Re: [gentoo-amd64] Boycott Systemd

2014-09-22 Thread Lie Ryan
On 22 September 2014 07:13, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:22:38 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: The words ‘Red Hat’ have put a chill down my spine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Boycott Systemd

2014-09-22 Thread Lie Ryan
On 22 September 2014 10:26, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: I do not use openrc, eudev, or anything similar, and I have no plans to ever use systemd. All of these things are *unnecessary* at present. I simply do not need them and do not foresee a time where I will ever need

Re: [gentoo-amd64] External USB HD

2013-07-09 Thread Lie Ryan
If it uses standard USB mass storage, then the kernel would support it. If the drive has non-standard bells and whistles, then it is possible that some whistles may not work; unless it is really niche hardware, it is likely the kernel would have some support for it, but you would want to check

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD

2012-05-10 Thread Lie Ryan
It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can save your drive without the journal. Also, it probably won't hurt

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0

2011-08-25 Thread Lie Ryan
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Homer Parker hpar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 03:32 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote: So, yes, I think you do have an extreme irrational bias if you prefer a text-based email or torrent clients over a GUI equivalent. Text based torrent clients

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0

2011-08-24 Thread Lie Ryan
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.netwrote: It's not that I have some extreme irrational bias against graphical software, but, in the right hands, console based programs can still perform wonderful things in terms of basic output. Ncurses and s-lang are very

Re: [gentoo-amd64] unsubscribe

2011-06-26 Thread Lie Ryan
2011/6/27 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Piotr Hosowicz wrote: unsubscribe NO !!! You can't leave. :-P List-Unsubscribe:mailto:gento**o-amd64+unsubscribe@lists.**gentoo.orggentoo-amd64%2bunsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org That may help tho. Just do like you did when you checked in. We MAY

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no sound in firefox java

2011-06-17 Thread Lie Ryan
I previously had a problem where the first firefox session would get sound, OSS or ALSA? On 18/06/2011 10:03 AM, Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com wrote: If I use firefox-bin (32 bit) or firefox (64 bit) on youtube, I get sound no problems. If I run mplayer I get sound also. If I use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: bug report help

2011-01-25 Thread Lie Ryan
It was actually quite easy now to emerge icedtea from source, you just need to add the java overlay and then emerge as usual. After emerge and if you are keeping the binary icedtea or sun's, you'd then need to point your preferred java vm using eselect. (Apology for the top post, the Gmail client

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: intel processors x gentoo

2010-10-28 Thread Lie Ryan
(Sorry for the top post, this brain dead email software in my mobile phone do not even allow me to remove the quoted message) I was under the assunpthat I7 was a 32bit cpu, and I was unaw On 28 Oct 2010 15:03, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Lie Ryan posted on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:20:45 +1100

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: intel processors x gentoo

2010-10-28 Thread Lie Ryan
the relation that intel means 32bit). I guess I was wrong. On 28 Oct 2010 15:03, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Lie Ryan posted on Thu, 28 Oct... On 09/29/10 03:03, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I have some machines running gentoo and every machine... Why not? That statement implies

[gentoo-amd64] Re: intel processors x gentoo

2010-10-27 Thread Lie Ryan
On 09/29/10 03:03, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I have some machines running gentoo and every machine running under AMD Processors (64-bit profile), everything is right. Every source code compile fine. But, some machines, i've installed under Intel Core 2 Quad or i7 processor and this machines

Re: [gentoo-amd64] rkhunter results

2010-10-10 Thread Lie Ryan
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Paul Stear gen...@appjaws.plus.com wrote: Hi all, rkhunter runs every day and reports the following:- System checks summary = File properties checks...    Files checked: 142    Suspect files: 141 Rootkit checks...    Rootkits checked

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Updating An Unconnected Machine

2010-04-30 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/30/10 13:27, Frank Peters wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:09:59 -0600 Dmitri Pogosyan pogos...@phys.ualberta.ca wrote: you can copy portage and distro files from connected machine (i.e it will just serve as your local mirror), but you need to run emerge -Du world on the unconnected

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?

2010-04-03 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/03/10 18:17, Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my system: The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin] *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6] but when i ran javac, it says: *

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Text complete under X apps

2010-03-16 Thread Lie Ryan
On 03/17/2010 02:03 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I am not sure what to do to disable this. It's anoying. I googled xorg spell but no luck. I am using a tiling desktop xmonad. I don't know what program/daemon is providing this functionality. Have you checked your emerge -pev world list?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP

2010-01-26 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote: Hello Mark, 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com snip 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? snip You might want to try vmware-player (if you want to go the vmware way). It is free, but it comes with restrictions.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please suggest settings and flags in /etc/make.conf?

2010-01-22 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/22/10 15:01, Mark Knecht wrote: Anyway, right now that's not my problem. This must be my 20th install following the install guide but this time on this machine I am unable to boot anything. Once again grub has bit me and it's acting like it's blown away even windows, but I'm also not

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please suggest settings and flags in /etc/make.conf?

2010-01-21 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/22/10 11:44, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm just installing Gentoo on my first new machine in years. Can anyone suggest which of the CPU flags below might best be added to make.conf? The machine will be a standard desktop running rt-sources and stable Gentoo. This processor is 2 physical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please suggest settings and flags in /etc/make.conf?

2010-01-21 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/22/10 16:26, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 22 January 2010 03:05:55 Lie Ryan wrote: On 01/22/10 11:44, Mark Knecht wrote: # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the # profile used for building. USE=mmx sse sse2 No one size fits all, only you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-23 Thread Lie Ryan
On 12/23/2009 11:36 PM, Duncan wrote: ~arch does mean more and faster updates and that you should be prepared to resort to an alternate boot image, live/rescuecd or the like, in ordered to fix things if necessary, but that's a good idea in any case. And at least a package is normally tested to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-23 Thread Lie Ryan
On 12/24/2009 3:01 AM, Duncan wrote: But the point is, there's no way to test a half-stable system. Before they stable, they test the new packages (only) on an otherwise stable system, and before they ~arch, they test on at least the developer's machine that it works, but there's no real

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!!

2009-12-23 Thread Lie Ryan
On 12/24/2009 9:07 AM, Duncan wrote: Lie Ryan posted on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:08:48 +1100 as excerpted: IMO Gentoo's edge was not about having the most cutting edge software (pun not intended), but rather having a choice. With Gentoo, you get to choose which USE-flag to (not) include; you got

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ?

2009-12-04 Thread Lie Ryan
On 12/4/2009 3:57 PM, Frank Peters wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:36:48 -0600 Barry Schwartzchemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote: Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I discovered ntfs3g, and would

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FAT tools, where ?

2009-12-04 Thread Lie Ryan
On 12/5/2009 4:35 AM, Duncan wrote: So FWIW, your small 8 gig partition for boot-time compatibility purposes is sort of already built into the GPT/EFI spec. That would contain all you needed to boot the kernel, and if you chose not to build them into your kernels, your ntfs and other kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] ffmpeg-0.5-r1 cannot find libfaad.so.1 when faad USE flag enable

2009-10-23 Thread Lie Ryan
Xi Shen wrote: hi, i am using gentoo x64, just have ffmpeg emerged, and successfully emerged -u world. but when i ran ffmpeg -formats, i got a error message saying that the libfaad.so.1 cannot be found. i check my system, and i only have faad2 emerged. actually, the whole portage tree does not

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with USB-Keyboard at Install

2009-08-19 Thread Lie Ryan
Duncan wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com posted 5bdc1c8b0908031600p4ba190b0ya560748a6d636...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:32 -0700: Still, installing from some other distro that actually works seems easier and why, by the way, does that other distro support

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31

2009-06-18 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Dmitri Pogosyan pogos...@phys.ualberta.ca posted 200906172226.n5hmq9o11...@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca, excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:09 -0600: Multimonitor functionality is, however, a must. FWIW, I'm in 100%

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31

2009-06-18 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: One thing that always bugs me is that XRandR requires some configuration[1] and X restart[2], Why are you say that ? One surely does not need to restart X, that's the whole point of XrandR For changing Resolution and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31

2009-06-18 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com posted 4a3a621d.8010...@gmail.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:49:49 +1000: I'd rather say, because laptops are the majority now, dual monitor support is going to be more important. I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31

2009-06-18 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com posted 4a3aa6fb.3010...@gmail.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:43:39 +1000: For changing Resolution and Rotation, you're correct; but with or without randr, whatever I tried I can't switch

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Why Is Gentoo So Far Behind?

2009-06-15 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Peters wrote: In a lot of cases, for example perl, Xorg, and gcc, the Gentoo distribution lags far behind the latest available releases. Even allowing the ~amd64 unstable series, this remains true. Why is this so? I had first considered

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P. Burkett wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built so the proper parts of it are exposed