Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Lord Sauron
Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active. If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it. On 10/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/25/06, Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-24 11:18]: During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my services fail (apache, sshd, ddclient, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/24/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Weird problem. On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/24/06, Juan Miguel Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: Weird problem. On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my services fail

Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-24 Thread Lord Sauron
Didn't work. Does anyone know what could be going on? This is really odd... I have this feeling that I'm in way over my head. -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 starting yet not starting

2006-10-23 Thread Lord Sauron
Weird problem. On my server net.eth0 isn't starting, yet it is. During boot it goes through the normal routine, it starts net.lo and everything, however, then it goes into runlevel 3 and then all my services fail (apache, sshd, ddclient, etc), complaining that net.eth0 isn't running. I log in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-21 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/21/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: · Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm just scared to use it because I don't know how. Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is: I did read the man page. The whole thing. If counfused the heck out of me. I just

[gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
This isn't exactly Gentoo-related, however, you guys tend to be the most command-line savvy group, and this is all about the command line at the moment... I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive. /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows) /dev/sda3 = linux-swap /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Scary Paritioning - Need Help

2006-10-19 Thread Lord Sauron
On 10/19/06, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Menola wrote: If you delete sda3, sda4 then becomes sda3, Nope. Partitions below 5 are primary partitions. If you delete one of them, nothing changes. Perhaps I undertood OP incorrectly and he wants to move sda4 to sda3. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:04, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:39, Lord Sauron wrote: $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz CONFIG_IEEE80211=m # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=m

[gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
They're going to install wireless in my school so I guess I better get this working sometime soon : ) I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in either module or

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] I isolated my problem to this: emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211?

2006-10-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton Adams wrote: You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it work. Makes sense. How do I do

[gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
Proof: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -nr dhclient ./archival [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I have been getting annoyed at dhcpcd, which will take 180 seconds to ping even if there isn't a networking cable in my NIC. I use a laptop, so you can easily speculate how I got so annoyed. I know that Kubuntu had

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:08, Terry Eck wrote: I've been a SuSE user for several years now currently running 10.0. I'm interested in giving gentoo a try with the object of converting from SuSE to gentoo. I've been looking at this list for a couple of weeks and have determined that there may

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 13:48, Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:44:42 -0700 Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proof: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -nr dhclient ./archival [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I have been getting annoyed at dhcpcd, which will take 180 seconds to ping

Re: [gentoo-user] DHClient Woes - No Modules Loaded?

2006-10-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 01 October 2006 21:56, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 13:48, Jan-Hendrik Zab wrote: PPS. The iface_eth interface is completely out of date, take a _very_ good look at `/etc/conf.d/net.example'. I did, I updated it as best I could. Well

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/pam-login blocking sys-apps/shadow

2006-09-25 Thread Lord Sauron
Ultra-quick question: By unmerging pam-login will I be breaking anything? It's preventing a emerge --newuse system (and later a emerge --newuse world) that's I'm preparing to do over the weekend (and to see if I can get distcc working between my server and workstation to support my poor

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/pam-login blocking sys-apps/shadow

2006-09-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On Monday 25 September 2006 17:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 02:23, Lord Sauron wrote: Ultra-quick question: By unmerging pam-login will I be breaking anything? you must not log out between unmergin pam-login and emerging shadow. And that has been written

[gentoo-user] Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

2006-09-24 Thread Lord Sauron
I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some replacement ones. I think that by setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken

2006-09-13 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 09:53, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:11 -0700 Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Lord Sauron: [...] What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and [...] Much more confused than before. I get why I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...

2006-09-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote: Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data from both OS, she will make an effort to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken

2006-09-11 Thread Lord Sauron
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:05, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Lord Sauron: snip What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and useful editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its many variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please) so any

[gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken

2006-09-08 Thread Lord Sauron
I can't figure out how to fix this one - NOT for lack of trying, however. I'm slowly trying to become more terminal-friendly and less GUI-dependent. I also keep hearing how Emacs is so cool and powerful and useful and blah. So I decided to try and learn it and see for myself. Installed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On Thursday 07 September 2006 17:31, Chris White wrote: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Nice IDE for development

2006-09-02 Thread Lord Sauron
On Saturday 02 September 2006 07:48, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I am changing development from window to linux now, it took a long time but I finally convince my boss to change, what I was holpping to know is if there is any

Re: [gentoo-user] another openoffice build failure

2006-09-02 Thread Lord Sauron
On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:10, Richard Fish wrote: On 9/2/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-minimal.c: 137: realloc: Assertion `new == ptr' failed! Well this looks suspiciously like a hardware problem to me, but it could also be simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:09, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I haven't tried without this set. I have. Same behavior. -- http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/ pgp6NbxZxlpl3.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Wireless Card On Laptop - Help Setting Up

2006-08-30 Thread Lord Sauron
My laptop has a wireless card. Wow. Don't die of the shock. I never use it. No, really, I don't. I'm never in a location with wireless access, so I just content myself with a good old fashioned Cat5e cable and call it a day. Now my life has changed. There is a wireless access point in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail + Email Client = No way

2006-08-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On Sunday 27 August 2006 00:54, Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 August 2006 00:37, Samuel Baldwin wrote: For last year or so, I've been using Gmail with Firefox, all in browser, and have wanted to move to a local email client (using Thunderbird or Sylpheed-Claws). Unfortunately, the only time I

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
On 8/15/06, Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just got myself a new G7 to replace my older MX1000. The problem is that I can't get the G7 to work at all. Xorg does seem to recognize the G7 but I can't get any cursor movement at all. I've tried the evdev and mouse protocols, but to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with Logitech G7 in Xorg 7.0

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/06, Ian Kabeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject kind of says it all, really. With the exception of OpenOffice, pretty much every Java app I start can take like 5-7 minutes to LOAD! Once its up it runs totally up to speed, I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps take longer to load than a... I dont know what.

2006-08-15 Thread Lord Sauron
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:44, Ian Kabeary wrote: What is the name of the executable for the Java Control Panel? Thanks! ~Ian Ah, you're gonna make me boot up my laptop and find out, eh? No problem. I should probably try to make a how-to for this on the Gentoo wiki... what do you think?

Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub

2006-08-09 Thread Lord Sauron
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want a setup such as at http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png and am reading http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html to that end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a secondary. There's also a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:19:01 +0200 Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Now that I have xorg-7.0-r1 installed, I am planning to upgrade my logitech cordless mouseman optical to one of the new toys, either the MX1000

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful

Re: [gentoo-user] OT logitech mouse recommendation (MX1000 vs G7)

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:54:25 -0700 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, how is the mobility for the G7/MX1000? Do they come with bulky cradles that one would have to carry around? I believe both have a cradle. However, I already own

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. This NEVER happened in Debian. Yeah, emerge should probably start caching this info

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lord Sauron wrote: My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. This NEVER happened in Debian. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripts are great, but they aren't for whole applications. Yes, that would be a quotable. I think (someone please correct me if I am wrong) that most of portage is actually implemented in python

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/7/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lord Sauron wrote: On 7/7/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. Portage works, however, I think it's really in need of a large overhaul. If what you're saying is true, and it's really just

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/5/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Susbauer wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right quickly. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 7/5/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lord Sauron wrote: Sorry to be a bit elementary, but if you're not colocating your box, and you don't often use SSH, you might want to consider disabling remote administrative things. Of course - disable everything, that you don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-05 Thread Lord Sauron
Sorry to be a bit elementary, but if you're not colocating your box, and you don't often use SSH, you might want to consider disabling remote administrative things. All your Windoze friend will try to do is exploit MySQL to pop a DOS shell into your system. It's an older trick, however, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/25/06, Josh Helmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 12:49 pm, Lord Sauron wrote: I honestly am harbouring delusions of using the faster null modem stuff to directly sync my laptop with a future Linux CVS/Web server, so that I can have a update of the whole smash in my

[gentoo-user] Null Modem Cables Between Windoze XP and Linux

2006-06-24 Thread Lord Sauron
I dug out of this ancient computer book (Upgrading and Repairing PCs 12th Ed.) this relic technology of the Null Modem Cable. It's a twisted Parallel Cable that allows 2 PCs to almost literally talk to each other. So, I found in the depths of some old computer hardware box this old Symantec

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-16 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/16/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a new machine and lately I was thinking about a AMD64 X2 4800+ 2GB RAM. Is it worth to install 64bit linux or should I go for 32. As I have read there are issues with video stuff, flash player. This

[gentoo-user] distcc on cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi, As you may remember, my laptop isn't the fastest lump of silicon around. My desktop (aka my baby) is almost 3x faster, perhaps more. I installed Cygwin on it (it runs Windows XP) so I could leverage distcc to be able to make the upgrade from KDE 3.4 to 3.5 over night instead of over the

[gentoo-user] Re: distcc on cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Lord Sauron
Oh dear! I just found http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Distcc_server_on_Windows, and that's a long list of things to do. I had no clue it was so... involving. Expect to hear from me *much* later on this problem. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge broken - libstdc++.so.5

2006-06-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/5/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/5/06, leszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like many things in life this pain seems to be somewhat self inflicted, I suppose. More into. After emerging gcc-3.4.6 I had troubles with the gcc-config stuff so I removed gcc-3.3.6. However it

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.5 CPU usage - is it normal?

2006-06-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/5/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try with a new profile ? $ firefox -ProfileManager Yes. Same issues. I also reinstalled Flash plugin and I noticed that flash playback is horribly slow and also eats CPU. Do you have smooth scrolling turned on? When I had that on it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge broken - libstdc++.so.5

2006-06-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/5/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys !! The only way to understand and learn is TO BREAK IT sometime xD. I wanna say that about half my knowledge I get from fixing things that have gone wrong... okay, things that have gone wrong because of a misintended command

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-04 Thread Lord Sauron
Just to close this all up on a funny note, look at this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22#.22I_Did_This.22_Wall_of_Shame -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Lord Sauron
I fixed it. Thank God that's over... it was good to go back to the command line a bit for me. Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge allergies I'm experiencing right now. I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like emerge --unmerge gcc ever again. That was a huge

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/1/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently changed mine to this: # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of # these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non- # developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on

[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released. I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc. Will put a binary tarball of gcc-3.4.6-r1 (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB. CFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -k =gcc-3.4.5-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts

2006-05-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/30/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E. Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub prompt after the kernel line has no effect. Here's the entire grub session: I'm not exactly sure, however, I'm making my best

Re: [gentoo-user] lcd console fonts

2006-05-30 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/30/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, The console fonts in my new LCD monitor are H-U-G-E. Attempts to shrink them by adding vga=xxx at the grub prompt after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/28/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 27 11:29, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: At this rate, I'm inclined to recommend Kuroo to all of you. I've been kicking the tires in on it, and it's really quite good. I have a feeling that, given people who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-29 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/28/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 21:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I'm learning Gentoo as fast and as much as I can! Cool! I hope you like it as much as the others here - it's a great system for a lot of uses. It's really nice. I like

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-27 Thread Lord Sauron
To clear this up, I will send the .tar.gz file to anyone who asks for it. Just beware: it's over 20 megs, so I'm going to have to slice it into many files so that you can re-assemble it. My email won't send over ten megs. But if you're having trouble, I'll send it. Just contact me (preferably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-27 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/27/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saturday 27 May 2006 13:42 skrev Iain Buchanan: I've heard that argument before, and I don't know why some people see that behaviour - esearch only takes seconds for me... It's not the esearch binary versus the eix binary where there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, leszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but what is RSYNC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync basically, portage use rsync to update the information on packages (ebuilds) in /usr/portage (with emerge --sync) If anything, this is a indicator that I need to try and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Yay! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol Milky Way galaxy, Orion

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/26/06, Ptitjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JimD a gentiment tapote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Jim Hi, 404 Error Not found ! Worked just fine for me... -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+

[gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
I think I may have made a break through here! I've always noticed that everything portage is very slow. It's like it's having to un-tar and un-bzip everything all the time... lo and behold, it is. I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete that file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
sorry for my sin. I didn't know about eix. On 5/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 01:00 skrev Lord Sauron: If it's not, then I really need to ask why on earth portage takes so long to just index and search packages that took apt-get much less time to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:00 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It takes about as long to start going as it does to open the archive /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 - conincidence? I think not! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive: /portage-20060123.tar.bz2 Simply a portage snapshot, maybe the one you used to install Gentoo in the first place? Take a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On May 25 16:44, Daniel da Veiga (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: (correct me if I'm wrong, but you installed using the Gentoo Installer, didn't you? if you had a complete experience of Gentoo install, you would know that by now,

Re: [gentoo-user] CD-ROM Isn't In fstab - don't know how to add it

2006-05-23 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/22/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A line in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro0 0 Should let access the cd/dvd: (root) # mount /mnt/cdrom (root) # ls /mnt/cdrom If you want users other than root to be able to mount it change

[gentoo-user] CD-ROM Isn't In fstab - don't know how to add it

2006-05-22 Thread Lord Sauron
I decided I needed major help with this one - in other words, a walk-through. I was working and shoved a CD into my laptop as I do every once in a while (not that often - I'm happy to use the network 99.999% of the time). Well, I stuck it in, and there wasn't any automounter action that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility. Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop*

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-17 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/16/06, Daniel Waeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:56:46PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: I also looked for a drop-down term. Couldn't find one that I really liked, so just made a wrapper

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-12 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/12/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: read ~/.xsession-errors maybe some hint there, once i had that file fill free space on /home with few GB 'cause busy filling errors Yeah, I'll be looking in there shortly to see if there's any residual

[gentoo-user] KDE Very Slow - Failed Sleep Command

2006-04-11 Thread Lord Sauron
Hello, This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did transpire? I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery monitor in KDE. It did this, however, when the machine came out of sleep

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?

2006-04-07 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/7/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: If you're not concerned with battery nor weight. I suggest you go for the Dell XPS Mobile concept (when it becomes available) Now, that is one _*#$*#_ of a laptop. Engadget just ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/5/06, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:31:20 -0700 Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * dev-util/eclipse-sdk Latest version available: 3.0.1-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 54,314 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/6/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/6/06, Rafael Bugajewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So eclipse sdk is what you WANT. :-) I think the ebuild names let people misunderstand some things... Yeah, oftentimes I miss the presence of a nice graphical package browser like Synaptic.

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:49, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash': You sent two copies of your message, one signed, the other not. You also didn't publish your public key

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/6/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 16:13, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/6/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it is the eclipse project itself that has made this so damn confusing. Take a look at their About Us page, and try to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-06 Thread Lord Sauron
Just a follow up: Installed the SDK Package. I have Eclipse now. That's really weird... calling your IDE a SDK... I'm sure there's some non-logic behind it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/4/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 19:33, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash': PS: I'm playing with this GPG stuff... I want to see if any of you can use [verify] this. I'm just curious

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/4/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 02:33, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] So I now use the theme livecd-2006.0 Just my $0.02, but it's sorta difficult to change themes. Soon as I'm more bash literate, I'll try to make a script to change themes in a easier

[gentoo-user] Eclipse IDE For Java

2006-04-05 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi, once again... I'm taking a Computer Science class in school, and they use Java for this class. I decided to try using Eclipse, a popular Java IDE, however, Eclipse appears to be masked (see # emerge --search eclipse output below). I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
I was a good cookie and went and tried my best. I did see some signs of success, however, they're not all complete... no pictures. The one sign of success was that the resolution was at [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is a good sign. However, I think that was more attributable to my recompile of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
Yeah, I read you. I found that during lunch. It works now : ) On 4/4/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] and then I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst: localhost ~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst default 0 timeout 7 splashimage

Re: [gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-04 Thread Lord Sauron
To be a bit more verbose... I downloaded the web page to disk so I could toy with it during lunch, when I'm not connected to the internet. After about ten reboots I finally had it nailed down. My Windoze friends are gonna hate this... they've always regarded Window's bootup graphics as making

[gentoo-user] Beautification - Splash

2006-04-02 Thread Lord Sauron
Hello once more. I was good this time and did look through the documentation. In order to get the beautification on Gentoo I wanted (the nice graphics during the install and stuff) I researched it and installed splashutils. However, installation wasn't enough. There's a way to activate it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-02 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/2/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks richard. is it safe to have compiled half a system with gcc 3.3 ubt to be compiling new packages with 3.4? From what I read, if you have half a package using gcc3.3 and the other half 3.4 or something, that won't work. However, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/1/06, Mait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/4/1, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/31/06, Mait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ Sorry for my poor english : ) It means sorry, too many docs to read

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 4/1/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know if it relates to your case but I had a similar problem until I realized the device was formatted FAT16. Once I added proper support to my kernel config it was smooth sailing. No, mine's a vfat. Here's a sample of what my /etc/fstab

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