[gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Dale
Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on a black background and I have missing text, usually the very thing I

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/07/2012 12:01:29 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on a black background and

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:01:29 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:01:29 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/07/2012 12:01:29 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on a

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

2012-12-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 03 Dec 2012 10:53:16 Markos Chandras wrote: Hi, I have a host (centos6) running Gentoo as a guest on Virtualbox-4.2.4. However, I am not able to get audio working on the Gentoo guest. The configuration is the following: == Host settings for Guest VM == Alsa Audio Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation

2012-12-07 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Penguin Lover Kevin Brandstatter squawked: coorect, you could concievable run something like ebuild ebuildname qmerge if all the steps have been completed I will give something like this a try next time. W

[gentoo-user] Grub and device name

2012-12-07 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I noticed a strange thing. I have a 250 Go M4 Crucial SSD on the first drive and 1To SATA HDD on the second one. Then, i switched to AHCI BIOS mode, then my device names were inverted (SSD as sdb and HDD as sda) It was not a problem as i use UUIDs. With a live CD as SysRescueCD, grub

[gentoo-user] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new openrc stable because of the cds/isos being broken. There hadn't been bugs reported,

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new openrc stable

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new openrc stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 Dec 2012 16:41:27 William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text. Put black text on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:58:00PM +, Mick wrote: On Friday 07 Dec 2012 16:41:27 William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 7. Dezember 2012, 13:52:03 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2012/12/7 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com Am Freitag, 7. Dezember 2012, 13:52:03 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for me. It seems some of the output is black text.

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-07 Thread Grant
The first depclean is redundant, you haven't updated anything so it won't show anything useful. I only run depclean and revdep-rebuild weekly,I don't see a need to routinely do it more often, especially on slower systems. I do run eix-update and eix-update-remote after my daily

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-07 Thread Grant
My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this: layman -S emerge --sync emerge -pvDuN world emerge -pv --depclean eclean -p distfiles eclean -p packages And then attended like this: revdep-rebuild etc-update elogv emerge --depclean eclean distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-07 Thread Grant
I run depclean about once a month after a large update, usually KDE, qt or something like that. I sync and update about twice a week. I try to time mine to hit those important updates to things like KDE or something. I'm actually waiting on KDE 4.9.4 to hit the tree now. It should be

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-07 Thread Grant
If you're worried about either of those scenarios, set up a separate account for your email alerts. I like the separate account idea. Any tips on locking it down? Maybe that account on the mail server should somehow only be allowed to deliver to a single email address (mine)? Would

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
I've had the same problem. it seems setting DARK=true in .eixrc fixes the problem of the almost black on black background for me -Kevin On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Dale
Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I've had the same problem. it seems setting DARK=true in .eixrc fixes the problem of the almost black on black background for me -Kevin Oh thank you so much. That worked like a charm. For those needing a example, here you go. In my /root directory I put this