Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too > > small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on > > LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually sy

[gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Dani Crisan
Please help me in solving this issue. So iwlist scan eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning. loInterface doesn't support scanning. sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning. wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning. wlan0 Sc

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:42:06 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: > and my wireless is connecting to dlink since it is free. Mine is > baladei-wifi. > > Here are the /etc/conf.d/net > > modules_wlan0=( "dhcp" "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant") > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -c /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Dani Crisan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (...) > modules_wlan0=( "dhcp" "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant") > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" > config_wlan0=("dhcp") > > (...) > > How can I make it to authenticate to my "bala

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Dani Crisan
Thank you for the quick reply. I made what you said and now it still connects to dlink but I'll read the wireless.example. Have a nice day. - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:50:35 PM Subject: Re

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:06:59 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: > I made what you said and now it still connects to dlink but I'll read > the wireless.example. Please don't top-post, it makes conversations difficult to follow and impossible to quote meaningfully. preferred_aps means that it will tr

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Dani Crisan
Hy again, Here is the new /etc/conf.d/net: pre-up(){ ifconfig wlan0 up } modules_wlan0=( "dhcp" "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant") essid_wlan0="any" mode_wlan0="managed" preferred_aps_wlan0="'baladei-wifi' 'dlink'" assciate_order_wlan0="forcepreferedonly" wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supp

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: PLEASE DO NOT TOP-POST > modules_wlan0=( "dhcp" "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant") > essid_wlan0="any" Try setting this to baladei-wifi > mode_wlan0="managed" > preferred_aps_wlan0="'baladei-wifi' 'dlink'" I'm not sure how the init script

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem

2008-03-19 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dani, your configuration file looks ok. To prior one ap more than another Iam using the priority= option in my wpa_supplicant.conf. The second problem, that you're not able to connect to your wpa secured ap, could be triggered by not compiled in g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Dale
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal With regard to? There are a lot of commands in Gentoo. Emerge is a huge one. eix, equery is a couple of others. The most common commands for me are emerge --sync, I actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal With regard to? There are a lot of commands in Gentoo. Emerge is a huge one. eix, equery is a couple of others. The most common commands for me are emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > hi > > can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/19/08, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, man is a good one too. man emerge, man equery, man eix etc etc. > Sort of tells you how to use them, if you speak, Greek. That rhyme? LOL Always a nice thing to remember to new people using Linux, whatever distro it is: man man Regards, Saf

[gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Grant
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/19/08, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Ricardo Saffi Marques < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/19/08, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, man is a good one too. man emerge, man equery, man eix etc etc. > > Sort of tells you how to use them, if you speak, Greek. That > > rhyme? LOL > > > Always

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > hi > > can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Basic commands for what? If Linux in general, google for "bash". Read any of the introductions. If Gentoo-specific stuff, read the manual. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Nami

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi > > How can i create .tbz2 file man tar -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > How can i create .tbz2 file touch .tbz2 *SCNR* Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Grant
> > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > > replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? > > Have you tried to reset your

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > > How can i create .tbz2 file > > Now the real thing: > > man tar > > HTH... > >Dirk > -- > Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 > Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > > How can i create .tbz2 file > > Now the real thing: > > man tar > > HTH... > >Dirk > -- > Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 > Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
3/19/08, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you mean battery out and back in? Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the raw way to do that, hahaha. The idea is for you to change the jumper

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/19/08, Ricardo Saffi Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3/19/08, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do you mean battery out and back in? > > Or that. http://www.trap17.com/index.php/how-reset-bios-guide_t39291.html -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > I mean using quickpkg command How would I know what you mean when you didn't write it? man quickpkg Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemi

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > BTW: if libexpat.so.0 was there before the update and now isn't, > > there's an major bug in expat (either the ebuild or the source). > > There's no bug in expat, the OP is doing an *expat*upgrade*, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > 2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > > How can i create .tbz2 file > > > > Now the real thing: > > > > man tar > > > > HTH... > > > >Dirk > > -- > > Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:28:37 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I mean using quickpg command As long as what you mean and what you ask differ, you will never get the answers you want. Try asking specific questions with enough detail for people to understand what you want. -- Neil Bothwick Top Ox

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:41:52 -0700, Grant wrote: > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power s

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: > 3/19/08, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you mean battery out and back in? > > Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the > power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the > raw

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 8:41:52 am Grant wrote: > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/19/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this is a very certain way to destroy the mobo. I don't know how this is in newer mobos, but I have certainly seen ppl doing that without any problem. no. > Don't press power. Don't even get close to power. Just set the jumper, > wa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the jumper and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 3/19/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the > jumper > and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or > mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. Nice. Thanks for the upda

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:16 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for > others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine > might be workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use > konqueror. Most flash wor

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 16:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:16 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for > > others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or > > wine might be workarounds, but I would

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite possibly your cpu and/or cooling fan. To test this...pull your current > units out, hook-up a known good fan (without any cpu) and apply power. > If the fan spins, you've isolated your problem. Depends on the board type. I've already seen boards w

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-19 Thread brullo nulla
Ok, you all can stop ranting about ebuilds etc. being broken. :) I found the culprit, it seems something wrong in the kdelibs building. Basically, when kdelibs builds dcopidl, it happily *says* "oh, this would need libXft, that in turn has a broken link to libexpat.so.0. But who cares, let's go a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread gk
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 14:41:52 schrieb Grant: > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power

[gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode

2008-03-19 Thread Strong Cypher
hi i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent in 32 bits i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem any try to use more fa

Re: [gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode

2008-03-19 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote: > hi > i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent > in 32 bits > i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of > mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only > free give me cache not

[gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-19 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly unmerged python and borked my system...i managed to get my system back to work but since then "fusion-icon" doesn't work...here is what i get when running it from konsole "jrn23@ ~ > fusion-icon * Detected Session: kde * Sea

[gentoo-user] Re: OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode

2008-03-19 Thread Strong Cypher
yeah i m sure i see 4g but only 800m (lowmem) is used i really dont know why i wondering if for use himem programs need to do somethink On 3/19/08, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote: > > hi > > i want to know if the usage of lomem and

Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-19 Thread birbilis
Re-emerge dev-python/sip and probably all the python modules you have installed (?). There must be a script for this though i don't recall it :| Στις Τετ 19 Μαρ 2008, ο/η Danis Petkakis έγραψε: > hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly > unmerged python > and borke

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-19 Thread David Blamire-Brown
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:13:09 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Mark Shields wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing > > > working vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-19 Thread David Blamire-Brown
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0400 "Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Blamire-Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't > > tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm > > restriction in this p

Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon

2008-03-19 Thread Danis Petkakis
"root@ ~ > equery l python [ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r9 (2.4) [I--] [ ~] dev-python/compizconfig-python-0.6.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.80.2 (0) [I--]

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 06:41 -0700, Grant wrote: > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > replacement or if I have two dead power su

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-19 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile > > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Mar 2008, at 13:41, Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Hi t

Re: [gentoo-user] weird xorg/nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 behaviour

2008-03-19 Thread 李刚
in your xorg.conf In the module section, try adding the following line load "dbe" Then try to run conky from your terminal-emulator, does it say something that "double framebuffer enabled?" Also,i found the conky in ~x86 portage a little of weird, 1. it displays my uptime very strange, a very

Re: [gentoo-user] weird xorg/nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 behaviour

2008-03-19 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:02 AM, 李刚 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in your xorg.conf > > In the module section, try adding the following line > > load "dbe" > > Then try to run conky from your terminal-emulator, does it say something > that > > "double framebuffer enabled?" > Yup, i have dbe enabl