[gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions
I'm coming into this discussion late. Saw your post of 7/17 on the archives. Just in case no one has answwered your questions. "I've been handed a new amd64 portable (HP-8000), which must keep XP on it. To perform an installation, I usually use Partition Magic, which has worked very well to down-size the windoze partition. This system (suposedly) has another hidden partition that XP uses to restore the OS, if the XP installation ever get's corrupted. NO XP installation CD was provided. I was wondering if any of the opensource repartitioning tools have matured to the point I could used one of them in lieu of Partition Magic?" [ answer1 ] I have found ntfsresize to be quite reliable even as long as two years ago. It's tedious but reliable. With my new AMD64 PC, I cheated and installed the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS AMD64 distro first, since this distro has a very easy to use repartitioning tool (automatic tools wrapped around ntfsresize). "In order to keep the XP installation: Does it matter if I setup Gentoo on the portable first, before going thru all of those windoze installation/initialization menus? " [ answer ] In any dual boot setup, install Windows first. Windows always overwrites the mbr, and you would lose the ability to boot Linux (rescue cdrom needed). OTOH, if you have an actual Windows install CD, you could use a rescue CD to partition the disk the way you like it in advance. The Windows installer will ignore Linux and swap partitions. "Any wiki examples (gotchas) on xorg.conf or make.conf (as this is my first amd64 installation) are welcome." [ answer ] The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection had not included the keyboard and mouse modules for xorg, so I had to emerge these manually. Also I didn't have much sucess using 'X -configure'. I had to copy over an existin xorg.conf and make modifications. HTH, -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation questions
On 7/31/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Collins Richey wrote: > The only gotcha I found was with the xorg modular installation. After > completing the basic installation, I did an 'emerge xfce4' and let > portage calculate all the dependancies including xorg. When all was > said and done, I discovered that the automatic dependancy selection > had not included the keyboard and mouse modules for xorg, so I had to > emerge these manually. Did you remember to add the line: INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" to your /etc/make.conf? This should pull in the keyboard and mouse stuff automatically. Cool, I'll add that to my bag of tricks. It's been about 2 years since the last time I built a Gentoo system, so a few things have changed. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 liveCD
On 7/31/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > > > Releases are not very important for Gentoo, if you have a live > > > internet connection (which is not REQUIRED, but will make your system > > > a lot more useful with Gentoo) after the whole process you'll get the > > > latest Gentoo anyway. > > I think the idea is to skip the five hour gcc/glibc update by starting > > from newer binaries in a hypothetical 2006.1 stage3. > But you gotta wait months for new releases, while (like you said) it > only take a few hours to update (if you WANNA update, because I still > use gcc 3.4.6). And it can be done in the background, while you use > the system anyway. > I must have hit the sweet spot. I installed (amd64) from the latest stage3 I could find a few weeks ago and never paid much attention to the gcc/glibc version. I'm on 3.4.6-r1, and I've never noticed any compile problems, but then I've not tried emerging empty world. My machine is too sodding fast to need that. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing
On 8/7/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the installed printers are just not there Just a thought - check to see if the printer was defined as default during setup. If not, mark your printer as default. That alone would cause other applications not to work. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice
On 8/15/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connection. (Of course, it is also essential that it works with Gentoo!) Others have responded with specifics. All I can add is that I have a couple of el-cheapo (< $40) ADS units from Micro Center that work just fine. You can put in any G-capacity IDE drive you want. If your Gentoo system handles USB storage devices properly (why wouldn't it), you'll have no problems. According to the drive enclosure advertisements, metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky blocks. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice
On 8/16/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/15/06, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the drive enclosure advertisements, > metal case is better for heat dissipation, but I have no hard > evidence. These units have the "standard" external AC->DC chunky > blocks. My enclosure is made of aluminum. Supposedly, you dont need a fan with an aluminum case. I was quite skeptical as I have seen a lot of other enclosures use fans, but while it does get rather warm, like the underside of a modern notebook, I have not had any issues with hard drives failing / being damaged / etc. Its a Vantec Nexstar 3. ~Ian Ditto for mine - aluminum and not uncomforatablly warm. Since I only need it for backups, I'm sure everything will be OK. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly change CFLAGS ?
On 8/21/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:27:14 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > So it is not *that* constrained in terms of RAM and disk, I assume. > > But I am also ready to go the -Os-way if you recommend/suggest it for my > system. Many laptops have relatively poor memory and HD speed, irrespective of their capacity. -Os helps with slow IO. I'm just curious. The last time I participated in a -O2 vs. -Os discussion was 1 -1/2 to 2 years ago. There were certain software components (don't remember which) where -Os was contraindicated - warnings against compiling them with -Os. Have things progressed to the point where -Os can be generally recommended? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing
On 8/21/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on the system each day? Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through the previous day's rotated logs? Isn't that why logwatch was created? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
On 8/26/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and > > it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will > > pop up saying "failed to play DVD" but sometimes not. Does anyone > > know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm > > emerging gxine now. I know that worked at one time. > > Start mplayer from an xterm, and it will print more useful debug info > (hopefully). gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time. mplayer doesn't output anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops up right away, before a DVD is put in: Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are several ...RTC... settings in my kernel. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
On 8/27/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are > several ...RTC... settings in my kernel. Do you know where those features are in the menuconfig? I can get so lost in there. Sorry, my gentoo system is in reconstruction, and don't have a kernel source available to run make menuconfig. Just wade through the choices and look for 'real time clock' support. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
On 8/27/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old. I don't like gmplayer > > either. Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the > > command line to play DVDs? > > See the listing of front ends at > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html I delved into that once and I just remember getting nowhere. Does anyone use one they like? Preferrably one with an ebuild and not dependent on K stuff. You could write yourself a little frontend with zenity (or similar) to feed the right parameters to mplayer. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera
On 9/2/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please note that this is an english language list. If you cannot even make an attempt to speak english then go away. That's the dumbest, sickest, most worthless comment I've seen on a list in a long time. You should truly be ashamed. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon
On 9/23/06, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was just perusing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabayon_Linux>, which seems interesting, as it uses anaconda, <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda>, during the install. Anyone on this list have any experience with sabayon? It's something like 13g of pre-compiled ~x86 or ~amd64 stuff (your choice) on a DVD. Even after install, it takes something like1 1/2 minutes to boot! Maybe that's because it uses the genkernel crap ? -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
