Re: [gentoo-amd64] Which video card for amd64?

2005-05-05 Thread Will Briggs
I don't know. amd64 ATI drivers have worked well for me. Probably not blazing speed, but certainly way better than the TNT2 I was using before! Have had absolutely no problems with my current Radeon 9550. In the end I think this choice probably comes down to value-for-money not pain-per-install

Re: [gentoo-amd64] RSS Readers

2005-06-16 Thread Will Briggs
Definitely liferea. Blam has a mild bug under amd64 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94524) The Omniscientist wrote: >Any RSS readers on portage that work? The only unmasked one I found was >snownews and that seg-faulted. > > > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] file type not allowed in /usr/lib

2005-08-06 Thread Will Briggs
G'day everyone, This is a bit of a "help me" but also a question about how things work. The _"help me"_ relates to a bug I filed almost a month ago (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98622) that has yet to gain a reply of _any sort_ from anyone. (I'd be happy with a "go away n00b" or ev

Re: [gentoo-amd64] file type not allowed in /usr/lib

2005-08-07 Thread Will Briggs
Simon Stelling wrote: Hi, Will Briggs wrote: !!! ERROR: media-gfx/skencil-0.6.16 failed. !!! Function dyn_install, Line 1114, Exitcode 0 !!! File /var/tmp/portage/skencil-0.6.16/image///usr/lib/skencil-0.6.16/Lib/paxtkinter.so matches a file type that is not allowed in /usr/lib !!! If you

[gentoo-amd64] mplayer sync issues

2006-02-28 Thread Will Briggs
G'day everyone, Running ~amd64 I have both mplayer and mplayer-bin merged. amd64 land is the usual place for such a scenario so thought I'd write to this list. I'm wondering if the following issue is with the latest version of mplayer or an issue with my setup: Basically I've noticed that mplay

Re: [gentoo-amd64] glibc update problem

2006-02-28 Thread Will Briggs
Rupert Young (Restart) wrote: > > Hi, > > Our server is getting stuck on updating packages. We can not seem to > get past the upgrade to glibc. Sometimes it fails, with an error, and > sometimes it actually kills the machine requiring reboot, examples of > both below. Sorry if this is a known prob

[gentoo-amd64] chroot emerges hang

2006-04-03 Thread Will Briggs
G'day all, I'm having an interesting issue with emerge's done in my x86 chroot. Emerge any package and it will build correctly until it gets to the section "man:" where is tries to gzip man pages. It will then hang until a Ctrl-C it to stop. For instance, emerging bash ends with: make[1]:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chroot emerges hang

2006-04-04 Thread Will Briggs
Replying to my own post, just to give some more info: emerge --debug gives nothing useful I'm pretty sure it's not an NFS lock issue. ps ax tells me the hanging process is scanelf And then: lsof | grep 30063 scanelf 30063 root cwd DIR3,226560 960370 /x86/var

Re: [gentoo-amd64] chroot emerges hang

2006-04-07 Thread Will Briggs
Mike Doty wrote: Try upgrading pax-utils to app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.11 Thanks Mike, I solved this just before your email came in. scanelf was having difficulty reading /proc and upon examination I found my fstab had the chroot proc mount bind-ed to /proc rather than mounted as type pr

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Errors with startup!

2006-05-13 Thread Will Briggs
Christopher E wrote: > Hello All, > > Does any one know how to fix these issues? If so to be so kind and > help me I would be greatful. > > * Startup Errors * > > * Error 1 * > drivers/usb/input/ati_remote.c: Weird data, len=1 ff 00 00 00 00 00 ... > VP_IDE: port 0x01f0 already claime

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Nvidia forcedeth driver.

2006-05-24 Thread Will Briggs
Gordon Gallup wrote: > Greetings, > Has anyone got the forcedeth driver for the Nvidia chipset to work > with "install-amd64-universal-2006.0"? For installation purposes I > had to install a D-Link DGE-530T NIC to connect to the internet. > GAG > I don't think you're alone. My install was way

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ati-drivers & 2.6.17?

2006-06-22 Thread Will Briggs
xorg-server-1.0.* is compatible with up to the latest version of ati-drivers - I have yet to reboot into 2.6.17 but have heard of no issues with kernel. If you are running ~amd64 you will need to to either match Duncan's open-source piety or mask a few xorg things as there has been an ABI change

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Will Briggs
Google "amd64 32bit chroot gentoo" and you find: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 There is a great deal of overlap with the install docs -- especially if you want to be able to boot to the chroot as a dual-boot and therefore will need to build 32-bit kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64]emerge make my comp slow :(

2006-08-05 Thread Will Briggs
Mihir Sevak wrote: > Hello everyone, > i tried to set my dma = 1 by > "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" > and got an error mesg. >"HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted" > Of course next step was google on it and i varified that my kernel is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g

2006-08-08 Thread Will Briggs
Daniele Salatti wrote: > Hi list!! (excuse me for my english) > I have some problem installing drivers for my ASUS WL-167g. I have tried > an "emerge ra2500" and then "modprobe ra2500", after and before > rebooting, but lsmod show that the module isn't being used and the USB > dongle didn't work.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g

2006-08-09 Thread Will Briggs
Daniele Salatti wrote: > Will Briggs wrote: >> Oh and lastly - have you been to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500? >> >> W. > > No, I haven't been...I have been there right now, and I found that the > right driver is the rt2570 for my USB dongle. T

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g

2006-08-09 Thread Will Briggs
Daniele Salatti wrote: > Ok, I have been on rt2570 producer website (serialmonkey), I have > downloaded the source code, compiled it, installed and modprobed. I have > rebooted the machine and now iwconfig show: > > lono wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > et