[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/21/2014 01:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. > > Just to double check I understood it correctly, there's no need to put > the list of kernel modules into /etc/conf.d/modules any longer, because > udev is aware of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, wrote: > I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild > and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine > trim. :) This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe it was on a list

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 09:20, wraeth wrote: > Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other > "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if your full memory is registering > there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread ny6p01
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 04:49:57PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 05/20/2014 10:13 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On May 20, 2014, at 14:49, Alexander Kapshuk > > mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > >> On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread Dale
wraeth wrote: > > > On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 > > GB, or trying another mainboard. > > Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other > "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if y

Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/05/2014 00:41, David Abbott wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content >> to add to the "Tip of the month" section. >> Regards >> David >> >> [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news >> > > This month has been a treasure trove

[gentoo-user] maintenance

2014-05-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Last year there was an enormous thread on how to maintain gentoo system (portage tools etc) - was this ever summarised anywhere? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 > GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other "one-size-fits-most"

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-21 Thread wireless
On 05/21/14 08:00, Todd Goodman wrote: * wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [140519 21:25]: [SNIP] It never tries to boot. Grub just sits there withe phrase (did not copy it down) where it says what version it will boot on the screen and it does nothing (locked up?) I have to or push a manual reset. It

Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/05/2014 00:41, David Abbott wrote: > Hi Everyone, > We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content > to add to the "Tip of the month" section. > Regards > David > > [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news > This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on gentoo-

[gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-21 Thread David Abbott
Hi Everyone, We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content to add to the "Tip of the month" section. Regards David [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo Foundation Secretary http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

[gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.05.2014 21:44, schrieb Tom H: > The answer is "no" unless you want to apply different perms to "/dev/shm". I don't have an idea why I should want to do that so I removed the line for now. Thanks. Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing Portage Outcomes

2014-05-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:33:30 -0400 Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > I commented that out for the purposes of having it in the email as a > sort of example. It isn't actually commented I was in the file. So > having the x86 and the ~x86 in the same variable would make a safe > portage solution? Yes; it al

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 20:44:04 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 21.05.2014 15:31, schrieb Tom H: > >> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern > >>> systemd/gno

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 21.05.2014 15:31, schrieb Tom H: >> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> >>> Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern >>> systemd/gnome3-environment? >>> >>> # glibc 2.2 and above expects

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 18:56:49 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 05/18/2014 04:05 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: > > On 05/15/2014 03:50 PM, Mick wrote: > > > On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > >> On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote: > > >>> On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing Portage Outcomes

2014-05-21 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
> On May 21, 2014, at 13:33, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:02:46 -0400 > Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > >> Hi all. I made the following in /etc/portage/make.conf >> #ACCEPT_LICENS="*" >> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" >> Save and exit. >> To double check, I ran: >> #emerge --info | grep -i a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/18/2014 04:05 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: > On 05/15/2014 03:50 PM, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote: > >>> On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk > > wrote: > >> ? > >> If you like to ch

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.05.2014 15:31, schrieb Tom H: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern >> systemd/gnome3-environment? >> >> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for >> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing Portage Outcomes

2014-05-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:02:46 -0400 Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Hi all. I made the following in /etc/portage/make.conf > #ACCEPT_LICENS="*" > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" > Save and exit. > To double check, I ran: > #emerge --info | grep -i accept > ACCEPT_LICENSES="* -@EULA" > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" >

[gentoo-user] Confusing Portage Outcomes

2014-05-21 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi all. I made the following in /etc/portage/make.conf #ACCEPT_LICENS="*" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" Save and exit. To double check, I ran: #emerge --info | grep -i accept ACCEPT_LICENSES="* -@EULA" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" The way it looks, the file just appended what I want to the Portage default.

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> What would you recommend? Thanks. I always use emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y --keep-going=y, as I want to update *all* packages on my system. What's the point in keeping on the system some packages that are deliberately not updated?

[gentoo-user] Digital Ocean Rigs and Distcc

2014-05-21 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi all. Is it possible to deploy a Digital Ocean rig and have it do distcc compiling? If so, is there documentation on it, and where?

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 10:28:58 I wrote: > Still hoping to find a font editor though, to replace that zero. Found one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nafe/postdownload?source=dlp I've used it to remove the oblique stroke from the zero character and slope its shoulders. The result's not very

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 11:56 PM, yac wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:49:17 +0300 > Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >> Here's what I usually run when updating the world. >> Long version: emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse >> @world With '--with-bdeps=y' set in the file shown below: >> grep bdep

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/20/2014 10:13 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: > On May 20, 2014, at 14:49, Alexander Kapshuk > mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> On 05/20/2014 02:40 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:*Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday,

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern > systemd/gnome3-environment? > > # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for > # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). > # (tmpfs is a dynamically e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-21 Thread Todd Goodman
* wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [140519 21:25]: [SNIP] > It never tries to boot. Grub just sits there withe phrase (did not copy > it down) where it says what version it will boot on the screen > and it does nothing (locked up?) I have to or push > a manual reset. It never tries to load the kernel.

[gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern systemd/gnome3-environment? -> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
On Sat, 17 May 2014 02:17:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > I'm just curious. Just reply and let me know what you use. I think I > need to change mine to something better. For monospace, Source Code Pro [1] (media-fonts/source-pro). For proportional, I prefer Helvetica (non-free) but among free options

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 02:22:21 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote > > > emerge terminus-font > > > > might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a > > framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) > > I like default8x16 better though. A