[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
Happy New Year! BRM wrote: The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. Yes. The system has 3 hard drives: hda, hdb, and sda; as well as a dvd drive (hdc). Check your /boot/grub/device.map to make

[gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:20 +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year! so far :) 1 almost down and 365 to go! BRM wrote: The system is set to boot off of /dev/hdb2 (ext2) and use /dev/hdb1 as the root. I believe the boot device is hd1,1 in grub terminology. Yes. The system has 3 hard

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login screen. I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On 01/01/2008, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread BRM
--- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy new year! Happy new year to you all to! On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:16 -0800, BRM wrote: [snip] All seems well. It boots and presents the menu, but then can't find the kernel when I select Gentoo Linux or try to manually run the lines. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread BRM
--- BRM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Grub came up, it was thinking hdb equalled hd0 instead of hd1. So while it worked fine with hd1 from the CD (it didn't like hd0 then), it was mixed up when grub actually ran. Any suggestions on how to fix this so that grub runs well from within Linux?

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:29:25PM +, Mick wrote: I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run fluxbox which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that the start up script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs about it?) If it

[gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? -- -- With best regards, ezotrank kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r2, system uptime: 20:13:39 up 7:54, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.28, 0.13 -- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:43:49 Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? I try with emerge media-libs/libgphoto2 with

{Spam?} Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Neil Walker
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, 'online petitions' are a worthless waste of time. Not true. Here is just one recent example: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

[gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

2008-01-01 Thread Grant
The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet. ndiswrapper is reported to work on ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net but there is no 64-bit driver listed. I've found a 64-bit Vista driver but ndiswrapper doesn't work with Vista drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-01 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:51:36 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 31. Dezember 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd just want to let you know there's an petition to NV on opening their driver code (or at least specs) to the free world: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008 21:43:49 Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? I try with emerge media-libs/libgphoto2

Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit blues: ndiswrapper

2008-01-01 Thread david
Grant wrote: The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet. ndiswrapper is reported to work on ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net but there is no 64-bit driver listed. I've found a 64-bit Vista driver but ndiswrapper doesn't work with

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
Encountered: warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available i googled and found a no buffer space available. followed suggestions on the thread: warhammer etc # mount -va df mount -v /mnt/cdrom mount:

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: Encountered: warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available i googled and found a no buffer space available. followed suggestions on the

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: What is the cdrom? Music or Data? You can't mount a music cdrom... period. data However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a

RE: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
data However, if it's a data cd, then iso9660 MUST either be build into the kernel or available as a module for the auto part of your cdrom fstab line to work correctly... hmmm... maybe need also autoload in the module loading section of the kernel configurator. ok.

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: If it says CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y - its built into the kernel, and should be working yep. it is built into the kernel. so auto should work, correct? -- Cocoy People who are really serious about software should make their own

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Cocoy Dayao wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Adam Carter wrote: If it says CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y - its built into the kernel, and should be working yep. it is built into the kernel. so auto should work, correct? You could try moving iso9660 to the top in

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Cocoy Dayao
On Jan 2, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Cocoy Dayao wrote: You could try moving iso9660 to the top in /etc/filesystems, so it gets tried first. yep. done. thanks! -- Cocoy People who are really serious about software should make their