[gentoo-user] Just Testing

Hi, Recently, I cleared out some "gentoo-user" e-mail from Firefox and now it seems that Thunderbird is automatically deleting any gentoo-user e-mail when it arrives in my inbox. The address is still in my personal address book, but not ...

Message posted on the December 12th, 2012 - 6:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

I've had two segfaults I'd never seen before. One in sudo and one in rdesktop. Updates later when I get things better tracked down. :wq

Message posted on the April 25th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Hibernate and missing drives have reappeared - Gentoo-user is also missing!!!!

Hi all, I posted a message a few days ago regarding mapped drives not showing up in Dolphin and the Hibernate button disappearing. I hadn't got around to replying to peoples suggestions, don't you just hate work interfering with your enjoyment of ...

Message posted on the June 27th, 2012 - 11:40 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

Hi, I'm a new gentoo user (coming from ubuntu). I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with gentoo on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it (svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc). I ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2012 - 12:40 PM ET

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/snd/seq access mode and permission

I have tried creating this rule: /etc/udev/rules.d/40-seq.rules KERNEL=="snd/seq", GROUP="audio", MODE="0666" ...but I'm not sure about the kernel key pair. I have tried matching "/dev/snd/seq" and just ...

Message posted on the August 22nd, 2012 - 11:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions of a user. 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group "wheel". 2: sudo: You need to be in the group "wheel" or in the /etc/sudoers ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2010 - 6:20 PM ET

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

Whoops, sorry for the other posting. Suddenly this mail got sent, and some empty kmail windows opened. Probably due to this effect I sometimes experience: The last keypress gets repeated all over the time, and when I move the mouse over other ...

Message posted on the June 19th, 2010 - 5:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] The story of a successful move from ~x86 back to x86.

Hey all, remember me? I'm the guy with the old desktop from this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg96277.html That post tells the beginning of the story pretty nicely. To pick up where I left off 11 months ago, I ...

Message posted on the December 5th, 2010 - 6:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Font problems on new install

A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine. Notwithstanding that I had mysterious problems. One of the icons on my ICEWM toolbar launches the command... ...

Message posted on the May 15th, 2013 - 10:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] OT HD video camera & Gentoo

Howdy, I'm going to get myself an HD video camera, that works well with open source software on Gentoo. Problem is (head scratching), I recall when I went through this some years ago I had lots of problems making a decision that worked with linux. ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 5:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all of the follow-ups... I would really appreciate a meaningful response to this question (maybe I should go ask this on -dev?) - this has the potential to lose me forever as a gentoo ...

Message posted on the March 18th, 2012 - 12:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

Hi, I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I downgraded to version 7.7.1 and ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2010 - 6:10 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade

Hi. Im trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 to linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 just copied the .config from the old one and did a make oldconfig as i usually do but when i tried to compile it got this message: - localhost linux # make ...

Message posted on the February 14th, 2011 - 7:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade

Hi. Im trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 to linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5 just copied the .config from the old one and did a make oldconfig as i usually do but when i tried to compile it got this message: - localhost linux # make ...

Message posted on the February 14th, 2011 - 7:10 PM ET

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