Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! I beg to differ. If high performance appeals to you, give ReiserFS OR XFS a try - since all benchmarks on this subjects show a more or less significant difference dealing with a large number of big vs. small files. I also don't quite understand the suggestion to ignore "arguments about data

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Sorry.. I don't get why he's 20,000 in debt due to Gentoo. Daniel Robbins was Chief Architect and founder of gentoo linux. Appearantly he spent more time working on gentoo as he did on earning money ;-) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] portatge 4Q-2002 / 3Q-2003

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Step away from the updates files! Not a very informative answer :-( What are they needed for after portage has made the moves/slotmoves? Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:40:24 -0600, Nicolas Bailey wrote: > > This is covered somewhere in the handbook, but basically you need > > > > ln -s net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 > > > > I believe it should be: > > (in /etc/init.d) You don't need to be in the directory to create the link, as long a

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B compilation error

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Al Bayrouni wrote: When I tried to install k3b, I had this error: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lavplay] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3/work/mjpegtools-1.6.2/lavtools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:28:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I reckon you already tried that. If this is the real case, there's still > a workaround, a hack though. Write a small shell script and delete the > routes before you up the wireless. Or put it into the preup function of /etc/conf.d/net I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:36:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, > > and run them, you can shrink disk files, provided you did not create > > them as flat files. > Er.. No I've not done that yet as Based on what I read, it's not > po

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
I'm wondering... No one has cared to mention JFS. What's the word on it? There was a similar thread going on in the SuSE mailing list (when I was using SuSE, before switching to Gentoo.). An interesting link had been given there to some very detailed benchmarks. It seemed that in many areas JFS

[gentoo-user] OT - HA cluster failover problem

2005-04-19 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm installing a cluster, i'm using hearbeat for this, at this time everything is working fine, if the machine 'dies' the other takes over and all the programs/setting are taking over fine. The next step is now to control not only full machine but the network conectivity to that machine. For t

Re: [gentoo-user] portatge 4Q-2002 / 3Q-2003

2005-04-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:01:19 +0200 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Step away from the updates files! | | Not a very informative answer :-( | | What are they needed for after portage has made the moves/slotmoves? Making them again as necessary. -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:13 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:36:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, > > > and run them, you can shrink disk files, provided you did not create > > > them as flat files. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Rumen Yotov wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:11:11 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > PS : The manual (as in the user manual which pops up in mozilla states > it's not supported under Linux Guest OS only windows Guest OS) I use the PDF manual, which you can download from VMware's site. -- Neil Bothwick But there, everyth

[gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
Hi, I have updated my gentoo to kernel 2.6, and after updating glibc I have done emerge -e system But it is stuck telling me this: >>> emerge (1 of 158) x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) xfree-drm-4.3.0-r7-gentoo-0.4.tar.bz2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) linux-drm-4.3.0-kernelsource-2003

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Pavel
There`s useful thread on Gentoo forums , take a look at filesystems benchmarks and JFS performance.On 4/19/05, Mrugesh Karnik < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I'm wondering...No one has cared to mention JFS. What's the word on it? There was a similar thread going on in the SuSE mailing list (when I was u

[gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-19 Thread Kurt Guenther
Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some other trick I can play? If not, I'll just do this on the weekend. I can let it run for 3 days.

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-19 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:01:38AM -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: > > Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran > over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this > merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some other trick > I can play?

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:01:38AM -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some oth

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/18/05, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That depends: when building from CVS, it should be off. > > I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by building from CVS. This: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building, the drm part. > > for glxgears is /usr/lib/m

[gentoo-user] DNS resolution not working with DHCP

2005-04-19 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
I'm travelling on business and trying to use the hotel-supplied internet. I'm using a Telkonet Bridge through the building's wiring. (Laptop -> Cat-5 cable -> Telkonet -> building wiring.) My laptop is an up-to-date Gentoo, 2.6 kernel, IBM Thinkpad R51. DHCP works to give me an IP address,

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Keith Gable
On 4/19/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote:> Sorry.. I don't get why he's 20,000 in debt due to Gentoo.Daniel Robbins was Chief Architect and founder of gentoo linux. Appearantly he spent more time working on gentoo as he did on earning money ;-)   Which is why I'm pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 19 avril 2005 à 09:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan a écrit : > > are you sure this doesn't answer your question? It solved my system > clock drift (which was about 30 minutes a day, but hw clock was ok). I > know adjtime is used to correct inaccurate hwclocks, but it can get > stuffed. post y

Re: [gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have updated my gentoo to kernel 2.6, and after updating glibc I have done > > emerge -e system > > But it is stuck telling me this: > > >>> emerge (1 of 158) x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 to / > >>> md5 src_uri ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 08:17 -0500, Keith Gable wrote: > > On 4/19/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Sorry.. I don't get why he's 20,000 in debt due to Gentoo. > > Daniel Robbins was Chief Architect and founder of gentoo >

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-19 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 4/19/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I don't remember who it was, but just last week, someone mentioned > using the feature "keeptmp" (the name could be wrong. I don't remember > properly and strangly I've somehow not archived the mail :S ) in > make.conf. That makes portage

Re: [gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/19/05, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What can I do? x11-drm is likely in your world file. You would remove it by hand and then emerge world would not include it. Take a look at man emerge and I think the file is /var/lib/portage/world Have you tr

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-19 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 18 avril 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Richard Fish a écrit : > Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > >I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a > >kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? > > > > > > Well, from googling around, it seems that a few seconds per day of drift > b

Re: [gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 4/19/05, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>What can I do? > > > > x11-drm is likely in your world file. You would remove it by hand and > > then emerge world would not include it. Ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-19 Thread Kiawud
> Thanks for the replies guys. I haven't actually had time to proceed with > the installation yet, so I haven't tried what you have suggested. > > I have another query though. How do I get these volumes to initialize at > every boot? > On my system, the '/etc/init.d/checkfs' script does the 'vgc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: > I have updated my gentoo to kernel 2.6, and after updating glibc > I have done > > emerge -e system > > But it is stuck telling me this: > >>> emerge (1 of 158) x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r7 to / > [...] > !!! Please link //usr/src/linux to 2.4 kernel sources. x

[gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What are they? What do they help? How much? How is this related to the USE flag directfb? I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video using MythTV. The video probably won't be viewed directly on this machine but if it is I'd like the performance to be good. Is

[gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. Is there any way to recover my root passw

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? Boot as single us

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Brett Curtis
put in the live disk again mount drives and chroot to your gentoo install then issue the passwd root command. On 4/19/05, Maerlyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd a

[gentoo-user] minimal image & usb

2005-04-19 Thread mailing by Giardina Software
Hello list, does anyone here can help me.. I have a small minimal image x86 2004.iso burned on cd-rom, it started well and anything work fine. But, for my work, i would like to copy this minimal image or other (until 80-100M), inside my usb hd (4gb) and started automatically the distro at the b

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 16:35, Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my

RE: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? > Boot from live cd, mount and execute ch

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread A. R.
Hello, Have you done the following? 1. Boot with the live cd. 2. Mount your "/" partition somewhere (/mnt/gentoo) most likely. 3. Run "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" 4. Run passwd to change the password of the root account. 5. Reboot (without the livecd). FWIW, Whenever I forget the root password

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread YoYo Siska
Maerlyn wrote: > Hy, > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created works. > Is there any way to recover my root passwd? you can change it:

[gentoo-user] what is a normal 'emerge -ep system'?

2005-04-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
What does a normal 'emerge -ep system' look like on x86 with a 2005.0 profile? Just now I saw someone mention having 158 packages in system. Here I have only 103: # emerge -ep system | grep ebuild | wc -l 103 But when I do an 'emerge --depclean -p' it ends with: Packages installed: 406 Pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I see. Then I have no issue with that too. He did something good for the community. (Though I'm not sure what was the reason for leaving) I assume he just wanted to get a life... That said, what are the chances of getting them to sell Gentoo mouse pads? ^_^ I want some Gentoo Swe

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User, Just been installing Gentoo using the 2005.0 Minimal CD and I did a stage 2. The hardware is a HP DL380 G4, with the internal 6i RAID controller - The Kernel was compiled with the needed support for the 6i controller and my devices were: /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 /boot ext2

Re: [gentoo-user] what is a normal 'emerge -ep system'?

2005-04-19 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Benno Schulenberg wrote: [snip] > But when I do an 'emerge --depclean -p' it ends with: > > Packages installed: 406 > Packages in world:105 > Packages in system: 62 > Unique package names: 403 > Required packages:417 > Number to remove: 3 > > Only 62 packages in system? Okay, may

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:16:24 +0200 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You could file a bug on bugzilla: | "Enhancement: I'd like to have some gentoo Sweaters and mousepads in | the store" No no no no no. Bugzilla is for Gentoo things. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolution not working with DHCP

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: DHCP works to give me an IP address, and sets the default gateway. /etc/resolv.conf gets automatically changed to one line: nameserver 168.95.1.1 While the network connection works fine (I can ping any valid IP, such as my email server, my home network, etc). How

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Maerlyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hy, thanks everyone, I did the livecd-mount-chroot-passwd way, and it worked. Maerlyn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCZSSgMkyacQzgalcRAsa0AJ96

Re: [gentoo-user] how to skip x11-drm when emerging -e system?

2005-04-19 Thread Francisco Santiago Capel Torres
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 15:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: > > I have updated my gentoo to kernel 2.6, and after updating glibc > > I have done > > > > emerge -e system > > > > But it is stuck telling me this: > > >>> emerge (1 of 158) x11-base/x11-drm-4.3.0-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Max
On 4/19/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No no no no no. Bugzilla is for Gentoo things. > Well, then how about vendors.gentoo.org? max -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread James Colby
Hello everyone - I apologize if this has been covered before, but I have not been able to find an answer through searching. My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells me that it wants to install kde-base and kde-libs for version 3.3.2. I have upgraded my KDE to versi

[gentoo-user] Sound card issue

2005-04-19 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all, I am trying to get gentoo linux working on my laptop, but i am having problems getting the soundcard to work Here is what i have so far: Card Type: cirrus logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio kernel: 2.6.9 laptop: IBM Thinkpad X21 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Trey Gruel
On 4/19/05, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells > me that it wants to install kde-base and kde-libs for version 3.3.2. > I have upgraded my KDE to version 3.4 and have uninstalled all the KDE > 3.3 packages. I assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] lost root passwd

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:34 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > Maerlyn wrote: > > Hy, > > > > I just installed gentoo, and altough I set the root password with > > passwd after the chroot command, where the install guide told me to, > > it doesn't work when I try to log in. The other user I created wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-19 Thread S. Schwartz
Kurt Guenther wrote: ...is there some other trick I can play? You could do something like this: # ebuild ".ebuild" compile install qmerge Probably it does a ./configure again, but even so, afterwards it continues almost exactly where the emerge-process stopped. Maybe you get some probl

[gentoo-user] emerge --update failure...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone have any clues as to why my 'emerge --update world' seems to fail on mozilla with the following output: >>> Unpacking ipc-1.1.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work >>> Unpacking enigmail-0.91.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work * Applying mozilla-stackgrowth.patch ...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update failure...

2005-04-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:48:55 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | An 'export HISTFILE=""' seemed to work around it, but I am not sure if | this should be reported as an 'emerge' bug or a 'mozilla' package bug. | | Is there any reason why I should not run emerge after logging in as | mys

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-laptop list still working?

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Hi There! -- It got here. ( ;) ) rgh. Rob wrote: I haven't gotten any posts in a long time. Trying to post myself doesn't seem to work either. But I get no error messages. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) unmerging kde-3.3

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
< Neil Bothwick Does someone know the cheats for WindowsXP? > ( Yes, but they don't work, it has too many bugs! ;) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Trey Gruel wrote: On 4/19/05, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells me that it wants to install kde-base and kde-libs for version 3.3.2. I have upgraded my KDE to version 3.4 and have uninstalled all the KDE 3.3 packages. I as

Re: [gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Genius. rgh. YoYo Siska wrote: Qiangning Hong wrote: I have a file with special permission requirement. I want user1 and user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not access it. How to set the permission bits? No ACL support. undoable with standard acces rights i

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
What I had to do was :: mirrorselect -i -o > (the '-i' in there makes an interactive screen where you get to select servers yourself) choose the servers I wanted, and then find all the IPv6 stuff and remove it, mostly by seeing something about ipv6 somewhere in the names themselves. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:16:24 +0200 Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >| You could file a bug on bugzilla: >| "Enhancement: I'd like to have some gentoo Sweaters and mousepads in >| the store" > >No no no no no. Bugzilla is for Gentoo things. > > This comment was

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update failure...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:07:36PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:48:55 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | An 'export HISTFILE=""' seemed to work around it, but I am not sure if > | this should be reported as an 'emerge' bug or a 'mozilla' package bug. > | >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update failure...

2005-04-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:11:36 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Perhaps part of the emerge restricted environment should involve | clearing the environment settings of everything that isn't | explicitly recognized. It would probably place a bit much of a | burden on package builders to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Heinz Sporn wrote: >I also don't quite understand the suggestion to ignore "arguments about >data corruption". These weren't arguments but simple facts. A lot of >posters here experienced various troubles with almost every FS there is. > >That doesn't proof that any of the discussed filesystems is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heinz Sporn wrote: > > >I also don't quite understand the suggestion to ignore "arguments about > >data corruption". These weren't arguments but simple facts. A lot of > >posters here experienced various troubles with almost every FS there is.

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolution not working with DHCP

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: >I'm travelling on business and trying to use the hotel-supplied internet. I'm >using a Telkonet Bridge through the building's wiring. (Laptop -> Cat-5 >cable -> Telkonet -> building wiring.) My laptop is an up-to-date Gentoo, >2.6 kernel, IBM Thinkpad R51. > >

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread Mal Herring
re-installed using a Stage3 and success... (had to use Stage3 for reasons of time...) being a little tired after going @ it all day - anyone know what support is needed for a DL380G4 network interface ? are they intel cards ? thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > What are they? What do they help? How much? > > How is this related to the USE flag directfb? > > I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video >using MythTV. The video probably won't be viewed directly on this >machine but if it is I'd like the pe

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > What are they? What do they help? How much? > > > > How is this related to the USE flag directfb? > > > > I'm building a machine that isintended to record a lot of video > >using MythTV. The video probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound card issue

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: >ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0b:0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ11 >cs4281: DLLRDY failed! >cs4281: cs4281_hw_init() failed. Skipping part. >cs4281: probe()- no device allocated > > Hmm, ACPI can be problematic sometimes. Try setting the kernel boot para

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mal Herring wrote: >Have I just lost this mornings work and is it worth re-installing ? >What could have caused this to happen and would the same thing happen >again ? > > Sounds like it is gone. You should double check and make sure you don't have any form of write caching enabled for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Stroller wrote: I'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use Asterisk

[gentoo-user] another emerge oddity...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Still trying to get an 'emerge --update world' to complete... Now I am getting the following error: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size I tried unmerging and then re-emergeing realp

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Just to answer my own question here, it seems that removing the archive file /usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm and letting emerge download it again got me back on track... Still not sure how I ended up with a bad rpm file that stopped my update. It wasn't a dis

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > Is there anything that can be said about which FS might be more >reliable if using some form of RAID? I don't know much about RAID yet >but I'm starting to consider it for some of my setup here. Disks are >getting very cheap. 1394/USB2.0 hot plugable devices sound good

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mal Herring wrote: > re-installed using a Stage3 and success... (had to use Stage3 for > reasons of time...) > > being a little tired after going @ it all day - anyone know what support > is needed for a DL380G4 network interface ? > > are they intel cards ? # emerge pciutils

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install corrupted after first reboot.

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mal Herring wrote: > Now after booting the 2005.0 cd and mounting /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 it would > seem that I have only a single directory of which is lost+found. > > Have I just lost this mornings work and is it worth re-installing ? > What could have caused this to happen a

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways > of doing graphics when I'm not in X? Sort of like older DOS type > graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and writing > directly into the card's memory? Yep. (Great for r

Re: [gentoo-user] frame buffers

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >Thanks Richard. So reading between the lines, frame buffers are ways >of doing graphics when I'm not in X? > That basically it. >Sort of like older DOS type >graphics programs. It's talking to the hardware VGA and writing >directly into the card's memory? > > Well, the cl

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS resolution not working with DHCP

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > While the network connection works fine (I can ping any valid IP, such as my > email server, my home network, etc). However, DNS name resolution is not > working. Some things to check: 1. Can you ping that name server? 2. What is /etc/nsswi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Better performance with reiserfs3 as well as peace of mind goes against > ext2/3 for me. As I said - YMMV - I have looked at my usage, number and > type of failures for both systems some time back and reiserfs3 came up > tops for me. You need to do the s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > power failure better than XFS from this test, but a complete power > failure on a laptop is trivially easy to avoid...just don't remove the > battery! Heck, one of the rubber feet on the bottom of my laptop is I suppose batteries never run out in your w

[gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
My first 'update world' seems to have complete sucessfully, having overcome the mozilla sensitifity to environment settings and the mysterious file size discrepency of my RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm file... That just left the protected directory file updates, all of which seemed straig

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > I assume he just wanted to get a life... Yeah, having a family, kids, will do that... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: > New products in the store, check it out: > http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=48 Nice hoodie... :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] mplayer problems

2005-04-19 Thread Vittorio
After "emerge --sync" while compiling world with "emerge -uD world" gentoo stops complaining about mplayer. Here you are an extract of the log: . cc -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>power failure better than XFS from this test, but a complete power >>failure on a laptop is trivially easy to avoid...just don't remove the >>battery! Heck, one of the rubber feet on the bottom of my laptop is >> >> > >I supp

[gentoo-user] Sound card issue

2005-04-19 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all, I am trying to get gentoo linux working on my laptop, but i am having problems getting the soundcard to work Here is what i have so far: Card Type: cirrus logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio kernel: 2.6.9 laptop: IBM Thinkpad X21 -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread A. R.
That was exactly my reasoning behind selecting XFS as the main filesystem for my Laptop (IBM ThinkPad T41p), which I use as my everyday desktop/workstation. Previously, in an IBM ThinkPad A31p I used Reiserfs, and I never had any problems, the thing ran really well, I just wanted to try XFS becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer problems

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Worrall
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 23:22, Vittorio wrote: > After "emerge --sync" while compiling world with "emerge -uD world" gentoo > stops complaining about mplayer. > Here you are an extract of the log: [snip] > msmpeg4.c:720: error: can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while > reloading `asm

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:37:12 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just to answer my own question here, it seems that removing the > archive file > /usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm > and letting emerge download it again got me back on track... > > Still not sure how I e

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/19/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > Is there anything that can be said about which FS might be more > >reliable if using some form of RAID? I don't know much about RAID yet > >but I'm starting to consider it for some of my setup here. Disks are >

[gentoo-user] Problems stopping & ejecting audio cds

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Worrall
When playing an audio CD, if I select 'Stop', the music stops for a few seconds and then restarts (sometimes with garbled sound). When I select 'Eject', the sound stops and starts several times before ejecting. I have tried a couple of CD player programs with the same result. Can't find anythi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:22:37 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Seems to me the only overhead | is then 3x disk bandwidth across the PCI bus as well as the | verification that all 3 drives return the same data. That's not what happens. When you're doing reads, only one of the drives is

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B compilation error

2005-04-19 Thread Al Bayrouni
Christoph Gysin wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: When I tried to install k3b, I had this error: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lavplay] Erreur 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r3/work/mjpegtools-1.6.2/lavtools' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1 make[1

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-19 Thread Nicolas Bailey
> The reason I used eth0 (which AFAIK is created by baselayout) is that > this is the way older versions of baselayout do it. The latest versions > put everything into net.lo and link net.eth0 to it (so the above still > works) but linking to net.lo will break on older baselayouts. As I use > ~arch

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: >I need to learn the RAID levels, but what I mean is I think what's >called mirroring. > Yep, thats RAID1. Forgive me, I've been married to my laptop for too long, and I forget that 'normal' computers can have multiple 1394/USB controllers! In that configuration, yes, you sh

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi Neil, Thanks for the explanation. It is always comforting to know that there is a rational explanation for things not working properly. I did check the bugzilla (by searching for mozilla in the package database and then invoking the 'bugs' link) but none of the five items listed seemed to refe

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and wlan-ng

2005-04-19 Thread Chris Bare
> > daemon.log says: > > Apr 18 17:18:38 rygel modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting prism2_pci > > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6cb1/linux-wlan-ng/prism2_pci.ko): No such > > device > > > > > > and lspci says: > > :00:12.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan > > chipset (r

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound card issue

2005-04-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Can anyone tell me whats wrong here? reading on the net > apparantly i just load the module and it should work, whats > gone wrong? I'd recommend to emerge alsa-utils. Then try to run alsaconf. Sound OK? Then add ALSA to your preferred default runlevel. Best regards ce -- gentoo-us

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