Hi All,
This is what I updated yesterday and as a result my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 is
no longer used to define the look of the xdm login screen. It seems that it
is all defined in Xresources now?
=
Mon Apr 30 17:29:46 2007 >>> sys-apps/ed-0.4
Stuart Howard:
> I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :)
>
> Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and
> killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and
> reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now.
> I shall consider it a lesson to r
Am Montag 30 April 2007 10:56 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or
> > reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script.
> > However, it would be great to pr
Another question: Which options are appropriate to mount my backup partition
while executing the script:
noexec,async,dev,rw ?
Hi,
default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. match
your needs, but nouser : you have to know before if the users would
launch your script on behal
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > > Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition?
> >
> > yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as
> > a swap partition.
>
>
* Jesse Adelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-05-01 14:08]:
[...]
> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past,
> I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put it
> in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant...
You've grabbed the .ebuild for the versio
Hi,
I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
I have tried booting with
Hello Jesse Adelman,
> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past,
> I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put
> it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant...
Why? Overlays are for ebuilds not in the portage tree, and this ebuild is
no lo
=== On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: ===
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
> AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
>
> I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try
> to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being:
>
> i
On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote:
> As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order.
> I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send mail instead of my ISP's
> server. Is this possible with the TLS/SSL encryption that Gmail uses?
Sure.
From /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM
> > subsystem. The whole point of the swap partition is to simplify access to
> > swapped pages and therefore make it very fast.
>
> that does n
Hello Andrew,
Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> === On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: ===
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
>> AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
>>
>> I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when
Ah, thanks a bunch. That did the trick.
On 5/1/07, Bo Ãrsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote:
> As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order.
> I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send mail instead of my ISP's
> ser
On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote:
> In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It
> does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is
> the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that,
> btw, ghc could
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM
> > > subsystem. The whole point of the swap partition is to simplify access
> > > to swap
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:03:23 maxim wexler wrote:
> On my way from updating from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernels
> decided to upgrade ati-drivers and went to
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
>
> for a refresher. It says to run equery to see that
> dloader use flag is off but this is what I
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> no, I trust the kernel devs how said, that a swapfile in 2.6 should not be
> slower.
"should not" is not the same as "is not"
I better trust my own experiences...
> > /dev/swap-device none swap sw 0 0
> >
> > (Note mount-point is none.)
>
> you 'activate
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > no, I trust the kernel devs how said, that a swapfile in 2.6 should not
> > be slower.
>
> "should not" is not the same as "is not"
>
> I better trust my own experiences...
and I mine - which showed me in the past,
Roger Mason wrote:
Hello Andrew,
Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
=== On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: ===
Hi,
I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk
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Hy everybody,
can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory
of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild?
Let me clarify:
I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be
located under /somethi
Would ROOT="" in the emerge command work?
--Joshua Doll
Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote:
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Hy everybody,
can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory
of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild?
Let me clarify:
I wa
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I thought about that too, but wouldn't that more or less create a new
"system". For instance if I emerged a library (say libpcap) with
ROOT="/libs" and then tried to emerge wireshark (which depends on
libpcap) with ROOT="/analysis" I think that wires
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Jesse Adelman wrote:
> Hi, all. I want to do an "emerge -uDN world", mostly to update Xorg to the
> newest
> stable version. However, I have one package that I don't want to update, that
> being media-tv/mythtv. Now, the version of mythtv (and associa
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:28:06PM +0200, Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote:
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>
> Hy everybody,
>
> can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory
> of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild?
> Let me clarify:
> I wan
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> As far as I know there is no way to change the prefix via portage, since its
> all hardcoded (kinda makes me wonder why this was never added as a feature
> tho).
Makes me wonder, too. I'm starting to think about writing a patch. It
should be s
I apologize if this is a duplicate. I've just done a re-install and
I don't think my first attempt got out.
I tried Xubuntu on a 1999 Dell with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of
ram. The install was excruciatingly slow, and once installed it was
only painfully slow. So I went back to Gentoo, r
David Snider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roger Mason wrote:
I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an
AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU.
I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I
try
to boot from the CD it hangs, the las
Noven~
Thanks very much for the help! I got the kernel rebuilt and compiled, and
used some of your xorg.conf suggestions. X comes up fine on the D240 now!
I really appreciate your help with this.
Jack
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From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesd
On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:06:43 JD wrote:
> Noven~
> Thanks very much for the help! I got the kernel rebuilt and compiled, and
> used some of your xorg.conf suggestions. X comes up fine on the D240 now!
> I really appreciate your help with this.
>
Excellent, glad to hear you got it working. FYI Beryl
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From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:59 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420
On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:06:43 JD wrote:
> Noven~
> Thanks very much for the help! I got the ker
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:56 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my
> > efforts till now have failed. Here's my info:
> >
> > baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail
>
> I think you should emerge mail-fil
Hi all,
I have to start using WPA-PSK, to replace my plain old WEP :) because
we've migrated at work.
I use wpa_supplicant via /etc/conf.d/net; net.wlan0 is symlinked to
net.lo; but the interface never comes up.
wpa_supplicant.conf reads:
network={
ssid="Xxxx"
scan_ssid=1
mode=0
pro
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Hi,
I've setup a gentoo overlay for vim and vim related ebuilds. This
includes the most recent patches for vim, plus some miscallenous patches
and usual gentoo patchset.
* why the hell?
Well I thought there may be users out there who want to try th
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:28:06 Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote:
> can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory
> of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild?
> Let me clarify:
> I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be
> located under
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I have a EMT64 server that runs a mythtv backend as well as other things
and a AMD64 mythtv frontend which has been running with its own hard
disk and therefore install of Gentoo for sometime. I am looking at
building another frontend without a disk so
Hello Iain,
> and conf.d/net reads
>
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
Instead of this, you should use
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
the Linux wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while
working along with
ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper cannot manage encryption by itself.
C
> Whats the purpose of this?
To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux
distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage.
--
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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> >
> > Yup. And a swapfile needs mounting and activating.
>
> and? What is the problem? The partition has to be mounted anyway, and
> activating a swapfile or swap partition takes the same amount of time.
okay...
rega
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> RTFM didn't find anything useful and I know the rules worked before.
> Help.
For what it's worth, I'm running linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 on the Dell.
I went and did it "the hard way". I started by commenting out almost
everyt
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:45 -0500, Fabio A Correa wrote:
> Hello Iain,
>
> > and conf.d/net reads
> >
> > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
>
> Instead of this, you should use
>
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
>
> the Linux wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while
> w
Hi all,
I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell
Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is
booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the framebuffer,
but I don't know how to correct it - I've followed the nvidia Guide from
the documen
I have an iRiver mp3 player that can be mounted as a USB mass storage
device. Up until recently it connected perfectly when I plugged it in
and I even had a udev rule to symlink it to /dev/iriver for me.
Now, after some update, the device nodes are no longer getting created
in /dev when I plug it
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