Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox

2010-10-09 Thread Mick
On 9 October 2010 03:29, James Wall wrote: > On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote: >> On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: >>> 2010/10/8 Mick : I want to install MSWindows in a VM.  I want to be able to use the guest MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?

2010-10-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/10/9 : > > Hi, > > in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found > the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. > When I give "acpi" in the gentoo wiki I found installation > instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. > > I am confused now... > > I am using an

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Carter
> > The same TX & RX are shown for both interfaces. > That implies that they are layer 2 counters and will therefore be the same for a given physical interface. > I don't know whether the tools have changed much since those I'm using on > this box, but the difference *might* be that Grant's IPs a

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?

2010-10-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Oct 2010, at 05:40, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > ... > in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found > the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. > When I give "acpi" in the gentoo wiki I found installation > instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-10-09 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Monday 30 August 2010, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard > drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using > its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules > which are not currently working. I'm tryin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
James [10-10-08 16:36]: > gmx.de> writes: > > > > > > for a long time I have compiled makehuman from the svn tree. > > quick guess...lafilefixer --justfixit? > > > In the past with some video games, I had problems with the > .la files after compiling new versions of the games that >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Oct 2010, at 13:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > ... > I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... > > The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. > Would it possible, that this flag is set for 32bit-Linux by default > and is totally missing (not shown when

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 07:49, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote >> On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmel >>> wrote: On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > Heya, > I notice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/9/10, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:03:19PM +0300, Arttu V. wrote > >> I think the eclass(es) might be messing up the config, e.g., by >> force-feeding pango and some other settings. >> >> Could you try also copying the mozcoreconf-2.eclass to your local >> overlay's eclass

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: > >> --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 >> will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). > You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. > >> --enable-oji >> will Firefox run without this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller [10-10-09 18:16]: > > On 9 Oct 2010, at 13:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > ... > > I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... > > > > The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. > > Would it possible, that this flag is set for 32bit-Linux by defaul

[gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... Anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea Conti
On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to > mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Note however that the ebuild will *not* update the

Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-09 1:48 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: > On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: >> I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to >> mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... > /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Thanks - I tho

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-09 Thread Yohan Pereira
thats odd im typing this from kmail. whavt version? -- - Yohan Pereira.

[gentoo-user] USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
Hi, When I ran eix hdf command, all of a sudden my usb drive started making weird noises. I only have ccache, distfiles and packaes directories on sda2, the usb disk partition. I don't know why eix waked up the disk. Eix hung there non-responding for a moment as the disk kept making noises, so I i

[gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen : > I am not sure what may have caused the issue but there are two things > I suspect that may have caused this. > 1. I usually forget the device is mounted and sda1 partition swappedon > while suspending/sleeping the system. I run fsck.ext3 on the > complaining dirty partitio

[gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread walt
On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote: 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new disk drivers in the kernel "CONFIG_ATA" section rather than the older and deprecated "CONFIG_IDE" section. That wi

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread James
Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia card. I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT appear in the screenshot. -james On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 October 2010 19:22:57 Daniel D Jones wrote: > Any help on tracking down the cause is greatly appreciated. That's interesting. Here it's the other way round: on first logging-in to the desktop, with kmail saved as an application from the previous session, kmail takes for ever to g

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote: > Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a > Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia > card. > > I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT > appear in the screensho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt wrote: > On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote: > >>> 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda > > If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new > disk drivers in the kernel "CONFIG_ATA" section rather than