[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Duncan
Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:18:17 +0200: > No, it doesnt really work. Effects still suck, the bar still sucks, ff3 > crashes ... --> back to 3.5.9 waiting for 4.2 I'm guessing you have an nVidia card and are using the propriet

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to double check python-updater. I thought I finished that > step completely. The machine is currently in Windows so I'll do that > in a bit. I was wrong about this. I had some blocking items to there is still a bu

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Eduardo Schoedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # grub --no-floppy > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > ... > > grub> setup (hd0) > > like the Gentoo Handbook. > Thanks. Will do. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo Schoedler
# grub --no-floppy grub> root (hd0,0) ... grub> setup (hd0) like the Gentoo Handbook. -- From: "Barry Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:51 PM To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options. To co

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Bob Sanders
Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: > > What do you mean 'install' grub again? Are you suggesting that I have > to do the whole process from the install guide with this version of > grub? > Won't help from what I saw last week. > > Thanks for the pointer to grub-splashes. What's up with these

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Barry Walsh
To continue with the top-posting, I suspect he means the much shorter grub-install command to resinsert the grub bootloader into the MBR. Mark Knecht wrote: Sorry about top posting but that seems to have taken over in this thread. (Bad us...) What do you mean 'install' grub again? Are you sug

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Sorry about top posting but that seems to have taken over in this thread. (Bad us...) What do you mean 'install' grub again? Are you suggesting that I have to do the whole process from the install guide with this version of grub? I'll have to double check python-updater. I thought I finished that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo Schoedler
Sorry for that. I mean re-emerge grub and install it again. Regards, Eduardo. From: Beso Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options. 2008/8/5 Eduardo Schoedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grub use ncurses. If you have updated ncurses, you must re-emerge gentoo and instal

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Beso
2008/8/5 Constantine D. Kardaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ebuilds from overlay work well on amd64.and i'm using 4.1 till RC release. > Some minor glitches here and there but i believe that can be fixed in > the next bugfix release. > Actually i'm pretty happy. No prob at all... > ff3 is working well,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Beso
2008/8/5 Eduardo Schoedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Grub use ncurses. > If you have updated ncurses, you must re-emerge gentoo and install it. > I had the same problem on Sunday. > > Best Regards, > Eduardo. what do you mean by re-emerge gentoo?! do you mean the whole system or just ncurses?! --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:32:01 +0100 Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. > Google doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) > webapp-config postinst, but I can't find out what it means. > > Can anyone here hel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Davoust
This is true, however I'm pretty sure that at one point my http server stored it's data in /srv/. Maybe I'm confusing my three letter directories or maybe I altered the configuration, I don't know. Just thought I'd throw it out there. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Davoust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) worldgnat

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:13 -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: > Doesn't apache use it? I haven't used it in a while but I thought the > directory htdocs was in /srv/www. > > Cheers, > -Peter > All my httpd installs (apache and lighttpd) use /var/www by default. Dan

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Davoust
Doesn't apache use it? I haven't used it in a while but I thought the directory htdocs was in /srv/www. Cheers, -Peter On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:37:16 Olivier Crête wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:32 +0100, Peter H

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:37:16 Olivier Crête wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. Google > > doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) > > webapp-config postinst, but I can't find

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo Schoedler
Grub use ncurses. If you have updated ncurses, you must re-emerge gentoo and install it. I had the same problem on Sunday. Best Regards, Eduardo. -- From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:57 PM To: Subject: [gento

Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.

2008-08-05 Thread Bob Sanders
Isaac Conway, mused, then expounded: >> > I think you will find that /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz no longer exists. > Seems that for some reason it was removed by that last grub update. If you > comment out that line, you should get an acceptable text boot screen. Yes or you could emerge grub-s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Olivier Crête
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. Google > doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) webapp-config > postinst, but I can't find out what it means. Its like /home for servers See: http://w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 5. August 2008, Mark Haney wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > works great one ebuild or so from over 200 did not work (kfloppy which I > > don't need anyway) --ignore-failures (with pkgcore) or keep-going > > (portage) are your friends. > > > > kde 4.1 works very well. There is a

[gentoo-amd64] /srv support in Gentoo

2008-08-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
I'm confused about what use Gentoo makes of the /srv directory. Google doesn't help, nor gentoo-wiki. It's referred to in (I think) webapp-config postinst, but I can't find out what it means. Can anyone here help? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Constantine D. Kardaris
Ebuilds from overlay work well on amd64.and i'm using 4.1 till RC release. Some minor glitches here and there but i believe that can be fixed in the next bugfix release. Actually i'm pretty happy. No prob at all... ff3 is working well, no crashes here On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Mark Haney <[

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Haney
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: works great one ebuild or so from over 200 did not work (kfloppy which I don't need anyway) --ignore-failures (with pkgcore) or keep-going (portage) are your friends. kde 4.1 works very well. There is a kwin crash on logout - but that is easy to deal with - clic

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 5. August 2008, Mark Haney wrote: > Okay, I've been watching and waiting for KDE 4.1 to hit portage, via an > overlay or otherwise. I've seen new HOWTOs on getting it emerged, but > after my fun with KDE4.0.5 I'm a little more cautious. So, has anyone > used the directions on installi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Dieter Ries
Mark Haney schrieb: Okay, I've been watching and waiting for KDE 4.1 to hit portage, via an overlay or otherwise. I've seen new HOWTOs on getting it emerged, but after my fun with KDE4.0.5 I'm a little more cautious. So, has anyone used the directions on installing KDE4.1, do they work okay?

[gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.1

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Haney
Okay, I've been watching and waiting for KDE 4.1 to hit portage, via an overlay or otherwise. I've seen new HOWTOs on getting it emerged, but after my fun with KDE4.0.5 I'm a little more cautious. So, has anyone used the directions on installing KDE4.1, do they work okay? Does it emerge okay?