Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Huber
There are plenty of packages within portage which have no longer been maintained for just as long as xmms (see cgoban for an example). It seems that this is a rather silly choice of packages to single out. It seems to me that xmms can live a perfectly natural life within portage so long as it

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation problem [panic: not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

2006-06-27 Thread Mike Huber
Also, be sure to have support for pc bios partition tables (in some kernel releases, it's not a default selection, and I believe the error is the same because the kernel can't tell which device is sda3, or whatever partition you're using. On 6/26/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Huber
Yea, What architecture are you running on? Is it possible that you have some kind of memory interleaving option turned on in your bios that isn't working right because of slight timing differences in the manufacturing of each stick of ram? Are they exactly the same spec (CAS,NS, etc..)? What's

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-20 Thread Mike Huber
My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors is for memory address space (4Gigs of virtual memory space without PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). There must be some advantage associated with being

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Huber
. Regardless, that should tell you everything you need to know, or where to look for the few pieces you're missing. --Mike On 6/13/06, YoYo Siska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Huber wrote: There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the point of view of booting an nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Huber
(or kexec). On 6/12/06, Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, all mileage may vary. Personally, I prefer to not have things loaded into the kernel when I'm not using them. It's not really a performance or a memory saving thing, but more of an OCD thing. I'm sure that, in the grand scheme

Re: [gentoo-user] Module philosophy: Compile-in or Load

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Huber
Yea, of course you can do that, though you have to be careful if your kernel tree has changed to a different version than the one you're booted from (usually you can still just force the module to load, but a module from a different kernel tree may not want to play nicely with everything else).

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-07 Thread Mike Huber
I had some weird problems with the emerge -e system (libraries not being properly identified to ./config scripts, that blocking issue with pam.d shadow, usual unstable tree stuff), but after toying with it for a few hours, I have a successfully running desktop. On 6/7/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] grub + pxeboot

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Huber
There was a really good guide on how to do this (at least, from the point of view of booting an nfs-mounted root directory) in the alternate installation guide. I'm pretty sure that you have to compile grub with the --enable-diskless option. I'm not really sure how to do that easily within

[gentoo-user] Weird WinCE Stuff

2006-06-04 Thread Mike Huber
Anyone know what the most appropriate way to modify settings on a WinCE handheld via scripting? I really only need to modify wireless settings (SSID, WEP), home page, and startup programs. I have pcr working on the things, but am unfortunately so unfamiliar with administration on a windows

[gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Huber
Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division.It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for sys-devel/bc to change this.From the manpage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point?

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Huber
duh, sorry, case of me not fully reading the manpage. I'll be sure and fully read before I send to the list. Thanks a lot,--MikeOn 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you tryscale=nWhere n is the number of digits after the decimal?More in man bc. From: Mike Huber [EMAIL