I had the same problems with the xorg upgrade, so I got some good
advice on the xorg mailing list.
The big picture first: The plan is to use evdev *instead* of the
drivers in xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, and to make
any Input Device sections in xorg.conf completely go away (at
walt wrote:
...
If you have an unusual mouse, as I do, you will need to create a
new fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to get it working properly.
Oops, forgot to mention /usr/bin/lshal, which will tell you what
hald thinks it knows about your hardware.
As one more example, here is what lshal
Joel Thibault (Gentoo) wrote:
...
It is difficult to reproduce, as I can typically try that package
again or emerge --resume (without --skipfirst) and everything goes
fine, until the problem hits a different package...
That kind of random error is almost always caused by flakey hardware,
Philip Webb wrote:
090411 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Denis wrote:
I updated the xorg-server from 1.3.x to 1.5.3 my X wouldn't launch
until I commented 'freetype' or 'vga' in xorg.conf - why is that?
Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now
and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers,
Philip Webb wrote:
090412 walt wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'),
but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ?
lshal is telling you that your nvidia hardware is recognized,
but doesn't tell you that the hardware is being used
Sebastian Dörner wrote:
Hi,
some time ago I created a variant for the us xkb-layout by adding
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols my_variant {
include latin
//my changes here
};
to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us...
Are you saying you edited that file by hand? If so, why not just
rename
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote:
I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I
remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no
more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems,
I'm asking because gnome is working perfectly on my ~x86 machine
but not on my ~amd64.
The problem is that gnome-settings-daemon and pulse audio are
crashing during startup, i.e. they appear as defunct processes
once gnome is up and running.
It's a bit like the bug a few months ago where the
Ivan Kanakarakis wrote:
I use Gnome on ~amd64 and everything is working fine.
I don't use pulse audio, just alsa.
I also had those issues with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.35 as Paul said.
Other than that I can't think of something right now...
That was the problem, thanks guys! I can't
By accident I noticed that the configure script for one of the gentoo
packages (I think maybe it was coreutils but I can't remember) gives
different results on ~x86 and ~amd64.
The script uses a test for working nanosleep that I've included below.
Could someone else compile the test and confirm
Jorge Morais wrote:
When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this:
** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon:
Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name...
You don't appear to be running an actual gnome
Jorge Morais wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700
waltw41...@gmail.com wrote:
Jorge Morais wrote:
When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this:
** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for
org.gnome.SettingsDaemon:
Could not get owner of name
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
is there some software for live partition backup/copying/cloning
with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton
Ghost or OO DiskImage in windows-world?
Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clonezilla), but I did
not find anything in portage...
I
W.Kenworthy wrote:
I started getting these errors recently from a number of systems, as
well as failures in operation. The cause appears to be scripts/programs
running as root trying to contact the user gconf daemon. This is
stupid so how can I work around it. One case I am trying to fix is
William Kenworthy wrote:
After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly
increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge
@preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but
after building, there is no change ...
!!! existing preserved
Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
You will notice that after running emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild
almost invariably returns null results...
I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now:
#emerge @preserved-rebuild
!!! '@preserved-rebuild' is not a valid package
Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
I'm also not sure anymore about which portage version was first to support
sets. What I did was blow my top at the forced downgrade of portage at Zac's
whim, and unmasked portage. Lots of troubles immediately and at once went away
when I did this...
Maybe that's why I
Okay, my root partition is on /dev/sda (normally), which is a sata
drive connected to the onboard sata controller.
The problem is that I also have a plug-in ESATA docking station, which
is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names the
disk /dev/sda, and that forces the
Stroller wrote:
On 11 Jun 2009, at 16:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, walt wrote:
...
The problem is that I also have a plug-in ESATA docking station, which
is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names the
disk /dev/sda, and that forces
walt wrote:
Okay, my root partition is on /dev/sda (normally), which is a sata
drive connected to the onboard sata controller.
The problem is that I also have a plug-in ESATA docking station, which
is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names the
disk /dev/sda
Paul Hartman wrote:
try this: Type some text, like
X and then hold left arrow. Your
cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
It will start to move to the right.
AG wrote:
Hello list
I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility
of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a
new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses
to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs.
Well, I'm all
Alan McKinnon wrote:
...As a Debian user, it is normally
safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-)
Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager.
When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities
should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking.
Just for fun
bn wrote:
walt ha scritto:
Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager.
When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities
should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking.
Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the
last few years
On 06/27/2009 03:32 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
make.conf hasn't qt3support at all. Adding qt3support to qt-opengl shows...
well... something horrible (see below) :-)
//==
emerge -pvDuN world
These are the packages that would
On 06/27/2009 07:24 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
On Sunday 28 June 2009 02:54:59 walt wrote:
On 06/27/2009 03:32 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
make.conf hasn't qt3support at all. Adding qt3support to qt-opengl
shows... well... something horrible (see below
On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.se wrote:
Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize...
No offense taken. All the trading is done on the Windows platform
using proprietary trading platform apps. All the
On 06/28/2009 05:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pkpete...@coolmail.sewrote:
Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize...
No offense
On 06/28/2009 05:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
I used to be an app maintainer for wine. I know about it and support
it but no longer us it...
Thanks for contributing to the wine project!
...I do however
STRONGLY support your right to become a full-time, fully automated
trader trading every day
On 07/02/2009 05:46 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I've been wrangling with a new gentoo install, on an AMD X2 64 bit
machine. It's been a problematic experience, but when the system works
right, it works really right.
Printing has suddenly failed. I had installed foo2zjs in support of an
HP P1005
On 07/03/2009 08:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
There is no PCM channel in alsamixer! Maybe I will try alsamixergui,
where I saw switches once.
Do you have something like this in /dev/snd?:
$ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw 1 root audio 116, 0 2009-07-03 04:42 controlC0
crw-rw 1 root
On 07/04/2009 07:05 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
A reboot has lost X, in particular the keyboard confuses it. Here is
the beginning of the X log. Unfortunately, I didn't save the previous
working log. This is ~amd64 under 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and -r2.
I learned a while back I could get by
On 07/05/2009 09:12 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, walt wrote:
I started getting the same 'expected keysym' messages recently but my
X continues to work okay anyway, so I think that's a red herring.
Everything else works, just the keyboard is hosed
On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote:
I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and
xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created
one for libdri.so...
I'd be more worried about this than the keysym
On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine will
not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the radeon
driver.
Hm. There is no reason to unload any driver or module just to shut down. Are
you sure
On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote:
On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote:
On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote:
I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my machine
will not shutdown without a kernel oops when it is trying to unload the
radeon driver.
Hm
On 07/06/2009 01:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Ncurses has disappeared, and the system is dead. I think it is
unrecoverable. I had hoped to use a binary package, but for now,
since I shut the machine down, it will not boot.
Is this hopeless? It happened during an emerge -uDvNa world
It's
On 07/06/2009 03:41 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Paul
Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Paul
Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon,
On 07/06/2009 04:23 PM, Mick wrote:
On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote:
On 07/06/2009 04:39 AM, Mick wrote:
On Monday 06 July 2009, walt wrote:
On 07/06/2009 03:29 AM, Mick wrote:
I cleared out some xorg related packages at some point because my
machine will not shutdown without a kernel
On 07/07/2009 08:34 AM, Roger Mason wrote:
Hello,
I have a new install (not an upgrade) of xorg-server (1.5.3-r6) and
xorg-x11 (7.2), to which I added xset (1.04) so I can add a font path.
The fonts in question are in ~/AMRITA/SITE/fonts/TrueType. When I run
xset fp+ fonts/TrueType
from
On 07/07/2009 11:12 AM, Roger Mason wrote:
Hello walt,
waltw41...@gmail.com writes:
Do you have a fonts.dir in that directory? If not, you need to run
mkfontdir in that directory.
Yes:
~/AMRITA/TEST $ ls ../SITE/fonts/TrueType/ -l
total 572
-rw-r--r-- 1 rmason rmason 88408 Apr 19 2003
On 07/08/2009 11:27 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
Hi group,
Here's a switch: a computer that refuses to turn OFF. When I open a
root console and enter shutdown -h now my eee 900A Asus Intel-n270
freezes with the message:
The system is going down for a system halt NOW!
Looking at ctrl alt F12,
On 07/08/2009 12:31 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
The very first thing to try is to change your /etc/conf.d/alsasound so
that it has these two lines:
# Deprecated options:
# Upstream feels, and we wholehartedly agree, that this was a silly idea
UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no
KILLPROC_ON_STOP=no
May not help, but
On 07/10/2009 01:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 9 Jul, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I had tried holding back on xorg-server 1.5, but somewhere in May at
least one package got past my version limits and X broke. Rather than
to try to revert, I thought surely by now, X would be fixed. Sigh.
In
On 07/10/2009 09:13 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi folks.
Word of warning. I been upset before, I have even been mad before,
right now, I'm pissed. This is not normal for me but it is what it is.
I tried the new xorg with the hal flag turned on. Let's just say it was
a nightmare, AGAIN. I want my old
On 07/10/2009 03:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'm upgrading Gentoo nearly each day for 2 years now.
But once in a while I'm lost, like this time
emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world
gives a lot of blockings which I don't quite understand (and there are
On 07/10/2009 11:12 AM, Dale wrote:
...
It sees the mouse and says the option for the wheel is there. It just
don't work...
I can't remember if anyone has mentioned xev yet. On my machine with
the bog-standard M$ Optical Mouse (2-buttons+wheel) when I put the mouse
cursor in the xev window
On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote:
...
Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
environment variables are set...
Googling LC_* environment variables turns up this doc:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
I assume this document is correct
On 07/10/2009 04:02 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
...
I set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to POSIX some time ago to make
konqueror sort the way I expect.
We posted our responses at the same time, apparently. Where did
you learn that POSIX is an appropriate value for those variables?
I need to read
On 07/10/2009 05:16 PM, lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently reported that I am suffering random reboots. I have now
discovered an inconsistency in the reporting of the mount point of the
root directory of my Gentoo install...
No, the two are not related. In my experience, anything that goes
On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote:
...
Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate
as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do:
LANG
sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C
LC_CTYPE [charset]
LC_NUMERIC [number format]
LC_TIME [time format]
On 07/11/2009 08:08 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Alan E. Davis writes:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:26 +1000, lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
In grub, it is located first as hd1 (/dev/sdb) and then as
/dev/sda5. That is where I
On 07/11/2009 01:13 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote:
...
Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate
as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do:
LANG
sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C
I'm reading this as to *only* set
On 07/15/2009 06:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Torsten Vellerml...@veller.net wrote:
* Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com:
Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not
match executable architecture
On 07/18/2009 12:08 PM, james wrote:
Hello,
Openoffice 3.0 failed so I installed version 3.1.0.
It gives this message:
QSettings: failed to open file '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
Do you
On 07/19/2009 04:16 PM, James wrote:
Roy Wrightroyat wright.org writes:
Also are you building OO from source or running the binary version?
Well, it's definately a permission problem, because as root
I can run OO flawlessly..?
There is also another possibility: root and you are
On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak...
I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about
10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise.
Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of
a flash
On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch
version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after
3 days of re-syncing and retrying. The build dies early on in the
patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small.
On 07/27/2009 10:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on
my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file:
27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output
to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09
On 07/27/2009 02:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:57 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/26/2009 01:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch
version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after
3 days
On 08/02/2009 12:42 PM, James wrote:
Calculating dependencies... done!
virtual/jdk-1.4.2 pulled in by:
dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10
dev-java/jdbc-mysql-5.0.8
dev-java/jdbc-postgresql-8.3_p603-r1
dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2.1-r3
So it looks like I need this virtual/jdk-1.4.2 ???
On 08/02/2009 01:42 PM, James wrote:
But look here:
eix virtual/jdk
[I] virtual/jdk
Available versions:
(1.4) 1.4.1 1.4.2
(1.5) 1.5.0
(1.6) 1.6.0
Installed versions: 1.4.2(1.4)(14:13:11 07/07/09) 1.6.0(1.6)(14:10:01
Ah, that was the jog my memory
On 08/02/2009 01:42 PM, James wrote:
waltw41terat gmail.com writes:
java-check-environment
snip
Java environment is sane. Congratulations!
eselect java-vm list
Available Java Virtual Machines:
[1] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm
But look here:
eix virtual/jdk
[I] virtual/jdk
Available
On 08/03/2009 06:54 AM, James wrote:
Well here's what I found:
# ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 168 Aug 2 16:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root72 Mar 26 02:33 ..
drwx-- 8 root 520 Jul 17 08:13 registry
-rw--- 1 root 1 Aug 2 16:34
On 08/03/2009 07:03 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
On 8/3/2009 8:56 AM, Chris Lieb wrote:
I have been running Python 2.5* on my Gentoo system ever since it went
stable x86. Today I ran an `emerge --update --deep --newuse
--with-bdeps y world -avt` and saw that python-2.4.6 was being pulled
into a new
On 08/03/2009 08:25 AM, James wrote:
waltw41terat gmail.com writes:
# ls -alg /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/uno_packages/cache
Hmm. Both my x86 machine and my ~amd64 machine have *nothing* in that
directory. All of those files and directories are in my ~/.ooo3 instead.
That's
On 08/03/2009 03:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again as history, I first noticed this issue when emerging gcc-4.3.2.
I had 4.1.2 on the system, in use, as well as these old line items in
gcc-config. Once I had rebuilt the system with 4.3.2 I did an emerge
-C =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 and got rid of that
On 08/03/2009 11:53 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm not sure where to start. I upgraded from xorg 1.4 to xorg 1.6. I
also followed the ATI Migration guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml.
Everything seems fine except now Virtualbox 3.0.2 guest displays are
On 08/04/2009 05:15 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
Hi all,
Since i upgraded Firefox to Firefox-3.5-r1, my links from Thunderbird to
Firefox don't work anymore.
In Thunderbird-2.0.0.22 : Edition - Preferences - Advanced - General
- Configuration Editor, i get :
network.protocol-handler.app.http
On 08/04/2009 06:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
walt wrote:
Do you have the Windows vbox guest additions installed in the Windows
guests? If so, you should be able to resize the guest window just like
any other X window...
That wasn't very clear. I was thinking that resizing the guest window
On 08/05/2009 05:12 PM, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive
on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored.
On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a
second drive at /mnt/morespace)
I have a notion to move
On 08/09/2009 03:15 PM, Grant wrote:
I get this on my laptop's internal HDD:
# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 60% 12400
149547192
On 08/14/2009 04:17 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using
gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the
upgrade docs, such as remergeing system and world?
I'm no expert, but I just did the same upgrade this
On 08/15/2009 11:46 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
normally gentoo was quick with security updates for Firefox but it is
almost a month now since 3.0.12 and still the ~ is attached. What's
going on there?
I notice that the ebuild for 3.0.13 was added only yesterday, so my
guess is the
On 08/29/2009 06:42 AM, Skippy wrote:
Greetings - I've got a new system, fresh install. Problem I've got in
no audio input from the microphone.
Trying to record into audacity will not work regardless of which alsa device I
select, or mic/line in.
If I try to record with rezound I'll get a
On 08/31/2009 10:27 AM, James wrote:
Hello,
I've tried everything I can to resolve this kde-4.2.x upgrade
problem. I've used sets so far to install kde 4
(kdelibs 3.5.10-r6 and 4.2.2-r1) named as
/etc/portage/sets/james-kde-4.2
But now when I try to upgrade, it fails.
(emerge -uDNvp
On 09/01/2009 05:00 PM, James wrote:
waltw41terat gmail.com writes:
Did you then re-emerge alsa-lib after that change? I believe that's
what it wants you to do before trying to update kde.
Yep. But that does not fix the general upgrade problem.
After successfully emerging
On 09/02/2009 07:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine.
Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup
(e.g. specifying only_from = .skynet.be in /etc/xinetd.conf) doesn't work.
So, I have to find out which IP ranges are
On 09/03/2009 07:39 AM, econti wrote:
Hi all
after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran
revdep-rebuild I received this:
localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild
* Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
* Checking reverse dependencies
* Packages containing binaries
On 09/03/2009 02:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to
a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file
to an email in gmail, firefox hangs...
You could try starting firefox from a command prompt like this:
On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt
computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait)
Just a few porblems with this fresh install:
When logging into gnome I presented with the
On 09/04/2009 06:31 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am recieving the following message when trying to compile virtualbox.
I receieved the same error when trying to compile vmwareserver
*
* ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-1.6.6-r1 failed.
That version needs a kernel
On 09/05/2009 05:28 AM, James wrote:
Hello,
I'm building up a P3 as a firewall, using 4 GB Compact Flash
to IDE as the hard drive (SANDISK). I've done this before
and it works great.
The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2.
I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2:
Disk
On 09/05/2009 01:59 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
Hey Neil,
I tried to compile virtualbox using intructions here
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox;. And it was unsuccesful, I
have attached the build.log
As I said in a different thread, that version of virtualbox-modules will
build
On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
walt wrote:
[]
I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it.
It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my
newest machine with hardware virtualization support.
Some questions, please:
1. How would you
On 09/06/2009 09:21 AM, Nick Khamis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am using my laptop to test virtualization before setting it up on the
servers. I am familiar with vmware but since I am unable to get
vmwre-server going on kernel 2.6.3r5, I am using virtualbox. My question
is in terms of the HardDisk
On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29
trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel. Anybody know what the
option is called? It ain't 'trim'.
First, thanks for the link, which led me to lwn.net. Those guys have
some
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote:
I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it.
It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest
machine with hardware virtualization support.
I suggest
On 09/07/2009 08:00 AM, Stroller wrote:
On 7 Sep 2009, at 00:07, walt wrote:
On 09/06/2009 02:21 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29
...How effective that is for extending the life of a SSD, I have no clue.
Uh, extending the life of the SSD isn't
On 09/08/2009 08:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote:
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so
I can't install a client.
Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always
On 09/08/2009 12:24 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
I'm trying to install gnu interactive tools (apps-misc/gnuit),
but it is being blocked by the git source code management
application (dev-util/get):
alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
On 09/08/2009 08:14 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
I have included in my kenrel configuration the following:
M IP virtual server support
- [*] TCP load balancing
- [*] UDP load balancing
I have added to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 the follwing
#lvs
ip_vs
ip_vs_rr
On 09/10/2009 03:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 02:31:20 walt wrote:
I'm attaching a screen capture of the dialog window I see when mounting
an ISO file on the vm's virtual CD player. If you are seeing something
very different, then that's where we need to start
On 09/10/2009 03:43 PM, Dale wrote:
Jonathan Callen (ABCD) wrote:
Dale wrote:
Hi folks,
I was browsing around and noticed that I now have a udev in
/etc/init.d/. I checked, it is not running but udevd is not running
either. See below:
r...@smoker / # /etc/init.d/udev status
* status:
On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
Hi all.
I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd.
Everytime I try, I get:
* ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2212:
On 09/13/2009 03:00 AM, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
Hello List,
Where are gnome defaults handled?
xdg-mime query default inode/directory shows correct app in kde but is empty
in gnome...
I can tell you that I also get an empty response in gnome, but my system is not
broken. Doesn't help much,
On 09/13/2009 12:32 PM, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
Where are the global defaults anyway, if you want to change the order, maybe?
Where could you globally prefer acroread over evince and gedit over xemacs?
Try running update-desktop-database, which will generate a new
On 09/14/2009 01:59 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
As Jocob says, I don't use genkernel
Do you think I should reopen the bug?
The bug is still open, so perhaps voting for it would help (I did).
Two days ago after updating world on my ~amd64, at least two apps
can't find libssl.so.12 even though it's right where it should be.
One difference I find between my working x86 and my broken ~amd64
is the output of ldconfig -p:
x86 machine:
#ldconfig -p | grep ssl3.so
libssl3.so.12 (libc6) =
On 09/17/2009 10:37 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Donnerstag 17 September 2009 19:21:44 schrieb walt:
Two days ago after updating world on my ~amd64, at least two apps
can't find libssl.so.12 even though it's right where it should be.
...
...I've seen this on my box at work today
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