Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind of > raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you build > your kernel and build everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > 'Re: > > [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs and initramfs.Not quite the same thing... But the thread has b

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Aggelos
on 02/21/2007 08:39 PM Albert Hopkins wrote the following: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:58 +, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > [...] >> I hate to be a nasty evil person and say this, but I will anyway - this has >> no place on a Gentoo mailing list IMO. Post it in the off topic section of >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Scott W. McMikle
Forgive me, but I will need step by step instructions to recompile with the necessary driver. On 2/21/07, Paul Sebastian Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I dont know about your X Server (there are some great guides out there - don't despair, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Scott W. McMikle
Here are the errors I receive when I attempt startx; failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extentsions/libGLcore.so failed to load module "GLcore" (loader failed, 7) failed to load module "VESA" (module does not exist, 0) failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) failed to load module

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Scott W. McMikle
I have the HP m7357c computer with the Asus P5LP-LE motherboard, 1.5 GB RAM. I am using the on-board audio card; Realtek ALC 882 CODEC, and the on-board network card; Intel 82562GT, and lastly the video card; NVIDIA GeForce 6200SE Turbo Cache On 2/21/07, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > > > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook > > > with SATA drive. I generate kernel with genke

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread pat
OK, thanks. Pat P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-| On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > > OK, so I have to search f

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread pat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with > > SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs > > file too. My question

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > My question is if this is realy necessary and if > > not, what I have to do. And if it is necessary where I can f

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf > file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with > grub ??? Each distro has their

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > Hi, > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with > SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs > file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have > to do. And if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread pat
OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with grub ??? Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-) Thanks a lot for your help. Pat On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:16:35 -0600,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT^2] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread kashani
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:59, kashani wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: [unnecessary but good for the soul work...] throttle it was pointed out that the chain had a bit too much slack and probably needed to be replaced. $28 and one half hour later the problem was fixed. I would hav

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Aggelos wrote: > I would not define such a mail as spam. > Aggelos The relevant part of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html [...] This is a very risky thing to do, however, because the hackers' metric for what is exciting probably differs from yours.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "Scott W. McMikle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation': > I > thought perhaps that I would have to give up Gentoo until such time that > my Linux skills have improved. Worst case, you'll get instructions you don't understand and you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation > (samples, explanation, etc.). Pretty much all of the documenation on "early userspace" is in the kernel tree. You might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT^2] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 20:59, kashani wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: [unnecessary but good for the soul work...] > throttle it was pointed out that the chain had a bit too much slack and > probably needed to be replaced. $28 and one half hour later the problem > was fixed. I would have thought

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up a name-based virtual host in Apache

2007-02-21 Thread Daniel Iliev
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I hope this email gets to the list. My last post didn't. This is > semi-urgent. Over the past year I've been developing a PHP-based web > interface for my college's music festival. This web interface would > allow participating directors to enter all their information

[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

2007-02-21 Thread pat
Hi, I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have to do. And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation (sample

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Scott W. McMikle
Thank you all for your support. If you don't mind the questions, then I will ask, providing as much info as I can so that you can help. I thought perhaps that I would have to give up Gentoo until such time that my Linux skills have improved. Scott On 2/21/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:22:40 +0200, Aggelos wrote: > I would not define such a mail as spam. Of course not, you sent it. -- Neil Bothwick Today's subliminal message is: . signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:14:20 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > It does make the question invalid if it provides insufficient > > information to permit a helpful answer. > Not at all. It just means that the question needs expansion. Ah, so it's not invalid, just incomplete? Either way, it doesn't w

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I dont know about your X Server (there are some great guides out there - don't despair, it never worked for me in the first run either) but I think I have a clue to whats with you network card: The LiveCD has a kernel with all the drivers enabled as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: It does make the question invalid if it provides insufficient information to permit a helpful answer. Not at all. It just means that the question needs expansion. After all, the whole point of posting the question is to get the answer. Very often, the questioner lack

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "Scott W. McMikle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Recommendation': > I have found myself > quickly over my head and now I begin to wonder if I am not quite ready > for Gentoo. What would you all recommend? Ask good specific, questions early and oft

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 22:07:17 Scott W. McMikle wrote: > I have used Mandriva and Kubuntu and several other distributions before I > thought I would give Gentoo a try because I like to tweak and learn more > about Linux. The live cd works great on my machine, but when I attempted > to inst

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
I would advise you to go through and follow the handbook using the command line in the livecd environment. The livecd can be buggy and personally, I like to know EXACTLY what is being done to my system. It's good to know if something is my fault or theirs. As per your X server woes, there is a g

[gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Scott W. McMikle
I have used Mandriva and Kubuntu and several other distributions before I thought I would give Gentoo a try because I like to tweak and learn more about Linux. The live cd works great on my machine, but when I attempted to install Gentoo on that same machine, X does not work, nor does my network

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread kashani
Uwe Thiem wrote: While I agree with you in general, I still think that most noise on most mailing lists is due to bad answers, not questions. Answers tend to get triggered by keywords without the answering folks reading the whole question. So I put up with the occasional bad question. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:54:43 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > Mmmm roasted penguin... Die, heretic! -- Neil Bothwick "Self-explanatory": technospeak for "Incomprehensible & undocumented" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:06, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 21 February 2007 17:53 > > It would be helpful for at least > > some people > > if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: "Plain-Text Only", "No > > Top-Po

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, Aggelos wrote: > > I would not define such a mail as spam. > Aggelos I would. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread pk
Aggelos wrote: www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin www.petitiononline.com/golfinho Thanks for the info. Signed both this and and thepetitionsite.com version. Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:36:28 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they > > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little > > information to get a really useful answer. > > That may well be true, but it doesn't make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:03:20 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they > > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little > > information to get a really useful answer. GIGO applies here as much > > as anywhere else. > > W

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:39:02 pm Albert Hopkins wrote: > Today 01:39:02 pm >   > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:58 +, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > [...] > > > I hate to be a nasty evil person and say this, but I will anyway - this > > has no place on a Gentoo mailing list IMO. Post i

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Mikie
>You see every day, like the poor Japanese Dolphins, countless numbers of >cows are murdered every day. They are slaughtered, cut up, ground into >little bits, you name it, all in the name of greed (both in terms of >money and food). These innocent little souls are brought to an early >death so t

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:58 +, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: [...] > I hate to be a nasty evil person and say this, but I will anyway - this has > no place on a Gentoo mailing list IMO. Post it in the off topic section of > the Gentoo forums I guess but posting these on a mailing list is p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 19:06:21 Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > IMO it would be useful if all new mailing list subscribers were told these > "5 pillars" when signing up. Makes for a happier mailing list overall. Then file a bug. :) -- Bo Andresen pgpDrjXyeN7sD.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Aggelos
on 02/21/2007 07:58 PM Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote the following: >> -Original Message- >> From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 21 February 2007 17:49 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan >> >> >> www.glumbert.co

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 February 2007 17:53 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD? > > Hrm, I can't say there are many more rules here than on my > other mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:52:49 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It would be helpful for at least some people > if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: [...] "Attachments Only By > Request (and consider private mail)" Actually I disagree with that one. Sometimes when people think som

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 February 2007 16:36 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD? > > So, and I ask this as an honest question, is it generally > accepted that the > leve

RE: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Aggelos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 February 2007 17:49 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan > > > www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin > > www.petitiononline.com/golfinho > -- > gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?': > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they > > significantly outnumber the g

[gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Aggelos
www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin www.petitiononline.com/golfinho -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-21, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5. >> Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again. The lock up >> occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4, >> 1.2.0-r1. ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up. On my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:36:28 Peter Lewis wrote: > > GIGO applies here as much as > > anywhere else. > > Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of [stupid] questions! > > So, and I ask this as an honest question, is it generally accepted that the > level of technical knowledge e

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up a name-based virtual host in Apache

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
I hope this email gets to the list. My last post didn't. This is semi-urgent. Over the past year I've been developing a PHP-based web interface for my college's music festival. This web interface would allow participating directors to enter all their information via the Internet, rather than ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XV locks up X server after recent update

2007-02-21 Thread Hamie
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 17:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-20, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neither the ati-drivers version nor kernel has changed. > > Bzzt, wrong! > > The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5. > Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv w

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge dazuko 2.3.x with kernel 2.6.20

2007-02-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
Peter Ruskin wrote: > CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK is not set Thanks, I thought so. The compile error occurs in a sections encapsuled in "#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM", and your kernel configuration does not include XFRM Networking Security Hooks. I'll probably disable this, because the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-21 Thread Hans-Stefan Bauer
Hallo, today I updated portage and installed the newest kernel. uname -a now says Linux storm1 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 15:45:46 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Now DLM and GFS2 are compiled as modules storm1 linux # grep DLM .config CONFIG_GFS2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 February 2007 18:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > > answers" way of thinking. > > A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) :-) I will never take up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:36, I wrote: > Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of questions! D'oh! That was supposed to be "the asking of *stupid* questions"... sorry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > > answers" way of thinking. > > A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) Ha ha, perhaps :

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to since many > kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing, there > has been a lot of activity and changes with the rules recently. But I'm > too rushed to decrypt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +, Peter Lewis wrote: > I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid > answers" way of thinking. A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they significantly ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Mikie wrote: > Actually I did Google extensively and looked at three packages which > would require too much time to implement. > > The Vyatta was working in 10 min and now my lab's three Gentoo boxes > are routed. And this entire bullshit thread would have been prev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:26:21 Peter Lewis wrote: > > > The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe > > > in civility any more? > > [SNIP] > > > Quite. I know very little about the topic which the OP was

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Mikie
Actually I did Google extensively and looked at three packages which would require too much time to implement. The Vyatta was working in 10 min and now my lab's three Gentoo boxes are routed. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: We

[gentoo-user] X-Forwarding over wireless

2007-02-21 Thread Grant
Is anyone using X-Forwarding over a local wireless connection? I'm forwarding a couple of light apps and they work fine with -Y but -X is unusable. I've been trying to use vmware workstation with an XP guest OS over wireless, but it's no good. Would I have better luck with vnc? - Grant -- gent

RE: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?

2007-02-21 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 February 2007 14:22 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus? > > > [Stuff] I've had good luck with RALink based cards (I have a PCMCIA Asus WL107g if I remember the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:26:21 Peter Lewis wrote: > > The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe > > in civility any more? [SNIP] > Quite. I know very little about the topic which the OP was asking about, > Gentoo solutions or otherwise. I was merely defending the guy

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:41, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > If you want to use a display manager, you should set DISPLAYMANAGER > in /etc/conf.d/xdm. and, of course, add xdm to your runlevel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:23:40 John covici wrote: > OK, but I had none of that -- I had just installed gnome and all its > packages, so I had no idea that I needed that file -- I figured the > default one would start gnome, if I had gnome installed. Nothing prevents you from installing kde

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:59, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Actually, GDM uses Xsessions and startx uses xinitrc files. > > If you look at the /etc/X11/xinitrc file, it looks for and uses the > ~/.xinitrc file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default > of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 18:36:59 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote: > > Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even > > there -- the line was commented out in the file. > > That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the f

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:02:59 John covici wrote: > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so > gnome does not run or am I doing

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Norberto Bensa wrote: Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp or s

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:19, John covici wrote: > Yep, that does work, but I had no idea that functionality was even > there -- the line was commented out in the file. That sets a systemwide default. As others suggested, the file ~/.xinitrc might be used to choose on a per-user basis the

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, John covici wrote: > > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > > something about the gentoo distribu

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 02/21/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:02, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > > something about the gento

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > Does everyone who has ruledujour execute daily get these faults reported? Nope. But I've disabled AntiDrug in /etc/rulesdujour/config because for a few days, I was getting a warning about antidrug's maintainer losing it's domain/host/isp or something like that. And BTW:

Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

2007-02-21 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Grant wrote: > My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I > press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen. I > changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to: > > KEYMAP="es" > > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed. > Does anyone know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gcc-4.1.1-r3

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Fabrício L. Ribeiro wrote: > I was updating my system with "emerge --update --deep world" and the > follow error is returned to me when emerging gcc-4.1.1-r3: > > < begin > > > [...] > > make[2]: *** [tree-ssa-loop-ivcanon.o] Error 1 The display of what cause

[gentoo-user] Error emerging gcc-4.1.1-r3

2007-02-21 Thread Fabrício L. Ribeiro
I was updating my system with "emerge --update --deep world" and the follow error is returned to me when emerging gcc-4.1.1-r3: < begin > [...] make[2]: *** [tree-ssa-loop-ivcanon.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3/work/build/gcc' make[1]: ***

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:02, John covici wrote: > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so > gnome does not run or am I doing s

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-ruledujour failing...

2007-02-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
tarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /etc/spamassassin/antidrug.cf /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/antidrug.cf.2; mv -f /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/antidrug.cf.20070221-0313 /etc/spamassassin/antidrug.cf; mv -f /etc/spamassassin/70_zmi_german.cf /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/70_zmi_germ

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-21 Thread Jacques Montier
Konstantin Budylov a gentiment tapote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:33 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Konstantin Budylov wrote: >> >>> So, what's wrong? >>> >> fglrx doesn't do AIGLX. Sry. >> >> -- >> /PA >> > > So, what should I do? > Hi, Y

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-21 Thread Konstantin Budylov
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 12:33 Peter Alfredsen wrote: > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Konstantin Budylov wrote: > > So, what's wrong? > > fglrx doesn't do AIGLX. Sry. > > -- > /PA So, what should I do? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Konstantin Budylov wrote: > So, what's wrong? fglrx doesn't do AIGLX. Sry. -- /PA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed

2007-02-21 Thread Konstantin Budylov
On Tuesday 21 February 2007 06:38 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:43:08 Konstantin Budylov wrote: > > This error appears in my Xorg.0.log at boot time: > > >(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed > > >        (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > 'why does not startx or xinit start gnome?': Because I want to use KDE. Seriously though, Gentoo allows you to set up your .xsession manually and 'startx' should use it. I know KDE also provides a 'startkde' script that wi

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, John covici wrote: > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so > gnome does not run or am I doing somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Wednesday 21 Feb 2007 13:32:59 John covici wrote: > Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I > discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there > something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so > gnome does not run or am I doing somet

[gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread John covici
Hi. I was having major problems getting gnome to work at all when I discovered that it onlyy works if I login using gdm -- is there something about the gentoo distribution which has broken startx so gnome does not run or am I doing something wrong here? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic warning message x11-drivers:ati-drivers-8.32.5 build

2007-02-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:36AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > Rconfigure and recompile the kernel: > > > > make menuconfig -> Device Drivers -> Character Devices -> Direct > > Rendering Manager > > > > make it a module. Or, you can just dese