Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread Don Jerman
On 4/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > In the screen shot provided note that it appears grub is expecting an > intramfs and only lists those types of devices, rejecting both > (hd0,0) and /dev/sda3. > > http://www.jtan.com/~re

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-01 Thread don
bitmap with lossless compression like png is tolerable. Please don't use jpeg. It uses lossy compression that is designed for photos. They end up fuzzy. -- Don Reid -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/29/08, andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: > > > When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD > > number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/28/08, andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On gio, 2008-02-28 at 19:23 +0100, KH wrote: > > Hi, > > > > never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could > > install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your > > internal disk. That way you should always

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets allocate

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you attach the USB disk later the SCSI stuff has all been discovered so of course it gets allocate

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Don Jerman
I personally prefer JFS to XFS and have used it for years on my servers and laptop with no problem other than hardware errors (and if the hardware fails the fs will not help you). I had system board problems in the laptop and a bad RAID controller in the server this last year :(. Other than that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Don Jerman, > > > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, > > When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-19 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/19/07, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:49 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > hda1: Windows > > hda2: Linux (/boot) > > hda3: Linux (/) > > hda4: PV for LVM (PV = Physical Volume) > > hdb1: PV for LVM > > > > The two PVs will be assigned to one Volume Group (VG),

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread don
> #!/bin/bash > ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity &> /dev/null && metacity& I have been seeing this problem for some time too. Can someone suggest where to look for error messages? I've looked in the places I know about. -- Don Reid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub problem

2007-10-04 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/4/07, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 try: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-gengenkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hdb3 why: /boot is where you mount (hd0,0) while gentoo is running, but while grub is runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam on Pavilion Dv1000

2007-09-10 Thread Don Jerman
On 9/5/07, CESAR GAVIDIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings brothers, I have a laptop Hp Pavilion dv1000, this brings > incorporated a webcam and a microphone, which have been able to fail to > utilize. > Sam Revich had a driver for the webcam on my HP dv9000t, which allowed me to get images.

Re: [gentoo-user] MCE in kernel

2007-09-04 Thread Don Jerman
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there > is something untoward going in on my hardware. > Quite possible. It can also be caused by misconfiguring kernel drivers. I recently (accidently) selected the ATI agpa

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread don
re grubis looking for them)? I do: cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 cp initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 /boot/initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 Don -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-30 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/30/07, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would > I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person > would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? > you could take the trouble to lea

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub md5crypt broken

2007-08-20 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/20/07, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started having problems with my boot password not too long after I > changed it and I stumbled upon something altogether weird. > > The following is a copy of what grub is giving me for an md5 hash: > > -- > > grub> md5crypt > > Password:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-10 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/10/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all, > > I'm in need of a portable video camera(or rig), such as the > sony SR82, but one that is gentoo friendly > for video transfer. Hopefully I can find a video > camera that transfers directly to a gentoo > sytem via usb 2.0? After my exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

2007-08-01 Thread Don Jerman
On 8/1/07, Abraham Marín Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Cowsill escribió: > > Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a > > result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually > > built kernel? > > > As far as I can think of it would be enough ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jerman
It appears there are still apic issues under x86_64 SMP, so look at noapic if you continue to have hangups (you may have this AND heat problems). Also look at the AMD_64 architecture forums at gentoo.org. I'm not familiar with the Acer peripherals but that forum helped me with my HP9000z. On 7/3

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine freezes during gcc compile

2007-07-30 Thread Don Jerman
If it's brand-new, have you ever installed Linux on this particular processor/motherboard combination? I had a problem with freezeups with my TurionX2 laptop until I used -noapic on the kernel line. Nothing much to do with load, except that more work = more chance of encountering the problem. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-05 Thread Don Jerman
On 7/5/07, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] As I wrote in my first answer to this thread (which somehow didn't make it to the list, yet), the problem is (IMHO) with /boot not beeing mounted at all. Yes, if you followed the Gentoo install instructions closely /boot is not mounted

[gentoo-user] iputils build error

2007-02-11 Thread don
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3229: Called src_compile iputils-20060512.ebuild, line 51: Called die == My system has libosp.so.5 -- Don -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies

2006-09-04 Thread don
rging X would also try to unmerge all the applications etc. that used it. I guess I was wrong. Given that, I took the list of blocking packages, and did the above with that list. Now I re-emerging the older ones. Don -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies

2006-09-04 Thread don
works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). Thanks Don Reid -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread don
Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/19/06, don comcast.net> wrote: > > I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms. > > > > The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages > > > >

[gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-19 Thread don
ne. Thanks for any help Don Reid * installed packages app-admin/eselect-1.0 app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3 app-admin/gamin-0.1.7 app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.5 app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.14.0 app-admin/hddtemp-0.3_beta13 app-admin/logrotate-3.7.1-r2 app-admin/perl-cleaner