Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?

2011-12-08 Thread JD Horelick
I upgraded 2 systems (both servers, one about 30 miles from me and one a VPS on another continent) and had zero issues. Unless you have the king of all obscure setups or you insist on merging config files by-hand instead of using etc-update or dispatch-conf, there's only a miniscule chance that

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread JD Horelick
On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? What you're missing is the

Re: [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean?

2011-09-05 Thread JD Horelick
On 5 September 2011 02:24, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  Whilst spelunking through ebuild files I notice that in addition to the usual ~amd64 and ~x86 keywords, I also see ~amd64-linux and ~x86-linux.  What is the significance of this? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org As

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium and Google Chrome

2011-09-02 Thread JD Horelick
On 2 September 2011 03:45, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 02 Sep 2011 09:27:09 András Csányi wrote: Dear All, In the morning after I have synced my portage I saw there is a google-chrome and chromium package. The version numbers are the same. I watched the

Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda

2011-07-02 Thread JD
On 07/01/2011 09:09 PM, Adam Carter wrote: What about your grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) ? Its still running lilo, which references the meta devices; and the raid-extra-boot is just a fallback if the metadevice is down IIRC (its a mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread JD
On 07/02/2011 06:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grantemailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea. The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever. If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda

2011-07-01 Thread JD
On 07/01/2011 08:49 PM, Adam Carter wrote: I havent touched the md setup on this box since it was built ~6years ago, but for the latest kernel/udev i've finally disabled the old IDE stuff, so the disks will now appear as sda/sdc instead of hda/hdc at next boot. Will the

Re: [gentoo-user] Info about PCMCIA Combo USB 2.0 SATA CardBus,,Model: PPA 1158

2011-06-30 Thread JD
On 06/29/2011 11:09 PM, Thanasis wrote: on 06/30/2011 08:20 AM JD wrote the following: On 06/29/2011 10:20 PM, Thanasis wrote: I think the only way to be sure, is to find out the chipset that the card

Re: [gentoo-user] Info about PCMCIA Combo USB 2.0 SATA CardBus,,Model: PPA 1158

2011-06-30 Thread JD
On 06/29/2011 10:20 PM, Thanasis wrote: on 06/30/2011 07:34 AM JD wrote the following: This pcmcia card has a couple of bad raps from windows users. I need this card for my laptop because I have an external HD enclosure with eSATA port

Re: [gentoo-user] Info about PCMCIA Combo USB 2.0 SATA CardBus,,Model: PPA 1158

2011-06-30 Thread JD
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Re: [gentoo-user] Info about PCMCIA Combo USB 2.0 SATA CardBus, Model: PPA 1158

2011-06-30 Thread JD
On 06/30/2011 10:40 AM, Thanasis wrote: It is probably supported, but if I were you, I would ask at the linux-kernel mailing list http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/#s3-1 I stumbled on 2 blogs which enumerated these 2 chipsets as fully supported since several years ago. Thanx, JD

Re: [gentoo-user] Info about PCMCIA Combo USB 2.0 SATA CardBus,,Model: PPA 1158

2011-06-29 Thread JD
On 06/29/2011 10:20 PM, Thanasis wrote: on 06/30/2011 07:34 AM JD wrote the following: This pcmcia card has a couple of bad raps from windows users. I need this card for my laptop because I have an external HD enclosure with eSATA port and my laptop lacks USB 2.0 (has USB 1.1). The manufacturer

RE: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-11 Thread JD
-Original Message- From: Johannes Skov Frandsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X Francisco Rivas skrev: Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails

2007-05-10 Thread JD
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails JD jdangler at atlantic.net writes: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... Are you using 2007.0 based installation media? It was just release: http

[gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread JD
Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE)

RE: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread JD
at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules

RE: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-04 Thread JD
I might be able to help as well (also didn't see the earlier part of this thread)... I have several M710's at work running both gentoo and Ubuntu, and X is running ok on them. Getting the config from a liveCD is a good place to start if you're really not sure. One thing though - since some other

RE: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-03 Thread JD
I just caught the tail of this thread... is this about an nvidia video? If so, even under Ubuntu I had troubles with X. I downloaded the nvidia source for the driver for mine (on a couple of different machines), and compiled it, then modprobe'd it, then added it to the autoload conf file. X

RE: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread JD
Noven~ Thanks very much for the help! I got the kernel rebuilt and compiled, and used some of your xorg.conf suggestions. X comes up fine on the D240 now! I really appreciate your help with this. Jack -Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread JD
-Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:59 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420 On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:06:43 JD wrote: Noven~ Thanks very much for the help! I got

[gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread JD ATL LP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My first email from my new gentoo laptop! I'm trying to figure out how these workspaces 'work'. I want to setup one for business, and another for dev. e.g. in the business space, i'd have office apps, stock ticker, etc showing. in the dev space, i'd