Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:41:05 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > The alternative would > > > be to use a separate /boot and mess around with initramfs images to > > > load / from LVM, which is extra hassle and another potential point of > > > failu

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM switch

· b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Didn't look on WP because from the sentence "KVM Switch -- DLink" wasn't > at all clear that KVM switch was a common word -KVM could have been a > trademark etc. At least the German WP has a word definition page for "KVM" as well ->

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might be pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cache and significantly reduce hard drive I/O once the cache is primed. I just upgraded my system from 1GB to 2GB of DDR2 so

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:32:49 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because KVM's are OS independent; they can get you into the BIOS or > console; you can see boot messages; network doesn't need to be working Just to > name a few benefits. So yes, I agree if you're only interested in

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:59:36 -0400 Ophidian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yes, the 2GB RAM is probably > overkill since I've never actually taken it all that close to filling > up RAM let alone swapping to disk. Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might be pertinent

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppleMac in a Virtual Machine? Or use BrowserCam

http://www.browsercam.com/ Or one of the many clones out there... > -Original Message- > From: Mick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 3:36 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppleMac in a Virtual Machine? > > Hi All, > > I have n

RE: [gentoo-user] GUI tools for iptables?

I second that. I've used shorewall for quite some time. I still don't know dick about iptables, but it's pretty trivial for me to setup a simple 'rule' or 'entry' in shorewall's 'rules' file. > -Original Message- > From: Elias Probst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

Philip Webb wrote: 070709 Julian Simioni wrote: Since Core 2 Duos are so inexpensive and will easily outperform and use less power than an Athlon64, why stick with AMD ? My 4300, which I bought a few weeks ago for $ 110 , is the slowest Core 2 Duo, but would probably perform similarly if not ou

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: > > What state is the process in? If it's in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (D) > mode then it won't die/continue until it gets whatever I/O it's > expecting. If it doesn't (e.g

Re: [gentoo-user] SanDisk MobileMate [solved in part]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:11:08PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > Sorry if this is a stupid question: I've never actually owned a > device using a MicroSD card--until now. I have for myself a Motorola > KRZR K1 phone, and I am thinking of buying a MicroSD card so I can > trans

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays does not have a profiles/repo_name entry

On Monday 09 July 2007 12:38:46 Xav' wrote: > After I sync/update this morning, there was a new version of portage out > of the box, but from now, > > emerge displays following message for each of my  installed overlays : > > Note: The repository at [overlay path] does not have a profiles/repo_name

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: > I got home from work today to find that hald-addon-storage was stuck on > disk I/O and holding the load at 1 or higher. I tried restarting hald > in /etc/init.d, but that just caused hald-probe-storage to stick, > driving the load to 2. >

[gentoo-user] hald is stuck

I got home from work today to find that hald-addon-storage was stuck on disk I/O and holding the load at 1 or higher. I tried restarting hald in /etc/init.d, but that just caused hald-probe-storage to stick, driving the load to 2. I've never had this happen before and I haven't migrated to a new

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:34 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Hi, > I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper versions. > If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after reboot I can't > boot the new kernel. [snip] After you copy your old .config file, try "make oldconfig" f

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:39 -0700, Patrick May wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:47:52PM +, b.n. wrote: > > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > > > > >> (b) Switch keyboard/mouse/monitor : KVM switch -- DLink > > >Do what you will, but my advice is -- save your money. KVM switches > > >are useless.

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo-2.2.1 fails to emerge

On Monday 09 July 2007 18:37:47 Dan Farrell wrote: > A common problem with big ebuilds on memory-tight systems for me. > Sounds like an OOM-Killer effect. In that case OOM will show up in `dmesg` output. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:45:18 +0300 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:46, b.n. wrote: > > If you want to start with 1 Gb, buy a > > single 1 Gb stick, and not two 512 Mb ones -so when you will want to > > upgrade, you'll have less problems. > I think it'

Re: [gentoo-user] serial terminal

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:53:09 +0300 "Aleksey V. Kunitskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 00:39, Patrick May wrote: > > RDP, VNC, X, etc. is replacing a lot of it. Why walk over when a > > couple mouse clicks or keys (for SSH) you can "be there." > > When the system is instal

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM switch

Alexander Skwar ha scritto: · b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What's a KVM switch? Wikipedia broken? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch Didn't look on WP because from the sentence "KVM Switch -- DLink" wasn't at all clear that KVM switch was a common word -KVM could have been a tradema

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:56:12 +0400 "Vladimir Rusinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/9/07, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper > > versions. If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after > > reboot I can't boot th

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 02:46, b.n. wrote: > If you want to start with 1 Gb, buy a > single 1 Gb stick, and not two 512 Mb ones -so when you will want to > upgrade, you'll have less problems. I think it's not a good idea. Because AMD X2 has dual channel memory controller, and memory bandwidth will

[gentoo-user] KVM switch (was: building a machine for Gentoo)

· b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What's a KVM switch? Wikipedia broken? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch Alexander Skwar -- When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattentions of one. -- Helen Rowland -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:47:52PM +, b.n. wrote: > Dan Farrell ha scritto: > > >> (b) Switch keyboard/mouse/monitor : KVM switch -- DLink > >Do what you will, but my advice is -- save your money. KVM switches > >are useless. Do you really want to pay US $50 (??) for something that > >you c

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

Dan Farrell ha scritto: (b) Switch keyboard/mouse/monitor : KVM switch -- DLink Do what you will, but my advice is -- save your money. KVM switches are useless. Do you really want to pay US $50 (??) for something that you can easily replace with X forwarding? OK, that's the last you'll her

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

In general, looks to be pretty good. 1GB of RAM will certainly be enough for Linux. Sure (I have 1 Gb and I never swap, even with more than a dozen of not-lightweight apps open and a full KDE desktop). However, if your machine has to last somehow long, the more RAM the better. You don't k

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

On 7/9/07, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper versions. If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after reboot I can't boot the new kernel. After the message about free kernel memory, it stops with any message. I can reboo

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP -- SOLVED!!!

On 07/03/07 06:17 Drew Tomlinson said the following: I have a laptop with ATI integrated graphics. lspci shows the graphics card as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] I have been unsuccessful in getting X configured to work with this c

[gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper versions. If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after reboot I can't boot the new kernel. After the message about free kernel memory, it stops with any message. I can reboo

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:44:39 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (e) HDD -- W Digital , 500 GB , 16 MB Do you really want a WD hard drive? Unless it's a Raptor, it's only got a 1-3 year warranty. Seagate drives are warranted for 5 years. According to newegg, comperable drives are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > > > messages. > > > > yes it does. > > > > > I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

070709 Julian Simioni wrote: > I have an 8500GT video card in my machine right now > and the 100.14.11 driver which is in portage works just fine. That's good to hear. > you wouldn't want to run Vista anyways right? No ... > Since Core 2 Duos are so inexpensive > and will easily outperform and

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On 7/9/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone mentioned a quad-core: are they presently supported by Gentoo ? I can't see why they wouldn't be. Just make sure you enable SMP and up to 4 processors in your kernel. As for other parts... I have an 8500GT video card in my machine rig

Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:

On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >>> On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Monday 09 July 2007, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo': > Someone mentioned a quad-core: are they presently supported by Gentoo ? Well, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but Gentoo loves my dual-dual-core system (so 4 proce

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

070709 Dale wrote: > Sorry to butt in here, can you tell me about what this rig will cost ? > I need to do the same thing here. My AMD 2500+ is getting a bit old. Oh ! My present (2003) machine (working well) has that processor & the 2000 machine (to be replaced) has a Celeron 466 ... (smile).

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

Mark Shields wrote: > On 7/9/07, *Philip Webb* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > 070709 Mark Shields wrote: > > (1a): If this is just a backup machine, > > No, please re-read my careful description ! > The list is of parts I plan to buy for my new front-lin

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On 7/9/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 070709 Mark Shields wrote: > (1a): If this is just a backup machine, No, please re-read my careful description ! The list is of parts I plan to buy for my new front-line machine. Once it's fully commissioned, my present machine will become the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007/7/8, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think a more accurate message is 'Gentoo welcomes all, but as a potential Gentoo user you must be willing to learn. Gentoo does not attempt make *anything* 'easy or pretty' in preference to providing complete control.' Add what you will. that's just a

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

070709 Mark Shields wrote: > (1a): If this is just a backup machine, No, please re-read my careful description ! The list is of parts I plan to buy for my new front-line machine. Once it's fully commissioned, my present machine will become the stand-by. Thanks to both respondents so far. Further

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo-2.2.1 fails to emerge

> Any idea what this is about: Despite all "reason" behind it, all I had to do to make OOo-2.2.1 finally compile on my x86 box was turning off X, sshd and other daemons not necessary during the compilation. (Plus - since mine is a laptop - forcing the graphics card to use as little shared mem as p

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On 7/9/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (1) 3rd Machine (a) CPU -- AMD 64 X2 4800+ (65 W) , 512 K , 65 nm , socket AM2 orAMD 64 X2 5600+ (89 W) , 1 M , 90 nm , socket AM2 (b) Mobo -- Asus M2N-E Nforce 570 , DDR2 533/667/800 (c) Memory -- Kingston , 1 GB , 800 (d

[gentoo-user] Overlays does not have a profiles/repo_name entry

Hi list ! After I sync/update this morning, there was a new version of portage out of the box, but from now, emerge displays following message for each of my installed overlays : > Note: The repository at [overlay path] does not have a profiles/repo_name > entry. This can reduce the functionalit

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:41:05 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > The alternative would > > be to use a separate /boot and mess around with initramfs images to > > load / from LVM, which is extra hassle and another potential point of > > failure. > > Want my scripts? ;-) I'd be interested to see t

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

On Monday 09 July 2007 11:44, Philip Webb wrote: > (1a) I'm confused by the CPU features '65 nm' & '90 nm': > yes, I know they refer to tiny distances, > but would expect the faster CPU to have the smaller distance, > whereas the opposite is true for those listed (AMD docs don't mention Techn

[gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

I have run Gentoo since I built my 2nd machine in Oct 2003 . The 1st box (2000) is set up for emergency use (Mandriva 2005) & is becoming too old & slow for today's Internet & software in general. As a result, I'm planning to build a 3rd machine later this summer. The 2nd will become my emergency a

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs > > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about grub

Hello Thufir, > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition fo

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for > > everything else. > > What if you need to resize

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

Hello Dirk Heinrichs, > > One physical partition used by LVM, but then several logical > > partitions on that. > > Guess you wanted to write logical volumes. A logical partition is > something different. It could mean that inside the big LVM partition, > you would create logical partitions by u

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

On Sunday 8 July 2007 23:18, Mick wrote: > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script > it does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the > subdirectories and files within them stay in Capital Case. > > How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about grub

Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Norberto Bensa: > Hello Dirk, > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > /dev/sda1 * 1261020964793+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/sda2 *26112614 32130 83 Linux > > /dev/sda32615972657127140 83 Linux > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about grub

Hello Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > /dev/sda1 * 1261020964793+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 *26112614 32130 83 Linux > /dev/sda32615972657127140 83 Linux > > sda2 is /boot, sda3 is for LVM. Everthing else is logical volume