[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
Happy New Year! BRM wrote: > The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as > the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. Yes. > The system has 3 hard drives: hda, hdb, and sda; as well as a dvd drive > (hdc). Check your /boot/grub/device.map to ma

[gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have downgr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:20 +, Mick wrote: > Happy New Year! so far :) 1 almost down and 365 to go! > BRM wrote: > > > The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as > > the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. > > Yes. > > > The system has

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +, Mick wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to > load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login > screen. I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On 01/01/2008, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +, Mick wrote: > > Happy New Year to all! > > > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to > > load up fluxb

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: > Happy New Year to all! > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to > load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login >

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: > > Happy New Year to all! > > > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread BRM
--- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy new year! Happy new year to you all to! > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:16 -0800, BRM wrote: > [snip] > > All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find > the > > kernel when I select "Gentoo Linux" or try to manually run the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread BRM
--- BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Grub came up, it was > thinking hdb equalled hd0 instead of hd1. So while it worked fine > with > hd1 from the CD (it didn't like hd0 then), it was mixed up when grub > actually ran. > Any suggestions on how to fix this so that grub runs well from within >

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:29:25PM +, Mick wrote: > I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run fluxbox > which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that the start up > script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs about it?) > If

[gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? -- -- With best regards, ezotrank kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r2, system uptime: 20:13:39 up 7:54, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.28, 0.13 -- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: > > * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:43:49 Florian Philipp wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. > > How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? > > Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? I try with emerge media-libs/libgphoto2 with CAMERAS="came

{Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Neil Walker
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. Not true. Here is just one recent example: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be

[gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

2008-01-01 Thread Grant
The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet. ndiswrapper is reported to work on ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net but there is no 64-bit driver listed. I've found a 64-bit Vista driver but ndiswrapper doesn't work with Vista drivers. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on > > opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:43:49 Florian Philipp wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi all. >>> How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? >> Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? > > I try with emerge media-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

2008-01-01 Thread david
Grant wrote: The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet. ndiswrapper is reported to work on ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net but there is no 64-bit driver listed. I've found a 64-bit Vista driver but ndiswrapper doesn't work with Vi

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
Encountered: warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available i googled and found a "no buffer space available". followed suggestions on the thread: warhammer etc # mount -va && df && mount -v /mnt/cdrom mou

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: > Encountered: > > warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom > mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: No buffer space available > > i googled and found a "no buffer space available". > > followed suggestions on

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: What is the cdrom? Music or Data? You can't mount a music cdrom... period. data However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a

RE: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
> data > > > However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into > > the kernel > > or available as a module for the "auto" part of your cdrom fstab > > line to work > > correctly... hmmm... maybe need also "autoload" in the module > > loading section > > of the kernel configu

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: If it says CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y -> its built into the kernel, and should be working yep. it is built into the kernel. so auto should work, correct? -- Cocoy "People who are really serious about software should make their own

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Cocoy Dayao wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > >> > > If it says > > CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y -> its built into the kernel, and should be > > working > > yep. it is built into the kernel. so auto should work, correct? You could try moving iso9660 to

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Cocoy Dayao wrote: You could try moving iso9660 to the top in /etc/filesystems, so it gets tried first. yep. done. thanks! -- Cocoy "People who are really serious about software should make their