Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I would hate to know that you guys got bored and needed something to do.  LOL And here I am reading this thread while Firefox using

[gentoo-user] 2.6.38-r1 kernel boot problem with acpi support

2011-04-03 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, My six-year old laptop does not boot anymore with 2.6.38-r1 kernel and acpi support. I saw the related bug here : http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-619433-linux-image-2-6-38-1-686-early-crash-acpi-regression-help-202664292.html Have you any information to solve that problem ? Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:30:24 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:30:02PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/02/2011 06:25 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2011 12:32:32 walt wrote: I had the same problem with slow bug-fixes for the older chipsets like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:09, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I got you beat tho. 27229 dale 20 0 770m 271m 38m S 39 1.7 22:46.02 seamonkey-bin 27210 dale 20 0 750m 219m 38m S5 1.4 34:57.04 firefox I got both Seamonkey and Firefox running.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out in the old shed somewhere. It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a little too challenging. -- Neil Bothwick Old hitchhikers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out in the old shed somewhere. It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a little too challenging. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread pk
On 2011-04-03 10:53, Dale wrote: Do you know what a Vic-20 is? It came out a bit before the Commodore 64. I guess the Vic-20 was my first computer, if you want to call it that. I think mine ran at 2Mhz and had just a few K of ram. Seems like it was 4K or so. This may help: Of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Jake Moe
On 04/03/11 20:04, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out in the old shed somewhere. It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread luis jure
on 2011-04-03 at 10:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a little too challenging. 3.5? wow, i always thought that the name meant it had 20K... like the C64 and C128. but no. now, almost 30 years later, i learn that it had 5K,

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 02 April 2011 23:47:42 Neil Bothwick wrote: Yes. the script that I use to start up and enter the chroot for each system not only does the usual mounting of /dev/ and /proc in the chroot, it also rsyncs /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage/world* with the real target. Make.conf has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-03 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: On 03/30/2011 02:46 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20?  I think I got one out in the old shed somewhere. It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with

[gentoo-user] x11-terms/enterminus-9999 won't compile

2011-04-03 Thread Mick
enterminus fails to compile - any ideas why? = Emerging (1 of 1) x11-terms/enterminus- from enlightenment * Package:x11-terms/enterminus- * Repository: enlightenment * Maintainer: enlightenm...@gentoo.org * USE:

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2011-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 14:55:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes. the script that I use to start up and enter the chroot for each system not only does the usual mounting of /dev/ and /proc in the chroot, it also rsyncs /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage/world* with the real target. Make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-03 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:08:25 Neil Bothwick wrote: You probably don't want EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--usepkg in the chroot's make.conf. In fact I don't have it in either of them; so far I've been issuing manual parameters. When I've settled the process down I'll encapsulate it in scripts. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:12:32 Robin Atwood wrote: Thanks to everyone who replied. The overwhelming choice seems to be a ThinkPad so I have just ordered a T510 with a Core i7, 4GB of 1033 RAM and a 1600x900 screen Now I can't wait for it to be delivered. :) I meant to say before, but one

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-03 Thread Indi
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:20:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-terms/enterminus-9999 won't compile

2011-04-03 Thread walt
On 04/03/2011 09:45 AM, Mick wrote: enterminus fails to compile - any ideas why? term.c:338: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘ecore_timer_add’ from incompatible pointer type /usr/include/ecore-1/Ecore.h:534: note: expected ‘Ecore_Task_Cb’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)(struct Term *)’

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-terms/enterminus-9999 won't compile

2011-04-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 April 2011 19:21:05 walt wrote: On 04/03/2011 09:45 AM, Mick wrote: enterminus fails to compile - any ideas why? term.c:338: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘ecore_timer_add’ from incompatible pointer type /usr/include/ecore-1/Ecore.h:534: note: expected ‘Ecore_Task_Cb’ but

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:24:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: Logging isn't working for me yet either, I should have said that e-mailing of logs isn't working. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Bill Longman
I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the OS in on a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. Then it may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not sure about the C64 since I got me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on TVs and stuff. I still got

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to change from one harddrive to software raid

2011-04-03 Thread Mark Shields
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Einux einux...@gmail.com wrote: thank you guys, you've been helpful :) On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.orgwrote: On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:28:40 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 30.03.2011 05:02, schrieb Einux: Hi, I

[gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

2011-04-03 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello users! I am transitioning my infrastructure back-ends from Windows to Gentoo Linux. The next server to be transitioned is our infrastructure monitoring server. Currently, we're using WebWatchBot. Its abilities that we use are: - Monitoring Internet connection up/down (we have 4 Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the OS in on a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. Then it may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not sure about the C64 since I got me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I already feel old but I think I'm really getting old now. It is amazing how far computer have come tho. Both in hardware and the OS, well, except for windoze. It hasn't come that far yet. lol If windows hasnt come far for you, then you've never used the pre-windows 2000 editions, let

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: I already feel old but I think I'm really getting old now. It is amazing how far computer have come tho. Both in hardware and the OS, well, except for windoze. It hasn't come that far yet. lol If windows hasnt come far for you, then you've never used the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

2011-04-03 Thread kashani
On 4/3/2011 7:10 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello users! I am transitioning my infrastructure back-ends from Windows to Gentoo Linux. The next server to be transitioned is our infrastructure monitoring server. Currently, we're using WebWatchBot. Its abilities that we use are: - Monitoring