On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:20 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Frank Schafer wrote:
Hi,
I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this
weekend.
Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection.
The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at
Walter Dnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005
11:41 PM
Even with that background, my transition to Gentoo wasn't 100%
smooth.
If I had tried jumping from Windows direct to Gentoo, without 4+ years
of linux usage, I would've been lost.
I think you are assuming that a Gentoo
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop.
I mostly agree with you, although XFS doesn't really replace entire
files with zeros, just blocks that have been allocated but not written
with actual data...so
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:30 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook?
I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a
sudden the power goes away
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Pupeno wrote:
Hello,
I am tryngi to get suspend to ram working on my IBM Thinkpad G40 but I can't
get it to turn on agan. I am able to put it on suspend with klaptop, by
hand,
or by closing it and this script:
Hey, all--
I just did an esync and I have a *huge* number of X.org-related masked
packages-- from a whole lot of 'Prototype headers', to fonts, libraries,
and drivers.
Clearly there's big changes a-coming. Oh, I see-- this is modular X.org,
I guess.
Does anyone know where there might be a
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:32:08 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Does anyone know where there might be a summary of what this means to a
user generally, or a Gentoo user specifically? The information on the
freedesktop site is more targeted at developers, which doesn't so much
help me, especially
Norberto Bensa wrote:
Christoph Gysin wrote:
What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp?
he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout)
What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in
memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer
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Hi All,
When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well
have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking
about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point
of compiling the kernel, I still used
YoYo siska wrote:
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005
Neil Bothwick schreef:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:32:08 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
Does anyone know where there might be a summary of what this means to a
user generally, or a Gentoo user specifically? The information on the
freedesktop site is more targeted at developers, which doesn't so much
Hi there,
I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but
this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost.
It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following:
cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
/dev/nst0: No such device or address
cognos ~ # mt -f
2005/8/9, Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi there,
I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but
this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost.
It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following:
cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/nst0
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:13 am, C.Beamer wrote:
Hi All,
When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well
have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking
about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point
of compiling the kernel, I
Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 15:22 schrieb ext Jose Gonzalez Gomez:
Hi there,
I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but
this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost.
It seems my system has not detected the tape autochanger, as I only
get the
On 8/9/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
XFS is good for a laptop as it is less likely to suffer a sudden failure
than a desktop, the battery acts as a UPS. As long as you run some sort
of battery monitor that shuts the computer down cleanly when battery
levels become
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower
performance for others. Also can only be grown.
That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the
filesystem must be
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 14:42, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower
performance for others. Also can only be grown.
That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the
filesystem must be unmounted.
That's not
Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 15:42 schrieb ext Mauro Faccenda:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower
performance for others. Also can only be grown.
That's not correct. resize_reiserfs
I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and
dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason
I have 56 java processes running each time I restart tomcat? Anyone
know how this could be?
Here's a ps -ef | grep java:
tomcat 29270 1 0 Aug08
Hello
I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this
howto:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo
Everything was going great until I came to emerging bridge-utils.
the actual emerging didnt fail (using emerge bridge-utils -av) but
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:42:42 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grow, but
the filesystem must be unmounted.
That's not orrect. resize_reiserfs can resize with the filesystem
mounted.
It can grow but not shrink while mounted. I was
* A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-07 18:51]:
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow
tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to
copy and paste by hand?
If there are minor changes, you can
I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting
an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1
* Configuring GCC with:
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
--prefix=/usr
--bindir=/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5-20050130
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower
performance for others. Also can only be grown.
That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the
filesystem must be unmounted.
Thanks for the correction. I'm trying to
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:09:41 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Thanks for the correction. I'm trying to figure out what I read that
led me to believe reiserfs could not be shrunk
Probably the output from resize_reiserfs when you try to shrink. Dire
warnings about beta-quality software and the
On 8/9/05, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and
dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason
I have 56 java processes running each time I restart tomcat? Anyone
know how this could be?
2005/8/9, Andreas Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 8/9/05, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and
dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason
I have 56 java processes running each time I
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong.
I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not
passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and
with the latest unmasked vanilla ftp from portage. When I try to use
ncftp, however, I run into difficulties:
--
Hi there,
I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router,
with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs (except
the server, with fixed private IP). Now I'm considering changing to
another provider with dynamic IPs. I have three domains hosted in my
SOHO
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router,
with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs
2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking
into accout that it must be able to discover the DSL router's
Jose,
I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I have the kind of setup you're looking at.
Apart from the obvious configuration things you'll have some other things to
keep in mind, like who is doing the DHCP negotiation for the IP address? If
the router is, it must be able to interact with the dynamic
Hi again Sean,
thanks for answering (as well the others :))
more questions:
On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I havemuch expirience with either, sorry to say.As far as the other software
is concerned I would look at the
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 19:02, Jarry wrote:
I'm facing the opposite problem: I have gentoo-server with bind running
(with static IP, outside of my home network) and I'm looking for the way
my home router (asus wl500g) with dyn-ip could use it as dyddns instead
of dyndns.org...
Heya, I faced
Le 09 août à 18:51:15 Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:
| Hi there,
Hi Jose,
|
| I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router,
| with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs (except
| the server, with fixed private IP). Now I'm
Richard Fish wrote:
In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. I
I've ran xfs, jfs, reiserfs v3 and v4, and ext3.
jfs on a firewire drive is a bad idea. When it crashes, it crashes hard.
No amount of recovery was helpful. In the end, a week old backup, and a
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
I seem
to remember that after installing NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library)
support a Java virtual machine with all its threads maps to just one
linux process, so you would stop seeing that many processes every time
I can confirm this. I run the blackdown jdk, and
On 8/8/05, *Sean Reiser* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have
much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other
software
is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of
C.Beamer wrote:
However, x still won't start and I get the message 'Cannot run
in framebuffer mode'.
Well, what does your xorg.conf look like? And the relevant things
in the Xorg log and the kernel config? In short, the output of the
following commands:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
egrep
Hi,
...SKIP...
Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
Hello
I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this
howto:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo
Everything was going great until I came to emerging bridge-utils.
the actual emerging
Hello all,
First time user of Gentoo. We're wanting to run Matlab R14 SP2
64bit mode. According to Matlab site they support the Linux kernel
2.6.x and glibc-2.3.2. Non of the current linux distro (i.e. Fedora)
has that old of glibc. So looking at Gentoo thinking I can build the
Gentoo
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 20:46, Christian Parpart wrote:
However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of mine from
within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/rac; I were nearly
crying about, but before, I quickly invoked fsck.xfs on my LVM (which this
disk is part
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800
Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of
curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood)
Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:49 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting
an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1
* Configuring GCC with:
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
--prefix=/usr
CJ Keist wrote:
Hello all,
First time user of Gentoo. We're wanting to run Matlab R14 SP2
64bit mode. According to Matlab site they support the Linux kernel
2.6.x and glibc-2.3.2. Non of the current linux distro (i.e. Fedora)
has that old of glibc. So looking at Gentoo thinking I can
On 8/9/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll
end up with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable. In a future stage, I might convert my share partition from FAT32 to a linux like. By the way, I use reiserfs
2005/8/9, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router,
with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs
2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking
into accout that it
Yes,
Running Matlab on current release will just core dump. Also tried
the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh file. So I'm
thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on current releases.
This is on Fedora 3 and 4 as well. Fedora 2 sort of works but not well.
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox
Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it
certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are.
Just a bad mark on Mozilla.
I'm trying to
My internal CD-R drive has been experiencing steadily
worsening power fluctuations over the past year or so.
I haven't been able to write CDs in Windows in
months, but until recently could still write them in
Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW
drive on August 1 and it came in
Fernando Meira schreef:
I've been looking for comments about this process... and I got a little
bit scared.
In my case, i have (in order):
- /dev/hda1 - 9.8G windows
- /dev/hda2 - EXTENDED
- /dev/hda5 - 23G share
- /dev/hda3 - 512Mb swap
- /dev/hda4 - 4.6G gentoo
So, am I wrong or
Hi-
I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a
raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to
create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting.
The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting.
The partition is
I updated my gentoo system. After emerging system and world, the system
does not work with VLANs if the interfaces are configured via the
net.eth0 script. However if I configure the interface manually it
works. This worked before I updated. Any Ideas?
The conf.d/net file is below.
Thanks,
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Joe Rizzo wrote:
Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev.
3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and
suggested to build the latest driver as a module.
Why not do away with initrd and just build the driver intyo
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:14:26 -0400
John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even IF only one of those allegations are true, I'm disappointed in
Mozilla's choices. They were, until a few days ago, non-profit. Google
may be the best general purpose search engine out there right now, but
IF
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW
drive on August 1 and it came in today. I'm not quite
sure how to go about using it though. I mainly use
xcdroast for writing CDs (I make daily backups
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400
Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux? Something along the
lines of SecureCRT for Windows? (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's
supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to use
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