On 11/17/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:28:32 -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
To get a working desktop as quickly as possible. It is no different from
doing a stage 3 installation, it gets you working faster, then you can
optimise at your leisure.
But, they say you
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one
program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone
is using it by:
ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0
Is there a utility or other
On 11/17/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:27:40 +, askar k wrote:
Because you have emerge sync'd since the packages CD was built, your
portage tree contains newer versions of many of the packages, so emerge
tries to install those. As there is no package
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
I'm not sure what the problem could be then. Maybe something in your
kernel configuration. Could you post the output of:
grep =[ym] /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 17:19 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida:
Did it. Upon reboot, I had /dev/external_hd and /dev/external_hd1, but
only /dev/plextor_memstick (i.e., no mountable /dev/plextor_memstick1).
I unplugged the stick and turned off
That was it. Thanks!
M
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, John Myers wrote:
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one
program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone
is using it by:
ls
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:12:22 +0500, askar k wrote:
But, they say you can optimize your system when you use 1st or 2nd
stage... Is it possible optimize after using 3rd stage for installation?
Yes. Set up your USE and compiler flags as you want and do emerge -e
world. Some say you should run it
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:38 + (UTC), James wrote:
Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support?
They are standard ATAPI devices, so all should work. I am happy with my
two NEC units. I used to use Pioneer but had three fail, one a couple of
days after buying it and another a
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 15:14 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida:
Hmm, this is strange. Did you check if /dev/sdb is really there? I
currently
/dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 exist, but don't seem to be much help.
$ ls /dev|grep sdb
sdb
sdb1
sdb10
sdb11
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:21:47 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Did you read my former reply to Richards mail about setting
RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no (booting a LiveCD and clean up /dev)?
You don't need to use a live CD for this. Do
mount --bind / /mnt
and the original static /dev/ directory will be
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
$ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/pen
mount: /dev/sdb1: can't read superblock
This looks like artifacts from an old, static /dev (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes
in /etc/conf.d/rc ?). With udev, you should only see sdb and exactly one
sdbX for each
Richard Fish schreef:
On 11/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The point being, you need to know your monitor's specs.
Back in the day, that was true. But with modern monitors (I'm not
sure of the spec, I think is part of the VESA compliance
requirements) the video driver
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:38:22 + (UTC)
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes:
Nick, the Debian list is organized by category and quite easy to browse
and read. The gentoo list is not nearly as well organized as the
Debian list, from my viewpoint.
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 11:29 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:21:47 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Did you read my former reply to Richards mail about setting
RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no (booting a LiveCD and clean up /dev)?
You don't need to use a live CD for this. Do
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Flaky hardware? Timings too fast in the BIOS?
What timings? :S
Kernel misconfigured? When the vesa driver doesn't give acceptable
performance, there is something wrong. You might want to actually
answer the questions I asked earlier.
I couldn't answer the
I still think you need to partition the new drive first, then
dd the individual partitions.
Addresses within partitions are normally handled as sector offsets, but
booting and locating the start/extent of partitions don't always.
The fdisk format on PCs is ancient and predates SCSI (and IDE
On 11/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:12:22 +0500, askar k wrote:
But, they say you can optimize your system when you use 1st or 2nd
stage... Is it possible optimize after using 3rd stage for installation?
Yes. Set up your USE and compiler flags as you
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 10:40 am, Richard Fish wrote:
Try doing an init 1, umount -a, then lsof /dev. Any processes
with a device node still open should show up there.
-Richard
That did it. One of the programs I am starting in local.start was getting
hanged at shutdown/reboot and didn't allow
Cédric FINANCE wrote:
The Link quality is not supported by the driver (ndiswrapper). I am
connected to an irc server and I have no problems. I don't think that
the problem come from the wireless connection. It might have something
to do with the rsync protocol, the modem or my ISP. But I don't
Hi all.
I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used a ps2
mouse with no problems.
Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:-
recompiled the kernel to include usb input devices
checked that the mouse is connected using lsusb, this shows Bus 003 Device
On 11/18/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used a ps2
mouse with no problems.
Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:-
recompiled the kernel to include usb input devices
checked that the mouse is
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 13:45, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On 11/18/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used
a ps2 mouse with no problems.
Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:-
recompiled the kernel to
On 11/18/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the response,
cat /dev/mice - no such file
cat /dev/input/mice and dev/input/mouse0 work but it is my ps2 mouse not the
new usb one.
Where do I find a list of protocols to try?
With /dev/input/mice, you do not need to try extra protocols.
On 11/18/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
place/reason for inserting such specs actively into xorg.conf. I stand
by know your specs. :-) .
Well said. Of course if you just give up on CRT monitors, and only
buy LCD, you don't have to care about refresh rates to begin with!
(but you do
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 14:48, Richard Fish wrote:
With /dev/input/mice, you do not need to try extra protocols.
/dev/input/mouseX corresponds to a specific mouse...if both PS/2 and
USB mice are seen by the kernel, you should have both mouse0 and
mouse1 devices. With these specific devices,
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support?
They are standard ATAPI devices, so all should work. I am happy with my
two NEC units.
Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux?
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote:
Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on linux?
It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't tried
it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about the way DL
discs are written, or
Hello everybody,
While looking at .config under SATA devices I found
the above set to 'y'. But I couldn't find it when
running make menuconfig. I tried to decipher the
help bits of the options already selected to see if
it's some sort of dependency that gets set
automatically if required by
Neil Bothwick schreef:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:19:58 + (UTC), James wrote:
Do the (2) layer NEC devices, such as the NEC ND-3540A work on
linux?
It works, whether it works in DL mode I have no idea as I haven't
tried it. DL discs are so expensive. Is there anything special about
maxim wexler schrieb:
Hello everybody,
While looking at .config under SATA devices I found
the above set to 'y'.
(Always repeat your subject in the body. The above
isn't really helpfull...)
I suppose that QLA2XXX refers to what you can find
in the Linux source directory in
A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to
install a package under wine with a time-limited installer, after which I set
it back again. Since then I have been getting really weird and annoying
clock behaviour.
For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock
I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this.
I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to run it I
get this:
[EMAIL
Another solution if you are having ntpd problems, is to use this command
from a crontab:
ntpdate -b time.nist.gov
stop ntpd before that
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Robert Persson wrote:
A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to
install a package under wine with a
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:36:48 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
While looking at .config under SATA devices I found
the above set to 'y'. But I couldn't find it when
running make menuconfig.
Press / while in make menuconfig and type 'qla' to see the relevant
options.
--
Neil Bothwick
Press
Okay I'm beyond annoyed.
Every day at around 3:00AM is when cron stops working until I reset it
manually.
What actually causes the cron.daily stuff to run?! How can I disable it
temporarily??
/etc/crontab only removes some touched files it looks like
You had me at EHLO --E.Webb (10.04.05)
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Press / while in make menuconfig and type 'qla' to see the relevant
options.
/me writes that down.
Nice tip. Thanks, Niel. :-)
--Peter
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On Friday 18 Nov 2005 11:39 pm, Holly Bostick wrote:
I have not investigated
whether the common burning tools are capable of doing whatever needs to
be done, and in fact, I don't know precisely what needs to be done
different (if anything does), and I would like to know the answer to
your
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this.
I wrote a Qt program. It compiles just fine, but when I try to run it
Was following the recent thread 'Re: udev: lost dvd' and I'm encouraged that it
should be doable for me to backup to DVD, even some dual layer disks.
So, does anyone have a good suggestion for making some backups to DVD?
I guess my concern is, will I have to create an image and then burn it?
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an
explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums,
so I thought maybe someone here could help me with this.
I wrote a Qt
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Hi all,
This is sort of a n00bie question, but something I haven't really had
to mess around with. I recently did an `emerge world` and after the
update and a reboot, my root prompt has changed back to the gentoo
default. It now seems that the
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both
the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions?
regards
Matthias
--
I
On Friday 18 November 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Being fairly inexperienced with C++ I have no idea what this means. Is
this a problem with my program or with my system. Is there a way to fix
it? Can anyone at least explain to me what it means?
Probably an error in your program.
On 11/18/05, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both
the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
there's still any advantage to
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:12:22 +0500
askar k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/17/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:28:32 -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
To get a working desktop as quickly as possible. It is no different from
doing a stage 3 installation, it gets you
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:42 pm, Matthias Bethke wrote:
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for
both
the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
there's still any advantage to
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:54:04 + (UTC)
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, it depends upon what logger you have mergedI use
syslog-ng, configured so that my kernel and other logs go to
/var/log/messages. Your messages may go somewhere else...
vixie-cron
if you are using
Daevid Vincent wrote:
Okay I'm beyond annoyed.
Every day at around 3:00AM is when cron stops working until I reset it
manually.
What actually causes the cron.daily stuff to run?! How can I disable it
temporarily??
/etc/crontab only removes some touched files it looks like
You had me at EHLO
Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Flaky hardware? Timings too fast in the BIOS?
What timings? :S
Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are
things like Enable AGP Fast Write or similar. Set all those
things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability
Robert Persson wrote:
For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I
am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am
on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future.
Now it is getting even weirder because I find that when I boot up
and enter kde, the
On 11/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert Persson wrote:
For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I
am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am
on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future.
Now it is getting even
Hi,
What are my options? This mysql thing has been hanging out for a
long time. I was scared off by two things:
1) I run MythTV which uses mysql. I have a database on my server (this
machine) that I'm worried about losing or messing up.
2) I *think* that if I update this server then I have to
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) feature that will
change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel. So
I never knew of that feature till you just mentioned it. I think
that's pretty cool!
John
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If
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Norberto Bensa schrieb:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
dbus-0.50-r1
downgrade to 0.36.2
ivman-0.6.5
downgrade to 0.6.4
Done. Still no automount.
Have you restarted dbus?
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:37:33 -0600 Michael Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Being fairly inexperienced with C++ I have no idea what this means.
| Is this a problem with my program or with my system. Is there a way
| to fix it? Can anyone at least explain to me what it means?
You screwed up
On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:33, Brian Parish wrote:
On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote:
On 11/12/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote:
I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:56:18AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote
I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy.
Someone mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know
what I'd do to microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it.
There are two set of constraints...
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:58:15PM +0100, ?c1lvaro Castro wrote
Uff!
Yes! That's for sure, since I made my own make.conf
and I didn't know this was necessary!
hum... how can I solve that?
I mean, what things should I recompile?
emerge --newuse world???
You need to emerge *EITHER*
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote
Clarify? I certainly run my box without pam and I can still login. Is
this some new development that I am not aware of?
You need to emerge *EITHER* pam *OR* shadow. You can't emerge both,
because they provide the same service. I
Alle 01:22, sabato 19 novembre 2005, Mark Knecht el ga butta:
|Hi,
| What are my options? This mysql thing has been hanging out for a
|long time. I was scared off by two things:
|
|1) I run MythTV which uses mysql. I have a database on my server
| (this machine) that I'm worried about
Walter Dnes wrote:
2) You mentioned it was an ancient card. How much RAM does it have?
Under X, here are the RAM requirements...
8 bit colour (256 colours) = 1 byte per pixel
16 bit colour (65536 colours) = 2 bytes per pixel
24 bit colour (16777216 colours) = 4 (yes, *FOUR*) bytes per
Walter Dnes wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote
Clarify? I certainly run my box without pam and I can still login. Is
this some new development that I am not aware of?
You need to emerge *EITHER* pam *OR* shadow. You can't emerge both,
because they provide
Patrick McLean schrieb:
Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern
Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it.
What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one
(human) user on the system and the system acts as a consumer
(ie. no servers)?
Norberto Bensa schrieb:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Norberto Bensa schrieb:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
dbus-0.50-r1
downgrade to 0.36.2
ivman-0.6.5
downgrade to 0.6.4
Done. Still no automount.
Have you restarted dbus?
Yes :(
How's that automounting supposed to work? When does
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