[gentoo-user] Embedded Systems

2003-10-17 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, This is of topic, but I'm trying to find a embedded system with a video adapter (matrox or ati 7500 or above) to support gentoo 1.4 dedicated for streaming video. I installed Gentoo 1.4 on my 500 mhz via computer with generic trident card, customer was completely dissatisfied when vi

[gentoo-user] sshd on startup

2003-10-16 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, How can I start sshd on startup, I read somewhere you need to create a link in a directory to sshd, but I forgot where. Thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-12 Thread Monah Baki
nf a section for freebsd On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:11:54 -0400, Barry Marler wrote > Hmm...Looks like grub wants (hd2,1), then. > > On 12:02 Sun 12 Oct , Monah Baki wrote: > > My dmesg shows the following: > > > > VP_IDE: IDE Controller at PCI Slot 00:11.1 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-12 Thread Monah Baki
:49:28 -0400, Barry Marler wrote > So, what are hda and hdb on your system? > > On 11:32 Sun 12 Oct , Monah Baki wrote: > > I ran fdisk -l /dev/hdc > > > > Disk /dev/hdc: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes > > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 40395 cylinders > > Units =

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-12 Thread Monah Baki
/hda4 > initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 > > All this is contingent on your drive being partitioned as you implied > earlier. As root, run fdisk -l, and send the output. > > On 09:56 Sun 12 Oct , Monah Baki wrote: > > I have just 1 drive. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-12 Thread Monah Baki
on > hda1 and / is on hdc4. How many drives do you have? > > On 02:48 Sun 12 Oct , Monah Baki wrote: > > Thanks. > > > > Now my disk layout is: > > > > hdc1 Freebsd > > hdc2 Linux (boot) > > hdc3 Linux (swap) > > hdc4 L

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-11 Thread Monah Baki
eebsd root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/loader I should have no problems, correct?? Thanks On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:32:49 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote > Monah Baki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to dual boot gentoo with freebsd, I installed freebsd first, then as I >

[gentoo-user] Dual boot question

2003-10-10 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm trying to dual boot gentoo with freebsd, I installed freebsd first, then as I was partioning my HDD, I noticed gentoo's device boot was labeled (/dev/hdc2p1, hdc2p2 and hdc2p3) Freebsd was hdc1. I wanted to enable ext3 on hdc2p1 but the system responded with "The device apparently

[gentoo-user] dd question

2003-10-09 Thread Monah Baki
hi all, I'm trying to dd over nfs (dd if=/dev/hdc3 of=/mnt/home/gentoo.bin bs=512) after 2 seconds, the computer that am dd'ing freezes,(the gentoo.bin file size no longer increases on the remote nfs server) and I can't kill the dd process, and I can't access the nfs mount point, all I can d

[gentoo-user] help with monitor

2003-10-01 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I've been running gentoo 1.4 on a dell monitor no problem, I then switched it to an apple colorsync, after grub the monitor starts to flicker, then I switched it to another dell, after grub, the screen goes black on me, but I can ssh to the box. I know that I plugged in the right horz

[gentoo-user] Apple 17" colorsync monitor

2003-09-30 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm running gentoo 1.4 and I'be been having problems with the apple colorsync monitor. I plugged in the right horizontal and vertical sync, yet when grub loads, the screen starts flickering. I'm running a trident generic 3d card. This machine works fine on my dell monitor, but starts

Re: [gentoo-user] mke2fs on smp freezes

2003-09-29 Thread Monah Baki
I ran badblocks -sv /dev/sda and another on /dev/sda3, system replied pass completed, 0 bad blocks found on both checks. Thank you On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:59:57 -0400 (EDT), Marshal Newrock wrote > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Monah Baki wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'

[gentoo-user] mke2fs on smp freezes

2003-09-29 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm installing gentoo 1.4 on a dual 600Mhz PIII machine. It detects both cpu's, but when I try to initialize the partitions: mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 mkswap /dev/sda2 mke2fs -j /dev/sda3 when I run mke2fs -j on sda3, the computer/keyboard freezes, and I have to reboot the machine. Than

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer newbie

2003-09-28 Thread Monah Baki
ng that out. Thank you On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:08:41 -0600, Collins Richey wrote > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:16:41 -0400 > "Monah Baki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Been trying to emerge mplayer-1.0 and emerge mplayerplug-in-0.91 from ports, > > so that I can

[gentoo-user] mplayer newbie

2003-09-27 Thread Monah Baki
Been trying to emerge mplayer-1.0 and emerge mplayerplug-in-0.91 from ports, so that I can watch apple's quicktime trailers. Nothing happens, I get a greenish screen. Am I missing anything else. I'm running mozilla 1.4 and gnome. Thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] mplayer help

2003-09-27 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm running gnome & Mozilla 1.4, I emerge mplayer and openquicktime to watch a trailer from quicktime.apple.com, once I click on the the trailer, I see mplayer plugin loading, then the dialog box turns green, and nothing shows up. What am I missing??? Thank you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Newbie

2003-09-24 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I just installed my first gentoo server and I'm quite impressed, although I had to struggle a bit with my video card. I followed the instructions on the website and the machine boots up fine. However I noticed on my left side of the monitor there's a vertical line all the way from top