Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? If it has a setting Configure SATA as AHCI, try that. AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Philip Webb ha scritto: 071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? If it has a setting Configure SATA as AHCI, try that. AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string. I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash. What am I missing? I think this ought to do the job: xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/unifont (?followed by xset fp rehash?) I'm not very knowledgeable in this however. Just a guess. -rz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. Are the source media and the usb stick formatted with the same file system? Are the block sizes of the file systems the same? -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: speakers have no sound but headphones have
On 10/19/07, »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:04:59 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuanwen: Personally I have never encountered a situation where on a laptop the volume control etc. is different between the attached speakers and headphones. I've always assumed (someone correct me if I am wrong) that the switching between headphones and the attached speakers is hardware and not software. This is true; the headphone jacks usually have an integrated disconnect switch for the internal laptop speakers, to be tripped when a plug is inserted. It's apparently no longer true, at least for newish Intel HDA chipsets. Mine (SigmaTel STAC9872AK) would not switch off the internal speakers when the jack was plugged in, so sound would come from both the headphones and the speakers. A recent patch to the driver fixed this. So, which version of alsa-driver do you think can fixed this? I have tried version 1.0.15-rc2, but that didn't work, I meant I even can't use the headphones. I use 1.0.14-rc3 now, which at least let my headphones work. Sorry this doesn't help the OP any. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- wcw z� ��(��j)b� b�
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles
Philip Webb writes: BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do the install manually. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling
O/H Michael Sullivan έγραψε: I've read over the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml about cross-compiling with distcc. This may be a really stupid question, but how do I force my slow box to use cross-compiling via distcc? Is there some special option I have to pass to emerge to invoke it? The guide was not very clear on that point look here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml you just have to put distcc in FEATURES in make.conf... and use distcc-config --set-hosts to specify the participating machines... and of course start distccd in each partitipating pc... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
* Ralf Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-10-19 14:30]: Hello, I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string. I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash. What am I missing? You should have unifont's path listed in the Files section of xorg.conf: Section Files: ... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont ... -- Daniel Vrcic -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bootsplash
Hi, there, I have a problem with my bootsplash, it was working fine until i make an update, so, now my silent bootsplash freezes when it is 80 %. The system boots properly but i am wondering why the splash freezes. Sorry for my english.. Abidan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)
Philip Webb schrieb: 071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation job, but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem. I'm new to USB sticks haven't formatted them in any way: they seem to have an existing file system on them, but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient. So are there any standard recommendations for formatting them ? Do I simply do 'mke2fs' (the HDDs are formatted with ReiserFS) ? How about block size ? Thanks for the replies so far. Ext2 is a good choice as long as you don't want to exchange data with Windows (except you can install the ext2 driver on the Windows machines). Don't use journalized file systems like Ext3 and Reiserfs since their journal causes additional write operations and flash media only last a limited number of them. (of course, you could disable reiserfs's journal but that's just additional trouble). Blocksize for Ext2? As long as you don't transfer many very small files (=3k), stick with the default. If you want to continue using FAT, you should create zip or tar archives. That way, you can preserve file permissions and don't wast space on your stick. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?
Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an overlay? I've tried Gallery, but setup and maintenance is way too complex for me: www-apps/gallery I like bins a lot better, but it's all static, so if you want photos available in multiple sizes it takes up some disk space: app-misc/bins I've got bins set up and I'm very happy with it. Thanks Grant. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] fbsplash
Hi there, I am running gentoo on my laptop and using fbsplash when booting. Actually fbspalsh run quite good expcet one thing: when xdm starts, it seems all the other runlevel scripts stop to continue. I need to go back to tty1, then they will start again. I don't quite understand what the problem is. Since I already set SPLASH_TTYS=1,2,3,4,5,6 In the /ect/conf.d/splash, it should not use splash on tty7,8 But I still see the splash when I press ctrl alt f8. Is there anything I misconfiged? Thank you for your advice, and sorry for my poor english. And hope it will not bother you so much. -- Teng Wang Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota, TC E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:www.math.umn.edu/~wangx794 Sat Oct 20 13:32:48 CDT 2007 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM
Hello Don Jerman, So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Don Jerman, So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. Agreed. My GNOME desktop system us using only about 140MB on root, but I usually make the root filesystem at ~2GB for historical reasons. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome overriding screen resolution
Hello, Gnome is giving me some issues with respect to screen resolution. It doesn't want to display my preferred resolution nor does it have it as an option in the drop-down menu. I set up my resolution in xorg.conf but gnome quickly overrides the option. How can I stop gnome from meddling with my resolution? Regards, Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
