It started off ugly, but I found the solutions, so here they are, to
hopefully save other people some time.
The Gentoo minimal install image cannot see the harddrive at all.
fdisk -l only showed /dev/sda, i.e. the USB stick on which unetbootin
had installed the minimal install. I've filed
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 01:32:19PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
Not sure whether this has been mentioned already in this thread, but
at one stage of kernel development* when I was installing on a new
laptop, I had to switch AHCI off in the BIOS for the installation
kernel to be able to see the
Hi,
I noticed that the Seamonkey Project has released Seamonkey 2.0. I
assume this is the same one that is currently masked and keyworded in
the tree. Is anyone using it already? Any problems? Lose any old
emails or settings that you can notice? Problems with bugs or things
not working?
[OT
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009, at 11:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
...
I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can
unload
it:
$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus
CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y
it is not a module,
James schrieb:
All,
I'm trying to set up a DNS server here for a lab environment.
- hijacking a TLD (linux.com let's say, as an example)
- trying to point several Linux boxen in a sandbox with no internet
connectivity
So, here's a copy of my tinydns data file:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
On 7 Nov 2009, at 11:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
...
I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can
unload
it:
$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus
091108 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ?
-- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines.
the journal will wear out an SSD in short order,
so ext2 is indeed the better file system
All
I tried closely comparing the current working kernel with newly built
one. I mean side by side with `make menuconfig' running in both sources.
I cannot tell what it is I'm overlooking.
Please do not do this. Instead emerge kccmp to compare kernel
configurations! It is much easier...trust
daid kahl wrote:
I tried closely comparing the current working kernel with newly built
one. I mean side by side with `make menuconfig' running in both sources.
I cannot tell what it is I'm overlooking.
Please do not do this. Instead emerge kccmp to compare kernel
configurations!
There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove:
the msg is EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 16388.
Can anyone help ?
Did you try removing it from a live Linux distro (ie: on a USB stick)?
Or if it lets you move it, maybe you can move it to the temporary file
Hello,
I'm looking at a Dell Vostro 1720 Laptop with this Intel video
chip: Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Anyone with any experience or comments as to Intel's video
offerings, as far as it related to (X)/Gentoo on the laptop
are most welcome.
The software support
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 19:54 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
My experience matches this. If I try to run composite rendering, X
eats my CPU time to the point that I can't even use the system for
practical purposes.
I have a 945GM Intel video card.
I had tried compiz-fusion through kde3 last year,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
That turns on the journal which will wear out an SSD in short order, so ext2
is indeed the better file system
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/
Best regards
Peter K
091108 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 07 November 2009 19:51:10 Philip Webb wrote:
Also, there's a reference in a Gentoo Wiki article to hyperthreading,
which advises to configure multiple processing into the kernel.
Is this correct ? Is it safe ?
Be very careful with hyperthreading. It
091108 William Kenworthy wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook,
I had to power the machine off several times. In the course of this,
some damage seems to have occurred to the file system.
There are
On Sunday 08 November 2009 12:25:19 Philip Webb wrote:
091108 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ?
-- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines.
the journal will wear out an SSD in
Philip Webb wrote:
Anyway, I've reformatted my partitions to Reiserfs without re-installing
(clever, aren't I ? -- big grin). Besides / + /home ,
I have a big hangar-openspace partition I call /z ( 60 GB ),
which is useful for unpacking stuff has /z/tmp for Emerge to use.
I created a
Hello.
Burning dvds with Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a67 on my Dell
Vostro 1510 notebook is always failing.
The device is identified as TEAC DVD+-RW DVW28SLC and can write at 8x
speed.
The process starts and reports writing at 14.5x, but the media is not
burnt. cdrecord reaches but does
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:55:24 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote the words:
Skippy writes:
The whole process so far is found at:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6026707#6026707
Can anyone offer any ideas? Thanks so very much, Skippy
Some ideas.
Your output of
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:52:20 +0100
Nagatoro nagat...@gmail.com wrote the words:
On Friday 06 November 2009 13.13.17 Skippy wrote:
Hi y'all. I've got a problem (a computer problem that is) that is
driving me nuts. The folks at forums.gentoo have been helping me
out, but not a solution yet.
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
Burning dvds with Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a67 on my Dell
Vostro 1510 notebook is always failing.
The device is identified as TEAC DVD+-RW DVW28SLC and can write at 8x
speed.
The process starts and reports writing at
Everything is working on my netbook except Gkrellm,
which needs Lm-sensors, which won't compile: No rule to make
target 'asm/bitsperlong.h', needed by prog/dump/i2cbusses.rd'.
I can search around, but does anyone have quick advice re what's missing ?
-- might it be I2C_PIIX4 in the kernel ?
BTW
On 11/7/2009 9:39 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
I have an old Suncom FX200 Joystick which I recently tried to get
working with my gentoo system. I tried using various methods, with
outcomes varying from epic fail to almost success, and finally got
results after following the guide at
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:34:35 -0800, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for
a
while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.
Does
anyone know how to get it, or if there is a replacement of some
sort?
I looked at
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:03:54 -0600, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that the Seamonkey Project has released Seamonkey 2.0. I
assume this is the same one that is currently masked and keyworded in
the tree. Is anyone using it already? Any problems? Lose any old
emails or
091108 Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:04:21 Philip Webb wrote:
Everything is working on my netbook except Gkrellm,
which needs Lm-sensors, which won't compile: No rule to make
target 'asm/bitsperlong.h', needed by prog/dump/i2cbusses.rd'.
might it be I2C_PIIX4 in the kernel
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:03:54 -0600, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that the Seamonkey Project has released Seamonkey 2.0. I
assume this is the same one that is currently masked and keyworded in
the tree. Is anyone using it already? Any problems?
Philip Webb wrote:
Everything is working on my netbook except Gkrellm,
which needs Lm-sensors, which won't compile: No rule to make
target 'asm/bitsperlong.h', needed by prog/dump/i2cbusses.rd'.
I can search around, but does anyone have quick advice re what's missing ?
-- might it be
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:32:09 -0600, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Call me chicken, I'll wait a little bit to let them fix the bugs. I use
almost the whole thing so I want to be sure it is safe.
If I were using the mail stuff I'd certainly do that. I would wait until I
am relatively sure
On Sunday 08 November 2009 21:56:36 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:34:35 -0800, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't used wine's /usr/bin/iexplore to test a website in IE for
a
while, and now it looks like that binary is no longer installed.
Does
anyone know how
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:32:09 -0600, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Call me chicken, I'll wait a little bit to let them fix the bugs. I use
almost the whole thing so I want to be sure it is safe.
If I were using the mail stuff I'd certainly do that. I would
On 8 Nov 2009, at 06:55, Dale wrote:
...
I am not you, but I need maybe 5min for a config ;)
and there are more benefits. Smaller binary, more cpu cache free
for real data.
Better performance lies that way. Also, you don't have to wonder
about
processes you did not start. Security is also
On Sunday 08 November 2009 23:20:31 Stroller wrote:
You really need to learn to make your own kernel. ...
Whilst I agree in principle that a good (slim?) kernel is better and
your comments on that, I am sceptical whether the majority of people
have the knowledge to make any significant
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:23:45AM +, Mick wrote:
The lspci output does not show a driver either ...
It seems the system can't find the good driver for this hardware. There
may be various reasons:
- driver not compiled/installed ;
- version of this driver failing ;
- wrong Linux kernel
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 08 November 2009 23:20:31 Stroller wrote:
You really need to learn to make your own kernel. ...
Whilst I agree in principle that a good (slim?) kernel is better and
your comments on that, I am sceptical whether the majority of people
have the
On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote:
What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first
kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo
install guide. This was about 6 years or so ago and there was not a lot
on configuring a kernel except
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on the
right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
click is disabled everywhere. Being an
On 8 Nov 2009, at 22:20, Dale wrote:
...
You seem to think it takes a rocket scientist to build a kernel, it
doesn't. You just have to know what hardware you have and then enable
the features you need. ... You can config a kernel in less than five
minutes most likely then compile and you are
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:15:00AM +, Mick wrote
Thank you Walter! I'm about to buy a new laptop and these
instructions will save me a lot of time and effort. :-)
If we're lucky, my bug report will prompt the maintainers to insert
the pata_sch driver module into the install image, and
On Monday 09 November 2009 00:41:08 Stroller wrote:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
And yet you use gentoo
Considering what
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote:
What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first
kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo
install guide. This was about 6 years or so ago and there was not a lot
on
Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on the
right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
click is
Hi there,
A friend has started sending text messages from her phone to my email
address. They arrive with a from: address of 1212121...@tmomail.net
(where 1212121212 is her cell number) and I can reply to them and
that's all great, but they come annoyingly encumbered with a bunch of
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
I'm with you Stroller.
Although I do have to admit
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:02:34 +0100, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote:
What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first
kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo
install guide.
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:55 Stroller wrote:
I feel kinda ridiculous having to write such a long email - and
perhaps spend a bunch more time writing scripts - to handle such a
stupid thing. I guess the ridiculous thing is the cell company adding
all this junk to a simple text
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:40 Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
presses.
Now I have no right click on the
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:02:34 Dale wrote:
I do find this funny tho. Someone spends the better part of a day
installing Gentoo but doesn't think building their own kernel is worth
it. Most compiles take longer to finish than configing a kernel.
Here's a funnier one:
I've actually
On 8 Nov 2009, at 23:02, Dale wrote:
...
I do find this funny tho. Someone spends the better part of a day
installing Gentoo ...
You're doing it wrong.
... Most compiles take longer to finish than configing a kernel.
I personally don't spend time sitting there watching the progress of
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else
first kernel I configured and 'maked' myself was 2.2.14 and I was scared. When
it finaly booted and everything worked I was overjoyed.
I wad even more overjoyed when it performed a lot better than Suse's 2.2.10...
which was a bit swap-happy.
On Montag 09 November 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
Harry Putnam wrote:
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this thread.
I'm with you
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:21:24 Stroller wrote:
And yet you use gentoo
Considering what gentoo is and how one interfaces with it, should
you not
rather be using a binary distro where someone else does the heavy
lifting?
Something like Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu?
Not at
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:40 Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
presses.
Now I have
On Montag 09 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff
on the right-click
On 8 Nov 2009, at 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 00:41:08 Stroller wrote:
Any time I spend messing with obscure kernel config options is time I
could be spending reading a good book, instead [1].
Sorry, spending time configuring my kernel loses, as does this
thread.
Stroller wrote:
On 8 Nov 2009, at 23:02, Dale wrote:
...
I do find this funny tho. Someone spends the better part of a day
installing Gentoo ...
You're doing it wrong.
Nope, older puter. I've installed Gentoo quite a few times. I have
done it without a install guide before. I've even
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 09 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new
Howdy,
I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few
months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background:
Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that
On 11/09/2009 02:46 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few
months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background:
Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
which failed to compile. In
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that
nvidia has not released a driver yet that will work with 1.7.1, so
followed the bug report
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:35:50PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello.
Burning dvds with Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a67 on my Dell
Vostro 1510 notebook is always failing.
The device is identified as TEAC DVD+-RW DVW28SLC and
Hi,
Has anyone used the Microsoft LifeCam cinema HD webcam?[1] I know it's
from Microsoft, but in my experience their h/w doesn't seem as bad as
their s/w!
I know this question comes up all the time, but if not the LifeCam, what
webcam would you recommend? My requirements would be:
*
On Montag 09 November 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote:
* preferably not spca drivers, as they seem a bit behind lately
* no logitech quickcams, due to their problems with skype
what problems with skype? I am thinking about buying a logitech c600...
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Florian Philipp
li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
James schrieb:
All,
I'm trying to set up a DNS server here for a lab environment.
- hijacking a TLD (linux.com let's say, as an example)
- trying to point several Linux boxen in a sandbox with no internet
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse1
(WW) Disabling Keyboard1
LOL! It wasn't a crash. It just seemed like it because the mouse and
kbd were disabled.
Apparently, the above is the default!?!?
The line 'Option
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 01:13 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:46:15 -0600, Roy Wright wrote:
Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o., discovered that
nvidia has not released a driver yet
Dale skrev:
I thought a cashew was a peanut or something?
Not at all. The only common thing they have is that both are flowering
plants. But cashew is a big tree, while peanut is an annual herbaceous
plant. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut
Why is
=== On Sun, 11/08, James wrote: ===
Thoughts?
-
===
What I have done is bind named to a dummy interface, which serves a
psuedo TLD, and use dnsmasq for the local DNS.
2: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
inet 10.111.1.130/24 brd 10.111.1.255 scope global eth0
On Monday 09 November 2009 06:59:34 Maxim Wexler wrote:
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse1
(WW) Disabling Keyboard1
LOL! It wasn't a crash. It just seemed like it because the mouse and
kbd were disabled.
On Monday 09 November 2009 02:26:04 Dale wrote:
wouldn't work here - ihatethecashew made it disappear ;)
I thought a cashew was a peanut or something? Why is there a nut in KDE
4? I'm not using KDE 4 yet. ;-)
It's the most hated object in software history. Worse even than
Roy Wright wrote:
Howdy,
I have a home server/htpc (~x86) that I'm finally updating after a few
months and I hit an issue with xorg-server. Here's the background:
Was at xorg-server-1.6.3 and current sync tried to upgrade to 1.7.1,
which failed to compile. In researching on b.g.o.,
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 02:33 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 09 November 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote:
* preferably not spca drivers, as they seem a bit behind lately
* no logitech quickcams, due to their problems with skype
what problems with skype? I am thinking
On Sunday 08 November 2009 23.37.18 Alan McKinnon wrote:
KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:23:50PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:35:50PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Burning dvds with Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a67 on my Dell
Vostro 1510 notebook is
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