[gentoo-user] sun-jdk upgrade problem - gentoo user - order by pertinence

[gentoo-user] Sync'ing with Windows CE

I'm on an ~amd64 platform and I have a Windows CE device connected through a serial port that I need to upload to and download from. What kind of programs are available for sync'ing with a Windows CE device? Which ones work the best? How can I ...

Message posted on the July 23rd, 2010 - 8:50 AM ET

[gentoo-user] OT: lightspark flash player

Just saw a mention about the lightspark flash player. Is any one using it and can comment on it being a viable replacement for adobe flash for general web browsing? There is also some comment here (http://lwn.net/Articles/389266/) on various linuc ...

Message posted on the July 22nd, 2010 - 9:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] SPF & sendmail: howto?

Hi, I would like to integrate Sender Policy Framework (SPF) with my MTA (sendmail), but can not find any documentation for dealing with SPF, Sendmail & Gentoo. I could install mail-filter/libspf2, but how can I make sendmail use it? There are ...

Message posted on the July 21st, 2010 - 4:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] udev-related (?) problem

Greets, I run ~amd64 here, at least I try ;-) So far everything up-to-date, kernel tuxonice-sources-2.6.34-r1, udev-160 I had to reboot before (something with KVM stuck and I decided to clear up things with init 6), clean reboot, and now I get ...

Message posted on the July 14th, 2010 - 3:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

Hi, subject says it all: I'm using gentoo over rather slow line, and while syncing portage tree, lines keep scrolling so fast it saturates my connection. How can I make "emerge --sync" somehow less verbose? I know, I can use ...

Message posted on the July 13th, 2010 - 1:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Display gone

Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X & kde apps can't find the display and return No protocol specified No protocol specified xprop: unable to open display ':0' Did I forget to configure something ? ~adj~

Message posted on the July 13th, 2010 - 12:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.6 without mouse and keyboard

Hi people! 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 and keyboard ...

Message posted on the July 13th, 2010 - 12:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Unicode Fonts in xfce4-terminal

Hi all, I have been fiddling on and off for a few months now trying to get Unicode font display in Terminal, which per the Gentoo Unicode docs as well as its own, supports UTF-8 character sets. However, special characters are not displayed. The ...

Message posted on the July 12th, 2010 - 3:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] fate of nmh

In check ing for updates today, I found the following: - mail-client/nmh-1.3-r1 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Diego E. Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (24 Jun 2010) # on behalf of QA team # # Fails to ...

Message posted on the July 11th, 2010 - 2:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] mysql

Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 root@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns ...

Message posted on the July 11th, 2010 - 12:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Two openvpn tunnels... and /etc/init.d et al.

I already have one openvpn tunnel - and I need another. I've established configuration launching the second tunnel (tun1, while tun0 is launched at boot) using the command line to explicitly start openvpn. I'd really like both tunnels to start at ...

Message posted on the July 6th, 2010 - 1:20 AM ET

[gentoo-user] CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

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 captured by dmesg so ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2010 - 12:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2010 - 10:40 AM ET

[gentoo-user] CD for testing laptops

hello, Well, there are lots of local sales on laptops. It's been a few years and much has changed (that I'm not up on with boot CDs). Naturally, I'd like gentoo/kde on a boot cd, but then there are different images for AMD and intel arches. So my ...

Message posted on the June 30th, 2010 - 11:50 AM ET