Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: > First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the > opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me > in the future replies! ;) > No, Denis *did not* write it Colleen did and I still think so, but no matter! ;-) > >> Maybe it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
> Denis wrote: > >>> And I still think nvidia cards are crap! First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me in the future replies! ;) >Maybe it was some incompatibility with the 2.6.21-r4 kernel (I'm usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: >>> And I still think nvidia cards are crap! It's a subjective point of view. I've not had the frustrations with ATI that I've had with nvidia. But to each his own, right? > > What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT > Nvidia cards under Linux and did no

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
> I did everything that the nvdia How To said - to the letter. :-) Funny I did the same and never had any hiccups. ha. The one time I got the error you got after updating the drivers was when I forgot to remove the old running module and insert the new one before starting X. Reading what you w

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Denis wrote: >>> And I still think nvidia cards are crap! > > What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT > Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. > > When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: > > 1. Shut down X an

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
James Ausmus wrote: > On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 >>> Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modul

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 >>> Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Denis
> > And I still think nvidia cards are crap! What is that statement based on? I have been running nothing BUT Nvidia cards under Linux and did not have a single issue with them. When I update the nvidia driver, I generally prefer to do the following: 1. Shut down X and remove xdm from the defau

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread James Ausmus
On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 > > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello > >> 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the > >> nvidia's kernel modules version does not mat

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:37 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 > > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello > >> 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the > >> nvidia's kernel mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/8/07, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I have no idea how to resolve this. I wish I had never upgraded (did I > say that already? :-P ) and I want my laptop back! ;-( > > Help would be greatly appreciated! > > Regards, > > Colleen > Just an idea but how about some

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 > Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello >> 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the >> nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' >> > This is not relate to nvidia. It would have happened the

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Colleen Beamer wrote: > I did an update world yesterday. One of the packages that was updated > was nvidia-drivers to version 100.14.09. I've been having lots of issues using gcc 4.x to compile nvidia-drivers. I usually use gcc-config to switch to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Grant
> > > > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > > > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all > > > > > > > kinds > > > > > > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the > > > > > > > system > > > > > > > was powere

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:57:53 -0500 Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello > > 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the > nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' > This is not relate to nvidia. It would have happened the same with your ATI board. This

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Rage XL and Proview PL716s

2007-08-08 Thread Xav'
Fan Yang a écrit : > Hello, > I have recently installed Gentoo 2007.0 on an old Dell PowerEdge > 400sc box. As the title says, I am using ATI Rage XL graphic card with > 8MB memory and Proview PL716s LCD monitor. For some reason, X -configure > doesn't give me a xorg.conf with error > [code]

[gentoo-user] Re: Hello?

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > > Let's see if this one gets through... > > Reading you loud and clear! I got your previous message just now, it > seems with some delay. Yes. According to the headers my mail was received by my provider in normal time, but was delayed for half a day before it went out to robin.

[gentoo-user] ATI Rage XL and Proview PL716s

2007-08-08 Thread Fan Yang
Hello, I have recently installed Gentoo 2007.0 on an old Dell PowerEdge 400sc box. As the title says, I am using ATI Rage XL graphic card with 8MB memory and Proview PL716s LCD monitor. For some reason, X -configure doesn't give me a xorg.conf with error [code] List of video drivers: fglrx

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-08 Thread Dan Cowsill
I've always prefered gentoo-portage.com to the alternative. On 8/7/07, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's being closed until further notice. > > So would it not be a good idea to announce this on the front page[1] or at > least redirect

[gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-08 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I hate freakin' nvidia!!! Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'm an ATI girl and I've never encountered the problems that I have with this damn laptop and it's nvidia card. Heck, I even got X working just fine when I took the hard drive out of my old computer and put it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 16:22, Ryan Sims wrote: > On 8/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like it. Just in case it has not been totalled you may want to > > open the case, remove the video card and use a soft brush and vacuum > > cleaner to clean its cooling fan and heatsink. T

Re: Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 12:05, Alex Schuster wrote: > I'm glad the problem is solved now, but I wonder why my response to the > thread (about 1:30 hours after it started) does not appear on the list. > It's also not on , so the > problem is not tha

[gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 & Gentoo amd64

2007-08-08 Thread Jure Varlec
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have experience of installing Mathematica 6 on Gentoo amd64 > box? Is there any possibility to install it without chroot'ed environment? > > Thanks for suggentions > I never tried version 6, but they used to have 64 bit version for 5, so I gu

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 18:37 schrieb Jarry: > Hi, > > for the last 2 or 3 days I can not access online package database > (http://packages.gentoo.org/). What is going on? > > Do I have problem on my side, or is that site really down? > > Jarry > -- >

Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-08 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/8/07, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > for the last 2 or 3 days I can not access online package database > (http://packages.gentoo.org/). What is going on? > > Do I have problem on my side, or is that site really down? > Please check the list before posting, there are already 2 thre

[gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-08 Thread Jarry
Hi, for the last 2 or 3 days I can not access online package database (http://packages.gentoo.org/). What is going on? Do I have problem on my side, or is that site really down? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selec

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after th

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:10 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all > > > > > > kinds > > > > > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Grant
> > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds > > > > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system > > > > > was powered off for several hours with an external fan b

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Joshua Doll
Grant wrote: My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system was powered off for several hours with an external fan blowing on it. Is that de

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:25 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:33, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 09:22 schrieb Mick: > > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > > temperatur

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Allingham
If you want something to give a simple listing similar to CPU-z, set up phpsysinfo On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:18 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Chuanwen Wu wrote: > > I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as eve

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
cscscscscs cscscscscs (?) writes: > I become a little bit upset sucking installing Gentoo Linux throughout 3 > days. There was several errors during the install process (networkless, > installer-dialog), so I was beginning to be afraid of memory-module > errors, motherboard failure etc. I ran memo

Hello? (was: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB error)

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Schuster
I'm glad the problem is solved now, but I wonder why my response to the thread (about 1:30 hours after it started) does not appear on the list. It's also not on , so the problem is not that I do not receive all postings. Any idea why my mail did no

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:11:55 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. There's sys-apps/lshw and hardinfo. The latter is not in portage, but there's an ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147547 -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg -

[gentoo-user] Re: tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread James
Chuanwen Wu gmail.com> writes: > I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. Additionally discover hdparm -i or -I hddtemp lm_sensors hth, James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi,guys! > I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. > > Do you ever use "everest" or "cpu-z" do in Windows? which can provide > almost all details you need of most hardware,including > CPU,RAM,motherboard,video card,network ... > > I use l

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
lshw, along with lspci, lsusb and probably others. Dont forget the verbose arguments to lspci and lsusb - they greatly expand the detail. Dont know why lshw isnt on the live cd's, its so useful! BillK On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:11 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi,guys! > I need tools to detect the d

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as everest > or cpu-z do.For example,the FSB,and the socket of the CPU and so on. For the CPU ONLY, you can get a bunch of information from /proc/cpuinfo: [EMAIL PROTE

[gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,guys! I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. Do you ever use "everest" or "cpu-z" do in Windows? which can provide almost all details you need of most hardware,including CPU,RAM,motherboard,video card,network ... I use lspci,now.But lspci can't provide so much information as everes

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:33, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 09:22 schrieb Mick: > > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all ki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:12, cscscscscs cscscscscs wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Thanks for the replies. > > I must change (hd1,4) to (hd0,4), however sda5 is my Suse's root partition. > Interesting. When the CMOS is run it jumps to the first drive MBR. Then it reads the boot code there which

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 08 August 2007 09:22 schrieb Mick: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even afte

Re: [gentoo-user] liborbisenc.so.0 error

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Sunday 05 August 2007 01:03, Marc Redmann wrote: > > # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 > > -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.0 > > # ls -la /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 > > -- 1 root root 0 Apr 17 2005 /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.0 > > > > equery belongs does

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system > was powered off for several hours with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 13:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:11:06 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > On my laptop, I did an update world. One of the programs that the > > update wants to install is 'sip'. I connect to my mirror and then the > > mirror goes out to www.riverbankcom

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB error

2007-08-08 Thread cscscscscs cscscscscs
Hi everybody, Thanks for the replies. I must change (hd1,4) to (hd0,4), however sda5 is my Suse's root partition. Interesting. 2007/8/7, cscscscscs cscscscscs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi folk, > > First of all sorry if my English is not perfect. > > I become a little bit upset sucking installing