Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-21 Thread imacake LK
I think you all understood me wrong: LK wrote linuxrocksrul...@gmail.com: On Arch Linux there is a variable with all important things to be run, like dhcpcd, ssh, apache, and so on. If I want i can simply prepend a '@' to be begin to start it in the background. I miss that ease on gentoo

[gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now it fails to emerge: http://pastebin.com/sngZLVgj emerge --info gdk-sharp: http://pastebin.com/qSsGXsnT Help!

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid boot diskette what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -0800, Grant wrote: LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD? Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always come back to: Invalid Boot diskette- Enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Fail to emerge banshee music player / gdk-sharp.

2012-02-17 Thread imacake/LK
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:06:09PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.02.2012 19:55, imacake/LK wrote: Hi everyone, I love music, and I love banshee (tho about to seek for a command line interface, but nevermind). Now

[gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread LK
On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday, 13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: -b, --background Background immediately. This is useful for startup scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier status. So to use that option, edit /etc/conf.d/net and use:

[gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread LK
Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. How do i change that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-15 Thread LK
On 120215, at 17:17, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 09:52 AM, LK wrote: Are there any firmware-related messages in your dmesg? Oh yes: http://pastebin.com/b95y3GaH Look at the area from 1.576863 to 62.228490, includes the 60s freeze from switching to clocksource tsc. Does

[gentoo-user] Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread LK
Hi, How do i get rid of that? It takes one minute on boot, that is awful. PS: How do i deamonize a service on startup? DHCPCD for example? Thanks in advance!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 13:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 14/02/12 12:48, LK wrote: How do i get rid of that? It takes one minute on boot, that is awful. If you boot with acpi=off, does the problem go away? What kernel version are you using? No it does not. After the root=/dev/sda5, in grub

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 18:53, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 14.02.2012 18:36, schrieb james: Googling around, I get the impression that 'grub' is now grub 2. Is that correct? [...] Because it is still in development hell, it has not reached version 2.00. BTW: So is grub0 still supported by gentoo /

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 19:24, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/14/2012 01:08 PM, LK wrote: BTW: So is grub0 still supported by gentoo / maintained by themselves? Does that matter(it is boot, no network stuff) ? GRUB Legacy (that is, GRUB versions 0.xx) is still the default in Gentoo. In order to use

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 20:29, Andrea Conti wrote: PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you say how? Remove or comment out any splashimage directives from the config file. I meant in GRUB2. I have another box with linux mint using GRUB2, and splash backgrounds in GRUB /

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 21:41, Grant wrote: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? I guess the default XFCE4 browser supports flash. it is lightweight. It came once with ubuntu xfce and i liked it. (that to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
On 120214, at 21:42, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/14/2012 02:29 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. I don't need a freakin' whole OS to boot linux, and having a configuration that

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
What do you think of putting this conversation onto some website, as tutorial or clarification =P ?