Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Hi Dale. It appears that grub2 is coming soon.  Thread on -dev said a couple months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure.  I guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-25 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-06-24 23:57, walt wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:13 PM, Samuraiii wrote: The driver 295.59 builds just fine against kernel 3.2.12 So problem _MUST_ be somewhere around kernel. A perfectly reasonable conclusion. (My own perfectly reasonable conclusions are often wrong ;) Maybe you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:05:25 -0500, Dale wrote: It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Thread on -dev said a couple months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure. I guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try. If GRUB legacy is working for you, I

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to configure. I have compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor quality of wireless connection

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I have a notebook with an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 wireless card. In gentoo (kernel 3.4.3-gentoo) and also in Fedora 17 the connection through it is of poor quality. ping to the router is getting

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-25 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And being honest, I hope that something else replaces GRUB2; I like the notion of a /firstboot minimal Linux as boot loader, or something similar. If the boot loader has to do OS-related work (graphics/input drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-25 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-06-24 23:57, walt wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:13 PM, Samuraiii wrote: The driver 295.59 builds just fine against kernel 3.2.12 So problem _MUST_ be somewhere around kernel. A perfectly reasonable conclusion.

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread walt
On 06/24/2012 10:05 PM, Dale wrote: I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro either. I agree with Canek. The only reason I switched to grub2 is that I have an outboard docking station that I don't always power on. That causes the BIOS to change the order of the drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

2012-06-25 Thread Jarry
On 24-Jun-12 20:27, Dale wrote: I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically two groups of settings (ls -al in /var/log/portage/elog/): A) drwxrws--- 2 portage root 4096 Jun 24 03:10 . drwxr-xr-x 3 rootroot 4096 Apr 7 2009 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root57760 Jun

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/06/12 22:28, Samuraiii wrote: So with vanilla is the same problem, removing gentoo-sources (complete removal - I kept just .config file) also didn't helped. I guess it's time to open a bug about it on bugs.gentoo.org.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-25 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-06-25 23:28, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 25/06/12 22:28, Samuraiii wrote: So with vanilla is the same problem, removing gentoo-sources (complete removal - I kept just .config file) also

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

2012-06-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:20:42 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: udev persistent rules strike again The contents of /var/log/wicd/wicd.log below do indicate a mess up with eth1 and eth0. Any idea on how to fix this? Yep. All I needed to do was to change the wired interface from eth0 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper permissions for /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log?

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 24-Jun-12 20:27, Dale wrote: I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically two groups of settings (ls -al in /var/log/portage/elog/): A) drwxrws--- 2 portage root     4096 Jun 24 03:10 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root    

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 24 June 2012 20:12:33 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/24/2012 01:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: 8 This is the error you need to fix: [Sun Jun 24 18:38:29 2012] [warn] [client 192.168.2.6] mod_include: Options +Includes (or IncludesNoExec) wasn't set, INCLUDES filter removed I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 25 June 2012 22:38:54 Samuraiii wrote: The bug for gentoo is unnecessary - bug is sitting on my chair... Nice one! It's good to see inventive minds at work. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
I mostly gentoo, but ubuntu has this marvellous tool 'boot-repair' based on grub2 in the yannbuntu repo. With one click it finds all the bootable partitions on your box, writes and installs the grub.cfg. Next time you boot viola! there's all your OSes ready to be started. On 6/25/12, walt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: I mostly gentoo, but ubuntu has this marvellous tool 'boot-repair' based on grub2 in the yannbuntu repo. With one click it finds all the bootable partitions on your box, writes and installs the grub.cfg. Next time you

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jun 25, 2012 10:55 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: And being honest, I hope that something else replaces GRUB2; I like the notion of a /firstboot minimal Linux as boot loader, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: I mostly gentoo, but ubuntu has this marvellous tool 'boot-repair' based on grub2 in the yannbuntu repo. With one click it finds all the bootable partitions on your box, writes and installs

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-25 Thread Keith Dart
Re 4FE7F195.4090708@gmail.com4fe7f195.4090...@gmail.com, Canek Peláez Valdés said: Either wait for its documentation and tools to mature (i.e., when they finally hit the 2.0 version), or wait for something else to handle the future of Linux boot loader. Meanwhile, if you don't use UEFI, you