Re: [gentoo-user] Sun java from source?

2007-12-22 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Apparently there are some bits in sun-jdk licensed from 3rd parties that are proprietary. Openjdk project is to replace the proprietary pieces to get a fully buildable open source java. However, there's already a project called IcedTea that

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 schrieb Benjamen R. Meyer: I don't like using NFS much...guess I'll have to change that as I would like to centralize my server as a one-stop shop for usernames and passwords for the few systems on my network - server, desktop, and a laptop at present, but

Re: [gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-22 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 16:58:25 schrieb YoYo Siska: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: I have this too when using vmware and it seems that somehow just the keymap screws up. I run kcontrol, activate the keyboard layout switcher (with 2 languages in it) and once it's activated I can deactivate

Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:50:54 David Relson wrote: I'm experimenting with paludis. Seems fine, though a bit verbose and cryptic. Running paludis -i world produces: Unhandled exception: * In program paludis -i world: * When making environment from specification '': *

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mark Shields
On Dec 21, 2007 7:10 PM, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:25:40 -0700 Jonathan Haws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a really stupid question I know, but I want some second opinions: Should the mmx global USE flag be enabled on a Pentium 4 machine and

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:08:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Stroller wrote: On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Graham Murray
Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has optional use flags for this setting is a red flag, in

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-22 Thread James R. Campbell
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download page, or in the results from a query for tools on the VMWare

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf to install it. Now, when I run

[gentoo-user] Kernel File not found

2007-12-22 Thread Grant
I just finished a re-install of my laptop to get multilib working and grub apparently can't find the kernel this time. I've tried grub and grub-static. I get this: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3 Error 15: File

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: SNIP Thanks, I'll browse through these. It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I have been getting these errors

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Graham Murray wrote: Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember correctly, flags like this are not recommended to enable. GCC can already pass the appropriate flags, such as MMX and SSE, to programs when compiling; the fact that this ebuild has

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I think I'm getting closer now. I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper. I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used ndiswrapper -i

Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-22 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:41:22 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:50:54 David Relson wrote: I'm experimenting with paludis. Seems fine, though a bit verbose and cryptic. Running paludis -i world produces: Unhandled exception: * In program paludis -i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel File not found

2007-12-22 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I just finished a re-install of my laptop to get multilib working and grub apparently can't find the kernel this time. I've tried grub and grub-static. I get this: root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root:

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: SNIP It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. Thanks for your help. LOL. I make a back-up of mine too. It never hurts to be safe. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel File not found

2007-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:15:52 -0800, Grant wrote: Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3 Error 15: File not found There should be no space between /boot and /kernel. -- Neil Bothwick Pepperami. Its a bit of an animal. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling mmx USE flag on a Pentium 4 HTT?

2007-12-22 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:57 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, does this mean I should remove my mmmx CFLAGS? I must have been running this lot for at least 2.5 years now and cannot say that I have seen any problems with them: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -msse

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread maxim wexler
Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever happened to. Maxim Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails?

[gentoo-user] brltty

2007-12-22 Thread mattias
Can i install gentoo with braille support in the installation? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] brltty

2007-12-22 Thread mattias
Can i use braille support in gentoo installation? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer
-Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] brltty

2007-12-22 Thread Stroller
I don't know if it's still the case, but I know a couple of years ago the LiveCDs supported speakup. I assume they still do; I got the impression at the time that this was considered quite cool. Stroller. On 22 Dec 2007, at 23:58, mattias wrote: Can i install gentoo with braille support

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/22/07, James R. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download

[gentoo-user] renaming of the 'gimli' SVN repo

2007-12-22 Thread Andrew Gaffney
This email probably isn't necessary, and most people won't care about this. However, sending it was one of robbat2's terms for renaming this SVN repo, so here it is :P The current repo name 'gimli' was the original name of the project a long time ago. The name of the project is now Scire, and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. (...) I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 You are right that XP should work - or