On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:56:42 + (UTC), James wrote:
> > > Or maybe something cool related to the usb buss and
> > > a trick to *uniquely lable* usb devices.
> I'd need
> a tool/script/program to rip the serial number from the usb
> buss. and then compare it to the FStab or udev rules.
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, James wrote:
> > > Also, I'm thinking about a udev rule or fstab entry
> > > on the gentoo system to uniquely identify the drive
> > > as I often attach several usb(stick or drive) devices
> > > to one system at any given time; so I'm looking for
> > > a scheme that th
James wrote:
Can you flesh out your idea with a little bit more detail?
(remember I have many usb devices and move them frequently between
windows and Gentoo systems).
James
Just to be clear this isn't *my* idea, see:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Fstab
ubuntu and I assume other
No I haven't. I'll try one soon. This is a new 1GB DDR2 from
Kingston. It would be interesting if it fails. Note that w/ Ubuntu's
kernel, I have not encountered a balk at all in booting.
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 3:51 PM, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > When attem
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware
> issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been
> encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and
> no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW
Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu
kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything as
modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of what is
being utilized?
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 11:00 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu
> kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything
> as modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of
> what is being utilized?
Like most b
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> This all seems to betting unnecessarily complicated. See
> http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for an explanation of how to
> write udev rules to give persistent naming based on any attribute of the
> device, including serial numbers.
OK, let me do
It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
'C compiler cannot create executab
For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf:
(wrapped for mail)
kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \
vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary.
I have it there to allow console mode to have much larger resolution than
defa
On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
> python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
> getting gcc to work. I did a quickp
On Jan 8, 2008 8:24 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
> > Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort
> > of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it.
> > Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated.
>
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
> sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
> last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No
> messages in dmesg.
Have you trie
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>> Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
>> sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
>> last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No
>>
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf:
>
> (wrapped for mail)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \
> vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
>
> I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary.
FWIW, I hav
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> It should be there. Which kernel sources and release are you using?
Ok, I just noticed that you're talking about 2.6.23-r5, which seems to
imply you're using gentoo-sources. In this case, what I said before is
still true, but FB_VESA also depe
Christopher Copeland gmail.com> writes:
> As Neil said, udev rules can make it work or you can edit one line of
> your fstab. So that this:
> /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb type defaults 0 0
> Becomes:
> UUID=123456 /mnt/usb type deftauls 0 0
This make perfect sense...
> You can find
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
> > sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
> > last seven. Pretty much the
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc
> and python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm
> working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
> posted? (Its not in `man vga')
>
> And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
> probably also has the decimal equivalents.
You can ignore this request... I found a nifty hex to dec
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
> ...
> By the way about the vga= setting. I grabbed a chart from some where
> long ago showing the notation I was using:
>
> ##640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
> ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x307
> ## 32k
Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> During make menuconfig, hit / and enter the text you want to search
> for (in this case, obviously, it's FB_VESA), and hit enter. It
> should show you where that particular option is found in the
> configration. In my case (vanilla 2.6.23.9), it shows
>
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Tony Stohne skrev:
> ...
> less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
> should do it, i think.
>
No, that was not it. Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
> Regards
> //Tony
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On Wednesday 9 January 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> then. But again, it does not matter whether you use hex or decimal, as
> long as the value you use is the same.
Sorry, bad wording. I meant: as long as the number you enter (whether hex
or decimal) represents the video mode you want to get.
--
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> By the way about the vga= setting. I grabbed a chart from some where
> long ago showing the notation I was using:
>
> ##640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
> ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x307
> ## 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
> > posted? (Its not in `man vga')
> >
> > And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
> > probably also has the decimal equiv
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Tony Stohne wrote:
> Tony Stohne skrev:
> > ...
> > less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
> > should do it, i think.
>
> No, that was not it. Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
>
> > Regards
> > //Tony
Courtesy of fb/vesa.fb, kcalc hex<->dec and 10 minutes fre
On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > > Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
> > > sound-juicer still only r
On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >
> > > > Things here are
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:17:37 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
> > > posted? (Its not in `man vga')
> > >
> > > And I don't reca
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0
On Jan 9, 2008 5:16 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PRO
Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Hi Dale,
>I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are
> not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem
> to work fine with hald disabled.
>
>I think the overall set of problems were:
>
> 1) sound-juicer has developed some
Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Hi Dale,
>I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are
> not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem
> to work fine with hald disabled.
>
>I think the overall set of problems were:
>
> 1) sound-juicer has developed some
Thanks for the input.
I tried it on both of my Gentoo boxes. One worked and the problematic one
gave me the following output;
# gcc test.c -o test
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
I'm going to try quickpkg again but this time from the working box. The
f
Alan,
I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet
anyway, give me time though.
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