Re: [gentoo-amd64] Video cards

2005-12-12 Thread Burak Serdar
I recently bought an fx5200 for $55, and it works perfectly. You have to emerge the unstable version of nVidia drivers to get them working on the more recent kernel versions. I have 2.6.12 kernel, and the latest stable nVidia compiles and works without any problems. On 12/12/05, John C. Shimek <[E

[gentoo-amd64] Video cards

2005-12-12 Thread John C. Shimek
I am running 64bit Gentoo (of course) and looking at upgrading video cards. I have an ATI 8500LE right now. I have that working ok I am having one problem. I am trying to use learn Blender. It crashes at a certain point due to a bug in Mesa. There is a bug report for this and it has been f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Steve Herber
Besides lspci and lsusb, I like lshw. sys-apps/lshw From the man page: lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cach

RE: [gentoo-amd64] [OT- html posts]

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Eric Bliss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:55 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [OT- html posts] >On Friday 09 December 2005 04:17 pm, Bob Young wrote: >> Thank you, that's exactly the point, the major ob

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not creating bootable cd

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I just attempted to burn an is for Gentoo for the pc here but after it read in the iso the start button didn't appear. I looked in setup>devices and none were listed. Also, when preparing the image for 'iso cue toc' it is using mkisofs not cdrecord. Is this correct for a cd image? -- gentoo

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan
Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:09:36 +: > I see, you mean truncating it like this. > > On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted >> below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: >> >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Indeed, if only all the students thought this way. > > FWIW: I don't believe there is anything unfortunate about mistakes. > Mistakes are part of the learning process, and are inevitable (no one is > perfect). > > Actually, in my expeience, some of my best solutions have come from some of >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Brett Johnson
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:09:26AM -0700, Duncan wrote: > The most important thing, tho, is to stay willing to learn new things and > to learn from mistakes, which we all make, unfortunately (yes, me too, > unfortunately). FWIW: I don't believe there is anything unfortunate about mistakes. Mista

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0)

2005-12-12 Thread Drake Donahue
- Original Message - From: "Felipe Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:50 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0) and what about dma? when you use generic driver, can you enable

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Coffee time. I ave endless questions tho' -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan
Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:52:26 +: > So I looked into Gentoo, which appeared > to-good-to-be-true. So I jumped in quickly before reading any details. > All I wanted was to get it up-and-running. I can learn the rest as I > go. I am fam

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I see, you mean truncating it like this. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > > > I had found this > > > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html#L

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan
Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:14:19 +: > I thought comments should be posted at the top of the rply so users > don't have to scroll thru' endless postings to reach the necessary > 'bit'. That's the point about trimming the quote to only that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Previous to this I used Debian for years. All was ok until one day I decided there was too much crap on my system from trying different software. So I started to reinstall and the mirrors where down and sad as it seems I cannot go more than a day without my wkstn. I need it for personal and work

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan
Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: > I had found this > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html#Locating_and_installing_specific > > A better question would have been, > 'how do I find the full packag

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I thought comments should be posted at the top of the rply so users don't have to scroll thru' endless postings to reach the necessary 'bit'. Also, No, I cannot ping this machine when it locks-up. I tried this first. I will build kernels with both kinds of board to see which works. On Mon, 20

[gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Duncan
Gavin Seddon posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:56 +: > Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box > and removing the card. I don't have it's original box. > Thanks. > > > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:39 -0600, Brett Johnson wro

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I had found this http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html#Locating_and_installing_specific A better question would have been, 'how do I find the full package name for 'emerge ='? Thanks On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:17 +, Luis Medinas wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-12 a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Luis Medinas
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:14 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? > you should read portage documentation available on www.gentoo.org but you can simply upgrade to 1.2.1 doing this echo "app-cdr/cdrdao ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:34 +, Luis Medinas wrote: > 1.2.1 -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box and removing the card. I don't have it's original box. Thanks. On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:39 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:32:20AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > > Hi, > > When I modprobe initio I get

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0)

2005-12-12 Thread Felipe Ribeiro
and what about dma? when you use generic driver, can you enable it? it always recognize my chipset as sis5513 :-( Drake Donahue escreveu: our grub.conf and fstab are virtual twins should not be problem according to asus web site, asus k8s-mx does not have a sis5513 drive controller, SiS 965L

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Warning bash-3.1 serious issue starting init scripts bug #115142

2005-12-12 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Monday 12 December 2005 08:29, Steve Herber wrote: > I ran into the same problem but I could get a root prompt. I found that > a number of /etc/init.d/scripts and some of the portage support scripts > contained lines like this: > > local -a umods=() as mentiond in the bug > or someth