Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, the gentoo people say that cdrkit does it without root, why can't cdrtools? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116026 Well, imaging there is a road that ends in an abyss and there is a sign beware of the abyss and some people remove that

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg believes that cdrkit is not as good as cdrtools (I have used only cdrtools and it works well for me). Believes is less that knows. I know that if you take a very old source and add new bugs that the result cannot be better than the maintained

Re: [gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 16:46:54 Alex Schuster wrote: Andrew Gaydenko writes: Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case of unmerging some package without real unmerging? emerge --depclean -pv XYZ Wonko Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:00:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg believes that cdrkit is not as good as cdrtools (I have used only cdrtools and it works well for me). Believes is less that knows. I was/am trying to sound neutral

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: Anyone ever reply to this? If you're using Gnome, then HAL + Gnome will take care of it. I am using HAL + ivman in my servers. It works well for fixing mount points. Thanks, I got several replies but all pointed to just using hal +

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just follow my advise... Jörg Unfortunately, the gentoo people say that cdrkit does it without root, why can't cdrtools? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116026 Let me append a proof for the incorrectness of the claim that wodim does not need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] top posting

2008-12-10 Thread KH
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Indeed :) (Sorry, couldn't resist :P) Dale wrote: Justin wrote: Nicolas Sebrecht schrieb: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +, Stroller wrote: I find a flow of quoting that is interrupted FAR less

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-10 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:15:14 -0600 Paul Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hartman writes: I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending

[gentoo-user] Oracle 10 or 11...

2008-12-10 Thread Steve
I am interested in the possibility of running a small-scale oracle server for some experimental development work. Ideally, I'd install on gentoo - as this is my server box... though I guess there may be hoops through which I must jump... I found this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle 10 or 11...

2008-12-10 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Hi, On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Steve wrote: I am interested in the possibility of running a small-scale oracle server for some experimental development work. Ideally, I'd install on gentoo - as this is my server box... though I guess there may be hoops through which I must jump... I

[gentoo-user] kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt of mine to build a new kernel not using an initram (Or even with initram) has failed with the boot routine failing to recognize my /dev/sdb3 as root. Its a gentoo vmappliance running on windows xp pro. I'm not asking about

Re: [gentoo-user] kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt of mine to build a new kernel not using an initram (Or even with initram) has failed with the boot routine failing to recognize my /dev/sdb3 as root. What is

[gentoo-user] How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: How can I tie a module name (tg3) to a kernel config line? Details: Usually its kind of obvious if you dig around in .config a bit, but now always. I find the module at /lib/modules/2.6.24*/: ../kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko But I haven't been able to nail that to a kernel config line.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 22:56:30 Harry Putnam wrote: Summary: How can I tie a module name (tg3) to a kernel config line? Details: Usually its kind of obvious if you dig around in .config a bit, but now always. I find the module at /lib/modules/2.6.24*/: ../kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko

[gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt of mine to build a new kernel not using an initram (Or even with initram) has failed with the boot routine failing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:34:24 Harry Putnam wrote: Why do you think you need an initramfs at all? It's usually only needed in very rare cases where either a driver for storage hardware is needed which is not part of the kernel itself or some user space things need to be done to even

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
Its a tigon 3 broadcom nic if that helps, I can get the .config line once I beat traffic Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:56:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] How to tie

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But help is at hand! The .config option you are looking for is CONFIG_TIGON3 My last notebook had one of those and I searched for ages before spotting one day that t, g and 3 all appeared in TIGON3. Sorry that I couldn't help with the more general

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle 10 or 11...

2008-12-10 Thread kashani
Steve wrote: I am interested in the possibility of running a small-scale oracle server for some experimental development work. Ideally, I'd install on gentoo - as this is my server box... though I guess there may be hoops through which I must jump... I found this:

[gentoo-user] Re: usb to ethernet

2008-12-10 Thread James
Neil Walker neil at ep.mine.nu writes: James wrote: http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, or a similar product from another vendor? Errm ... quite honestly, why would you want to? Lots of reasons. Turn a

[gentoo-user] Re: usb to ethernet

2008-12-10 Thread James
Chris Thomas sruchris at gmail.com writes: I have one similar to yours. IIRC, mine is a Realtek 8139 chipset which works fine with the driver in the kernel. -Chris Thanks to all that answered. Oh, one more cool use, On embedded (linux) systems where there is no hardware ethernet, seems

[gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are running it in vmware right? Your disk type, disk adapters type and chipset in a vmware vm are NOT the same as these device on the physical hardware. vmware emulates a BX440 chipset, SCSI drives and LSI or BusLogic adapter. You must use those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread Geralt
Hi, a generic way is: 1) Go to /usr/src/linux 2) grep tg3 $(find -name Makefile) of course you can replace tg3 with every other module name (but don't add the .ko extension!) Geralt. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Work!

2008-12-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, Don't know if it's appropriate to post this on this list, sorry if it's not. Anyway, this is serious: we are currently looking for a junior IT with some Gentoo experience and with a special interest in media

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive. I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now. This is what I got from the little frag script: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # /root/fragck.pl /backup/ 0.953336175120985% non contiguous files,

[gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. Also thought it might make the information that accrues here more findable for any future searchers. Here is the general setup and the general problem:

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tie module name to Kernel CONFIG

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Geralt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, a generic way is: 1) Go to /usr/src/linux 2) grep tg3 $(find -name Makefile) Nice... I had come up with an even more shotgun approache. grep -r tg3 kernel-name I didn't have enough sense to know it would be in Makefiles

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even have an sdb. All the kernel sees is one hard

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even

Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
My guess is tha while inside the initrd a kenrel module was loaded and it was something that you needed to read the boot volume. Are you statically or modulely including your sata drivers? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] About sdb3. In the following dmesg output (when booting with a working kernel-2.6.24-r8 I wondered if anyone can determine what driver is involved there. I couldn't really tell much from it other than the kernel sees it with no problem:

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI Fusion-MPT controller. Enable: Device Drivers-[*] Fusion MPT device

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My guess is tha while inside the initrd a kenrel module was loaded and it was something that you needed to read the boot volume. Are you statically or modulely including your sata drivers? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile kyle, how can I discover what is in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI Fusion-MPT controller. Enable: Device Drivers-[*]

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2008, 16:34 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt of mine to build a new kernel not using an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 08:05 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): I'll extract `exact' messages if you are willing to spend some time on this. But I suspect we should begin another thread with a subject that makes it clear this is about building a

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel, compiz, mplayer -fs file.avi freeze

2008-12-10 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008/12/8 Kacper Kopczyński [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: How about you replace the = symbols by '~', such that revision updates are also alwowed? I'll try as soon as I fix my laptop. It survived journey across the country, daily trips by bus...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
You probably need scsi and scsi disk support compiled in as well. Everything associated with accessing the device and the filesystem it contains has to be compiled in to the kernel and not be a module. The initrd is loaded into memory and loads the kernel modules (the ones you need to