Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > I know this is a long shot, and not many people run diskless hosts. > I have one with kind of a loud fan that uses a lot of energy - it's a > pentium 4 in a slimline case and it runs pretty hot, so I can't > adjust the fan speed based on temperature,

Re: [solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama on 945GM: "Set VBE mode failed"

2007-05-24 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007 18:08 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Have you tried booting (with the device plugged in) into single user > mode, then trying to convince the system to use the built in screen as > the default device (fn-f7 on my machine), and finally exiting the > single user shell to go multi

[gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would be the most relevant gcc optimization for Inte

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/24/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? This from the GCC website about 4.2.0 release changes: IA-32/x86-64 * -mtune=generic can now be used to

[gentoo-user] Re: which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for > Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? In the kernel: Yes. At least in 2.6.21. > And is there explicit support in the latest gentoo kernel for Core 2 > Duo, or does it go under Pentium 4 family? I'd say,

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:30 -0400, Denis wrote: > After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' > flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems > like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? Yes. > We don't have gcc-4.2.0 in our portage availa

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the devs consider it suitable for at least the testing branch or > when you do "echo =sys-devel/gcc-4.2*" >>/etc/portage/package.mask, > whichever comes sooner. Even that will not work (yet) as gcc-4.2 is not actually masked it is not keyworded. --

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bear in mind that GCC is almost certainly masked for good reason. It's not like you're using a binary distro and only need a compiler for a few packages. Feel free to try it in the knowledge that if it breaks your system, you get to keep the pi

[gentoo-user] OT - Disabling hidden file view in GNOME dialog boxes

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Whenever I try to Open/Save in GNOME, it pulls up a dialog box that lists hidden files as well as visible files. Those hidden files are hidden for a reason, the reason being that I did not consciously create them, so I should not have to wade through them in order to get to my files. How can I di

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Disabling hidden file view in GNOME dialog boxes

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:22:46 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Whenever I try to Open/Save in GNOME, it pulls up a dialog box that > lists hidden files as well as visible files. Those hidden files are > hidden for a reason, the reason being that I did not consciously create > them, so I should not

[gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Thiago Lüttig
hi folks ! My gentoo desktop needed to be reinstaled this week, and i did it :) well, all compiled, without a single error, kernel 2.6.20-r8 installed, ok. when i start my kde, it hangs, showing only the X window with mouse cursor, when i return to the terminal, i got some messages refering to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > hi folks ! > My gentoo desktop needed to be reinstaled this week, and i did it :) > well, all compiled, without a single error, kernel 2.6.20-r8 installed, ok. > when i start my kde, it hangs, showing only the X window with mouse cursor, > when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Fabio A Correa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thiago, Thiago Lüttig wrote: > saying, it cannot contact DCop Server or connect to the X server. I Could you please post the messages the console printed? Have you tried to startx as another user? As root? Could you please attach /var/log/Xor

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:05:14 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:23 -0500 > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know swapon doesn't work on regular files, so to add my swap I > > need to first use losetup to set up /dev/loop0 as my sw

[gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. My question concerns sharing some directories between the two (naturally only one is active at a time). In particular can I share * distfiles (DISTDIR) * logs

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:56:30 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, for what it's worth, > Your entire post seems half-assed, and I think you need to think it > through carefully: > > 1. What are you *actually* trying to do? Seems like the fan is loud, > so a) replace the fan with

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. My question concerns sharing some directories between the two (naturally only one is active at a time). I

Re: [gentoo-user] two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:14:53PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote > Hi group, > > I connect to the web using > > $sudo /usr/sbin/pon > > on one machine(2.6.20-gentoo-r6). On another > machine(2.6.19-gentoo-r5), I get > > :sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied. Is "picky" a member of

[gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick install guide. Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device driv

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel > after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a > fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick > install guide. > > Here's the error I get at

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for > x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to > use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because there isn't an amd64 version > available). Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see? maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support? I wanted to attach a dmesg output but I don't know how where I can extract it. It's a fresh install, and the only way I can boot right now is with the Gentoo CD... The file sy

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Will Briggs
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. > I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. I assume you've checked whether it is 64-bit compatible. Not all Core 2 Duo's in 6400's are. I have a T2400 processor in my 6400 which

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread david
What make and model motherboard? Did you set the clock with date? Did you cp your zone information? -- Powered by Gentoo/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I fa

[gentoo-user] Problem with keyboard in XFCE and Fluxbox

2007-05-24 Thread gosha-necr
Hi all! I have a problem with symbol 'vertical-line' (now i'm in fluxbox session,and cannot insert it :)) In gnome or plain console (tty1..6) all works fine, keyboard works without any problem, but in XFCE and Fluxbox i have a problem.. in quake3 keys a,w,s,d not working... vertical line not ins

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/24/07, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One conc

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 > processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all > the controllers on the board are Intel. > > I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. > > One

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
Device Drivers: Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers ---> one below scsi, two below ide. Yes, I combed through that and set all the necessary options there before, so I doubt this is the problem... I've just reconfigured the kernel and recompiled it on another fresh inst

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for > x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to > use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
SOLVED. I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I didn't bother with some of the ot

Re: [gentoo-user] two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-24 Thread maxim wexler
> Is "picky" a member of both "users" and "wheel"? Yes > Does picky's machine > run PAM? PAM has additional config files to control Yes, and /etc/pam.d/sudo is identical on both machines Also permissions under /usr/bin/sudo are identical on both machines: ---s--x--x. As are all other bin an

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: > SOLVED. > > I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working > Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) > > I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same > basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I > didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: >> I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper >> from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft >> laying around in there. > > In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more > painful to fix because I had to go through

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft laying around in there. In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more painful to fix because I had to go through the procedures twice and

[gentoo-user] Problem configuring ppp forpppoe

2007-05-24 Thread John covici
Hi. I am having difficulty configuring ppp to use pppoe. A kernel module pppoe and pppox are loaded, but I get the following error from pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd unknown option "eth2" Now eth2 is what I have in the link_ppp0 line in the /etc/conf.d/net Any assistance would be appreciated. Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Will Briggs wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. > > I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. > > Not all Core 2 > Duo's in 6400's are. I have a T2400 processor in my 6400 which is not > em64t enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 May 2007 07:28:31 +0200 Roman Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will Briggs wrote: >> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> > I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. >> > I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. >> >> Not all Core 2 >