On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies
> suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere
> between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards
> without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off.
> And when it
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
> vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both
> OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not
> mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will.
(...)
> I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250
You are right that XP should work -
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest
> and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I
> found the output crowded with puffy, oozing
> electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for
> Fuhjyyu on Google reveale
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote:
>
> I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual
> you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number
> of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you
> must shut the VM down befor
On Friday 04 April 2008, Francesco Talamona wrote:
>
> VirtualBox can be configured in either way!
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux
>
> Ciao
> Francesco
Many Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Not being a network expert, I must admit I used the wizards... and virtualboy
On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
> # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a
spot to create an unfragmented file. I remembe
I did not try recently. 3-4- years ago it may still have been Linux PPC. Now
it is MacTel so it mainly should be a question of supported hardware and
booting.
Thierry
On Friday 27 February 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a
> MythTV frontend
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o
> problem.
>
> Few questions:
> - Should I switch to UTF-8 ?
> - Why ?
>
> - Any known problems related to this migration ?
>
> As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it & w
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Where do you set KMail to do "auto-detect"? As far as I can tell,
> KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail
> itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some
> autodetection.
You seem to be right - I'v
Hello,
I've got an older Compaq EVO D510 desktop that I was thinking to setup as a
lab machine (that should be also used by people who basicaly have no Linux
knowledge). I've installed Gentoo on it and it works well but for one thing:
When I want sto shut it down, it reboots! This happens as we
On Monday, 13. August 2007, Tim wrote:
>
> Have you tried just using 'init 0' rather than 'shutdown -h now'?
>
(...)
>
> I'd say check in your BIOS to see what power options there are - some
> BIOSes can change the action on receiving a power button signal.
Thanks for your suggestions. Init 0 did
Hello,
Trying to show that we could use Linux in our chool, I am trying to connect a
machine per wifi to a rather Macintosh oriented network.
I know I can connect from a (PC) laptop running Mac OS, and the Linux machine
is so far that I know the card works and I can see the network. It's an ope
On Monday, 24. September 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> I'm getting close to buying the parts for my new machine (see earlier msgs)
> & an Intel quad-core mentioned by a helpful responder
> has now come down almost within my price range.
> The CPU I have been contemplating for some weeks is
> an 'Intel
On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> So my
> opinion is that samsung and seagate seem to deliver (so far...),
> maxtor/wd/others, it's a toss-up, and IBM==bad.
Harddisks are build by the thousands, and I know of no industrial product that
never has a unit go bad.
I once had three F
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote:
> I have a similar problem. I have installed and selected dictionaries,
> but openoffice will only allow me to select English as the language for
> spell checking.
I don't know what version of OOo you are using and I don't run it on Gentoo
now so I
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
> The gentoo build removes the wizard and uses hunspell instead. My
> personal view is these suck big time and I would rather have the proper
> OO ones for en_AU. What happened to the policy of not mucking with
> upstream if at all possible?
>
>
On Saturday 23 August 2008, Guillermo Dutra wrote:
> Jajajjaja Very funny, but I have to recognize that while I was compiling
> and installing gentoo trough 2 days to get the X work with kde , I
> thinked seriously to kick the lcd screen or distroy the keyboard. But
> now I don change it!!!.
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>My 14 year old asked if there is a simple app in portage that would
> allow him to chop an existing video into a couple of pieces? I guess
> he wants to upload something to You Tube but it's either too long or
> too large.
>
>I exp
Hello,
I'm in the process of compiling a new system using 2006.1 (minimal
install/amd64). My only problem at the moment is that every time I start the
system the nameserver information has diseapeared from /etc/resolv.conf.
There is a text line saying that the file was "created by the net scrip
On Friday 09 March 2007 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:30:51 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > There is a text line saying that the file was "created by the net
> > scripts" so I guess resolv.conf gets re-created at each boot, but I
> > don
On Friday 09 March 2007 18:50, Dan Farrell wrote:
>
> In that case, you may not want to use DHCP to configure your devices ; )
I don't use it (or at least I never intended to). I've set up a network
configuration with fixed IPs and copied the configuration files as instructed
in the handbook - w
On Friday 09 March 2007 21:57, Dan Farrell wrote:
> In all likelihood, you didn't edit /etc/conf.d/net for one of your
> network interfaces, which ifplugd then tried to bring up. you may want
> to change /etc/conf.d/rc.
Yes, I did edit /etc/conf.d/net. Actually everything works correctly (I get
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> Have you read /etc/conf.d/net.example? This part may apply here:
Hum, no, I did not - I blindly followed the handbook
> # NOTE: Setting any of these will stamp on the files in question. So if you
> # don't specify dns_servers but you do spec
Hello,
I've a somewhat old system (it was installed with 2005.1 at the time) that I
wanted to try updating.
However, emerge --update --pretend world thows an awfull lot of blocking
packages, mostly x11-something, but including KDE, java and others.
There is no question of unmasking all these p
hello,
I'm trying to install on a Gigabyte M61PM-S2. that card works well, but uses
some chipsets that are only supported in the latest kernels.
Network is such a chipset, it's an nvidia nForce 430 chipset that "uses" a
Realtek RTL8211 PHY that, apparently, does not require drivers (if I
under
On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:55, Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Coud you provide us the output of dmesg according forcedeth module (dmesg
> |grep forcedeth), route -n, ifconfig ethX and /etc/conf.d/net ...
I could, but this is no more necessary
On Saturday 16 June 2007 23:20, Uwe Thiem wrote:
>
> A guess
Hello,
I'm in the process of emerging kde-meta. However, the process is stopped by
the kopete ebuild that says I should reemerge x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl.
Now emerge --pretend does not return anything that looks like qt-3, neither
does emerge --search.
In any case, what I would like is t
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:39, Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> On Sunday 17 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Do following:
> > 1) in /etc/portage/package.use add this:
> > x11-libs/qt-3* opengl
>
> =x11-libs/qt-3* opengl
>
> Is more likely to succeed, I think.
>
> /PA
Thanks to all!
I had added t
Hello,
I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My
last problem is sound. After several attemps (with the kernel ALSA module and
ALSA-driver), I've got my SB Live correctly loaded with ALSA Driver - at
least there is no error message. I didn't load any module
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote:
> Hey Mark,
>
> Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
> when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
> have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other
> meta-distro out there?
Now I love Gentoo as a distribution, but the way to setup X *must* be
improved! I have just finished installing on an older Athlon with a Nvidia
2mx graphic card.
Xorg -configure just fails: it says it can't detect my mouse (it's an IBM ps/2
trackpoint).
xorgconfig gives an unusable config.
In
On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, Alan wrote:
> I'm not sure I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and
> at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory
> management or something). Not sure if this has changed in the 5.x
> series or not, but it's something to c
On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:34, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a simple, easy-to-use software package for light
> editing of video files (cutting commercials out of MythTV recordings).
> I tried to use avidemux, but it went into an infinite loop when I tried
> to save the file after
On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >> Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming !
> >
> > Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer
> > either.
>
> Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nV
On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Resolution is 1680 x 1050. I do need to make sure the 6600 can do this
> with the Linux driver.
Here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15118735
I read: Is it possible to have 1680*1050 displayed under Linux?
Yeah, I have a nVidia
On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:02, Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
> Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config
> files were updated. However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get
> an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running" In
> the control
Hello,
I've been installing Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43 and, while I've been able
to get a mostly working machine, I need some help for fine tuning:
First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a domain name.
The domain name is correctly written in /etc/conf.d/domainname, but
On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> From the manpage:
> domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
> dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name
> nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name
> ypdomainname - show or set the sy
Hello,
I'm running an amd64 Gentoo (but this is not a specific amd64 question) and
have installed a few ~amd64 masked packages - and some work amzingly well.
So I googled for information as to where I might report success, so that they
might be unmasked, but didn't find that info.
Where - and
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21.02, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work?
>
> You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless'
> the packages into unmasked sta
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 23.12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In my case, the funny thing is: DVDRIP is not masked and does not work.
> > Acidrip is masked and works like a charm.
>
> Is the DVD:Rip ebuild doing something incorrectly, or is it just a poor
> package from upstream? In the
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote:
> Hey everybody!
>
> I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake
> DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular
> dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have
> anything
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23.37, Mike Myers wrote:
> I'll try that out. I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though.
Then maybe it's a bug in the ebuild (either DVDrip or transcode).
Thierry
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidit
On Monday 13 March 2006 17.34, Chris Frederick wrote:
> Mike Myers wrote:
>
> This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode
> that are bad. Get rid of (or rename) the
> /usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and
> /usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files. I had the same proble
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase".
> But the installed version was 3.4.3.
> Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version?
>
> emilio
I did not sync recently but (on my amd64 machine) emerge --pretend =kde-3.5.
Hello,
I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a
Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being).
I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things
seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way
On Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:30, John Jolet wrote:
> I do it in the /etc/conf.d/net. "default gw 192.168.0.1" is the entry and
> it goes in fine. however, the entry I have is "routes_eth0" not
> "route_eth0".
Thanks, that was it - I must have made a typo...
Thierry
--
The problem with the wo
On Monday, 7 November 2005 22:31, Peper wrote:
> > Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
> > I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 :
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module!
> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
> > (EE) Screen(s) found,
Hello,
I'm using DVD:rip on a Mepis/Debian installation with no problem. I don't
remeber exactly the versions of DVD:rip and transcode, but it just plain
works.
On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping
fails with message "could not read this frame", then tra
Hello all,
I am trying to configure a small network (two desktops and a notebook) to
share printers.
Desktop 1 runs Gentoo and has a B/W Laserjet on LPT1
Desktop 2 runs OpenSuSE 10.0 and has a color Laserjet on LPT1
The Notebook is a Thinkpad runing OpenSuSE 10.0 nad has no printer attached.
Bo
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23.29, Mick wrote:
> On 19/04/06, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to
> > printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add
> > printer:
> > Printer Type: IPP Printer
> > URI:
> > ipp://
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has
> already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to
> working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this
> happens again, this is wind
Hello,
I've got an usb multi-card reader. The device does work, however since I run
Gentoo it behaves a little different than before. Previously the reader would
be indentified on boot (usually reserving /dev/sda to /dev/sdd). I set up
those drives in /etc/fstab and created devices on the deskt
On Sunday 07 May 2006 09.32, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I have *EXACTLY* the same situation, and I figured out what was
> causing it, and I came up with with a workaround; I wouldn't call it a
> perfect solution.
(...)
Thanks a lot for your report. I'll check what I did, I don't remember if I
compile
On Sunday 07 May 2006 10.59, Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> Sounds like you might be missing a module on startup , try adding
> "usb-storage" to the module autoloading script for your kernel.
Hello Ognjen and thanks for your suggestion. I'm ashamed it really was that
simple. I just thought usb-storage w
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16.21, Tito Valentin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I can't seem to get sound working. I compiled the kernel so sound
> support and also installed the alsa drivers and still no luck. When I
> boot the machine I get a lot of snd errors saying that it failed to load
> the drivers. W
On Sunday 14 May 2006 19.31, Tito Valentin wrote:
> Thierry,
>
> Here is what my sound card is based on lspci:
>
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
> (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
>
> I can add the card manually when I do:
>
> # modprobe snd
>
> But a
Hello,
Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo on it.
I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I could compile
an x86_64 version, but I was thinking it would be more compatible to stay
with the 32bit for now.
Any experience?
Thierry
--
St
On Thursday 27 July 2006 14.41, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo
> > on it. I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I
> > coul
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15.10, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so
>
> Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines -
> larger addressable space of RAM.
>
> Will you do number cru
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm seeing stuff on line that indicates it is now possible to write to
> ntfs formated disk from linux (at least semi-reliably).
>
> I'd like to delete a few directories and files that the windows xp OS
> sees as `system files' and will
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