On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:03:51 -0600, Collin Starkweather wrote:
To preface the question, I should mention that I'm currently residing in
China, so communication with the networking guys on this end is a bit
difficult because the communication algorithm typically begins, Step 1:
Learn Chinese.
Well, with bare X up, I decided it was time to install a window manager.
I picked xfce4 and icewm.
I emerged xfce4, and after a lot of packages, it finally told me:
reemerge x11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set
Well, I emerged icewm with no problems, then went back to xfce4 by
changing my
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:52:11 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2007 19:24:51 Hendrik Boom wrote:
Have you enabled the keyboard USE flag under INPUT_DEVICES in
xorg-xserver? You can set this in make.conf.
make.conf ends with the lines
INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real. No more keyboard problems.
Instead I get the black screen of death. The monitor on light starts
bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and
ctrl-alt-delete
Still having trouble with my first gentoo install. Now X fails to come
up.
The relevant message seems to be;
# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module kbd (module does
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:53:08 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Hendrik Boom schrieb:
Still having trouble with my first gentoo install. Now X fails to come
up.
The relevant message seems to be;
# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
it takes just as much power to
spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes.
So ... spin it down after a few more minutes?
-- hendrik
Thanks for the report, I found it very interesting.
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
Gut reaction, firewire.
I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes.
Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change
your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking
support, or you
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:42:43 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:00:15 Hendrik Boom wrote:
Fixed /etc/fstab so that it now refers to /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And fstab
gets the message, because it now complains that there's no
/dev/lovesong/gentoo. And when I get a shell, I
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:03:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
It took some trouble -- as of now I only have emerge working in the chroot
from Debian -- but after installing lvm2 it is not cheerfully recognising
all the LVM paritions at boot.
Ah! Stupid typo! it is *NOW* cheerfully recognising
Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to
the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=9
and syslog-ng gives me a traceback.
| (chroot) lovesong etc # emerge -vp syslog-ng
I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to
work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3
kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't
work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system
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