[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Tcp transfer has a pause every few seconds

2005-11-02 Thread Duncan
P.V.Anthony posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:00:51 +0800: > You are right. Just installed gentoo kernel 2.6.14 and xfs do not have any > problems. Need to do more test to confirm. > > I was looking at the change log for kernel 2.6.14 and there seems to be many

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

2005-11-02 Thread Patrick McLean
Michal Žeravík wrote: Antoine Martin wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. An

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!!

2005-11-02 Thread Nuitari
It's an old MS-DOS problem... They are the name of devices (con, aux, etc) It says for con: Cannot create or replace file: The filename you specified is invalid or too long. Specify a different filename. For aux: Cannot rename : A file with the name you specified already exists. The whole lis

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!!

2005-11-02 Thread Taka John Brunkhorst
oh yea, just booted my win2000 japanese version on vmware tryed to create 'con' FOLDER but it claimed file name is too short or something, I donno what english version say what is it?-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Taka John Brunkhorst

[gentoo-amd64] OFF-TOPIC but ... you will lough !!!

2005-11-02 Thread Aggelos
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as "con". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Tcp transfer has a pause every few seconds

2005-11-02 Thread P.V.Anthony
Duncan wrote: Anyway, now that you mentioned the MSI Neo 4 Platinum mobo, with the other threads on it, I'd say the BIOS/kernel issues from that very likely are causing your issues as well. Address that, and there's a good chance your problems will disappear. In any case, there are several oth

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 03 November 2005 01:52, Sebastian Redl wrote: > Duncan wrote: > >What depclean does is starting from your world file (and including stuff > >in your system profile that's not specifically listed in the world file), > >figure out what each package listed there needs to RUN (run-time > >d

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Sebastian Redl
Duncan wrote: What depclean does is starting from your world file (and including stuff in your system profile that's not specifically listed in the world file), figure out what each package listed there needs to RUN (run-time dependencies, as opposed to compile-time dependencies), BASED ON CURRE

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

2005-11-02 Thread Michal Žeravík
Antoine Martin wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. Any good hints

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Duncan
Harm Geerts posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:59:51 +0100: > On Wednesday 02 November 2005 21:54, Duncan wrote: >> Hmm... That --noreplace is a new one on me. I normally simply >> >> echo >> /var/lib/portage/world >> >> Newer versions of portage (don't believe

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Root on Raid and LVM

2005-11-02 Thread Duncan
Florian D. posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:33:29 +0100: >> ... As some may guess, I've been studying this stuff recently! =8^) I >> don't have my own RAID setup yet, but probably will by late this week. (I >> plan to go pickup the drives probably Tue or Wed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 21:54, Duncan wrote: > Hmm... That --noreplace is a new one on me. I normally simply > > echo >> /var/lib/portage/world > > That appends the echoed cat/package to the end of the named file, > accomplishing what we are after. The only down side to doing it manually

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Duncan
Harm Geerts posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:09:38 +0100: > On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote: >> Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help It seems I broke >> portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild fou

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Nick Currier
Okay... Now I know.  Not used to this whole build from source concept yet but I am getting much better at it.  I cleaned up everything and now have no more broken dependencies.  Apparently I've just never emerge --depclean.  Again Kudos for all the help. NickOn 11/2/05, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 13:38, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > Hi, > Yes, this worked for booting. > > rc-update add net.rth0 default gave > 'already installed in runlevel default' > and > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > 'dhcpd:missing required function interface_is_up' Triple check your networking confi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

2005-11-02 Thread Harm Geerts
On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote: > Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help It seems I broke > portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild found it but > it took twice to fix. depclean wants to get rid of tons of stuff though > so I'm th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

2005-11-02 Thread Antoine Martin
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my > usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse > works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. Any good hints on how > to make it work? I've

[gentoo-amd64] Get synaptics touchpad to work after initial installation

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Haney
I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. Any good hints on how to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that hasn't help, so there must be so

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Root on Raid and LVM

2005-11-02 Thread Sebastian Redl
Florian D. wrote: i have a similar solution with a raid5 for /opt /usr /home, etc. and a small / on raid1. but i think grub is better in this situation, because with the grub shell, in case of a failed disk, the changed identification of the subsequent disks can easily be corrected. i don´t k

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd

2005-11-02 Thread DR GM SEDDON
Hi, Yes, this worked for booting. rc-update add net.rth0 default gave 'already installed in runlevel default' and /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start 'dhcpd:missing required function interface_is_up' The final message is the same as vI receive when booting. Gavin. Drake Donahue wrote: The entry: "

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Root on Raid and LVM

2005-11-02 Thread Florian D.
Duncan wrote: He didn't say he didn't have an extra boot. He only enumerated the LVs (logical volumes) on the MD/RAID, which he said was on sda5, sdb5, etc, all partition 5, on /dev/md5. yes, i also realized that afterwards.. The usual way to handle that, if you are booting from the RAID arra