[gentoo-user] Re: X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:17:46 -0400 > Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > Does anyone know, if it's now "safe" to use xorg 1.4 with > > > nvidia-drivers? > > > > On a related note, I'm one of those guys with one of

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

whoops sorry, didn't mean to send that to the list :) -- Iain Buchanan Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. -- Napoleon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 21:08 +0100, Peter Weller wrote: > Yes, that's right, next Saturday is the first of the month, so it's > Bugday! Come along to #gentoo-bugs and help out with killing the bugs > listed on http:///bugday.gentoo.org! cool! > If anyone has got any suggestions for new bug additio

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

Tapio Raevaara wrote: Weird, as far as I remember, I've always had the correct symlink and boot on a separate partition... No matter, thanks a lot for the explanation, that pretty much clears it up! Just to explain a little further, the stage file creates /boot and /boot/boot. Thats fine i

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

On Friday 05 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote: > If /boot is on a seperate partition, the /boot/boot symlink never gets > created - or at least not in the correct place - unless you are aware of > the problem and take steps to correct it. That is one reason why I do > not advocate creating a seperat

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

Tapio Raevaara wrote: try: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 why: /boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while grub is running you're starting from the boot partition's filesystem root. Easy mistake, I do it all the time when I try to d

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Hello people, i am having a little trouble with grub. I've just installed a > gentoo x86 (with intention of making it our first Gentoo powered server :D) > and after the install i get the error: > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > in practice, the ram has to refreshed every few cycles (on reason why > > > it is slow) because it is loosing it

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Iain Buchanan, > > >> hey, stop answering, this was to Neil! >> > > Hey! ! was asleep! :) > > As Alexander has already posted, you still need sys-fs/fuse to provide > the libraries, but it defers to the kernel for the modules (which saves > rebuilding it each ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:06:32 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 15:51 +0100, Paul Gibbons wrote: > > [snip] > > > I have in the passed got to the point that pressing the power button > > shut the system down and added an entry into my grub menu.lst of: > > [s

[gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

Yes, that's right, next Saturday is the first of the month, so it's Bugday! Come along to #gentoo-bugs and help out with killing the bugs listed on http:///bugday.gentoo.org! If anyone has got any suggestions for new bug additions, email them to me by tomorrow, and I will update the site for Satur

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: In theory, for the one transistor and one cap case, you have a loaded cap that will take "forever" losing its load, won't it? But in practice, I think, that's not realistic. It's actually not theory vs. practice. Even in theory, it's not just a cap, it's a cap and a r

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Don Jerman wrote: > On 10/4/07, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 > > try: > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 > > why: > /boot is where you mou

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

Replacing /boot/ for (hd0,0) worked perfectly, ¡thanks a million! take care Rafael 2007/10/4, Tapio Raevaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > Hello people, i am having a little trouble with grub. I've just > installed a > > gentoo x86 (with inte

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> [..] > > However, it makes sense to clean up memory after having > > critical data in it -- e.g. a reboot doesn't necessarily clean up > > RAM. >> [..] > > Yes, this is very true BUT

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Considering that swap is encrypted, is it realistic for this "lost" > > RAM data to be recovered? Again, take the case of a well funded > > organization. > > that depends on the encryption. Some algorithms are easy to break. Some are >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Hello people, i am having a little trouble with grub. I've just installed a > gentoo x86 (with intention of making it our first Gentoo powered server :D) > and after the install i get the error: > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, p

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Hello people, i am having a little trouble with grub. I've just > installed a gentoo x86 (with intention of making it our first Gentoo > powered server :D) and after the install i get the error: > > root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

On 10/4/07, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 try: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 why: /boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while grub is runnin

[gentoo-user] grub problem

Hello people, i am having a little trouble with grub. I've just installed a gentoo x86 (with intention of making it our first Gentoo powered server :D) and after the install i get the error: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in practice, the ram has to refreshed every few cycles (on reason why it > > is slow) because it is loosing its load so fast. > > > > In practice, after power is cut, everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > And later on: "Now one problem is > > > left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation c

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in practice, the ram has to refreshed every few cycles (on reason why it is > slow) because it is loosing its load so fast. > > In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost. > > But not the stuff in swap Considering th

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > And later on: "Now one problem is > > > left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisatio

Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

purple wrote: > > > On 10/3/07, *Harley Peters* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Does anyone know, if it's now "safe" to use xorg 1.4 with > nvidia-drivers? > > > there's really _no need_ for you to star using new X at this

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0200 Norman Rieß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb schrieb: >> >> As always Bo's reply solved the problem completely. I apologize for >> missing the remove commands. I shall read the instructions more >> carefully in the future. >> >> thank for the help. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Traveling: DSL modem via USB?

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:09:39 +0200 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently traveling with my laptop and I can get it online if I > can make it work with the DrayTek Vigor 318 DSL modem that is > available where I am. Should that be do-able? > > - Grant good news grant; looks like you mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

Hi, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:47:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > And later on: "Now one problem is > > left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation can get the > > contents after the system is powered off. With the mo

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

On Thursday 04 October 2007 16:07:16 Norman Rieß wrote: > >> It also told you to remove lib{crypto,ssl}.so.0.9.7 after running those > >> revdep-rebuild commands. [SNIP] > There was no remove command It used to tell you. ;) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159245 -- Bo Andresen sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:42:58 -0500 Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > another great thing about grub is that it has a limited command mode > that you can enter at boot time. If your grub config contains a typo > or error, you can still boot the computer without reaching for a CD. And

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: > And later on: "Now one problem is > left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation can get the > contents after the system is powered off. With the modern SDRAM it's > even worse, where the data stays on the RAM permanently until new > dat

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago >> triggered a request for me to run >> # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:30:30 +0200 "Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering what I can do to make XFCE to automount my > > pendrive. Hi, As Neil wrote, you can use 'ivman' w/o fstab entry. Works for me with XF

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

Hello, I was also playing with ivman for a long time till accidentally I stumbled upon this: http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/thunar-volman/index.html. Here's the minimalistic Wikipedia entry (copy and paste) that I've made: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_thunar-volman. This is a light-weigh

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 05:32:47 -0400 (EDT), Alfredo Perez wrote: > I was wondering what I can do to make XFCE to automount my > pendrive. I followed this wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman to > the last word but still I can't have the my pendrive mounted. I don't think you did... > I put an en

[gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

Hi I was wondering what I can do to make XFCE to automount my pendrive. I followed this wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman to the last word but still I can't have the my pendrive mounted. I put an entry in /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat defaults 0 0 and the pendrive gets mounted but as

[gentoo-user] Traveling: DSL modem via USB?

I'm currently traveling with my laptop and I can get it online if I can make it work with the DrayTek Vigor 318 DSL modem that is available where I am. Should that be do-able? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] undefined reference to `LINUX_TARGET_OS_CPP_BUILTINS'

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 23:55:49 Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > Building gcc for ARM with > # crossdev --target arm-softfloat-uclinux-gnu Which means the you are more likely to get help on the gentoo-embedded mailing list. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild

On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago > triggered a request for me to run > # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7 > # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7 > > I have done so. The revdep-rebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

Hello Iain Buchanan, > hey, stop answering, this was to Neil! Hey! ! was asleep! :) As Alexander has already posted, you still need sys-fs/fuse to provide the libraries, but it defers to the kernel for the modules (which saves rebuilding it each time you change the kernel). -- Neil Bothwick

[gentoo-user] Re: To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil, back on 15 July, you stated that you used ntfs-3g with only the > in-kernel fuse modules. That's what I'm doing as well. > When I try that, I get the following error: > > error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 07:49 +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/4/07, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using ntfs-3g w/o issues. I'm not using in-kernel fuse modules > > though. I'm compiling it from the version in portage > > Same here, and it works OK so far. hey, stop answering,