[gentoo-user] SOLVED--> Re: how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-20 Thread askar ...
Finally I installed gentoo on my laptop IBM ThinkPad X240, which has not internal CD-ROM drive and has external FD drive (not usb one). I used 2 floppy distros hal91 and toms. Why I used 2 distros: 1) hal91 supports bzunzip2 for bunzipping stage and portage files 2) hal91 supports '-p' option which

[gentoo-user] 答复: [?? Probable Spam] [gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-20 Thread jerry
-邮件原件- 发件人: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 发送时间: 2005年5月21日 14:21 收件人: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 主题: Re: [?? Probable Spam] [gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network jerry wrote: >I am a newbie, and so simply generate the kernel with the command "genkernel >

Re: [?? Probable Spam] [gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
jerry wrote: >I am a newbie, and so simply generate the kernel with the command "genkernel >all" without any modification of the .config file. > >Maybe I should compile the driver into the kernel, but which option >corresponds to my eth0 device? I am confused. > >Thank you. > >-邮件原件- >发件人:

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is > read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a > loop and create a new iso from those files. no you cannot, as it is read only, so once you have mounted it it is still readonly. You

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
the source tarball is kept in /usr/portage/distfiles (in its tarred release format). You can study the "raw" (as in unpatched ) source there by untarring the source tarball. as others have said, if you want to study the source with whatever patches the ebuild has applied, use "FEATURES=keepwork"

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
Read the Fine Manual set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf then rc-update add xdm boot /etc/init.d/xdm start On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:09 -0700, cfk wrote: > Thank you for the help on "keepwork". Next question. > > My computer has spend the day emerging kde. > > The function 'star

[gentoo-user] 答复: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-20 Thread jerry
I am a newbie, and so simply generate the kernel with the command "genkernel all" without any modification of the .config file. Maybe I should compile the driver into the kernel, but which option corresponds to my eth0 device? I am confused. Thank you. -邮件原件- 发件人: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
jerry wrote: > Hi, all > > It’s my first time to setup a gentoo system on my pc. I use “genkernel > all” to build the kernel, but failed to bring up the eth0 device when > rebooting. > > Despite I ran “modprobe e100”, the “ifconfig eth0 “ reports no such > device found. > > Then what should I do t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
So does mine but you need to sign up for an external service. I'd like to try it without that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS . Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > I wa

[gentoo-user] how to activate the network

2005-05-20 Thread jerry
Hi, all It’s my first time to setup a gentoo system on my pc. I use “genkernel all” to build the kernel, but failed to bring up the eth0 device when rebooting. Despite I  ran “modprobe e100”, the “ifconfig eth0 “ reports no such device found. Then what should I do to setup my eth0 device

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Rob
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS . Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up someth

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
> > The function 'startx' does work with 'twm'. > > > > So, I can test kde before changing /etc/X11/initrc/xinitrc from 'twm &' > > to 'kde &", what is a good way to do that? > > create ~/.xinitrc, put startkde in it. If you kde is screwed, > ctrl+alt+f2/3/4/5/6, login and nuke it. If you can't lo

Re: [gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread Qian Qiao
On 21/05/05, cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the help on "keepwork". Next question. > > My computer has spend the day emerging kde. > > The function 'startx' does work with 'twm'. > > So, I can test kde before changing /etc/X11/initrc/xinitrc from 'twm &' to > 'kde &", what is a g

[gentoo-user] startx kde

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
Thank you for the help on "keepwork". Next question. My computer has spend the day emerging kde. The function 'startx' does work with 'twm'. So, I can test kde before changing /etc/X11/initrc/xinitrc from 'twm &' to 'kde &", what is a good way to do that? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
A static dynamic DNS . Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I se

Re: [gentoo-user] world file clean-up - glibc & linux-headers??

2005-05-20 Thread Stroller
On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 am, Mark Knecht wrote: As per some conversations last week I've been doing a lot of clean up of my world files. I've moved from a high of 235 files down to my low today of onl 112. On a related note, today I took a glance at the world file on a laptop I installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9250

2005-05-20 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:59:33 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone at all. Got pointers? Got gotchas? > Just use radeon as the driver. Don't bother with the ATI drivers until you have a working xorg.conf file. In the kernel select the DRI. Generally, Xorg will config

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Semcheski
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means > I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up > something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or > whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the

[gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? Thanks. -- Bre

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
cfk wrote: >Pardon the slightly naive question. > >I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I >*think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking >in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. > >How do I go about keeping the

[gentoo-user] Wi-Fi in a hostel

2005-05-20 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm going to stay in a hostel in San Francisco for a bit. They have free wireless Internet access. What should I know to be sure I can connect once I get there? I use the madwifi drivers with wpa_supplicant right now. Is it true that wpa_supplicant can't connect to an unencrypted AP? Th

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 17:38 -0700, cfk wrote: > I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I > *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking > in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. > > How do I go about keeping the

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon the slightly naive question. > > I would like to study the c and cpp source on the > packages I am emerging. I > *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I > *think* as I was looking > in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find > the

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out the features in /etc/make.conf. You can tell emerge to leave the source behind. On Fri, 20 May 2005, cfk wrote: Pardon the slightly naive question. I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as

[gentoo-user] keeping source

2005-05-20 Thread cfk
Pardon the slightly naive question. I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the source for later r

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge mod_php borks with "No safe MPM installed" error

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Persson
On May 16, 2005 08:18 am Tomislav FilipÄiÄ was like: > On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:49:39 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > > I upgraded apache to the latest version (2.0.54-r4). In the process I > > had to unmerge apr and apr-utils because they conflicted with apache > > (which they didn't with previous a

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he > can mount it, copy it > somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the > changes. > > On Fri, 20 May 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Next step - dialup networking

2005-05-20 Thread maxim wexler
I had a similar problem w/ dialup. The errors were [ppp] remote message: Authentication failure [ppp] PAP Authentication failed [ppp] Connection terminated Don't know if this will work for you. I found that for the few moments that I connected a couple of ip addresses were put into one of my logs

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can mount it, copy it somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the changes. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ryan wrote: Sad Jack wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. That not entirely correc

Re: [gentoo-user] stuck mount points

2005-05-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
A. Khattri wrote: Check you dont have /proc mounted on that drive (you should see that by running "mount"). Im assuming you dont have a shell open using a dir on that drive? Also check what else is running that might be using something on that drive. /mnt/gentoo/proc was the sticking point. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:28:46 -0400 (EDT) "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who | > don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up | | I know you're very "into" alternate archs es

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-20 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> But thanks for your tip - i'll consider that when i've new ideas what >> can be wrong. Should i ever find out how this all works exactly, i may >> consider writting a small app for doing that in a more convenie

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > But thanks for your tip - i'll consider that when i've new ideas what > can be wrong. Should i ever find out how this all works exactly, i may > consider writting a small app for doing that in a more convenient way :-) Im not a GNOME expert but Im su

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-20 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > >> So my guess is that there are some conflicts between the various mime >> files on my system. Especially, how are the mime* files in /etc >> connected to the ones in /usr/share/mime-info/ ? > > Those are probabl

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Ryan
Sad Jack wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. >> >> >> That not entirely correct. You cannot simply use mount -o loop name.iso /mountpoint and expect it to be writtable. It will NOT be writtable, it will still only be read

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a loop and create a new iso from those files. If I create an iso with mkisofs -udf then I am able to mount -t udf -o loop,rw but there is no extra space on the filesystem to add files. I use mk

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going Crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:10:41 -0700, rob3 wrote: > My rc.conf file contained no "CLOCK="" line, so I missed it. Are you running an ~arch system. In the later baselayouts, clock configuration has moved to /etc/conf.d/clock. -- Neil Bothwick PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acron

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Sad Jack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. > > >>From: Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: 2005/05/20 Fri PM 04:01:59 EDT >>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >>Subject: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image >> >>Does anyone know of a linux bas

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread brettholcomb
You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. > > From: Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/20 Fri PM 04:01:59 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image > > Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an is

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files > to an iso image? > There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd > rather not go down. > > Thanks in advance > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > An iso filesystem is read only AFAIK

Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
> Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an > iso image? kiso comes to my mind, but I do not know if it can resize/add files to iso files. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Clock going Crazy

2005-05-20 Thread rob3
Thank you!!! My rc.conf file contained no "CLOCK="" line, so I missed it. This seems like it was overlooked or a bug in the install process. Now it appears that my Gentoo OS is keeping time. However, it is yet to be seen whether the BIOS keeps its time since it appeared to also be a problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread Tres Melton
Ciaran, >such as a heap of extra general purpose registers, which makes up for >the 64 bit code penalty Only if the compiler's register allocator makes use of them, which gcc does. >In an ideal world, your amd64 box would run a pure 64 bit kernel and a >64 bit int / 32 bit pointer userland, and

[gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image

2005-05-20 Thread Sad Jack
Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-20 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:36 -0400, Jose Angel Rodriguez Leyva wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes I need to apply my own patches for a specific package but > still using portage advantages, so I have to change package ebuild for > that. So everytime I'm going to emerge any of those after an emerge > sync,

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-20 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
A. Khattri wrote: >On Fri, 20 May 2005, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: > > > >>Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. >>The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists >>of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). >>The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. >> >>Before

Re: [gentoo-user] SNMP and Proliant Management Utilities...

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Stroller wrote: > I'll have another go at this later today. Since I know you've worked > with Proliants before I was figuring you wouldn't need to look at the > docs - maybe I'll post any future questions to the HP Forums. Thanks > for your help. Ive worked on a few Proliants

Re: [gentoo-user] stuck mount points

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I'm running into a problem while testing my install scripts on the > minimal CD. as I try to fix failures, and unmount disks to restart > installation process, reasonably frequently, I cannot unmount my target > drive even though there is nothing on

[gentoo-user] stuck mount points

2005-05-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I'm running into a problem while testing my install scripts on the minimal CD. as I try to fix failures, and unmount disks to restart installation process, reasonably frequently, I cannot unmount my target drive even though there is nothing on the drive that I can see. unfortunately lsof isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/ataraid under 2.6 kernel and udev

2005-05-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Doing some research I find dmraid and this site: and I spent a day trying to get my system to boot using the stuff there but it would never boot (couldn't mount the root partition). For now I will stay with my 2.4 kernel as this machine needs to go back into production. Chad On May 19, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
glen martin wrote: > I'm still puzzled, though, that I can call chown by hand and it > works fine. That > is, I type >chown portage:portage /tmp/foo > which works. but the emerge log says >/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1882: 16369 Segmentation > fault chown portage:portage "${T}/env

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus, file types and icons

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: > So my guess is that there are some conflicts between the various mime > files on my system. Especially, how are the mime* files in /etc > connected to the ones in /usr/share/mime-info/ ? Those are probably nothing to do with GNOME. BTW, did you rest

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, River Yan wrote: > I came across a problem. > I used cmd "emerge --unmerge python" :( > I just wanted to update my python to python2.4, but I forgot the > dependence of emerge. Always always always always run emerge with "-pv". > excpet of using bootable disk to reinstall th

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling

2005-05-20 Thread brettholcomb
When you compile a kernel and move it to /boot you need to run LILO so it will find it. > > From: Tamas Sarga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/20 Fri AM 11:53:39 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after > recompiling > ke

[gentoo-user] Radeon 9250

2005-05-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, particularly the poster enquiring after the above video card, I must have mis-spoke, X wasn't even up and running before the card was configured to work w/ gentoo. But I despaired of ever getting it to work, considering the trouble I was already having with my system. Now there

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel

2005-05-20 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: > > Thanks. > I'm using lilo. > Now I recompiled kernel again and did #lilo > After that I'm able to boot the system. > It means the clue was in lilo? > > askar > Hi, It means, that if you be sure, you should reinstall (#lilo) lilo after kernel upgrade. HT

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who > don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up I know you're very "into" alternate archs especially MIPS and SPARC (which is great BTW). So is it true that Niagara SPARCs will have

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Random emerge failures

2005-05-20 Thread Grant
> Grant, > > This is known and well-discissed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. > > Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your > computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when > done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fly adju

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Richard Fish
Rob wrote: > > Gentoo does set the clock to UTC according to boot messages. Perhaps > this is the whole problem. How do I fix it? > > Rob. > Edit /etc/rc.conf, change the line the says "CLOCK=UTC" to "CLOCK=local". If this doesn't help, please describe a bit more what exactly the clock is doin

Re: [gentoo-user] System crashes with monitor off

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Colin wrote: > Yeah, this is a weird one. I've noticed that if I leave my system > (2.6.11-gentoo-r9) idle with the monitor off during an emerge, it will > hang. However, if the monitor is on, then it won't hang and will keep > emerging. Normally, leaving it idle for sixtee

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

2005-05-20 Thread River Yan
I came across a problem. I used cmd "emerge --unmerge python" :( I just wanted to update my python to python2.4, but I forgot the dependence of emerge. excpet of using bootable disk to reinstall the emerge, what else could I to? On 5/19/05, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > try #

[gentoo-user] rebuilding /var

2005-05-20 Thread Anthony Mutiso
So if you had to rebuild the /var directory on a gentoo box, what would I need to be concerned about. My /var directory is on it's own ReiserFS 3.6 partition that ran in a spot of trouble. The fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree generated a raft of files in lost+found. I have done my best to move the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: > > No, the hour changes and the minutes change. > Please edit /etc/rc.conf and read the comments therein regarding the system clock. You may also want to emerge NTP to keep the clock up-to-date. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Hendré Claassen wrote: > Linux is alive; I really hope that I will be able to make a living out of > OpenSource in the not too distant future ... A lot of us do and have done for years... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: > yes my clock has been going craizy lately as well > i use rdate to time.nist.gov to sync it and it appears that my clock > always skips some seconds and minutes in time, i use local clock. rdate? NTP is your friend. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-20 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: > Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. > The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists > of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). > The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. > > Before, with devfs, I used dmraid

[gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread rob3
I looked at "adjtime". I alredy have 0.0 as the first entry, so that mailing list thread does not apply to me. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Rob
Steven Susbauer wrote: rob3 wrote: I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minut

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Rob
Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Rob
rob3 wrote: David D. Rea wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-20 Thread Michael Haan
On 5/20/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 21:56:07 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on > > the new kernel? > > The nvidia modules build against whichever kernel is linked to /usr/src/ >

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

2005-05-20 Thread Gustavo Varela
You are right, i'll try it. The problem was that i was using the USE flag of the howto (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml) but i think i really don't need DNS-detection. I'll try an i tell you what happends Thanks, Gustavo Varela -Mensaje original- De: Holly Bostick [mailto

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing a downgrade of glibc on install

2005-05-20 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Andrew Hall wrote: > Where to from here? Surely there is an easier way to tell gentoo that I > don't want the latest version of glib, I want an older one on install. > We can't use the latest (2.3.4) glibc because we have an embedded > application that relies on 2.3.2 libraries. > > Not knowing G

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome-light

2005-05-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Gustavo Varela schreef: > When I do emerge gnome-light this error appears, any idea of a solution??? > > > > make[4]: Leaving directory > > `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl' > > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > make[3]: Leaving directory > > `/var/tmp/po

Re: [gentoo-user] foomatic-configure problems

2005-05-20 Thread Andreas Vinsander
Richard Watson wrote: > I've been able to print to a Gentoo Samba server (running a HP510) for ages > from Windows workstations (98 and XP), and still can from Windows. > > I have an old laptop that I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome on as a > workstation. When I try and use foomatic-configure

[gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices

2005-05-20 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Hallo, I recently passed to udev, so now I cannot use my Raid. Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda. The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. Before, with devfs, I used dm

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Ivan Lucian Aron
yes my clock has been going craizy lately as well i use rdate to time.nist.gov to sync it and it appears that my clock always skips some seconds and minutes in time, i use local clock. On 5/20/05, Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rob3 wrote: > >>>I can't keep the clock on the ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Applying other patches.

2005-05-20 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Hallo, I recently passed to udev, so now I cannot use my Raid. Gentoo si installed in /dev/hda The Raid is a striping raid composed of /dev/sda /dev/sdb and consists of 4 partitions. I created it installing windows (work reason). The SATA controller is a Silicon 3512. Before, with devfs, I used dmr

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:27:10 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > carcharias root # qpkg -f /bin/su > sys-apps/shadow * Have you re-emerged shadow since removing pam? I found this necessary. -- Neil Bothwick "It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it!" -- Bill Gates pgpNfio3rYkHA.pgp Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Zac Medico
--- Hendré Claassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to the Linux world and have chosen Gentoo as > my weapon of choice. After compiling my kernel, and > rebooting into my new Gentoo system, the keyboard > seized to function. I have compiled the USB Human > Interface option into

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Matan Peled
Hendrà Claassen wrote: > *Disclaimer and confidentiality note* > > *All contents within the e-mail including any attachments relating to > the official business of Fruitways (Pty) Ltd is proprietary to the > Company. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. > Fruitways (Pty)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 May 2005 21:56:07 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on > the new kernel? The nvidia modules build against whichever kernel is linked to /usr/src/ linux, so it is possible to build modules for your new kernel befor

[gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Hendré Claassen
Hello,   I’m new to the Linux world and have chosen Gentoo as my weapon of choice.  After compiling my kernel, and rebooting into my new Gentoo system, the keyboard seized to function.  I have compiled the USB Human Interface option into the kernel … the keyboard functioned perfectly when

Re: [gentoo-user] User not authorized to su root

2005-05-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 08:41 schrieb ext Walter Dnes: > No pam support at all... > > [m1800][root][~]emerge --pretend --deep --newuse --verbose shadow > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 -deb

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread Steven Susbauer
rob3 wrote: I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead already. Windoze shows the same behavior. Thanks, Rob Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more or less c