Not really kernel or hardware, but this is the closest forum I could find -- though, I'm sure one of the mods can do better ;)

I just managed to get my HP Photosmart 8450 printer to work with HPLIP -- I can access the 4-in-1 card reader through /dev/sdc1 or similar. However, I've got some problems ...

The previous ebuild didn't work for me so I hacked it to make it work, and it did. Here goes:

# Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit eutils
DESCRIPTION="Puts an xterm window on top of your screen that ...

Well, I upgraded to a Seagate 36GB 10K disc and it's much noisier. I don't really mind though.

If you want it to stay quiet, stick with what you've got at the moment, I'd say.

Why?

mutt, screen, irssi, procmail, getmail, spamassassin, crm114, glark, clamassassin, msmtp, exim, hilite, detox, rxvt-unicode, zsh, gvim, gmrun, abcde, mpd

Be sure that the binaries aren't being overwritten. If a 64 bit binary links to a 32 bit binary, you will get that error.

Mabye we should change the standard shell from bash to zsh? A lot of people prefer it.

As much as I'd like to see zsh take over the world, there are lot of reasons for this not happening:

despite the fact that zsh is nearly similar to bash, there are a few gotchas. Adding emulate -L sh to the ...

martinbishop wrote:Has that "vim mode" bug been fixed? or whatever the problem was that made it replace text and get all screwed up

it's not a bug, but if you want emacs-style keybindings, put bindkey -e in your zshrc.

It stopped working for me with zsh-4.2.1-r1.

You need to emerge app-shells/zsh-completion.

If a Fiat Punto was good enough for your mother, would you refuse a Porsche?

Well, the Z Shell book has just been released:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593766/qid=1100286157/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-3624532-0112961?v=glance&s=books

If you're interested in really mastering this shell (and believe me, there's a hell of a lot to master) it's a good buy. One ...

ZSH is POSIX 1003.2 compliant, as well as fully bourne-compatible.

Mutt is excellent. The documentation is both thorough and clear, so check http://www.mutt.org out.

My system looks something like this:
Getmail from dev.gentoo.org and mail.edgeoftheinterweb.org.uk using SSL and IMAP in the first instance, POP3 in the second.
Procmail for sorting and filtering ...

app-misc/run-mailcap is installed on virtually all Gentoo systems. It uses /etc/mailcap. It would be a good, standardised way to handle associations. That /etc/mailcap file is a bit lacking though...

alias rs='emerge rsync && eupdatedb && emerge -puD world'

saves me a lot of typing, and that way i never forget to eupdatedb :)

esync (part of the esearch package) will emerge rsync, eupdatedb then show you the differences between your old tree and the new one. I really wouldn't recommend --deep ...

Pwnz3r: I'm sure I've seen that zshrc somewhere before :D

Here is my zshrc .

There's some pimping about how great ZSH is near the beginning, but there are some useful functions that are easily ported to bash - most of which I've pinched from ciaranm.

The {1..9} stuff viperlin mentioned before has ...

Nope, I'm afraid you have to make your own. If you would like to see some of the things I mentioned download you can try[ur=]http://edgeoftheinterweb.org.uk/files/dot.zshrc]mine[/url].

emerge -ua world, with ~amd64 accepted in make.conf.

One thing bugging me about this thread so for is seeing -D everywhere. -D drags depencies into the upgrade, and you can bet that a dependency is going to be a library of some description. First of all, a new version of a library is hardly going ...

The main problem that is definately true of Gigabyte and MSI boards is that they do have trouble with double sided RAM (the most common and cheapest if you want a high capacity DIMM, I'd be surprised if you could even find a single sided DIMM bigger than 512MB or so) at higher frequencies on their ...

The man pages are well written but rather long (they are divided into several, but the total number of lines is around 45,000). They are more useful if you know what you're looking for. You might want to try here, here and this is very useful too.

I'd avoid Gigabyte and MSI because of the poor memory performance and reliability of their 754 Athlon64 boards.

ZSH is a fantastic shell, both for programming and day-to-day use. Much like a small business with a great product but not enough capital to market it, ZSH doesn't really have the same amount of users as bash, simple because everyone is constantly shouting out how good bash is.

Some of the things ...

http://edgeoftheinterweb.org.uk/images/ion.png is what my desktop looks like.

Any configs are in http://edgeoftheinterweb.org.uk/files/

Ion looks pretty in its own way. I see too many desktops designed to look flashy rather than actually being useful.

the Ion binary is roughly 200-250K depending ...

why not download only the patches from kernel.org??
instead of more than 30megs why not just download 1-2 megs?

This is exactly what kernel-2.eclass does.

Essentially, you are only downloading one full source tarball for each major kernel version and patching up the tarball you have inside its ...

Evolution sounds like it's come a long way... how is the message filtering?

Thunderbird's mail filtering is really substandard. There's a limited amount of actions available, and you can only filter by simple From, To, Cc and Subject. List-Id anyone?

Procmail can find anything, anywhere, and then ...