Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread jormaa
Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > > > OK - nearly everyone here (and at work, too) told me to forget the > onboard fake raid controller. So this is what I will do :-) > The RAID-Howto as well as the LVM howto are however woefully out of > date. I will try to work with the linux-raid website's info

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:40:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > nazgul ~ # grep spca /var/portage/profiles/package.mask > # Sorting out media-video/{spca5xx,gspca{,v1}} bug 159176 > media-video/spca5xx > media-video/gspca > > You can fiddle with package.keywords for the next century, it won't > make a

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent sshd from stopping?

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:15:19 -0700, Grant wrote: > >> One of my Gentoo systems is located in a separate building from the > >> router. The wireless connection always seems to be strong, but > >> periodically the services that depend on net.ath0 stop because it > >> loses the connection. Issuing

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Don't let this put you off - Gentoo is great, the wiki is just not so great. > > Cheers > alan > > +1 The official Gentoo docs are some of the best there is, period. Some docs may be a little late in showing sometimes but they work very well. The mailing lists and f

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
As stated in my first post of this thread i have added these the the /etc/portage/package.umask ooops there it is named the file umask instead of unmask hehehe typo now things are trying to build but i get this error ANYWHO SHOULD I EVEN BE USING THESE dangerous looking packages ?? are there

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 17 October 2008 23:27:44 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > heehee have been wanting to get onboard with gentoo for a while now how > ironic that the wiki site i was so looking forward to using is down the > same day my gentoo box is up heehee. Let's see, how shall I put this? Oh stuff it, might

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 17 October 2008 20:02:58 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > - "KH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried the additional combos below, but still cannot build the > spca5xx port. The first one gives me invalid atom error the rest just give > the package mask error mentioned in my first em

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf

2008-10-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 17 October 2008 20:11:21 ann kok wrote: > hi all > > why we have to put the following flags in the make.conf > > what are the purpose? > > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" It's so that the compiler knows how to build stuff It doesn't know what

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
heehee have been wanting to get onboard with gentoo for a while now how ironic that the wiki site i was so looking forward to using is down the same day my gentoo box is up heehee. ps the bsd like nature of gentoo did it for me or was it that super cool spaceship logo probably the more the logo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 17 October 2008 21:45:05 Dale wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > it will take a few > > weeks. > > Weeks? That's funny as heck right there. Git-r-done . . . . slowly. > > Reminds me of the joke, how do you eat a elephant? by starting at the trunk? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot c

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
bump - "KH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RYAN vAN GINNEKEN schrieb: > > Hello all i have a fairly fresh install of Gentoo 2008 and am trying > to get my old usb webcam to work. Have tried to install spca5xx and > gspca with emerge but always get the following errors for both. This > is worry

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-17 Thread Geralt
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote: >> Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim >> (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more >> work than checking in xdm i

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: > > it will take a few > weeks. > > > > Weeks? That's funny as heck right there. Git-r-done . . . . slowly. Reminds me of the joke, how do you eat a elephant? Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf

2008-10-17 Thread Patric Schmitz
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:11:21 -0700 (PDT) ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all Hello, > why we have to put the following flags in the make.conf > > what are the purpose? > > CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" These are parameters for the gcc compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent sshd from stopping?

2008-10-17 Thread Grant
>> One of my Gentoo systems is located in a separate building from the >> router. The wireless connection always seems to be strong, but >> periodically the services that depend on net.ath0 stop because it >> loses the connection. Issuing 'rc' always brings them back. Is there >> any way to prev

[gentoo-user] make.conf

2008-10-17 Thread ann kok
hi all why we have to put the following flags in the make.conf what are the purpose? CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
- "KH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RYAN vAN GINNEKEN schrieb: > > Hello all i have a fairly fresh install of Gentoo 2008 and am trying > to get my old usb webcam to work. Have tried to install spca5xx and > gspca with emerge but always get the following errors for both. This > is worry some a

Re: [gentoo-user] UFS2 under gentoo

2008-10-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008 12:05:07 schrieb 魏亮: > I am wondering if gentoo can mount and UFS2 file system read-writable? No. Linux only has RO support for UFS2 (if you've built the corresponding kernel module). Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread KH
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN schrieb: > Hello all i have a fairly fresh install of Gentoo 2008 and am trying to get > my old usb webcam to work. Have tried to install spca5xx and gspca with > emerge but always get the following errors for both. This is worry some as i > would like the system to be as stabl

[gentoo-user] usb webcam

2008-10-17 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Hello all i have a fairly fresh install of Gentoo 2008 and am trying to get my old usb webcam to work. Have tried to install spca5xx and gspca with emerge but always get the following errors for both. This is worry some as i would like the system to be as stable as possible but need my webcam to

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 17 Oct, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> E.g. here is the complete output of >> emerge --tree --update --deep --pretend world >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies ... do

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread fire-eyes
KH wrote: Hi, I cannot reach: http://gentoo-portage.com/ http://gentoo-wiki.com Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know when they will be back? Are there any substitutes to those web pages? I still miss packages.gentoo.org as it used to be :-( see also: http://packages.lar

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Steve Wilson
On Friday 17 October 2008 06:09:20 am Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Friday October 17 2008 07:56:10 Dale wrote: > > Not sure what the problem is tho. > > They're compiling 2.6.27-gentoo with -j11 on the same box that runs wiki; > which, btw, is a 386sx with 4MB of RAM. Please be patient, it will take

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Hahn
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:23:55PM +0200, Geralt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote: > >> Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim > >> (and I suppose that gdm and kdm ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
Looks like they're both down for me too. For future reference, this site is extraordinarily useful... http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ KH wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot reach: > > http://gentoo-portage.com/ > http://gentoo-wiki.com > > Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Dan Cowsill
mv /etc/portage/package.mask /etc/portage/package.mask.back emerge -uDNp world Helmut Jarausch wrote: > This doesn't contain a mask but > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask contains >> =app-admin/system-tools-backends-2 > > So, is this a bug? > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > E.g. here is the complete output of > emerge --tree --update --deep --pretend world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies ... done! > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisf

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-17 Thread Geralt
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:38:26PM +0200, Geralt wrote: >> Although it would be possible to include this respawning into slim >> (and I suppose that gdm and kdm have this feature?) it is much more >> work than checking in xdm i

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 17 Oct, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> emerge --update --deep --pretend world >> >> but it stops early with >> All ebuilds that could satisfy >> ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of >> the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 17 Oktober 2008, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: > >>> I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought > >>> one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > >

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 17 Oct, Xav' wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> hopefully someone can help me! >> >> Trying to update one of my machines I did >> >> emerge --update --deep --pretend world >> >> but it stops early with >> All ebuilds that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Friday October 17 2008 07:56:10 Dale wrote: > Not sure what the problem is tho. They're compiling 2.6.27-gentoo with -j11 on the same box that runs wiki; which, btw, is a 386sx with 4MB of RAM. Please be patient, it will take a few weeks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:52 +0200, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Basically I plan to do: > - Put the boot partition on a RAID1 > - Put the root partition on another RAID1 (I thought about putting the > root filesystem into my LVM setup, too -- it is REALLY annoying if the > root partition get's to sm

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > emerge --update --deep --pretend world > > but it stops early with > All ebuilds that could satisfy > ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of > the following masked packages is required to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Xav'
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:42 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > hopefully someone can help me! > > Trying to update one of my machines I did > > emerge --update --deep --pretend world > > but it stops early with > All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-admin/system-t

[gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts

2008-10-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, hopefully someone can help me! Trying to update one of my machines I did emerge --update --deep --pretend world but it stops early with All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread Dale
KH wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot reach: > > http://gentoo-portage.com/ > http://gentoo-wiki.com > > Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know when they > will be back? > Are there any substitutes to those web pages? I still miss > packages.gentoo.org as it used to be :-( > > see also:

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-17 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: > >>> I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one >>> with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for >>> important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. >>>

[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-10-17 Thread KH
Hi, I cannot reach: http://gentoo-portage.com/ http://gentoo-wiki.com Are those websites off the air right now? Does anybody know when they will be back? Are there any substitutes to those web pages? I still miss packages.gentoo.org as it used to be :-( see also: http://packages.larrythecow.org

[gentoo-user] UFS2 under gentoo

2008-10-17 Thread 魏亮
Hi, I am wondering if gentoo can mount and UFS2 file system read-writable? How can I do that? Besides,how is the performance? Thanks . --- 您可以通过下面的方式和我联系: MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard lockups on new computer with gentoo live cd 2008.0-r1

2008-10-17 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Some updates to this problem: - I've tried booting the PC with various life CDs or DVDs I have amassed at home. The results are ... funky: -- My self made Gentoo 2008 live cd works. Managed to repartition the disks, tried a 1st shot at raid setup - no error messages. -- all other linux variants exp