On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:17:11PM +0800, 俞强 wrote:
> thanks for you reply,
>
> yes, i compile cups just by hand, and i compared with the files you send,
> though you cups version is 1.4.8, but i think the compare result is
> also value. most of files are the same as mine, but my libs are installe
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 07:41:21PM +, James wrote:
> > Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option
> > descriptions and have something like what Pandu wrote included?
>
> I added this to root's .bashrc a long time ago:
>
> # USE flag settings hack by Ciaran McCreesh:
> exp
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:29:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > what does "graphite" add ?
> >
>
> It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus
> (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded
> performance.
Now, why can't the USE descriptions be
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:13:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> alias th='date -d @$1'
>
> was the first try, then adding '+' &/or '\' to escape '+' or '@'.
> I also tried a function along similar lines.
>
That is not how you use alias.
What you want is to use a function. Replace the alias li
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean
> virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar.
>
> I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE="java". There is an old
> thread from e
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had
> bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to
> emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has
> been keyworded
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > (i) What is icedtea-web?
>
> If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s
> output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point
> right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Jav
Hi list,
I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and
now am getting a bit confused.
Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running
icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to
[ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4]
[ebuild N
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:10AM +, James Broadhead wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 09:13, Willie Wong wrote:
> > When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1,
> > mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all
> > other mouse de
Hi list,
When I look at /dev/input I see the devices mice, mouse0, mouse1,
mouse2, mouse3. The first one, mice, seems to be a combination of all
other mouse devices.
On the console I want to use gpm to get a pointer, but gpm can only
take one MOUSEDEV entry at a time (as far as I know), so curr
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto:
> >To see your default editor and pager;
> >eselect editor list&& eselect pager list
>
> It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager...
>
> laptop ~ # eselect editor list && es
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:15:34PM +0200, 4k3nd0 wrote:
> i put the build log into pastbin: http://pastebin.com/CXEFY342
>
What is the version of pango you have installed? It may be related to
this bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384779
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:42:09AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> You could still create a tree, but only by making most modules appear
> multiple times.
Just like the '--tree' option for 'emerge'
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Data aequatione
Hi list,
Just a minor glitch I ran into in upgrading texlive-2010 to
texlive-2011, I am not sure how reproducible this is, so I am posting
it here instead of filing a bug, just in case someone else runs into
the same problem. It is likely that this problem won't occur at all
for those not using t
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Though it is silly IMHO that portage would want to remove itself
> > with depclean. Could it not be hardcoded into portage that it
> > should try to keep itself updated and not commit suicide?
> > (Independently of the @system sets.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's sensible really - portage is not the only package manager out
> there and therefore should not be in @system. The user did not put
> portage in world, and did not use -D, so portage is not updating the
> package.
>
> The solu
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my
> drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are
> called?
That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an
error.
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> YoYo Siska wrote:
> >I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the
> >file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most
> >likely in that operation..
> I just find it downright odd that a browser c
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:52:12AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong
> address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how
> you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug.
If this is a continuation
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:46:08AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Joshua Murphy wrote:
> >gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case,
> >if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could
> >help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and
> >
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:39:00PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> >> /bin/sh is a symlink to bash.
> >
> > Which runs as sh when run from the symlink.
>
> I dont understand. "runs as" usually means "runs under the user
> context" to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode?
Yes, from t
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> +*hplip-3.11.5-r1 (19 Jun 2011)
> +
> + 19 Jun 2011; Daniel Pielmeier
> +hplip-3.11.5-r1.ebuild,
> + +files/hplip-3.11.5-cups-1.5.patch:
> + Fix build with cups-1.5, thanks to Dale for the report on the gentoo-user
> + mailing
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:01:00AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote:
> >
> > Yes, Dale, I tried that before. "T tage mail matching a pattern" does
> > not what I seems to be: It matches only against the subject line.
> > This was the reason, why I asked here...
> >
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
> >
>
> Hi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:33:39AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | \
> awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc
>
> In true grand Unix tradition you cannot get quicker, dirtier or more
> effective
> than that
>
You can replace "sort |
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs
> > from
> > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70%
> non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without
> answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers
> specific to packages bearing no appare
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote:
> Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me...
> What makes the subtractive method better?
>
This is how I interpret Alan's message:
For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to
also enable it for
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount
> to a "minimal" install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to
> switch to it instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually
> ready to enable X, switching ba
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG &
> LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX").
> In which file are they supposed to be set these days ?
>
/etc/env.d/02locale
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:38:04AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> >Felix Miata composed:
>
> >> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
> >> ">=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk]".
> >> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
> >> - media-libs/libcanb
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:47:22PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > Update: seems that only some keyboard input is affected. For example,
> > arrow keys for scrolling, and typing things in text/input boxes on
> > webpages are fine. But "hotkeys" interacting with Firefox, or typing
> > in the Address
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4
> a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with
> it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firef
Hi list,
I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4
a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with
it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze
up whenever I touch the keyboard with the window in focus!
I can open new tab
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:04:45PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
> i' currently using an application called jpdftweak to edit metadata in pdf
> files, like page numbers. jpdftweak is very useful, but being a gui app
> it's slow for repeatedly editing many files.
>
look at app-text/pdfjam
The first few
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the
> machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory).
>
> Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot
> had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/9
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with
> tab completion without problems.
>
> cd $WWW/htph20110318
>
> would expand in steps
>
> cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/
> cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/
Hi list, sorry for the nondescript title. Let me described what
happened.
I ran `emerge --update --deep world' over the weekend which updated
app-text/poppler:
Sat Mar 12 22:00:46 2011 >>> app-text/poppler-0.16.3
Today I found out that a whole bunch of packages got broken, and so I
ran `revdep-
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:08:23PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any
> > color when it has no color ink, but do grayscale printers apply some
> > conversion internally, to make sure that e.g. plain cyan is still
> > visible (ins
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +, Stroller wrote:
> AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will
> pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself.
Not necessarily true.
On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the
file the word wil
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:12:57PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> Terminator claims it depends on python-keybinder for the show/hide function
> to work, but even after installing dev-libs/keybinder +python, pressing the
> show/hide window shortcut doesnt seem to do anything. Well, today's not a
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:43:32PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> The current ebuild is screen-4.0.3, and up to screen-4.0.3-r4 (with
> ~everything) shows up after an "emerge --sync". I can
> "./configure --with-various-options && make && make install" with the
> best of them (not that I know what
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 03:08:11PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Oh, and obviously
>
> grep '.\{300\}' file
>
D'Oh! That's really obvious. Thanks!
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxione
This is way OT, but I hope someone here can give me a quick answer:
I have a text-file. Individual lines of it run from 10 to several
thousand characters in length. Is there a simple* command that allows
me to only display the lines that are, say, at least 300 characters
long?
Thanks in advance,
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:27:27PM -0200, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> I think that this software, wicd, is just to ubuntu's users not to
> Gentoo.
You are in the minority. Many on this list (including me) use wicd for
desktop/laptop use.
> If work without gui,, why i need a gui?
wicd doesn't require
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:02:55PM +, Mick wrote:
> Right, I thought as much, but Valmor's removal of
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf through me out.
>
> Can wicd write to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf?
I don't know, but, then again, why would it need to?
I know that wicd does write
Jean-Christophe:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:31:41PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote:
> It would be great if this patch were added to the gentoo-patches when
> gpg flag is enabled for mutt.
Thanks for the work! If you want the patch merged into the gentoo
patch set, I think you should file a bug
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:04:10AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote:
> I had previously used method 3, with an entry in my ~/.Xdefaults for
> it, that worked fine. It stopped for some reason with this new version.
> I suspect they may have removed the "hacks" they talked about and now
> depend on a properly
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36:01AM +0800, fei huang wrote:
> ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to
> 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still
> missed something?
>
Go ahead and file a bug, but as pseudotransparency was never
official
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote:
>I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a
> upgrade to version 9.09,
>
> it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always
> working for me.
>
>
> post a snippet of my config file
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Prevailing opinion on /.
That is a strange sentence itself. To see Alan deferring to the higher
authority of the collective wisdom of /. is... well... surprising.
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:42:24PM -0800, Grant wrote:
> > qfile -orphans ?
>
> That sounds promising but I get:
>
> # qfile --orphans
> Usage: qfile : list all pkgs owning files
>
qfile --orphans needs to take input a filename.
So to go through your system looking for all orphaned files, yo
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH
> through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time.
I am confused (as usually is the case when I see someone trying to
describe a client/server setup):
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer
> able
> to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed).
>
Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your
mail to y
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:15:39PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> With the entry:
>
> text/html; links %s; nametemplate=%s.html
>
>
> it does not work:
>
> [-- Autovie
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
> Humphrey did opine thusly:
>
> > I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop
> wicd is designed for laptops and mobile computers.
Alan: time for new read
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> Something I have not run into before.
> > >>
> > >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will
> > >> not run on $HOME.
> > >>
> > > By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expan
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:24:23PM +, Mick wrote:
> Thank you Graham for your very detailed reply! I understand now why the
> problem exists. I have used the registry change suggested by Nuno on Win7
> and
> will see what gives next time DST changes. I just hope that it'll work
> without
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:43:34PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> I'm guessing it is a command line thing. I like a GUI. I could have
> used Lynx to access my email and not even have fluxbox. ^_^ Gmail has
> web access so I could do it that way I guess.
You can, in fact, also read G-mail with Mutt thr
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
> * with exit value -1.
> *
> * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
> * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
> * c
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:59:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >
> >> Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest.
> >
> > +1
>
> Call me old-fashioned, I use wpa_supplicant. :)
Act
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote:
> Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a
> Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia
> card.
>
> I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT
> appear in the screensho
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:05:50AM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
> Now, the remote sshd is never sent any information about what is
> connected to the local end of the pipe (which is not even known to
> ssh!), so there is no way to alter its behavior depending on that.
>
> IOW, nothing in the setup y
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:31PM +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
> > Is there a way to allow only one single command from a single cronjob to
> > operate passwordless, while keeping all the other connections secured by
> > a password?
>
> You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to c
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:14:47PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote:
> > I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A
> > to server B.
> >
> > I'd like to do that via ssh and wit
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:45:49PM +0200, Momesso Andrea wrote:
> I need to set up a cron job to transfer a file every day from server A
> to server B.
>
> I'd like to do that via ssh and with no user assistance, completely
> automated.
>
> Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then,
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 04:01:14AM -0400, dhk wrote:
>
> I thought all the auto tools were in the autotoolset, that's not the
> case. It looks like the only tool I use in autotoolset is acmkdir. If
> I remove autotoolset, how can I get acmkdir back? Even though it's not
> necessary, it's a nice
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jarry wrote:
> # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world
>
> [ebuild N] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07
> [ebuild N] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.36.07
> [ebuild N] dev-perl/Error-0.17.016 USE="-test"
> [ebuild N] dev-vcs/git-
Dear list,
Just want a sanity check. I try to emerge the most recent version of
inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.0), and the build fails in the
configuration stage
-snip build.log
checking for IMAGEMAGICK... yes
checking for CAIRO_USER_FONTS... yes
checking for INKSCAPE... yes
checking
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:56:43PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise
> > overlay?
>
> i would either write directly to the maintainer of the ebuild
> or send a note to irc channel dedicated to sunrise.
... and of course
/usr/local/po
What is the protocol for reporting bugs on ebuilds in the sunrise
overlay?
In particular, media-gfx/ipe has an RDEPEND on
!seamonkey? ( || ( www-client/mozilla-firefox
www-client/firefox-bin ) )
which is broken by the recent move of www-client/mozilla-firefox to
www-client/firefox (
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> As shown, I have Flash Player 10 installed. (I unmasked and upgraded to the
> installed version in an effort to fix this issue.) On multiple sites,
> however,
> using Firefox, I get the following message or similar:
>
> Sorry,
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:54PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Portage recently updated Perl from 5.10.1 to 5.12.1 (and later -r1).
> However, a crapload of files still remain in
> /usr/lib/perl5/{site_perl,vendor_perl}/5.10.1. I found out the hard way
> after trying to emerge openoffice
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> After upgrading my system, xorg-server 1.7.6 is on my system. I
> regenrated the config file Xorg -configure. The display is shown
> proparly with everything around it but I don't have a mice and keyboard.
>
> How do I get the mouse
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:52:35AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has
> something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me
> via email.
Usually "is there an option..." questions are well-answered by "man
". And in this case
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:29:04AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> does he speak for all of you ?
>
> --- Comment #4 from vap...@gentoo.org 2010-07-05 19:39 ---
> lemme clarify further: dont bother submitting ebuilds for any package in
> OSS-QM. we arent interest
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> >> in
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:17:26PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> >> in
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole
> thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the
> depth of what's capt
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy :
> >
> > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> > Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Ga
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote:
> 发文档务必请用.txt格式。其它格式不会被打开
For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you
doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list?
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Data aeq
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:54:33AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing
> the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I
> use don't do that.
>
> It is usually better and prefer the "answer to
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:52:09PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've
> been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and
> following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still
> haven't been
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then:
>
> unmerge libpng
> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> same with revdep-rebuild
> re-
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> He has this uncanny ability of almost
> always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying "Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almo
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you
> mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;)
Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are
you sure there's no kerne
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
> started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot
> errors by watching the disk and peripheral device activity, I wouldn't
> like to make a fi
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > However, my new machine's Intel integrated graphics chip doesn't agree.
> > > X will *NOT* work unless I enable i915 DRM driver in make menuconfig,
> > > like so...
> > >
> > > <*> Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G (i915 driver) --
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:43:15PM +0200, pat wrote:
> I have Dell Latitude E4300 notebook where the wifi and bluetooth (BT) is
> turned on by one HW switch. So, on windows if the switch is turned on there is
> possible to turn off one of these devices (from windows try stop the device).
> Is there
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 03:05:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> And how often would you impose refresher tests? Anyone's memory is
> fallible, as no-one knows better than I do.
You just don't remember someone knowing it better. :)
W
--
Willie W. Wong ww...@
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated
> > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to
> > those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree.
> Each one of those pa
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean
> > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a
Hi list,
I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean
out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting
output that I haven't seen before:
The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found
media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1
dev-
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37:16AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:21:01AM +0700, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote:
> > Seems that you also suffer problem with Intel driver and kernel
> > 2.6.32. Upgrade your xf86-video-intel to v2.11.0 may help.
>
> Actually,
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > These are the only lines with the word "mouse" in them.
> >
> > Kevin, what I would try first is to set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse" in your
> > /etc/make.conf, then emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and finally
> > reboot.
> >
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:25:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > The 5% is historical from days when disks are much smaller. If you
> > have a sensible partition scheme you only really need to reserve the
> > blocks on the $ROOT filesystem. If the partition in question (IIRC) is
> > only for /hom
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:39:01PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote:
> what exactly is this reserved block count? is it about the number of inodes?
> does that mean that, by default, regular users can only use 95% of the
> inodes? and why did I use all these inodes? I don't think I have that many
> smal
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user
> > maintenance mode. How do I do that?
>
> At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot.
> Press "e"
> Move cursor to the "kernel" line
> Press "e"
> Move curs
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19:13AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I have very bad experience with acroread-9.3.2.
> Some printers (claiming to support postscript level 3) just hang.
> When I first 'print' to a file,
> gv only shows some part of each page and evince just hangs.
>
> Has anybody sim
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I need dev-texlive/texlive-pictures because it seems that's what
> provides xy-pic. Why in Hell am I obliged to install ruby? I
> currently have no use for it. I can't begin to imagine why this
> particular programming language shoul
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45:27AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > /dev/fd/0 is /dev/stdin
>
> I learned something new, thanks :)
To complete your education :) fd stands for file descriptor.
fd/0 = stdin
fd/1 = stdout
fd/2 = stderr
You can create your own file descriptors and use them to manipu
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