[gentoo-user] Windows XP - Gentoo - Lilo Loader Question

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I have Windows XP installed on /dev/hda1. This drive is jumpered as the master. I installed Gentoo on /dev/hdb (which is jumpered as slave) with the standard partitioning scheme from the Gentoo Handbook. I'm using LILO. I tried loading /sbin/lilo to /dev/hdb1. It seemed to work (loaded my im

[gentoo-user] Intel Compiler to compile gentoo ?

2005-06-25 Thread regatta
Hi everyone, Did anyone try to use Intel compiler to compile Gentoo ? is there any performance improvement ? -- Best Regards, -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-25 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > > >>On my x86 system, the +gnome flag is set in >>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults. >> >>So yes, if you want -gnome, you do need to set it specifically in >>/etc/make.conf, and then do an eme

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-25 Thread Rob
Richard Fish wrote: Rob wrote: I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, showing up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during using the i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import files, like emerge, etc. I am kind of lost, because I haven't

[gentoo-user] Would zapping USE in make.defaults hurt anything?

2005-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > On my x86 system, the +gnome flag is set in > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults. > > So yes, if you want -gnome, you do need to set it specifically in > /etc/make.conf, and then do an emerge --newuse world to get

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:05 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Joseph wrote: > > I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything > > is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with > > distccmon-gnome across my network. > > It's very easy to

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2005-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 03:21:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I will be attempting to build the system from Stage 1 tarball, > however I'm still confused what my /etc/make.conf has to look > like. Would anyone give a sample make.conf or point me to a good > samples for Pentium 3 (Coppermine)

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Joseph wrote: I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with distccmon-gnome across my network. It's very easy to not see DISTCC processes in distccmon-gnome when using emerge, since it uses a p

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 20:16 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything > > is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with > > distccmon-gnome across my network. > > > > make.conf: > > MAKEOPTS="-j3

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Zac Medico
Joseph wrote: > I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything > is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with > distccmon-gnome across my network. > > make.conf: > MAKEOPTS="-j3" > FEATURES="distcc" > > /etc/conf.d/distccd: > DISTCCD_OPTS="$

[gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Joseph
I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with distccmon-gnome across my network. make.conf: MAKEOPTS="-j3" FEATURES="distcc" /etc/conf.d/distccd: DISTCCD_OPTS="${DISTCCD_OPTS} --allow 10.0.0.103"

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2005-06-25 Thread Peter Gordon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Travelmate 524tx and Wireless lan PCMCIA: D-Link DWL-G650

2005-06-25 Thread Christian Panten
Richard Fish wrote: > Christian Panten wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>first I have to say, that I post the same question in alt.os.linux.gentoo. >>Sorry for cross posting. I hope anyone of you can help me solving my >>problem. Thx. >> >>I have bought a D-Link DWL-G650 108MBit PCMCIA-Wireless lan

[gentoo-user] ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Drivers

2005-06-25 Thread Chris Frederick
Hi all, I just noticed that ati released drivers for my Radeon Xpress card. I installed the drivers for Xorg, and it works great. But when I tried to install the kernel modules, I got a lot of error messages with the build. I know gentoo has the regular ati-drivers package, but they don't suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:22:45 -0700, Rob wrote: > I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, showing > up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during using the > i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import files, like > emerge, etc. I am kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't think I have it: baby ~ # /etc/init.d/vnetd status -bash: /etc/init.d/vnetd: No such file or directory I'm running emerge -Ss vnetd right now to see if I can find out how to get vnetd. Any advice? On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > Try running /etc/init.d/vnetd sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Shields
Try running /etc/init.d/vnetd status If it says started but ps ax | grep vnetd returns nothing, "zap" it: /etc/init.d/vnetd zap then /etc/init.d/vnetd start again. On 6/25/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that vnetd is running, even though I think I started it: >

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Shields
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ man make.conf http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5 In review, your make.conf should probably contain the following (at minimum): CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" You can also try adding "-pipe" and/or "-fomit-frame-pointer" t

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Fish
Rob wrote: > I'm kind of lost, since the segmentation viololation is quirky, > showing up at different steps in the rescue process. I also during > using the i683 stage 3 tarball, ,that I ended up missing many import > files, like emerge, etc. I am kind of lost, because I haven't > discerned a p

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Fish
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > >> No, it can understand reiserfs and xfs filesystems just fine. > > > Actually, grub does have an issue with reiserfs. True, I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the correction. > As already mentioned, using reiserfs on boot is a compl

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
I don't think that vnetd is running, even though I think I started it: baby ~ # /opt/win4lin/bin/vnetd baby ~ # ps ax | grep 'vnetd' 11865 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep vnetd Did I format my ps command correctly? On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 11:11 -0400, Ron Bickers wrote: > On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am, M

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-25 Thread Rob
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:56:57 -0700, Rob wrote: Recently I have been using the latest Live CD to rescue my crashed Gentoo partition. But it seems like whenever I get to the point of almost being done, I suddenly get the message "segmentation violation".. This only occurs

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2005-06-25 Thread n00b_gentoo
HI List, I will be attempting to build the system from Stage 1 tarball, however I'm still confused what my /etc/make.conf has to look like. Would anyone give a sample make.conf or point me to a good samples for Pentium 3 (Coppermine) ? I will attempt to install from Kanotix LiveCD . Mu GCC is 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems

2005-06-25 Thread Ron Bickers
On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Are you running a Win4Lin patched kernel (eg, win4lin-sources)? > > Yes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a > Linux baby 2.6.11-win4lin #1 Fri Jun 24 15:34:04 CDT 2005 i686 AMD > Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux You should also h

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Richard Fish wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition, My guess is that grub only understands ext2 file-systems so can't work with your boot partition. No, it can understand reiserfs and xfs filesystems just fine.

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2005-06-25 Thread neil
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread maxim wexler
> By diverse means, we arrive at the same end. > > Holly Thanks, Holly. I remember thinking your suggestion too drastic to contemplate. Starting to look more reasonable now :o -mw Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Si

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviure during shutdown after baselayout upgrade.

2005-06-25 Thread Dan Johansson
On Friday 24 June 2005 16.49, Richard Fish wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > >Hi, > > > >After upgrading the baselayout I have a strange problem when I shutdown my > >computer. While shutting down some of the /etc/init.d scripts gets > > executed in the wrong order - especially net.eth0 and netmount.

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-functional X -- color fit (Intel 82845)

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Fish
Daniel Bickett wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I spontaneously decided to leave WinXP behind, and I burned > a Gentoo ISO and installed it. It took me all night, being that I'm > not experienced with these things, but here I am. The next thing I did > was emerge X and KDE, as I wanted a windowing sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X woes after baselayout update.

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Fish
Qian Qiao wrote: > >As u suggested, yes, my guess is udev isn't starting at the correct time. > > Well, udev is started by the /sbin/rc script, so maybe you want to take a look through that and see if you have some setting or file that tells udev not to start. Some of the things that affect ud

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc

2005-06-25 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 06:03, venerdì 24 giugno 2005, Rafael Dantas de Castro ha scritto: > that's strange, what kind of hardware do you use? PINNACLE TV RAVE with a serial cable ir sensor > well, a problem I had was I had serial support compiled in the > kernel, so the lirc driver couldn't use it. Try using setse

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-25 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi David, * David Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saturday, June 25, 2005, 1:26:27 AM: > I use a shell script that connects to my machines via ssh and > performs commands to: [...] > I made it so that there is a config file that describes the backup > as: host, db (yes/no), dir list. The machines are

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote: > >> This reminds me. When I installed 2005.0(sempron-box) >> I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition, >> since that gave no problem in 2004.3(k6-box)but it >> gave me some sort of error, forget which, so I went >> for the de

[gentoo-user] Framebuffer versus X

2005-06-25 Thread Walter Dnes
I admit to knowing nothing about framebuffer, which is why I'm asking all these questions. Can a viable Gentoo system with gnumeric, gimp, etc, be built on a framebuffer-only system? Can framebuffer co-exist with X? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at h

[gentoo-user] emerge weirdy

2005-06-25 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, Just had a weirdy. I was emerging unison on my home server. I was lazy and instead of walking the 6 feet to do it from the console, I just opened a konsole from my workstation. Got the following error: 386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o .libs/gdk-pixbuf-scan gdk-pixbuf-scan.o -rdynamic ../gdk-pixb

Re: [gentoo-user] masking issues.

2005-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:24:12 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Whitehead wrote: > I had tried the same problem. > > I didn't realize that I'd have to be so specific about what to > unmask... Thanks for the tip. 5.1 beta is < 5.1. -- Neil Bothwick We can sympathize with a child who is afraid of the dark, b

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:30:19 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: > You should leave /boot as an ext2 partition. My guess is that grub only > understands ext2 file-systems so can't work with your boot partition. GRUB does understand ReiserFS, although it is a complete waste of space using Reiser on a /