Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help : need grub,conf file : kernel wouldn't boot

2006-04-16 Thread Robert Crawford
this: title=Gentoo [Evolution-Mission] root (hd0,0) # boot partition kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-archck root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap splash=silent,fadein,theme:default quiet console=tty1 initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-default Robert Crawford. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-13 Thread Robert Crawford
On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:38, CR Little wrote: It's a single drive. (add this line /dev/hda3 3.7G 1.3G 2.3G 36% / /dev/hda5 4.6G 4.1G 285M 94% /usr /dev/hda6 4.6G 312M 4.1G 7% /var /dev/hda7 2.8G 33M 2.6G 2% /tmp /dev/hda8

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Crawford
usually good for about 1GB if you haven't cleaned up stuff in a while. Look on forum for link to download. I use version 3.1- the more recent ones have had problems. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:13, Benno Schulenberg wrote: CR Little CR Little, Please post output of df -h, and your /etc/fstab. From the posts on your problem, I can't tell what's what- looks lke all is on /usr, as its own partition. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login

2006-03-20 Thread Robert Crawford
-login Code: # emerge -C pam-login # emerge --oneshot shadow --- Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:17, Rob Oravec wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING! : Newbie ahead -- EMERGEncy problems

2006-02-12 Thread Robert Crawford
If downloading time and cost are a concern, you might not get the real benefits of Gentoo, and maybe should consider a binary distro. Anyway, if you wish to install stuff not in portage (almost everything is), you need to employ portage overlays you create yourself in /usr/local/portage- an

Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Crawford
Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out, with no luck. I'd also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended instead. On Friday 10 February 2006 04:09, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 10 February 2006 05:46, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Robert Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2006 09:32 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen... Same problem here- I've

Re: [gentoo-user] sound card stopped working after kernel rebuild

2006-01-30 Thread Robert Crawford
On Monday 30 January 2006 12:23, Robert Persson wrote: EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of :02:09.0 failed with error -12 I think EMU10K1_Audigy: probe of :02:09.0 failed with error -12 might have something to do with modprobe failing with a new kernel. Maybe try rebuilding .module-init-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 20 January 2006 04:31, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Dale wrote: Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:29, Paul Varner wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Robert Crawford
On Saturday 14 January 2006 17:27, Ryan Sims wrote: I just bought a 512M stick of Crucial ram to complement another 512M stick...suddenly I'm getting tons of crashes, reboots, failed compiles, etc. I removed the new stick, and all is well, now I'm trying just the new stick alone, see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? It's: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/14 Wed AM 12:35:17 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? It's: /etc/portage/profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Crawford
kdeaddons? On Tuesday 13 December 2005 09:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [lots of ranting] This email would prove more usefull to us if it was less rant and more specifics. How you want us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Crawford
. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kdeaddons? Does the question mark mean you are guessing or that you are asking If I tried adding that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is qpkg in latest portage

2005-12-08 Thread Robert Crawford
On Thu December 8 2005 5:46 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:13:47 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still there but installed onder /opt I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dale wrote: Hi, I have been up and running a while and am running stable but this is Gentoo. ;) I found a script that tells you what your CFLAGS are suposed to be and it is different from what I am using. This is what I

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
package can leave a file of hundreds of mb, and several of those quickly can reach GB's of wasted disk space. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS, is this better than what I have?

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sun December 4 2005 6:37 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: On Sun December 4 2005 4:11 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: -mfpmath=sse is not a good idea, the consensus is it actually lowers performance. -msse -mmmx -m3dnow are redundant (implied by -march

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5

2005-12-01 Thread Robert Crawford
. Really, upgrading to 3.5 is painless and simple. Robert Crawford On Thu December 1 2005 7:31 pm, Dale wrote: Hi, Just to make sure I get this right, when I upgrade to KDE 3.5, KDE 3.4 will still be installed right? This is how it was done in the past but I don't want to loose 3.4 until I get

Re: [gentoo-user] no more NV_SATA, etc support in kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread Robert Crawford
With 2.6.14-rc5, and 2.6.14-archck5, all the other usual options for the motherboard chipsets are still there under SCSI low-level drivers (with make xconfig). On Wed November 30 2005 9:37 pm, Ryan Tandy wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:22, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, hi!

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Crawford
partition. Robert Crawford (wrc1944- on the forum) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-26 Thread Robert Crawford
On Sat November 26 2005 9:15 pm, Alan E. Davis wrote: I have tried alot of approaches. Wvdial is superior for detecting hardware: it found my modem on ttyS14, where other approaches hadn't found it. What I cannot seem to do is set up for my family to dial in from their accounts. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kde version

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Crawford
kde 3.5 betas and rc1for many weeks- no problems. But, I'm pure ~x86 (in make.conf) anyway, so I always have the latest packages show up in my emerge -uD system or world. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Crawford
, but since it's no big deal to change it, I'd recommend doing it as a matter of course, so you don't have to stop and do it during an emerge session. Robert Crawford -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/163 - Release

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning from Knoppix

2005-10-08 Thread Robert Crawford
distro. Robert Crawford On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:36 am, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm trying to reinstall gentoo, after serious troubles due to hd failure (I fear) or filesystem corruption (I hope). So, I booted Knoppix and I'm trying to repartition hda. I deleted all partitions and tried

Re: [gentoo-user] klibc fails

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Crawford
box. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world fails -- broke compiler?

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Crawford
What is the output of: gcc-config -l(-l is a small L) and the output of: emerge --info Robert Crawford On Sunday 18 September 2005 03:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: test On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:35, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, This is another C compiler cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] cdk build error

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Crawford
after big emerges- that might contribute to the problem too. (use the -p option first to see what you are dealing with). Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Crawford
- only /dev/hdc. I looked in /dev, and sure enough, the cdrom and cdrw links point to the hdc block device. Anyway, whatever it was, changing the fstab line now lets me mount cdroms normally, as before. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Crawford
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:51 am, Steve Evans wrote: On Monday 05 Sep 2005 15:31, Robert Crawford wrote: I just had a similar problem after I updated udev (I think). I run ~x86 systems, always kept current, so I expect a few minor hiccups, even though I'm extremely careful with etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-05 Thread Robert Crawford
Page 5-6 of a long udev thread is good reading on recent udev problems. Robert http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-355069-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-100.html On Monday 05 September 2005 10:51 am, Steve Evans wrote: On Monday 05 Sep 2005 15:31, Robert Crawford wrote: I just had a similar

Re: [gentoo-user] installation 2005.1

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Crawford
is a feature of Gentoo and source based distros. If you don't have much space, I recommend Slax as one of the best small yet feature packed distro. There are other good ones too. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Robert Crawford
system) temporarily, and after you emerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 and world, you can emerge net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 again. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
. then I type dhcpcd ath0 and it connects fine. If I redo the iwconfig ath0 command, it now lists the essid name of my wireless router (linksys), and the numerical isp address dhcpcd found. Hope this helps. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:28 am, Grant wrote: Which updates are you talking about- madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using 0.1_pre20050420. If downgrading to 20050420 doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity and gtk not playing nice

2005-08-13 Thread Robert Crawford
error, NOT this status message. Have you done a revdep-rebuild -p to see what's up? Did you upgrade gtk+ only, or was this done along with other stuff, like gcc? Check this out- it might be exactly the fix for your problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84016 Robert Crawford

Re: [gentoo-user] live CD (gentoo or otherwise) with lm-sensors?

2005-08-12 Thread Robert Crawford
download and try it myself. http://overclockix.octeams.com/ Robert Crawford On Friday 12 August 2005 11:19 pm, Matt Garman wrote: Does anyone happen to know if any live CDs (or DVDs) come with the i2c modules and lm-sensors built (particularly the i2c-viapro module)? I just built a system

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install - but some progress

2005-08-09 Thread Robert Crawford
install doc is pretty good- review it again. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Crawford
On Saturday 23 July 2005 03:43 am, Joseph wrote: So, I borrowed two good memory sticks from my backup server, and the new box is happy so far, compiled some kind of 27Mb lib-file without any kernel panic. I would like to run this Red-Hat memtest.sh script on these two stick, but I'm missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Crawford
wildly, and are not to be trusted, especially considering your current problems. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to Ubuntu - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Crawford
One other thought- I don't recall seeing any mention of this in this thread. Are you sure your heatsink/fan combo is rated for your AMD 64 cpu? On Friday 22 July 2005 11:26 am, Joseph wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:00 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: I have an old IDE drive, maybe I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Crawford
one (assuming heat is the problem). I build a lot of computers, and with AMD cpus, overkill in the cooling dept. is sometimes necessary. Robert Crawford On Friday 22 July 2005 03:31 pm, Joseph wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:00 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: I have an old IDE drive, maybe I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Crawford
Joseph, Sorry- I haven't been reading this thread from the beginning, so I might have missed some of your first posts. If we eliminate heat as the problem (not saying we absolutely have), I'm starting to think it could be a misconfigured kernel, or kernel bug itself. What kernel are you you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 22 July 2005 07:57 pm, Joseph wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 17:24 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: Joseph, Sorry- I haven't been reading this thread from the beginning, so I might have missed some of your first posts. If we eliminate heat as the problem (not saying we absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I change to /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-07-15 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 15 July 2005 06:31 pm, George Roberts wrote: I have a day off work and it is too hot to play outside, so I got the bright idea to clean up some minor warnings I have been getting. When I am booting my computer, I get warnings to change from using /etc/hostname to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge suddenly blocked

2005-06-07 Thread Robert Crawford
entire /etc directory (at the very least) before a major emerge system or world. Then I always go through etc-update manually. If you know what to look for, and don't blindly update files that don't need it, it doesn't take that long. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 03:04 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: -funit-at-a-time For what it's worth, according to man gcc, -O2 turns on -funit-at-a-time. Robert Crawford -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The LiveCD as the workstation

2005-04-29 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 29 April 2005 02:48 pm, Grant wrote: Take a look at Slax 5.0.4. It's small, kde 3.4.0, dhcp. k3b, all the desktop essentials, etc., and you can save your settings/configs either on floppy, HD, or their web site, so you don't even have to carry a floppy or USB key around. Slax