Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities

2003-08-19 Thread Ulrich Plate
Chris I wrote: > > I've seen the same when switching from a 2.4 to 2.5 kernel. I guess > > something in the new mouse input system made things more sensitive. > > I had to turn sensitivity and acceleration all the way down in the > > gnome config. Maybe some playing with xset(1) will help? > >

[gentoo-user] Error in mail.log

2003-08-19 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I have this error in my mail.log. what can i do to get this fixed? Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: The directory exists spamassassin is install also bogofilter TIA Patrick -- "If we don't get more power to the warp dr

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Ewald Geschwinde wrote: > Do you have an url of this debian system and how they managed to get > debian down like this > Not at all, i only know that they spent much time to manage this. Did you compress your 140Mb system ? the good idea is to put a system.tgz on the flash witch is untared on a

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
Nicolas STURMEL wrote: Ewald Geschwinde wrote: I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB I know people who managed to put a debian system on a 128 Mb flash for an embedded system running an Epia 5000. But this kind of operations are tricky. Perhaps you should l

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-19 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
1. Run lsmod on Knoppix to find out which modules are needed for wifi card 2. Load these modules by hand using modprobe, if you receive "Can't locate ..." error, then reconfigure, build and boot new kernel with missing modules, goto 2. 3. If the card is now available, modify your /e

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Frederick Kautz
You could probably build one from scratch... compile the kernel and any GNU programs that are absolutely necessary for running the system. http://www.linuxrouter.org/ http://www.frazierwall.com http://www.coyotelinux.com/ are linux firewalls and NAT systems in a floppy. http://embedded.adis.

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Nicolas STURMEL
Ewald Geschwinde wrote: > I need it for a embedded system. > Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB > I know people who managed to put a debian system on a 128 Mb flash for an embedded system running an Epia 5000. But this kind of operations are tricky. Perhaps you should look in http://www.linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Ewald Geschwinde
I need it for a embedded system. Should run on a flash rom with 128 MB It's OT but does anyone know any distribution who is good for embedded handling?? Regards Ewald Geschwinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds too small for Gentoo. I have successfully installed Gentoo on a 1.2 GB HD, but 80MB..

Re: [gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...

2003-08-19 Thread Frederic Soulier
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:09, Phil Barnett wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 8:12 am, Larry Meadors wrote: > > > The message "Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!" happens when you run > > ant and there is not a build.xml file in the current directory, or you > > do not specify one on the command

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 1.4 on a WiFi laptop

2003-08-19 Thread Martin LORANG
Hi all, I have a laptop with a lucent technology orinoco wifi pcmcia ethernet adapter. This adapter works wery well with the Knoppix live CD. I boot the Gentoo 1.4 install CD with : gentoo dokeymap dopcmcia Then : modprobe orinico_cs The modules are loaded : checked with lsmod. The net-setup eth

[gentoo-user] Install with serial-ata disk

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Arroyo
Hello, I want to install gentoo on a computer with a serial-ata disk. With the basic ivecd 1.4 my intel serial-ata controller is not detected. I have read in the forums that stables kernels don't support many serial-ata controller, so my question is that what is the way i can use to intall gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] x eats my mem and cpu

2003-08-19 Thread Javier Villavicencio
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:12:05 +0200 Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm prone to suspect that the case is unreleased pixmaps in gaim, which > means that gaim allocates memory from the X server with each time it > shows a flashy picture, but at the end of the process it doesn't > -release- thees

RE: [gentoo-user] Optimal speed for burning Linux ISO images

2003-08-19 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO > images? > > - does that particular speed is influenced by the > CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media? I'd say its the lowest number of all of the above. If you have a decent computer then it's the minimum of the CDR media

Re: [gentoo-user] small installation

2003-08-19 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
Sounds too small for Gentoo. I have successfully installed Gentoo on a 1.2 GB HD, but 80MB... What do you intend to do with the system? Run a gateway, a router, a firewall? There are special distros for these kind of installations. I'm currently setting up a "bering" installation on a hardware-c

[gentoo-user] Optimal speed for burning Linux ISO images

2003-08-19 Thread Ronald Kuwawi
Hello all, Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO images? - does that particular speed is influenced by the CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media? thanks :) Ronald -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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