Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
* On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: Whooa. I didn't mean to stir a hornet's nest. It was a bit late last night, so I felt like having to rant about something. From a pure customers view, I'd agree with your conclusions. The hornets are now well rested. My apologies. ;-) Regards, Jens -- If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on PowerPC?
Yes, as long as it's not NuBus, but even that can be worked around. Check out http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1 and #gentoo-ppc on Freenode. Adrian Chelar wrote: Gentoo linux work on powerpc? -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.12 - hangs when exiting back to gdm
Has anyone else run into this? Can you cleanly log out of Gnome and return to the gdm login screen? ssh'ing in doesn't show anything obvious. 2.6.12-r2/P4/ATI 9200 Mobility Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on PowerPC?
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:56:45 +0300, Adrian Chelar wrote: Gentoo linux work on powerpc? Sure does, I'm running it on an iBook. There's a PPC installation handbook and a gentoo-ppc mailing list. -- Neil Bothwick K: (n., adj.) a binary thousand, which isn't a decimal thousand or even really a binary thousand (which is eight), but is the binary number closest to a decimal thousand. This has proven so completely confusing that is has become a standard. pgpiJetjwyn62.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Syncing data between servers
I've got all access but i can't change anything, the both servers are 'snap aplience' it has a Linux version 2.4 on it, you administrate it by a webinterface, its got ssh, but no scp even no cron. Its 'forbidden' to install anything on it. You don't even get a root password even if you by it. I can export directories with nfs witch i have done and so a Gentoo server in the middle can sync the data between the two machines. Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you use rsync or ssh from the gentoo server in the middle, without using the NFS-mounted drives? Something like: rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:src [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dest ...and you can probably do the same with with scp. I don't think either of them care if they're just a man-in-the-middle... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Amarok
On Thursday June 30 2005 1:46 am, Paul Nolan wrote:
I would /really/ recommend switching to the amarok-svn ebuild (it's not an
official package and I can't remember where I got it - try google). I'm not
usually one for running CVS/SVN software (some programs segfault enough
when they're supposedly stable), but I made an exception for this and
wasn't disappointed (if anything, it's more stable than the 1.2.* versions
and has a bunch of new features)
I knew as soon as I said that 'out loud' something would happen. Now it's
started segfaulting on startup. Bollocks.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output
Is there any way to *not* receive mail from specific cron jobs, while
leaving the rest of the mails intact? I looked at man cron and man
crontab, but they seemed to indicate that it's kind of an all-or-nothing
deal.
It's not an all-or-nothing deal, depending on how you create the cron
job: instead of adding a script to
/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} (where it _is_ an
all-or-nothing deal, because of the /etc/crontab entry that runs the
jobs), just add it to /etc/crontab, and redirect the output to
/dev/null for the jobs you don't want the output for, as was already
suggested.
...or, if you want the job to be run by a specific user, use crontab
-e to create a job schedule for a given user.
What I'd *really* like is the output from the jobs that I've set to mail
me output, and a summary of names of any other jobs that ran
successfully, just so I know that they ran successfully.
For this, you can do something like:
* * * * * echo somescriptsomewhere /some/script/somewhere
That'd get you the name of the script (anything after echo) and all of
the output of /some/script/somewhere... and the way I've written that
crontab entry, the script would be run every minute of every day,
which probably isn't what you want. See man 5 crontab for info on
the file format. There's no need for a mail -s command in there at
all...
(one other suggestion, although I'm not sure it's going to be useful
for ya: you might want to add -q to your esync cron job [on the
update-eix part], so you don't get that annoying output at the end
when it's updating the cache... of course, that'll kill any output
from update-eix, so I'm not entirely sure how much that'll help...)
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update
PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it is a bit pricey. There may be free programs to do this, but I have no experience with them. QTparted: open-source alternative to PQMagic, _and_ it's significantly faster (e.g. resizing a 40GB NTFS partition to 10GB with PQMagic took me an hour or two; with qtparted, it took about ten minutes) and less error-prone (e.g. I've had qtparted fail many times, but only once was it so catastrophic that I couldn't fix it easily; with PQMagic, if it failed, I knew I was screwed...). I've been using PartitionMagic since 4.x, and stumbled across QTparted after having PQMagic 8 consistently wipe my entire 120GB drive at startup - before I'd even done anything! The support folks didn't help at all on that one, so I gave up on PQMagic (although they did give me some help later that wasn't great, but got me on the right path to fixing the problem I was having). You can get a decent version of qtparted (assuming you don't care much for English grammar) with the current Knoppix - which is pretty much the only reason why I still use Knoppix. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.12 - hangs when exiting back to gdm
This appears to be a known issue. Although my crash is a bit different than others I get the same trace info in dmesg. Caused by ati-drivers under 2.6.12. Don't do it I guess. Cheers, Mark On 7/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else run into this? Can you cleanly log out of Gnome and return to the gdm login screen? ssh'ing in doesn't show anything obvious. 2.6.12-r2/P4/ATI 9200 Mobility Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: I'm sure that ATI will come through, or, whatever. Just, well, if you get one RIGHT NOW, NEW, you'll be dissapointed. Well, ATI driver sucked 10 years ago, they suck today... I don't think that ATI is able to make any decent drivers EVER. So, buying a card and waiting that ATI will release working drivers is.. hm.. hopeless ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: I'm sure that ATI will come through, or, whatever. Just, well, if you get one RIGHT NOW, NEW, you'll be dissapointed. Well, ATI driver sucked 10 years ago, they suck today... I don't think that ATI is able to make any decent drivers EVER. Equally their Windows (ick) drivers sucked not so long back - yet now they are much better. (Or were, i can't say i like the new .NET control thingy) So, buying a card and waiting that ATI will release working drivers is.. hm.. hopeless ;) The recent versions of the drivers have been much better than the older ones. I'm sure things will improve over time. But in the graphics industry time is something that you don't have - if you buy a card you want it to work there and then. Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. I'm happy with them at the moment, yes there are things that could be improved - but aren't there always? :) -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf are: title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... Anyways, thanks to all for your support and encouragement. -mw Congrats :-) Maybe you can use grub's map feature to perform a virtual swap between your first and second hard drive. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/DOS-Windows.html#DOS%2fWindows title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
No prob. On 7/2/05, Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: Whooa. I didn't mean to stir a hornet's nest. It was a bit late last night, so I felt like having to rant about something. From a pure customers view, I'd agree with your conclusions. The hornets are now well rested. My apologies. ;-) Regards, Jens -- If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one... On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf are: title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... Anyways, thanks to all for your support and encouragement. -mw Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the eagle has landed!!!
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Yee-hah! Finally, after about 6 weeks cursing and ripping out my few remaining hairs, I got gentoo to boot off the HD w/ NO errors! I'm s stoked! I'm using a 1.1Gig drive as /dev/hda for boot duty, which seems like a waste, but I'm sure I can find something to put on all that extra space. Only problem: WinXP won't boot. The lines in grub.conf are: title Window NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I'm sure that's correct: /dev/hdb, first partition. It mounts OK and all the files are intact, so ... Anyways, thanks to all for your support and encouragement. -mw You might already know this and have thought a way around it, but in my experience (plus I've read this in several places) Microsoft Windows will refuse to boot up unless it is taking up /dev/hda1. It wants to be the first OS on the primary hard drive so that it can believe that it is the only one... That's what I was thinking too. Maybe grub's map command can circumvent this though. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
