Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread b.n.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-20 Thread Roman Zilka
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

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Daniel Iliev
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

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: speakers have no sound but headphones have

2007-10-20 Thread Chuanwen Wu
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

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles

2007-10-20 Thread Alex Schuster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-20 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
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

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?

2007-10-20 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* 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

[gentoo-user] Bootsplash

2007-10-20 Thread Jesús Abidan Ramos Salas
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)

2007-10-20 Thread Florian Philipp
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-20 Thread Grant
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

[gentoo-user] fbsplash

2007-10-20 Thread twang . umn
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
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

[gentoo-user] Gnome overriding screen resolution

2007-10-20 Thread Richard Marzan
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