Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

Linux ones. All the data has been moves from those partitions to the Linux ones. In the process, I added another 2 hard disks. I had to extend the data partitions 3 or 4 times according to the need... It's just so easy with LVM2. I'm glad I went for it! Well worth it! Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] package.* mess!

edious job of using equery and such and listing out everything properly... a few hours' work. I'm prepared to do it of course, but I'd like any suggestions that might help me do it better. Thank you. Yours faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ooffice 2.0 and kde

are in sync with the community. Maybe, these changes will be in OOo 2.0. Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!

T this status message. I get a similar error with gcc-3.4.4 Any ideas? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!

Noah Roberts wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: I wanted kguitar on my system. Does kguitar do ProTab? I don't see it on their site but they seem to support guitar pro, which has no OSS library to work with and figured maybe protools would be supported since there is. Well, I don&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!

Noah Roberts wrote: Noah Roberts wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: I wanted kguitar on my system. Does kguitar do ProTab? I meant powertab. I don't think so. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing kguitar - tse3 compile error!

Noah Roberts wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Anyways, as for my problems, I looked up the forums and the bugs.. fixed some ebuilds... patched some... and well, tse3 is compiling right now. Oh and just as I type this, I can see it merged successfully! Now I'll emerge kguitar and Noah, will

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I am using kernel 2.6.12-r4 ans splashutils 1.1.9.7, I had tried emergence and livecd-2005.0 themes and none had worked :( Check your kernel config and see if you've used vesafb-tng. Also, set the resolution for vesafb-tng the same as the resolution of your spla

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I tried to use bouth vesafb and vesafb-tng, in tng I used the same resolution as the theme agian neather one of then worked Are you trying Gensplash or Bootsplash? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

u to pick which entry to boot into with the restart button. HTH -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

priate only for people who want to reboot > into the other OS every time they reboot. info grub Look for savedefault. -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.

le exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.'' -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

ypt.org/ > > Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll start implementing > tomorrow morning. Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been > ported. Thanks! It would be nice if you could post a HOWTO to the wiki, if it doesn't exist already. I haven't checked y

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

r am I doing something wrong here? Is your ~/.xinitrc proper? Someting like `exec gnome-session'. -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp2VhXL6GfQ8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

~/.xinitrc file if present. Otherwise, it uses the system default of /etc/X11/chooser.sh, which uses the variable XSESSION. If neither of the methods works, it starts a twm session. Correct me if I'm wrong please. HTH. -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG K

Re: [gentoo-user] No device coming up if I plug in an USB device

ead, because I have the exact same question.. -- ------------ Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpxchfTK8lxG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need lcms?

s.com/about.htm is quite informative, I > am not sure if this falls into the category of "if you don't know > what it is, you don't need it!" sort of thing. Hmm. It can be useful if you use Scribus. --

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

is all in the stable tree! -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp73KxJPX3kq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

rge -pv1 kopete ;-) -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpLBqICDGN14.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-5.* unmasked

e and smooth. :-) -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp4EahEyhy5K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom

; > My dvd-burner is the floppy drive? > How can I solve that problem? Since it I can't burn my data more... > Thanks, > Luigi Its to do with a kernel upgrade. Do a ulimit -l unlimited before starting k3b in the same session. --

Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom

On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:57, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 06:49, giovedì 9 novembre 2006, Mrugesh Karnik ha scritto: > >[...] > > Its to do with a kernel upgrade. Do a ulimit -l unlimited before > > starting k3b in the same session. > > As user: > $ ulimit -l

Re: [gentoo-user] No working "burning" cdrom

On Thursday 09 November 2006 15:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:30:36 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > Yes, it works as root. I was just investigating ways to set that > > only for growisofs. One way is to set it in /etc/profile, but > > that'll affect a

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade and non-working eth0

Hi, I upgraded to udev-103 yesterday. Since then, my internet hasn't been working. I connect through eth0, which is a VIA Rhine adapter on my motherboard. ifconfig shows the link to be up. But, I can't even ping the gateway through eth0. I get destination unreachable replies. This is what syslo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

On 27/11/06, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I also upgraded and find that my laptop, which previously had eth0 and eth1 for its two cards (one wired and one wireless) now has eth0 and eth2. After editing my scripts and configurations (e.g. wpa_supplicant startup and kismet conf),

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

On 27/11/06, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, how do I swap the two cards? I don't know how to write udev rules > yet. I was planning on learning that next week.. I guess I should > learn it as soon as the internet works..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 04:16, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # ethernet devices > > > ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="00:13:d3:60:4a:a5", > > > NAME="et

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:38, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > udevd-event[3110]: rename_netif: error changing net interface name > > eth0_rename to eth1: No such device. > > Hmm, haven't seen this error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

e_net_rules script), but I'm a bit too tired to > figure it out ATM. It looks like 70-... should be created by the > write_net_rules script... RULES_FILE='/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' That's the first line of write_net_rules. -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

od documentation? I can see a couple of links at the bottom of the Gentoo udev guide. Anything else I should be referring to? Thanks a lot btw. :) -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote: > I > personally still love Gentoo. What's the problem then? :) -- -------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpmSy

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

always welcome. I guess its up to the devs and the Council to decide on what Gentoo wants to be and for whom. Trying to cater too many different categories of people is shooting yourself in the foot. -- Mrugesh

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64

On 04/02/06, Felipe Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? I simply downloaded the bin package from the Sun website and extracted it to wherever I needed it to be! Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

On Monday 13 February 2006 11:04, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > You can use extended attributes for this. See getfattr(1) and attr(5) > from sys-apps/attr. Quoting the man page for attr: Extended attributes implement the ability for a user to attach name:value pairs to objects within the _XFS_ filesy

[gentoo-user] [OT] lm_sensors question.

Hello, I have a small query. I wonder what the "temp3" in the output of sensors is? I have been having problems with the computer shutting down due to over heating. Here's my current sensors output: M/B Temp:+42°C (high = +16°C, hyst =+0°C) sensor = thermistor CPU Temp: +36.0°C (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.

On Monday 13 February 2006 20:29, James wrote: > Well I'm not sure, but you can 'emerge hddtemp' and verify the hard drive > temperature quite easily. > > hddtemp /dev/hda < for example> > /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C Oh I'll do that, thanks. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] lm_sensors question.

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 20:08, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > James wrote: > > hddtemp /dev/hda < for example> > > /dev/hda: HTS726060M9AT00: 44 C > > # hddtemp /dev/hda > /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 22 C > > This doesn't look right, as system temperature is shown as 29°C. > At startup hddtemp repor

[gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matte

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. > > Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate > supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, > perhaps with many di

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, > instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working > fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it > refused to boot, as I forced it

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

On Friday 17 February 2006 05:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: > > 1. Tell us the Watts of the power supply (perhaps you'll have to change > > it) 2. Take the PC powered off and try extracting the video card and > > replugging it. > > 3. Try to change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably power-related

On Saturday 18 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought > > the case, I'm sure its only about 350W. > > More than enough. But maybe the mains is polluted (by electric &

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:54, Alec Shaner wrote: > krgn wrote: > > hi > > > > I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this > > according to the gentoo guide here > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. > > now, I have synced again, and a lot o

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have default fedora font in gentoo ?

On Monday 06 March 2006 22:28, Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: > Hi, > i'm searching the fedora/redhat default terminal font (maybe Luxi > Mono ?) > to use in my Gentoo Box. > I've tried Luxi Mono following X11-font HOWTO but it doesn't look very > well. If you're talking about the font used on th

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

Michael Sullivan wrote: I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to w

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be marked stable on x86? TIA, I don't know about being marked stable, but I emerged KDE 3.4 the very next day it was released and apart from the Kopete crash after exit, everything was awesome :) -- gento

[gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

x27;ve read the runlevel guide and well Anyways, well, what's the solution? Thanks for your time :) Yours Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote Hello, I tried to find a good mirror from me. I used netselect rsync.gentoo.org . The command run for 30s, but dasen't output anything!! I believe the command you want is mirrorselect If that doesn't work, here's th

[gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

pt, var and tmp lvchange - a y <<< I enabled all the volumes properly. Now, when I do lvscan again, it tells me that all the volumes are ACTIVE and shows the path as /dev/vg/* and shows them as "inherit". After all that, there is no /dev/vg Help? Thank you! Yours Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

Nick Rout wrote: Definitely not spam, thats a great article. two questions - do any of the "standard" (ie in portage) kernel ebuilds include this patch? - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2 patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel? Just off to power

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

said that, we have power failures fairly regularly and Ext3 has been rocksolid after a power failure... always. Anyways, I can see fire-eyes recommending ReiserFS there... Well, like he/she said, its a matter of personal opinion. HTH, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again - a big thanks to the developers...

y who make this possible. Really cool work. Again, I'll double that :) I love Gentoo... hehehe :) Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

areas JFS was right up there. I haven't used it yet, but I'm curious about it. Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

Rumen Yotov wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wonde

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

Luis Felipe Strano Moraes wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:01:38AM -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

depends on what. Have you considered the fact, that KDE 3.4 is still marked as "testing" in portage and that 3.3.2 is "stable"? HTH, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

past! So, I'm a little troubled...) As the subject says, I urgently need recommendations. At the most, I'll have another couple of days before I have to buy it! Please, reply quickly if possible! Thanking you. Yours Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik P.S. Well, I don't know the model

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

rn Image Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that you're not to burn the folder itself, but the contents of the folder. The cd will tak

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

Neil Bothwick wrote: The problem with LG drives was limited to CD-RW drives. It wasn't particularly related to Mandrake, but a specific kernel version, that Mandrake used in the initial 10.0 release. Ah indeed... But it still worries me... this isn't a cheap investment is it? :) Having said that,

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

Robert G. Hays wrote: At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn the conte

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:37 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:53:06 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Having said that, I'd go with Sony. You know you are getting good quality with them, really? but do you know that you're getting sony? If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

;t work on many DVD units. Has anyone faced this problem? Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

H.J. Jung wrote: On 4/22/05, *Christoph Gysin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: H.J. Jung wrote: > When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: > > Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad > > Why can't it find gcc? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

Robert S wrote: I've looked at that - the "Monitor" section in my xorg.conf looks like this: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Dell" HorizSync31.0 - 54.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 EndSection In other words, it allows a VertRefresh rate of up to 120. I looked at the Dell s

Re: [gentoo-user] where is my /dev/cdrom using UDEV

Wenju Zhang wrote: I have install gentoo 2005.0 with udev (without devfs) following the gentoo udev guide, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV I can't find the /dev/cdrom. FYI gt-dell rules.d # dmesg |grep hdc Kernel command line: hdc=ide-cd

[gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

are done and dusted, how much would I need for / which would on a non-LVM partition. 200 MB? Can anyone help me design a partitioning scheme based on what I've said above? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

o've replied so far, but I would surely love more input. :) Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

ted on Windows (Ok. Don't hate me! I'm right now using the burner to backup the data, so that I can convert the entire disk to Linux, which right now takes up 15GB!) Anyways, thanks once again for all your replies :) Regards, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] PPPoE auto reconnect

yet, but there seems to be an auto reconnect option in the config file.. Also, how do I constantly keep a watch on whether the link is up or not? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

, now, if I want to expand a volume, do I have to do it from the LiveCD? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

William Kenworthy wrote: Did you grow the filesystem into the space you made with LVM ? Ooops! Help? Yes, unless its a non-core partition and can be unmounted, and even then it would probably still be safer to do from a livecd. OK.. LiveCD it shall be :) BillK Thanks, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

Eamon Caddigan wrote: W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depends on the filesystem type: I use reiserfs and the tool is resize_reiserfs from sys-fs/reiserfsprogs. I have increased the size on partitions containing data with no problems at all, but have not tried to reduce a partition yet (you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

Oh, I found the information on how to resize the partitions in the LVM HOWTO at TLDP. Thanks guys for all your replies :) Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Error while bringing eth0 "up"

Hello, Following the installation guide, I've set the value of eth0 to "up" as I use rp-pppoe. While booting the system, I get an error similar to following: No loaded modules provide up (up_start) Error starting required services "netmount" not started What have I done wrong? I haven't encounte

[gentoo-user] Error while bringing eth0 "up"

Hello, Following the installation guide, I've set the value of eth0 to "up" as I use rp-pppoe. While booting the system, I get an error similar to following: No loaded modules provide up (up_start) Error starting required services "netmount" not started What have I done wrong? I haven't encountered

[gentoo-user] The 2005.0 LiveCD hates me! :'(

h time trying to install Gentoo... But I certainly don't want to move back to those rpm based distros... Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Are my emails reaching the list?

I've sent a few emails recently... I'm wondering if they're reaching the list... Somehow Thunderbird/Gmail doesn't show me my own emails... Please reply if you get this email. Thank You. Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] test

Jan Han Xie wrote: Hi, Sorry but it seems my post won't appear in the list... This is a test post. I got the email... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] pppoeconf and pppstatus... How do I install them?

that it's installed. I would have liked to write an ebuild, but I'm no programmer... Could anyone help? Thanks, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

A. Khattri wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: My gentoo system on an IBM Thinkpad R52 crashs randomly (usually when CPU usage is high). When it crashs, the whole system freezes -- mouse point doesn't move, keyboard doesn't response, I even can't connect it via ssh. I had to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

brullo nulla wrote: Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. Even then, you might get the same errors. Looks like a hard disk failure to me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. My dear fellow, I speak from experience. Just last month a hard disk (IDE) of mine die

[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Hi, I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a problem.. 1GB of it. I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I used the FC4 xorg.conf file. First ran Xorg -configure. Kept all the paths from Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Richard Fish wrote: On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just installed Gentoo on an AMD64 Sempron machine. RAM is not a problem.. 1GB of it. I just emerged xorg-x11. The graphics card is VIA Unichrome onboard. I have a perfectly fine working FC4 system. I us

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Richard Fish wrote: On 11/10/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm. I am using the stable version. That's 6.8.2-r4. I'll try emerging r6. Well, give it shot. But looking at the ChangeLog, I don't see any references to via driver changes in -r5 or -r6,

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Richard Fish wrote: I think we have a failure to communicate here Actually no... The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (along

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Holly Bostick wrote: Possibly because you don't have the 'insecure-drivers' USE flag enabled: I had insecure-drivers enabled the first time I compiled xorg. I think I had disabled it in the subsequent compilations. I found an ebuild with VIA Unichrome USE flag and patches added; in the forum

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Richard Fish wrote: > Too many variables to answer that question...kernel versions, kernel configuration, kernel patches, frame buffer options, xorg versions, xorg patches, and so on. You could try to eliminate some of those variables by using the same kernel version & .config under both. Ay!

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Well, the kernel modules have been loaded already... Which ones precisely? See the output of 'lsmod'. Do an 'lsmod' on your FC4 too and compare. That'd be drm and via I noticed one thing, the agpgart option in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache disabled

Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I have installed ccache and followed the instructions in the official documentation to set it up. Specifically I have this in my /etc/make.conf: MAKEOPTS="-j6" FEATURES="ccache" # Probably not required but... CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" FEATURES="dis

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best video player

what's the best video player in your opinion? Kaffeine is great for playing DVDs. I use kaffeine when in KDE. Kplayer is also good. Kplayer can use xine or mplayer as the backend, which is a nice feature. I prefer mplayer with directfb on the console though. Mplayer simply is great! Do

[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Well hi again, It took longer than I expected to change the server. Anyway. The VIA Unichrome situation turned out to be a no-go for me. I had to install an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 on the machine and get X running. I think this whole thread and me compiling various Xorg versions about 8 or 9 t

[gentoo-user]Specific umask for a specific ext3 filesystem

Hello, I have couple of ext3 partitions for my data. I need to mount them in such a way that all the files created on those partitions would always bear a umask which is different from the umask globally set in /etc/profile. How do I achieve this? I tried mounting the partition with umask=wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Benno Schulenberg wrote: Flaky hardware? Timings too fast in the BIOS? What timings? :S Kernel misconfigured? When the vesa driver doesn't give acceptable performance, there is something wrong. You might want to actually answer the questions I asked earlier. I couldn't answer the quest

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Benno Schulenberg wrote: Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are things like "Enable AGP Fast Write" or similar. Set all those things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability first, speed maybe later. It probably won't make a difference, but it at least excludes o

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

Benno Schulenberg wrote: You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mb&cpu=3, such boards only support "Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+", not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might not be lis

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

Thiago Lüttig wrote: Hi, someone has installed the kde 3.5 how it´s running ?? -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig __ I should have it running in a couple of hours. I'll let you know then. Regards, Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

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