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

2006-12-27 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are identified as. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and /etc/portage/package.*

2006-12-27 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:40:58 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] It's done because of the updates files in /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ which I think are read during `emerge --sync`. I'm not aware of any documentation for this so I

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

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/26/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] xen kernel problems

2006-12-27 Thread pat
Hi all, I'm trying to setup Xen kernel fro my Gentoo following instructions from the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo documentation, but I without luck :-( I'm using the genkernel to generate kernel. xen-sources-2.6.16.28-r1 genkernel-3.4.4 Can someone help me or point me to the

[gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,everyone! I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. And when I start my gentoo,the error is : …… 202.114.26.194 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 ERROR:Problem starting needed service net.eth0 netmount was not started My network is Brodcom Netlink(TM) Gibabit

[gentoo-user] problem emerging tclx

2006-12-27 Thread Michael George
I'm updating my system (amd64) to gcc4.1 and things are going rather smoothly. One problem I'm having, though, is that tclx-8.3 will not complete it's build. I can build it fine with gcc-3.4, but not 4.1. The error I get is:

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

2006-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote: execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! The resolver is caching the result of looking up rsync.gentoo.org. Until that expires, which depends on

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

2006-12-27 Thread Remy Blank
Erik wrote: Sometimes the display just stays on forever as if it has completely forgotten that it should shut off after 1 minute. I always have kcontrol-Peripherals-Display-Power Control open, because changing a setting, changing it back and pressing Apply fixes the problem, but only for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote: During this my cron did emerge --sync. I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very reason... I have a cron script that syncs each morning, but it checks that emerge is not running first, to avoid just this

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ / Cairo / pdf-flag mutual build problem.

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/24/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did an emerge --sync and emerge --ask --deep --update --world. When emerge got to x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, the following happened... checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config checking cairo-pdf.h usability... no checking cairo-pdf.h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote: snip i agree, i think automagicly syncing the tree is a bad idea. look at it this way Do you have your windows machines set to automgicly chack, and install updates ? syncing the tree is not

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 11:12, Oliver Schmidt wrote: [snip] I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. And when I start my gentoo,the error is : …… 202.114.26.194 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 ERROR:Problem starting needed service net.eth0

[gentoo-user] net-proxy/middleman

2006-12-27 Thread bijayant kumar
Hi to all, I have emerged net-proxy/middleman-2.0.1-r2 recently. But not able to configured it. Has any body done this. If yes than please help me. I will be very thankful to you all. Bijayant Kumar Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] xen kernel problems

2006-12-27 Thread pat
Sorry to all, I've mixed dom0 and domU params in Xen kernel section. Pat On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:48:43 +0100, pat wrote Hi all, I'm trying to setup Xen kernel fro my Gentoo following instructions from the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo documentation, but I without luck

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

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Tue, 2006-26-12 at 19:24 -0500: ...[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 eshell). ...[snip]...

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2006/12/27, Oliver Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello already taken on means the IP is already taken in the Network. Another host with the same IP exist in your LAN. But when i restart my machine and enter another OS(ubuntu),the network is OK and the ip is the same:202.114.26.194?So I think this

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Do you have to specify a fixed IP address? Couldn't you use dhcpcd and let it obtain an address from the router? Yes,we must use the fixed IP. -- Regards, Mick -- wcw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] seamonkey + updates

2006-12-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating (and check-for-update) stuff ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

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

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards HA||UCA: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
I have an Acer Aspire 5002 WLMI laptop running gentoo. You did not mention you video card, so I hope this example for VGA and SVIDEO output (multihead and standalone) on i915/i810 chipsets helps. My xorg.conf? what do I have to change? Relevant parts: Section ServerFlags # Option

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:44:09 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: syncing the tree is not installing anything, all it does is update the list of what is available. Any comparison with Windows is irrelevant anyway, Linux is not Windows. yeah, in unix you can read files more than once and sane

Re: [gentoo-user] network configuration problem

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:12:08 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,everyone! I am tring to install my gentoo on my new machine. And when I start my gentoo,the error is : …… 202.114.26.194 202.114.26.194 already taken on eth0 ERROR:Problem starting needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Randy Barlow
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 10:13 -0600, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: You did not mention you video card, so I hope this example for VGA and SVIDEO output (multihead and standalone) on i915/i810 chipsets helps. This makes me curious - is it possible to switch between using and not using TV out or

Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop

2006-12-27 Thread Dan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:55:43 -0500 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me curious - is it possible to switch between using and not using TV out or external monitor without restarting X and switching .conf files? usually on a laptop pushing Fn+Fx button will change between LCD,

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

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards HA||UCA: 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

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

2006-12-27 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/27/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Myers fluffymikey at gmail.com writes: I think I like your idea better, about distributing binaries. Do you know if something like this is being worked on? I'm certain that a common method to this, like what you're saying, would allow Gentoo

[gentoo-user] seamonkey hangs @ 100% load

2006-12-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, my seamonkey (1.0.6) just hung up and runs at 100% CPU usage. It's actually 4 processes (1x-1x-2x). One seems to wait in poll() forever, another one in rt_sigsuspend, the third loops slowly in getpid() and poll(), and the 4th does something w/ 100%. I just installed flash, which is

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

2006-12-27 Thread Luca Botti
Funny. From kernel 2.6.18 on I receive this message when cold-booting my (linux only) notebook. On second try, it all works well. Disk geometry and partitioning has not been changed. I guess a bug in kernel. Alle Wednesday 27 December 2006 09:45, Robin Atwood ha scritto: On Wednesday 27

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl as root I have emerge --oneshot vmware-modules both

[gentoo-user] sysctl/_sysctl breakage with 2.6.19

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
After upgrading my kernel from 2.6.18 - 2.6.19 I notice that sysctl(2) seems to be - err - returning different (incorrect) data. for instance consider the simple test program to read kernel.shmmax (see end of mail): 2.6.18 -- $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 536870912 $ ./sysctltest

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-27 Thread reader
Tom Naujokas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 12:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...[snip]... Are you using [Xe]macs in console mode or in an xterm .. other? I'm starting xemacs from an xterm with the command xemacs . What is the output of `alias|grep ls'? $

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl as

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not

[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread frank
Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic command startx TWM comes up. How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. The output of equery files vmware-modules shows modules in

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On December 27 at 22:46 EST, frank hastily scribbled: Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). I don't mean to be rude, but you really should watch what Portage was doing. It's generally

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. There should also be a variable in your X config. Cheers! -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my bad. :) -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. The

[gentoo-user] TV out with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2006-12-27 Thread Mick
Hi All, Has anyone managed to get TV out from a: == *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Radeon Mobility M6 LY vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0