Re: [gentoo-user] viruses

2004-02-01 Thread Fred Labrosse
Peter Wu writes: Microsoft creates features that customers demand so that they can sell their products and make money. I did not follow the thread at all, but when I read that, I jump. No, Microsoft does not create features that customers demand. They create features and work very

[gentoo-user] devfs and zip (Was: Progress bars??)

2004-02-01 Thread Fred Labrosse
gabriel writes: devfs is awesome. it found my compactflash cardreader with no problems whatsoever. i can't possibly condone a switch. Maybe, but it only finds my zip drive if I have a disk in it when I boot. Or am I missing something? Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] possible to mount home directory on login?

2004-01-27 Thread Fred Labrosse
Linus harling writes: autofs (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/?topic_id=142) does exactly that... But it does not work with smb (at least, it doesn't with the version I tried (old RH7.x machine). Haven't tried, but i think it should, as far as I know it's

Re: [gentoo-user] possible to mount home directory on login?

2004-01-26 Thread Fred Labrosse
Linus harling writes: Ian Truelsen wrote: Is it possible, assuming that each user's home directory is on a separate partition, to have the user's home directory mount only when they login and then umount on logout? autofs (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autofs/?topic_id=142)

[gentoo-user] automatic power down

2004-01-23 Thread Fred Labrosse
Valmor de Almeida writes: Hello list, When using shutdown -h now to shutdown my laptop (Dell 8100) it brings the system down and prompts me to power it down. I would like the power down to be automatic otherwise the system sits there waiting for me to press the power

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer background image

2004-01-13 Thread Fred Labrosse
Sebastian Bergmann writes: Hi, I am using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 and the following grub config kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 where /boot/initrd-1024x768

[gentoo-user] Setting ALSA_CARDS in make.conf (was: Is Alsa-1.0.1 up to date yet?)

2004-01-12 Thread Fred Labrosse
Manuel McLure writes: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Wizard root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-tools alsa-utils alsa-oss alsa-firmware I always add ALSA_CARDS='cs46xx' before the emerge - is it possible to put this in make.conf instead? Yes, but why don't

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo not powering off

2004-01-12 Thread Fred Labrosse
Simon Kellett writes: On 07 Jan 2004 at 10:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though). Not the answer you are looking for but I gave up trying to get this to work on my box: I instead use the hardware

[gentoo-user] hangs on mounting proc on /proc

2004-01-12 Thread Fred Labrosse
joachim rinck writes: please help: booting of my 2.6.1-gentoo hangs on mounting proc on /proc it's from a livecd on a pentium II and at some point i had devfsd installed, now i unmerged that recompiles without devfsd, emerged udev - the same. maybe thats not even where the

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-10 Thread Fred Labrosse
Fred Labrosse writes: Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because the kernel wouldn't compile without ;-). I did

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Øyvind Stegard writes: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though).  I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried both possibilities for CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF

[gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off SMP support in the kernel. However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below when insmod'ing snd.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol

[gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, I'm trying to enable DRI with my ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics card. Finally discovering that this is a mach64, I emerged xfree-drm as said in the Hardware 3D accelaration guide: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xfree-drm with VIDEO_CARDS set to mach64 in /etc/make.conf. This indeed produces a

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Robert G. Waycott writes: On Friday 09 January 2004 04:04 am, Fred Labrosse wrote: Doing an insmod mach64 works but does not solve the problem. Any ideas? Fred, have you added mach64 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x ?? That is where all modules which need

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because the kernel wouldn't compile without ;-). I did make mrproper cp /boot/config .config make

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

2004-01-09 Thread Fred Labrosse
Øyvind Stegard writes: On Friday 09 January 2004 12:59, Fred Labrosse wrote: Peter Ruskin writes: Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel would remove those redundant modules. I did (because

[gentoo-user] switching harddrives

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Gezim Hoxha writes: Hi all, I bought a new hard drive (80GB) and right now I'm using a 40GB one. My question is: Can I transfer gentoo / files into the partitions of that harddrive and will it work? How would I go about at doing this? The partitions are gonna be a little

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Fabian Braennstroem writes: Hello, On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though). I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried both possibilities

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Thomas Buntrock writes: apmd is not needed. I .config settings are: CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Rainer Sigwald writes: apmd is not needed. However, I use the ac-sources, since I have made best experices with them. I'm also using APM, are you using ``shutdown -h'' or just ``shutdown''? shutdown doesn't work for me, but shutdown -h does. I use /sbin/halt (same as

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Øyvind Stegard writes: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: All, When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though).  I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried both possibilities for CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF

[gentoo-user] PS1 environment variable under KDE

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, In KDE, when I use a konsole or xterm, the prompt is not what it should be. What I mean is that it is not what is specified in /etc/profile. It is fine when I do an su - user from the same konsole and it is fine in non X mode. I did not check /etc/profile was read but startkde does

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running games

2004-01-08 Thread Fred Labrosse
Mauro Arnoldi writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think you didn't compiled your xfree with GLX support. I got the same prob but i don't use my linux so i didn't spent time for recompiling xfree PS: how odd is to reply to an italian user being

[gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-07 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off (Winblow does though). I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried both possibilities for CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF, to no avail. Anybody has any other suggestion? TIA, Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

2004-01-07 Thread Fred Labrosse
Jimmy Rosen writes: I use acpi instead of apm. Just run acpid at default runlevel and put ospm_system in modules.autoload and it powers down nicely after shutdown. I should have added that the computer is a PII MMX 333MHz, so no ACPI ;-). Thanks anyway. Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] KDE needs teTeX! (was: Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages)

2004-01-05 Thread Fred Labrosse
Ben Munat writes: Hoo! Man, eclipse-sdk wants about 100 packages! Why the heck would I need cdparanoia or a bunch from media-libs to run eclipse? I just installed my first gentoo box and am very pleased with it (VERY good performance out of a PII 333). However, I wonder why kde needs

[gentoo-user] Runlevels and configuration profiles

2004-01-05 Thread Fred Labrosse
All, I just started using Gentoo and am very impressed. I used to use (and still do on some machines) redhat (different versions) but will probably will switch them all to gentoo. It's so much faster. Obviously, there are some differences between RH and Gentoo and I'm little by little learning

Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevels and configuration profiles

2004-01-05 Thread Fred Labrosse
Collins writes: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:04:14 + Fred Labrosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I just started using Gentoo and am very impressed. Something I did not find yet is how to choose different configs at run boot time. Eidt /etc/rc.conf To start a gui

[gentoo-user] Archives? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevels and configuration profiles)

2004-01-05 Thread Fred Labrosse
Fred Labrosse writes: Collins writes: Please search in the archives this was discussed in the past few days. The recommendation was to create your own runlevel and select what you want via a parameter passed at boot time (lilo or grub conf). I guessed that. Would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Archives?

2004-01-05 Thread Fred Labrosse
Peter Eis writes: Here's a good one. I can't find the archives of the mailing list? They are not mentioned on the mailing lists page and I can't find them anywhere. Help please ;-). I guess that's what you want http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=90752 That was