Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Rohit
> > > But I doubt the wisdom of updating an SSD netbook on the machine itself: > The best solution i've found so far (where RAM wasn't an issue) was to use "temerge" and 1600M RAM dedicated to it. netbook may not have that much memory free. Sorry if this was completely useless. Rohit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-06 Thread Rohit
I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. Rohit 2009/10/6 Alex Schuster > Hi there! > > Not really specific to gentoo, except that I want to do this with a Gentoo

[gentoo-user] IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-05 Thread Rohit
disks are fine as well. I am currently running Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. Has anyone else encountered this problem before ? /proc/config.gz is also attached. Thanks in advance, Rohit config.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-06 Thread Rohit
To Volkerarmin and Wwong, Thanks for your inputs - both of you. I will try these both right away and let you know. Best regards, Rohit 2009/9/5 Rohit > Hi there, > > I rejoin the list after 5-6 years. Was able to fix most of the things > myself but this one has me totally bowled

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/USB problem : not both disks recognized on same IDE channel

2009-09-06 Thread Rohit
The results are encouraging ! I am able to see both disks on at least 1 IDE channel, so we have surely fixed the problem with the kernel. Will check cabling etc for the other IDE channel. Thanks very much ! Rohit 2009/9/6 Rohit > To Volkerarmin and Wwong, > > Thanks for your inputs

[gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
ugh] Please reply. Thank you, Rohit At the same moment, other config details and system's state are as below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod | grep snd snd_cmipci 20484 0 snd_opl3_lib 6688 1 snd_cmipci snd_hwdep 6116 1 snd_opl3_lib snd_mpu401_uart4416 1 snd_cmipci snd

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
ilent for vfat. No idea about NTFS though... HTH, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
r to thank you. Regards, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
would pick up the onboard one. I guess for a correctly configured host, it woudn't matter]. To say the least your response was encouraging. I am in the middle of an emerge after two months of disconnectivity Thanks, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
, create their config.cache. I was just curious. Have you considered it before? Please reply. -- Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
here. confcache --help suggests export CONFCACHEDIR which I have done but is there a way for me to make portage use this by default? Or is exporting the env variable enough? [done "emerge confcache" already] -- Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
tch my portage as I have already done the other two steps you said - the this is the last one. Thanks so much, Rohit PS - I am yet to come back to Holly about the soundcard [cheers] but the system is under build even now as I am building one package at a time. This build is after a gap of 2 months

Re: [gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior?

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
or, dev hdc, sector 4 >cdrom: open failed. > > are you trying to eject here and that fails? Or a boot? What are you trying to do? If it was my drive, and I was sure it was not dying on me - I would probably not bother at all - unless it was unable to play music or write media. HTH, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Image resize question..

2006-03-05 Thread Rohit Sharma
Apologies in advance for this quick question which isn't about Gentoo per se, but is about work on Linux. Is there a command [hint "man command" shall do] which I can use to resize an image? I have 200 of them in a directory which I want to resize to fit my cellphone. -- Thanks, Ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Image resize question.. : resolved

2006-03-05 Thread Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma wrote: >Is there a command [hint "man command" shall do] which I can use to resize an >image? I have 200 of them in a directory which I want to >resize to fit my cellphone. > > works as in find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r -0 -ixxx convert

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/Linux support for Firewire/USB 2.0 combo PCI cards

2006-03-11 Thread Rohit Sharma
pported for windows xp". There is OHCI compliance advertised on these, but I am not sure whether that helps once the card is talking to my motherboard over a PCI interface. Has any of you successfully used it? Tips welcome. Thank you, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread Rohit Sharma
wrong? -- Rohit's signatures Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Rohit Sharma
fire-eyes wrote: >On Sunday 19 March 2006 12:48, Rohit Sharma wrote: > > >>> >> >[snip] >Please post to this list in plain text > Preference set for the list as "prefers to receive email as plain text" in my mozilla. let us see how this one reac

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Rohit Sharma
My apologies - - for asking a mozilla related question on this list. - for writing an HTML message to the list - future crimes [in advance] as I am sure I shall make a mistake some time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.

2006-04-03 Thread Rohit Sharma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Jim >I have already done what you suggested. >When I try to set up my printer using cups I do not find any driver (here is >the problem). > > gentoo-wiki.com has the best/updated guide on the subject. That is what I would follow - just a thought.

[gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-13 Thread Rohit Sharma
. -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-14 Thread Rohit Sharma
Bo Andresen wrote: Rohit replies -- Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just in case. Done. The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens. - PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That is all. "/usr/bin" co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help : need grub,conf file : kernel wouldn't boot

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Francesco Talamona wrote: >1) Are you aware that you are using a comma inside the file name in the >subject and in the message? It sould be grub.conf, not grub,conf. > > Yes Francesco, the comma was a typo on my part. Things are they way I have tried to convey, on my machine. >What name do y

Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
rebuild.. working again etc etc] If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know. Rohit Rohit Sharma wrote: >Bo Andresen wrote:.... >Rohit replies -- > >Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just >in case. Done. >The commands are below - a

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
I simply shall do a reiserfs rebuild for all partitions before doing anything else now. Once that error goes away, I shall emerge my mc and then I am hoping that it shall be solved. [saved by find] Shall post results when checked. -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
nd ultimately a --rebuild-tree as well. Still the same problem. When I emerge mc [only], /usr/bin/ln appears in /usr/bin and has the same inode number as /usr/bin/mc and both are symlinks. Weird. So did what Richard F suggested .. Loads of notifications about > and < etc. - looks like it sh

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
ou? Please bear with me in case this has been answered before. Apologies in that case - and I would really appreciate any pointers. Thank you so much Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
ce my modem is unsupported sort of. So I had put that script last in the startup order. Hence my problem - something similar may be happening at your end. "use dns" probably refers to DNS server [running on your local host - which is not the case with most of us, as we don't run DNSes of our own] HTH, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
, at first. If it can't find a DNS, it should probably wait till it can. Unfortunately, I am not saying anything you dont already know Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to update /etc/services file?

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
David wrote: >I found my /etc/services is too many ports are not included in the file! >eg telnet,ftp,http for UDP, > >so, how to get a stronger /etc/services file? >thanks! > > Enjoy. http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers leads you to.. Search on google for complete /etc/services and w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-30 Thread Rohit Sharma
Rohit and Bhavana wrote: >Hi there, > >I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I >burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, >right?] and hoped for the best. > Totally my fault. Should have verified the md5sun before mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Rohit Sharma
kernel config which facilitates the role of "Low latency desktop" in the 2.6 kernels. A parameter can be set to 1000 [default] and can be lowered to 250 [for low lat desk..]. It may help. Plus if you chose deadline scheduler as standard, it may help. Regards, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Tv out stopped working!

2006-05-08 Thread Rohit Sharma
Nvidia drivers. Do you feel what I do is what you want to accomplish? If yes, then my XF86Config may help you. Let me know, Rohit On 4/6/06, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Is there nobody out there who has experience regarding to this topic. I >>googled a lot to

[gentoo-user] Help : need grub,conf file : kernel wouldn't boot

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit and Bhavana
7;t find a bootable device. Then I type /dev/hda2 manually on the same [grub] prompt and the machine boots fine, this is where I am writing to you from. Regards, Rohit PS - If someone wishes, I could send you my own .config to look at. Didn't want to send that to the list. Thanks for asking.

[gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit and Bhavana
s given by you on my own time. Time to rebuild my box is close anyway - need to repartition whole thing to make more room for Oracle/Gentoo and MySQL/Gentoo. Best regards, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-28 Thread Rohit and Bhavana
boots fine, and I thought it was just media type...] Would appreciate responses please. regards, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list