tweaked
to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary
distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator
like i386 or x86_64.
hope this helps clarify the term,
James Wall
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500
Albert W. Hopkinsmar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find
bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P
Or
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
James Wall wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to make this work? I googled but I couldn't find anything
on
this one. Well, a few worthless hits that just happen to have
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure
there will be those who claim its `simple'.
Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible.
So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Nov 11, 2011 5:17 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux
2011/11/11 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com:
I have cost eight hours and forty minutes in installing KDE Meta.
When I wake up this morning it has done. But when I startx,
it can't work, output messages are below:
xauth: file /root/.serverauth. ( is changed each time
I use startx) does
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote:
The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
tolerable.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote:
I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always
Hello All,
I was wanting to set up a UPnP server so my wife could browse my music
easily from her Windoze machine. What recommendations do you have on
UPnP servers?
Thanks,
James Wall
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I use it for my laptop, desktop/HTPC. firewall/router, distfiles
server and NFS boot server. The distfiles and NFS boot servers are
actually VMs due to having to downsize PC space on my desk. (my wife
had a fit about 6 PCs on my desk running constantly.)
James Wall
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I
mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a .35
version. It seemed to work fine, for a while. When I tell Seamonkey to
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and
I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in
/etc/make.conf looks like this:
USE=-setup declarative static-libs gallium
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can
have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address
different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to
experiment with PXE
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they
provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single
keyboard, monitor, and mouse. I need sort of the inverse. I'd like
to control a single Gentoo
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out
multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great
work Albert! :)
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the
controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image.
If you let me know what controller virtualbox
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
James Wall
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work
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that portage removes a configuration file then add
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc to the unmerge line and portage will remove the
configuration files as well.
James Wall
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Format: (v.) to erase irrevocably and unintentionally.
(n.) The process of such erasure.
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the
stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine.
James Wall
broken reference that I missed yesterday
This is pulled in because of the change to the live ebuild which
evaluates as a newer ebuild.
20 Apr 2011; Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org llvm-2.9-r1.ebuild,
llvm-.ebuild:
Fix install_name_tooling
same as above.
Is this normal? Bug?
HTH,
James
new disc isos
about once a month.
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was good.
Andrew
Another tool which will work well is dd.
as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new
distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back
up the drive for a bare metal restore of the 40 GB hard drive.
James Wall
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 18:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote:
Another tool which will work well is dd.
as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting
breaking spectacularly with no warning
whatsoever back when
That was fun. This update is a complete opposite from those nightmares.
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system for checking my marriage.
+1 for the marriage checker. That would save me some headaches big time.
James Wall
McCarthy sign...@gentoo.org
What does the outpute of date show for your current date? this looks
like your clock/cmos battery is dead. I had one keep me from emerging
anything because the system would go into a loop trying to emeerge
things like glibc.
James Wall
for the PDF viewer
James Wall
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices?
The
issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got
done
re-emerging world
Hi all,
Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The
issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done
re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas?
TIA,
James Wall
of the virtual
keyboard to find it.
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to see what resolutions available in hexadecimal. For example 0x31B
equals 795 in decimal.
Hope that helps.
James Wall
You will need to set up pollution aka policykit. I use udisks to get
automounting taken care of instead of Hal. See an earlier thread for
details. I am working on a full policykit setup to document with examples
for reboot and shutdown in lxde.
Regards,
James wall
On Mar 8, 2011 1:05 AM, Bill
Two dozen??? How many computers do you have?
On Mar 6, 2011 12:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote:
SNIP
I think I have made some progress. After getting a new sound card
(Sound Blaster X-Fi) and buil...
SNIP
I've
Does your system pass memtest86+ on an overnight run?
On Mar 4, 2011 4:24 AM, Nikola Hardi hardi.nik...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things
Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A
friend of mine told me that it
. In this case I expect that the device wouldn't
function.
Hope this helps,
Mark
Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel
configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules
James Wall
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, just using 64-bit.
Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas?
Me, no - unfortunately.
- Jörg
Jake,
Are you a member of the audio and/or plugdev group?
James Wall
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Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-14 18:56]:
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi Dale,
as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed
regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s.
Quickly
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Hi,
I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card.
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I have no problems with editing crontabs to
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On 10/10/2010 01:49 PM, walt wrote:
On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a
sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom...
My favorite disk failure story:
On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote:
2010/10/8 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com:
I want to install MSWindows in a VM. I want to be able to use the guest
MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the Gentoo host OS on
the same
On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote:
Hi there,
my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly
but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from
houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ...
has since been added to the kernel and is no
longer necessary. tools available include media-video/luvcview which is
only available for ~x86 and media-video/guvcview.
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On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote:
By all means, use genkernel.
I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as
hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install
everything under the sun and see if
That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was
masked still so I wasn't sure as to why.
May have to test it again now myself.
Dale
:-) :-)
Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full
out backup/restore test tomorrow
James Wall
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote:
On Friday 06 Mar 2009, James Wall wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive
to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What
programs would you
Hi all,
I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive
to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What
programs would you recommend to handle this task?
TIA James Wall
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