[gentoo-user] TV out with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2006-12-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, Has anyone managed to get TV out from a: == *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Radeon Mobility M6 LY vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': > On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VMware player will no longer start for m

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox". Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my bad. :) -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox". There should also be a variable in your X config. Cheers! -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On December 27 at 22:46 EST, frank hastily scribbled: > Hi, > > I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. > > I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new > versions of portage too). I don't mean to be rude, but you really should watch what Portage was doing. It's gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': > On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VMware player will no longer start for me. > The output of "equery files vmware-modules" shows > modules

[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread frank
Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic command "startx" TWM comes up. How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window mana

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, > and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. > > Suddenly, it complains that it's not co

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl as

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread reader
Tom Naujokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 12:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ...[snip]... >> >> Are you using [Xe]macs in console mode or in an xterm .. other? > > I'm starting xemacs from an xterm with the command "xemacs &". > >> What is the output of `alias|grep l

[gentoo-user] sysctl/_sysctl breakage with 2.6.19

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.18 -> 2.6.19 I notice that sysctl(2) seems to be - err - returning different (incorrect) data. for instance consider the simple test program to read kernel.shmmax (see end of mail): 2.6.18 -- $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 536870912 $ ./sysctltest sysc

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl as root I have emerge --oneshot vmware-modules both app

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-27 Thread Luca Botti
Funny. From kernel 2.6.18 on I receive this message when cold-booting my (linux only) notebook. On second try, it all works well. Disk geometry and partitioning has not been changed. I guess a bug in kernel. Alle Wednesday 27 December 2006 09:45, Robin Atwood ha scritto: > On Wednesday 27 Decem

[gentoo-user] seamonkey hangs @ 100% load

2006-12-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, my seamonkey (1.0.6) just hung up and runs at 100% CPU usage. It's actually 4 processes (1x->1x->2x). One seems to wait in poll() forever, another one in rt_sigsuspend, the third loops slowly in getpid() and poll(), and the 4th does something w/ 100%. I just installed flash, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/27/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Myers gmail.com> writes: > > I think I like your idea better, about distributing binaries. Do you know if something like this is being worked on? I'm certain that a common method to this, like what you're saying, would allow Gentoo to become

[gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-27 Thread James
Mike Myers gmail.com> writes: > > I think I like your idea better, about distributing binaries. Do you know if something like this is being worked on? I'm certain that a common method to this, like what you're saying, would allow Gentoo to become scalable to the point of being easily usable on

[gentoo-user] xen kernel and grub

2006-12-27 Thread pat
Hi all, I'm trying to setup my Gentoo box to use xen kernel, but during the boot I've got this: !! Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device... !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected My disk partitioning is like this: /dev/sda3 /boot /dev/sda5 / /dev/sda7 /mnt/data And t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 12:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...[snip]... > > Are you using [Xe]macs in console mode or in an xterm .. other? I'm starting xemacs from an xterm with the command "xemacs &". > What is the output of `alias|grep ls'? $ alias|grep ls alias d='ls --color' alias ll='

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA problems after UDEV-103 upgrade [SOLVED]

2006-12-27 Thread Arend von der Lieth
Now that I have marked that thread as "SOLVED" I feel obliged to give a short update (what really solved the problem): deleting /etc/asound.state unfortunately did not solve the problem, it just helped suppressing the warning message. I did not really notice as I had KDE use autodetect for soun

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread reader
Tom Naujokas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-26-12 at 19:24 -0500: > > ...[snip]... >> > >> > Good, however you should not really need to use ansi-mode. >> > I do not, and don't have the trouble you mentioned. >> > >> > In normal shell-mode (M-x shell) I do see the escape sequences yo

[gentoo-user] RE: I'm not getting gentoo list emails anymore?

2006-12-27 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had a bit of a debugging brainstorm this morning... I tried to subscribe from one of the virtual hosts on my server (I protected the name below to avoid spam). That "worked". And by "work", I mean, that the mlmmj list sent me back an email. So this tells me it is NOT my server configuration or IP

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-27 Thread Dale
OK. I have a update on this back-up thing. It don't work. I read that if you start it with no options it will figure most of it out then ask you for the rest. So I tried that way first. I get this though: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # mondoarchive > Initializing... > See /var/log/mondo-archive.log

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Grant Edwards HA||UCA: >>> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon >>> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI >>> driver that works with the 9

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:55:43 -0500 Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This makes me curious - is it possible to switch between using and not > using TV out or external monitor without restarting X and > switching .conf files? usually on a laptop pushing Fn+Fx button will change between LCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 10:13 -0600, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: > You did not mention you video card, so I hope this example for VGA and SVIDEO > output (multihead and standalone) > on i915/i810 chipsets helps. This makes me curious - is it possible to switch between using and not using TV out or e

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:12:08 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi,everyone! > > > > > > I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. > > > And when I start my gentoo,the error is : > > > > > > …… > > > 202.114.26.194 > > > 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 > > > ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:44:09 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > syncing the tree is not installing anything, all it does is update > > the list of what is available. Any comparison with Windows is > > irrelevant anyway, Linux is not Windows. yeah, in unix you can read files more than once a

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
> I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo. You did not mention you video card, so I hope this example for VGA and SVIDEO output (multihead and standalone) on i915/i810 chipsets helps. > My xorg.conf? what do I have to change? Relevant parts: Section "ServerFlags" # Option

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards HA||UCA: >> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon >> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI >> driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and >> older versions) won't com

[gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2006-12-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Do you have to specify a fixed IP address? Couldn't you use dhcpcd and let it obtain an address from the router? Yes,we must use the fixed IP. -- Regards, Mick -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2006/12/27, Oliver Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello "already taken on" means the IP is already taken in the Network. Another host with the same IP exist in your LAN. But when i restart my machine and enter another OS(ubuntu),the network is OK and the ip is the same:202.114.26.194?So I think t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Tue, 2006-26-12 at 19:24 -0500: ...[snip]... > > > > Good, however you should not really need to use ansi-mode. > > I do not, and don't have the trouble you mentioned. > > > > In normal shell-mode (M-x shell) I do see the escape sequences you > > mention but not in eshell (M-x eshell). > > .

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] xen kernel problems

2006-12-27 Thread pat
Sorry to all, I've mixed dom0 and domU params in Xen kernel section. Pat On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:48:43 +0100, pat wrote > Hi all, > > I'm trying to setup Xen kernel fro my Gentoo following instructions > from the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo documentation, > but I without lu

[gentoo-user] net-proxy/middleman

2006-12-27 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi to all, I have emerged net-proxy/middleman-2.0.1-r2 recently. But not able to configured it. Has any body done this. If yes than please help me. I will be very thankful to you all. Bijayant Kumar Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 11:12, Oliver Schmidt wrote: [snip] > > I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. > > And when I start my gentoo,the error is : > > > > …… > > 202.114.26.194 > > 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 > > ERROR:Problem starting needed service net.eth0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote: > < snip > >> i agree, i think automagicly syncing the tree is a bad idea. look at >> it this way Do you have your windows machines set to automgicly >> chack, and install updates ? >> > > syncing the tre

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ / Cairo / pdf-flag mutual build problem.

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/24/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did an "emerge --sync" and "emerge --ask --deep --update --world". When emerge got to x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, the following happened... checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config checking cairo-pdf.h usability... no checking cairo-pdf.h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote: > > > During this my cron did "emerge --sync". > > > > I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very > > reason... I have a cron script that syncs each morning, but it checks that emerge is not running first, to avoid

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg and KDE on Gentoo going crazy with my laptop display.

2006-12-27 Thread Remy Blank
Erik wrote: > Sometimes the display just stays on forever as if it has > completely forgotten that it should shut off after 1 minute. I always > have kcontrol->Peripherals->Display->Power Control open, because > changing a setting, changing it back and pressing Apply fixes the > problem, but on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: > execute "rsync rsync.gentoo.org::" for a few times. I always see the > banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. > > That is STRANGE! The resolver is caching the result of looking up rsync.gentoo.org. Until that expires, which depend

[gentoo-user] problem emerging tclx

2006-12-27 Thread Michael George
I'm updating my system (amd64) to gcc4.1 and things are going rather smoothly. One problem I'm having, though, is that tclx-8.3 will not complete it's build. I can build it fine with gcc-3.4, but not 4.1. The error I get is: /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tcl

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Oliver Schmidt
Hello "already taken on" means the IP is already taken in the Network. Another host with the same IP exist in your LAN. regards Oli > Hi,everyone! > > I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. > And when I start my gentoo,the error is : > > …… > 202.114.26.194 > 202.114.26.194 alr

[gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,everyone! I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. And when I start my gentoo,the error is : …… 202.114.26.194 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 ERROR:Problem starting needed service net.eth0 netmount was not started My network is Brodcom Netlink(TM) Gibabit Ethernet,

[gentoo-user] xen kernel problems

2006-12-27 Thread pat
Hi all, I'm trying to setup Xen kernel fro my Gentoo following instructions from the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo documentation, but I without luck :-( I'm using the genkernel to generate kernel. xen-sources-2.6.16.28-r1 genkernel-3.4.4 Can someone help me or point me to the slout

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/26/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Myers gmail.com> writes: > Hi! I know I don't post here much but I read it a lot and have been using Gentoo for several years now. I keep seeing users mention about how they do an update and then everything goes to crap. I've experienced t

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and /etc/portage/package.*

2006-12-27 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:40:58 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > It's done because of the updates files > in /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ which I think are read during > `emerge --sync`. I'm not aware of any documentation for this so I >

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-27 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: > You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are > identified as. > > > Also, I need to know how to "change" the Windows partition so that > >Windows b