Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-15 Thread Matthias Guede
Ryan Tandy wrote: Jed R. Mallen wrote: hello, i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to my gentoo box, install packages i want but make it output links of the n

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:00 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Removing strict from FEATURES should stop you seeing these AFAIR. > > I doubt it. All it contains right now is 'buildpkg'. Are you sure? What does "emerge --info | grep FEAT" say? strict is enabled by default. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user][FIXED] net.ppp0 status: inactive

2006-08-15 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Upgraded to sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r2 today (and changed pppoe config according to /etc/conf.d/net.example) While it works net.ppp0 status is always inactive so the services depending on net.ppp0 never start: WARNING: ntpd is scheduled to start when net.ppp0 has started. WARNING: snort.ppp0

[gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, I've just got myself a new G7 to replace my older MX1000. The problem is that I can't get the G7 to work at all. Xorg does seem to recognize the G7 but I can't get any cursor movement at all. I've tried the "evdev" and "mouse" protocols, but to no avail. I am currently running with both mice

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap not starting!

2006-08-15 Thread Naga
On Monday 14 August 2006 18:44, kashani wrote: > Martin Richardson wrote: > > G'Dayy all, > > after an upgrade of baselayout, I noticed that courier-imap and > > courier-imap-ssl was not starting from the init script. I have tracked it > > down to the init script, as this script points to > > /

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-15 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 07:54, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking > > > at a new fresh crop. Am I then to unde

[gentoo-user] kdelibs / API doc

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I emerge kdedelibs with the "doc" USEFLAG but can't find the documentation anywhere. It did work with qt. What am I missing? Of course, I could unpack the kdelibs tarball in my home directory and create the documentation manually, but isn"t there an automatic way of doing it? Uwe --

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 13:27, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Everything that might be interessting for you is in > the ebuild, in the 'einfo' block. Or 'ewarn' or 'eerror' or 'elog'. And in the case of an eerror the emerge will die too. All of those four have an asterisk '*' in front of it whe

[gentoo-user] Incompatibility of gentoo 2006

2006-08-15 Thread Shain Lee
Hi , What models of servers are currently supported for gentoo 2006 version . Is that version , perfect with the Servers ?Few days back i tried to install gentoo 2006 , for my DELL Optiplex 170L machine .( my development pc ). It wont come into the installation GUI , it failed.as i guesed , there w

Re: [gentoo-user] Incompatibility of gentoo 2006

2006-08-15 Thread Roy Wright
Shain Lee wrote: > Hi , > > What models of servers are currently supported for gentoo 2006 version . Is > that version , perfect with the Servers ? > > Few days back i tried to install gentoo 2006 , for my DELL Optiplex 170L > machine .( my development pc ). It wont come into the installation GU

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] kpathsea(latex) search path problem

2006-08-15 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Hi again, I finally solved this issue (or at least I found an acceptable workaround). So, if anyone is facing this same problem you must edit /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf so it looks like this: %TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf ... % TEXMFVAR, where texconfig stores variable runtime data. % With teTeX-3.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-15 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Luigi Pinna wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:41, lunedì 14 agosto 2006, Rafael Barrera Oro ha scritto: Hello everyone, i installed a Gentoo AMD64 2006.0 with a LiveCD using the precompiled modular kde-meta 3.4.3 packages and (though my xorg is not modular). The t

[gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Pete Pardoe
Hi AllHavinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is producing the following error.  I have tried putting it in package.keywords with the following ~x86, ~* and *  and none of them worked.  Any advice? ~~~

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:42 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote: > Hi All > > Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is producing > the following error. I have tried putting it in package.keywords with > the following ~x86, ~* and * and none of them worked. Any advice? use the "-*" ke

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs / API doc

2006-08-15 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Hi folks, > > I emerge kdedelibs with the "doc" USEFLAG but can't find the documentation > anywhere. It did work with qt. What am I missing? > > Of course, I could unpack the kdelibs tarball in my home directory and create > the documentatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/15/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:00 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Removing strict from FEATURES should stop you seeing these AFAIR. > > I doubt it. All it contains right now is 'buildpkg'. Are you sure? What does "emerge --info | grep FEAT" say?

Re: [gentoo-user] Incompatibility of gentoo 2006

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/15/06, Shain Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi , What models of servers are currently supported for gentoo 2006 version . Is that version , perfect with the Servers ? Anything directly or indirectly supported by Linux itself should work with Gentoo, after all, its linux. There's no such t

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/15/06, Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: > Jed R. Mallen wrote: >> hello, >> >> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. >> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. >> >> can i download the portage tree updates at the office, copy it to m

[gentoo-user] Re: Incompatibility of gentoo 2006

2006-08-15 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga gmail.com> writes: > The GUI (as for "Gentoo Installer") is not perfect (yet). Boy, that's showing some restraint.. Of my (3) installs using LiveCD 2006.0, all three had to be completed manually, Lots of wasted time using LiveCD 2006.0. This was a result of scant-to-nil doc

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Pete Pardoe
Thanks Alan!That fixed it.  I never saw that one in the Gentoo handbook or in the emerge or portage man pages.PeteOn 8/15/06, Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:42 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote:> Hi All>> Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is produc

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs / API doc

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 August 2006 15:30, Alan Mckinnon wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I emerge kdedelibs with the "doc" USEFLAG but can't find the > > documentation anywhere. It did work with qt. What am I missing? > > > > Of course, I could unpack the kdelibs ta

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Alan Mckinnon
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:23 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote: > Thanks Alan! > > That fixed it. I never saw that one in the Gentoo handbook or in the > emerge or portage man pages. That's because it's buried deep :-) It's in man 5 portage under the section 'package.keywords' in the 'additional note'. T

[gentoo-user] New motherboard with good ACPI?

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
Hi there, I have had this computer case for a while now, its empty and Ive always wanted to make a nice Desktop PC for media and stuff. Of course it will have Gentoo and probably Windows (to start with anyways) but my question: Is there a way to _guarantee_ a motherboard/other component will do sus

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Neil Isaac
On 8/15/06, Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've just got myself a new G7 to replace my older MX1000. The problem is that I can't get the G7 to work at all. Xorg does seem to recognize the G7 but I can't get any cursor movement at all. I've tried the "evdev" and "mouse" protocols, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
On 8/15/06, Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've just got myself a new G7 to replace my older MX1000. The problem is that I can't get the G7 to work at all. Xorg does seem to recognize the G7 but I can't get any cursor movement at all. I've tried the "evdev" and "mouse" protocols, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping"

[gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connection. (Of course, it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
I like my Vantec Nexstar 3 enclosure. Try for one of them, they are cheap, flexible in capacity and nice to look at. Works in Gentoo just as easily as a Jumpdrive. ~Ian  On 8/15/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data.I a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:53 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. > I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably > around 300G so I have room to grow). If you're in US, and there's a Fry's store nearby

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like my Vantec Nexstar 3 enclosure. Try for one of them, they are cheap, flexible in capacity and nice to look at. Works in Gentoo just as easily as a Jumpdrive. ~Ian If you are looking to buy the drive and enclosure separately, I too can re

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, since SATA does not support DMA I would be interested in other ways to tune the SATA interface. Huh? SATA _does_ support DMA, and it is always enabled. Does someone knows some working things to do for tuning the SATA inte

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:08:29AM -0700, Penguin Lover Ow Mun Heng squawked: > > Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any offered by brands that I > > know (like I mentioend above, Maxtor/Seagate/Buffalo/etc. all have > > Why not? If you want a cheap one, a 2.5in one selling in > Surpluscomput

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
On 8/15/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:08:29AM -0700, Penguin Lover Ow Mun Heng squawked:> >   Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any offered by brands that I > >   know (like I mentioend above, Maxtor/Seagate/Buffalo/etc. all have>> Why not? If you want a c

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1

2006-08-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Pete Pardoe wrote: > Hi All > > Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is producing the > following error. I have tried putting it in package.keywords with the > following ~x86, ~* and * and none of them worked. Any advice? > > ~~~

[gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
The subject kind of says it all, really. With the exception of OpenOffice, pretty much every Java app I start can take like 5-7 minutes to LOAD! Once its up it runs totally up to speed, but this is on a 3.2GHz Pentium 4. There should be no excuse for this. :) Im not at home right now so I cantt act

[gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
Hi there, My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I was happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this card 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the wiki instructions on getting this card to work but they are quite cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Neil Isaac
On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I was happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give this card 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Anyway, I tried the wiki instructi

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
It makes me very happy that the open source ones (once they work.) fully support my card. ~Ian  On 8/15/06, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Kabeary wrote:> Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont give> this card 3d acceleration, which it is totally capable of. Sad state of aff

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Julien Cabillot
I have Xorg7.1 & ati-drivers, that's work fine.On 8/15/06, Neil Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there,> My laptop has a Radeon 9100. Toshiba advertised a 9000 so at the time I was> happy. Then I realized that the proprietary ATi drivers dont

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
I dont want the ATi ones though, they dont give my card 3d acceleration. ~Ian   PS> Sadly enough, I found out they dont do 3D accel. AFTER I installed them. :)  On 8/15/06, Julien Cabillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Xorg7.1 & ati-drivers, that's work fine. On 8/15/06, Neil Isaac <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Dale
Ian Kabeary wrote: > The subject kind of says it all, really. > With the exception of OpenOffice, pretty much every Java app I start > can take like 5-7 minutes to LOAD! Once its up it runs totally up to > speed, but this is on a 3.2GHz Pentium 4. There should be no excuse > for this. :) Im not at

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1 by the way). What I end up with is that it cant find the drivers because the version of the radeon driver version doesn't match the server version or something? I have no idea what that means Well, maybe y

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I have re emerged kxkb successfully but there are still no > keyboard layouts available in the KDE control center regional > settings. Any ideas? Did you relogin to KDE? If you did, and it's still not there, which Xorg are you using? Post the output of 'emerge -pv xo

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The subject kind of says it all, really. With the exception of OpenOffice, pretty much every Java app I start can take like 5-7 minutes to LOAD! Once its up it runs totally up to speed, but this is on a 3.2GHz Pentium 4. What jdk/jre did you i

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard layouts missing

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have re emerged kxkb successfully but there are still no keyboard layouts available in the KDE control center regional settings. Any ideas? Do you see the files under /usr/lib/X11/xkb? An strace of kcontrol on my system shows that KDE

[gentoo-user] Securing Apache2

2006-08-15 Thread James
Hello, I've got (2.0.58-r2) installed and running. It displays a simple html web page just fine. It been quite a few years since I've been tagged with managing a web server... Anyway, I've found lots of URLs, some listed at the end of this message. I've also looked in /usr/portage/net-www and n

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Harold
Willie Wong wrote: Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Harold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used MSI. I'm shopping for a board, too but for AMD processor and my choices are 1. Gigabyte first 2. Asus next - I used Asus some years ago and still have one dual PIII 933 in service. However, their quality on new and exchange went bad so I stopped using

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
I can for sure get the error message for you in a few hours. Im away from home (and my laptop for that matter) right now. Thanks for the reply though! ~Ian  On 8/15/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> should do, I started X. (I have 7.1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The subject kind of says it all, really. > With the exception of OpenOffice, pretty much every Java app I start > can take like 5-7 minutes to LOAD! Once its up it runs totally up to > speed, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Kabeary
What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel? Thanks! ~Ian  On 8/15/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> The subject kind of says it all, really.> With the exception of OpenOffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:44, Ian Kabeary wrote: > What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel? > Thanks! > ~Ian Ah, you're gonna make me boot up my laptop and find out, eh? No problem. I should probably try to make a how-to for this on the Gentoo wiki... what do you think?

[gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread darren kirby
I just realized my Gentoo has no 'at' I searched but couldn't find as google will not consider less than 3 char words and equery only works on installed apps. Web interface to portage didn't reveal it either. Where the heck is at at? I would think it was one of the coreutils...wrongly it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Neil Isaac
On 8/15/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:44, Ian Kabeary wrote: > What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel? > Thanks! > ~Ian Ah, you're gonna make me boot up my laptop and find out, eh? No problem. I should probably try to make a how-

Re: [gentoo-user] Video Card of Death! (Yes its on topic.)

2006-08-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 18:29, Ian Kabeary wrote: > I can for sure get the error message for you in a few hours. > Im away from home (and my laptop for that matter) right now. > Thanks for the reply though! > ~Ian > > On 8/15/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:32:03PM -0700, Penguin Lover darren kirby squawked: > Where the heck is at at? Where you'd expect :) [07:42 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs atd [ Searching for file(s) atd in *... ] sys-process/at-3.1.8-r11 (/etc/init.d/atd) sys-process/at-3.1.8-r11 (/usr/sbin/atd) though,

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 01:32, darren kirby wrote: > I just realized my Gentoo has no 'at' > > I searched but couldn't find as google will not consider less than 3 char > words and equery only works on installed apps. Web interface to portage > didn't reveal it either. > > Where the heck is at

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Willie Wong: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:32:03PM -0700, Penguin Lover darren kirby squawked: > > Where the heck is at at? > > Where you'd expect :) > > [07:42 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs atd > [ Searching for file(s) atd in *... ] > sys-process/at-3.1.8-r11 (/etc/init.d/atd) > sys-proce

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Bo Ørsted Andresen: > > $ eix -e at > * sys-process/at > Available versions: 3.1.8-r11 3.1.8-r12 > Installed: none > Homepage: > ftp://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot/appl/at/ Description: > Queues jobs for later execution > > In t

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks guys! Turns out it was user error as much as anything. My son was setting up the Windows server using Broodwar and UDP. I was running, at the time, an install from the Broodwar CD for the Linux box. That install showed only IPX as an option for joining so it didn't work, as expected. Once I

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Justin Findlay
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:44:14PM -0600, Ian Kabeary wrote: >What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel? I've seen it in the gnome menu somewhere under preferences or administration or something like that (the gnome menu layout tends to change sometimes). On my system it's

[gentoo-user] powersave

2006-08-15 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Anone having trouble with powersave? It didn't recogggnize I had a battery installed after the last upgrade, now was downgraded via portage, and it won't start now. I can't find any error messages.. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by

[gentoo-user] booting slave; specify which device and how?

2006-08-15 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
How do I know which device to specify? This is the error message I get on boot: Activating udev Determining root device !! Block device /dev/hda4 is not a valid root device... !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...

Re: [gentoo-user] booting slave; specify which device and how?

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/15/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are two hard drives. The slave has gentoo and win2k. GRUB seems to work fine, windows boots fine. IDE (or rather PATA now) devices on linux are named in order of the channel then master/slave device, so: hda: master on first PATA chan

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Collins Richey
On 8/15/06, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential

Re: [gentoo-user] booting slave; specify which device and how?

2006-08-15 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/15/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/15/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two hard drives. The slave has gentoo and win2k. GRUB > seems to work fine, windows boots fine. IDE (or rather PATA now) devices on linux are named in order of the channel then m

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?

2006-08-15 Thread Richard Fish
Moving this back to gentoo-user, as I accidentally replied off list. Meino, please don't CC me directly on replies. I'll read them on the list... On 8/15/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WHen doing things, which mixes higher CPU-loads with massive hd > > utilization

Re: [gentoo-user] booting slave; specify which device and how?

2006-08-15 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 8/16/06, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat grub.conf -n 1 default 0 2 timeout 30 3 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz 4 title=Gentoo Linux 5 root (hd0,1) 6 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 ini

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ?

2006-08-15 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA tuning ? Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:47:20 -0700 > Moving this back to gentoo-user, as I accidentally replied off list. > > Meino, please don't CC me directly on replies. I'll read them on the list... ...sorry...my fault..

[gentoo-user] Accidently removed gcc-lib

2006-08-15 Thread Mine GO BOOM
My motherboard on my Gentoo machine died, so I upgraded the system to a much more powerful machine I had laying around. Figuring now that I can actually compile things faster (went from a low-grade Via CPU to AMD 1700+), I went around and figured it was time to clean up some stuff. After removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?

2006-08-15 Thread Donnie Berkholz
darren kirby wrote: I just realized my Gentoo has no 'at' I searched but couldn't find as google will not consider less than 3 char words and equery only works on installed apps. Web interface to portage didn't reveal it either. Where the heck is at at? I would think it was one of the coreu

[gentoo-user] nice install page

2006-08-15 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
Just want to say that I appreciate the screenshots at: -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list