Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: > I've set up my desktop machine using LVM over software raid, and > although I like it I'm getting weary of the complication of the setup > for a simple desktop system. What I would like to do is get the same > install (packages, config files, etc) as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 June 2007, b.n. wrote: > Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy > graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but > nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. > > I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I > didn't feel

[gentoo-user] Activate russian layout

2007-06-05 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm running gentoo with a US keyboard layout. However i would like to add also a russian layout (with cyrillic fonts), to be used either with the console and inside X. First of all i've tried to "Enable keyboard layouts" with KDE, but when i try to write something with this enabled i've

Re: [gentoo-user] Activate russian layout

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 10:04 schrieb Marco Calviani: > Hi list, > i'm running gentoo with a US keyboard layout. However i would like > to add also a russian layout (with cyrillic fonts), to be used either > with the console and inside X. First of all i've tried to "Enable > keyboard layouts" wi

RE: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Florian Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:53 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System > > > Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby: > > quoth the Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 23:28 schrieb darren kirby: > quoth the Randy Barlow: > > One more question - I'd like to install Gentoo on a very old and small > > system that doesn't have a CD-ROM, or even an IDE cable that can connect > > two drives. Can I put the harddrive from that system on my normal

Re: [gentoo-user] Activate russian layout

2007-06-05 Thread vladimir
On 6/5/07, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, i'm running gentoo with a US keyboard layout. However i would like to add also a russian layout (with cyrillic fonts), to be used either with the console and inside X. First of all i've tried to "Enable keyboard layouts" with KDE, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-05 Thread Nick
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:58:45PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven, who's listed as the author at the > end of man fbset, pointed out that since I only have > one video card, I only need one framebuffer, whereas I > had two: ATI and VESA. So I reconfig'd w/o VESA and > removed the v

[gentoo-user] Distcc borkage: Connection reset by peer

2007-06-05 Thread PaulNM
Hi all, Distcc seems to not be working properly on one or all of my 3 systems. I have : Galactica 192.168.1.22 Pentium 2 (Problem system) Robotech 192.168.1.40 Pentium 3 Optimus 192.168.1.80 AMD64 AthlonX2 (crossdev setup) All are Gentoo with distcc installed and configured. Optimus is solel

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007, Denis wrote: > > Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a > > drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and > > organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and > > seeing cover art from amazon.com

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread vladimir
try media-sound/moc - "Music On Console - ncurses interface for playing audio files" -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: IT-решения на базе Linux http://greenmice.info/

[gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

2007-06-05 Thread Platoali
Hi I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard. I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I can create bigger partitions. How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know that softwares like "Partition magick" can do this witho

Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Platoali wrote: > Hi > > I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard. > I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I > can create bigger partitions. > > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know > that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Message at bootup about superblock last write time

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 »Q« wrote: > I based my guess that using local time causes it on the fact that the > system clock is set using the hardware clock (local) a few seconds > after the Superblock last write time is fixed during boot. And it's my > impression that if I wai

Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

2007-06-05 Thread Galevsky
Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php Gal 2007/6/5, Platoali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard. I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I c

[gentoo-user] Re: how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

2007-06-05 Thread Platoali
Thank you very much. On Se shanbe 15 Khordad 1386 15:33, Galevsky wrote: > Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd. > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php > > Gal > > 2007/6/5, Platoali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi > > > > I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partitio

[gentoo-user] AAC RAID Adaptec RAID array. Booting trouble

2007-06-05 Thread sa8o1age
i'm trying to install gentoo on Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company AAR-2610SA. i've made RAID5 array with the 4 sata disks. And i have also 1 IDE disk with the old gentoo. My aim is to get rid of this IDE disk and to install gentoo on whole RAID5 array. so this is it. Ol

[gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread sean
Trying to create a permanent link as such "ln /dev/sr1 /dev/dvd" And it works fine, but when the system is rebooted, link gone. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 darren kirby wrote: > Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very > conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be "i386-pc-linux-gnu". > > There is a kernel config in "Processor family" that says "CyrixIII/Via-C3". >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Platoali wrote: > I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard. > I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I can > create > bigger partitions. > > How can I do this without losing the data in this part

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on systems that support it, it is not required in order to r

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:09:34 -0400 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to create a permanent link as such > "ln /dev/sr1 /dev/dvd" > And it works fine, but when the system is rebooted, link gone. > > What am I doing wrong? low level: You're creating the link on a tmpfs. This is by defi

Re: [gentoo-user] AAC RAID Adaptec RAID array. Booting trouble

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 June 2007, sa8o1age wrote: > >> Booting (initramfs)..switch_root: Bad console '/dev/console' > > Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init You don't have a static /dev/console node in /dev BEFORE udev is mounted there. You'll have to bind-mount / somewhere to get access to

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: > On Tuesday 05 June 2007, sean wrote: > > Trying to create a permanent link as such > > /dev does not exist on a disk, it is created on the fly by udev, so any > hard links you make are never written to persistent storage > > You will need to cr

Re: [gentoo-user] perm link

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:32:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You will need to create a udev rule for this > > Something like: > > # cdrom symlinks and other good cdrom naming > KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*|hd[a-z]|pcd[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", > IMPORT{program}="cdrom_id --export $tempno

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. > > No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl > is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be pref

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-05 Thread maxim wexler
> I would have thought video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in > grub.conf should Yep, that did it. For *all* the consoles > Glad to hear it's mostly working, > > -Nick > Thanks Nick. Did I call you Dale yesterday? Sorry. mw

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. > > > > No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 16:30 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: > > > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. > >

[gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 Again the old philosophy "what I don't understand is invalid". Obviously my cont

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > No need to reinstall, you just need to shuffle some stuff around. But > first, what is your setup? > > Post the results of 'df -h', {pv,vg,lv}display and fdisk -l so I can see > how big etc your partitions and volumes are. Als

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's > maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: > Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 > > Again the old philoso

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:07:42 +0200 Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just as I thought, certain folks had their lessons now it's > maybe worth contributing someting, it starts again: > Critical bugs are simply declared invalid. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180935 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > No need to reinstall, you just need to shuffle some stuff around. > > But first, what is your setup? > > > > Post the results of 'df -h', {pv,vg,lv}display and fdisk -l so I > > can see how big etc your partitions and volumes a

Re: [gentoo-user] AAC RAID Adaptec RAID array. Booting trouble

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:05:56 +0400 sa8o1age <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm trying to install gentoo on Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) Subsystem: > Hewlett-Packard Company AAR-2610SA. i've made RAID5 array with the 4 > sata disks. And i have also 1 IDE disk with the old gentoo. My aim is > to get rid o

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread felix
I see complaints about the bug reporting style, but no mea culpas. I had an experience with gentoo bugs recently which confirms his experience on a smaller level. The apache ebuilds used to recognize USERDIR to override the default "public_html" value. The 2.4 ebuilds discarded that for no reaso

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc borkage: Connection reset by peer

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:15:25 -0400 PaulNM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Distcc seems to not be working properly on one or all of my 3 > systems. I have : > Galactica 192.168.1.22 Pentium 2 (Problem system) > Robotech 192.168.1.40 Pentium 3 > Optimus 192.168.1.80 AMD64 AthlonX2 (cro

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:52:35 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 > > "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:58:31 -0400 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > darren kirby wrote: > > Should be OK as long as the host system is an x86. I would use very > > conservative CFLAGS. Your CHOST will likely need to be > > "i386-pc-lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Message at bootup about superblock last write time

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:25:57 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Despite the message, I haven't encountered any problems. I'm > running an 1999 Dell 450mhz PIII into the ground, but it refuses to > die. Sort of like "a watched kettle never boils", actually "a > backed-up harddrive

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:25:48 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would have thought video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in > > grub.conf should > > Yep, that did it. For *all* the consoles > After all this time, the problem was just having two different frambuffer drivers in t

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix - how to test

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:35:39 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:56 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Well I guess I should have expected it to rather simple to test.

Re: [gentoo-user] Message at bootup about superblock last write time

2007-06-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:25:57 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago, I was troubleshooting serial port modem/ppconfig > problems, and I did a lot of recompiles and reboots. It seems that > every time my system reboots, I get the following message... > > * Checking root file

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, short correction/addition: On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:48:17 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] complicated solutions like e.g. using readlink(1) [...] or just throwing in find's "-L" switch. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Denis
On 6/5/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: alsaplayer? it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same time. Play forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a playlist. I did want to try the alsaplayer, but when I try to emerge it, por

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Peter Weller
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:05:41 +0300 "Stratos Psomadakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O/H Denis έγραψε: > > What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really > > liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off > > portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enoug

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H Denis έγραψε: > On 6/5/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> alsaplayer? >> >> it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same >> time. Play >> forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a >> playlist. > > I did want to try the alsap

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:05:54 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > > Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. > > > > > > > > No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While > > > > nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on > > > > systems that support

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Edgar Contreras
I just downloaded myself and compiled it I couldn't find a replacement On 6/4/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Farrell wrote: > Sounds like a fun project. Have you considered trying to get it to run > without a har drive at all? I bet a server could provide NFS many > times faster than the hard drive... Yeah, old hardware is fun to tinker with :) I got

Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > I filed a bug which was promptly closed > for no good reason, only the bogus answer that the new configuraion > files layout took care of it. I reopened it with a more detailed > description of the problem and included the URL of the apache > documentation which exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed => latex2html pb

2007-06-05 Thread Galevsky
Hi all, I am still facing the problem. I run my box with -doc flag for a while, but had re-emerged system and world with doc flag then disappointed to see that doc compiling for app-emulation/xen-tools still failed. Is there anybody for who xen doc compilation succeeds ? I tried to update la

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Henk Boom
On 04/06/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
Not sure if you will like these, but did you try : - quodlibet, - exaile ? Cheers ! On 6/4/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XM

RE: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid

2007-06-05 Thread burlingk
Ok, my two cents on the matter. I am still new enough to the community to be considered an outsider, so here is an outsider's perspective. I hope not to step on toes, but it will probably happen anyway. First: Cosmetic things, i.e. user interface issues, pretty pictures, and things that effec

[gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it. I suppose that means there's a problem with it, and it's explained in some forum or list that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-05 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really > used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering > with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it. > > I suppose that means there's a problem with it, and it's explain

[gentoo-user] Re: Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-05 Thread Ali Polatel
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yazmış: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really > > used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering > > with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it. > > > > I suppose that mean