Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, blade- uttered the following immortal words, It means that all the kernel versions above that have been masked. You can use: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2.ebuild I will compile my own kernel from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:01 am, Grendel wrote: I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the kernel-2.6.2 vanilla sources? emerge gentoo-dev-sources gives me 2.6.1-rc1 `emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/development-sources/development-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Wesley
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:40, Stroller wrote: On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:01 am, Grendel wrote: I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the kernel-2.6.2 vanilla sources? emerge gentoo-dev-sources gives me 2.6.1-rc1 `emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Currently I got the 2.6 kernel installed, but genkernel asks me to pass the options boot=/dev/ram0 real_boot=/dev/hda6, I tried but it dont work so I switched back to 2.4.20. Is there a way to get newer kernels ? I stick with www.kernel.org. Don't use genkernel, unless you

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Arne Vogel
Grendel wrote: Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated. So currently the installation worked ok. It was hard to install it, but the end product is worth the sweat. ACK! Only a couple of more problems left, 1. The nvidia-kernel got compiled and installed but Xfree86 was unable to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Stroller
On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:49 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:40, Stroller wrote: ... If I wish to install a different version of a package from the current stable I usually `locate pckagename | grep ebuild` - there is often an older or ~ARCH ebuild in the Portage tree. Stroller. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, I have no need for a boot partition or initrd either, my sys is booting right off a 75GB reiserfs partition, with reiser support compiled into the kernel and just about everything else I need as a module. Yes it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-13 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel uttered the following immortal words, Well, I have a card (Terratec DMX 1024) that supports double stereo (front and back), so it should be possible to configure it for 4 channels. However, I didn't try this yet. If you figure it out, could you share your

[gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
Hi all, Finally I am ready to install gentoo tonight, it is sad saying goodbye to my beloved mandarke 9.1 but a few shots of the good old Jack Daniels helped to ease the pain. The installation procedure is very clear and i would be immensly greatfull if you could help me with the following.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Grendel wrote: 1. I want a 2.6 kernel, so should I select the gentoo-dev-sources kernel? Never tried it myself. But yes, it would probably be a good place to start. 2. I plan to use genkernel and hotplug as the livecd detected it fine. You might want to read up about genkernel and 2.6. I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:53:53 + Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Is the nforce2 ethernet driver (nforce-net) supported for the 2.6 kernels in gentoo? If not it doesnt matter I can manually patch the nvidia source and install it. the nforce-net is supported in the live cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... Well, might it explain the lock-ups I get with this Asus a7n8x using 2.4.24? Guess I will have to bite the bullet and get the 2.6.x emerged. IIRC forcedeth has patches for 2.4.24 kernel. Well I used nvnet for 2.4.24

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:03:23 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... Well, might it explain the lock-ups I get with this Asus a7n8x using 2.4.24? Guess I will have to bite the bullet and get the 2.6.x

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Grendel, be so kind and do not start new topic in the middle of another one, please!!! i.e. Do not start new thread by replaying another and changing header. noro PS. This is the 2.nd time u does it today. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... well, I went back into the bios and took the drives off auto and put the settings in manually, and I haven't had a problem yet, but I haven't been able to duplicate the damn thing at all up to this point. It's locked

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Norbert Kamenicky commented thusly, Grendel, be so kind and do not start new topic in the middle of another one, please!!! i.e. Do not start new thread by replaying another and changing header. Thank you for your words of wisdom. No the reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:55:18 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to get gentoo running, the installation was the worst experience i had since I installed debian. You know some of the things I have to do are so common that why anyone cant write a intereactive install script

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, 1) There are one or more projects underway to automate the install process. Search the archives or in forum. Most of us don't mind the manual process because normally you only need to do it once, then update

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:22:43 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, Yes, but I dont know if I am missing something here, but still this means that you need a lot of patience and a extremely high level of

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, Got it in one. Gentoo was not designed for the unexperienced, but a lot of unexperienced users have made the grade. yes, thats a tribute to the good support from this list more than anything else. If I didnt have

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread blade-
It means that all the kernel versions above that have been masked. You can use: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/ gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2.ebuild I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread nealbirch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:47:39 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... well, I went back into the bios and took the drives off auto and put the settings in manually, and I haven't had a problem yet, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?

2004-02-12 Thread Grendel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following immortal words, I'm going to find something to torture test this thing with and see if I can lock it next week. If I can nail the problems to something, fine, I can fix that, otherwise I will end up sending the board back. It's got

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for KT600?

2003-09-21 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 19:05, Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 18:50, Peter Ruskin wrote: I've just got myself a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 main board with VIA KT600 chipset. The gs sources don't seem to support this well - it's slow in linux, even with an XP 3200+. I can't use

[gentoo-user] Which kernel for KT600?

2003-09-20 Thread Peter Ruskin
I've just got myself a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 main board with VIA KT600 chipset. The gs sources don't seem to support this well - it's slow in linux, even with an XP 3200+. I can't use DMA: # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for KT600?

2003-09-20 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 20 September 2003 18:50, Peter Ruskin wrote: I've just got myself a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 main board with VIA KT600 chipset. The gs sources don't seem to support this well - it's slow in linux, even with an XP 3200+. I can't use DMA: # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting

Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel (for nvidia)?

2003-08-28 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 01:13 pm, Pupeno wrote: Hello people... I posted about having freezes in my computer... I have an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard (nForce2 based) and an Asus Geforce FX 5200 Video card. What kernel do you recomend (you used with same or similar hardware) to get the

Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel (for nvidia)?

2003-08-28 Thread bob bob
-user] which kernel (for nvidia)? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:25:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from gentoo.org ([204.126.2.42]) by mc6-f14.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:25:31 -0700 Received: (qmail 27731 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 02:25:20

Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel (for nvidia)?

2003-08-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
I just purchased this board. Can you say a little more about the sound issues? Any other issues with the board? -- Stephen On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:31 pm, bob bob wrote: I have the same MB as you... I had random harld lockups under gentoo sources.. so I swapped to the gaming sources

[gentoo-user] which kernel (for nvidia)?

2003-08-27 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello people... I posted about having freezes in my computer... I have an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard (nForce2 based) and an Asus Geforce FX 5200 Video card. What kernel do you recomend (you used with same or similar hardware) to get the best

[gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without compromising stability we add server related performance patches.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan D. Stine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Normally, I would say hardened-sources, however it's quite a bit behind in kernel world. It's still in 2.4.20, which had some nasty security flaws, and I wouldn't trust it too much. I'm running a Gentoo-Hardened machine with SELinux (my router), so

Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel for servers?

2003-08-14 Thread Mikhail P.
On Monday 11 August 2003 22:01, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Which kernel for a brave little Gentoo server running Zope and facing the big bad internet?! * gs-sources This patch [...] ensures that your mission critical servers will be up when you need them. [...] Where possible and without

Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel is that?

2003-03-22 Thread Ulrich Plate
Stroller wrote: This FAQ http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24634 dated November last year says that lolo-sources: [is] the testbed for Gentoo-sources. I would be inclined to the view, as you suggest, that someone by the name of Pfeifer has taken on the task of developing them in the

[gentoo-user] which kernel is that?

2003-03-21 Thread William Kenworthy
Can anyone explain this: [ebuildU-] sys-kernel/pfeifer-sources-2.4.20.1_pre1 [2.4.20.2_pre4] My current kernel is lolo-sources so I presume its trying to convert 2.4.20.2_pre4 to 2.4.20.1_pre1 whick looks both a downgrade and highly dubious? On examining the ebuild, it might be that lolo