Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Denis schrieb: > I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family - > perhaps the E6600 Conroe. I'm trying to figure out which > motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best. I'm planning to install > Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost, > stable and

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Richard Broersma Jr, > Thanks everyone for the pointers! -- Neil Bothwick I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, > Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? > Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the > RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. Which board are you using? -- Neil Bothwick What's the gre

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, > >> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? >> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the >> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. > > Which board are you using?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, > >> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? > >> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the > >> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes > >> IMO. > > > > Which board are you using? > > As m

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > Hello Stefan G. Weichinger, > Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. >>> Which board are

[gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Marek Miller
When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command produces following output: UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD ... ... marek 5788 5765 12 50526 730880 09:02 ?00:13:42 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin marek 5869 5788

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about java, Seamonkey and random hangs.

2007-05-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > > OK. I emerged the one you mentioned. I mostly did it because now > when I go to the weather radar, Seamonkey starts to load the page then > crashes completely. Even Konqueror doesn't work most of the time. > > What the heck is going on with this? I need my weather because we

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

2007-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 07 May 2007 10:31:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I was looking at a Gigabyte board but I'll give this one a look too. > > A Gigabyte board with the P965-chipset? > > I have a comparison here with the Gigabyte 945P-DS3, somewhat cheaper > than the Intel, no firewire, and a bi

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: > When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command > produces following output: > > UIDPID PPID CSZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD > ... > ... > marek 5788 5765 12 50526 730880 09:02 ?00:13:42 > /usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 04 May 2007, Vaeth wrote: > > nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print > > [I] media-gfx/gimp-print > > Available versions: 4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk > > nls ppds readline} > > Installed versions: 5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb > > gimp gtk -nls ppds readline) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Surely you meant "move the /tmp, /usr and /var to the / partition"? > >   Let me rephrase myself... >   - *PHYSICALLY* moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition. >   - bind mount (or symlink) these directories to the / partition OK, I se

[gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that automatically updates an index to seach the file system. I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwO3E2pMnjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox generates zombies.

2007-05-07 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 7 May 2007 13:09, Marek Miller wrote: > Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I > close firefox, the zombie disappears too. > Could someone explain me how to get rid of it? It's an ancient bug. See this bug report: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:02:41 Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that > automatically updates an index to seach the file system. > > I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. > > Thanks in advance > Florian

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Florian Philipp wrote: > I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that > automatically updates an index to seach the file system. What about a cron script? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-07 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Sun, 6 May 2007 09:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for > the console? emerge gpm && rc-update add gpm default && /etc/init.d/gpm start -- Jesús Guerrero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to know if there is a package, daemon or whatever that > automatically updates an index to seach the file system. > > I'm a bit tired of slocate -u [wait 5min] every time I emerge something. slocate already has suc

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Iain Buchanan wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with '## Placeholder, do not delete.' Otherwise a revision of the sloc

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate > > > > contains instructions for updating the database, using updatedb. > > Move it to /etc/cron.weekly or whatever if you want. > > Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with > '## P

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread marco restelli
On 5/4/07, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have noticed xorg-7.2 just went stable. I am currently using 7.1 with the stable binary ATI drivers ati-drivers-8.32.5 and the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5. Has anybody with the same configuration done the update? Does it work for you? Upda

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Better copy it, and replace the body of the daily one with > > '## Placeholder, do not delete.' > > > > Otherwise a revision of the slocate ebuild will put the script > > back into the daily dir without saying anything. Qui

[gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am not sure how this works: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which is annoying as I have to delete part of the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi, I never couldn't get 8.32.5 ati-drivers working. Now I update to kernel 2.6.20-r6 and 8.36 ati-drivers and works fine for me. I guess update to 8.36ati-driver. I hope be a help. On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-07, marco restelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
Thanks for the feedback. Grant Edwards wrote: > I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to > 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't build with that kernel version so I > tried the "testing" version of ati-drivers. Yes, b.g.o has quite a few bugs open for ati-drivers related to 2.6.20, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
All right, well you can prove with kernel 2.6.19 and 8.36 ati-drivers if you want to keep that kernel. :D On 5/7/07, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Grant Edwards wrote: > I couldn't get 8.32.5 to build with 2.6.16, so I upgraded to > 2.6.20. 8.32.5 wouldn't bu

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which is annoying as I have to delete part of the comman

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-07, Francisco Rivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I never couldn't get 8.32.5 ati-drivers working. Now I update to kernel > 2.6.20-r6 and 8.36 ati-drivers and works fine for me. I guess update > to 8.36ati-driver. OK, I'll give 2.6.20 + 8.36.5 a try. Next time I'm in the market f

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount NFS mounts as soon as possible

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: > IIRC, you can modify specific initscripts (in /etc/init.d) to depend on > nfsmount. i moved now the script netmount from default to boot and everything works fine. Bye Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
Your comment is really funny because I think the same before my 8.36ati-drivers work. Honestly I think the same now, it's important keep that in mind. In my job I have an Nvidia Video Card and on the first time i installed the nvidia-drivers pufff.. works. Actually RMS said "don't buy ati" he kno

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-07, Francisco Rivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Next time I'm in the market for a loptop, I'm going to think >> long and hard before buying another model that has an ATI video >> chipset. I've never had a lick of trouble with NVidia drivers >> and have had constant headaches with ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

2007-05-07 Thread Francisco Rivas
yes you have reason, because when I bought my laptop (dell inspiron 6400 15.4") I ask to vendor (pretty good girl) if I can buy a laptop 15.4" with Nvidia, she say no because the size of the laptop is not appropriate.. On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-07, Francisco

[gentoo-user] xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for some advice on an amd64 system. I have this video card: 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7269 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 0d03 Which is actually this card: R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] (Secondary) according to this page

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Remy Blank
James wrote: > blocks B x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking > x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0) That's because none of the current ati-drivers work with xorg-server-1.3. > One thing that I as never really comfortable with is this make.conf > entry that I ended up using shich I gleaned from sev

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've got an old PC at home I want to use as a samba server. It doesn't have a CD drive and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create bootable gentoo floppy. I've been using Toms linux to wget and re-install the stage and portage files but the kernel is to old and fails on chroot.

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread James
Remy Blank pobox.com> writes: > Stay away from xorg-server-1.3 and kernel-2.6.20 or later until ATI > releases new versions that work with them. This is what I was looking for. I do not stay on top of these issues, and the system is working reasonable well right now. I just cannot get the logi

[gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread David Harel
As so many times before, openssl fails to compile. Top most error is: openssl.c:(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf'. Two other packages that give me trouble are: glibc and python. All attempts are after sync and to a stable (so I hope) version. GCC versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 7. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: > As so many times before, openssl fails to compile. > > Top most error is: openssl.c:(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to > `OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf'. Two other packages that give me > trouble are: glibc and python. All attempts are after sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 07.05.2007, at 23:13, Richard Watson wrote: Apart from the obvious comment to buy a CD drive ... Is there anyone out there that has Gentoo 2.6 kernel that will boot of a floppy and can tell me how to do it? The only other command I would need to perform would be chroot. I cannot tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Stuart Howard
This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-556528-highlight-nvidia+block.html On 07/05/07,

Re: [gentoo-user] slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Graham Murray wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The > > config protection mechanism works only for existing files. > > There's no way to tell Portage th

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 May 2007 16:55, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 5/7/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing > > the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give > > ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[

[gentoo-user] kernel install fails, update-grub not found [solved]

2007-05-07 Thread Devon Miller
Ugh what a mess. I'm posting what happened and why in case anyone else stumbles into this. I sync'd portage on Saturday. Then on yesterday I tweaked a kernel config setting and grub.conf. When I tried to 'make install' I got an error that update-grub was not found and would I like to make a boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing disk usage

2007-05-07 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 4/26/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found myself with a full hard disk and no obvious choices for reducing usage. Are there any not-so-obvious ways to free up hard disk space? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I don't know if this is *obvious* or not, but you might che

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 16:55, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 5/7/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing > > the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give > > ASCII res

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Graham Murray wrote: > > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default. The point is, when a > > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it. The > > > config protection mechanism works only

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

2007-05-07 Thread Nagatoro
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Montag, 7. Mai 2007, David Harel wrote: [...] >> I think at one point I tried to change gcc configuration (gcc-config) to >> version 4.1.1 but if that is the only way I understand I will have to >> reinstall everything. > > you don't need to reinstall everything j

[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

2007-05-07 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Francesco Talamona wrote: > I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list > archive, but i can't find one I added a link to this discussion. Anno. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list