Re: [gentoo-user] KDE crash on start

2005-07-25 Thread David Helstroom
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 02:06 -0400, Ian K wrote: > I really want KDE back. Any ideas? Im thinking if > there > was a way to change the decoration in a config file or > something, I could switch it to something else to > prevent a crash. Your thoughts? > Ian Hi Ian, If you log into Fluxbox (or any

[gentoo-user] KDE crash on start

2005-07-25 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I have KDE 3.4.1 here, and I am having issues with KDE. I recently tried that GLOcean window decoration. When I first applied the decoration, KWin crashed. I thought it was nothing, so I restarted KDE, (and X). But now, KDE will load about 3 quarters, and then hang. I switched to another

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.6-r2 emerge error

2005-07-25 Thread Rumen Yotov
Adrian wrote: >On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:14:12 +0300 >Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > > >>Adrian wrote: >> >> >> >>>Greetings all. I am trying to emerge Firefox 1.0.6-r2 >>> >>>Here are my outputs. If anyone can advise me I would be amazingly >>>grateful. Thank you in ad

Re: [gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P And speaking of that, is there interest in a gathering of some kind, sa

Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:08:38 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Internet TV", or videos are one reason. Do you want an animated > postage stamp in one corner of your 1280x1024 display? Software scaling > imposes a heavy load on the cpu, so hardware scaling is preferable. As >

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
Regarding your other problem (the one about cardmgr and PCMCIA) (sorry about this, I kind of lost your original email) look through your kernel configuration (it should be in /usr/src/linux/.config), look for the line CONFIG_PCCARD=y CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y if it is set to "n", th

Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:05:36 +0200 smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/24/05, smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm downloading a knoppix 3.9... i'll upload any result! > > For now none! > > Ok, some news: > > 1. Knoppix recognize the mouse as an ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:16:10PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Willie Wong wrote: > >The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname > >(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). > > > > > >W > > > > > > > > > I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)

2005-07-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:14:07 +0200 Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Looking back at your previous post, I see you are still using the 2004.3 > AMD profile? Have you tried to upgrade to the 2005.0 profile? Does > 2004.3 seem stable, and would you recommend that Jules dow

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding linux after windows; in my case > I have a working gentoo linux system in place that I don't want to sack, > I'd rather just add windows to the new drive. > > Anyone out there have a good pointer fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my > gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). > > I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan > on using as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.6-r2 emerge error

2005-07-25 Thread Adrian
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 07:14:12 +0300 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Adrian wrote: > > >Greetings all. I am trying to emerge Firefox 1.0.6-r2 > > > >Here are my outputs. If anyone can advise me I would be amazingly > >grateful. Thank you in advance. I'm trying to make somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread C.Beamer
Willie Wong wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi All, >> >>The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two >>messages as follows: >> >>One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid >>host name. >> >>Well, in /etc, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two > messages as follows: > > One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid > host name. > > Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and

[gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-25 Thread Martin Larsson
I'm running an emerge -avDu world, and portage wants to upgrade my esound to 0.2.36-r1 (from 0.2.34). However, this creates an error: jw -f docbook -b html -o html ./esound.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#

[gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread C.Beamer
Hi All, The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two messages as follows: One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid host name. Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it says that the host is localhost with the ip address

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - We got boot! :-)

2005-07-25 Thread C.Beamer
Hi all, Well, I did make a typo in by grub.conf file - I had .gentoo-rc6 instead of r6. This, of course, resulted in my still not being able to boot when I fixed the kernel name. Martins Steinbergs wrote: > i was wondering too ;) > > corect is initramfs, not initramdisk, see my grub.conf e

Re: [gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P And speaking of that, is there interest in a gathering of some kind, say lunch or drinks? Michael

[gentoo-user] LinuxWorld?

2005-07-25 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Is there going to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld Expo this year? Even if it's just 1 guy sitting on a milk crate, that still counts as a booth. :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support # CONFIG_V

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: My guess is that you just don't have the appropriate framebuffer drivers configured in "Device Drivers->Graphics Support". With the Gentoo sources, I recommend at least CONFIG_FB_VESA=y and CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y. If you do you I have CONFIG_FB_VESA=y

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads corect, write new partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is booting. none of dos/win apps worked for me to fix partition table. i asume LBA is needed only for win itself, not vfat or ntf

Re: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread George Roberts
On 7/25/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread Martins
it is possible with fdisk, i did it and it worked, and this is steps i followed, step 7 wasnt necesary for me: Fix for the XP dual boot problem * From: Radu Cornea * To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases redhat com> * Subject: Fix for the XP dual boot problem * Date: Tue, 18 May

RE: [gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l george > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 george users 48 Jul 25 12:12 Desktop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ ls -l geo > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 geo users 48 Jul 25 11:38 Desktop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home $ Just to be on the safe side I'd try:

[gentoo-user] recreating my user accout woes

2005-07-25 Thread George Roberts
As many of you are aware I have been fighting an issue with gdm, currently I am at the point where I could not login to gdm using my normal user account, but I can login using the root account. I found the same issue in the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-358052-highlight-gdm.html. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

2005-07-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
David Corbin wrote: > > $ grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort > > When I get that, all I get is: > kde-base/kde Okay, no problem, you have a full KDE install, not a series of split ebuilds. > Ah! I see what's happened to me (at least in part). When I run > the control center, it prompts me

Re: [gentoo-user] bizzarre I2C kernel selection

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
James wrote: I've got a very weird problem. When I go to build either a 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 or 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel on a paticular AMD athlon, I cannot change the I2C selection: device driver -> I2C support option. It is a dash. Manually deleting the .config file does not help. I use 'make o

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

2005-07-25 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hey Mariusz, Thanks for the tip. Hareesh On 7/25/05, Mariusz Pękala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-07-25 01:48:32 -0700 (Mon, Jul), Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on > > the screen momentarily and then disappear

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

2005-07-25 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi Oscar, You were correct. During my last boot, I booted into the mm kernel (which did not have BSD PTY support), when I wasn't by the grub screen. Thanks a lot, Hareesh On 7/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you compiled a new kernel recently? > When terminals behave

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y

Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
Jorge Almeida wrote: I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y C

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange samba behavior, go figure.

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
Adam Holisky wrote: I'm running a fresh install of gentoo, kde 3.4, etc.. samba is installed, kde runs nicely, lisa is running, and i can list the smb directories on my network easily. I've got a full gigabit network setup, and every day I play media files over my network using the smb protoc

RE: [gentoo-user] bash_history missing

2005-07-25 Thread maxim wexler
> So if you do "ls -l .bash*" in your home directory, > what's the output? [EMAIL PROTECTED] blissfix $ ls -l .bash* -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 0 Jul 6 14:59 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 232 Jul 2 21:12 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 blissfix users 812 Jul 2 21:12 .bashrc Note:

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Watson wrote: Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb) I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically /dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both driv

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Fish
Martins wrote: Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old ones. Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted fine before on this drive with LBA disabled, so something

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > log to linux, erase partition table, get those heads > corect, write new > partition table --> reboot, LBA is on and win is What does this mean? LBA was off before and now it's on? Where? In the POST? dmesg? In the BIOS? fdisk? dos or unix?

[gentoo-user] Strange samba behavior, go figure.

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Holisky
I'm running a fresh install of gentoo, kde 3.4, etc.. samba is installed, kde runs nicely, lisa is running, and i can list the smb directories on my network easily. I've got a full gigabit network setup, and every day I play media files over my network using the smb protocol from my server over

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Holisky
In the gentoo guide, you most likely installed the grub bootloader. What you want to do is after installing XP, go back and reload grub onto the master boot rercord (MBR). To do this, use the install disc that you used to setup your gentoo box. The manual has the steps to put grub on the MBR

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread brettholcomb
Do a ls -ld /etc/make.profile to see what it's linked to. > > From: Benjamin Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/25 Mon AM 08:52:50 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6 > > hi - Since some time now i tried to re-emerge a new Version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Run Script Weirdness

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Rutkowski
On 7/25/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > > > Nope, same old stuff: > > > > localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/mysql start > > * Starting mysqld (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) ... > > * MySQL NOT started, proceding anyway > > [ !! ] > > localhost ~ # /etc/in

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread James
Richard Watson bigpond.net.au> writes: > > Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as > opposed to hdb (slave). One more point. The drive tests via hdparm may not be conclusive. A variety of I/O (drive) benchmark performance tests may be needed. In portage there

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Ric Messier
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: Anyone out there have a good pointer for me? Install Windows on the second drive as if it were the first (unplug your primary drive). Use grub to swap the location of the two drives before you boot Windows after it's installed and you have your

[gentoo-user] bizzarre I2C kernel selection

2005-07-25 Thread James
Hello, I've got a very weird problem. When I go to build either a 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 or 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel on a paticular AMD athlon, I cannot change the I2C selection: device driver -> I2C support option. It is a dash. Manually deleting the .config file does not help. I use 'make oldconfi

[gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan on using as the windows drive. Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding lin

Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!

2005-07-25 Thread Martins
Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old ones. Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted fine before on this drive with LBA disabled, so something else is up. If y

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:03:43 +0200, Benjamin Grauer wrote: > hmm... ok.. now it shows the link, and i think i see the problem... > > /etc/make.profile > -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 > > now what todo.. > i think i try the tutorial for upgrading safely That's why I

Re: [gentoo-user] [A little OT] Is anybody else seeing these? - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Messages from gentoo-user@gentoo.org to you have been bouncing]

2005-07-25 Thread Graham Murray
"John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've gotten about 4 or 5 of these in the past few days, and don't really > know what to make of them. Is anybody elese seeing this? Or do I have an > issue? It's not happenning on any other lists, and all headers seem like > it's legit. I have seen m

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Ok. thanks a lot. now i have found the solution. Just did not know that portage was so cool, but hard to understand :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 15:28 schrieb ext Benjamin Grauer: Neil Bothwick wrote: Which profile are you using? ls -l /etc/make.profile ls -l /etc/make.profile/ Without the trailing slash it shows the symbolic link target, thus the original profile

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 08:21 am, Mark Humphrey wrote: > Anyone know... when is a Gentoo release with packages disk with KDE 3.4 > expected? > > No idea. But you could always use catalyst to build your own packages CD. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 09:02:57 up 1 day, 36

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

2005-07-25 Thread Vitaly Kovalyshyn aka samael
Thanx, Richard! I've tried 1024x768-32! And everything works ok! ;) п'ятниця 22 липень 2005 18:00, Richard Fish Ви написали: > Vitaly Kovalyshyn aka samael wrote: > >Hello! > > > >I've problems with fbsplash 2! > > > >in grub.conf: > >title Gentoo Linux > >root (hd0,0) > >kernel /kernel-2.6.11-g

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:28:28 +0200, Benjamin Grauer wrote: > >Which profile are you using? > > > >ls -l /etc/make.profile > ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ls -l /etc/make.profile - without the trailing slash. -- Neil Bothwick If the post office has machines that can sort snail mail at 1000's of ti

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 15:28 schrieb ext Benjamin Grauer: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >Which profile are you using? > > > >ls -l /etc/make.profile > > ls -l /etc/make.profile/ Without the trailing slash it shows the symbolic link target, thus the original profile in the portage tree. On my system

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:52:50 +0200, Benjamin Grauer wrote: earlier in this year i just emerged the gentoo-dev-sources, and it worked perfectly, but since the change of the 2.6 kernel to the gentoo-sources-ebuild, i don't seem to be able to emerge any version above 2.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread A. R.
Hi there, The only thing that I can imagine that may be causing something like this is the portage profile that you are using... Now, I am assuming that your Gentoo installation is based on an older "release", and based upon that assumption, the question is: Have you updated to a more recent pr

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-07-25 Thread Mark Humphrey
Anyone know... when is a Gentoo release with packages disk with KDE 3.4 expected? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread James
Richard Watson bigpond.net.au> writes: > Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as > opposed to hdb (slave). > Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd make sure you read the man page on hdparm. Certain actions can kill hardware, permanently. That said, what

Re: [gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:52:50 +0200, Benjamin Grauer wrote: > earlier in this year i just emerged the gentoo-dev-sources, and it > worked perfectly, but since the change of the 2.6 kernel to the > gentoo-sources-ebuild, i don't seem to be able to emerge any version > above 2.4.X Which profile are

[gentoo-user] suggestions needed for migration away from active directory

2005-07-25 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I'm trying to migrate some people away from active directory and I'm trying to figure out if there is anything better than NIS for directory service. I know folks are using LDAP but my last encounter with LDAP left me with flashbacks of the carnage especially in the area of replication and bac

[gentoo-user] can' emerge kernel 2.6

2005-07-25 Thread Benjamin Grauer
hi - Since some time now i tried to re-emerge a new Version of the gentoo sources earlier in this year i just emerged the gentoo-dev-sources, and it worked perfectly, but since the change of the 2.6 kernel to the gentoo-sources-ebuild, i don't seem to be able to emerge any version above 2.4.X al

[gentoo-user] dummy console

2005-07-25 Thread Jorge Almeida
I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONF

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread Tomas Bohata
Richard Watson napsal(a): Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb) I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically /dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both d

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:35:27 +0200, Waldemar Tribus wrote: > i am trying to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6. > i wasn't using genkernel with 2.4, now i want to start use it. Why? If you are comfortable with configuring your kernel by hand, why give up control of the process to a tool that is known to cau

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

2005-07-25 Thread Christoph Gysin
Zhang Weiwu wrote: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep "\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*" Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

2005-07-25 Thread monotux
Have you compiled a new kernel recently? When terminals behave like that, usually that means that you haven't compiled in "legacy (bsd) pty support" in your kernel (Device Drivers -> Character devices)... Oscar Monday 25 July 2005 10.48 skrev Hareesh Nagarajan: > Hi All: > > Everytime I invoke

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

2005-07-25 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-07-25 01:48:32 -0700 (Mon, Jul), Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi All: > > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on > the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows > nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they > we

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
Waldemar Tribus wrote: Hallo all, i am trying to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6. i wasn't using genkernel with 2.4, now i want to start use it. I am calling genkernel like genkernel --menuconfig --bootloader=grub all years later it says: * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf... but all i see is

[gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff

2005-07-25 Thread Zhang Weiwu
My RE must be wrong but I can hardly successfully match a whole line like the below example: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep "\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*" Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.

[gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-25 Thread Waldemar Tribus
Hallo all, i am trying to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6. i wasn't using genkernel with 2.4, now i want to start use it. I am calling genkernel like genkernel --menuconfig --bootloader=grub all years later it says: * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf... but all i see is that my old grub.conf gets

Re: [gentoo-user] shell inside XEmacs

2005-07-25 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 25 juillet à 10:53:33 Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Hi All: | | The shell inside XEmacs (M-shell) looks like this: | | ZZhareesh: ZZhareesh/ $ ls | reduced | relayfs | svn | | Any idea how I can fix it? Not quite sure with Xemacs; but for emacs it is much be

Re: [gentoo-user] Big booboo!

2005-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or am I SOL? The system still works, just not emerge. If necessary I can rebuild and migrate the apps but I'm hopeing... Tony If you ha

[gentoo-user] shell inside XEmacs

2005-07-25 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: The shell inside XEmacs (M-shell) looks like this: hareesh: hareesh/ $ ls reduced relayfs svn Any idea how I can fix it? Thanks, Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE

2005-07-25 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi All: Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they were spawned. When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never ma

[gentoo-user] /dev/hdb performance really sucks ...

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm getting vastly different performance results on hda (master) as opposed to hdb (slave). Basically when my root partition mounts (/dev/hdb) I'm warned that DMA is off, yet hdparm -i shows udma as active. Basically /dev/hdb performance sucks ... I've bought both drives in the last few months

Re: [gentoo-user] Big booboo!

2005-07-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Can you: man emerge (check out the --regen flag) as a starter rebuild metadata then sync. BillK On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 02:59 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my > entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or

[gentoo-user] Big booboo!

2005-07-25 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or am I SOL? The system still works, just not emerge. If necessary I can rebuild and migrate the apps but I'm hopeing... Tony -- Those who would give up essential