On 11/17/2010 09:35 AM, Joseph wrote:
On 11/17/10 13:57, Stroller wrote:
http://www.sysresccd.org/
I've tried Gentoo ISO first.
I've downloaded the latest minimal AMD64 ISO and they will not boot my AMD
Athlon 64 processor 3800 (the below ISO boot my other box OK).
The other box has a dif
On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Been using e17 for years :-)
But you use kde too, right? How do you choose which one to use today?
On 11/25/2010 06:55 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> ...
i try to compile some "nice" software like chromium, pyside or openoffice my
> system "freeze". I can't do anything like use keyboard, mouse or switch
betwenn
> windows. How can i find the motive to this strange (???)
Does the freeze always hap
On 11/26/2010 09:50 AM, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
I run the compilation without X, and try to acces over ssh. I can enter in
machine, but so slowly.
The system become unresponsive. If I stay the compilation process end, i can
use the system again.
Okay, that's not a 'freeze' (as I normally use th
On 11/27/2010 11:00 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to install wine on my system which I recently changed from
no-multilib to multilib; so this may be causing this problem. The emerge
issue is here
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking for GL/glx.h... yes
checking for GL/glu.h..
On 11/27/2010 11:17 PM, App Deb wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/28/2010 01:03 AM, Stroller wrote:
On 27/11/2010, at 10:22pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
The ck patch set does not support group scheduling anyway;
Now I'm a little more confused. Does `ion
My ~amd64 machine just updated to icu-4.6_rc2 and this time caused more
than the normal amount of havoc (i.e. rebuilding the largest packages on
the machine including openoffice.)
This time the build of icu-4.6_rc2 fails with a gcc segfault :(
Nothing random about this segfault, it's 100% reprod
On 11/28/2010 09:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
So I've gone with plan B: use the official VPN, even though it sucks.
Um, so who's the administrator for the official VPN?
On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in
complete bafflement.
Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of
kde I decided I'd give it another go over o
On 12/03/2010 04:41 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
Re the discussion on cgroups on the 24/25 november - on my old AMD
barton 2500+ desktop - in the past a load of anything more than 5 made
it very painful to use. Add in running windows in a qemu vm at the same
time (all in 1.5G ram) and its almost
On 12/04/2010 03:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I think I found the reason for a long standing problem I've had with
the machine locking up.
I see no evidence of a cdrom link or device name in /dev.
dmesg seems to show that it is recognized on boot, but I'm not smart
enough to know what the lines f
On 12/06/2010 11:11 AM, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
Hi all,
I am using mutt and gnupg for my mail and I do not understand something:
when I sign and send an email, my gpg signature appears as an attached
"noname" file while friends have an attached "signature.asc" file.
I notice that the mutt
On 12/06/2010 12:07 PM, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
* walt [06.12.2010. @11:44:12 -0800]:
On 12/06/2010 11:11 AM, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
Hi all,
I am using mutt and gnupg for my mail and I do not understand something:
when I sign and send an email, my gpg signature appears as an
On 12/07/2010 05:15 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
walt writes:
[...]
dmesg|grep -2 hdc
[1.416847] hdb: UDMA/100 mode selected
[1.417357] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[2.089165] hdc: LITE-ON CD-ROM LTN-5291S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
You're still using the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MF
On 12/08/2010 04:50 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Yesterday many gnome-apps were updated to 2.32.
There is a problem with evolution's addr book, but for me that is minor.
However, the gnome panel doesn't work. It starts, remains running,
cannot be killed (even with -9) but does not display the pan
On 12/08/2010 06:16 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
walt writes:
On 12/08/2010 04:50 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Yesterday many gnome-apps were updated to 2.32.
There is a problem with evolution's addr book, but for me that is minor.
However, the gnome panel doesn't work. It start
On 12/09/2010 05:31 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm still trying to find out who is looking for that library. The new
version of bug-buddy no l
On 12/12/2010 03:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
after switching to Python-2.7 an ebuild of myself fails.
I'm trying to write an ebuild for dev-python/pyparsing-
My attemp fails with 'setup.py' not found.
Have you tried using the -d flag with emerge? The debugging output
may tell you
On 12/16/2010 03:14 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 16 December 2010 07:24:27 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:33 on Thursday 16 December 2010,
Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
On Thursday 16 December 2010 01:01:27 walt wrote:
Every new generation of unix users
On 12/17/2010 12:31 PM, Dale wrote:
Hi,
I bought this router the other day. I notice something that is a little weird.
When I first wake up and try to check my email, the internet is dead. The light
on my DSL modem is red and Seamonkey can't check my email or load a webpage. If
I unplug the
r
On 12/18/2010 02:27 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
Hello
I am writing to you in order to know if there's a way to install both 4.54 and
4.5.85 releases of kdelibs on the same computer.
The problem is that : I want to use the last powerdevil, which enable better
use and recognition of my laptop batt
On 12/19/2010 05:36 AM, Dale wrote:
My car started acting up the other day and I may have to get
> yet another distributor for it...
If your car is still using a distributor, your computer should
still be using an 8086 ;)
On 12/19/2010 05:17 AM, Dale wrote:
I don't know if the reset changed this or not but I did notice
> that the setting "connection type" was set to "on demand" again.
> I put it back to "always on" which is what I set it to once before.
That was the timeout thingy I mentioned earlier. If you s
On 12/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dale wrote:
I noticed on the router that to completely reset it, you have to push
> the reset button and hold it for 30 seconds or more. It said it even
> resets the firmware. I have not tested this theory tho.
Just to clarify: you've said in other posts that you've rep
On 12/19/2010 09:25 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote:
To make matters worse, when gvfs/nautilus doesn't see the camera at all,
> I have no idea at all how to find out what messages might have been sent
> where, or why gvfs might not be seeing it...
I use gnome, but have no camera so I can't give speci
On 12/19/2010 05:28 PM, Dale wrote:
I want fireball to get a fixed IP from the router and I want smoker
> to get a fixed IP from the router. I think I know how to do that much.
When I first set up my TrendNet router I worried about that, too. After
spending many hours doing exactly what you're
On 12/24/2010 06:18 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to update my old x86 rig and ran into this:
Merging translations into org.gnome.gconf.defaults.policy.
CREATED org.gnome.gconf.defaults.policy
mv -f .deps/gconf-defaults.Tpo .deps/gconf-defaults.Po
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686
On 12/24/2010 11:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2010 18:17:27 walt wrote:
If that fails I would try another cup of eggnog.
Ugh! Sounds awful.
Fear not, I will suffer to drink your share, just to spare you the trial.
I raise your->my cup of holiday cheer to toast
I just fumbled my way through converting my old hal mouse configuration
to the "new" way of putting it back in xorg.conf (where it belongs :)
Peter Hutterer gave me a link to his blog, which was very helpful:
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html
Turns out that th
On 12/27/2010 06:03 AM, walt wrote:
> ...
My new (post-hal) mouse config:
Section "InputClass" <- note the new word "Class", not "Device"
Identifier "trackball" <- can be anything you want
MatchProduct "ImExPS" <--
On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote:
I went with 64 bit and used a miltilib profile. So far, everything is working
fine.
Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out
:)
On 12/27/2010 04:24 PM, Dale wrote:
walt wrote:
On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote:
I went with 64 bit and used a multilib profile. So far, everything is working
fine.
Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck runs out
:)
Why? Going with multilib me
On 12/31/2010 04:52 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
This is weird. When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen
I get a blinking cursor in the top-right of a blank screen. An emerge of
nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper screen. This
is in spite of not having been ab
On 12/31/2010 08:35 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:55:29AM +, Stroller wrote:
On 30/12/2010, at 11:22pm, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
...
I'm looking for a lightweight calendar application that can do the following
things:
Event handling (preferrably also a s
On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 31 December 2010 12:52:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
When I start the system, instead of the kdm login screen I get a
blinking cursor in the top-[left] of a blank screen. An emerge of
nvidia-drivers enables me to restart kdm and get a proper sc
On 01/02/2011 04:43 AM, 4k3nd0 wrote:
Hi all,
i got trouble building the vmmon module for vmware workstation 7. I
tried with the ebuild driver as the module from vmware himself. Error
message is always the same(her the short one):
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
»struct file_operations« hat
On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
My 1.9.2 upgrade didn't lose the keys, but it thinks the screen has
fewer pixels than before, and what it does use is pushed off to the
right (there is a column down the left side, roughly 10-20% of the
screen, which is inaccessible).
I've include
On 01/03/2011 02:11 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 02 January 2011 15:51:24 walt wrote:
On 01/02/2011 03:51 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It looks as though the boot sequence is going wrong somehow,
because when I get my initial blank screen, if I then switch to a
VT and restart xdm
On 01/04/2011 02:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote:
I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that
machine from previous updates.
Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete
system.
Could your machi
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems
somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there
shouldn't be too much of a problem there.
The graphics card as identified by the system is: n
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
The first package in "emerge gnome" that gives me problems is the
app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.1 package. When emerged by itself I get the following
output.
# emerge -pv app-text/gnome-doc-utils
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.4..
On 01/04/2011 08:42 PM, James wrote:
All,
Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work
simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant
sections of my xorg.conf file.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
On 01/05/2011 06:41 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, walt wrote:
On 01/04/2011 08:10 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems
somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkerne
On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote:
Sorry, I did
# echo ">=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
first
Good, you're now trying to install the correct version.
then tried it again and got the following error.
Your kernel was configured to include nvidiafb s
On 01/08/2011 05:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
Hi Joost,
J. Roeleveld wrote:
The easiest solution to this problem would be to ensure that the
USB-subsystem is not scanned before the boot-device is identified by the
kernels boot- process.
This can be achieved by configuring the USB-mass-storage
About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list,
building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to
get it working for the *BSD family.
Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the
other OS's from my machines, including (especially)
On 01/09/2011 04:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:44 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg
Th
On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader, it's
a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload!
You remember the vi versus emacs wars?
On 01/09/2011 01:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
Alan McKinnon writes:
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even has
a truetype USE flag.
Does it support mp3 or ogg vorbis? D
On 01/09/2011 01:11 PM, Dale wrote:
walt wrote:
This sounds about as complicated as lilo.
Much more complicated, but also more nifty :)
Is this going to end up like hal?
I certainly hope so!
> You know, so complicated that no one can use the thing and they have to start
over ag
On 01/09/2011 11:07 AM, walt wrote:
One problem I encountered on my old amd32 machine is that I had to remove
the USB-related grub2 modules or grub2 would crash while probing for disks.
The newer amd64 machine works fine with the USB stuff included. Dunno why.
By trial-and-error I found that
On 01/09/2011 11:07 AM, walt wrote:
NOTE: I can't recall exactly why but the ata* modules conflict with some
other modules, so *don't use them* unless you know what you are doing.
NOTE: if grub2 names your disks (ataN,N) instead of (hdN,N) that means
you are using the ata* grub2 mo
On 01/11/2011 11:04 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to build a windows 7 guest using virtualbox-ose-3.1.8. When
starting the virtual machine to install the OS, I get the warning:
"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not
operational. Your 64-bit guest will
On 01/12/2011 04:17 PM, Dale wrote:
I just learned a long time ago to never say I am done with anything.
> We never know what will happen that makes us go back and fix something
> else.
I distinctly remember declaring "There! I'm done with my 1982 tax return!"
BIG mistake :(
On 01/15/2011 07:17 AM, doherty pete wrote:
when i input
Xorg -configure
the log is
[ 442.765] (EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)
This is all very confusing unless you know the history of evdev, which most
sane people don't know. (I obviously don't qualify as san
On 01/15/2011 10:48 AM, David Relson wrote:
My /etc/modprobe.d directory is under configuration management using
subversion. Whenever modprobe runs, it reads the files in the .svn
directory and complains about all the stuff it doesn't understand, for
example:
Jan 15 08:57:22 osage modprobe: WAR
On 01/15/2011 11:17 PM, Victor Fragoso wrote:
Hello,
After upgrading xorg to 1.9 now Gnome is not able to start session. This is the
message I get after login in using GDM
Protocol not supported by server.
xmodmap: unable to open display ':0'
which: no keychain in [PATH]
*** gnome-session: 32
On 01/17/2011 12:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
on one of my machines, googleearth crashes. An
ldd /opt/googleearth/googleearth.bin | grep crypto
shows that it tries to load both
/usr/lib32/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and /usr/lib32/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
On a different machine it only loads /usr/lib3
On 01/17/2011 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
alsmost all bios load the microcode automatically.
I've known for years what microcode is and what it does, but the idea
of updating it is a complete surprise to me.
From where does the bios get the microcode that it loads?
On 01/19/2011 04:53 PM, walt wrote:
On 01/17/2011 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
alsmost all bios load the microcode automatically.
I've known for years what microcode is and what it does, but the idea
of updating it is a complete surprise to me.
From where does the bios ge
This is a followup to my grub2 thread, which got a bit too long for comfort.
I actually have grub2 installed and working properly, so it's very do-able.
But the main point (for me) was grub2's ability to find partitions by LABEL.
That is, if you know the LABEL of the boot partition, grub2 is gua
On 01/21/2011 05:04 AM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Nils Larsson:
On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote:
Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to
find the rootfs?
You have to use a initramfs, see:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID
On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
using Python3.1, if I say
import site
I get
File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !
ValueError: Can only set default encoding to utf-8
But
emerge -
On 01/21/2011 07:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 01/21/2011 04:26:09 PM, walt wrote:
On 01/21/2011 12:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
using Python3.1, if I say
import site
I get
File "/usr/lib64/python3.1/site.py", line 472, in setencoding
sys.setdefaultencodin
On 01/21/2011 01:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
I booted into BIOS here. I have an option called "SATA Configuration"
BIOS then gives me another choice "Configure SATA as"
What was that programmer smoking? Some of the equipment I use at work
offers choices that are that dumb, and the error messag
Just finished using gdisk to convert my MSDOS partition table to
a GPT. Worked perfectly on the first try (whew).
Rebooted with grub2 to discover that grub2 couldn't see my shiny
new GPT :(
After holding my head in my sweaty palms for a few minutes, I
finally realized that grub didn't automatic
On 01/23/2011 10:08 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities,
which do not need any driver to work and those, which
need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't
compiled in/compiled as module?
Well, this is quick and dirty and you
On 01/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I always think of the Postfix devs as people who take Unix philosophy
seriously. The code does one thing and does it very very well:
Are you accusing sendmail of being an OS that lacks only a good mailer?
Okay, I genuinely have grub2 installed and doing exactly what it's
supposed to do: boot your machine using only partition LABELS, not
device names/numbers.
Below are a series of steps that *any* gentoo fan should recognize and
be comfortable with.
If you are not familiar with any of these steps
On 01/23/2011 02:28 PM, walt wrote:
Okay, I genuinely have grub2 installed and doing exactly what it's
supposed to do: boot your machine using only partition LABELS, not
device names/numbers...
If you got through part 1 you should have all the files you need to
install grub2 to your dr
On 01/24/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hello,
I'm wondering if there are any generic sorts of code translation
tools in portage wherein I could translate from an 'uncommon' language
no one here is likely to use (EasyLanguage) into C?
As an example I've attached a little EL function..
On 01/15/2011 06:34 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. I am trying to use my unstable gentoo on kernel 2.6.36-gentoo-r6
and when I emerge nvidia-drivers, I get invalid argument when I try to
modprobe the module.
Forgive me if I'm repeating something already posted in this very long thread.
I
(I'm separating this from the grub2 stuff because it works with any
bootloader that allows you pass a boot parameter to your kernel.)
This turned out to be easier than I thought -- but be aware that your
kernel must have "EFI GUID partition table support" compiled in before
you start anything els
On 01/27/2011 12:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I am NOT a NUMBER! I am a DEMOGRAPHIC!
I am NOT a HUSBAND! I am a MARITAL SERVICES PROVIDER!
On 01/30/2011 02:36 PM, Alan Warren wrote:
Hello,
My thumbdrive has been mounting fine, but recently it started mounting
with strange characters in it's name.
My thumbdrive mounts as /media/
I can offer an observation but not an answer. Your email client, mutt,
is sending "quoted-printable"
On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then
the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine
after that.
That sounds to me like a bug :)
On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote:
I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8
All seems to be well apart from
a) Normal Users cannot shutdown
b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount).
I understand very well your frustration because my gnome desktop goes
through periods w
On 02/02/2011 03:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt wrote:
On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when
first inserted into the PC.
That sounds to me like a bug :) do you see the same on
On 02/01/2011 12:05 PM, Jarry wrote:
I would like to avoid
it [fsck], as it is rather large partition (2TB) with a lot of
files, and fsck takes quite long time...
The ext4 wiki site claims that fsck runs 2 to 20 time faster than
ext3, depending on the number and size of the files contained in
On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did
opine thusly:
As much as I like the convenience of automounting as a luser, all of
my bofh instincts cry out that lusers shouldn't be allowed to
mount a files
On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can
have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and
colour depths. Is there a way to set tty1..tty9 to 640x480 *IN TEXT
MODE*
On 02/05/2011 05:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I even had a lockup while running from the live CD
Have you tried memtest86 on that machine?
On 02/04/2011 04:54 PM, Grant wrote:
Yesterday I caught up with portage and updated quite a few packages on
a remote workstation. The system hadn't been updated for about a
month. The updates included some xorg stuff and some xfce4 stuff.
Today when the workstation's user logged in via gdm, she
On 02/05/2011 12:05 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:43 on Saturday 05 February 2011, Cedric
Sodhi did opine thusly:
There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially
not) the distfiles should reside in /usr.
I've been saying this for years. I
On 02/05/2011 03:43 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
the latest builds
of "screen" are in a git repository, which I'm not familiar with.
(I'm not the same Walter, as you know already :)
I urge everyone to get to know git.
I admit, I could be prejudiced in git's favor just because it was the
first vcs
On 02/09/2011 12:05 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote:
I'm a little confused about use of the term "disk labels" in
this discussion. Isn't a disk label a fs level ID (I create
those when I make my fs)? Using UUID in fstab for quite awhile
here (due to multiple external drives), but those aren't disk
la
On 02/09/2011 02:31 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:23:50 +0100, Nils Holland wrote:
Thanks a lot, I've read your mail just in time. Actually, glibc 2.13
krept onto my first machine Monday night - I generally test new
versions of such "far reaching" stuff as glibc on a single mac
Cinnamon almost works well for me except that the Applications menu
does nothing when I click on it. The other dropdown menus work as
expected.
If it works for you, I'll do more debugging here, but if it's just
broken then I won't spend any more time on it.
Thanks
udev-186 replaces libudev.so.0 with libudev.so.1, and pulseaudio
won't compile against it. If you need pulse, avoid udev-186.
I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had
to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that
did build against libudev.so.1 and now ha
On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
> upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than
> chroot'in in and all.
There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail:
First, you reboot and
On 07/05/2012 08:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:40:15 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>>> I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had
>>> to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other packages that
>>> did build against libudev.so.1 and now had to be reb
On 07/06/2012 05:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I have one network (a linksys) to which all my devices are attached.
>
> I have two laptops running ~amd64 and one desktop running amd64.
> I have one scanner, an hp officejet 7310 that is (wired) ethernet
> attached.
>
> When I try xsane from eithe
On 07/07/2012 06:17 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Ive installed app-emulation/qemu
> and app-emulation/kqemu but there is no "qemu" binary and programs like
> qemu-i386 just print a limited help and wont accept the usual arguments
> - its almost like a wrapper is missing.
I don't use the gentoo
On 07/07/2012 04:27 AM, walt wrote:
> Do you have the 'fax' device on your laptops?
BTW, did you 'install' the printer devices with hp-setup?
On 07/07/2012 07:14 AM, walt wrote:
> Qemu supplies two different binaries: one you can run as an unprivileged
> user (usually named qemu-i386 or whatever) and another that needs special
> privileges (usually named gemu-system-i386 or whatever).
I just remembered that installing the gi
On 07/07/2012 07:33 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Moreover the new printer entry in cups fails to print a test page (the
> old, cups-installed, entry continues to work).
Once again I forgot my number-one fallback move: I always delete
all the existing printer devices after upgrading cups (or hplip
On 07/07/2012 11:03 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12):
> hp:/net/Officejet_7300_series?zc=HPCC9932
> error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again.
Make me want to throw your laptop out of my window :)
You can ping your printer,
On 07/07/2012 02:26 PM, Chandler Paul wrote:
> I should be able to easily do this simply by setting the option
> "ThirdButtonEmulation" in the evdev configuration file in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to "on", however, this does not seem to make
> any difference even though I can see Xorg picking up the
On 07/08/2012 06:02 AM, Chandler Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:30:23 -0700 walt wrote:
>> I had similar problems configuring a non-standard mouse. By using
>> xev to examine mouse-clicks I discovered that the button numbering
>> was completely different from what I
On 07/08/2012 10:58 AM, Chandler Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:36:26 -0700 walt wrote:
>
>> Can you generate any other events beside button1-down/up? Maybe
>> by sliding your finger across the screen? I imagine that if I
>> were designing such a gadget I&
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