Re: [gentoo-user] Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stroller, Stroller wrote: On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. BTW:

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Alan, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. Could your machine be trying to start something other than kdm by

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 01:31:27 Dale wrote: Anybody else ran into this? Am I missing something that is different on a 64 bit rig? I discovered chrony some years ago, which has a sophisticated clock slewing mechanism, and haven't used ntp since. Chrony runs on my gateway machine to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... Does boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I found numerous references to this

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread walt
On 01/04/2011 02:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since before it had a complete system. Could your machine be

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, With last updates, i encounter some strange behaviour witth my cdrom and cdrw tray. When i open the tray, this one closes quite immediatly, and i can't insert any CD or DVD... It's not very convenient... :-( Where is the problem ? hal ? udev ? gvfs ? When i uninstall gvfs, problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions.  It will however allow you to use non-default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have them loaded later. I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detection yet.

[gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread KIM WHALEN
I'm trying to do a new install on an amd64 box and there are a lot of problems somewhere between X, Gnome, and the Graphics card. I'm using genkernel so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there. The graphics card as identified by the system is: nVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Very last question: Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing to boot each time ? setfont

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Steffen Loos
Am 04.01.2011 02:31, schrieb Dale: Hi, I been watching my clock here for a while. On my old rig, ntp kept the clock set very, very well. This rig seems to have issues. I tried the stable version of ntp and it just seems to keep resetting the time but not adjusting the drift file at all. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On 4 January 2011 11:01, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have them loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 04 January 2011 01:31:27 Dale wrote: Anybody else ran into this? Am I missing something that is different on a 64 bit rig? I discovered chrony some years ago, which has a sophisticated clock slewing mechanism, and haven't used ntp since. Chrony

Re: [gentoo-user] SVGA mode the console

2011-01-04 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [11-01-04 17:28]: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Very last question: Is there any way to test what font looks best without haveing to boot each time ? setfont Hi all, thank you very much for your help again! Now

[gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Grant
I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Caching service dependencies ... * apache2 has detected an

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Hung Dang
On 01/04/11 10:27, Grant wrote: I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Caching service

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi again, Some tests about the problem : 1- problem = cdrom and cdrw tray open and close. 2- I run /etc/init.d/dbus restart, then : dbus, consolekit, cupsd and hald restart = the problem is gone. 3- I open Nautilus = problem is back... 4- I uninstall gvfs ; i open Nautilus = problem is gone, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 18:47:30 Hung Dang wrote: On 01/04/11 10:27, Grant wrote: I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Andrea Conti
boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I am not sure about grub 2, but 0.97 knows nothing about filesystem labels (and neither does

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Grant
I just upgraded to php-5.3.4 which I believe went into a new slot. Is slotted behavior new for PHP? I think things have been rearranged. Can someone clue me in to the new layout? For example, I get: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Caching service dependencies ... * apache2 has detected

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
What happens if you give the command eject

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 04/01/2011 21:00, Thanasis a écrit : What happens if you give the command eject CD tray opens then close. Jacques

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour with CD tray

2011-01-04 Thread David Abbott
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr wrote: Le 04/01/2011 21:00, Thanasis a écrit : What happens if you give the command eject CD tray opens then close. Jacques This may help; http://gentoo-pr.org/node/27

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Matías Marquez
Hello. Are you using python 3 as your main python interpreter? Try: #emerge -av python:2.6 #eselect python lists #eselect python set N where N is the number of python 2 in the previos command. I can't help with the video card problem. Sorry about my poor English. Bye.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread KIM WHALEN
Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now that I switched python interpreters? # eselect python

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: ... Does boot=LABEL=boot_device_label in grub config work for you? I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode the console

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/03/2011 10:23 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:50 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Monday 03 January 2011 14:40:41 walt wrote: I'm wondering if you have some mixture of baselayout versions on that machine from previous updates. Unlikely: this box has been ~amd64 since

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 22:35:08 KIM WHALEN wrote: Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 21:35:08 KIM WHALEN wrote: Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Problems with X

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
KIM WHALEN wrote: Yes, it looks like I'm using python 3. I change it to python2.6 and it looks like it's emerge'ing without errors. This should be mentioned in the install documentation. Now do I need to rebuild everything else, emerge --empty-tree, now that I switched python interpreters?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Duong Yang Ha Nguyen
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Grant wrote: Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? I'm hoping that simplifies things a bit. PHP on Gentoo just got more complicated and all I need out of it is squirrelmail.

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread William Kenworthy
Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for heavily active databases for instance) Check out the -g option to ntpd in 'man ntpd' or 'tinker panic 0' in ntp.conf Also, has ntp.conf specified a

[gentoo-user] trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-04 Thread James
All, Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file. Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Is the clock almost in sync? - if its too far out ntp will silently fail to sync (by design - large scale time steps can be destructive for heavily active databases for instance) Check out the -g option to ntpd in 'man ntpd' or 'tinker panic 0' in ntp.conf Also, has

[gentoo-user] gpg-agent crach on arm

2011-01-04 Thread Maxime Brachet
Hi, I installed gnupg 2.0.16-r2 (and r1 previously) on the AC100 which is arm based. When I start gpg-agent i got this error : $ gpg-agent *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: gpg-agent terminated Aborted there is a bugfix in ubuntu :

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/04/11 14:42, Grant wrote: Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but functionality seems to be intact. Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of the older version of php that must be installed in another slot? I'm hoping that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:55:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem

Re: [gentoo-user] trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 04:42:53 James wrote: All, Has anyone gotten both the trackpad and trackpoint on a t400 to work simultaneously? I can't seem to get it to work. Here are the relevant sections of my xorg.conf file. Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Carter
I had a similar problem before and I did solve it by running this command: eselect php set apache2 php5.3. I believe I get this command from a Gentoo official PHP guide. Hung Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but functionality seems to be intact.

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
Try the following and see if it resets time correctly date 0101010101 /etc/init.d/ntpd restart date

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-04 Thread Thanasis
on 01/05/2011 09:39 AM Dale wrote the following: Thanasis wrote: date 0101010101 /etc/init.d/ntpd restart date I got this: Jan 1 01:05:16 localhost ntpd[5709]: time correction of 315880203 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. I was pretty