[gentoo-user] help on partitioning

2006-07-21 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I need a quick help for a simple question. My disk now looks like this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 9.2G 1.4G 88% / udev 264M 242k 264M 1% /dev /dev/hda4 4.9G 4.6G 329M 94% /home

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

2006-07-14 Thread Fernando Meira
On 7/14/06, Javier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fernando,with this driver the first step is doing a ifconfig ethX up beforeany wireless related configuration. Example:ifconfig ethX upiwconfig ethX channel Yiwconfig ethX essid anyAnd after this steps you have to be associated and you can set

[gentoo-user] wireless wierd behaviour

2006-07-12 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi,I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G.I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new

[gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi,I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G.I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new

[gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi,I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G.I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new

[gentoo-user] java 1.4 eclipse

2006-07-09 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi all, after upgrading (long time ago) to java 1.5, I still couldn't get rid of version 1.4. Now, when trying to run an update world, I noticed that version 1.4 of java (sun-jdk) falls inside eclipse dependencies tree. (don't know if the tree aspect is possible to see below..) [ebuild NS ]

Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-22 Thread Fernando Meira
On 4/22/06, Gary Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/04/06, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after updating ndiswrapper to version 1.13 i became unable to use it. I get this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_suspend_urbs ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_resume_urbsAre you

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper module problem

2006-04-20 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, after updating ndiswrapper to version 1.13 i became unable to use it. I get this in dmesg: ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_suspend_urbs ndiswrapper: Unknown symbol wrap_resume_urbs Assuming that the problem could be departing from the upgrade, I downgrade it to 1.11, but could not solve the

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-17 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I nailed it on my system. I had some free time so installed gdb and ranamarok. Looks like if Retrieve similar artists is checked under Last.fm, itcrashes amaroK. I unchecked the option and now it runs flawlessly. Check it in your case as well.Abhay Ok, I

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-17 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 9:08 pm, Fernando Meira wrote: .libs/rawscope_impl.o(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTCN6Amarok13RawScope_implE4_N4Arts14StdSynthModuleE+0xb8): undefined reference to `virtual thunk to Arts::StdSynthModule::streamEnd()' collect2: ld returned 1

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-16 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/15/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 1:14 am, Jeff Smelser wrote: I am using 1.3.6 and i havent had problem with crashes unless I start messing with the cover manager..I am using 1.3.6 as well and not messing with cover manager. In fact I didn't even know something

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-16 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm using 1.2.4 thou.. It behaved very well before.. but now it just crashes all the time... I dont remember to have done anything different that may have caused this... Anyway, I'll update to 1.3.6 and see how it goes.. Fernando

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-16 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, Jeff Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 10:05 am, Preston Hagar wrote: Although amarok is probably my favorite audio player, I have found it to be a little finicky. I usually find it works best with xine. I usually use a -arts -gstreamer xine so xine is

[gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-15 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, been using amaroK for a long time now, and just few days ago, something weird started to happen. At some point, when changing song, I get an error message saying that amaroK was unable to launch Kmail. I do not have Kmail, so I understand the problem.. but why amaroK wants to use Kmail? Can

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-15 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/15/05, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't any more rather an attempt to send a bug report.=== On Tuesday 15 November 2005 19:20, Jeff Smelser wrote: ===On Tuesday 15 November 2005 09:42 am, Fernando Meira wrote: been using amaroK for a long time now, and just few days

[gentoo-user] how to change drivers?

2005-11-14 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I have a Linksys WPC54G wireless card - Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) and I been using Ndiswrapper with no problems. The thing is that I can't use kismet with windoze drivers.. so, I've heard that I could use Orinoco driver with

[gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I was updating my system yesterday when suddenly the computer switched off... it got too hot!! Fans may be getting dirty.. When I restarted again, I tried to emerge --resume but portage said that there was nothing to resume.. I then ran emerge -u world again (because the update was not finish

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:19, Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: So, there are some missing libraries and others causing conflicts.. don't know if that was caused by the power-down, or something while updating was running, but how can I fix this? Should I reemerge some packages? If so, which ones

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge e17

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 赵光 wrote: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/ecore- failed. !!! Function cvs_fetch, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! cvs login command failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message look like the server refuse meTry again in

Re: [gentoo-user] power-down during emerge -u world causing library-issues

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:36:52 +0100, Fernando Meira wrote: # emerge -Dav dbus hal Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-0.36.2 +X -debug -doc -gtk -mono +python +qt +xml2 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.36.2] +X

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today the updating of the portage cache was real quick -- somethinglike a minute, instead of the ten minutes it used to take duringthe past month or so.What has changed?Was it the r2 to r3 update on glibc-2.3.5 ?Did I emerge somethingin the

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote:A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See thegentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details.Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so?If so there is a thread about it on the forums

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/1/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Have you ran some command that caches the portage dir to memory before updating portage cache? That normally speeds up.. but then again, maybe there were changes so that the annoying problem got fixed... FernandoYou been running

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge a masked package?

2005-10-28 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/28/05, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I am trying to emerge alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc2 on amd64. This package isin /usr/portage/package.mask. Can I emerge it without editingpackage.mask?Thanks,jules Hi, yes, you should not change /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but instead add the

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-13 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/12/05, Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, I'm back to radeon but still no rendering. However, there's noting saying the opposite unless: # glxinfo | grep -i rendering direct rendering: No[...]Did you compile agp, drm, radeon into kernel or as modules? There are some issues (or

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-12 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/12/05, Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-09 23:10]: Hi,Hi, I know this is a well discussed topic.. but I can't find answer to my problem.. and I'm completely lost in all mails/forums.. I have a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY

[gentoo-user] firefox segmentfaulting....

2005-10-12 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, just come across a sudden strange behaviour of Mozilla Firefox: Somehow, when I'm editing my blog and press the left arrow to move the cursor forward, the window just disappears.. This is what I get in return: $ firefox [2] 9642 $ No running windows found *** loading the extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, gentoo_falstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problemafter a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I hadDirect Rendering switched off.I was compiling AGP as a kernel module.Actually I solved the problem compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira schreef: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that meanthat it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:44 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: Section driMode 0666 EndSectionPlease check if permissions of /dev/dri/cardX is really 0666. Mine has to be changed. Yes, they were not 0666 but instead 0660. I changed them, rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Yes, they were not 0666 but instead 0660. I changed them, rebooted, and they're back to 0660 :(cd into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and make a file called 10-local.rules .Addthe 'dri' lines from 50

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Taylor wrote: unsubscribe On 10/10/05, *Fernando Meira* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/05, *Jason Cooper* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Hanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I've got a radeon mobility 9200 in my laptop and have compiled CONFIG_AGP=m, CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m, CONFIG_DRM=m, and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m. Interestingly enough, agpgart module loads at boot but intel_agp

[gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-09 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I know this is a well discussed topic.. but I can't find answer to my problem.. and I'm completely lost in all mails/forums.. I have a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY and I been using radeon driver from kernel. In order to enable rendering, I been looking around and after no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reiserfs speed

2005-09-30 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/29/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a power user or even a very knowledgable user.But amsomething of a long time user, and since `96, I've used ext2 or 3exclusively. I don't recall a single incident of losing or corruptingfiles that was attributable to ext[23]. I'd heard

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

2005-09-30 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/30/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 September 2005 06:44, Fernando Meira wrote: drwxrwS--- 18 root portage 576 Sep 29 00:21 .Which portage version are you using? 2.0.51.22-r2? There was a bug in one ofthem that would cause ccache permissions to be updated everytime

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

2005-09-29 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/28/05, Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I been using ccache for sometime since its mail goal is to speedup common compiling sets. This is great when updating several packages. However, every time that a package is to be emerge/updated my

[gentoo-user] ccache taking way too long time

2005-09-25 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I been using ccache for sometime since its mail goal is to speedup common compiling sets. This is great when updating several packages. However, every time that a package is to be emerge/updated my system waits for ccache some long minutes. This happens twice, at the emerge start and end.

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-24 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/22/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:03:53 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: I might be wrong, but I have the idea that E-cvs packages are always updated during an emerge world.Only if you run it without -p or -a. I never run emerge world without fiorst checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/20/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:50:28 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: - I run emerge -pv depclean and I get a list where I find these: These are the packages that I would unmerge: media-libs/libmpeg3 selected: 1.5.2 protected: none omitted: none x11-plugins

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/21/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: If you installed it with portage, you should have it in world. I've installed with portage, but with --oneshop option. This is because (as Holly said) E17 packages need to be installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-20 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/20/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:04:02 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? The world file is for packages you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2005.1 on an SATA drive

2005-09-06 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/6/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you checked that the LiveCD image is not corrupt (dodgy CD burn ordownload)? I helped installing Gentoo 2005.1 on a SATA machine last weekend and we were faced with similar problems. No segfault, but after chrooting the disk was no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-26 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/26/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2005 18:21 schrieb ext Willie Wong: Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for you and reset the password there. Single wouldn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

2005-08-26 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/26/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables.There is a sectionthere that sets up a file called firewall.shi've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system,and it seems that running /etc/init.d/iptables save

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-26 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/26/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IYpi3tbduwbfwmSuch a password can't be cracked by brute force and it's easy to remember.If Your password is 3 times better, don't use words brute force won'tmatter. Well.. that just depends on how strong the password was! A brute-force attack

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-26 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/26/05, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, I think the example password should be strong enough but You areright. Sooner or later it will come in (if sooner is something amongst some hundreds of years and later something amongst some thousands ;)BTW: There isn't only the password.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/24/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:30:11PM +, Fernando Meira wrote: Oh.. and by the way, how reliable is this prediction? (...) [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.9 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 Estimated update time: 6 hours, 7 minutes. All system in 6h

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:51:32AM +, Fernando Meira wrote: I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've

[gentoo-user] migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-24 Thread Fernando Meira
I've decided to migrate to gcc-3.4.4, so I've emerged it, and switch the system to use it instead the previous (gcc-3.3.5-20050130). After that I am supposed to update my system packages, so when I run # emerge -va system I get: [ebuild N ] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 -build -static 197 kB [ebuild N ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004

2005-08-24 Thread Fernando Meira
HI, I'm not bringing help, sorry. Just started using wine few days ago and I was wondering of what to do when an app doesn't work.. I read on the user guide that WINEDEBUG=+loaddll would tell me what dlls are missing.. though I never got any reply from that option. Does it go to any log file or

[gentoo-user] Read/Import mail

2005-08-22 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, this question might be a little bit out of the scope of this mailing list.. but anyway: I need to access some old mail folder. I was using mozilla as mail client at the time. Now I use thunderbird. I couldn't import/read the mail just by creating an account and pointing the Local Folder to

Re: [gentoo-user] Read/Import mail

2005-08-22 Thread Fernando Meira
Yah.. but that didn't work! Well, I found the mail I needed on other account :) So I won't need to do this.. at least for now.. but the question is still on.. Thanks FernandoOn 8/22/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: I need to access some old mail

Re: [gentoo-user] what's next

2005-08-21 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/21/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the basic system installed and updated on my laptop.Aside from the problem of the splash, everything seems to be well.I'm wondering what direction to go next? You're the boss... just lead the way.. I hope that's why you installed gentoo!! :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup-software for small network

2005-08-17 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Dan,I am currently developing a P2P backup-system. It allows you to distribute your backups through all clients with space-efficiency and error-correcting-codes. However, it doesn't cover all your requirements (at least the current version), but you may want to have a look in the future..

[gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I was told the following, which I don't agree, but in any case, I would like to hear from someone that knows :) - when having 2 different distro on 1 pc, do they have to use the same kernel? Even if they share the same swap partition and /boot is inside the root of one of the distros (and not

Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question

2005-08-16 Thread Fernando Meira
. Even that this guy/girl has /boot inside Ubuntu's partition, it still needs (in case he wants 2 different kernels) to place gentoo's kernel inside /boot so that he can start gentoo. Thanks for the replies. Fernando. On 8/16/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] update portage vs update system

2005-08-15 Thread Fernando Meira
If you have run emerge world, portage would be automatically updated together with other packages. Fernando On 8/15/05, Christoph Daldrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 08/15/2005 09:42 PM maxim wexler wrote: At the end of a successful emerge --sync I was advised to update portage. It didn't say but

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread Fernando Meira
No, that does not mean if you want or not DHCP. Just if you want your domain name overridden when dhcp provides you one. FernandoOn 8/14/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up Gentoo (2.6.12-r6) on a standalone laptop with DHCP and was trying to find some input

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise decision... Anyway, the first thing I noticed was this: # df /dev/hda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Is not my purpose to hijack this topic, but I was wondering if anyone is kind enough to give me some comments about linux magazines. I been looking into that for some time, but not enough to subscribe one, as I wish to do. I know about Linux Journal and Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
to reiserfs. FernandoOn 8/13/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:29:18 +, Fernando Meira wrote: # df /dev/hda1 10080488 4406076 5162344 47% /mnt/gentoo /dev/hda4 4763112 3948116 814996 83% /mnt/old With exactly the same things in both sides, it seems that ext3 requires

Re: [gentoo-user] visualizar particion windows

2005-08-12 Thread Fernando Meira
To see/access a windows partition, you should mount it. you can do something like this (assuming your windoz fs is ntfs): $ mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt/windows where hdaX is the windoz partition. Don't forget to make /mnt/windows beforehand ($ mkdir /mnt/windows) Check man mount in any case.

[gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, this is how my disk is divided: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1276 4208 23559322+ f W95 Ext'd

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

2005-08-11 Thread Fernando Meira
/boot was in hda4. Now should I move it to where /boot will stay, right? Thanks, Fernando.On 8/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, this is how my disk is divided: Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-09 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi again Sean, thanks for answering (as well the others :)) more questions: On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I havemuch expirience with either, sorry to say.As far as the other software is concerned I would look at the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-09 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/9/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll end up with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable. In a future stage, I might convert my share partition from FAT32 to a linux like. By the way, I use reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, On 8/8/05, Tero Grundstr� [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Tero, what I meant with redo my partitions was in the way that I will expand my gentoo partition (or try to). I have: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Sean,On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: I have: # df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G3.8G803M83% / udev252M808K252M 1% /dev /dev/hda523G 20G3.3G86% /mnt/share /dev/hda1 9.8G8.0G1.8G82% /mnt/windows none252M 0252M 0% /dev/shm Options

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Neil,On 8/8/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote: Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs.For a while I was running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple of cases with a seized system during some

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/8/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preference, since I normally mount with noatime, is:mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,atime(yes, I keep distfiles on a separate LVM volume!)emerge --deep --emptytree --fetchonly world(updates atimes)mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,noatimefind

[gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-07 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, this is probably an old discussion, sorry for bring it up again. When I joined Gentoo (a few months ago) I got the idea that I could control very well the space that gentoo would require. That would be great because of my 4.6G available to it. Then, not so long time ago I got very surprised

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-07 Thread Fernando Meira
to maintain distfiles under control let me know. ;) Cheers, Fernando.On 8/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -From: Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sunday, August 7, 2005 10:22 pmSubject: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-07 Thread Fernando Meira
: - Total disk space freed by localepurge: 48448K (not bad ;) Cheers, Fernando On 8/7/05, Tero Grundstr� [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: I could then end my emerge (eclipse). After the emerge I end-up with 805Mb free. In fact, I have a 38GB disk on my laptop. My

Re: [gentoo-user] record emerge messages

2005-08-07 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/7/05, Rodrigo Lazo Paz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been looking and I haven't found a way to record the emerge's messages like * Warning! Gentoo's GLIBC with NPTL enabled nowbehaves like the * glibc from almost every other distribution outthereThere's a log or a tool that records that?

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-05 Thread Fernando Meira
it? It would be nice to know the weather from here I am and not from Taunton.. :) Cheers, Fernando On 8/4/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes... that would maybe be good idea. I'm using now the touchpad instead of the mouse and, until now, no weird behaviours! Thanks. FernandoOn 8/4/05

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-05 Thread Fernando Meira
hmm... not nice... There's no other way to work with my card unless with ndiswrapper... at least from what I read. What about Ad-Hoc? Would it be possible to provide internet access to other pcs? FernandoOn 8/5/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:28:46

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/3/05, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying e17 as well after reading this ;-) Great Justin :) I suggest emerging edge before epsilon or you'll get compile errors. I just finish compiling it and I got no problems (at least that I'm aware of)... so it also works with this sequence

Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters (between 2 rooms) is enough. I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode. # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: lsbcmnds driver present,

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: Also found other scripts to compile directly from cvs, without using portage. Can anyone tell me what the advantage of doing so?I'd suggest using portage since it allows you to uninstall, query information and doing other nice package managment stuff. Christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
, and xorg.conf has: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Cheers, FernandoOn 8/4/05, Luke Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:53 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Ok, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-04 Thread Fernando Meira
Yes... that would maybe be good idea. I'm using now the touchpad instead of the mouse and, until now, no weird behaviours! Thanks. FernandoOn 8/4/05, Luke Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should subscribe to the enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list and post this same message

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-03 Thread Fernando Meira
Thank you all for answering :) I'm getting the feeling that I should go for e17 after what I've been seeing and reading!!! (though a few guys returned back to e16 afterwards). Luke, you been using it for 3 months and never used e16. So, would you said that I should start my experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment 16 or 17

2005-08-03 Thread Fernando Meira
I might be wrong, but isn't that a unnecessary step?? Even though you don't have anything else in package.keywords, once you specify there the packages to unmask, you don't need to do it again when you want to update E, right? Just running the 'emerge (...)' would suffice... FernandoOn 8/3/05,

[gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

2005-08-03 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other laptops at home. To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as AP to all others. I have been following the HOWTO:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo and trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-08-02 Thread Fernando Meira
Do: # equery depends kdebase Then: # emerge unmerge package_name to all kde-related packages.. You should then be able to upgrade KDE. Hope that helps, Fernando. On 7/31/05, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently running KDE 3.3.I get the following:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge

[gentoo-user] unknown network devices

2005-07-30 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, I had ethernet (eth0) and wireless (wlan0) working well before I run an emerge world (which updated baselayout) At that time I also had eth1, which I don't know why, and the normal lo. After the emerge, my wlan0 was gone. I still have the init script (not sure if is a new one, or was

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown network devices

2005-07-30 Thread Fernando Meira
On 7/30/05, Niels Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of Wireless-Card do you have? I have a LinkSys WPC54G. It was working well before the emerge world.

[gentoo-user] enlightenment WM -- setup

2005-07-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi everyone, I've seen a few screenshots of the Enlightenment Window Manager and I wanted to try it. I've emerged enlightenment and (as the howto says) I should be able to load Enlightenment after restarting X, however I don't get that option. I only have default, KDE and failsafe. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-23 Thread Fernando Meira
Thank you all for the replies!! I think this little experience improved my knowledge and I'm starting to see the kernel as something not so scary :) Having said that.. I have to recompile it again.. can't manage to start alsa (I didn't built it in the kernel as the HOWTO said to), and the same

[gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, this might be a mighty stupid question, but I have no experience on recompiling kernel... I followed the instructions from the HOWTO and now I have to copy the new configuration to /boot. My problem is that I assume that the new configuration replaces the previous one. So, I would need to

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Fernando Meira
I should have read this mail before I rebooted.. :P I end up with a VDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) I will need to use the livecd to fix the prob.. after I find what's going on... On 6/22/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Fernando Meira
the configuration, where I would just need to check this fs detail, or will I have to pass through all the items again? thanks!!On 6/22/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have read this mail before I rebooted.. :P I end up with a VDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic

Re: [gentoo-user] A simple kernel question!

2005-06-22 Thread Fernando Meira
-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/hda*And that should do the trick, if you have enabled the vesa framebuffers than there are a couple other parameters that you need to enable but not to worry bout that just yet.CheersRavOn 6/22/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, still unsolved!I know that this can

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-21 Thread Fernando Meira
Sorry.. I was not sure if the quoting was right.. gmail just got crazy!! I repeat! On 6/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily, if the internal default for this setting is ON (which Idon't know), but in any case, when commented settings revert to theirinternla default, so in

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-21 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, first of all, thanks for the support! Let me split these into 2 parts: 1) the problem with the X server, and 2) the remaining errors... Although I have a few errors while starting X, they do not make X fail (as I think). After starting X, the problem arises when loading KDE with the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting KDE

2005-06-20 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, On 6/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily, if the internal default for this setting is ON (which I don't know), but in any case, when commented settings revert to their internla default, so in this case it might be better to explicitly set it to Off. So I set

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