Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support

2009-11-23 Thread Jason Carson
Jason Carson wrote: Hello everyone, I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what I am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55 chipset so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where in menuconfig do I configure this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)

2009-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 November 2009 00:31:41 Zeerak Waseem wrote: Do you have consolekit in USE? If so, is it configured properly? There's an elog about it, it displays when you emerge the relevant X package I do have consolekit as a useflag (default on profile it seems), but I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: nvidia-driver and multi-monitors will NOT work with USE=-xinerama TwinView uses the xinerama protocol to do it's stuff, it doesn't mean it uses the xinerama app to render onto large screens composed of multiple monitors So you have xinerama in make.conf, correct?

Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Jason Carson wrote: Jason Carson wrote: Hello everyone, I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what I am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55 chipset so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where in menuconfig do

Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support

2009-11-23 Thread Hung Dang
I have never tried P55 before, however, I have no problem with P35, P45, and X58. I believe Gentoo should work with P55 without any problem. When using make menuconfig you need to configure network interface, SATA, and IDE drivers correctly for the hardware specifications obtained from lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard not working as user, works as root (kde)

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 23 November 2009 00:31:41 Zeerak Waseem wrote: Do you have consolekit in USE? If so, is it configured properly? There's an elog about it, it displays when you emerge the relevant X package I do have consolekit as a useflag (default on profile it seems),

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 November 2009 09:20:32 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: nvidia-driver and multi-monitors will NOT work with USE=- xinerama TwinView uses the xinerama protocol to do it's stuff, it doesn't mean it uses the xinerama app to render onto large screens composed

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: You are misunderstanding. There are two things with the name xinerama - one is an X protocol to allow multiple screens to chat with each other, the other is a chunk off code to do it. nvidia-drivers uses the former. When you say I rebooted without xinerama you are

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/20 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Mick said: I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless configured and it does

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/22 Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org: Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 20:02: On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: http://www.amd.com/us- en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv Works fine with

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Since then no crashes, but I would have to test clicking some more stuff to really believe ... As always, after hitting SEND ... one more crash ...

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 23 Nov, Mick wrote: 2009/11/22 Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org: Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 20:02: On Sunday 22 November 2009 17:27:26 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Mick schrieb am 22.11.2009 14:48: http://www.amd.com/us- en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/T64X2_animation.wmv Works

[gentoo-user] app-text/poppler-utils install fails

2009-11-23 Thread Alexander
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade app-text/poppler-utils (as part of a bigger system upgrade), but it fails. This is what happens

[gentoo-user] app-text/poppler-utils install fails

2009-11-23 Thread Alexander
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade app-text/poppler-utils (as part of a bigger system upgrade), but it fails. This is what happens (I'm using --dl-blocks discard because I think I accidentally added poppler to world previously. I've posted paludis --info app-text/poppler below this output.) bb

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/23 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: On 23 Nov, Mick wrote: 2009/11/22 Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org: I am not able to play the Apple Trailers by clicking at the link to the movie (maybe a problem with the java script popup). When I open the link in a new window I

Re: [gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN

2009-11-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Crístian Viana schrieb: hi, I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Renat Golubchyk writes: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com wrote: When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can

[gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Stroller
Hi there, With reference to a couple of previous threads: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/193263 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/197120 Here's what I'm trying: $ ls -lh sda.dd.img -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 77G 2009-11-22 03:51 sda.dd.img $ file sda.dd.img

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: Hi there, With reference to a couple of previous threads: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/193263 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/197120 Here's what I'm trying: $ ls -lh sda.dd.img -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Nov 2009, at 18:50, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: Hi there, With reference to a couple of previous threads: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/193263 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/197120 Here's what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: $ fdisk -l sda.dd.img You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk sda.dd.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: On 23 Nov 2009, at 18:50, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: Hi there, With reference to a couple of previous threads: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/193263

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
That doesn't answer the question. If support is built as a module, is it loaded? go away, if it was a module it wouldn't work. been there, done it.

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. I'm using it but can only download from a link to youtube in another web page or google, for example. Shouldn't there be a button on Youtube itself,

Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support

2009-11-23 Thread Jason Carson
Jason Carson wrote: Jason Carson wrote: Hello everyone, I am considering upgrading to a 64 bit CPU but haven't decided on what I am going to buy. One of the motherboards I am looking at has a P55 chipset so my question is will the P55 chipset work with Gentoo? If so where in menuconfig

[gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition, /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition became inaccessable. After

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition [SOLVED]

2009-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I found the email from some years ago, advising to bind mount / and copy /dev to the new partition from the bind mounted / partition. It worked again this time. Thank you again. Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan E. Davis writes: I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 mounted as /newroot, using # cp -ax / /newroot I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall there are some other steps necessary. /dev needs at least the entries console

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Maxim Wexler wrote: If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. I'm using it but can only download from a link to youtube in another web page or google, for example. Shouldn't there be a

[gentoo-user] udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
I've been working all day rearranging furniture in my apartment. I got the my computer to its new spot and hooked everything up and booted and I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work. When I got logged in, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to loopback mount partition from a disk image

2009-11-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Nov 2009, at 19:11, Alex Schuster wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: On Montag 23 November 2009, Stroller wrote: $ fdisk -l sda.dd.img You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk sda.dd.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders

[gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've been working all day rearranging furniture in my apartment. I got the my computer to its new spot and hooked everything up and booted and I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that

Re: [gentoo-user] udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread BRM
dmesg Ben - Original Message From: Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Mon, November 23, 2009 4:05:17 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] udev (probably) I've been working all day rearranging furniture in my apartment. I got the my computer

Re: [gentoo-user] P55 Chipset Support

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Jason Carson wrote: Dale wrote: I found this so far. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=intel_p55num=4 It appears to work. Still looking for the drivers tho. I have never had a Intel that I know of. Sort of poking in the dark here. Since it appears to be working, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've been working all day rearranging furniture in my apartment. I got the my computer to its new spot and hooked everything up and booted and I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system had my / partition, /dev/sdc1. One day recently, that partition

[gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-23 Thread laurent
Hi, I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. I would like to have a web interface but I could also develop it myself later. I saw, qbittorent and hrktorrent that looks good. I don't know any features of the last one. What would you recommend to use? thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: app-text/poppler-utils install fails

2009-11-23 Thread walt
On 11/23/2009 08:02 AM, Alexander wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade app-text/poppler-utils (as part of a bigger system upgrade), but it fails... libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -Wno-write-strings -O2 -march=nocona -pipe -Wl,-O1 -o pdfinfo pdfinfo.o printencodings.o parseargs.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread daid kahl
I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work. I found it in /var/log/messages.  It said: Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable the kernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: Hi, I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. I would like to have a web interface but I could also develop it myself later. I saw, qbittorent and hrktorrent that looks good. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
daid kahl wrote: I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work. I found it in /var/log/messages. It said: Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please update the kernel or disable

Re: [gentoo-user] udev (probably)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
The only thing I saw in dmesg that might point to a myth problem was: ivtv0: Failed to initialize on minor 32 ivtv0: Failed to initialize on minor 64 ivtv0: Failed to initialize on minor 224 ivtv0: Failed to initialize on minor 0 ivtv0: Failed to initialize on minor 24 ivtv0: Failed to initialize

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-23 Thread Francisco Ares
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me with this before, but cannot find the email. The oldest of three drives on my system

[gentoo-user] NFS poor performance, high system load

2009-11-23 Thread Hal Martin
Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: Gentoo box: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ Intel PCIe Gigabit Network adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-23 Thread Dale
Francisco Ares wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a new partition? I recall someone helping me with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: app-text/poppler-utils install fails

2009-11-23 Thread Alexander
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:33 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/23/2009 08:02 AM, Alexander wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade app-text/poppler-utils (as part of a bigger system upgrade), but it fails... libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -Wno-write-strings -O2

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-11-23 Thread Maxim Wexler
Got it. I clicked on the tri-color balls on the lower rt and it just gave me a list of sites where downloads may be found. The balls also appear above and to the left of the video window where the movie is supposed to appear. When I clicked on it I got the save-as window. But then I had to stop

[gentoo-user] [OT] gnome-shell is cool (and how to move my current user)

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Higgins
So I've been trying to get around a long-standing bug in gnome-panel with vertical panels and the application list. Some workarounds, patches exist that work, but still a PITA to fix up my own ebuilds to address it. I received a comment on a bug tracker that gnome-panel likely will be deprecated