Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is > doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer? > Yes. Under - Device Driver --> Graphics support --> Select VESA VGA graphics support The

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 11/18/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox andfollow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I recallthe path correctly).  I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generat

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:58 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generated > that the version was wrong. Maybe I'll try again, and just install it > anyway. > I wonder if the HAL use flag needs to be set to use the d

Re: [gentoo-user] udev not getting unmounted at shutdown/reboot

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, abhay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > A few days ago my system hung and I had to do a reboot by pressing the power > button. Since then I get the following message while shutdown/reboots > > Remounting remaining filesystems readonly [!!] > umount : udev busy - remounted read-on

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 17:19 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: > Did it. Upon reboot, I had /dev/external_hd and /dev/external_hd1, but > only /dev/plextor_memstick (i.e., no mountable /dev/plextor_memstick1). > I unplugged the stick and turned off the HD case. I plugged back the > stick. Now /

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 22:11 schrieb ext Richard Fish: > Hmm, do you RC_DEVICE_TARBALL set in /etc/conf.d/rc? That would cause > something like this, and I recommend setting it to "no" for a pure > udev setup. Then boot into LiveCD, mount your systems root fs (i.e. to /mnt) and delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 November 2005 02:00, James wrote: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on > > bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of > > the cdrom_id > > Ok I'll file the bug report. > Any recommendations on a DVDr

[gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?

2005-11-17 Thread michael
I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone is using it by: ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 Is there a utility or other better way I can discover which process, or better, which program, is

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