Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:08:35 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just got vmware server going and installed a Win98SE guest. The guest > didn't recognize the virtual video card, and all I get is 16 colors. Is > there a fix? Did you install VMware Tools on the guest? > I know this list is more abo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies > suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere > between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards > without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. > And when it

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Friday 21 December 2007 09:21:03 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is > > > > part of the problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not >

[gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I just got vmware server going and installed a Win98SE guest. The guest didn't recognize the virtual video card, and all I get is 16 colors. Is there a fix? I know this list is more about gentoo than the details of the apps, but I'm not aware of an active VMware list. A pointer to one would shu

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuilding world & system after -march change

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Marzan
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 18:06 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 17:39:50 Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > > Recently, I've changed the -march from k8 to athlon64 and it failed to > > build packages. Am I doing something wrong here? I suspect that I am > > supposed to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Lee Davis
Stroller wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... >> >> I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I >> saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. > > I haven't bee

[gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-21 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:54:44 -0600 Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: ...[snip]... > I'm definitely willing to switch and will most likely do so during > the holiday week. Paludis seems to be a favorite amongst experienced > users. Which begs the question; Why not redirect all efforts to > buildin

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-21 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 "Jonathan Haws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second > opinions: > > > > Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and > why or why not? Yes, it should. (Multimedia) programs that s

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden shutdown, just churn

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun java from source?

2007-12-21 Thread Yahya Mohammad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:31AM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > When will we (or better, portage) be able to compile java from sources? > What's the status of the transition? How does openjdk relate to sun-jdk? Apparently there are some bits in sun-jdk licensed from 3rd parties that are propriet

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:54:44 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > One option that I would like is for the build to be done completely in > ram until it's compiled and ready to be placed on disk. HDD I/O is the > slowest part of the system avoiding it as much as possible on systems > with ple

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen Wittig
Goto: http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ Right under "Download VMware Server" (in orange) you will see a link that reads "register for your free serial number(s)." On Dec 21, 2007 3:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've emerged and partly configured vmware-server-1.0.4, but

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > I've emerged and partly configured vmware-server-1.0.4, but it is asking for > a 20-digit serial number to complete the configuration. > I understood this to be a free product, as it says on the VMware site. But > I didn't notice anything about a serial number. Do > I j

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread James R. Campbell
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've emerged and partly configured vmware-server-1.0.4, but it is asking for a 20-digit serial number to complete the configuration. I understood this to be a free product, as it says on the VMware site. But I didn't notice anything about a serial number. Do I just make i

[gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've emerged and partly configured vmware-server-1.0.4, but it is asking for a 20-digit serial number to complete the configuration. I understood this to be a free product, as it says on the VMware site. But I didn't notice anything about a serial number. Do I just make it up, or did I miss somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice does n ot accept keyboard input (such as üéè )

2007-12-21 Thread Erik
Erik skrev: > Bo Ørsted Andresen skrev: > >> On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:50:33 Erik wrote: >> >> >>> On one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè. >>> >>> >> The output of `locale` and the output of `locale -a` ? >> >> > Thanks! That was th

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice does n ot accept keyboard input (such as üéè )

2007-12-21 Thread Erik
Bo Ørsted Andresen skrev: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:50:33 Erik wrote: > >> On one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè. >> > > The output of `locale` and the output of `locale -a` ? > Thanks! That was the problem! It was wrong. I executed locale-gen and r

[gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-21 Thread Jonathan Haws
This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and why or why not? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 10:00:40 Galevsky wrote: > > I am interested in your advice [that] LVM is not the universal solution > > for partition management, > > In the case under discussion, namely a stable server, I wouldn't challenge > any advi

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > Galevsky wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for > >> all ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, > >> especially

[gentoo-user] utf-8 puzzling behavior with cygwin xterms

2007-12-21 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, I am experiencing a weird behavior of utf-8 when g++ sends compilation info to the screen. In one case (the "remote" case) I use a cygwin x-term to issue a ssh to connect to the target machine B, but I must connect to a firewall machine A first. Therefore I typically use a single command

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuilding world & system after -march change

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 21 December 2007 17:39:50 Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > Recently, I've changed the -march from k8 to athlon64 and it failed to > build packages. Am I doing something wrong here? I suspect that I am > supposed to rebuild some packages first before rebuilding with emerge > -eDNtv syst

Re: [gentoo-user] re-emerge glibc after linux-headers update?

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 16:56:37 Grant wrote: > The ELOG for my linux-headers update says: > > Kernel headers are usually only used when recompiling your system libc, as > such, following the installation of newer headers, it is advised that you > re-merge your system libc. > Failure to do so

RE: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-21 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
> -Original Message- > From: Zsitvai János [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 3:47 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview > > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:46:12 -0600

[gentoo-user] Rebuilding world & system after -march change

2007-12-21 Thread Marzan, Richard non Unisys
Recently, I've changed the -march from k8 to athlon64 and it failed to build packages. Am I doing something wrong here? I suspect that I am supposed to rebuild some packages first before rebuilding with emerge -eDNtv system and world. Any helpful info will be helpful. Thanks in advance. Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 December 2007 17:17:15 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > You have to emerge sys-power/acpid, not sys-power/acpi. Ah, yes, of course. Thanks. -- Rgds Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 21 December 2007 10:00:40 Galevsky wrote: > I am interested in your advice [that] LVM is not the universal solution > for partition management, In the case under discussion, namely a stable server, I wouldn't challenge any advice to use LVM, but I was using it until recently on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Galevsky wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all >> ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on >> a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is > > > part of the problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not > > > support the 8197? > [...] > At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > iwlist wlan0 scanning returns > wlan0 Interface does not support scanning : Network is down > > iwlist wlan0 accesspoint returns > wlan0 Interface doesn't have a list of Peers/Access-Points > > At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg is . >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > > >> ... > > >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnupg

2007-12-21 Thread Graham Murray
Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you please tell me what is wrong and how can I fix this? What I did was emerge --unmerge gnupg and then re-ran emerge -auDvN world and gnupg-2.0.7 was installed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnupg

2007-12-21 Thread Jil Larner
Hello, I had the same error. Quoting from http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html : "GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.6) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any con

[gentoo-user] emerging gnupg

2007-12-21 Thread Sergey Kobzar
I have a problem with gnupg updating: # emerge -upvDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.7 [1.4.7-r1] USE="-bzip2 -doc% -ldap -nls -openct% -pcsc-lite% (-selinux) -smartcard (-bindist%) (-curl%

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:13:54 +, Stroller wrote: > I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time, but I do recall > similar threads in the past year in which opinions dissenting from > this were aired. If you mentioned the Earth being round on that list, dissenting views would be aire

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Galevsky
On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all > ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on > a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much in size, probably >

[gentoo-user] Sun java from source?

2007-12-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Just curious...I just emerged sun-jdk-1.6.0.03 and I saw that it's still installed directly in binary form, despite the recent news of java going open source. When will we (or better, portage) be able to compile java from sources? What's the status of the transition? How does openjdk relate to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-21 Thread Zsitvai János
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:46:12 -0600, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: > >> Portage can continue to build packages if one fails. >> >> # emerge -options package/list_of_packages || until emerge >> -same_options_as_before package/list_of_packages ; do : ;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:45:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I > saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. They also caution against using ReiserFS, which makes sense because it is a lot slower with large files.