[gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
Proof: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -nr "dhclient" ./archival [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I have been getting annoyed at dhcpcd, which will take 180 seconds to ping even if there isn't a networking cable in my NIC. I use a laptop, so you can easily speculate how I got so annoyed. I know that Kubuntu had

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:08, Terry Eck wrote: > I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0. > I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting > from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of > weeks and have determined that there

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 13:48, Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:44:42 -0700 > > Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proof: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -nr "dhclient" ./archival > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > I h

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:56, Ryan Tandy wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 13:48, Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: > >> PPS. > >> The iface_eth interface is completely out of date, take a _very_ > >> good look at `/etc/conf.d/net.example

[gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
They're going to install wireless in my school so I guess I better get this working sometime soon : ) I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in either module or enabled.

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: > [SNIP] > > > I isolated my problem to this: > > > > emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because > > it says that the curr

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton Adams wrote: > You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to > /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device > name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it > work. Makes sense. How do I do

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:04, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:39, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz > > > CONFIG_IEEE80211=m > > > # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set >

[gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
This isn't exactly Gentoo-related, however, you guys tend to be the most command-line savvy group, and this is all about the command line at the moment... I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1) Where

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/19/06, Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joe Menola wrote: > If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-21 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/21/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: · Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm just scared to > use it because I don't know how. Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is: I did read the man page. The whole thing. If

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-23 Thread Lord Sauron
Weird problem. On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my services fail (apache, sshd, ddclient, etc), complaining that net.eth0 isn't running. I log in a

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/24/06, Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, "Lord Sauron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Weird problem. > > On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. > > During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and > ev

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/24/06, Juan Miguel Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: > Weird problem. > > On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. > > During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and > everything, however, then it goes in

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
Didn't work. Does anyone know what could be going on? This is really odd... I have this feeling that I'm in way over my head. -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+> P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/25/06, Robert Svoboda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-24 11:18]: > During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and > everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my > services fail (apache

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Lord Sauron
Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active. If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it. On 10/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-23 Thread Lord Sauron
CPI support. I only know a few precious things about emerge, like --sync, --search, and even --help, but beyond that I'm not that good at all, and the man pages didn't offer much help for me. I know this is a painfully elementary question, but thanks for any help you can give! ===

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Dain wrote: > > >>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel > >> > >> > > > ># cd /usr/src/linux Know how to do that... > ># make menuconfig I don't see a file called "menuconfig" in here. Will this work? All I see (that lo

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Lord Sauron
y as "emerge apmd"? On 3/24/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gabriel Dain wrote: > > > > >>However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel > > >> > > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > >On 3/24/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Gabriel Dain wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>>However, I do

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/25/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > > > >>Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo > >>and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better. > >> > >> > > > >Yes, I mea

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-25 Thread Lord Sauron
Found xinit! However... it's very... confusing. Well, not confusing; I understand most of it, however, I'm just not prepared to start carving it up - I don't want to know how bad I can screw things up. I think that if I go to ~/.xinit.d it'll be the thing I'm looking for, but I'm not sure. Her

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/25/06, Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:58, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > On Saturday 25 March 2006 21:22, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > Found xinit! However... it's very... confusing. > > > > What you want is a file called .

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/26/06, Gabriel Dain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "home directory" is ~. Get used to writing ~ for the home directory, > so that your scripts/apps/whatever are "plug n play" for all users. Yeah, it's just that I normally use my non-root account lsauron, however, I sometimes will open a Xnest w

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/26/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Dain wrote: > > >Are you sure you compiled it as embbeded, and not module? (* or M in > >menuconfig). If it is M, you'll have to load the module, and add it to > >the list of modules that are loaded at startup. > >-- > >Gabriel Dain >

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > >On 3/26/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >I had this set to be compiled into the kernel. Should that present > >any problem

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
Hey, I found something interesting... /boot/config > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 > # Sun Mar 26 17:30:03 2006 > # large snip of non-ACPI stuff, mainly architecture flags. > # > # ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interfac

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Devon Miller wrote: > > > Just to throw my 2 cents in... > > > > I always set > > > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y > > > > unless I'm building for a memory constrained system. This stores the > > config file in the kernel imag

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > >On 3/27/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >Extremely clever. I'll have to remeber cool tricks like that when I'm > >work

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
Okay, yet another update. I found that these packages were not installed: ibm-acpi acpi (though acpid was installed) I emerged them and then recompiled the kernel. However, I'm really beginning to get suspicious... I really think that a kernel recompile would take longer. Would you say about

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/27/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > Would you say about 45 seconds is right for a > > 1.0GHz Pentium-M with 256Megs of PC2700 SO-DIMM RAM? (200-pin, of > > course) > > Sounds about right. You aren't recompiling the W

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) > > IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) > > Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
ld tested the chip... the FX-60 was ~30% faster while being about $30 cheaper. Okay, I'll stop evangelising AMD now. Thanks for listening (it makes me feel somewhat important). On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. This might be a rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on your hands before diving in. However, the explanation shouldn't take long - I've never actually compiled/installed/used a kernel before. Okay, enough apologising

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch > > X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! > > Well, everybody h

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Always interesting discussions on this list. > > I have two questions for everyone (not just the person I'm responding > to): > > How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? AMD says the release will be within 4 mo

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Mike Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure that it was a Pentium M and not a Pentium4-M or just the It's ID is a Pentium-M Ultra-Low Voltage 1.0GHz Processor. It's basically whatever you'll find in the IBM X40 type 2386-1CU. My serial # is KV-AC277. Proud owner of a IBM.

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 21:58, Lord Sauron wrote: > > Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to. This might be a > > rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on > > your

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How soon do you think we'll see laptops with the Dual Core Turion64? > > Summer. Got to have them out in time for back-to-school purchasing, right? > > > > > Elsewhere (perhaps on thi

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
SOLVED!!! I did as you suggested. localhost ~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Current Kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 title Old Kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda3 titl

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great for you. However, if you got a laptop for non-work use > > (personal, communications, mobile DVD viewing, &c) would you rather > > get the massiv

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:42 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: > > On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and > > expect it to run

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:41 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: > > On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and > > > > expe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl, KDE, gnome

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/30/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering > ebuild testing, > I decided to give Xgl a try. Neat-o. Is it in the ~x86 area? > The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those > responsible!

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
the difference is causing a lot of confusion for most > people, especially when they aren't familiar with low level > programming. In the end this might degenerate to a "programmer's rating" thing. IE: one standardised benchmark. > On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTEC

[gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've got some broken dependencies. localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calc

[gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi - again. You are totally free to get tired of me and completely ignore me. Please, just make sure that you all don't do it all at the same time ; ) Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
blocking kde-base/konsole-3.4.3) No. Still doesn't like me. I never know about the meta packages, so I could be on Gnome for a little while until I get this sorted out, huh? On 3/31/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:52, Lord Sauron wrote: > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that > > I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, > > /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab. > > > > Well, I've narrowed it down to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 April 2006 02:25, Lord Sauron wrote: > > localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde-meta > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? > > Not only you can: you actually have to! :) > Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in > december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if > now it's dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, Mait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ > It's also useful in traditional way > $ man mount > $ man fstab Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was only for commands and stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote > > > > $ man mount > > > $ man fstab > > > > Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was > > only for com

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/1/06, Mait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/4/1, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 3/31/06, Mait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) > > > > Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/1/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't know if it relates to your case but I had a > similar problem until I realized the device was > formatted FAT16. Once I added proper support to my > kernel config it was smooth sailing. No, mine's a vfat. Here's a sample of what my /etc/f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/1/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lord Sauron wrote: > > If I ever meet the guy who made the cat command, I'm gonna kiss him. > > If I ever find the guy who made the less command, I'll do the same. > > One of my new favourite toys is cat | l

[gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-02 Thread Lord Sauron
Hello once more. I was good this time and did look through the documentation. In order to get the "beautification" on Gentoo I wanted (the nice graphics during the install and stuff) I researched it and installed splashutils. However, installation wasn't enough. There's a way to activate it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-02 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/2/06, Leigh Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks richard. > > is it safe to have compiled half a system with gcc 3.3 ubt to be compiling > new packages with 3.4? >From what I read, if you have half a package using gcc3.3 and the other half 3.4 or something, that won't work. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
I was a good cookie and went and tried my best. I did see some signs of success, however, they're not all complete... no pictures. The one sign of success was that the resolution was at [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a good sign. However, I think that was more attributable to my recompile of the k

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
Yeah, I read you. I found that during lunch. It works now : ) On 4/4/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Lord Sauron wrote: > [SNIP] > > and then I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > > > localhost ~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.l

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
To be a bit more verbose... I downloaded the web page to disk so I could toy with it during lunch, when I'm not connected to the internet. After about ten reboots I finally had it nailed down. My Windoze friends are gonna hate this... they've always regarded Window's bootup graphics as making w

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/4/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 19:33, "Lord Sauron" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] > Beautification - Splash': > > PS: I'm playing with this GPG stuff... I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/4/06, Bo Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:33, Lord Sauron wrote: > [SNIP] > > So I now use the theme "livecd-2006.0" Just my $0.02, but it's sorta > > difficult to change themes. Soon as I'm more bash literate, I&

[gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi, once again... I'm taking a Computer Science class in school, and they use Java for this class. I decided to try using Eclipse, a popular Java IDE, however, Eclipse appears to be masked (see # emerge --search eclipse output below). I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/5/06, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:31:20 -0700 "Lord Sauron" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * dev-util/eclipse-sdk > > Latest version available: 3.0.1-r2 > > Latest version insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/6/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/06, Rafael Bugajewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So eclipse sdk is what you WANT. :-) I think the ebuild names let > > people misunderstand some things... Yeah, oftentimes I miss the presence of a nice graphical package browser like S

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:49, "Lord Sauron" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] > Beautification - Splash': > > > You sent two copies of your message, one signed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/6/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 16:13, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 4/6/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, it is the eclipse project itself that has made this so damn > > > > con

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
Just a follow up: Installed the SDK Package. I have Eclipse now. That's really weird... calling your IDE a SDK... I'm sure there's some non-logic behind it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-04-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/7/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > If you're not concerned with battery nor weight. I suggest you go for > > the Dell XPS Mobile concept (when it becomes available) > > > > Now, that is one _*#$*#_ of a laptop. > > > > Eng

[gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-11 Thread Lord Sauron
Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery monitor in KDE. It did this, however, when the machine came out of sleep mode,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more > > alert and know what I did right before this happened. So

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martins Steinbergs wrote: > > > > > > >read ~/.xsession-errors > >maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few > >GB 'cause busy filling errors Yeah, I'll be looking in there shortly to see if there's any res

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-13 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My light blew out on one of my servers. No smoke but still no workey. > :-( I have to use top instead. Since the drive is so old, I can hear > it with no problems at all. A new LED and a soddering iron and you could fix it... --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a > miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. > Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/16/06, Daniel Waeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: >>> I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really >>> liked, so just made a

[gentoo-user] CD-ROM Isn't In fstab - don't know how to add it

2006-05-22 Thread Lord Sauron
I decided I needed major help with this one - in other words, a walk-through. I was working and shoved a CD into my laptop as I do every once in a while (not that often - I'm happy to use the network 99.999% of the time). Well, I stuck it in, and there wasn't any automounter action that

Re: [gentoo-user] CD-ROM Isn't In fstab - don't know how to add it

2006-05-22 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/22/06, Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A line in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro0 0 Should let access the cd/dvd: (root) # mount /mnt/cdrom (root) # ls /mnt/cdrom If you want users other than root to be able to mount it change 'noaut

[gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: > If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so > long to just index and search packages that took apt-g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive > > > /portage-20060123

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: > /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Simply a portage snapshot, maybe the one you used to install Gentoo in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On May 25 16:44, Daniel da Veiga (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > (correct me if I'm wrong, but you installed using the Gentoo Installer, > didn't you? if you had a complete experience of Gentoo install, you > would know that by now,

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... > > This doesn't look like genkernel: > It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, leszek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but what is RSYNC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync basically, portage use rsync to update the information on packages (ebuilds) in /usr/portage (with emerge --sync) > If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Yay! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol Milky Way galaxy, Orion

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, Ptitjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JimD a gentiment tapote: > It is official. > > http://picasa.google.com/linux/ > > It installs and runs well with Gentoo. > > Jim > Hi, 404 Error Not found ! Worked just fine for me... -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-27 Thread Lord Sauron
To clear this up, I will send the .tar.gz file to anyone who asks for it. Just beware: it's over 20 megs, so I'm going to have to slice it into many files so that you can re-assemble it. My email won't send over ten megs. But if you're having trouble, I'll send it. Just contact me (preferably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/27/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saturday 27 May 2006 13:42 skrev Iain Buchanan: > I've heard that argument before, and I don't know why some people see > that behaviour - esearch only takes seconds for me... It's not the esearch binary versus the eix binary where there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/28/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On May 27 11:29, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > At this rate, I'm inclined to recommend Kuroo to all of you. I've > been kicking the tires in on it, and it's really quite good. I have a fee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/28/06, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On May 25 21:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: > I'm learning Gentoo as fast and as much as I can! Cool! I hope you like it as much as the others here - it's a great system for a lot of uses. I

Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts

2006-05-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/30/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi group, The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E. Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the entire grub session: I'm not exactly sure, however, I'm making my best

Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts

2006-05-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/30/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/30/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/30/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E. > > Attempts

[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released. I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging g

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. > > I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with > gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc. Will put a binary tarball of "gcc-3.4.6-r1" (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB. CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -p

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > > So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? > > No. > &

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