[gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? Thanks in advanced! -- wcw

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? dvd+rw-tools Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? Have a look in $PORTDIR/app-cdr and $PORTDIR/xfce-extra Lots of stuff there to play

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Philip Webb
080623 Chuanwen Wu wrote: I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? I still use the trusty old 'xcdroast' for CDs. --

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? dvd+rw-tools ...Does not support

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend Gnome or KDE? Have a look in $PORTDIR/app-cdr and

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dvd+rw-tools ...Does not support CDs. But has: RDEPEND=virtual/cdrtools which will provide the missing parts. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23.06.08 11:09]: xfburn is based on non-portable (linux only) code. If you ever like to use a different OS, you should know that you will not find this software. Well, if he is asking such a question, I doubt he will switch OS any soon. But, I

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, I want to burn CD/DVD under Gentoo, I have installed Xfce. So, can anybody recommend some CD/DVD burning tools, which is better if does not depend

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrdao has not been enhanced since many years now. BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and that is not supported by cdrecorde? he just gave a range and cdrdao comes in the alphabetical order before cdrecord.

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3. Number and type of ciphers available This question

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (23/06/08 06:26) Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23.06.08 12:09]: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and that is not supported by cdrecorde? he just gave a range and cdrdao comes in the alphabetical order before

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrdao has not been enhanced since many years now. BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and that is not supported by cdrecorde? he just gave a range and cdrdao

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread ionut cucu
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories? The point is that *this* is

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrdao has not been enhanced since many years now. BTW: Could you tell me a feature from cdrdao which you really use and that is not supported by cdrecorde? he just gave a range and cdrdao

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: The OP is looking for Xfce software Is he? He is _using_ XFCE and is _looking_ for something that doesn't depend on Gnome or KDE. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security Don't know, I'm not a crypto expert. 2. Ease of setup and use

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:38:07 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Is he? He is _using_ XFCE and is _looking_ for something that doesn't depend on Gnome or KDE. More importantly, he is looking for a recommendation, not a list of what's available, which I'm sure he could get for himself. Unless the OP

[gentoo-user] Openssh and Zlib version check

2008-06-23 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Hello everyone, I am trying to upgrade openssh from version 4.5_p1 to version 4.7_p1 but installation of version 4.7_p1 always crashes at the zlib version check. openssh 4.7_p1 seems to require zlib version 1.2.3 or greater that I did have installed since the dinosaurs disappeared. I keep

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank all you guys! I will try dvd+rw-tools since it support both DVD and CD. I have ever tried xfburn, but it seemed that it still had some problem s: it couldn't detected my TSSTcorp DVD driver and I still heard that it couldn't burning DVD yet. I have Windows, and of course I can do buring

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank all you guys! I will try dvd+rw-tools since it support both DVD and CD. This is a missunderstanding: cdrecord supports both CDs and DVDs. dvd+rw-tools only supports DVDs Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Hey guys, When my PC wakes up from suspend-to-ram, X crashes, my video card is an intel 945GM. In ubuntu it works, I tried using Ubuntu's hal-info folder and I patched my Intel driver with all ubuntu patches but the problem still here, I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Chuanwen Wu
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank all you guys! I will try dvd+rw-tools since it support both DVD and CD. This is a missunderstanding: cdrecord supports both CDs and DVDs. Where is cdrecord? I can't see it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread Andrey Falko
I'm not sure if this was linked to this thread before, but here is an aritcle that gives points to AMD: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=amd_evolutionnum=1 As far as I understand AMD has given up good, out-of-the-box support for the latest teraFLOP gpu. --

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chuanwen Wu: Where is cdrecord? I can't see it in the portage. It's provided by virtual/cdrtools (either cdrtools or cdrkit). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdrecord supports both CDs and DVDs. Where is cdrecord? I can't see it in the portage. The official cdredcord source is here: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Cdrecord started in January 1996 (12.5 years ago), cdrcord added DVD support in February

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashing when PC wake up from suspend-to-ram

2008-06-23 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:35:53PM +0200: so you are using sabayon? I would try an unpatched kernel first. Forget about that mate lol, It happens to me using any kernel, I tried gentoo-sources, tuxonice-sources and

[gentoo-user] usernames starting w/ digit

2008-06-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit (while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine). Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting digits, while other distros do ? cu

[gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread Zhou Rui
Hi everyone, I'm using gentoo in my UMPC fujitsu U1010 which has a Atheros superG wireless card. I found the wiki says there is a kernel option can compile Atheros 5xxx WLAN driver into the kernel, but I cannot find it in my kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 (emeged as gentoo-sources). So where can I get a

[gentoo-user] Re: Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread Zhou Rui
2008/6/23 Zhou Rui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone, I'm using gentoo in my UMPC fujitsu U1010 which has a Atheros superG wireless card. I found the wiki says there is a kernel option can compile Atheros 5xxx WLAN driver into the kernel, but I cannot find it in my kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread ionut cucu
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:40:38 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 June 2008, ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread Kan-I Jyo
Though I do not own a model as you have metion, but I believe that the ath5k driver module will not be found in kernels less than 2.6.25. In other word, you may have to wait for 2.6.25 or later gentoo-source to be marked as stable or do # echo sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: he...talk about being outdated...silly me Oudated graphic card specs are not the current topic. -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usernames starting w/ digit

2008-06-23 Thread Joe User
Enrico Weigelt schrieb: Hi folks, while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit (while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine). Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting digits,

[gentoo-user] {OT} Portable wireless router?

2008-06-23 Thread Grant
Has anyone found anything really compact that turns a wired router into a wireless router? I'm looking for something as small as possible for traveling. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread James
On Mon, June 23, 2008 10:22 am, Kan-I Jyo wrote: Though I do not own a model as you have metion, but I believe that the ath5k driver module will not be found in kernels less than 2.6.25. In other word, you may have to wait for 2.6.25 or later gentoo-source to be marked as stable or do #

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 23 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank all you guys! I will try dvd+rw-tools since it support both DVD and CD. This is a missunderstanding: cdrecord supports

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Portable wireless router?

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:33:09 -0700, Grant wrote: Has anyone found anything really compact that turns a wired router into a wireless router? I'm looking for something as small as possible for traveling. I have a Sitecomm WL-130 access point (it's marketed as a range extender but also works as

[gentoo-user] sys-process/at permission denied

2008-06-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading to sys-process/at-3.1.10.1 I cannot use at (batch) anymore. I always get Cannot create atjob file /var/spool/at/atjobs/b10134cba5: Permission denied But I don't understand this, since ls -l /usr/bin/at -rwsr-s--x 1 at at 42688 Jun 23 17:13 /usr/bin/at shows that the

Re: [gentoo-user] FrireFox3 behaving badly :)

2008-06-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Is there a way to go back to the old behaviour of previous versions? There are open bug reports by Mozilla relating to this feature : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425879 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431675 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox3 jumping between virtual desktops

2008-06-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: I guess you'll have more answer by asking to the Mozilla community directly. Well, you can check my answer in the thread with topic FrireFox3 behaving badly :). There are open bug reports already done to Mozilla. -- Nicolas Sebrecht --

Re: [gentoo-user] FrireFox3 behaving badly :)

2008-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Is there a way to go back to the old behaviour of previous versions? There are open bug reports by Mozilla relating to this feature :

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Monday 23 June 2008, 17:46:23 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: [snip] | 3. Number and type of ciphers available | | Maybe I'm wrong, but the name loop-aes tells this, right? With LUKS, | one can use (nearly?)

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use cdrkit because I'm sick of listening to eternal bickering about licensing issues. So I use the project whose license, and interpretation of the license, seemed to me to be the project that would make the pedantry just go away and not feature in

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, copied the new

[gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm having trouble blocking gnucash from pulling in the full-compiled version of firefox. I've got package.provided with www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 but it still insists on pulling in the ebuild. How do I stop this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble blocking gnucash from pulling in the full-compiled version of firefox. I've got package.provided with www-client/mozilla-firefox www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 but it still insists on pulling

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble blocking gnucash from pulling in the full-compiled version of firefox. I've got package.provided with

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I think I mentioned I already did that. There's a slight typo in that there's an = before the one with a version number. ++ kevin In fact, portage is driving me slightly nuts (or nuttier) over this. When I as for --tree, I get treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the

[gentoo-user] Re: problem starting X

2008-06-23 Thread Marc Blumentritt
deface schrieb: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - make sure you've followed all of these steps. is this a new install ? Your hint helped me to realize, that I switched my xdriver to openchrome. After reading some docs in the net, I witched to the openchrome overlay, but this

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread b.n.
Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by people who attack other OSS projects? If you like to get rid of the license debates, you need to help to prevent the license attacks done by the people behind cdrkit. I am just a victim of these

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I mentioned I already did that. There's a slight typo in that there's an = before the one with a version number. ++ kevin In fact, portage is driving me slightly nuts (or nuttier) over this. When I as for

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Joerg Schilling
b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, guys, please: not this pointless flame again. Please. Please. If you like to help me against flame wars, you are of course welcome! Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni)

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

2008-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: My question to you would be: Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by people who attack other OSS projects? Joerg, Let me respond with a very close analogy, because this is not a yes/no answer. I ride a great big

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could this all be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in the updated udev package be causing my lvm/raid devices to not be picked up and activated? I've been trying to break a

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Miika Linnapuomi
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:41 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Miika Linnapuomi
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:55:51 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I mentioned I already did that. There's a slight typo in that there's an = before the one with a version number. ++ kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 23 June 2008 16:55:08 Miika Linnapuomi wrote: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:41 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Miika Linnapuomi
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:31 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem. When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select which kernel to boot. If I press return the the first kernel in the list is loaded. After a screen

[gentoo-user] Weird lockup problem

2008-06-23 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been having a weird problem for the past month where about twice a week when I first unlock the system in the morning, the mouse moves really slow (about 1 second update rate) and if I press any key except ctl-alt-delete (which reboots the box but does not display the shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 23 June 2008 17:41:30 Miika Linnapuomi wrote: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:31 -0400 Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem. When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select which kernel to boot. If I press return

Re: [gentoo-user] Openssh and Zlib version check

2008-06-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Redouane Boumghar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade openssh from version 4.5_p1 to version 4.7_p1 but installation of version 4.7_p1 always crashes at the zlib version check. openssh 4.7_p1 seems to require zlib version 1.2.3 or greater that I did have installed since

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Walker
Matthew R. Lee wrote: So I should comment out the line splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;) There should not be a space after (hd0,0). Be lucky, Neil -- This

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird lockup problem

2008-06-23 Thread felix
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:52:18PM -0500, Roy Wright wrote: This system is a ~x86 and after 3 years of running a gentoo workstation, I'm at a loss on how to trouble shoot it. I have sometimes left a job running like this while :; do top | head /tmp/busylog sleep 30

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Monday 23 June 2008 18:11:09 Neil Walker wrote: Matthew R. Lee wrote: So I should comment out the line splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;) There should not be a

[gentoo-user] Laptop fails boot on battery

2008-06-23 Thread dexters84
I have an Asus Z92F laptop - a modification of Asus A6F model ICH7 chipset CoreDuo T2250 1,5GB DDR2 Intel 950 graphics ATA100 HD 80GB My problem with it is that it fails to boot into linux when working only on battery. When I plug the power supply and do a fresh boot kernel loads properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-office/gnucash-2.2.3 USE=quotes -chipcard -debug -hbci -ofx [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:32:33 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could this all be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in the updated udev package be causing my lvm/raid devices to not be picked up and activated? Are your LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:45 +0900, Kan-I Jyo wrote: In other word, you may have to wait for 2.6.25 or later gentoo-source to be marked as stable or do # echo sys-kernel/gentoo-sources /etc/portage/package.keywords to use a not-yet-stable version of kernel. That will mean he always uses

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading without breaking LVM

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:32:33 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: | | Sorry for replying to my own message, just had a thought. Could this all | be a udev rules problem? I mean could some new rules in the updated udev | package be

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5

2008-06-23 Thread Kan-I Jyo
2008/6/24 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:45 +0900, Kan-I Jyo wrote: In other word, you may have to wait for 2.6.25 or later gentoo-source to be marked as stable or do # echo sys-kernel/gentoo-sources /etc/portage/package.keywords to use a not-yet-stable version

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Re: gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:12 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat Virtual Machines # emerge -at gnucash These are the packages that would be