Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture for Pentium4 Prescott-2M

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Statux, Thanks! === On Monday 18 December 2006 02:44, Statux wrote: === ... >If you want to use EM64T, it's amd64 and -march=nocona in the CFLAGS. But If I don't want to use EMT64 but have CPU with EM64T (say, it is Pentium D) - am I forced to use 'amd64' artch? Or - can I use 'x86' with

Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture for Pentium4 Prescott-2M

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 09:58, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Statux, > > Thanks! > > === On Monday 18 December 2006 02:44, Statux wrote: === > ... > > >If you want to use EM64T, it's amd64 and -march=nocona in the > > CFLAGS. > > But If I don't want to use EMT64 but have CPU with EM64T (say,

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:48:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Since .config contains "# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set" I do believe I > > know the cause of _this_ problem. Just to be sure, my next (newbie) > > question is "Is bridged networking the the right option to choose?" > > I'm not sure...I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-18 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the > complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking > Javascript, which is false). It's >at http://www.youtube.com/watc

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI 1900 & ati drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi, for starters: what do your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log look like? What version of ati-drivers do you use? Have you tried another version? -Roman > Hello, > > I first set the card up using the radeon open source drivers. The sceen > clarity > was not very good. The AMD64 sys

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 06:34, David Relson wrote: > Running insmod for vmmon and vmnet gets them installed and output > from "/etc/init.d/vmware start" indicated success.  However > running ".../vmware status" immediately afterwards says vmware > has stopped.  Looking at dmesg I suspect the fol

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS finds printer disconnected.

2006-12-18 Thread Carl Adams
Neil Bothwick wrote > What does "ls -l /dev/usb/lp0" show? Answer: ls: /dev/usb/lp0: No such file or directory Hmm! Well done, Neil. Checked in the /dev/ directory and sure enough, there is no /dev/usb but there is /dev/bus/usb/ Tried ls /dev/bus/usb/lp0 and /dev/bus/usb/004/lp0 all with th

[gentoo-user] using stage4 conveniently

2006-12-18 Thread Ralf Stephan
Hello, I'm using Reto Glauser's mkstage4 script for backup. Reading in the 'Small Footprint Gentoo USB HOWTO' about a stage4 made me ask myself: Is it possible to quickly/comfortably put the backup stage4 on a USB Stick, such that it behaves just like the same system just backed up while the prima

[gentoo-user] Squirrelmail in a new slot?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
I have squirrelmail-1.4.8 installed and working on my server, and portage wants to install 1.4.9a in a new slot. How will the slots work in this context? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I personally still love Gentoo. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Squirrelmail in a new slot?

2006-12-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Grant wrote: I have squirrelmail-1.4.8 installed and working on my server, and portage wants to install 1.4.9a in a new slot. How will the slots work in this context? - Grant Hi, Just checked and don't see any SLOTS in squirrelmail, even a SLOT var. HTH.Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Squirrelmail in a new slot?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:44:45 -0800, Grant wrote: > I have squirrelmail-1.4.8 installed and working on my server, and > portage wants to install 1.4.9a in a new slot. How will the slots > work in this context? Do you have the vhosts USE flag set? If so, after emerging the new version you'll have

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI 1900 & ati drivers

2006-12-18 Thread James
Roman Zilka gvid.cz> writes: > for starters: what do your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log > look like? What version of ati-drivers do you use? Have you tried > another version? Hello Roman, The last few lines of the log file: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) fglrx(0): === [atidd

Re: [gentoo-user] Squirrelmail in a new slot?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
On 12/18/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:44:45 -0800, Grant wrote: > I have squirrelmail-1.4.8 installed and working on my server, and > portage wants to install 1.4.9a in a new slot. How will the slots > work in this context? Do you have the vhosts USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote: > I > personally still love Gentoo. What's the problem then? :) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpmSykqzP83h.pgp Descripti

[gentoo-user] Working: Re: ATI 1900 & ati drivers

2006-12-18 Thread james
Roman Zilka gvid.cz> writes: Hello Roman, I changed the default color depth from 16 to 24; xorg now works. Bzflag will not run, but, with all of the changes, I'm just going to recompile bzflag and see what that does. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
> I > personally still love Gentoo. What's the problem then? :) bugs.gentoo.org :) Do you think Gentoo is waning? Is Debian the only similar distro out there? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote: > > I > > personally still love Gentoo. > > What's the problem then? :) Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in our general knowledge of Linux all thanks to the gentoo user guides/howto(s) and the time spent instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
I just stepped back into gentoo after a long too long jump to ubuntu. I had no time to do all the tinkering of things that is required in gentoo sometimes. My ability to do things deminished greatly!. I am back in the gentoo seat to remember long lost skills. I totally did not like the livecd i

RE: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? - possibly OT, but not really

2006-12-18 Thread McCaffrey, Ennis
I was wondering about that, how would you volunteer to assist with porting new software to the portage tree? I see that some software packages I would like to install (RT, dotProject) are masked. So I was wondering if anybody needed some assistance maintaining the ports, or if maybe/probab

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote: > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo. there are always several phases in the life of a distri. Beginning, when it becomes '

RE: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? - possibly OT, but not really

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> I was wondering about that, how would you volunteer to assist with > porting new software to the portage tree? > > I see that some software packages I would like to install (RT, > dotProject) are masked. > > So I was wondering if anybody needed some assistance maintaining the > ports, or if may

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 19:17, Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > I just stepped back into gentoo after a long too long jump to ubuntu. > I had no time to do all the tinkering of things that is required in > gentoo sometimes.  My ability to do things deminished greatly!.  I am > back in the gentoo seat

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 18 December 2006 15:47, Grant wrote: > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo. Once again I'll refer to the blog [1] of kloeri, Lead of the Gentoo Developer Relatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
> I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo. Once again I'll refer to the blog [1] of kloeri, Lead of the Gentoo Developer Relations project (devrel) and a member of the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
> I just stepped back into gentoo after a long too long jump to ubuntu. > I had no time to do all the tinkering of things that is required in > gentoo sometimes. My ability to do things deminished greatly!. I am > back in the gentoo seat to remember long lost skills. I totally did > not like the l

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
> I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo. there are always several phases in the life of a distri. Beginning, when it becomes 'cool' and a sudden surge in users, some time o

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:24, Grant wrote: > I'm thinking this over a bit more, and it seems like the best thing > for Gentoo (or any distro) is a lot of users. More users must mean > more active developers, and more active developers must mean an > increased rate of growth for the software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 12/18/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > > personally still love Gentoo. > > there are always several phases in the life of a distri. > > Beginning, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
+1 You have stealed my thoughts! All I can add, I'd want to Gentoo aim be a better Gentoo :-) === On Monday 18 December 2006 22:12, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: === ... I don't think the goal of Gentoo was to become a Desktop Distro for the people migrating from M$ land. I don't care about ea

[gentoo-user] OT - Need driver for...

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had a new piece of hardware installed this morning, and I need to know what I need to modprobe/alter kernel config for to use the new hardware: 05:01.0 Communication controller: Motorola Wildcard X100P Subsystem: Motorola Unknown device Flags: bus master, medium devsel, late

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Grant
> > > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > > > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > > > personally still love Gentoo. > > > > there are always several phases in the life of a distri. > > > > Beginning, when it becomes 'cool' and a sudden s

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA problems after UDEV-103 upgrade [SOLVED]

2006-12-18 Thread Arend von der Lieth
Hi Mark, Mark Knecht wrote: > That appears to be a testing version of udev. Do you always run testing? > > As for the mixer message please try removing /etc/asound.state and > then restarting Alsa. You will probably need to set mixer levels using > alsamixer or whatever mixer is appropriate for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Brandon Edens
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:58:26AM -0800, Grant wrote: > Every user does add to the distro because they make it more popular, > and, generally, a more popular distro will have more active developers > than an unpopular distro. Active developers make the distro. For > example, I submitted this b

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
061219 Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:24, Grant wrote: >> It seems like the best thing for Gentoo is a lot of users. >> More users must mean more active developers >> and an increased rate of growth for the software. > Methinks, Gentoo should stay focused. > I don't think th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Roman Naumann
> > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:24, Grant wrote: > >> It seems like the best thing for Gentoo is a lot of users. > >> More users must mean more active developers > >> and an increased rate of growth for the software. > > > > Methinks, Gentoo should stay focused. > > I don't think the goal of Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA problems after UDEV-103 upgrade [SOLVED]

2006-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/06, Arend von der Lieth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mark, Mark Knecht wrote: > That appears to be a testing version of udev. Do you always run testing? > > As for the mixer message please try removing /etc/asound.state and > then restarting Alsa. You will probably need to set mixer le

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 18 December 2006 19:54, Grant wrote: > > > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > > > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > > > personally still love Gentoo. > > > > there are always several phases in the life of a distri. > > > > Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Walker
Roman Naumann wrote: I find Sabayon linux very useful, it offers a complete pre-installation, you can modify it afterwards. The perfect os with a rapid beginning. :-) Sabayon creates such a horribly broken system it takes hours for an experienced Gentoo user to sort out a simple "emerge -uavD

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Layer burn program

2006-12-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:28, Luigi Pinna wrote: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 6: Couldn't resolve host 'subkeys.pgp.net' > Hi! > How can I burn a 8.5 GByte iso? I tried with k3b and I receive an error > and growisofs failed at 99.9% with input/output error. > I searched in portage but I didn't f

[gentoo-user] Hotel WiFi does not like my Gentoo

2006-12-18 Thread Mick
This is what I am getting: = # iwconfig eth0 no wireless extensions. lono wireless extensions. dummy0no wireless extensions. wmaster0 IEEE 802.11g Frequency:2.437 GHz RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS finds printer disconnected.

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:49:56 +1000, Carl Adams wrote: > > What does "ls -l /dev/usb/lp0" show? > ls: /dev/usb/lp0: No such file or directory Run "tail -f /var/log/messages" and connect the printer. the output should tell you where the printer appears, then you can change the CUPS config acco

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:26:07 -0500, Brandon Edens wrote: > As for your bug, I guess I would have liked to have typed, > $ equery comments mod_perl > and seen information about that bug you posted. emerge gentoo-bugger bugger --keyword mod_perl bugger --show 157239 -- Neil Bothwick With 5 bill

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Bryan Østergaard
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:54:06AM -0800, Grant wrote: > >> I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > >> popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > >> personally still love Gentoo. > > > >there are always several phases in the life of a distri. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:07:54 +0100, Roman Naumann wrote: > People who're new to Linux, especially naturally unexperienced teens > will have a rough time if they try gentoo linux. Even if they learn > fast.. especially the fact that you need a whole day to have a running > installation kills motiva

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:54:06 -0800, Grant wrote: > I'm thinking this over a bit more, and it seems like the best thing > for Gentoo (or any distro) is a lot of users. More users must mean > more active developers, and more active developers must mean an > increased rate of growth for the software

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:58:26 -0800, Grant wrote: > Every user does add to the distro because they make it more popular, > and, generally, a more popular distro will have more active developers > than an unpopular distro. It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more developer

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:51 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the > > complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking > > Jav

[gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before

2006-12-18 Thread Jakob
Hi all, I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600). The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the difference between my old desktop and my new laptop. I got about

Re: [gentoo-user] Hotel WiFi does not like my Gentoo

2006-12-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mick wrote: > # iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 Scan completed : > Cell 01 - Address: 00:0C:20:03:3B:C5 > ESSID:"The Cairngorm Hotel" > Mode:Master > Frequency:2.437 GHz > Encryption key:off >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before

2006-12-18 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 9:42, Jakob wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo > 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600). > The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I > installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the differ

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:27 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 19:54, Grant wrote: > > I'm thinking this over a bit more, and it seems like the best thing > > for Gentoo (or any distro) is a lot of users. More users must mean > > more active developers, and more acti

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 18/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:37:10PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:58:26 -0800, Grant wrote: > > It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more > developers should be a better distro, and should have m

[gentoo-user] OT - Need more asterisk help

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I think I have asterisk set up correctly, but it won't answer the phone. I have a Motorolola X100P card. ztcfg outputs the correct stuff: camille asterisk # ztcfg -vv Zaptel Configuration == Channel map: Channel 01: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 01) 1 channels configur

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
061218 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Do we really need yet another easy to use distro? > Gentoo is for those who want maximum control over their systems > and are prepared to make the effort to achieve this. Ubuntu & ilk are supermarkets, where crowds shop for branded groceries. Gentoo is a garden, where

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-18 Thread Korthrun
On 12/18/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:51 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the > > complaint my f

Re: [gentoo-user] [O.T] photomosaic

2006-12-18 Thread Francisco Ares
A friend of mine built this Python script, I'm sure he doesn't mind ;) #!/usr/bin/env python # by Andre Bocchini import sys import os import string import getopt import Image import ImageFilter import ImageStat def usage(): """ Displays information on how to use the program. """ print

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Daryl Mathison
All, This thread caused me to go back to the website and reread the social contract that Gentoo has posted. The contract lists a core set of values that the distribution keeps as a whole. I feel that Gentoo is healthy based on this regard. Of course, there are other things to factor but

[gentoo-user] bzflag

2006-12-18 Thread James
Hello, I have bzflag working on several systems(yea, it's the new rage around the office and with the kids in the hood). But, for some reason it just dies on a amd64 with an ATI-1900 XT card. I just got the ati-drivers happy on this system. When I fire up bzflag, it takes control of the screen fo

[gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions

2006-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm doing updates to my dad's Gentoo machine 350 miles away. It pretty much hasn't been touched in about a year as per his request. However we agreed it was time to move forward so I've done the gcc-4.1.1 upgrade and rebuilt the machine completely. At the command line from here things look l

Re: [gentoo-user] bzflag

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 December 19 Tuesday 01:37:50 AM + +, James wrote: > I have bzflag working on several systems(yea, it's the new rage > around the office and with the kids in the hood). > > But, for some reason it just dies on a amd64 with an ATI-1900 XT > card. I just got the ati-drivers happy o

[gentoo-user] Re: bzflag

2006-12-18 Thread James
Justin Findlay jfindlay.us> writes: > > But, for some reason it just dies on a amd64 with an ATI-1900 XT > > card. I just got the ati-drivers happy on this system. When I fire > > up bzflag, it takes control of the screen for a fraction of a second. > Have you made sure you enabled/disabled the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 18 December 2006 23:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:26:07 -0500, Brandon Edens wrote: > > As for your bug, I guess I would have liked to have typed, > > $ equery comments mod_perl > > and seen information about that bug you posted. > > emerge gentoo-bugger > bugger --key

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions

2006-12-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > > test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( > \ > echo; \ > echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ >

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions

2006-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 12/18/06, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 20:39, Mark Knecht wrote: > > test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( > \ > echo; \ > echo " ERROR: Ker

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-legacy-drivers problems/questions

2006-12-18 Thread Randy Barlow
On Monday 18 December 2006 21:52, Mark Knecht wrote: >The commands are unclear to me in the sense that I may need to > rebuild the kernel, or not, after running them. I cannot tell. Any > idea? Well, before running make oldconfig, you should copy the .config file from the kernel you used just

Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture for Pentium4 Prescott-2M

2006-12-18 Thread Statux
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:58 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Statux, > > Thanks! > > === On Monday 18 December 2006 02:44, Statux wrote: === > ... > >If you want to use EM64T, it's amd64 and -march=nocona in the CFLAGS. > > But If I don't want to use EMT64 but have CPU with EM64T (say, it

Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture for Pentium4 Prescott-2M

2006-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 December 2006 21:44, Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] WHAT IS Gentoo architecture forPentium4 Prescott-2M': > However, I had always been told to not use x86_64 (CHOST) unless it was > an Itanium. (Can anyone else add to this?). You're just pl

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS finds printer disconnected.

2006-12-18 Thread Dale
Arend von der Lieth wrote: > Hi Carl, > > I do not know if that helps, but I had a similar problem with my parallel > printer recently (after upgrading to udev-103). I could solve the problem by > directly integrating the (important) corresponding parts of the kernel > (according to: http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need driver for...

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 21:47, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I had a new piece of hardware installed this morning, and I need to > know what I need to modprobe/alter kernel config for to use the new > hardware: > > 05:01.0 Communication controller: Motorola Wildcard X100P > Subsystem: Motoro

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:35, Grant wrote: > Thanks for everyone's input thus far.  I've been meaning to build and > maintain an ebuild for interchange (icdevgroup.org) for a while now. > I've never built an ebuild before, my programming skills are limited, > and at least two other developers h

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 December 2006 00:23, Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Gentoo started with the stated goal of providing a metadistribution. > This basically means providing the best possible foundation for others > to tinker with any way they like. Be it building embedded applications, > making the next 'Ubuntu' or

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:54, Grant wrote: > I believe the great benefit of Gentoo is its flexibility, and > flexibility is like a meta-benefit because it makes possible any > other benefit.  What do you think makes Ubuntu the distro of the > moment?  Is it ease-of-use?  If Gentoo focused more