[gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:26:20 +0400, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: It looks like everybody, me too, agrees that it is a very good reason to switch to semi-annual releases, but please note that the very fact that quarterly releases were started is a proof that they are desirable. All it proves

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:14:48 +, anhnmncb wrote: I just want to know another method to gain the latest x86 stable branch's update info, packages.gentoo.org has an RSS feed. -- Neil Bothwick JPEG (JPG) Joint Photographic Experts Group. The original name of the committee that designed

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:52:42 +0100 Hamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 15 April 2007 07:37, Dale wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 4/15/07, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware. ... We (I) need

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi, I have here an AMD64 (32-bit installation) with a MSI K8N-Neo2FX running. Gentoo is installed on a serial ATA drive. lspci says: 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Serial ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2) 00:0a.0 IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 16 April 2007, Thomas Tuttle wrote: Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind of twaddle. ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. Please, be nice. Oh, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Hamie
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:41, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, [deleted] H Don't want to seem i recommend it, but you can try the Sabayon-miniCD for a new install. Don't know how actual the kernel/userspace are but in all cases newer then 2006.1. It's a Gentoo-based (slightly modified) distro.

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: The last time I looked, portage compiles were Gentoo-specific too. If you want to change where portage uses for its workspace, it is much safer to use the provided configuration settings than move the whole of a system-critical directory to an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone I recently hit the ideal age for any geek: 42 I think I'm going to stay this age from now on. Moving to 43 is such a let-down after being 42 for an entire

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, anhnmncb wrote: Hello, I just want to know another method to gain the latest x86 stable branch's update info, nothing more else, what I have heard of I mensioned in the first thread really wasn't the point I wanted to make, so... can all of you ignore of it...

RE: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Wayne Oliver
-Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 April 2007 11:01 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo? On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: The last time I looked, portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:50:23 +0400, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I agree that the installation CD does not need to be specifically a Gentoo cd, but I believe that it should be always possible to use it for installation, even when workarounds are available. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Wayne Oliver wrote: Going slightly OT here, but does anyone know which ebuilds are the big ones using lots of space in /var/tmp when compiling? Apart from OOo that is :-) alan Just guessing now I would add QT and Mozilla. I ask because I need to rezise my

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:26:23 +0400, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, Then do it. Open source gives you the opportunity to make things happen yourself instead of whining

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I ask because I need to rezise my /var to minimize wasted space. I know for sure I have remerged QT and mozilla (with USE= -gnome) recently without problems with just over 1G free. I hate having 5G lying there doing nothing until I

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually my upload rate that's difficult to limit. That's not inbound traffic right? Right. You should be able to shape upload quite well. Did you try to lower allowed upload bandwith further below the nominate

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: A major GCC update is the exception to this rule, but that is precisely the sort of thing that needs extensive testing on a range of platforms rather than a rushed release. That was what I was referring too. It would be time consuming to install then turn right

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data on disks the system is at a very high load and extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:33:18 -0500, Dale wrote: A major GCC update is the exception to this rule, but that is precisely the sort of thing that needs extensive testing on a range of platforms rather than a rushed release. That was what I was referring too. It would be time consuming to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-17 Thread arnuld
On 4/16/07, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nearly 28. Been using gentoo since version 1.0 (maybe pre-1.0 but can't remember). I started using linux back when slackware fit on a bunch of 5.25 floppies. ooohhh you are an old time Linux user. i am 26 and i started using Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA kernel messages

2007-04-17 Thread sain yan
From ChangeLog-2.6.20.7- commit c23bbe5978f98e7ae3a41f13dbf48d70c6651573 Author: Conke Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Apr 10 13:06:56 2007 -0400 ahci.c: walkaround for SB600 SATA internal error issue ahci.c: walkaround for SB600 SATA internal error issue

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 17. April 2007 schrieb ext Nistor Andrei: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? (re-)emerge rubygems. HTH... Dirk --

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-17 Thread anhnmncb
Yes, maybe http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/stable/ is what I want. Anyway, I still think the way gentoo uses for its package's database update is different with other distro, and seems a bit slower than others, err, I only used archlinux before. And..., what I have said above will cause a

[gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Nistor Andrei
Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:48:11 Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? (re-)emerge rubygems. It works!

[gentoo-user] Re: can not run Gizmo

2007-04-17 Thread Stefan Schweizer
you are on amd64 I suppose? Otherwise you can get a gizmo emerged by doing the following steps: emerge layman layman -f -a sunrise echo source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf /etc/make.conf ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gizmo On amd64 someone yould need to look into the emul libs needed,

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, anhnmncb wrote: Yes, maybe http://packages.gentoo.org/archs/x86/stable/ is what I want. Anyway, I still think the way gentoo uses for its package's database update is different with other distro, and seems a bit slower than others, err, I only used archlinux before.

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:55:59 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Have you run revdep-rebuild? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:30:14 +0400, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, Then do it. Open source gives you the opportunity to make things happen yourself instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:55:59 Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? # unset RUBYOPT And make sure

[gentoo-user] Gnome gets stuck on opening file or browsing

2007-04-17 Thread J.S.
Hi! I use gnome 2.16.2 stable but I have a little problem while using some apps. The problem starts in just some applications when I am triying to Open file or Browse ( actually browsing folders ) , the effect is that the program gets stuck waiting for the browse window to open. I've seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 17. April 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a problem. If I copy some data

[gentoo-user] can not run Gizmo

2007-04-17 Thread arnuld
i usually use Skype most of the time, as it is the only thing available for Voice-Chat on Gentoo Linux. but these days i am having problems with the Skype sound quality. so i downloaded the Gizmo and Wengophone binaries but they do not run :-( this is from my terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:08:49 +0400, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:26:23 +0400, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, Then do it. Open source

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:37:28 +0200 Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Volker, * Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [17-04-07 10:11]: which is correct. You don't set dma for SATA devices and you don't do it with hdparm. ah ok, thx for that information. But I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:55:59 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Have you run revdep-rebuild? -- Neil Bothwick The fact that no one understands

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 08:22:23 am Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:37:28 +0200 May be it's a io-scheduling issue. This topic from the forums could be helpful: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html Daniel... the post you made wasn't directed tome, but I benefited from

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. April 2007 schrieb ext Nistor Andrei: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Garry Garry Smith wrote on 16/04/07 14:50: My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications? You may

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I ask because I need to rezise my /var to minimize wasted space. I know for sure I have remerged QT and mozilla (with USE= -gnome) recently without problems with just over 1G free. I hate

Re: [gentoo-user] no images displayed in Konqueror or Gwenview

2007-04-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 16. April 2007, Garry Smith wrote: Hi all, My Konqueror and Gwenview applications are not displaying images (no thumbnails or images displayed) Gwenview 1.3.1 (Using KDE 3.5.5) What library do I need to be looking at to get png, gif, jpeg support for these two applications?

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:41:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere where the space would be useful at other times too, like /home. That's a good idea - I didn't think of that No, I did - which means there's probably some hidden gotcha waiting in it :( Or change

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:27:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: Or change it for OOo builds only.   I keep forgetting to do stuff like that and only find out 4 hours into an 8 hour emerge :-) I wonder if you could do this in /etc/portage/env? You cannot. Setting CHECKREQS_ACTION=error in

[gentoo-user] symlinking device with udev

2007-04-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, New gentoo won't let me symlink device like so: #ln -s /dev/parport0 /dev/lp0 Google says create file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules containing the line KERNEL==parport0 NAME=lp0 Which creates the device no problem. However /dev/parport0 is no more and #udevinfo -a -p

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinking device with udev

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello maxim wexler, Google says create file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules containing the line KERNEL==parport0 NAME=lp0 Which creates the device no problem. However /dev/parport0 is no more and That's right, because you have told udev to give it the name lp0, instead of parport0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Walker
Hamie wrote: Hey thanks I'd never heard of it I'll give it a go If you want to install Sabayon and stay with it without ever updating anything until the next Sabayon release, fine - but don't ever think that Sabayon is a quick and easy way to a working Gentoo system, it most certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread fire-eyes
Neil Walker wrote: Be lucky, Neil This is completely offtopic. But Be lucky made me think of the movie Demolition man, is this where you got it? In that case, the reply to that line was amusing :P /offtopic -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Walker
Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, or new gcc version goes stable, or new portage version goes stable. How is any of that relevant to the minimal install CD? GGC, Portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Neil Walker
fire-eyes wrote: Neil Walker wrote: Be lucky, Neil This is completely offtopic. But Be lucky made me think of the movie Demolition man, is this where you got it? In that case, the reply to that line was amusing :P /offtopic I've been using it since the early days of Fidonet. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-17 Thread Grant
It's actually my upload rate that's difficult to limit. That's not inbound traffic right? Right. You should be able to shape upload quite well. Did you try to lower allowed upload bandwith further below the nominate bandwith? I switched from The Wonder Shaper and started using shorewall

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:08 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... These are irrelevant. As long as the CD boots, recognises your core hardware - which really comes down to disk controllers and network interfaces - and installs a working system, the rest can be updated post-install. Unfortunately,

[gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-17 Thread Richard Marz
It is it possible to glob an entire subdirectory in package.use. I'm trying to stop portage from using the doc flag when installing java development suites. I tried adding the following to my package.use file: dev-java/* -doc Then ran `emerge -uD world` and it attempted to download the jdk doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:58:27 Richard Marz wrote: It is it possible to glob an entire subdirectory in package.use. I'm trying to stop portage from using the doc flag when installing java development suites. I tried adding the following to my package.use file: dev-java/* -doc Then ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-17 Thread Richard Marz
That worked flawlessly. Thank you very much. On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 05:15 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:58:27 Richard Marz wrote: It is it possible to glob an entire subdirectory in package.use. I'm trying to stop portage from using the doc flag when installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, April 16, 2007 11:48 pm, Alan McKinnon wrote: To install gentoo, the minimum you require is a running kernel, a network connection and a shell session. From there you chroot into the directory that is going to become your /, unpack a portage tree and binaries copies of some important