Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-21 Thread Pintér Tibor
Reemerge all xf86* packages Quite obvious as the log clearly gives the clue (new xorg server version, driver version mismatch) t G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: I did:     emerge -va --update --deep --newuse @world on a stable gentoo amd64 (multilib) system after switching the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with /devcdrom /dev/sro

2011-02-27 Thread Pintér Tibor
On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi, Since I have installed kernel amd64 I have nomore cdrom and sr0 in /dev isnt it a pioneer sata device by any chance? t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build nvidia driver on older Dell

2010-12-26 Thread Pintér Tibor
2010.12.26. 2:08 keltezéssel, Walter Dnes írta: I have an older Dell with AMD Athlon and nvidia integrated video that I've been using as a PVR hooked up to an HDHomerun dual tuner box. Today, I decided to update the system... big mistake... the nvidia driver will not build. The video

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
On 12/15/2010 11:18 AM, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/15/10 10:26:16, Dale wrote: Got to go take care of some medical issues. Back in a bit. I'd try to boot by SystemRescueCD and let it start X11 to rule out some hardware problems. (Version 1.6.4 is using

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo amd64 does not have sound

2009-12-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
the driver is already loaded. and i have use alsaconf, and alsamixer to set the configuration. /etc/init.d/alsasound is started, but my system still does not have sound. what have i missed? unmute? t

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

2009-09-01 Thread Pintér Tibor
Xi Shen wrote: Hi, as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there any way, or any tool to help with this task? find -exec ? t

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate fails, s2disk not found

2008-10-29 Thread Pintér Tibor
[d530][root][~] emerge -pv s2disk These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy s2disk. Now what? emerge -pv suspend t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to like the flexibility of that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
If you want to be sure your data is still readable in the event that your mobo dies and you can't find a replacement with the same fake RAID controller, stick with Linux kernel RAID. ...or buy a 3ware/areca/adaptec card, which is 100% supported. (but those are heavy bucks) t

Re: [gentoo-user] passwd won't work

2008-09-14 Thread Pintér Tibor
Michael Sullivan írta: I think this is the same problem that wouldn't let me use su -. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ passwd passwd: Authentication token manipulation error I'd like to change my password, but I can't. Any thoughts? readonly filesystem? missing suid? t

Re: [gentoo-user] GFS2 or other

2008-08-29 Thread Pintér Tibor
Paul Hartman írta: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use, but I can't find it in portage. So is there any layman which have GFS2's ebuild? Hi, sys-fs/gfs-2.02.00-r1 is in the regular portage tree. Is GFS version 2 different from GFS2?

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

2008-07-23 Thread Pintér Tibor
man ps t Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep USER|rsync root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5307 0.0 0.1 38052 29708 pts/0S+ 01:14 root 5308 0.2 0.1 38312 29672 pts/0S+

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

2008-07-20 Thread Pintér Tibor
same here with the latest grub update on x86. setting the console font restores normal operation during the boot process. t Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-01 Thread Pintér Tibor
works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26 Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: I cannot get bridged netwokring to work, no matter what I try. I have searched high and low for an