Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb ext »Q«: > > No, it's the "couldn't happen to me because my /boot is mounted ro" > > defense. > > I wouldn't rely on this. My boot wasn't mounted at all, but the ebuild > mounted it and overwrote some files. It could just as easily remount > a /boot that had b

[gentoo-user] Re: Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 04:48:09 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > Is there some way of telling what the changes are before committing? > > I've always waited for the migration guide to be published, since > > the nested profile info

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tip: Firefox: Mouse Wheel Left/Right for History

2008-05-22 Thread fire-eyes
Hello, Just ran across a nifty trick for firefox, and wanted to get it on the list, as well as searched by search engines. Hope this is useful. I enabled my mouse wheels left-right functionality, however, it was reversed to xorg. So I flipped it in xorgs config. Seamonkey got it right someh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 3.5.9 revdep-rebuild

2008-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:49 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Yep, after rebooting (exiting kde hung) all is fine now. > > It's a bit quicker to just ctl-alt-backspace to restart X. No need to reboot, I think. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 3.5.9 revdep-rebuild

2008-05-22 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > Same thing happened to me because midway I had to stop the emerge and restart > > it later. The solution is to emerge all the other packages first from the > > original emerge, without downgrading kde-base/kdelibs, & > > kde-bas

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 3.5.9 revdep-rebuild

2008-05-22 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > > Without having the full output of revdep-rebuild to hand, one can only > > guess. It's not a arch vs ~arch issue as 3.5.9-r4 is already stable, so > > I would guess that the one package that came up in the first > > revdep-rebuild is now pulling in the others in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Sobey
> Hey Guys, > > I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a > new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo > shows: Just build a stock (gentoo-sources) kernel on the same machine, and the vmx flag is there, along with a whole load of oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 2:42:23 PM, Paul wrote: > Hey Guys, > I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a > new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo > shows: > livecd ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : Ge

[gentoo-user] Confused - vmx cpuflag missing

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Sobey
Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a hypervisor running. I've installed Gentoo 64bit on a new(ish) HP XW6400. When booted with the minimal install CD, /proc/cpuinfo shows: livecd ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2008 04:48:09 -0500, »Q« wrote: > Is there some way of telling what the changes are before committing? > I've always waited for the migration guide to be published, since the > nested profile info tends to confuse me, heh. Change profile Run emerge -uavDN world if like changes

[gentoo-user] Installing grub in RAID 1 system

2008-05-22 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, following http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID I'm doing next: If you are using a RAID 1 mirror disk system, you will want to install grub on all the disks in the system, so that when one disk fails, you are still able to boot. The find command above will list the di

[gentoo-user] Re: Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread »Q«
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no > problems, but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE > flags, Is there some way of telling what the changes are before committing? I've always wa

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Neil, thanks for help. You gave me answers on all my questions :) Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:11:41 PM, Neil wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> > I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no >> > problems, >> >> but then you switched

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > > I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no > > problems, > > but then you switched back to 2007? No, I'm still running 2008.0. > > but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so > > ins

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:27:31 AM, Neil wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:43 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: >> I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which >> profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should >> still use 2007? > I've been running wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:18:43 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which > profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should > still use 2007? I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no problem

[gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?

2008-05-22 Thread Sergey Kobzar
I have a new laptop and want install Gentoo on it but not sure which profile to use. Is 2008.0 beta 2 stable enough for desktop or I should still use 2007? Sorry for silly question and thanks :) -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list