Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Philip Webb
060224 John J. Foster wrote: On my KDE desktop in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't find where to tell them to display hidden folders/files. I'm using Firefox 1.5 OO 2.0 on KDE 3.5.1 : for Firefox, R-click on the actual dir/file list show hidden files; for OO, ditto

[gentoo-user] AMD64 lilo...

2006-02-25 Thread Jarry
Hi all, does anybody use lilo with amd64? I'm right at installing bootloader, and to my big surprise I found this statement in handbook: While LILO does work on AMD64, Gentoo only supports using GRUB I always used lilo, because I find grub syntax a little strange, moreover I do not know how grub

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 lilo...

2006-02-25 Thread Sven Köhler
How should I translate this lilo.conf into grub.conf: - boot = /dev/md0 AFAIK, grub does _not_ support RAID. You would habe to install grub into the MBR of all drives part of md0. GRUB cannot be installed into the boot-sector of a partition. And AFAIK,

Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question - SOLVED

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 04:22 schrieb Zac Slade: On Friday 24 February 2006 09:12, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen settings

2006-02-25 Thread Linux Blues
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:48:14 -0500 Frino Klauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rajat, I suggest u add the following to your Screen section. DefaultDepth 24 just after the Monitor Line. Nice way to avoid using DRI, I've read two suggestions like this and On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:30:03 +

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 lilo...

2006-02-25 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 25 February 2006 09:21, Jarry wrote: I always used lilo, because I find grub syntax a little strange, I find it irritating, to say the least :-) moreover I do not know how grub handles raid (I'm just reading grub manual on gnu-site, not a single word about raid), but now I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 lilo...

2006-02-25 Thread Jarry
Francesco Talamona wrote: does lilo work with amd64, or not? It works a charm, never used GRUB on my amd64s That's what I wanted to know! I want to stay with lilo, just got frightened by that ...on AMD64, Gentoo only supports using GRUB... statement... Sven Köhler wrote: AFAIK, grub does

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: Zac Slade wrote: reiser3, resizable online in two ways 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev ext2/3,

[gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-25 Thread Antoine
Hi, I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde - is this normal? She was in audio, video, games and users and had no sound. I looked at my groups and the only plausible difference was wheel. Sure enough adding her to wheel did the trick. Now not that I don't trust the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Jarry
Alexander Skwar wrote: I could not resize /usr or /var off-line, That's wrong. I suppose that those are your ext* fs? If so, you can perfectly fine resize those fs while they are offline. I mean I can not resize them off-line because I can not unmount them while system is running :-) Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: I could not resize /usr or /var off-line, That's wrong. I suppose that those are your ext* fs? If so, you can perfectly fine resize those fs while they are offline. I mean I can not resize them off-line because I can not unmount them while system is

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:40:53AM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: Christoph Eckert wrote: Now it wants to pull in www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2. I'd like to avoid that. Anyone a hint if or even how this is possible? It's not possible. Upstream says to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 That's pretty much every FS, isn't it? Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* online, not shrunk, which could be a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
Holly Bostick wrote: Alexander Skwar schreef: Okay, so the following fs are online resizable, according to you: - reiser3 - xfs - jfs - ext2, ext3 That's pretty much every FS, isn't it? Yes, but as far as I know from the docs, jfs and xfs can only be *grown* online, not shrunk, which

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:37, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that is the only change I remember at the moment (and which did not went into the wiki). Not true anymore :) I just added your changes to the wiki. 'your' is correct, because I 'stole' it from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is

[gentoo-user] installing gentoo on Asus A8N-VM: sata_nv = kernel panic...

2006-02-25 Thread Jarry
Hi, did anybody succeeded with installing gentoo/amd64 on this board? ASUS A8N-VM (nForce 410 + on-board integrated graphics GF6100) I tried amd64-minimal-livecd, booted gentoo-nofb, but it stops while loading sata_nv module. I tried booting gentoo-nofb noapic nodetect, kernel booted, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-25 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, I just synced argh. I also synced and the Mozilla dependency is gone. Sorry for the traffic thanks for the help :) . Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily (to say NOTradeon_dri.so). Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 98464 0 drm61592 1 radeon agpgart27216 1 drm There should also be an agp module specific for your chipset. [fglrx:firegl_stub_register] *ERROR* Unable to the open

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Antoine wrote: I just had to add the missus to wheel for her to get sound in kde Check the permissions and owners in /dev/s{,ou}nd? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:44, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question': Hm, about half year ago I asked which fs to use. I counted votes, and ext3 won (reiser was 2nd). Nobody mentioned that reiserfs can be resized on-line, ext3 not (only

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
That's interesting. On Saturday February 25 2006 01:55, Jarry wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Sounds like Asus took all the people who knew what they were doing and understood customer service and exiled them to ASRock G. That way the good ones don't contaminate Asus! On Saturday February 25 2006 07:35, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-25 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
James wrote: vlc: retransmits video streams zoneminder: security stream camera viewer mythtv: digital video recorder qdvdauthor mplayer vdr: set top box for DVB many other packages exist, just take a look in the /usr/portage/medida-video/  dir, and emerge one for a test Thank you very

[gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0) -- Is there someone way I can work around this? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 25 February 2006 20:03, David Corbin wrote: trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 25 February 2006 20:03, David Corbin wrote: trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread Max Lorenz
Hi, On 2/25/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0)

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? Good question. I don't know. What I do is simply move the driver in /usr/lib/modules/dri/ out of the way, or renaming it temporarily (to say

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing now, with and without radeon. :) Actually the results using dri is worse than the results without dri in terms of frame rates. Without dri I get something like 250

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 24 February 2006 06:18, a tiny voice compelled Frédéric Grosshans to write: Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 16:14 -0500, Ernie Schroder a écrit : !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. I had the same problem yesterday, but it seems solved today after an emerge sync.

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:57:43 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after | further testing, if said testing does not turn up new bugs. This | means that both the ebuild *and* the package should be likely to be | stable.

[gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already running? how can i re-detect the hardware? also, what if it detects a drive as sda, and i want it to be sdb? is there a way i can tell it what i want to be sda, sda etc?

[gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., HTML HEAD TITLECommon UNIX Printing System/TITLE LINK REL=STYLESHEET

[gentoo-user] dhcpcd AND pump?

2006-02-25 Thread Grant
Is it worthwhile to keep more than one dhcp client installed on your laptop? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-25 Thread Grant
I can't seem to find this option in firefox 1.5.0.1 Under Edit - Preferences - Downloads I see Download actions. Clicking on View and Edit Actions shows an entry for some Flash-related files, but nothing for pdf and no option to add a new entry to this list. Am I missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:57, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:57:43 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after |

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong?  None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart -- Regards, Ernie --

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.

2006-02-25 Thread David Corbin
Thanks. That worked. David On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:31 pm, Max Lorenz wrote: Hi, On 2/25/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trombone dcorbin # emerge -uav portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies -!!! Cannot resolve a

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:55, Peter Ruskin wrote: See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=384087highlight=filepicker+kde nice site. opens up a few posibilities too. :) -- Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:22, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you

[gentoo-user] kmail acting up. Cannot LIST

2006-02-25 Thread darren kirby
Hello all, kmail has spontaneously decided to break on me. I say this because I have changed _nothing_ between when it worked and when it broke. The problem comes when I try to retrieve mail from my pop3 server (vs-pop3d). It can connect to the server, but craps out with Cannot complete LIST

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., CUPS problems... surprise,

[gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Urs Schuetz
Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also on further startups the load time stays more or less the same. The CPU is 100% used during most of the startup period, which is strange. Top shows CPU usage of 75-98%

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-25 13:34:28 -0600 (Sat, Feb), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of stable broad enough to include betas? Entirely dependent on the upstream. I've had Vim beta releases in ~arch, for example, because I'm confident in

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I can. It takes ~40 second at P4 2.4. Acroread isn't open source, so, instead of filing any bug, I switched to kpdf :-) === On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:35, Urs Schuetz wrote: === ... Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints how to speed up acrobat reader

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-25 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-24 17:03:24 -0500 (Fri, Feb), Nick Smith wrote: for some reason qmail spreads things out into 3 or 4 or 5 different log files, one for sent, smtp, pop, imap etc, its a real pain to go through those files, i dont know if its qmail or syslog-ng thats doing it, but ive been wanting to

Re: [gentoo-user] wierd messages in syslog

2006-02-25 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-24 16:23:03 -0500 (Fri, Feb), Nick Smith wrote: i keep getting these errors in my syslog, has been happening ever since the install (couple days ago) what does it mean, and how can i fix it? init: Id s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes what is s0? this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1? I can confirm. It took two and a half minutes now on my box (P4 2GHz, 512M ram). It does feel slower than the

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: Make sure that you have the file: /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other html pages display properly. It's there. In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly. Its contents are

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Loeser
Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1? I noticed the same thing. There is a bug open about it on bugs.gentoo.org I believe, but the workaround for now is: mv

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Greg Bengeult
Urs Schuetz wrote: Acroread startup is very slow on my gentoo sistem. It takes more than 2 minutes to start acrobat on my old AMD Duron 800 MHz. Also on further startups the load time stays more or less the same. I can confirm the same behavior on my system. 800 MHz hyperthreaded P4, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:35:44PM -0300, Penguin Lover Urs Schuetz squawked: strace acroread shows that acroread 7.0.5-r1 uses a very long time with fonts and nonexistent directories like /usr/psres and /usr/share/fonts/afms//usr/share/fonts/afms: ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Acroread 7.0.5-r1 very slow startup

2006-02-25 Thread Greg Bengeult
Mark Loeser wrote: Urs Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anybody conirm this slow startup, or is it just me? Any hints how to speed up acrobat reader 7.0.5-r1? I noticed the same thing. There is a bug open about it on bugs.gentoo.org I believe, but the workaround for now is: mv

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-25 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:55:05PM +, Peter Ruskin wrote: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=384087highlight=filepicker+kde Thank you, thank you, thank you - just what I wanted festus -- I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:12, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: Make sure that you have the file: /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other html pages display properly. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Burden
Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: name of display: tigerprowl:0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. display: tigerprowl:0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string:

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Bo Andresen
On Sunday 26 February 2006 05:02, Bruce Burden wrote: Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: First of all did you follow the guide at http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml ? Or any other guide? Assuming you used the guided

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 17:47, Mariusz Pękala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': On 2006-02-25 13:34:28 -0600 (Sat, Feb), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of stable broad enough

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already running? how can i re-detect the hardware? If you are using udev, and have configured the kernel for hotplug support, this

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have decided to use the xorg DRM module. However, I am still doing something wrong: snip BoardName RV350 [MOBILITY RADEON X600] The opensource xorg/kernel drivers do not support DRI with this chip. You can verify

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/26/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/25/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was already running? how can i re-detect the hardware? If you are using udev,

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 February 2006 23:51, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices': On 2/25/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to rescan for devices after bootup? like if i hot-plugged a scsi drive into the machine after it was

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/25/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its actually running a 2.4 kernel on sparc, and i dont think they use udev, i think they are still on devfs. IIRC. is udev the only way to accomplish this? Well, for hotplug, I'm not sure. It has been too long since I ran a 2.4 kernel. There

Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices

2006-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 00:14, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] re-scanning for devices': also, what if it detects a drive as sda, and i want it to be sdb? is there a way i can tell it what i want to be sda, sda etc? without actually having to move the