need to be a bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > > This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, > > Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk > > access

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:22:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Dirk Uys squawked: > This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, > Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk > access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: >> This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, >> Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk >> access, the PC slow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: >> Hum, I had forgotten about this command. It would have come in handy a >> few days ago. But in the case of FireFox, wouldn't that make it worse? > > No. If you run other tasks as "ionice -c3" they will stop blo

Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

2009-12-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:11:21PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: > when i boot my system, at the step "Wiping /tmp", it pops up an error > message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option. > in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it > used the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people > and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save > videos to my disks, and play them back after the file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people > and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save > videos to my disks, and play them back after the file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie squawked: > How did this breakage happen? I would guess that at the time the > installation procedure was devised, this line > > # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev > > worked perfectly OK, since /dev didn't have any sub

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:18:20AM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > > When you plug-in your device, what does > > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? > > 120 Okay, this checks out wit

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:58:35PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger squawked: > > You are not running any sort of LVM, RAID, or encryption, are you? > > A similar bug seems to have occured in device mapper, where dm gave > > the underlying fs the wrong values for max_hw_sector. > > I recko

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:54:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > That is certainly one good example. My little ol desktop is not rebooted > to much. I once went 242 days without a reboot. Ahem! While we are busy comparing wang sizes, read my sig please. That is the server formerly k

Re: [gentoo-user] While installing Gentoo: emerge gentoo-sources hangs at Applying 4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch

2009-12-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:28:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: > Now I am trying to install Gentoo on a new system but when try to emerge > gentoo-sources (as I am supposed to), it hangs at "Applying > 4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch". This problem is also known as bug #291389. > I see with top

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 06:32:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > and what is the advantage? Why do you keep your computer running, wasting > energy? Is there any good reason? I travel a lot. It is convenient to have a server to serve my e-mail and personal files. There a

Re: [gentoo-user] While installing Gentoo: emerge gentoo-sources hangs at Applying 4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch

2009-12-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:50:20AM +0100, Penguin Lover Erik squawked: > I am configuring vanilla-sources right now. But I got a scary security > warning. So the plan is: Which security warning are you talking about? > 5. Disconnect ethernet cable. Eh, why? W -- I couldn't repair your brakes,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:01:50PM +0100, Penguin Lover Renat Golubchyk squawked: > > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document", >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge with --root option : users not created

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:02:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Shinkan squawked: > I wanted to submit this as a bug on bugzilla, but I must be sure there is > nothing that I miss. > > Let's say I have a /target dir. > If I do 'emerge --root=/target ' (cross-emerge), and that > is supposed to create user

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:06:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: > On 12/14/09, Stroller wrote: > > It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have > > predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension. > > > > Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

2009-12-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25:51AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way > of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at > the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it s

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler squawked: > the reason for segfaulting is that you try to use a zaphod style > xorg.conf with xrandr. That don't mix. I learned that the hard way. You just made m

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: > On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote: >> unmute? >> > To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer > is special that way, other programs don't have the same effect). Mplayer? Ser

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] xinerama on dual head radeon 9600

2009-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:26:15AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked: > Willie Wong writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Penguin Lover Sebastian Be?ler > > squawked: > >> the reason for segfaulting is that yo

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 03:47:14PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: > i installed my gentoo on a usb HD disk, and i have compiled scsi, usb, > ata drivers into the kernel. but when boot, the system still cannot > find my usb hd, but it did find my hd on my laptop. what i missed? I don't comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0 > device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device > corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing wron

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked: > Willie Wong writes: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner > > squawked: > > > I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?

2009-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked: > The only floppy options I can find in the kernel relating to floppy drives > in the kernel config are mac floppy, amiga floppy, and atari floppy, none > of which apply to me. I believe I am using udev, and both the

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab and cdrom question

2009-12-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Penguin Lover Denis squawked: > My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the > only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what > Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM > device forced t

Re: [gentoo-user] dolphin cannot display chinese

2009-12-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +0800, Penguin Lover Xi Shen squawked: > my X it self works well with chinese. but the dolphin does not work > well with chinese. if any file contains chinese (or any non-ascii) > characters, it simply will not be displayed in the list. how can i fix > this? I do

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:56:39PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > Is there a quick way to install a bootloader manually, so I can see if > that works? I tried to adapt this but couldn't come up with a > procedure I though would be correct: Don't know about the distro you were trying to in

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:01:38AM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't > wipe it. blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to > /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. > I'll try another dist

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:06:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > The problem with that is there doesn't seem to be a Gentoo ISO which > will fit on a 512MB USB key. I tried to make it work once and failed. > The other thing is going through the entire Gentoo installation just > to sell t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:41:31PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > > http://www.dslinux.org/ > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ > > > > DSLinux = Linux on the Nintendo DS > > DSL = Damn Small Linux > > I knew about the latter of course, having already mentioned it. I'd also > said

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:34:34AM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: > The advanced bash scripting guide will be equally valid nowadays as it was > when it was first written. A few minor edges have changed in bash in the > latest times, but you are unlikely to get touched by these unl

Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

2009-12-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:16:36AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > On 22 Dec 2009, at 03:22, Dale wrote: >> ... I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the >> waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo >> uses? Links to a even better

Re: [gentoo-user] xconsole characters

2009-12-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:00:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover pk squawked: > 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 cl

[gentoo-user] Gigabyte T1028M Install Journal

2009-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, Having troubled the list much in the past, I figure one way to contribute is to here list some pit-falls I encountered in getting a working environment set up on my Gigabyte T1028M netbook. I will gradually update this thread as I run into more problems and figure out how to solve them.

[gentoo-user] Package gl?

2009-12-27 Thread Willie Wong
Hi, brand new system I am trying to install. emerge gets to xorg-server-1.7.3.901-r1 and dies with the message that the config script cannot find package gl. And it is true, if I issue pkg-config --libs gl I get, instead of the expected -IGL Package gl was not found in the pkg-config search p

Re: [gentoo-user] Package gl?

2009-12-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:27:47PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Hi, brand new system I am trying to install. > > emerge gets to xorg-server-1.7.3.901-r1 and dies with the message that > the config script cannot find package gl. And it is true, if I issue > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved, sorry for the noise] Package gl?

2009-12-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:34:06PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Oops, I just remembered that I can just look on my other gentoo server > to find where gl is and this brings up a new problem! > > gl.pc is located in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gl.pc > equery belongs t

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

2009-12-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Penguin Lover Gmail squawked: > My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we > install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, > or XFCE4 are used? Depends. For the most part if you just run emerge a DE or

Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:28:25AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > I thought portage showed all the messages at the end now. Which is great in itself. I just hope the OP has a elog set-up or is not on a console with limited scrollback buffer. :) 102 packages can have quite a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:17:52PM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Schwidom squawked: > as i noticed the directory /usr/portage/distfiles holds all installed > sources. What i want to do is modifying the code and reinstalling the > package. What is the simplest way? Is it possible without modifying the

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompiling already installed packages with modification

2009-12-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann squawked: > you can make it even easier: > create: > /etc/portage/env/PKG_CATEGORY > put patch in that directory > create file: > /etc/portage/PKG_CATEGORY/PKGNAME > with this: > > post_src_prepare() { > epatch "/

[gentoo-user] Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware lspci shows 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) So I tried the i915 kernel driver with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: > On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: >> Hi list: >> >> I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte >> Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved?] Re: Intel Video and i915 driver

2010-01-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:25:51PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked: > > On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > >> Hi list: > >> > >> I found the following problem wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech diNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

2010-01-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:59:31PM +0200, Thanasis wrote: > http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/17587875/Logitech_diNovo_Keyboard_Mac_Edition.html Dont see why not. I have a rebranded logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo which uses a USB receiver, similar to described in the link. It works out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze

2010-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:40:39PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: > Hello, > My system just froze, dead unresponsive, with the screen on, after > several minutes of being idle. How can I gather more information about > it? Is there someplace to look for clues as to what made it freeze? What was it runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] system freeze

2010-01-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:09:27PM +0200, Yoav Luft wrote: > ok, it happened in X, and happened several times. I suspect it happens > only when the screen is supposed to go to standby, but it's only > suspicion, not a fact. I've changed the kernel settings lately, > without installing the new kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] [footnote] The purpose of pam

2010-01-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:34:56PM -0800, walt wrote: > After thinking awhile I realized that pam can be used to > combine muliple forms of authentication to reduce the well > documented risk of single-factor authentication (like our > traditional password system). > > Example: if I have an ordin

Re: [gentoo-user] icedtea6-bin or sun-jdk?

2010-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:48:52AM -0800, Grant wrote: > It looks like my installed icedtea6-bin and sun-jdk are both depended > on by virtual/jdk-1.6.0. I think I can choose one or the other, > right? Does icedtea6-bin work as well as sun-jdk? You *should* be able to use either one. There is on

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:43:22AM -0800, Grant wrote: > > Hi, > > > > add to your /etc/portage/package.license : > > > > net-im/skype skype-eula > > > > This will unmask skype. > > > > regards, > > Could someone explain the purpose of this new portage feature? I was > hoping adding a license to

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:09:26AM -0800, Kyle Adams wrote: > easier still would be to put ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" in your make.conf Easier... arguably. But are you sure you want to accept ALL EULAs that can ever be? What if I were to bundle some software that has a two line EULA: "By installing this s

Re: [gentoo-user] skype masked because of eula?

2010-01-31 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:14:27AM -0800, Grant wrote: > I'm doing all of my testing with net-wireless/broadcom-sta. > > package.license seems to unmask the package which otherwise won't > emerge. ACCEPT_LICENSE does negate the need manually accept the > license. So they seem to perform differen

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote: > I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem. > I'm at a loss as to what this could be. > When it says "requires -liberty" is liberty part of a package? I am not > sure what it means by -liberty and were to acquire it. The library's

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > ssh into box gives: > > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? > ### recently

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation > problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems > starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a > new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: > >r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts > /dev/ptmx > > /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals running in X? > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about > which I'm poorly informed. > > Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, so I > started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted u

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:22:34PM -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to > get, so I'm polling for recommendations. > > Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the > device. > > I'd prefer to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Latitude D610

2005-06-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:30:26PM -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: > On 6/21/05, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone had success installing Gentoo 2005.0 on a Dell Latitude D610? > > Specifically I'm worried about getting the ATI RADEON X300 video card > > and the Intel PRO/Wireles

[gentoo-user] Where to put ssh tunnel for startup?

2005-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
I have a question regarding SSH tunneling: Because DSL has not come to my area yet, broadband access is monopolized by optimum online, who, as many of you are aware, is on god knows how many e-mail blacklists. Furthermore, in their effort to "thwart spam", they also block outgoing smtp connections

Re: [gentoo-user] .MID plugin for mozilla

2005-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:38:28PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:51 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > Try playing a midi locally. > > > > On 7/4/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't seem to get my mozilla to play MIDI files embedded in web pages. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Extra buttons on my keyboard

2005-07-05 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:37:19PM -0600, Hani Duwaik wrote: > I use xbindkeys. Executing: > > xbindkeys -mk > > should allow you to see what key sequence the special keys are mapped > to (and then use them in your '.xbindkeysrc' file to execute > commands/apps). > > HTH, > > -Hani > neat! t

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:06:50PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > > > > Then set the same environment variables in your > > current shell and they > > should stick. > > Nope, .bash_history completely empty after a bunch of > ls's. At least it didn't tell me to become root :o Try exiting the sessio

Re: [gentoo-user] Limewire

2005-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:29:08AM -0300, Bruno Gola wrote: > >when you can type in a terminal "jav..." and press tab and you get: > >java javac javaws... etc, limewire must work > > > > > > > >>Does anyone knows what should I do correctly or just tell me a better > >>p2p software (i use pysoulse

Re: [gentoo-user] WAY OT: quote

2005-07-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:13:11PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > On Friday 08 July 2005 17:32, Jason Cooper wrote: > > > Michael Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > To see the world in a grain of sand, > > > > and t

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

2005-07-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 09:18:05PM -0600, George Roberts wrote: > Technically both are started at the end of the boot sequence. However > if I use "/etc/init.d/xdm zap" and then "/etc/init.d/xdm start" I am > now getting a message "Setting up gdm ..." followed by "ERROR: could not > open the Disp

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two > messages as follows: > > One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid > host name. > > Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:16:10PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > >The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname > >(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). > > > > > >W > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
Regarding your other problem (the one about cardmgr and PCMCIA) (sorry about this, I kind of lost your original email) look through your kernel configuration (it should be in /usr/src/linux/.config), look for the line CONFIG_PCCARD=y CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y if it is set to "n", th

[gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaulted, because some supporting library tries to acc

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly > > is causing the problem? > > Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken > dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?

2005-07-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:22:04PM -0300, Urs Schuetz wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: > > > I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update > > on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to > > find my xsession

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