On 26/03/10 20:02, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
Is there a file anywhere that I can edit, which mandates that to use the
vdpau use flag, I have to have the vdpau package installed?
geze.. there it is in the ebuild.
Removed the dependency and all compiles/works well.
Obviously you didn't
On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote:
I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers.
I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific
drivers have always worked better for me.
Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the
motherboard,
On 26/03/10 20:47, Daniel Quinn wrote:
I don't know why it's happening. I've tried various kernel options with no
change in behaviour. Outside of that though, I don't know what to try.
Suggestions welcome :-(
It sounds very much to me like a lack of physical memory and your
system is
On 22/03/10 19:21, KH wrote:
Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick:
TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows
tax on
all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular
laptop.
You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are
On 22/03/10 20:33, Mike Edenfield wrote:
Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with
Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with
'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop. What's that? You want a
desktop machine with Linux? Are you
On 19/03/10 20:38, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Occasionally, and apparently triggered
randomly[1], all existing ssh sessions freeze and never come back (even after
several hours). The connections are still up and do not die on the remote
end.
Mail connections stay up and the browser tabs
On 12/03/10 23:21, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I got an ebuild somewhere, probably bugzilla. If you want a copy,
I've put it on http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild.
I tried this just now. I saved your ebuild as /usr/local/portage/app-
editors/kompozer/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild,
To those people still trying to download the files, please
note there is NO full stop (period) at the end of the ebuild
filename. The two files you need are:
http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild
and
http://www.neiljw.net/mozconfig-0.8_beta1
;)
Be lucky,
Neil
On 13/03/10 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote
Ah. So now it builds ok (18 min here) but when I call kompozer from a
command line I get:
/usr/lib/kompozer/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 13315 Segmentation fault
$prog ${1+$@}
All I know is that it worked here from when I installed it in
On 09/03/10 12:14, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Has anyone here got kompozer to build on a Gentoo ~amd64 box?
I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but
quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
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On 09/03/10 15:41, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I have kompozer-0.8_beta1 running on this box which is amd64 but
quite a long list in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
Well, as this box is ~amd64 I shouldn't need any of those. But kompozer
isn't in portage as far as I can see, so how did you get
On 09/03/10 20:56, Neil Walker wrote:
If you want a copy, I've put it on
http://www.neiljw.net/kompozer-0.8_beta1.ebuild
Hehe. It seems a few people wanted that but I did see a couple of
http 404s in the logs. That's because you included the full stop.
Be lucky,
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http
On 08/03/10 18:25, Tanstaafl wrote:
Almost forgot - are there any substantive advantages to moving to it,
other than just getting it done now so you don't have to do it later?
Let me turn that around. I decided to switch to baselayout-2/openrc this
morning on this machine. It took around 2
On 08/03/10 19:44, Jarry wrote:
Calculating dependencies | * Missing digest for
'/usr/portage/sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2010d.ebuild'
What does it mean,
What it says, I should think.
and how can I fix it?
emerge --sync and try again.
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Peter Humphrey wrote:
There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it
work with 2.6.33.
Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers
with 2.6.33 and I can't see much on the nvidia site.
emerge =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-190.53-r1
Mark Knecht wrote:
and from this nVidia page seems to be supported by the 173.xx series drivers:
Yes, but I don't think they are compatible with the 2.6.33 kernel. There
was a
patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it work with
2.6.33. Try
that.
Be lucky,
Neil
Neil Walker wrote:
I use http-proxy now.
Sorry, that should be http-replicator.
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Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
e.g. 'lockd'?
If so, which ebuild installs it?
I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
internally by the kernel.
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walt wrote:
On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote:
I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but...
Are you using something else instead now?
I was using nfs for portage on my local network. I use http-proxy now.
For everything else, I use ssh.
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Neil
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Harry Putnam wrote:
On a non-x system, is there any advantage to having dbus and hal
installed?
I'm bring a formally X enabled system down to a hardcore console only
log server.
Don't now enough about either hal or dbus to know if they need to be
removed?
They are totally redundant.
Hey guys,
There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing.
Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or,
actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is
handled by the BIOS on the RAID controller. The array appears as a
single drive to the OS
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 18:03:39 Neil Walker wrote:
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How would I go about doing that?
Well, you need a rabbit's foot, a four leaf clover, a horseshoe
(remember to keep the open end uppermost), a black cat,
;)
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Iain Buchanan wrote:
I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec
2420SA - this is real hardware raid right?
It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you sure that's right for your system?
If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect
hardware
ubiquitous1980 wrote:
I am trying to get Thunderbird to correctly display the date format in
my locale: EN_AU
Does anyone have any tips?
Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me.
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John H. Moe wrote:
Neil Walker wrote:
Setting LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale works for me.
Is this the Gentoo way of setting this?
Yes, of course it is.
I've always used .bashrc to
set up LANG and LC_ALL
The only difference there is that .bashrc is per-user whereas
/etc/env.d
Neil Bothwick wrote:
my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my
monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in
32bit env.
What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and
works fine here.
get-edid is not installed on
Neil Bothwick wrote:
% emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1,
2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
% qlist read-edid
/usr/share/man/man1/get-edid.1.bz2
/usr/share/man/man1/parse-edid.1.bz2
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no
mention of stable or testing builds.
It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said.
Remember, some people are very uncomfortable with testing ebuilds.
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Mick wrote:
Hi All,
Just ran revdep-rebuild and came across this problem:
# emerge -1Dv '=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.6'
xulrunner-1.9.2 emerges fine - did it a few hours ago. Try that.
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL.
;)
That might not be a bad idea
I never agreed with the implementation of hal. An abstract layer sounds good,
but why must it abstract ALL hardware? Most software already knows what
Mike Edenfield wrote:
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries
that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of your
configuration data beforehand. This means I, as a
Eray Aslan wrote:
It is usually done right in the third version. First one too small,
second one too big, third one just right :)
I think it is called Second System Effect
No, it's called Goldilocks and the Three Bears. ;)
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
how do we
prevent that DeviceKit will become the same desaster as hald?
The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL. ;)
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Mikie wrote:
I am converting an Ubuntu 9.10 to NFS boot by coping files to the NFS
root.
My question is:
Would it be better to create a local hard drive swap and file system for
certain root dir?
Should Tmp be local rather than on the NFS root?
Had you ever thought of asking this
James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
ssh works fine and all packages are current.
Any suggestions on how to get this fixed?
Sorry, my psychic powers are not functioning today. You
Laurent Kappler wrote:
I'm looking for some information about the configuration for a server
used only for a huge database.
I guess dépendanding on which database server used Mysql or Berkley
the hardware should not be same.
Or is it all about having a lot of RAM ?
I think you will find it's
Laurent Kappler wrote:
But there might be from 5 to a 100 e-commerce application with like
between 20 and 5000 products...so it can be small but it can looks
huge to me :)
So, what you are talking about is a really tiny database. Hmm. You could
run that pretty well using a straight text file
bn wrote:
Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes
back.
Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you
tried
a different cable?
Well, yes, this brute force approach could theoretically help, but if
there's any chance of narrowing
Dale wrote:
Me again. I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my
/home directory.
I use a simple rsync cron job to backup entire servers every hour. Does
the job for me. ;)
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Alex Schuster wrote:
I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running
Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB.
Wow! Do you even need a server? It can't be doing much. My servers top that
in a few hours. ;)
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
I have to ask - what the blazes are those servers doing??? :-)
HTTP, SMTP and IMAP, mostly. ;)
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Maxim Wexler wrote:
Anybody guess what's happening here?
Well, it is just a guess but, from what you have said, it
sounds like either a problem with the video driver or
a hardware problem. :(
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Maxim Wexler wrote:
Meanwhile, I'll wait and see; the problem was intermittant; sometimes
the SOD appeared in a few minutes, sometimes it took days.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. :)
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Walter Dnes wrote:
A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds
explicitly blacklist VGA,
Well, as VGA only officially supported up to 640x480, it's probably not very
useful for anything these days.
so I have nothing to fall back to. Thanks for
nothing fellas.
Dale wrote:
Living on disability sucks,
So why do you?
If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does.
You really don't have to be living like that if you don't
want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at
neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :)
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Mick wrote:
Packet in English is almost always correctly used to denote a format of
network transmitted data (in the context of a conversation about IT and
computers) which is routable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_(information_technology)
The word packet also has other meanings
Harry Putnam wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes:
Hmm, Not commonly used, don't know. First versions of autofs date back to
April 97, amd is much older, I think. So no, automounting is NOT new in
Linux,
it's there for over a decade now.
At nearly 70, I can
Harry Putnam wrote:
If it had the same name everywhere... Paul Hartman wouldn't have
called it `Midnight Commander' would he.
So it has at least 2 names Jesus bud, lighten up or quit the
thread, if it getting to be too much for you.
It has one name - Midnight Commander - BUT is
Arthur D. wrote:
Many of us prefer editors other than nano.
Me included. I don't have nano installed here - I use LE.
The package SUDO. It is one of the most mandatory packages in distro.
Hmm. It's not even installed on any of my 15 systems - no use for it
whatsoever.
The default editor is
Arthur D. wrote:
James Ausmus, I solved this proble long ago. I just curios,
why it's not solved by portage? So the users should spend their
time diggin in manuals to find why is sudo not working in Gentoo
like it does in LFS or any other distro?.. Is this the Gentoo way
or something?
Maxim Wexler wrote:
I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.
So I ran
distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile
Maxim Wexler wrote:
I remember Midnight Commander from the old days but forgot how
useful it could be.
It's always the first program I install on a new system.
Anyway, the archive has a directory inside it (linux-2.6.29). That's
where all the files are.
So it would be
Crístian Viana wrote:
www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world
For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the
line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise
the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should
NEVER EVER rely
Grant wrote:
I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm
wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink
upgrades from 10mbps? Is there a test I can run to find out? I'm
running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day
10Mbps should be fine
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Opening the following page:
http://mybrute.com
in a new tab, and then trying to close that tab again crashes Firefox
3.0.8 immediately on AMD64. Can anyone confirm?
Doesn't here.
Be lucky
Neil
Xav' wrote:
What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs with
updated software.
Actually, when i install Gentoo from a 2008.0 stage 3, there is many
updates to deal with, and many more when going under unstable tree...
A new release mean for me that the postinstall
Harry Putnam wrote:
I have to have a second keyboard connected direct if I want to mess
around with grub or something... while testing kernels.
The kernel isn't even loaded at that point so how can you blame it? It
looks like a hardware/BIOS problem to me from what you have said. FWIW,
I am
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on
any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have to
James wrote:
http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP
My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo,
or a similar product from another vendor?
Errm ... quite honestly, why would you want to?
Be lucky,
Neil
Budd, Tracy wrote:
Card GeForce 8600GT. nvidia-drivers 173.14.09.
That's exactly the combination I have on this machine (and several
others). No issues here so it suggests to me you have a configuration
problem.
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Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Not my experience, though. Never had any problems with XFS due to power
failure.
Nor mine. I have machines with ext3 and reiserfs here. There is also one
with xfs. Recently, I had problems with an over-sensitive breaker
tripping at irregular intervals. The only
Harry Putnam wrote:
Maybe I have to do something special regarding USB recognition?
I have a similar device - a StarTech StarView SV831HD 8-port KVM. It
supports both PS/2 and USB, depending on the cables used but both types
terminate in just a VGA-type connector at the KVM end. I'm using
Matthew R. Lee wrote:
So I should comment out the
line splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though
Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;)
There should not be a space after (hd0,0).
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Mark Knecht wrote:
That surprises me Neil. It seems more 'automatic' than a nuts bolt
guy such as you might choose.
Well, it seems to do a pretty good job and, with 14 machines with a mix
of Intel and AMD processors, it makes maintenance a lot more
straightforward. In the past, I spent
Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true.
Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has support
for it. I think it came in with gcc 4.2.
(sorry for my bad english :)
Your English seems fine to me - better than some native
Mark Knecht wrote:
Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf?
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe
That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I
weren't using -march=native. ;)
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
2008 hasn't been released yet. Switch to 2007.0 for now, then it will be
less of a change when 2008.0 is released.
It was released on April 1st. ;)
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite
clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge
--sync.
I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread.
However, it cannot be assumed that everyone
Yoav Luft wrote:
I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices,
specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux
user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming
operating systems. Are there any relevant projects, specifically
Gentoo
Mark Knecht wrote:
I log in and want
to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type
emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong.
What the heck are you talking about? emerge --sync doesn't delete ANY
files from your system.
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Neil Walker wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
I log in and want
to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type
emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong.
What the heck are you talking about
James wrote:
They have very old, no longer supported nvidia cards:
NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
Utterly wrong. ;) The GeForce2 is supported by the 96.43.xx series of
drivers and the FX5200 is still supported by the unified driver. :)
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Dan Farrell wrote:
Install from 2007.0 with interet:
- most recent stage3
- most recent portage
therefore most recent system
Install from 2008.0-beta with internet:
- same stage3
- same portage
therefore same system
net benefit of 2008.0: none.
James wrote:
I'm using 2.6.24-gentoo-r3.
Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-71.86.01
snip
*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
Do you have the /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to the kernel source
tree you are using?
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James wrote:
How/where did you learn which nvidia cards are supported by which version of the
nvidia-drivers?
It's in the README file in the package. ;)
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Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote:
Hi!
I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i
use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux.
I'm planing to buy a core 2 Duo platform with a nvidia 8800 GT, but i am very
confused about the
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
How on earth do you justify that statement?
AMD Athlon64 X2 EE 6000+ 129€ (boxed)
Intel® Core 2 Duo E6850 234€
Intel® Core 2 Duo E4700 134€ (not boxed).
There is no equivalence there in terms of actual processing power. The
best buy on the market for
Grant wrote:
Can anyone tell me how my old email is most likely being deleted? I'm
using courier-imap and postfix. I'd like to keep the old stuff for
longer than 2 weeks, but I'm not sure where to specify this.
Courier-imap NEVER deletes mail in my experience. That is the whole
point of
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
price/performance still favours AMD.
How on earth do you justify that statement? I am an AMD fan and have
been since the 486/133 (was a Cyrix fan before then) but I can certainly
tell you that the performance of the Intel Q6600 makes the AMD Phenom
7600 look
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
My problem with these kind of questions if that I sometimes go mad when I see
them continuously arising every few days over and over during 4 or 5 years
(you see, the longest dead ever).
Oh no - I think OS/2 holds the record for that - and it's still alive
and
ionut cucu wrote:
Yeah well it's a campus *(1) switch, the campus's *(2) lan, the
campus's *(3) gatewayso on so forth till the A class IP so I can do
nothing about it
You could try telling (asking nicely ;) ) the campus tech guys to get
their act together. It seems, from what you
Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace
*multiline* blocks.
My favourite editor - app-editors/le :)
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Alois Hammer wrote:
Suggestion: put your Portage and database trees on flash storage.
There is no way I would do that or recommend it to anyone. Those devices
have a very, very short life if written to frequently. Portage isn't a
big problem because an emerge --sync will restore it - but
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an
external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not
PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast
A quick Google led to this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003
Be
Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2.
Sabayon creates a complete mess. You have 3 alternatives:
1. Wait for the next Sabayon release and install that.
2. Remove Sabayon and install Gentoo.
3. Spend weeks trying to turn Sabayon into Gentoo. It can be done
John covici wrote:
Thanks all -- I have a 32-bit profile, so I guess I will not be able
to use ncona -- is this correct?
No, it's not correct. march=nocona is just as valid under 32 bits as
64. It simply defines the capabilities of your processor to gcc. It does
NOT force gcc to produce
Drew wrote:
I'd agree with you for motherboards but not the mini-ITX all-in-one
boards. I bought a used SP13000G (CN400 based) before Christmas to use
as a (nearly) silent front end for MythTV and it's been rock solid.
It's the newer chipsets that are the real problem - especially in regard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I guess I'd have to say googles' claims are mostly baloney
I've been using Foxmarks for a while now and have no complaints. It
works fine with Flock, too. :)
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Hal Martin wrote:
IF the BIOS gives you the option of changing the RAM timings,
It's got nothing to do with RAM timings and everything to do with the
fact that VIA couldn't care less about Linux users. One thing I have
learned in th last few months is don't touch VIA with a bargepole. My
Grant wrote:
Has anyone used an external ISDN modem with Gentoo?
Yep. I used USR Courier IModems (both internal and external) to run a
BBS for a few years. Originally, I used OS/2 but I switched to Gentoo
Linux eventually.
I see there are a couple articles about setting up ISDN but they
Grant wrote:
The built-in Atheros AR5006EG wireless adapter in my Acer Aspire 4720Z
laptop doesn't work with madwifi-ng yet.
Hmm. My AR5006EG works just fine with madwifi-ng. ;-)
64-bits just aren't worth it on the desktop.
They are if you have 4G RAM or more. ;-)
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Grant wrote:
Which version of madwifi-ng are you using?
0.9.3.3
What does it say in dmesg?
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3.3)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3.3)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt
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
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David Relson wrote:
I've gotten this same NMI error the last 4 times I've booted -- even
using a second copy of the 2007.0 LiveCD that I happened to have
Given that you have stated that you want a command line, dump the
LiveCD. Use the Minimal Install CD or, better still, SystemRescueCD -
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Is it simply not supported yet, or does anybody know a trick?
I know from experience (having spent the last few months struggling with
a VIA-based laptop) that VIA chipsets are just not worth the pain. :(
However, the trick in your case may be to load the right driver. If
Please, please, please do not top-post. :(
Be lucky,
Neil
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Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I updated splashutils and noticed the changed init scripts (from splash to
fbcondecor) at etc-update. Anyway, when I boot I get warnings
about /etc/init.d/splash missing! skipping . . . fbcondecor kicks in fine
and I get all the prescribed eye candy.
What is trying to
Tapio Raevaara wrote:
try:
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3
why:
/boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while
grub is running you're starting from the boot partition's filesystem
root. Easy mistake, I do it all the time when I try to
Tapio Raevaara wrote:
Weird, as far as I remember, I've always had the correct symlink and boot on a
separate partition... No matter, thanks a lot for the explanation, that
pretty much clears it up!
Just to explain a little further, the stage file creates /boot and
/boot/boot. Thats fine
Francesco Talamona wrote:
IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot
partition.
Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;) Furthermore,
in this day and age, why would you even want a /boot partition? FWIW,
using reiserfs on my 64bit systems
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