Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop

2007-04-30 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:19:12 Colleen Beamer wrote: Then it says: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device I probably did something wrong, but I've started from scratch 3 times and I get the same problem. I've used genkernel and it looks like sata support has been built in. Try to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't switch to a console after logging in to KDE.

2007-04-30 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Monday 30 April 2007, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Nistor Andrei: Hello list! I'm having some trouble with KDE. I'm not sure when this started, i just noticed it today. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F[1-12] nothing happens if I'm logged in to KDE. In KDM it works just fine. What could be the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, The new kernel panics at a typical place: ... VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,7) then just below this appears: 6 Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. crash The root fs is reiserfs and *is* part of the

[gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without making a backup when I've messed something up or when I need to shutdown ASAP. What

Re: [gentoo-user] how to show urxvt's name in windowlist?

2007-04-30 Thread Mick
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:38, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:25:21 anhnmncb wrote: hello, list: when I assign a name to urxvt and run it: urxvt -name foo -e bash -c foo why the windowlist still show [EMAIL PROTECTED]: pwd? I expect it should show foo.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext maxim wexler: Hi group, The new kernel panics at a typical place: ... VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,7) From the new, 2.6.20 .config: CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_ATA=y CONFIG_SATA_SIL=y From the previous, 2.6.16 two

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop

2007-04-30 Thread Graham Murray
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sata support may not be enough. Since all the SATA stuff has been put into the SCSI subsystem, you would need support for SCSI disks (and maybe CDRoms as well): In the latest kernels, SATA is no longer in the SCSI subsystem but has been 'split' into

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Csányi András
2007/4/30, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without making a backup when I've messed

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop

2007-04-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext Graham Murray: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sata support may not be enough. Since all the SATA stuff has been put into the SCSI subsystem, you would need support for SCSI disks (and maybe CDRoms as well): In the latest kernels, SATA is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without making a backup when I've messed

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve a way to shutdown or reboot without making a backup when I've messed

[gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Holla
Hello, I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is trying to emerge linux-headers also. How can I prevent it ? Also , when using a homebrew source, how do I install

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: Hello, I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is trying to emerge linux-headers also. How can I prevent it ? why? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 April 2007, Holla wrote: Hello, I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. OK But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is trying to emerge linux-headers also. How can I prevent it ? Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the theory being that I would assign space as

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Monday 30 April 2007 5:01:41 am Stuart Howard wrote: Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions as required? Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? Yes and yes...as an added bonus you

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Holla
On 4/30/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: Hello, I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. But when I try to do 'emerge system', portage is trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Holla
On 4/30/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 April 2007, Holla wrote: The kernel-headers are there so the *user*apps*and*libs* know what definitions of data structures to use. In very broad terms, someone takes the .h files out of a kernel release that are known to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.4.3

2007-04-30 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Monday 30 April 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi I have currently installed version 1.3.2-r3 of subversion, but I have installed th latest version of subclipse (svn plugin for the eclipse platform), and now I can't use svn from the shell. I get svn: This client is too old to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 April 2007, Holla wrote: OK, I get it now. I was under the (wrong) impression that the kernel headers should match the kernel installed. So, if portage is trying to install linux-headers-2.6.17 it is because that is the stable headers for 2.6, right ? Not quite... nazgul cvs-src

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: On 4/30/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Holla wrote: Hello, I would like to install my own version of the kernel (2.6.18.3) which i have compiled and installed. This is working fine. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.4.3

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Nistor Andrei wrote: On Monday 30 April 2007, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi I have currently installed version 1.3.2-r3 of subversion, but I have installed th latest version of subclipse (svn plugin for the eclipse platform), and now I can't use svn from the shell. I get svn: This

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-30 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Boyd, on Friday, 2007-04-27 at 02:09:18, you wrote: Adjust your LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, and/or LANG environment variables. (At least, Nautilus /should/ respect those.) You might have to do something like: LC_ALL=POSIX nautilus from a xterm-like application. Usually the collation order

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-30 Thread Matthias Bethke
On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote: I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and frustrating problem, I've run into a few messages dating back to

Re: [gentoo-user] the font in xfce change after updating

2007-04-30 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/4/30, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chuanwen Wu wrote: Sat Apr 28 16:34:59 2007 xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.1 Hmm, it looks like you're running unstable xfce. But if you can't handle the problems this might give, then you shouldn't be using unstable. Try commenting out all xfce

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
--- Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext maxim wexler: Hi group, The new kernel panics at a typical place: ... VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,7) From the new, 2.6.20 .config: CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y that is not the reiserfs option. I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I set CONFIG_UNIX=y. Didn't help in this case. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y that is not the reiserfs option. I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I set CONFIG_UNIX=y. Didn't help in this case. well, you should have set sockets, because it is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Sullivan
This wiki article looks to be for postfix. I need one for sendmail... On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:55 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? This wiki page talks about

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, Am Montag, den 30.04.2007, 17:24 +0200 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Montag, 30. April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Yes, CONFIG_UNIX=y that is not the reiserfs option. I'm aware of that. But another PC with the 2.6.19 kernel and an IDE drive panicked until I set

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message

2007-04-30 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 30. April 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Nope, Unix sockets are usually not the commonly chosen way for kernel-userland communication. They're used for machine-local (w/ exception of clusters) inter-process communication. But I think that init would struggle w/o CONFIG_UNIX and,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-04-30 Thread Jarry
Michael Sullivan wrote: Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my efforts till now have failed. Here's my info: baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail I think you should emerge mail-filter/spamass-milter, then look into doc, and edit

[gentoo-user] {OT} Burning a video file

2007-04-30 Thread Grant
Does anyone know of a way to burn a video to CD to play back on a home DVD player? The player supports VCD but not SVCD, and VCD quality is really bad. I have a CD burner at my disposal here, but not a DVD burner. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, First I'm running ~x86 with the Xeffects overlay (Beryl- on nvidia). When doing a emerge -uDNav world, I had missed that the kdelibs-3.5.6-r7 being updated was from portage instead of from the xeffects overlay. This caused kicker to crash first time I'd clicked on an icon. OK, no

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-30 Thread kashani
Matthias Bethke wrote: On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote: I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and frustrating problem, I've run into a few

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 30 Apr 2007 10:57:08 pm Roy Wright wrote: Is this clashing of menu structures normal between window managers? If so, any tools for backing up the menu structure? Or a way to tell gnome to use kde menu structure? I can't help much as I don't run GNOME along with KDE but this menu

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Roy Wright: Is there any way to recover? Or do I just have to take the hour or two and recreate my menu structure? Perhaps try kappfinder...or perhaps use the desktop settings wizard to change back to default state if kappfinder doesn't work. Is this clashing of menu structures

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Elias Probst
On Monday 30 April 2007 23:18:00 darren kirby wrote: quoth the Roy Wright: Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on disk. Any good references? Have a look in ~/.kde/share/applnk Take also a look at ~/.local/share/applnk Regards, Elias P. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved]KDE menu structure lost by using gnome

2007-04-30 Thread Roy Wright
Elias Probst wrote: On Monday 30 April 2007 23:18:00 darren kirby wrote: quoth the Roy Wright: Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on disk. Any good references? Have a look in ~/.kde/share/applnk Take also a look at

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.20-r6 panics with strange message FIXED

2007-04-30 Thread maxim wexler
about your problem - do make menuconfig and recheck your driver and fs settings. It was a driver. In the 2.6.16 config under # #SCSI low-level drivers # I had this: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y But for the 2.6.20 this option has been moved to # #Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental)

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Stuart Howard
I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :) Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. I shall consider it a lesson to remember to save! up on

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-04-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:29 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: Usually the collation order should be the same on the shell and in nautilus, right? one would think so, but this isn't the case... I think it's really some of what the Gnome folks think was clever in that case yes and no - I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-04-30 Thread Randy Barlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: This wiki article looks to be for postfix. I need one for sendmail... Aww man, sorry about that. I wrote that when I was really tired... :P -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

[gentoo-user] emerge -uDN world minus one package

2007-04-30 Thread Jesse Adelman
Hi, all. I want to do an emerge -uDN world, mostly to update Xorg to the newest stable version. However, I have one package that I don't want to update, that being media-tv/mythtv. Now, the version of mythtv (and associated mythtv plugins) that I have installed currently has been removed from

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDN world minus one package

2007-04-30 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 17:43 Mon 30 Apr , Jesse Adelman wrote: The nitty gritty: I have installed: media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288 Portage has an update: media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 But when I put this into package.mask =media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 It then wants to downgrade to:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem install Gentoo on New Laptop - Solved

2007-04-30 Thread Colleen Beamer
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 30. April 2007 schrieb ext Graham Murray: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sata support may not be enough. Since all the SATA stuff has been put into the SCSI subsystem, you would need support for SCSI disks (and maybe CDRoms as well): In the latest