Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-30 Thread john
with anything else and desktop is good. -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer or ffmeg - that's the question

2014-04-28 Thread John Campbell
On 04/28/2014 01:13 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the recent upgrade to Gnome 3.12.1 includes app-misc/tracker-1.0 which forces me to decide between gstreamer and ffmpeg. It says The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: at-most-one-of ( gstreamer ffmpeg ) But many

[gentoo-user] Security

2014-03-20 Thread john
? I may be a touch neurotic but would hate to think I have been infected! -- John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] Largest Thread Ever

2014-02-25 Thread john
chains and an OS to die for. Larry is still the best cow in the pasture. -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech MX620 mouse

2013-05-17 Thread John Campbell
On 05/16/2013 09:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Has anyone of you managed to map the Search button of the Logitech MX620 to another function? A client wants to use that button for panning drawings ... we fiddled with xmodmap etc but with no success so far. That button gives not button

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-02 Thread John Campbell
On 12/02/2012 12:41 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i run update and by gstreamer i become the error message: Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 Install gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18 into /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.18/image/

Re: [gentoo-user] blocked packages both required by the system sys-apps/openrc vs. sys-apps/net-tools?

2012-11-26 Thread John Campbell
On 11/26/2012 02:55 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: [blocks B ] sys-apps/openrc-0.9.9.3 (sys-apps/openrc-0.9.9.3 is blocking sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908) net-tools requires openrc = 0.9.9.3. Your installed openrc, and proposed update, is too old. Upgrade to

[gentoo-user] Boot and udev Woes

2012-11-19 Thread john
ok (6 cores set). Looking in /proc/cpuinfo there are only 6 cores. I can boot ok from Windows which shows 8 cores and I have also updated BIOS to latest version. Any ideas Is there any way to detect or test that I using 8 cores? -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and udev Woes

2012-11-19 Thread john
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 + john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi Gentoo. I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. After a week of using I have had no issues and then realised I had not set man number of cpus in kernel config. This was set to 6. So as FX8350

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and udev Woes

2012-11-19 Thread john
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:57:49 +0100 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:15:24 + john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: Hi Gentoo. I have recently got a FX8350 and all is going very well. After a week of using I have had

Re: [gentoo-user] uefi gpt grub2

2012-11-14 Thread john
/gpt? -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsuscribe

2012-11-10 Thread John Walters
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:25:21 +0100 Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com wrote: Just write a mail to gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org As descried here: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Just a short note on that. Even though the instructions didn't mention this, last I

Re: [gentoo-user] kde splash screen won't show up when loading kde

2012-11-10 Thread John Walters
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:58:42 +0100 Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: i've just upgraded kde through a custom @set, the same i used over the last years, but this time although kde-base/ksplash is installed kde splash screen does not appear anymore while loading kde. Do someone know which

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread john
hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method? John D Maunder. 2tb drive probably different sector size

[gentoo-user] UEFI Advice

2012-10-26 Thread john
thinktank can suggest? -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread john
xpenguins program -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

2012-08-26 Thread john
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:17:58 +0200 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: On 25.08.2012 20:54, john wrote: For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit (which is already running

Re: [gentoo-user] lxc query

2012-08-26 Thread john
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:32:41 -0700 Bryan Gardiner b...@khumba.net wrote: On August 25, 2012 12:10:12 john wrote: I would like to have a play with lxc (containers ) but the package is currently masked. I have unmasked lxc but it also requires me to unmask =sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5. I am

[gentoo-user] lxc query

2012-08-25 Thread john
I would like to have a play with lxc (containers ) but the package is currently masked. I have unmasked lxc but it also requires me to unmask =sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5. I am a little unsure if I do this if this will foobar my system or am i safe to unmask? -- John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

2012-08-25 Thread john
to stop this? -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav

2012-05-17 Thread john
On Thu, 17 May 2012 02:43:17 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2012, at 23:29, john wrote: ... I have changed by use flag for ffmpeg to include theora. When i try emerge I get the following [blocks B ] media-video/ffmpeg (media-video/ffmpeg

[gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav

2012-05-16 Thread john
? -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-15 Thread john
myself your posts are always excellent and there is plenty to learn from just reading them. There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks -- John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] anybody have math extension working on mediawiki-1.18.2?

2012-04-03 Thread John Blinka
to execute them, latex is installed (via texlive), and I even threw in the mathtex package, thinking that it sounded as if it must be useful without knowing whether it is actually used. Anybody have this working? Care to share how you did it, or suggest debugging techniques? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread John Blinka
-- Sent from my Palm Pre On Mar 10, 2012 10:38 AM, Neil Bothwick lt;n...@digimed.co.ukgt; wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:58:18 +0100, pk wrote: gt; Btw, does anyone know which version of udev requires access to /usr? I'm gt; running latest stable here 171-r5 and I have separate partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-wm/razorqt

2012-03-05 Thread john
. Not too much to say really, its clean and I like it a lot. Hopefully there is plenty more to come. -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread John
Wouldn't this particular topic be best answered by the dev's of said file systems and what, if any, fragmentation etc, could and can and will happen with the different arguments ie -m 0, etc.? All it is now between everyone discussing this here in a Gentoo list is more or less conjecture,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm the resident old fart around here I beg your pardon. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new resident old fart at 50 years of age just

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3 as these are built daily and of all the available methods, it's the most recent. But beware that you will still need to download almost all

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-26 Thread John
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0600 John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 09:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: snip Assuming you have a handy Linux LiveCD (any distro) it's better to download the stage3

[gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread John
Hi folks, I've been using linux for about 12 years now, but only used DE's. I've got ADD in the extreme and have poor memory retention so trying to learn things 'UNIX' (command line and such) is just too difficult for me. I can do some command line stuff but nothing more than getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-24 Thread John
On Friday, February 24, 2012 21:12 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, John irgu...@gmail.com wrote: snip Have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo-based, but it comes with binary repository (although you can easily use portage if you want). It offers 'out of the box' support

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote: John J. Foster wrote: Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all. I do pay for the enhanced account. Good luck festus Do they allow

[gentoo-user] Video Problem

2011-12-26 Thread john
error: [ 261.132] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting I am using ati-drivers, xfce4 and also fails when using xdm and not xdm. Any suggestions please -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Problem

2011-12-26 Thread john
=391193 A workaround is to tell your video player to use opengl as videoout instead of the default xv video out. With VLC: # vlc --vout glx Other players provide these options too. Thank You. Changing the video out has worked. I'm happy again. -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean: !!! sys-apps/less is part of your system

2011-12-23 Thread John Campbell
On 12/23/2011 12:33 AM, Jarry wrote: But it was the same in the last week, and yet portage could live with it. Why it suddenly wants to uninstall something that is part of system profile? And at the same time it says it might damage my system. Really nice... I believe the base, default pager

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-11-28 Thread John Campbell
On 11/28/2011 07:16 PM, James wrote: An old parallel port on an old pci card should do the trick, if all you needs is a parallel port. Some of those old Laserjet printer could be set up across a serial port, if nothing else works. I'd also check your computer's innards for a parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread

2011-11-12 Thread john
for the impossible :) Using a 1090t which is one behind the 1100t. It was relatively cheap and performs excellently. Have had no problems running anything and compilation time seems to rocket through on gentoo. Much faster than previous dual core. -- John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} BleachBit in portage

2011-10-21 Thread john
Gentoo stuff. Will let you know if I hit any issues. -- John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] Kde-meta

2011-08-07 Thread john
Hello, I am trying to emerge kde-meta but getting the following error message Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 43, in module retval = emerge_main() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py, line 1907, in emerge_main

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query

2011-07-23 Thread john
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:01:31 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-18 Thread john
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:04:51 + j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: No unfortunately --Original Message-- From: Matthew Finkel To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm Sent: 16 Jul 2011 17:51 On 07/15/11 20:24, john wrote: I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm

2011-07-15 Thread john
failure I would guess this is a graphics issue but not entirely sure. I have tried -vga cirrus, std, vmware but all have the same effect. I have emerged these in guest as xorg-drivers. Any suggestions! -- -- John D Maunder j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread john
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-07-10 08:12]: On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: Help. I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread john
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:54:10 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 10.07.2011 12:22, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk [11-07-10 12:08]: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [11-07-10 08:12

[gentoo-user] Thunderbugs

2011-07-09 Thread john
in world, and python-updater seems to be of no use. Clamav cannot recognise them. There are no references to this in BUGzilla. Any suggestions will be appreciated apart from calling in ACME. Pesky critters -- -- John D Maunder j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:12 -0400 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400 Have cleared up error messages using config as suggested. I still get the issue when starting /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:22:40 +0100 john j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:12 -0400 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said: On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400 Have cleared up error messages using

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-08 Thread john
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:57:55 -0400 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said: [...] LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I get (have done upgrade of around 20 packages) Uncaught error validating install

[gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-07 Thread john
/libvirtd'[ !! ] * ERROR: libvirtd failed to start Any suggestions??? -- -- John D Maunder j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-07 Thread john
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:24:48 -0400 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thursday, July 7 at 19:15 (+0100), john said: I am trying to start virt-manager but when I start the daemon /etc/init.d/libvirtd i get * Starting libvirtd ... /usr/sbin/libvirtd: error

Re: [gentoo-user] Virt-manager

2011-07-07 Thread john
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thursday, July 7 at 20:46 (+0100), john said: Well, I see several errors, you may want to start with the first one and work your way down. iptables is running, bridging and tun have been loaded

[gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

2011-07-06 Thread john
than converting to e16? (which is becoming tempting). This seems to happen every upgrade of xfce4/polkit/dbus. John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] Fbsplash

2011-06-23 Thread John
using vesafb and splash_geninitramfs to create splash screens? -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-18 Thread john
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:48:31 -0700 Keith Dart ke...@dart.us.com wrote: === On Sat, 06/18, john wrote: === On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:39 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 17.06.2011 23:16, schrieb john: Hello, I have installed Plone but unfortunately

[gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-17 Thread john
recommendations on a fix??? -- -- -- John D Maunder j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-17 Thread john
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:39 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 17.06.2011 23:16, schrieb john: Hello, I have installed Plone but unfortunately it will not run. I believe this is down to PIL not being installed as shown when starting Zope in foreground. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-13 Thread john
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:44:49 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: john wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:57:11 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: john wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:50:18 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked to see

[gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread john
message. Error message alongs these lines Kernel panic not syncing - fatal exception in iterrupt ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted -- -- -- John D Maunder j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread john
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:45:38 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-12 16:36]: Gents Whenever I insert external USB device my machine locks and I have to do a hard reset (sys req does not even work). I have tried this in a graphical environment

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread john
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:20:48 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-12 20:52]: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:45:38 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk [11-06-12 16:36]: Gents Whenever I insert external USB device my

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread john
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:50:18 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi John, if sysreq does not work after inserting the usbstick then the kernel stops working completly (the sysreq-code of the kernel is not entered), which seems to be that something

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2011-06-12 Thread john
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:57:11 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: john wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:50:18 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked to see if that mobo has a USB problem and a BIOS update to fix it? Just curious. Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid10 howto

2011-05-27 Thread John Nielsen
On May 27, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Maxim Vorontsov wrote: I look how to create a RAID10. I understood correctly I must first create two RAID0 device for one RAID1? Or is simple command for creation RAID10 on 4 disks? I dont find answer for this on gentoo.org or raid.wiki.kernel.org. Linux does

[gentoo-user] Virtual Packages

2011-05-11 Thread John
Have noticed that some packages require virtual packages to installed as well. For example when installing dev-db/mysql, virtual/mysql is installed as well. What are the purposes of these virtual packages?? Thanks -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-09 Thread John Nielsen
On May 6, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 06 May 2011 18:04:31 John Nielsen wrote: Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-08 Thread john
emerged fine. Love the bouncy ball widget, especially when you can stop it!! -- John D Maunder j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-08 Thread john
On Sun, 8 May 2011 16:38:57 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 08 May 2011 16:09:36 Dale wrote: john wrote: Have reported as a bug. Not sure if I should have done? USE=-handbook emerge kdegamma fixes the issue though. All other packages have emerged fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-06 Thread John Nielsen
Doesn't look like this went through the first time; re-sending without attachment. On May 5, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I am trying to set up a 5GHz wireless access point on an Alix 3d2 board with an AR9220

[gentoo-user] Unable to set wireless regulatory domain

2011-05-05 Thread John Nielsen
I am trying to set up a 5GHz wireless access point on an Alix 3d2 board with an AR9220 (ath9k Merlin) PCI card. I have done so successfully using Fedora 14 on identical hardware but I would greatly prefer to use Gentoo so I can use a more recent kernel and customize things appropriately for the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread John Campbell
On 04/01/2011 08:09 AM, walt wrote: I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The good old nv

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread John Campbell
On 03/29/2011 08:01 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: While I've been quite pleased with mplayer as tweaked by Nikos Chantziaras to allow Multi threading on my core-I7 (Nvidia) (and I realize that MT will now be in the upstream distribution), I'm wondering if mplayer2 is now stable and better enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer vs mplayer2

2011-03-30 Thread John Campbell
On 03/30/2011 01:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am not seeing mplayer2 in the tree -- unless it came in the last day or so -- and which config takes the threads=5 parameter? It's in the multimedia overlay. The threads=# (where # less than total threads available on processor)

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff mode and certain syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man portage and man color.map for details. -- Neil Bothwick c:Press Enter to Exit Thanks

[gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-22 Thread John Blinka
, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just wrong for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for any suggestions, John

[gentoo-user] xfce woes

2011-02-02 Thread John
/dbus.d/system.d/hal.conf. This does have a gentoo section which looks like it would allow above. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have this issue on 2 machines. - -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 01:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:09 -0800, John Campbell wrote: After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected and which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up to see what is logged to the screen? (is there maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 08:02 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: Dear list, I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox

2011-01-14 Thread john
Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox. Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse within VirtualBox. I have disabled/enabled mosue integration. -- John D Maunder j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread John
. Is this still the correct file to change or should I be using xorg.conf? I have renamed to 10-keymap.fdi but does not make a difference. Following gentoo documentation. -- John D Maunder j...@articwolf.myzen.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server

2010-12-27 Thread John
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:58:26 + David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, John wrote about [gentoo-user] xorg-server: I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout You have at least 2 courses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU socket and picking a heat sink.

2010-12-03 Thread John Campbell
On 12/03/2010 05:38 PM, Dale wrote: masterprometheus wrote: Thanks for confirming that the coolers will fit. I did some googling but it just wasn't making sense to me yet. I found a site later on that said most coolers used different adapters to work with different sockets if needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-17 Thread John Campbell
On 11/17/2010 05:13 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2010 13:54, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:52 +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 17.11.2010 10:19, schrieb Joerg Schilling: This is why find -exec + exists since 20 years. Could you enlighten me about this? I look

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystery square under KDE

2010-11-07 Thread John Campbell
On 11/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task manager/kicker, as well as the

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2010-09-23 Thread Dr John Krane
was Sep 3, 2010. My first attempt to unsubscribe was May, 2009. I have tried periodically since then. John Krane

[gentoo-ppc-user] Re: Unsubscribe request

2010-09-23 Thread Dr John Krane
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Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 09:53 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade? pykde4-4.5.1-r1 was removed from the repository, not masked. In order to keep 4.5.1-r1 you need to obtain a copy of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 05:30 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: The two main ones seemed to be disabling the deprecated ATA drivers and another one was disabling some sysfs options. But these changes didn't help in this case. At this point, I think Im better off sticking to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-07 Thread John Blinka
I paid the extra to get 16:9 @ 1920x1200. Best thing I ever did laptop-wise - I can get two webpages side by side on the screen looking very natural. Mind telling me what you got? The 1200 part sounds attractive to me. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-05 Thread John Blinka
than my 1545 (14.75, 37.5 cm wide) and with as many horizontal lines in the display as possible. Any suggestions? (And, yes, I'm open to a non-Dell solution.) Thanks for your suggestions, John Blinka

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2010-09-03 Thread Dr John Krane
figure the 'bot is trying to unsubscribe one and I am subscribed as the other. There is no way to tell to bot to unsubscribe anything specific, as far as I can tell. I am writing this in the hopes that an admin will see it and help me out. John Krane

[gentoo-user] amanda run and build failure

2010-08-08 Thread John Blinka
Hi, All, After a long period of flawless behavior, I have recently (since August 2) had both runtime and build failures with amanda. I do daily gentoo updates, always use revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer, always follow post installation advice in the log. I can't reinstall amanda because the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amanda run and build failure

2010-08-08 Thread John Blinka
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2010 05:58 AM, John Blinka wrote: the end of the log file contains /usr/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4/image//usr/share/man/man8/amcheckdump.8

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working python

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work,

[gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me. Thanks, festus -- It is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Previous system uptime - not Gentoo specific

2010-05-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: John J. Foster writes: I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I

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