I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days
now. Anyone else having problems with the list?
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Josh Cepek wrote:
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Michael Schmarck wrote:
· Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev
Michael Schmarck wrote:
· Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another
drive, i.e.,
I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses
UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way?
Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when another
drive, i.e., an external USB drive, is plugged in? The /dev references
may change but the UUID's
Dan Cowsill wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Anthony E. Caudel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo?
Tony
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Any BASIC compilers/Interpreters in Gentoo?
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Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.8-r5
protected: 4.11-r1
omitted: none
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:10 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
While updating world and after emerging a new version of texinfo, I
received the following error when it tried to remove the old version:
==
sys-apps/texinfo
selected: 4.8-r5
protected: 4.11-r1
omitted: none
>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for
I have a problem with sunbird (app-office/mozilla-sunbird-0.7).
I cannot set the start time of an event. I try to set it and it
defaults to 08:30 and is unchangeable.
No bug under BGO and no help from Google.
Anyone else seen/have this problem?
Tony
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I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got
it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if
it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other
compromises (admittedly some minor). I realize I should see some speed
increase but
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I would have thought this was easy, but I've looked around and can't find
> a program that will send IMs from a script. I need to be able to send
> alerts to people from a monitoring program.
>
>
>
An alternate way to send alerts is to send an email to their mobile phone.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>
>> 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out.
>> Since a USB stick is seen as a hard drive, why can't I do a standard
>> install to it? Is it because until l
I've been looking at LiveUSB's lately, specifically ones for Gentoo.
Found one on the Gentoo Documentation and another on Pendrive and
several others. Problem is that all of these do not allow you to save
changes.
Has anyone made a persistent Gentoo LiveUSB? Google hasn't helped
here. Most per
Kelly Stewart wrote:
> Can i please get some help unsubscribing from this mailing list please?
> Send instant messages to your online friends
> http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
Send a blank email (no subject necessary) to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That should do it.
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:38:41 + (UTC), James wrote:
>
>
>> There seem to be several devices, based on USB2 that connect to
>> a computer and can receive ATSC (HDTV) or traditional broadcasts.
>> The ones I've found for N. America all require Vista (uck).
>>
>
> I'v
Thufir wrote
> You don't want my make.conf, do you?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>
It might help. Thanks.
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Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> When the bookmarks list is longer than what fits vertically on the
> screen, then hitting Alt+B while Firefox is in fullscreen mode
> won't show the list of bookmarks. The bookmark list is there --
> because it is possible to select for example the last entry with
>
Thufir wrote
> Also, how were you generating that list, please?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>
emerge -pv mplayer, for example. Then cut and paste.
Would you please post yours so I can compare my USE flags to yours?
Thank you,
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I used to be able to view Nasa-tv
(http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/) in Firefox with
mplayerplug-in. This no longer works however. The plug-in starts to
connect then says "Stopped" for any method (windows, realplayer, or
quicktime) chosen.
I feel that it is a changed use flag but I have th
Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:15 -0600
> "Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros.
>> Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but
I have an AMD64 chip and have separate Gentoo x86 and x86_64 distros.
Gentoo has a "32Bit Chroot Guide for Gentoo/AMD64" but this guide only
discusses setting up a separate 32bit environment within the 64bit
Gentoo. I was wondering if it could be used, suitably modified, to
chroot from my x86_64
Stroller wrote:
>
> On 5 Nov 2007, at 05:17, Jarry wrote:
>
>> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>>> How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
>>> sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
>>
>> I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive p
Jarry wrote:
> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
>> sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
>
> I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in
> the first sata-port, and sdb the one in the second port
>
How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
Tony
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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2007 22:19:23 Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>
>> On several emerges I see the message "
>>
>> Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve
>> Gentoo."
>>
>> Can't reall
On several emerges I see the message "
Install dev-util/desktop-file-utils, if you want to help to improve Gentoo."
Can't really tell what this package does but how does it help Gentoo?
Tony
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Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after
> several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now
> it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about:
>
> gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)
I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after
several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now
it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about:
gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)
libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 and virtual/libstdc++
virtual/jdk and virual
Weather has just released a beta app for linux.
Check it out - http://linux.weatherbug.com/
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Nick wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:40:34AM +0200, Peter Gantner (nephros) wrote:
>
>> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 quidam 'Anthony E. Caudel' inquit ita:
>>
>>
>>> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
>>> US
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Hello Iain Buchanan,
>
>
>> hey, stop answering, this was to Neil!
>>
>
> Hey! ! was asleep! :)
>
> As Alexander has already posted, you still need sys-fs/fuse to provide
> the libraries, but it defers to the kernel for the modules (which saves
> rebuilding it each ti
Neil, back on 15 July, you stated that you used ntfs-3g with only the
in-kernel fuse modules.
When I try that, I get the following error:
error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
I find I have to use sys-fs/fuse to be able to m
forgottenwizard wrote:
> On 19:34 Thu 27 Sep , Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2007-09-27, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
>>> US). It is a region 2 DVD
Thinking about ordering a DVD from Amazon.uk (not available here in the
US). It is a region 2 DVD and is in PAL format unlike the NTSC here in
the states.
Will the DVD play in Mplayer?
Tony
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Frank Gruellich wrote:
> * Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. Sep 07:
>
>> Is there any way to make "pushd" and "popd" (Bash built-ins) silent?
>> [snip] For example:
>>
>> OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; p
Is there any way to make "pushd" and "popd" (Bash built-ins) silent? As
it is, when the execute, the directory is echoed to the output, making
it difficult to use the commands in a script. For example:
OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; popd)
echo $OLD_VER
/boot ~ kernel-2.6.22
Just updated udev to 114 and it left me an einfo with the following:
"You still have the directory /etc/dev.d on your system. This is no
longer used by udev and can be removed."
However I _DO NOT_ have an /etc/dev.d.
Should I file a bug report on this?
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Has anyone used the Linux version of the Bibble photo editing software?
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:49:28 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I use ntfs-3g to access my windows partition and ntfs-3g needs the fuse
module.
Does sys-fs/fuse need to be re-emerged (and thus re-compiled) after
every kernel upgrade?
Enable the in-kernel fuse
I use ntfs-3g to access my windows partition and ntfs-3g needs the fuse
module.
Does sys-fs/fuse need to be re-emerged (and thus re-compiled) after
every kernel upgrade?
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>
At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't
be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel,
you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the average age of the gentoo user here?
> Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸ žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst==
I'm 64.
Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor Technology SOL-20
in 1979 or 1980.
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be
> doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only
> need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest. I use a script that
> removes all but the last two, and also cleans out /li
Alex Fansky wrote:
> Hello.
> I am using kde-3.5.6 and gmplayer as frontend to mplayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2. When I
> doubleclick on the video file, it is opened in new mplayer window. Is there
> any ways to make it be played in already runned mplayer instead of previously
> opened movie, like it do MS
Ivan Lucian Aron wrote:
> I turned off Preempt Big Kernel Lock earlier today, and haven't had a
> deadlock/crash since.
> Apparently that solved it.. thanks for the help/support
I have an AMD Athlon 64X2 4200+ and Have the "Preempt Big Kernel Lock"
turned on in my 2.6.19 kernel and have experience
Sorry that the subject is not very informative.
I seem to remember some time back some discussion about a script or
program that would examine a gentoo system and create a report on
packages installed, make.conf contents, and other relevant information
that might be of help to the devs. No pe
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
snip
And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
available. It takes around 15 hours :(
So when are the Openoffice people
Neil Bothwick wrote:
snip
And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
available. It takes around 15 hours :(
So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate
packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This wo
I am using Logwatch (logwatch-7.3-r1) and lately have been getting these
messages:
- Kernel module scsi Begin
**Unmatched Entries**
SCSI subsystem initialized
625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
drive cache: write back
625142448 512-byt
I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to
determine if it can be un/plugged while hot. I have googled and there
seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive,
the kernel version (I'm using 2.6.18) and maybe even the day of the week.
Does anyone
darren kirby wrote:
> I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station
> for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: "Display"
> and "Weather Service". I am able to select my new city in the "Available
> stations" and even check the weather using "U
Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 07:21, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> Just upgraded to xorg-x11-7.1. Definitely faster than 7.0. glxgears
>> runs at just under 19,000FPS, an increase of about 12%.
>
> Hmm, mine comes up with this:
>
> $ glxgears
> libGL wa
Just upgraded to xorg-x11-7.1. Definitely faster than 7.0. glxgears
runs at just under 19,000FPS, an increase of about 12%.
Fantastic!
Tony
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Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always
>> wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages
>> to update a pack
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> I have seen it mentioned here several times that "equery depends ..." is
>> broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
>
> This shows all dependencies r
I have seen it mentioned here several times that "equery depends ..." is
broken. Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
Tony
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I have been using Gentoo for more than 2 years now and have always
wondered (but never asked - That's the "dumb" part) how Gentoo manages
to update a package that happens to be running at the time.
Given that the old version (the one running) is deleted, how does it
manage to keep standing if you
Nico wrote:
> For those who have gnucash installed, is it the 2.0 version (~86) ? Does
> it work fine ?
> I have to choose in urgence a software like this and I'm testing grisbi
> for now, which is a bit too basic for the interface. I need graphs and
> beatiful colours :)
>
> Sql-ledger is a nice
Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 08:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On 9/5/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:47:20 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>>>
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen
with AMD64 sys
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Anthony E. Caudel schrieb:
>> As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
>> and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
>> domainname now returns "(none)"
>>
>> /etc/conf.d/net.ex
Phil Sexton wrote:
> Anthony E Caudel wrote:
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>>> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>>>
>>>> As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
>>>> and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domain
Mike wrote:
> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
>> and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
>> domainname now returns "(none)"
>>
>> /etc/conf.d/net.example talks
As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
domainname now returns "(none)"
/etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is
used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf.
So how is the dom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there
> anything other than samba the works reliably.
>
> The reason I ask is that I've run into a problem suddenly where none
> of my win XP boxes can access shares on a linux box. Trying to debug
> this I
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 8/10/06, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > * Boot from a live-CD
>> > * mount old and new drive partitions
>> > * cd to the mountpoint containing the data to be copied
>> > * tar -cSp --numeric-owner -
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc
> client under Gentoo.
>
> Tony
Thanks guys for all your input. Looks like I'll choose xchat.
Tony
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So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc
client under Gentoo.
Tony
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Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have never got system messages, cron messages etc to work in gentoo. This
> really hasn't been a problem but the more progs I have running the more I
> think I should attempt to get this working. Especially elogs.
> I have ssmtp installed but not set up correctly,
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 "Anthony E. Caudel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in
>> portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild
I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage
that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great.
Any ideas?
Tony
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Just went to update and noticed amarok now wants to install ruby,
apparently because of Last.fm
Well I don't have anything against ruby, it seems to be a fine language.
I just don't want _ANOTHER_ language.
Anyone know of a way to compile it without last.fm support so it doesn't
pull in ruby? I
Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/17/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I noticed that many of them are dependencies of virtual/x11 so I added
>> that to my world file, re-ran the --depclean and this time got only
>> about half the recommendations. Was add
In preparation for cleaning my world file, I ran emerge -p --depclean
world. It listed these packages to be removed:
app-crypt/gpgme
app-crypt/opencdk
app-text/rman
dev-libs/libtasn1
dev-libs/lzo
dev-python/pyxml
gnome-base/gail
net-libs/gnutls
net-libs/libsoup
perl-core/Storable
perl-
I have an AMD 64x2 with MAKEOPTS set to -j3.
I have noticed that some compiles (glibc for example) will use the
system to the fullest. top reports %CPU near 0%. Other compiles, such
as openoffice seem to use only half as much cpu time. For this top
reported consistently near 50%.
So I'm wonderi
Peter Ruskin wrote:
> The free vmware-player will unfortunately refuse to work if you have
> more than one processor.
Not True. Vmware-player works fine on my AMD 64x2 dual core processor.
You do however have to configure it as a single processor.
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> ... I have 338 on my desktop and 256 on my laptop, which makes me think I
> should start pruning ...
>
Gulp! Maybe mine isn't so bloated after all. ;-)
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:30:54 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>
>> Has anyone here used it? Is it the best means available to clean the
>> world file? Anything in the gentoo tree to do this?
>
> I've done this manually in the past. E
Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Daniel Waeber wrote:
>> If I'm not mistaken, you can simply run "vim /var/lib/portage/world",
>> :sort it and ddelete the packages you don't need. It did work for me,
>> but I'm not sure if something breaks if you just edit the world file or
>> if you have to chance something
If I'm using a testing package (e.g., ~x86), how can I provide feedback
to the devs that it works for me?
Tony
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There was a recent thread about about what should or should not be in
the world file.
Regarding that, my world file is bloated. Until recently, I had a
tendency to do updates piecemeal but did not use --oneshot. This put
packages in that I do not think belong.
Looking for a means to clean up th
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
>> package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked,
>> new version, ...
>>
>> Is there any service for that yet ?
>>
>> cu
>> --
>> -
Mick wrote:
> On 13/06/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> >
>> > How? "make modules_install" or the whole thing: "make && make
>> > modules_install" then just modprobe the new module?
>
Michael Weyershäuser wrote:
> I usualy start with a kernel with almost everything compiled in (but
> only things I definitely need), only using modules when I have to
> (USB for suspend2 comes to my mind). Over time whenever I need
> something new (filesystem, hardware driver,...) I tend to compile
Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Care to guess how much I like modules:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # lsmod
>> Module Size Used by
>> nvidia 4551892 12
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
>
>
> I would have that one in there if I could. I never did like them.
>
Why?
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I was wondering what gentoo-users think and practice about kernel
modules. Do most compile them in the kernel or load them at boot-up.
Note that I'm _NOT_ talking about those modules that have to be compiled
in such as for your filesystem. This is about the other ones.
I generally like to load t
William Kenworthy wrote:
> Are there any known glitches in using the nvidia drivers with an
> athlon64?
>
They work together for me.
Tony
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:10:36 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
don't forget to check the useflags (with ufed), and don't forget
emerge --newuse -a world
You'll need to add --update --deep to catch packages affected by the
changed USE flags.
Did. Thanks and all is w
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I was going to switch to nptl (only) but emerge ignored my additions to
make.conf. Then I noticed that my profile is default-linux/x86/no-nptl
so that answers that question.
Can I change my profile to default-linux/x86/2006.0. Any repercussions?
Here is my emerge
James Colby wrote:
On 6/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When Windows _SUSPENDS_ (we're not talking hibernate right?), it never
relaay stops running. It shuts down the display and the hard drives and
sort of goes to sleep. So when you "power" back
I was going to switch to nptl (only) but emerge ignored my additions to
make.conf. Then I noticed that my profile is default-linux/x86/no-nptl
so that answers that question.
Can I change my profile to default-linux/x86/2006.0. Any repercussions?
Here is my emerge --info:
Portage 2.0.54-r2 (
James Colby wrote:
List members -
I have a laptop that I dual boot with windows and gentoo. My gentoo
installation has software suspend working. When I run the hibernate
script the system hibernates and then powers down. When I press the
power button on my laptop I am then presented with my l
Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in
/etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in
/etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and
should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with the appropriate
package?
Tony
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I am in the process of moving to an amd64 system and I anticipate a lot
of experimentation/tuning with the kernel.
I was wondering if it is possible to set up CVS (or preferably
Subversion) so that I would be able to back up to any previous
configuration. It seems that if I just kept the .con
maxim wexler wrote:
Hi group,
The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E.
Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub
prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the
entire grub session:
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> kernel /vmlinuz vga=794 #1280x1024(so I'm told)
grub> b
Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/26/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first.
You don't need to unmerge 3.4 _first_. You can do it after you
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:04, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. No problem,
but I think I will then have to recompile all non-kd
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I should have included that in my original email, of course:
$ grep USE /etc/make.conf | grep -v "^#"
USE="berkdb innodb"
I have no /usr/portage/package.use
$ grep USE /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
USE="alsa apm arts
I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to
it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. No problem,
but I think I will then have to recompile all non-kde but related apps,
such a k3b, that were compiled against the old libraries. Right?
Using "equ
Richard Fish wrote:
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's
correction fixed the problem also.
Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release
that may be some weeks off, you mig
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