Hi!
I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo
installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did
so, but I had the same problem as the user here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0-does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/
A
On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
Marcus Wanner cox.net> writes:
To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after
that, what driver do I need?
emerge lshw
'lshw ' may help
hth,
James
Except emerge won't work because internet won't work :(
On 10/27/2009 7:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote:
Hi!
I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo
installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did
so, but I had the same problem as the user here
On 10/27/2009 9:28 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner:
On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
Marcus Wanner cox.net> writes:
To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and
after that, what driver do I n
On 10/28/2009 06:38 AM, Damien Sticklen wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
lscpi returns command not found
Are you using the lspci command as root?
Yes, I haven't set up a non-root user yet.
Marcus
On 10/27/2009 09:42 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 10/27/2009 9:28 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner:
On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
Marcus Wanner cox.net> writes:
To sum it up: How d
On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
To read your PCI connected devices you need:
lspci -v
HTH.
That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver
it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD,
then that driver is most likely
On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
To read your PCI connected devices you need:
lspci -v
HTH.
That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver
it is using for what
On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got
similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com
Corporation 3c905C-TX
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the
entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for
how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being
(afaict) very invasive to the rest of the system. Thanks!
Marcus
P.S. Mozilla consi
On 11/2/2009 1:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/02/2009 07:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the
entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for
how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn'
On 11/2/2009 1:40 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 11/2/2009 12:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the
entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for
how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn'
On 11/2/2009 3:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Thank you, I added firefox and xulrunner to package.keywords and that did
the trick.
Marcus
You might want to periodically run eix-test-obsolete -d to see if the
two packages get marked
On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote:
Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems?
Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15)
for 700. So it should solve the equation k * 160 + m * 30 + n * 15 =
700. (A solution happens to be k = 4, m = 2, n = 0. An add
On 11/2/2009 5:59 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:48 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/2/2009 3:49 PM, Erik wrote:
Is there some simple little program to solve assignment problems?
Suppose that someone bought k meat (160), m fish (30) and n milk (15)
for 700. So it
On 11/3/2009 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Nice... good advice all around. Thanks posters.
Turns out I have bigger problems. ( I didn't upgrade gcc) but the
things I did upgrad in upgrade system followed by upgrade world. Have
messed up mouse and keyboard in X.
Try recompiling the evdev, mo
I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get
working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with
outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got
results after following the guide at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Joystick
I did what it sai
On 11/7/2009 9:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get
working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with
outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got
results after following the guide at
http
On 11/9/2009 7:24 AM, Mick wrote:
2009/11/9 Erik :
Mick skrev:
I am trying to copy some text from a pdf file which has been
protected, most likely using Adobe on a MSWindows machine. When I
select some text, the new KDE4 pdf viewer (Okular) shows the 'copy
text' right click menu greyed
On 11/9/2009 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Wow...that makes Okular illegal in the US under the DMCA for circumventing
DRM...
That's dumb, even dumber than software patents...
Marcus
DMCA has an exception for features that
On 11/11/2009 2:01 PM, Alexander Clark wrote:
I'm getting a strange error on one particular box when I try to emerge
--sync:
rsync error: sibling process crashed (code 15) at main.c(1505)
[generator=3.0.6]
>>> Retrying...
dmesg told me:
grsec: From 66.55.54.28: signal 4 sent to /usr/bin/rsy
On 11/11/2009 5:47 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
I am now looking at some
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -avuDN world
This gives me 464 packages (441 upgrades, 15 new, 6 in new slots, 2
reinstalls, 4 uninstalls) ... phew ... maybe tomorrow ...
;-)
On 11/11/2009 4:10 PM, Alexander Clark wrote:
In any case, emerge-webrsync works for now (thanks Marcus, not sure
why I didn't think of that).
Glad I could help. However, a better solution is probably needed in the
long run.
Marcus
Hi!
I am moving to ~x86 from x86, and was wondering if the instructions at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml apply to me. I
installed my system less than 3 weeks ago and was wondering if I am
already using baselayout-2 and openrc, and whether I need to do what
that page says.
On 11/11/2009 7:31 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I am moving to ~x86 from x86, and was wondering if the instructions at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml apply to me. I
installed my system less than 3 weeks ago and
On 11/12/2009 5:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:12:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Roy Wright schrieb:
Also keep in mind that it's the ebuild that is "untested". The package
is usually what upstream has released as stable.
I haven't yet looked at it t
Hi,
As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to
~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when it
got to xorg-server-1.6.5, it crashed complaining about
"../Xext/panoramiX.h:44:41: error: X11/extensions/panoramiXext.h: No
such file or directory".
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:23:11 Marcus Wanner wrote:
Hi,
As you have all noticed by now, I am currently upgrading my system to
~x86. About 220 of the 238 packages were built correctly, but when
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag.
Me or Alan?
OP
As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issu
On 11/12/2009 1:21 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag.
Me or Alan?
OP
As a sugges
On 11/12/2009 1:29 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 1:21 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama"
On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Disable (either temporary or
On 11/12/2009 5:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at
On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote:
Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now emergeing any
of them starts with:
Error: Unrecognized option: --impl-headers
exiting
and
ends with:
CCsing
On 11/12/2009 5:48 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote:
Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-server to compile, now
emergeing any of them starts
On 11/12/2009 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 13 November 2009 00:06:53 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 5:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12
On 11/12/2009 6:02 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 5:48 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/12/2009 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 November 2009 22:36:51 Marcus Wanner wrote:
Now I can't get ANY version of xorg-serv
On 11/12/2009 11:36 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Spoke too soon...now I'm getting this:
../doltcompile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../include-DHAVE_ssing-declarations -Wnested-externs
-fno-strict-ali
On 11/13/2009 3:24 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
Hi group,
Can someone explain to me how to generate a list of files to be
fetched, eg -fuDN world, on a slow desktop that can be downloaded onto
a netbook later?
Maxim
You want to generate a list of packages to be upgraded, and then upgrade
them on
I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install
went without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I
didn't really like the default theme, so I installed commonbox-themes
and commonbox-themes-extra. I opened lxappearance and tried to switch to
one of my sh
). lxappearance
changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went
without a hitch...). I also installed commonbox-styles because I didn't
rea
On 11/17/2009 10:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-11-17, Jos? Romildo Malaquias wrote:
Once I have written a dvd ISO image to a dvd-r disk and then I have
deleted the image from the hard disk. Now I need the image again, but
reading the image from disk does not give me an identical image
anged with "obconf" (emerge it if you don't have it). lxappearance
changes the gtk and icon themes. (gnome-themes, gtk-engines-* etc)
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I installed lxde and am really liking it (stabilization soon? install went
without a hitch..
On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a
coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick
after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter.
I am pretty sure that this is the case. The
I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6"
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.
Thanks, and sorry for my noobishness.
Marcus
On 11/19/2009 4:10 PM, Eray Aslan wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:49:19PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6"
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while,
On 11/19/2009 6:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6"
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can'
On 11/19/2009 6:45 PM, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Better use the interactive init feature. Just hit 'I' when init starts
(init even tells you, that you can do it) and choose which services to
start by hitting 'y' and 'n'
(actually 1, 2, 3, and 4)
Marcus
On 11/20/2009 8:52 AM, econti wrote:
Hi all,
finally I decided to upgrade from kde3 to kde4. All went well, but:
1 - I am not able to fix the frequency of the display, neither using
nvidia-settings nor throught System-settings->Dislplay. Every time a
session starts I have to set it again (and
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the other hand there the 'q-tools' i.e. a lot of
symlinks to /usr/bin/q
like
qfile
qdepends
quse
and so on.
On 11/20/2009 11:56 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 20 Nov, Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 11/20/2009 4:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
there are two utilities on (my) Gentoo system and I wonder
when to prefer which one.
On one hand there is 'equery' with many commands.
On the
On 11/20/2009 2:28 PM, econti wrote:
cut
further
4 - I cannot mount a partition (both from command line and from
desktop) the answer is "Only root can mount a device" (all
permissions are the same as before)
I would check out "groups " and see whether you are a
member of the plugdev g
On 11/20/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:03 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Ah. Then I can't really give you any recommendation besides the fact
that gentoolkit seems to be what most people use, and there is
certainly something to be said for using the most po
On 11/22/2009 1:45 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
Hi group,
My netbook uses an SD card for additional storage. I suspect it of
being buggy so I compiled the kernel with 'CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG=y'.
Questions are: how do I use it to check the SD card? Is this the
correct method?
Maxim
If you just want to
On 11/25/2009 12:20 PM, Chuck Robey wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
m...@dragonfly ~/Desktop $ eix eclipse
* dev-java/ant-eclipse-ecj
Available versions:
(3.3) 3.3.0-r1
(3.4) 3.4
(3.5) ~3.5.1
{elibc_FreeBSD}
Homepage:http://www.eclipse.org
I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a
"Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio
Accelerator]" sound card which uses the snd_cs46xx kernel driver. After
suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer works.
I checked out
On 11/25/2009 5:10 PM, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:29:43 Marcus Wanner wrote:
I just set up suspend to ram on my old Dell Dimension 8200. It has a
"Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio
Accelerator]" sound card which uses the snd_cs46xx ker
On 11/26/2009 2:21 AM, Mick wrote:
I guess you may need to moprobe -r before you hibernate and see if
that works?
Yes, but only if not programs are using the module. Now, I have a script
which shuts down alsasound, unloads and reloads the module, and then
starts alsasound. However, it only
On 11/26/2009 12:55 PM, David Relson wrote:
Alternatively, one can use the autounmask command, for example:
autounmask dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.5.1
On my AMD64 system, which has /etc/portage/package.keywords (as a
directory, rather than a file) autounmask generated file:
/etc/portage/pac
On 11/26/2009 5:02 AM, daid kahl wrote:
After suspending to ram (using hibernate-ram) and resuming, sound no longer
works. I checked out dmesg, and it says that (among other things):
Check the various hybernation/acpi config files. There should be the option
somewhere in there to s
On 11/28/2009 5:03 PM, Dale wrote:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Saturday 28 November 2009 05:50:42 »Q« wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:57:54 +0200
Alan McKinnon wrote:
[about LastPass]
What I find incredible is that people will accept the site'
On 11/28/2009 3:18 PM, Chuck Robey wrote:
Several comments about answers here. First, to Marcus Wanner, yes, the
first
two eclipse packages work for 3.5, but they AREN'T eclipse, they are plugins for
eclipse (plugins for what I really want). The 3rd is eclipse-sdk, the only one
you don&#x
On 11/29/2009 8:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote:
I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster
now!
Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks
quite usable now, though it wasn't a few year
On 11/29/2009 4:05 AM, Dale wrote:
>
I think that's a bug with your email client, you should try using the
latest version...
On 11/29/2009 8:21 PM, daid kahl wrote:
When I bought this notebook in january and first installed gentoo,
cdrecord used to work. Then at some point ago (probably after some
update) it has stopped working with the behaviour I have described
above.
This is every single story of Gentoo and L
On 12/1/2009 10:07 AM, laurent wrote:
Hi,
Is it a common thing, or really easy to do, to redirect the content
from a server to another one?
Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all
data travelling there??
Thanks for information.
Laurent
And this is relevant h
On 11/30/2009 9:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Dan Cowsill writes:
As a matter of curiosity, why can't you open the case?
Aside from extreme laziness, I'd prefer to spend 2 seconds getting the
info than first pulling the machine out of some piled up mess of
several machines, then getting
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote:
2009/12/2 BRM :
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try.
Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel
that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a
Pentium M wh
On 12/1/2009 7:59 PM, Xi Shen wrote:
Hi,
when i start my system from gentoo live dvd, all my hardware works
fine. but if i want to have a small system, so i removed many drivers
when i am compiling my own system. the result is some times, i do not
know which driver should i choose for my hardwar
On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote:
I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying
no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows.
Please post the actual error messages.
The foll
On 12/4/2009 10:21 PM, Dale wrote:
Thanks goodness for Konsole and being able to scroll up.
Where I come from, we use " | less" :p
Marcus
On 12/12/2009 2:42 PM, Dale wrote:
And some would also argue that cycling power on and off is actually
bad for the rig as well. Keeping things at a constant temp is better
than fluctuating temps. The old expanding and contracting of material
argument. Sort of strange that computers that run
On 12/14/2009 10:29 AM, GerhardosG wrote:
Hi ,
My graphics-card is a GeForce 7600 GT
X11 start breaks with this messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log :
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(II)
On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pintér Tibor wrote:
the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer
to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my
system still does not have sound.
what have i missed?
unmute?
t
To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and t
On 12/15/2009 10:23 AM, Skippy wrote:
Greetings, my scripting skills are non-existent, so I come asking for
help. :) I use the following to extract audio from vob files and
write it as wav files:
mplayer filename.vob -ao pcm:waveheader:file=filename.wav -vo null
It would be handy if this coul
On 12/15/2009 12:29 AM, daid kahl wrote:
You can just set this up in ~/.xinitrc then.
exec startxfce4
(that's actually startxfce)
On 12/14/2009 2:21 PM, Stroller wrote:
Yeah, I think I have a copy of my signature here which was scanned at
about that kinda resolution, stored as a bitmap & has a large
filesize. When I discovered how badly it slowed down Word when
actually trying to place it in a document it got replaced wit
On 12/15/2009 12:07 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
On 12/15/2009 7:19 AM, Pint??r Tibor wrote:
unmute?
To unmute sound at all levels, run mplayer and turn the volume up (mplayer
is special that way
On 12/16/2009 2:54 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:32:41AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I am still haveing one "EE" in my Xorg.0.log which says the
following:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file tha
On 12/16/2009 1:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Alex Schuster [09-12-16 19:12]:
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
I did by hand and now I have another problem:
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
(II) UnloadModule: "dri"
(EE) Fa
On 12/16/2009 2:24 PM, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 18:49:07 Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I've got a bootable USB key that will get me into Gentoo. H
On 12/17/2009 6:42 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009 05:13:32 Joshua Murphy wrote:
chicane ~ # shred test/
shred: test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
chicane ~ # shred -v -n 25 -z -u ~/test/
shred: /root/test/: failed to open for writing: Is a directory
shred
On 12/16/2009 11:47 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Attached is the emerge log. I'm running 32 bit on an Intel Core Duo
(Dell D530) USE="-X -debug -gpm -svga". The last step of the gcc
upgrade is "emerge -eav world". dosemu 1.4.0 built under gcc 4.1.2 but
not under 4.3.4. I've added my report to
ht
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing
wrong?
Marcus
On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my f
On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block
devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it
On 12/18/2009 4:32 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled
by default.
But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do
things really go obs
On 12/18/2009 10:40 AM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote:
Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make portage
fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a file at the
same time) instead of wget.
I tried to do this setting the parameter FETCHCOMMAND in my make.conf,
On 12/18/2009 1:38 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote:
Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make
portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a
file at the same time) instead of wget.
You got it backwards.
On 12/18/2009 6:05 PM, Grant wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or what ever)
After reading over all the info here, I think I'm going to go with dd
since the data isn't too sensitive.
I created a "9.1_Live_x64" USB key with unetbootin, but the laptop
won't boot to it. I have another
On 12/18/2009 7:39 PM, Robert Bridge wrote:
Try passing a rootdelay option to the kernel to allow the kernels USB
probe to complete before it tries to mount the USB device.
e.g. kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/usbhdd rootdelay=30 in grub
30 seconds is a bit much, IMHO. USB probes in my experie
On 12/19/2009 10:27 AM, Dale wrote:
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
If I want to freeze my nvidia-drivers because any upgrade will
abandon my
hardware, masking out newer versions doesn't seem to be enough as it
will also
offer to downgrade once that version is no longer in the portage tree.
Is it s
On 12/18/2009 8:58 PM, Grant wrote:
I used unetbootin to install Damn Small Linux on the 512MB bootable
USB key, and I'm booted into it. /dev/sda is my HD, and I'm running:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
The USB LED is blinking rapidly, but the HD LED is showing no
activity. Is there any way to
On 12/19/2009 12:37 PM, Dale wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
My package mask file reads
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-97.00
Because I have a GEForce 3 from goodness knows when and need 96.x.
When something had ABI updates and the video driver was part of them,
the driver was updated to the
On 12/20/2009 4:45 PM, nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote:
I had to hardreboot my laptop was totaly unresponsive to any input. Now that I
have rebooted I can login with kdm but after that I have no desktop. I can open
applications with krunner (alt+f2) but thats it. All the applications looks
okay. A
On 12/21/2009 7:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On which topic, is there a make of USB stick that is more-or-less
guaranteed
to boot on any system? I haven't found one yet. Some will boot on this box,
some on that one, but none on any of them.
Well, first you need a box that supports booting fr
It tends to be caused by crashes in which the session is not saved and
the session manager has a hard time restoring it, so it doesn't start
the panel and other stuff. Usually, starting the panel manually or
logging out with out saving the session and then back in again will fix
it. Glad you go
On 12/23/2009 8:14 PM, Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i cannot access my computer now, so i can only tell you what i remember.
i am using gentoo amd64, and the portage is updated. the kernel have
kvm modules compiled. when i was trying to emerge kvm-kmod, it is said
to have been masked, so i unmasked it. b
When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months
ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked
well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched to ~x86 because I
was tired of using versions of apps from 6 months ago... Too make a long
story short,
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