Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista

2007-04-12 Thread Zac
Yes, the discs you create with Recovery Manager will do a full factory restore on a blank hard drive, they will also re-create that recovery partition. I think that the recovery partition is primarily just for creating those discs. -Zac On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Resizing Vista

2007-04-11 Thread Zac
, as fresh as you can get with the revert to factory discs they provide these days, I was able to get my vista partition down to 15gigs total. So, if you don't have anything critical installed in vista, you may try reinstalling. Good Luck. -Zac On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b not burning DVD's anymore

2007-01-29 Thread Zac
A little late, but I had a similar problem, except it was with cds as well as dvds. I re-emerged k3b and all was well. -Zac On 1/8/07, Jan Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have a problem with k3b because it does not burn DVD's anymore. The output is th

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Video cards

2005-12-13 Thread Zac
I had a nvidia 6600GT that worked flawlessly.  I didn't use Blender , but I was able to play Doom3 as well as multiple windows games through Cedega with frame rates comperable to windows (Doom3 actually ran smoother).  I had gotten it last December and a bad power supply of mine took it out.  I hav

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Alex Bennee wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:59 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Alex Bennee wrote: Yes that one. I've been unable to succesfully upgrade to 2.3.5 without hitting the failure. However I left my system building a fresh partition from scratch over the weekend - it managed to upgra

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
en you can do it by brute force: untar the binary package directly onto your broken system and run ldconfig. Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ldconfig breaks my system

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
. That was with glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1. Lately I've been using glibc-2.3.5 with no problems. What version do you have? Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64-bit or 32-bit?

2005-07-12 Thread Zac Medico
tay in the 32-bit world for now? > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes/index.xml?part=1&chap=4 Why not do both? If IA32 Emulation is enabled in your kernel config the you can use both 32-bit and 64-bit userlands and chroot from one to the other when necessary. Zac --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Messed up virtual/glibc?

2005-07-11 Thread Zac Medico
; > Neither of these ebuilds has the text "glibc" anywhere in them. The > string "virtual/glibc" doesn't appear in any code in the ebuild classes > director either under /usr/portage. Also grep /var/db/pkg and /var/cache/edb/dep. Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Messed up virtual/glibc?

2005-07-11 Thread Zac Medico
FwtG > KRRR6NeKtcPdxAGlfwIqM2A= > =lqFt > -END PGP SIGNATURE- I think you've gotten a virtual/glibc typo in one of your ebuilds (where did that "g" come from???). Have you tried more than one portage snapshot? Do you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY set? Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --emptytree problem

2005-07-10 Thread Zac Medico
up higher than the current screen displays. > How do I get to the error you would need to see? Thanks for the > help... > If you emerge app-misc/screen then you can run emerge inside screen and use C-a esc to enter scrollback mode. Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is 2005 broken?

2005-07-09 Thread Zac Medico
Tim Ames wrote: > At 11:44 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: > >> Errors with both md5 and gzip? Can you use a separate computer to >> determine if the problem is with md5/gzip programs or corruption of >> the distfiles themselves? >> >> Zac > > > > I w

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is 2005 broken?

2005-07-08 Thread Zac Medico
tion error. > > I guess I'm going to have to give up and go to another distro. > > I'm running an sk8v asus motherboard with an fx-51 chip. > > Does any of this ring a bell with anyone? > > tia > > Tim > > Errors with both md5 and gzip? Can you use a separate computer to determine if the problem is with md5/gzip programs or corruption of the distfiles themselves? Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] arts

2005-07-07 Thread Zac Medico
don't know how to solve this > one :( > > using udev 0.58 > > if more info is needed say so I use the audio group to grant permission to /dev/dsp. $ ls -lL /dev/dsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 7 14:46 /dev/dsp Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge + libraries

2005-07-05 Thread Zac Medico
es. > > Any ideas on what to try now? > > version line from revdep-rebuild: > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoolkit/src/revdep-rebuild/revdep-rebuild,v > 1.3 2004/01/07 12:21:21 karltk Exp $ > > > Thanks, Try the latest revdep-rebuild from ~amd64 gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4. Many others have experienced this problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-348311-highlight-.html Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Feasibility of Gentoo on ancient hardware?

2005-06-22 Thread Zac Medico
y want to use gentoo-embedded (x86 uclibc 2005.0 stages are available). There is a good wiki entry at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo and if you have questions you may want to search mailing list archives at http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-embedded&r=1&w=2. Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Announcing Canoe: a package file list database

2005-06-20 Thread Zac Medico
ct data from users. BTW, John, you might be interested in my portage patch that adds an "installwatch" feature for pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90343 Zac -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.0

2005-06-14 Thread Zac Medico
Luigi Pinna wrote: > - sys-devel/gcc-4.0.0 (masked by: -* keyword) > echo "=sys-devel/gcc-4.0.0 -*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > What I must do? And why is the new gcc in amd64 architecture hard > masked? Are you kidding? We need testers like you ;-)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] fan cooler bad problem

2005-06-09 Thread Zac Medico
he end of the link http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PowerNow! Zac __ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Installation Fails at . . .

2005-06-06 Thread Zac Medico
efore the cd boots then it will load the needed driver. You may also need to add "scandelay" in order to give the driver time to initialize. If you still get that message choose shell and do "ls /sys/block" to see if the device is there. Zac __

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Cedega

2005-05-09 Thread Zac
I run cedega with no problems, but I do use Nvidia's xorg driver instead of x11drv, which I think is default for an un-configured x server. Please post your xorg.conf and system specs so that we may help you further. On 5/9/05, Daniel Gryniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at