Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-23 Thread Collins Richey
It's something like 13g of pre-compiled ~x86 or ~amd64 stuff (your choice) on a DVD. Even after install, it takes something like1 1/2 minutes to boot! Maybe that's because it uses the genkernel crap ? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

2006-09-02 Thread Collins Richey
truly be ashamed. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-27 Thread Collins Richey
ont ends at > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere. Does anyone use one they like? Preferrably one with an ebuild and not dependent on K stuff. You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to feed the right

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-27 Thread Collins Richey
construction, and don't have a kernel source available to run make menuconfig. Just wade through the choices and look for 'real time clock' support. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be t

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-26 Thread Collins Richey
. mplayer doesn't output anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops up right away, before a DVD is put in: Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/21/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? Isn't that why logwatch was created? -- Collins Richey

Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?

2006-08-21 Thread Collins Richey
s contraindicated - warnings against compiling them with -Os. Have things progressed to the point where -Os can be generally recommended? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-16 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/16/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/15/06, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the drive enclosure advertisements, > metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard > evidence. These units have the "standa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Collins Richey
you want. If your Gentoo system handles USB storage devices properly (why wouldn't it), you'll have no problems. According to the drive enclosure advertisements, metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard evidence. These units have the "standard" external A

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Collins Richey
-- the installed printers are just not there Just a thought - check to see if the printer was defined as default during setup. If not, mark your printer as default. That alone would cause other applications not to work. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 liveCD

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
paid much attention to the gcc/glibc version. I'm on 3.4.6-r1, and I've never noticed any compile problems, but then I've not tried emerging empty world. My machine is too sodding fast to need that. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-31 Thread Collins Richey
On 7/31/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Collins Richey wrote: > The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After > completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let > portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg

[gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions

2006-07-30 Thread Collins Richey
tage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection had not included the keyboard and mouse modules for xorg, so I had to emerge these manually. Also I didn't have much sucess using 'X -configure'. I had