Re: [gentoo-user] startx no longer gives gnome

Have you updated X or similar recently and automatically merged changes in config files? I could be possible that you returned to default configuration and hence X Windows would start when executing startx. My 0,02$: go and check DISPLAYMANAGER at /etc/conf.d/xdm and XSESSION at /etc/rc.conf a

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem on my laptop. You have to deactivate generic > drivers in your kernel. (Stuff like Generic ATA Support) Do I need BLK_DEV_IDEDISK, when I've got a SATA disk? But you say that I should remove IDE_GENERIC, right? Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered trying with those ata kernel params turned off? I did now and it did not change anything :( Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] startx no longer gives gnome

the first time I entered "startx", I got gnome. No longer, now I get X windows. how do I determine what changed? I'm going by: Now start your graphical environment by running startx: Code Listing 2.10: Starting GNOME $ startx If all goes well, you should be greeted by GNOME. Congratulation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

Hello Dan Farrell, > > > > Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd > characters? Those are console control characters, emerge should be run with "--color n --nospinner" when capturing its output, although emerge no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:08:00 + Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd characters? I see many characters which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Packages in bold are in your world file. > > Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report > you digged out? yes, on the mailing list archives... someone called R

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:09 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 07:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > hm, don't know about the distribution side, but you can sure install any > > version of Vista you like, from the one Vista DVD without a license / > > activation. Only the one you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:08:00 + Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: > > Am I the only one who sees this as nearly uselessly packed with wierd characters? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:53:17 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but I use no such parameters and > > haven't any problems. > > I think I was unable to boot without them in pre 2.6.21 times. But > maybe this has changed. I'll find out. > > Thanks again, > > Alexander Skwar

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

On 7/9/07, Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: >> iso9660:1999, afaik, has agnostic to filename encodings. This probably >> means that you need to know what the iocharset. If the disc was >> created under the en_US.utf8 environment, -o utf8 should give you the >> right encoding back. >> > > >> Lastly, why iso

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

Thufir wrote : > Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure". > > (I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.) > > Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: > > > > > can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 14:30 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 10:01 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > > Hello. > > > > Yesterday, I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.22. When I now boot this new > > kernel, I notice that all of a sudden my SATA disk is addressed with > > /dev/hda, whereas

Re: [gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 10:01 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > Hello. > > Yesterday, I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.22. When I now boot this new > kernel, I notice that all of a sudden my SATA disk is addressed with > /dev/hda, whereas it used to be addressed with /dev/sda in 2.6.21. Why's > that? > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

Thufir wrote: > Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure". > > (I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.) > > Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: > > > > > can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue appears

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg configuration

Ok, I'll boot back into gentoo and try "X-configure". (I have to use the live cd to browse the web, etc, right now.) Here's some emerge oddities I've run into: can't seem to emerge gnome, but the bigger issue appears to be configuration of x win

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl [SOLVED]

b.n. ha scritto: Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, because of three optical drives, only the dvd writer (/dev/hda) seems to have gone with dma off. I turned it on now, I'll try to see if there's a difference. Ok, things back to normal. What could have been? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 21:34:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > Take on Italian's Forum from a developer: > > > > Because of a compatibility problem with Gentoo/FreeBSD I have modified > > yesterday elisp-common.eclass (used for emacs support) adding a test for > > userland_GNU adding it to I

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

At Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:45:29 +0200 giarca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:02 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> Any help in understanding would be appreciated. > > Take on Italian's Forum from a developer: > > Because of a compatibility problem with Gentoo/FreeBSD I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 20:52 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > · Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I had the same problem two days ago on my laptop. You have to deactivate > > all generic drivers in your kernel. Look for stuff like generic ATA > > support. > > Great. A thing to look out for :) >

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:28 schrieb b.n.: > Florian Philipp ha scritto: > > Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d > > /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it > > using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd. > > Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, becau

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

Florian Philipp ha scritto: Seems like your drive does no longer uses dma but pio. Call hdparm -d /dev/dvd as root to check it. If it is not active, try to activate it using hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd. Huh, it seems you are right. Funny, because of three optical drives, only the dvd writer (/dev/hd

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: writing dvd brings system to a crawl

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 23:12 schrieb b.n.: > Hi, > > In the last couple of weeks (that is, from one of the last updates) I > have noticed that k3b (or, better, one of the programs he uses to write > dvds) is much more resource demandin than before. Usually my gentoo > desktop (an old AMD Duron 18

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

· Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had the same problem two days ago on my laptop. You have to deactivate all > generic drivers in your kernel. Look for stuff like generic ATA support. Great. A thing to look out for :) You're also using kernel 2.6.22? Alexander Skwar -- Never invest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 19:53 schrieb Alexander Skwar: > · Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Have you considered trying with those ata kernel params turned off? > > No, I haven't. But I'll consider this first thing tomorrow morning. > Nothing bad can happen - besides an unbootable system ;) And

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving images taking so long

Dale wrote: > > I have gkrellm installed and there doesn't seem to be any major drive > activity when I am doing this. I'm not copying something or even > playing a CD while doing this so I wouldn't think it was "busy" doing > something else. > > I'm open to ideas. If you need more info, let me k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:54:43 Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Packages in bold are in your world file. > > Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report > you digged out? Other than what's in `man 5 color.map`? Probably not.. The b

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Bo rsted Andresen wrote: > Packages in bold are in your world file. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142473 I looked through bugs, but I guess I was doing it wrong since I didn't come across that one. Thanks for the help! Ryan -- -- [EMAI

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

· Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Packages in bold are in your world file. Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report you digged out? Thx, Alexander Skwar -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" -- Vroomfondel -- [E

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

· Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have you considered trying with those ata kernel params turned off? No, I haven't. But I'll consider this first thing tomorrow morning. Nothing bad can happen - besides an unbootable system ;) And that's "fine". Thanks for this idea! > You seem to know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:28:17 Ryan Curtin wrote: > Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge > -uavD world', some packages were given in bold. For a while I thought > perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further > investigation I could find no so

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:02 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Any help in understanding would be appreciated. Take on Italian's Forum from a developer: Because of a compatibility problem with Gentoo/FreeBSD I have modified yesterday elisp-common.eclass (used for emacs support) adding a test

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

At Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:02:28 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did > emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world > > and received the output below. The funny thing is that the same > emerge previously reinstalled emacs and some others just a few days > ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:02, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I did > emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world > > and received the output below. The funny thing is that the same > emerge previously reinstalled emacs and some others just a few days > ago. I don't see from the (v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 00:29, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:40 +, James wrote: > > Not sure this is useful, but, if you can get the system to boot, you > > and look more closely at the memory specifics with the 'lshw' command. > > hey, neat command. The system boots knoppi

Re: [gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

Allan Gottlieb a écrit : > I did > emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world > > and received the output below. The funny thing is that the same The output is missing :s > emerge previously reinstalled emacs and some others just a few days > ago. I don't see from the (verbo

[gentoo-user] why so many reinstalls from portage?

I did emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world and received the output below. The funny thing is that the same emerge previously reinstalled emacs and some others just a few days ago. I don't see from the (verbose) output given why the reinstalls are triggered. Any help i

[gentoo-user] Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

Some time ago, I noticed that whenever I ran my semi-weekly 'emerge -uavD world', some packages were given in bold. For a while I thought perhaps they were more system-critical packages, but upon further investigation I could find no sort of pattern to which packages were being bolded and which we

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

Am Mittwoch 11 Juli 2007 16:50 schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot > options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, > without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander off > to fix up something else and come

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:50:18 +0800, "Andrew Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot > options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, > without timing out to the default? Have you tried simply removing the "timeout" and

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

Andrew Lowe wrote: > Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot > options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, > without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander off > to fix up something else and come back to find that grubs booted th

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:50:18 +0800 Andrew Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot > options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, > without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander > off to fix up s

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:00:41 +0200 "Xav'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll reboot and try copying some stuff around. Also, "emerge gnome" > > will give me a basic gnome? Yeah, pretty much. I don't use gnome but helped my roommate install gnome on gentoo without reading that guide. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:01:44 +0200 Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do I have to do, so that the drive is fast in kernel 2.6.22 as > well? > > I'm booting the 2.6.22 kernel with this entry in grub menu.lst: > > ,[ kernel 2.6.22 ] > | title Gentoo GNU/Linux (zuletzt gebaut

[gentoo-user] Another question regarding grub......

Just wondering, is there a way to make grub just display the boot options, that is the various OS's that I can boot to through grub, without timing out to the default? At times I turn my PC on, wander off to fix up something else and come back to find that grubs booted the default boot option, but

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:51:38 +0200 Clara García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it is a DNS problem but I have the correct DNS of my ISP > in /etc/resolv.conf I don't think so. It sounds like it when > I just get an "google.com unknown host" that happens, but nevertheless I think the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:59:12 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hear a bios beep, and that's it. > Maybe it's a MBoard issue? Maybe a video card issue? Hmmm, I don't > want to replace the whole lot! Ever hear of a POST code? if not, look up the post codes for your bios / mother

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 07:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:40 -0400, C Lee Davis wrote: > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of > > > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or > > > whatev

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:09, pat wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Hello pat, > > > > > > > Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot > > > > from recovery partition failed. So, I ne

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > · [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> How can I go about running a VM on gentoo that runs win XP pro? > > I don't understand the question. Nothing new there... [...] >> I do have a couple of WinXP pro licenses but hoped there might be a >> r

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

Thufir a écrit : > Trying to configure X installing and then emerging xorg. Could I just > copy the xorg.conf file from the live cd over to the hdd? > > Here's where I'm at now: > > http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript1.txt > > http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript2.txt A

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg configuration

gnome-base/gnome-light is a basic gnome meta package. You can use "xorgconfig" after emerging xorg-x11 to configure your x-server or you can try to use your existing xorg.conf. Hope i could help you. On Wednesday 11 July 2007 12:44, Thufir wrote: > Trying to configure X installing and then eme

[gentoo-user] xorg configuration

Trying to configure X installing and then emerging xorg. Could I just copy the xorg.conf file from the live cd over to the hdd? Here's where I'm at now: http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript1.txt http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/startxScript2.txt I'll reboot and try copying so

[gentoo-user] Re: USB modem locks weirdly

Clara García wrote: > When modem locks if I ping google.com I just get an "google.com unknown > host" but if I ping google using it IP instead it name (ping > 64.233.167.99) my computer sends packets correctly but doesn't recieve > response from google. Check that DHCP works and you get a good IP

[gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

Hello. Yesterday, I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.22. When I now boot this new kernel, I notice that all of a sudden my SATA disk is addressed with /dev/hda, whereas it used to be addressed with /dev/sda in 2.6.21. Why's that? But much more important: The IDE performance is now extremely bad. ,--

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:15:26 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 08 July 2007 22:57, Clara García wrote: > > Hello, I have a Huawei USB E220 modem wich works fine almost all the time. > > But sometimes when I connect, it seems to work OK (led turns continous blue > > and wvdial shows

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

I've recently moved from 1GB to 2GB of RAM, and have noticed a huge difference for my usage, though I do lean quite heavily on it so for most users it doesn't create much of a difference. While running with 1GB I generally found I was sitting around 70-80% utilisation, running a dual-head setup wi