Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from devfs to udev?

2005-05-23 Thread S. Schwartz
Tim Igoe wrote: > Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs - > recompile and reboot. > Job done, it should say using udev at bootup. Worked for me :-) I've got a question regarding this switch: Can sys-fs/devfsd be unmerged or is it still somehow needed? Sigi -- gentoo-use

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

2005-04-19 Thread S. Schwartz
Kurt Guenther wrote: ...is there some other trick I can play? You could do something like this: # ebuild ".ebuild" compile install qmerge Probably it does a ./configure again, but even so, afterwards it continues almost exactly where the emerge-process stopped. Maybe you get some probl

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread S. Schwartz
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: And I built OpenOffice once, it ended up running slower than OpenOffice-bin... How come? I have noticed the same effect with Mozilla-software. At least I get the feeling that the binaries are a little faster -- I can't really say for sure. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.or

[gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-01 Thread S. Schwartz
Hi, I'm having a problem using nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5 after the my recent kernel-update from gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 to gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. The few things, that are compiled when emerging nvidia-kernel, compile successfully but emerge complains about missing symboles (remap_page_range an

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread S. Schwartz
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > is there any reason not to try drver version 8756? > 6629 is very old. very, very old. Even older. It is old. As I said, all other available versions in portage didn't compile or load afterwards. Only one version (other than 6629, one of the 1.0.7...) did both success

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-02 Thread S. Schwartz
Alexander Kirillov wrote: > I ran into the same problem after upgrading the kernel to > gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3. > And don't have any problems with most recent nvidia drivers: > media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8756 > media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 > media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 > Did

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread S. Schwartz
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > you don't need 6629 in that case. You can go to 7174. I told you before: any other version (other than 6629) didn't compile or load. And one of the 7something was seriously unstable. So, I would have to go back to 6629. This one just needs a bit of patching. I was lo

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread S. Schwartz
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > which patches? > What would you missing? I don't really know, not even if those would be important to me. But I kind of trust into the work of the Gentoo-guys and believe the gentoo-sources are tested more intensive than vanilla sources (that's just hearsay). > And s

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread S. Schwartz
Richard Fish wrote: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated leg

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-03 Thread S. Schwartz
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Besides: > ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/vanilla-sources/ > [...] Wow! Couldn't have done that myself. > there is A LOT after .15 - many of them with security fixes. I'm not gonna repeat myself (again). Thanks for the suggestion, but for two (already mentioned) reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources

2006-05-04 Thread S. Schwartz
Glenn Enright wrote: > Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for > others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). As far as I understand, the binary driver itself is not patched. The patching concerns the way it is integrated into your sys