Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Matthew R. Lee: > > > >>> [grub.conf] > > > >>> default 0 > > > >>> > > > >>> timeout 30 > > > >>> > > > >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > >>> > > > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2 > > > >>> > > > >>> root (hd0,0) > > > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:00 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > For some reason when I run Ekiga it doesn't detect any v4l or v4l2 > > > drivers...Only picture... > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread KH
Sebastian Günther schrieb: * KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05.07.08 13:24]: Hi, after reading some emails from the list I have been trying to unmerge cdrkit and to emerge cdrtools. I aslo hat to unmerge dvd+rw-tools and kino. Anyway I am still not able to emerge cdrtools. !!! Cannot write to '

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread KH
Mick schrieb: On Saturday 05 July 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: P.S.: I don't use kino so just try a # emerge -pvt kino afterwards, to look what it tries to pull in. I don't have cdrkit on my systems and it does not seem to have a dependency for kino: # emerge -pvt kino These are

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > grep virtual/cdrtools > /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/**/virtuals > /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/base/virtuals:virtual/cdr >tools app-cdr/cdrkit > > That was what i am looking for, thanks! Why they did choose cdrkit in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Saturday 05 July 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: grep virtual/cdrtools /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/**/virtuals /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/base/virtuals:virtual/cdr tools app-cdr/cdrkit That was what i am looking for, thanks! Why they d

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 10:33]: > > the link under license is leading to nowhere. On the project page I have > not been able to find a license, too (fast overview). > > Where can I find the license? > All licenses can be found under: /usr/portage/licenses/ And emerge -s cdrtools shows

[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom > > init-script prior to checkfs and localmount? > > It's impractical, check carefully all pa

[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom > init-script prior to checkfs and localmount? It's impractical, check carefully all partitions with mdadm -E If it's not automatically assembled but you can do it manually, i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote: > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. > And this depends on cdrkit until you remove the broken symlink. cdrkit > seems to "steal" the cdrtools dependencies from other programs. *rolleyes* it is not 'stealing' but 'virtuals'. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably for the same reason Debian felt obliged to do the same - > licensing issues. It is widely acknowledged that cdrtools is the > superior code over cdrkit but large sections of the OSS community feel > that cdrtools' license puts tham at risk, re

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://gentoo-portage.com/app-cdr/cdrtools > > the link under license is leading to nowhere. On the project page I have > not been able to find a license, too (fast overview). > > Where can I find the license? e.g. here: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.ph

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the issue is not the licenses itself, but the mixing of the > licenses in one project. Your problem is not to understand the difference between "project" and "distribution". I recommend _you_ to read the license indormation that comes with cdr

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:01 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > After getting a LOT of help on this, I got it sorted out. This is > what is installed: > > [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.8 [1.1.6] USE="unicode -hfs" 0 kB > [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 [1.0.4] USE="

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] f-prot

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:32:17 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It worked fine here. Thanks! That was all I needed to know, that the problem is only mine. As Alan proposed I sniffed the traffic and found there was a header (User-Agent=MSIE) which was making the server say something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:32:36 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a > > > custom

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:06:31 +0100 > > > > Then I've installed grub into hda's MBR. Then something odd happened: > > Stage1.5 loads quiet fast but then Grub hangs once again of ~20sec > > with: "Grub loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:32:36 +0200 Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a > > > custom

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote: > > > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. > > And this depends on cdrkit until you remove the broken symlink. cdrkit > > seems to "steal" the cdrtools dependencies from other pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:02:14 +0300 Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:32:36 +0200 > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:03:45 +0200 > > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, KH wrote: > > > you are right. But it looks like kino depends on app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools. > > > And this depends on cdrkit until you remove the broken symlink. cdrkit > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in case, you may want to try this: > > # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive > that doesn't exist--> > grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> > grub> setup (hd0) <-

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] If hd0,0 is your boot partition, you shouldn't have /boot in the kernel line, just kernel /kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 In

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:01 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi again, After getting a LOT of help on this, I got it sorted out. This is what is installed: [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.8 [1.1.6] USE="unicode -hfs" 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r1 [

[gentoo-user] spamassassin-3.2.1-r1 emerge failure

2008-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
For reasons discussed elsewhere, I've got to get serious about spam. But my first 3 attempts to emerge spamassassin have failed. (on x86). For one thing, there's a detection process near the beginning that is failing to detect Perl modules that are actually present, and from portage not CPAN. Fir

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If hd0,0 is your boot partition, you shouldn't have /boot in the kernel > l

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > root (hd0,0) > > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If hd0,0

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:43:01 -0500 > > > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> After getting a LOT of help on this, I got it sorted out. This is > >> what is installed: > >> > >> [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > If hd0,0 is your boot partition, you shouldn't have /boot in the kernel > > line, just > > > > kernel /kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > > > In GRUB, all paths are relative to the root. >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Mick: > Hmm, have you this in place? > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Mar 26 2006 boot -> . I still wonder why it's needed. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Mick: > > Hmm, have you this in place? > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Mar 26 2006 boot -> . > > I still wonder why it's needed. So that people who can't wrap their brains around how grub works (i.e. it is NOT l

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:04:08 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > > > root (hd0,0) > > > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 > > > > video=ves

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? to make sure it is off ;) I once read (also a long time ago) that the nmi-watchdog could/would/does slow down disk io. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper limits on tar? emm. It should be handle to at least 8gb. And since I use tar t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably for the same reason Debian felt obliged to do the same - > > licensing issues. It is widely acknowledged that cdrtools is the > > superior code over cdrkit but large sections of the OSS community

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:19:09 -0500, Dale wrote: > Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when > unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error about > half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error at the moment but > I should be able to reproduce

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > >> Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > >> but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper > >> limits on tar? > > > > emm. It sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:22:08AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 21:00 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:41:49AM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 12:28 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > For some reason when I run Ekiga it d

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > > but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper > > limits on tar? > > > > emm. It should be handle to at least 8gb. And since I use tar to write to m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. I > answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point of view > of the maintainer (who is not me). I said nothing about what I think in > the matter, and I won't as it is

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:19:09 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error about half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error at the moment but I should b

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper limits on tar? emm. It should be handle to at least 8gb. And since I use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? > > to make sure it is off ;) Got me ;) So what's this nmi_watchdog good for? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 12:44]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And the issue is not the licenses itself, but the mixing of the > > licenses in one project. > > Your problem is not to understand the difference between "project" > and "distribution".

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 16:13]: > Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why > but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper limits > on tar? > Maybe it is more a problem of the specific fs, where you try to create it. If there the

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:32:39AM +0100, Penguin Lover Graham Murray squawked: > "Jason Messerschmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've noticed an odd visual glitch with blogspot pages- it superimposes > > my desktop on some pages. It's a bit hard to explain so here's a > > pic. As far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 12:44]: > > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And the issue is not the licenses itself, but the mixing of the > > > licenses in one project. > > > > Your problem is not to unders

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] > now I have another issue, because my > microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get > playback > through my speakers (using alsamixer) but no matter what I do I can't > get Ekiga's echoing system to echo back my micr

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Penguin Lover Joerg Schilling squawked: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. I > > answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point of view > > of the maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:07:10PM +0200, Gordon Schulz wrote: > On 7/3/08, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:24:49PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > > I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it? > > > > > > > > > That is how I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a response like the one you just gave. It was very clear from his > original post that he answered the OP's question with (I paraphrase > here) > > "Joerg is a coding God. But the maintainer in gentoo for the > cdrtools package thinks that there is a li

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-06 Thread Gordon Schulz
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm tempted to install Opera, but my system is completely GTK (if not > CLI) and I just don't want to waste space with installing Qt ... Is > there any possible way to install Opera without Qt support? It is possible to ins

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: > I won't read anything related to cdrtools anymore. I won't install > it, nor recommend anyone to use it. That is indeed your right, but please do so in the full knowledge that cdrtools is vastly superior to anything else out there for any OS. No

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Dale wrote: > > This is why I added support for files > 4 GB to mkisofs. > > > > Jörg > > > >   > > How did you "add" support for that?  Are you talking about the > program itself or a USE flag? Jörg is the author of mkisofs. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail do

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:26:19 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when > >> unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error > >> about half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error at the > >> moment but I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:38:50 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Probably for the same reason Debian felt obliged to do the same - > > licensing issues. It is widely acknowledged that cdrtools is the > > superior code over cdrkit but large sections of the OSS community > > feel that cdrtools' lice

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dale wrote: > > How did you "add" support for that? Are you talking about the program > itself or a USE flag? he is the maintainer of mkisofs ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? > > > > to make sure it is off ;) > > Got me ;) So what's this nmi_watchdog good for

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > [...] > > now I have another issue, because my > > microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I can get > > playback > > through my speakers (using alsamixer) but n

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. > > I answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point > > of view of the maintainer (who is not me). I said nothing about

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:30 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > [...] > > > now I have another issue, because my > > > microphone doesn't seem to want to work in Ekiga ... I c

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The OP asked a question about why a virtual has a certain default. > > > I answered with the obvious answer which has to do with the point > > > of view of t

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:26:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, Kdar does the making part. I'm not doing anything fancy when unpacking it but when I do it with it set to 4.7Gb, I get a error about half way though unpacking. I can't recall the error

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008, Dale wrote: This is why I added support for files > 4 GB to mkisofs. Jörg How did you "add" support for that? Are you talking about the program itself or a USE flag? Jörg is the author of mkisofs. I thought that name looke

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 16:13]: Well, it seems tar can not handle 4.7Gb files any way. I'm not sure why but it seems happy with 2.2Gb files. Anybody know about the upper limits on tar? Maybe it is more a problem of the specific fs, where you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekiga not finding v4l

2008-07-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:05:33PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:30 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 12:10 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > [...] > > > > now I have another issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just in case, you may want to try this: # grub <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive that doesn't exist--> grub> root (hd2,0) <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)--> grub

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 21:52]: > Sebastian Günther wrote: >> * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 16:13]: >> [usage of reiserfs] Last time I saw a reiserfs, that I needed to maitain was with SuSe 6.3, so I don't know if there could be a problem, but I kind of doubt that. > [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:42:52 -0500, Dale wrote: > Oooops, my bad. I'm using Kbackup. My fingers are going coo coo. > Kdar was masked a while back so I unmerged it. Kdar was masked, but not dar itself. Kdar was unmasked a few weeks later. From http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216063 Kda

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:42:52 -0500, Dale wrote: Oooops, my bad. I'm using Kbackup. My fingers are going coo coo. Kdar was masked a while back so I unmerged it. Kdar was masked, but not dar itself. Kdar was unmasked a few weeks later. From http://bugs.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit && emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-06 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Easy. In the abstract: person X performed action Y with regard to cdrtools for reason Z. I felt it important to understand Z in order to fully understand Y. Do you know what defamation and slander is? If people did n

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:29:34 -0500, Dale wrote: > ROFLMAO. I didn't know that. I thought maybe something new was coming > up for KDE 4 or something. I lost my emails from the list about that > time so I missed the scared nurse. I did notice dar was still there > tho. Thing is, how you unpa

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:29:34 -0500, Dale wrote: ROFLMAO. I didn't know that. I thought maybe something new was coming up for KDE 4 or something. I lost my emails from the list about that time so I missed the scared nurse. I did notice dar was still there tho. Thin

[gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could ca

[gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the > > *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > stage1 and stage2 will still

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: How did you "add" support for that? Are you talking about the program itself or a USE flag? Dale :-) :-) Since you have some hands on experience with this stuff, see if you can help me figure this out. I used Kbackup to create 4.7Gb tarballs of my data directory. I use k3

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Any other ideas are welcome as well. Thanks Dale :-) :-) I got it to burn. It appears with all the unmerge/remerge stuff a setting got lost. It just won't work with udf not checked. Next issue. Now that it is burned, it can't mount it. Udf is in the kernel and it worked

Re: [gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 02:03]: > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (hd0,2) > > As expected hd0 is the disk > > grub> setup (hd > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 > > Again confirming that hd0 is a valid disk (as is hd1, but that is an > external scsi that d

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)? > > > > > > to ma