Re: [gentoo-user] Install on ZFS

2017-08-15 Thread C .
Rich Freeman writes: > Is this your first Gentoo install, or your first Gentoo+ZFS install? > If the former, you're definitely not doing this the easy way... Not easy, no. But definitely possible. I managed to do so. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that it might be best to _not_ put "/boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Install on ZFS

2017-08-16 Thread C .
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On 15 August 2017 16:13:37 GMT+02:00, "C." wrote: >>Rich Freeman writes: >>> Is this your first Gentoo install, or your first Gentoo+ZFS install? >>> If the former, you're definitely not doing this the easy way... &

Re: [gentoo-user] Build librsvg-2.34.2 Error

2012-02-03 Thread C Study
I encountered this problem, and resolved it with the command 'emerge dev-libs/gobject-introspection'. These pages may help: http://forums.funtoo.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4984 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391213 Best regards. 2012/2/4 Alan McKinnon : > On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:22:21 -0500 > Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Most of your questions have been answered by more knowledgeable people on the list than I. However, I do I one comment: Richard Neill wrote: >4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users? > > > I can't say enough good things about Gentoo documentation: http://www.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread C. Beamer
John Jolet wrote: > Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a > kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my > hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just > did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480.

[gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2005-12-31 Thread C. Beamer
Hello and Happy New Year to all, I am so enamoured with Gentoo that I couldn't resist passing on this bit of trivia. O'Reilly recently published a book called "Linux Desktop Pocket Reference". The first chapter is available for viewing on the O'Reilly website and in that chapter the author rated

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread C. Beamer
Philip Webb wrote: >060101 Chris White wrote: > > >>On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: >> >> >>>Fedora: 3.45 >>>*Gentoo: 3.75* >>>Mandriva: 3.70 >>>Suse: 3.40 >>>Ubuntu: 3.90 >>> >

[gentoo-user] emerge update question

2006-01-02 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies .  ...done! [ebuild UD] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a [1.0.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update question

2006-01-03 Thread C. Beamer
Rumen Yotov wrote: >On (03/01/06 00:30), C. Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge >>--pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result: >> >>These are the packag

[gentoo-user] jre question

2006-01-07 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download the binary from sun and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Prior to downloading, I unmerge (or thought I did), the previous installation of jre. However, aft

Re: [gentoo-user] jre question

2006-01-08 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote: >On (08/01/06 02:44), C. Beamer wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I did an 'emerge --sync' tonight. One of the items on my list of >>updates was sun-jre-bin. Of course, the procedure is to download

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread C. Beamer
Martins Steinbergs wrote: >Hi, > >I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is bumpy >with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to tweak >settings and xine config with no luck. However, playing adio directly in xine >output is clear. >What is your e

[gentoo-user] Faxing in Gentoo with Digital Phone Line

2006-02-08 Thread C. Beamer
Hi Guys: I'm a little fuzzy here, so I'm asking for help. I recently subscribed to my local cable company's digital phone service. Now, I would like to send a fax from my computer. Is rp-ppoe what I need (and of course a fax client) to do this? If this is not what I need, please advise. Regar

[gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Well, I'm progressing with Gentoo. I now have it on my main computer and am *very* pleased. I even managed to get my Radeon 8500 graphics card working with 3D acceleration. However, I am having problems with getting printing to work. I eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing Problem

2005-09-10 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks John, Boy, do I have "egg on my face" with the first issue! John Jolet wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:55 AM, C. Beamer wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> I e

[gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-14 Thread C. Beamer
Hi All, A friend (non-Gentoo user) sent me this Gentoo-related url: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16002 I got Gentoo installed with only a few hitches and it's running like a charm since the install, but I'm still a "newbie" when it comes to Gentoo, so I bow to the superior kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-15 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arkady Grudzinsky wrote: > I would compare GUI to helper wheels for bycicles. You may need > them if you can't ride, but once you know how to ride they start > limiting you and getting in your way. In my experience, time spent > to learn the text inte

[gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-17 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, When I installed Gentoo, I chose syslog-ng as my system logger. It was suggested that I install logrotate to prevent my logfiles from becoming unmanagageably large. I did this. However, my /var/log/messages file includes logging from the first day that Gentoo was running on my system an

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:11:02 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > > > >>Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log >>files? >> >> > >Do you have a config file for syslog-ng in /etc/logrotate.d? This should >

Re: [gentoo-user] ntsysv equivalent (and logrotate frequency)

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
John Myers wrote: >On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:11, C. Beamer wrote: > > >> >>Is there a default length of time before logrotate will rotate the log >>files? >> >> >check in /etc/logrotate.conf. I believe the default is weekly. Also, if your

[gentoo-user] A Gentoo Equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of the following in Gentoo, so any help would be appreciated. When I used Fedora Core, on a daily basis, I could fire up Pine (or Mutt) and would get an e-mail that was essentially the output from my log files. One of the things that would be listed

[gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, Yesterday, I posted asking for a Gentoo equivalent of something I was able to do in Fedora, I got some answers which were of assistance, one being to check my logwatch.conf file to see what the frequency was set at. This helped because it was set weekly and since I had just installed log

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread C. Beamer
Dave Nebinger wrote: >> I cat'ed the dead letter file and at the end, the following appears: >> >> send-mail: RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (504 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address) >> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 > > > What MTA

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Cups does not see devices

2005-09-22 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, I had a situation when I was trying to get my Laser Jet printer recognized. I was fine with the ink jet, which was connected via usb, but the laser was connected to a parallel port. I had to recompile the kernel and select Device Drivers --> Parallel Port Support --> <*>Parallel Port S

[gentoo-user] Scanner Trouble

2005-10-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my scanner was working just fine. I don't use it that much, but today when I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found. I checked dmesg and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be anythi

[gentoo-user] Re: Scanner Trouble - Solved (I think)

2005-10-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I honestly don't know what I did. I was playing around checking different settings and now xsane works fine. Sorry for the bother. Regards, Colleen C. Beamer wrote: >Hi, > >When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my >scanner was work

[gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

2005-10-14 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and want to update world. When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a package that I had installed was blocking another package. I want to update but omit the blocked package from the update, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

2005-10-15 Thread C. Beamer
Rumen Yotov wrote: >On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and >>want to update world. >> >>When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world

Re: [gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

2005-10-15 Thread C. Beamer
Holly Bostick wrote: >C. Beamer schreef: > > >>I went to the painstaking effort of updating each package on my >>system that required updating individually and am left with this, >>which is the result of 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world': >&g

[gentoo-user] ODBC Connection to MySQL database

2005-10-15 Thread C. Beamer
Hello all, I am trying to set up an ODBC connection to a MySQL database. I have done this before when I used Fedora Core, but when I tried to do it today on my Gentoo system, I got an error message when I tested the connection. I have both UnixODBC and myodbc installed. The instructions that I

[gentoo-user] Re: ODBC Connection to MySQL and necessary packages

2005-10-16 Thread C. Beamer
g for 'mysql-shared and gentoo', but I can't figure out what Gentoo package this might refer to. Does anyone know? Regards, Colleen C. Beamer wrote: >Hello all, > >I am trying to set up an ODBC connection to a MySQL database. I have >done this before when I used Fed

[gentoo-user] Open Office and ODBC Connection to MySQL

2005-10-18 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out by the roots on this one. First, I had a bit of a problem getting the the ODBC connection to my MySQL database set up. That was my own fault though 'cause a couple of files that I though were supposed to go in /etc (that's where they went in Fedora Core) were actu

[gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a proper way to do what I did as a workaround. In September, when I wiped Fedor

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread C. Beamer
Qian Qiao wrote: >>The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step >>to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the >>database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking that >>it was because of the way I got my database files into M

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-10-30 Thread C. Beamer
Qian Qiao wrote: >On 10/30/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Qian Qiao wrote: >> >> >>>What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding >>>1000, then you hit a known bug. >>> >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-01 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Jeff Smelser wrote: >On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:15 pm, C. Beamer wrote: > > > >>The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step >>to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the >>database after the upgrade,

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread C. Beamer
Jeff Smelser wrote: >On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:58 pm, C. Beamer wrote: > > > >>The database >>that I had created by creating a directory that was named after the >>database that I had created when using FC4 and then copying my database >>related files

[gentoo-user] MySQL issue

2005-11-03 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Without going into a long drawn out explanation, I was having a problem with something on my system and though that maybe it was because of the upgrade I did to MySQL. So, I decided I was going to unmerge MySQL and emerge it again. That may have been a dumb move, but what the heck, you learn

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL issue

2005-11-04 Thread C. Beamer
John Jolet wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote: > >> On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:49 am, C. Beamer wrote: >> >> >>> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket >>> '/var/run/mysqld/mysql

[gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

2005-11-04 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to restart or shutdown my computer using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options to "End Current Session", "Restart the Computer", "Turn of the Computer" and of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

2005-11-05 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Webb wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: > >>Recently, when trying to restart or shutdown my computer >>using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options >>to "End

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

2005-11-05 Thread C. Beamer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martins Steinbergs wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to restart >>or shutdown my computer using the K menu &qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Visited web sites

2005-11-05 Thread C. Beamer
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > My wife is asking if there is an easy way to keep a list of all web >sites visited on a specific computer in the house. I don't know about >such stuff. Is there any way to do that for either Mozilla or Firefox? > > In Firefox: Edit --> Preferences --> Select the "Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get spellchecking to work on evolution

2005-11-15 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Alex Bennee wrote: >Although its enabled evolution never picks up any mis-spelled words. I >suspect its something to do with the fact no dictionaries are selectable >in the preferences dialog. > >I have aspell-en installed but that doesn't seem to be enough. > >Any ideas? > > I don't know i

[gentoo-user] xmms crashes

2005-11-29 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, Up until the day before yesterday, xmms worked fine and I was able to play audio files. On the weekend, I updated the kernel following the instructions in the "Kernel Upgrade Guide". Everything went fine. When I rebooted the computer my kmix icon was "x'd" out, so I unmerged alsa-driver and

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes

2005-11-29 Thread C. Beamer
Thanks for the response, but . :-) Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >Hi, >try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms, > > Actually, I removed the whole ~/.xmms directory after the fresh install. >Did you use any visual plugins? > > I have the blursk and blur-scope plugins installed, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms crashes - solved

2005-11-29 Thread C. Beamer
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >Hi, >try removing the config and menurc in ~/.xmms, >Did you use any visual plugins? >Because this are a little brittle and break easily after any upgrade. Just though I'd let the list know, I've solved the problem. Seems that xmms didn't like mikmod. When I instal

[gentoo-user] gcc Upgrade Problem

2005-12-04 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I was upgrading gcc using the directions in the GCC Upgrade Guide. All was going well. I was user what the Guide refers to as the "safer" method. I got to the 321 of 642 mark and the upgrade bombed. The specific upgrade being done was cyrus-sasl. Early in the output it complained abou

[gentoo-user] amaroK issue

2005-12-06 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I've finished rebuilding my system after upgrading gcc. I had to fix a couple of things, but everything is working fine except amaroK. amaroK will start and as normal, put its icon in the system tray, but if I hover the mouse over the icon, I get a "timer" displayed, which remains there

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issue

2005-12-06 Thread C. Beamer
Hi, I'm certainly not an authority here, but I suffered some minor pains getting alsa to work after upgrading gcc. I referred to the Alsa Gentoo Linux Guide. Marc Morrisette wrote: > I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It > went smoothly on 2 of them, everything w

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK issue

2005-12-07 Thread C. Beamer
Richard Fish wrote: >On 12/6/05, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Colleen, >> >>I have found a xine engine as the most stable for me. >> >> > >Seconded. > >-Richard > > Thanks to both Andrew and Richard for the response. I struggled with this until today. I *did* try to

[gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue

2005-12-11 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, I've become so enamoured with Gentoo that I've decided to install on my laptop. However, I'm having a bit of a problem. I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me. This wasn't a problem until I bui

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue

2005-12-11 Thread C. Beamer
Allan Gottlieb wrote: >At Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:42:13 +0000 "C. Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to >>install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue & update

2005-12-12 Thread C. Beamer
Devon Miller wrote: > Do you have CONFIG_CPU_FREQ defined in your kernel config? > > I have an HP laptop where I have seen similar behavior. After dealing > with it for some time, I tracked it down to a problem with changing > the cpu's frequency. For a very small period after the clock is > chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue - Success!

2005-12-12 Thread C. Beamer
Mariusz Pękala wrote: >>El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió: >> >> >>>My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install >>>of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been >>>h

[gentoo-user] Problem after emerge --update --deep world

2005-12-13 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, This issue is related to my desktop. Bear with me while I give some background details. A couple of months ago, I followed the MySQL Upgrade Guide to upgrade MySQL. At that time, some configuration files were changed. I don't know specifically if those changes had anything to do with a

[gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-17 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, >From all I've ever read and about Linux and the kernel, it has always been recommended that you keep one kernel source older than the one that you are currently running on your system. In this respect, I now have 3 kernel sources on my computer after upgrading today. I would like to rem

[gentoo-user] Minor Startup Issue

2005-12-17 Thread C. Beamer
Hi all, You'll probably think this is dumb, but what can I say? I'm a bit anal is some respects! :-) Today, I updated my desktop system and recompiled a new kernel. Afterwards I re-emerged alsa-driver and ati-drivers. The update solved an issue with not being able to turn off or reboot the co

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread C. Beamer
Thanks, Myk Taylor wrote: > emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 > or > emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 > > -C is short for --unmerge This did what I wanted it to do. I had the command right, I was just using the wrong name - I used linux-sources. What can I say ... I&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Minor Startup Issue

2005-12-18 Thread C. Beamer
Richard Fish wrote: >On 12/17/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>Up until now, when the computer boots and goes through its startup >>routine, the screen will "blip" and then the text that is scrolling by >>on the

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-19 Thread C. Beamer
James Ausmus wrote: >On 12/19/05, capsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Is there any program for makeing data bases as fast as ms access >>(works fast, small) and free as openbase? >> >> > >I haven't used it much, just looked at it a time or two, but Rekall >aims to be a MS Access work-ali

RE: [gentoo-user] DHCPd start / stop problem

2005-05-12 Thread C R. Little
have you done a zap? ./dhcp stop ./dhcp zap ./dhcp start ? -Original Message- From: Michael Semcheski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DHCPd start / stop problem Mark Knecht wrote: > Does /var/li

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge PHP+ Apache

2005-05-12 Thread C R. Little
e: [gentoo-user] Emerge PHP+ Apache On Thu, 12 May 2005, C R. Little wrote: > I've been messing with gentoo for around 2 years now and still have not > learned the full functionality of emerge. Wow - one wonders why you picked Gentoo if not for the package system??? -- -- gentoo-us

RE: [gentoo-user] Terminal Client

2005-05-13 Thread C R. Little
emerge -s rdesktop * net-misc/grdesktop Latest version available: 0.22-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 418 kB Homepage:http://www.nongnu.org/grdesktop/ Description: Gtk2 frontend for rdesktop License: GPL-2 * n

[gentoo-user] Problem Booting

2005-05-15 Thread C R. Little
I have installed Gentoo to a dual had drive system /dev/hda1 --> Windows XP Professional /dev/sda --> Gentoo Install /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda3 - / /dev/sda5 - /usr /dev/sda6 - /var /dev/sda7 - /tmp /dev/sda8 - /home grub.conf kernel line: root(hd1,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root /dev/r

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem Booting

2005-05-15 Thread C R. Little
title=Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -Original Message- From: Stanczak Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:53 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Booting Looks like you need you initrd added to gru

RE: [gentoo-user] Problem Booting

2005-05-15 Thread C R. Little
UPDATE I sent the wrong grub.conf file the right one is below: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 root (hd1,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda3 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=8192 vga=0x318 splash=verbose udev i

[gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
Title: SATA Boot problem-please help grub.conf- default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 root (hd1,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=8192 vga=0x318 splash=verbose udev initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gen

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
lease help On Monday 16 May 2005 16:19, C R. Little wrote: > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 > root (hd1,0) -- You could try changing this to root (hd1,1) > kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc > ramdisk_size=8192 vga=0x318 splash=verbose udev initrd >

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
A not SCSI I -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:16 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help On Mon, May 16, 2005 4:58 pm, C R. Little said: > That didn't seem to work ei

RE: [gentoo-user] mod_clamav

2005-05-18 Thread C R. Little
I'm not sure if it's in portage but I know you can install it though cpan -Original Message- From: Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:16 AM To: Gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] mod_clamav Hi, I was reading in Sys Admin a article about email content filte

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-18 Thread C R. Little
: Andrew Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:10 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help C R. Little wrote: >For some reason I don't think the kernel is loading the right drivers for the >SATA controller. &

RE: [gentoo-user] Install from Hell, now it's bash-2.05b

2005-05-23 Thread C R. Little
hing on bugzilla that looked relevant. Here's the error stuff, with my comments flagged "<<<<<<<" i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSHELL -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/bash-2.05b-r9/work/bash-2.05b -I../.. -I../../lib -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointe

[gentoo-user] ipw2200

2005-05-23 Thread C R. Little
How do I emerge the ~x86 version of the ipw2200 package? with out installing all of the ~x86 packages. I do. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -Dupv ipw2220 and it wants to recompile almost every package. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] ipw2200-IGNORE FOUND PAGE TO FIX

2005-05-23 Thread C R. Little
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1060314#1060314 -Original Message- From: C R. Little Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 How do I emerge the ~x86 version of the ipw2200 package? with out installing all of the

[gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-23 Thread C R. Little
I'm setting up my very first install of wine. I'm a bit confused on which one to emerge I would like to use Office 2003 Professional and have the ability to run games like world of warcraft. Just more "newbie" questions from me. Thanks for the help with everything. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

RE: [gentoo-user] wine

2005-05-24 Thread C R. Little
Thanks holly. -Original Message- From: A. R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:16 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine That was a great post Holly, very informative, I also run wine (every day at work) because I need to run Lotus Not

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

2005-05-26 Thread C R. Little
when upgrading to a new version of gcc is all you have to do is emerge the newer version and it works? the package has a S beside it so how does the system know which version to use? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

2005-05-26 Thread C R. Little
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade On 5/26/05, C R. Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when upgrading to a new version of gcc is all you have to do is emerge the > newer version and it works? the package has a S beside it so how does the > system know which version to use? # emer

[gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD, booted it up, and followed the instructions for installation on the spare drive. Eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
On Friday 28 November 2008 11:56:52 Iain Buchanan wrote: > ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying > a real distribution :) Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore... > Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using > for years... anyhoo wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
On Friday 28 November 2008 12:55:06 Andrea Momesso wrote: > An easy way to find out if this is a gentoo related problem is to > avoid using the livecd. > You can easily chroot into the gentoo drive from your ubuntu > installation and try to emerge > gentoo-sources from there. Ok, I've done this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread R C Mitchell
237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x U

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread C Lee Davis
I don't have a license to distribute Windows XP. -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ GCB for GURPS 4e http://fantasy.geographic.net/project/4eGURPS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-22 Thread C Lee Davis
Aggelos wrote: www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin www.petitiononline.com/golfinho It's messages like this that remind me my mailer has rules. Consider yourself killfiled. I'm here for Gentoo, not dolphins. -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geograph

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

2007-03-11 Thread C Lee Davis
ve_plugins before starting compiz again. I'm not sure what part fixed it, but it hasn't reappeared. -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ GCB for GURPS 4e http://fantasy.geographic.net/project/4e

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
isplay" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" EndSection -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ GCB for GURPS 4e http://fantasy.geographic.net/project/4eGURPS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-02 Thread C Lee Davis
rts X to go to full 1920x1200 resolution. The relevant lines from my my kernel's .config: CONFIG_FB_VESA=y # CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-2.16.3 - problems with the desktop not painting - no icons or wallpaper

2007-06-07 Thread C Lee Davis
on it. Just the panel at the > bottom. > I got behavior like this recently when I updated libexif and failed to do a revdep-rebuild... is that possible? -- C. Lee Davis Fantasy Geographic Society http://fantasy.geographic.net/ G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-19 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > gmx.de> writes: > > > >> got some problems here with the Flash Player Plugin and Firefox and >> may other parts. > > Well, I was "noodling" around the net about video (VP8) and there > seems to be a war brewing. As you know, Google is has open sourced > VP8 as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Player / Firefox trouble

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras >>>  wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 02/19/2011 11:08 PM, Elaine C. Sharp

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-20 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54:38PM +, Mick wrote > >> Ah ... mine have more. in alsamixer brings up all these Capture >> devices: >> >> Front Mic 67<>67 >> Mic67<>67 >> Capture80<>80 >> Capture80<>80 >> Digital61<>61 >> Digital33<>

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-24 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Am 24.02.2011 13:32, schrieb Dale: >> >>> My world file is fine. I went through it a while back and it is fairly >>> small. It's the system set that is larger than normal. >> >> Your system set has 50 entries, that seems to be absolutly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dual Boot Partitions

2011-03-01 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:35:55 walt wrote: > >> I've used this product several times with perfect results (so far): >> >> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php >> >> Of course if you already have a working linux machine you can install >> gparted and us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-03-06 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > --nextPart2016980.EoLg6xAmlW > Content-Type: Text/Plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sunday 06 March 2011 09:28:39 Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> > On Saturday 26 February 2011 21:53:52 walt wrote: >> >> There is a ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Jacques Montier (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0100): >> Hi all, >> >> I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7, >> then i run eselect python set python2.7, >> then python-updater. >> >> Here is the python-updater output : >> >> * Starting Python Updater... >> * Main ac

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-26 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > > the best filesystem for you is the one you have > tested and found best suits your needs. > I agree with that part of what you said (which is why I've stuck with ext3 for so long), but the rest may have been a tad harsh. -- ...she kept arranging and rearrang

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-26 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Bill Longman wrote: >> On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> kashani wrote: >>> On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: > I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has > happened to many others, see if you

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-26 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: >> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: >> >>> >>> Yep, I read about others having problems and loosing data. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-27 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, James wrote: > >What I would really like is to be able to exchange encrypted mail >with any MS user What, you've never received an encrypted email from a windows user before? If you think about it, surely you have... I know ms is pretty bad about standards and interoperabil

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