Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread fei huang
didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? On 12/26/06, Bruce

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hi, If it's in a USB enclosure, you need your /boot to be in a partition on your main disk (the one inside of the laptop), if I'm not mistaking, Fei seams to think so too. The hda* is now an sda* (or sdb*, sdc*, etc) because usb storage stuff emulates scsi. Gabriel Bruce Burden wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that script! Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-) Only, I sent mine 4 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-26 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:54:01 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:31 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day, I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 22:41, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': On 12/25/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume

2006-12-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume

2006-12-26 Thread Daniel Iliev
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-26 Thread reader
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A search for ansi at gmane suggested using ansi-term instead of shell. That gave me color but previous line editing and such were different, which I'm not sure I like :- So I looked in /usr/share/emacs/... for ansi-term and found ansi-color.el.

[gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-26 Thread James
Mike Myers fluffymikey at gmail.com writes: Hi! I know I don't post here much but I read it a lot and have been using Gentoo for several years now. I keep seeing users mention about how they do an update and then everything goes to crap. I've experienced this myself quite a bit too. I

[gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma

2006-12-26 Thread Alessandro Cipriani
HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin xine: couldn't find demux for /home/alex/audio/songs.wma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] IMAP4 behaviour

2006-12-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:28, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:30:19 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed that the bandwidth consumed by an IMAP4 account of mine is rather high and I believe this because of the following type of behaviour: I

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this would have been: root(hd0,5) -- kernel

[gentoo-user] how to choose the embedded movie plugin in firefox

2006-12-26 Thread karlos
hello, I have to prepare a little website running for now locally on my machine to show some video footage. I have compiled several movie players with the nsplugin USE flag, but I would like to able to choose which one is actually used. So far, I have vlc and totem installed (I prefer Totem as

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma

2006-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2006 18:03, Alessandro Cipriani wrote: HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2006 17:56, James wrote: So I update the test workstation on fridays, use it over the weekend a nd then update the other systems. Granted, if the devs release something (broken) over the weekend, I get screwed with this scheme sometimes. I should update the test system daily

[gentoo-user] Xorg and KDE on Gentoo going crazy with my laptop display.

2006-12-26 Thread Erik
I have a laptop (Dell INSPIRON | 8600) with a LCD. It has worked before, but since a few months it is going haywire. There are some really strange interactions between the power cable and the display. It could be caused by Linux, udev, acpid, xorg, KDE or something else. I have no Idea. I just

[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-26 Thread Sven Köhler
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!!

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Grant Edwards
Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and older versions) won't compile out-of-the-box under 2.6.18. I downloaded the ATI 8.28.8 installer and installed

[gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution

2006-12-26 Thread Kumar Golap
Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the failing compilation : bORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-26 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:51:22 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...[snip]... Good, however you should not really need to use ansi-mode. I do not, and don't have the trouble you mentioned. In normal shell-mode (M-x shell) I do see the escape sequences you mention but not in eshell (M-x

[gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
After about a year of using Gentoo, I am very pleased. Not being a programmer, I do tend to spend alot of time on that learning curve. It has become more and more apparent in the past couple of months that USE flags really *are* as fantastic as they are cracked up to be, in at least one

[gentoo-user] gecko error with firefox and nvidia driver

2006-12-26 Thread karlos
Hello list! I get the following error whenever I try to use the 'nvidia' driver (the proprietary one) with X and firefox, say, when entering site that use java or flash etc.. Using the open source driver solves the problem, but I can not get direct rendering to work properly then. I also tried

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On December 26 at 20:38 EST, Alan E. Davis hastily scribbled: I wiki about USE flags would be extremely useful. Am I the only one, or are newbies the only ones who encounter USE flags with cryptic significance? The descriptions from euse, profuse, etc., are a bit of a help alot of the time;

[gentoo-user] Documentation annoyance... the moving target.

2006-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
Portage keeps packages up to date. This is nice, but it makes things painful when trying to bookmark local documentation on my hard drive. E.g. it goes from /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.2.9.5/html/blahblahblah to /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.3.0.5/html/blahblahblah ImageMagick is just one

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution

2006-12-26 Thread Rumen Yotov
Kumar Golap написа: Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the failing compilation : bORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Rumen Yotov
Grant Edwards написа: Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and older versions) won't compile out-of-the-box under 2.6.18. I downloaded the ATI 8.28.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma

2006-12-26 Thread Rumen Yotov
Uwe Thiem написа: On 26 December 2006 18:03, Alessandro Cipriani wrote: HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin :

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-26 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 17:55 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: During this my cron did emerge --sync. I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very reason... Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. --

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution

2006-12-26 Thread Nicholas Hockey
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 07:37 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: Kumar Golap написа: Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-26 Thread Nicholas Hockey
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 01:26 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 17:55 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: During this my cron did emerge --sync. I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very reason... Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Today is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-26 Thread Dan
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a