Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-14 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:58:45 -0400 B. Nice [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If you're not married to the idea of using mplayer, vlc works well on an amd64 and plays pretty much every file format I've ever come across. I haven't installed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)

2007-05-30 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700 Wil Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote: FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the preferred way nowadays.

[gentoo-amd64] Sun and GPL

2007-05-27 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Sun, 27 May 2007 08:48:11 +0200 Joerg Gollnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: [ Sujet: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can I run a complete desktop remotely? ] If you access a remote machine on a regular base outside the LAN, you have the choice: open source solutions VNC and FreeNX or closed source

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sun and GPL

2007-05-27 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Sun, 27 May 2007 23:32:49 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Not necessarily (or likely) /all/ their software, but significant parts of it. OpenSolaris is currently CDDL, which /is/ OSI approved as a real open license, but was designed in part deliberately to be GPLv2

Re: [gentoo-amd64] test

2007-05-24 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Thu, 24 May 2007 07:48:14 -0500 Mike Bonar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Okay, I'm testing...now what? Good question. What are you actually testing? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-05-23 Thread Isidore Ducasse
2007/5/22, Dustin J. Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I missed my cue this time, sorry. The instructions *are* fairly long -- maybe we should build an eunsubscribe tool, or add a wiki page to explain how to read the documentation? The eunsubscribe tool idea seems funny _ quite gentooish. The

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

2007-05-20 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:42:49 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Hi, I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat sinks

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-19 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Wed, 16 May 2007 01:03:42 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Yes, I use nvidia-drivers and udev keeps loading the nvidiafb LKM, why are you building the nvidiafb crap in the first place? As far as I remember, I used the default genkernel. Now in fact, and though

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Tue, 15 May 2007 08:57:01 -0400 Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Ok, I thought I had turned it to plain text, but gmail is obsessive about these things. Ok, so I haven't tried with acpi off. My brother's computer (intel dual core, as far as I remember) used to hang up randomly

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Tue, 15 May 2007 11:06:23 + (UTC) Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 14 May 2007 17:08:42 -0400: things, and see how it goes. brbr-Peterbrbrdivspan class=gmail_quoteOn 5/14/07, b

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-15 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Tue, 15 May 2007 19:58:40 +0100 Antoine Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Try running a later or earlier driver, if it's an nvidia or ati. If it's not then you'll need to try a different version of Xorg. IIRC, there are issues with nvidia and framebuffer modes. Try booting with

Re: [gentoo-amd64] GDM hates me

2007-05-14 Thread Isidore Ducasse
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I had only read the first mail of the topic, and far too quickly. That'll learn me not to trust in my sudden enthusiasm (and to use my mail reader!). On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:09:55 -0400 Peter Davoust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm not new to Gentoo, I've just

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Gentoo crashing?

2007-05-14 Thread Isidore Ducasse
Very interesting post! Could you explain what mobo means? And BTW (_almost_ off-topic...) I've heard that RAM sticks should be identical when plugged on the same motherboard, but it was some good vendor advice so I'd rather rely on some experienced user's answer. So is there an issue if two RAM

Re: [gentoo-amd64] GDM hates me

2007-05-13 Thread Isidore Ducasse
I assume you're quite new to gentoo, so I'll be as verbose as I can. Ask for more if you need some. I have always experienced troubles with X at startup on fresh installs, whatever distro I use (mainly Debian and Gentoo, and a bit of NetBSD). And if gdm is running at boot, there's no access to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] adding arcmsr support to the initramfs image

2007-04-05 Thread Isidore Ducasse
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:51:51 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the right way to add kernel modules to the initramfs image? I like I'm doing something slightly dirty by editing /usr/share/genkernel/x86_64/modules_load to add the arcmsr module. -J -- Same for me using