[gentoo-amd64] new graphical installer

2006-08-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I found the x86 installer at bit torrent. For quickly installing on many pc's. The extensions are torrent not iso. How do I use these and are all ok? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64

[gentoo-amd64] 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:57 +, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
This is for installing on a machine. How would I catenate this to a chroot? Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:17 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Gavin Seddon wrote: Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Of course, Thanks for highlighting my idiocy. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:40 -0400, Jose Herrera wrote: In fact the whole gentoo setup involves chroot. just don't do the machine parts: partitions,mkfs,grub,fstab and of course the reboot ;) Jose. 2006/7/19, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL

[gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed significant errors and wouldn't boot. So I put reiser on it. What do you think's up? It appears to me to be a broken hdd? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
I have found the dma module with lspci. Will still advise me on the rest? On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:02 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, occasionall I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Many thanks Andreas. On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions. When booting it informs me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking. Also, occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot. Is this normal

Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

2006-07-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Brett, Hi Yes I did this and Hemmann suggested the alternative in the inst. doc. Will reboot asap. Thanks Gaviin On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 06:54 -0500, Brett Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:58:04AM +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: Yes, I tried this and, ' hdparm -d1 -X /dev/hda /dev

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-30 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, It is Windos xp, so I can use a dell pocket pc. I would also be able to upgrade my cellular phone to one that doesn't require Gnokii. Thanks. GavinO n Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:48 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/29/06, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I checked this. Ok. What

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-29 Thread Gavin Seddon
yes I checked this. I'll try the iso. On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/28/06, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the vmware progress bar. It says 'examining hardware

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, this is vmware-workstation. When I power in it starts. I get the vmware progress bar. It says 'examining hardware'. Then there is an error that I cannot see and it all starts again. The cd will boot if I try and inst. on my machine as the 1ary os. Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Thanks. It doesn't boot if I pick '/dev/cdrom' either. I get the black screen with the progress bar then nothing. TThanks. btw. The cd is ok. gavin. On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:51 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Saturday 24 June 2006 15.01, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I have vm 5.5

[gentoo-amd64] vmware not booting install cd

2006-06-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have vm 5.5 running.But, when I try and inst guest os and 'power on' the inst. cd doesn't boot. Can anyone suggest help? cheers. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] vmplayer

2006-06-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
: No such file or directory' Can anyone help? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-31 Thread Gavin Seddon
Will do, thanks . On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 07:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: Gavin Seddon, mused, then expounded: Hi, I'm going to install Gentoo on a cluster at work consisting of 11 intels and 3 dec-alphas. TI am thinking of installing Torque as the batch queuing system. However

[gentoo-amd64] torque

2006-05-25 Thread Gavin Seddon
. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-14 Thread Gavin Seddon
. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test2

2006-04-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] test

2006-04-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
and connect from remote server with a verbose ssh -X -v your host. In most cases at the end of the debug output gives you an idea what goes wrong. Best regards Joerg -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K

Re: [gentoo-amd64] x11 not working on ssh

2006-02-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
advise? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] kasbar running

2006-02-23 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, I now have it running and yes it is what I wanted, thanks. I can now go back to 4 possible desktops. It didn't show previously since I had the menu bar at the top edge of the screen where minimised apps. go. When I removed this I got the kasbar option. Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: iconify vs minimise

2006-02-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
asked for, an icon based interface.' on 3.4. I right clicked on the bottom panel. cheers Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] iconify vs minimise

2006-02-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
for different apps. This is an excellent feature of IRIX where I first came across this. Does anyone know how to enable this in kde? I have looked on google and I saw hints this may be a feature of KDE 3.5. Is this true? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
. Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] database software

2006-02-09 Thread Gavin Seddon
Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Fragmentation (Was: Re: Re: Re: Wow! KDE 3.5.1 Xorg 7.0 w/ Composite)

2006-02-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
know of a tools to show the fragmentation level of a *nix filesystem ? David -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
-x86-minimal-2005.1-r1.iso ' Can anyone help? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b error

2006-02-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Which package contains cdrecord? - check permission - k3bsetup ? try to re-emerge cdrecord anyway - it should work, however - setting burning group makes it better Piotr -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road

[gentoo-amd64] Re: fwbuilder taking ages to compile[fixed]

2006-02-02 Thread Gavin Seddon
Sorry, got it sorted -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] ailed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket k3b

2006-01-27 Thread Gavin Seddon
/message-board/error-k3bdevicedevice-unable-to-do-inquiry I followed this through. But, still have the same probs. I upgraded to the kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.14-gentoo-r5 kernel and I have the same problem. Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 newbie

2006-01-24 Thread Gavin Seddon
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
to stick with AMD. YMMV and My opinions are my own. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world gentoo general

2006-01-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
. - See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html - -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, This logging in business is the recommended test for my generated password. Really I need the username to install my compiled fwall. A user of root doesn't work so that is why I'm mithering you guys. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
to another Linux unfair. I fully understand I am taking up other peoples time and for this I apologise. But, what are user lists for other than fix and air problems/issues. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
of a firewall, all I need to do is install the fwall I have built. However, this needs a user and pass. I generated the password but I can't activate the inst procedure. The sshing was just a recommended test. Do I need to allow ssh root login to install my firewall? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world [working]

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I ran python-updater and merged dbus, all works now. Thanks Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-20 Thread Gavin Seddon
it was the comment about changing Linuxes I disagreed with. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2' Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
directory `/var/tmp/portage/dbus-0.23.4-r1/work/dbus-0.23.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2' On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:17 -0200, Fernando Boaglio wrote: Try to emerge system before. 2006/1/19, Gavin Seddon

[gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get 'ssh: firewall: Name or service not known'. I have created the key, when I try to install what's my username? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
to login user root into a machine called firewall. I guess you actually need ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the password it tells me to ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get 'ssh: firewall: Name

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2] (-3dnow) +X -a52 (-altivec) -dv -dvdread +encode -fame +gtk -imagemagick +jpeg -lzo -mjpeg (-mmx) +mpeg -network -ogg +quicktime +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) -theora +truetype -v4l -vorbis +xml2 -xvid 2 kB Total size of downloads: 5,178 kB' Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School

Re: [gentoo-amd64] error updating deep world

2006-01-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
-running this script again to see if it * can be fixed. * emerge -p \=sys-apps/dbus-0.23-r3' at the end, is this ok? On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/19/06, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just tried updating and it stopped with 'x86_64

[gentoo-amd64] updating world

2006-01-10 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have been updating my system. Firstly I used 'emerge --sync' then 'emerge --update world'. However, the update stops with a segmentation fault. Is this a big problem that needs fixing and how? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University

[gentoo-amd64] kmplot

2005-12-28 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I think this may be an 'off-list' q? if so sorry. I have just discovered kmplot for gentoo. Can this be used for enzyme kinetics, km etc? Is there a page telling me how? If this is the case donations are in order since this kind of software isn't cheap. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School

Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
to have lunch with the author. shorewall.net Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262 Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, I have merged iptables. Will they start at boot

[gentoo-amd64] /var/log

2005-12-21 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi all, I have been looking in '/var/log' for users logging on. The files and directories in there are fastidiously organised (to say the least). Better than usual UNIX distros. What is the best place to look for logins/hacks. Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:26:23PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: This is my 1st Gentoo and the tape never worked on Debian. It does work on Redhat/Fedora but a tape's not a good reason to use this. Is the Redhat/Fedora system it works on a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
. - Original Message - From: Brett Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:23:56AM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: The Fedora is 2.4 kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:36 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: Besides lspci and lsusb, I like lshw. sys-apps/lshw From the man page: lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: scsi bus_master resources: ioport:c400-c4ff iomemory:ff5fe000-ff5fefff irq:5' -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-16 Thread Gavin Seddon
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:17 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:56:38PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: description: SCSI storage controller product: 360P vendor: Initio Corporation version: 02 http

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:34 +, Luis Medinas wrote: 1.2.1 -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
at 10:14 +, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, 1.2.0 is in my package list. How do I find 1.2.1? you should read portage documentation available on www.gentoo.org but you can simply upgrade to 1.2.1 doing this echo app-cdr/cdrdao ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords On Fri, 2005-12-02

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
, 2005-12-12 at 04:57 -0700, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:50:56 +: Is there a way of determining the board type, other than opening the box and removing the card. I don't have it's original box. Thanks. On Sun, 2005

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
I see, you mean truncating it like this. On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:24 -0700, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:29:29 +: I had found this http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not working [fixed]

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Coffee time. I ave endless questions tho' -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: k3b not creating bootable cd

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I just attempted to burn an is for Gentoo for the pc here but after it read in the iso the start button didn't appear. I looked in setupdevices and none were listed. Also, when preparing the image for 'iso cue toc' it is using mkisofs not cdrecord. Is this correct for a cd image? --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-11 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, When I modprobe initio I get the single word 'killed' at which the whole system freezes and I have to switch off at the box. Do I need to modify the kernel? Thanks. On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:14 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:55:28PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote

[gentoo-amd64] initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have a scsi tape with an initio controller. 'dmesg' sees initio 360p. But when I use mt I get ' mt -f /dev/st0 eject /dev/st0: No such device or address' Where will the tape be? Thanks. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Yes /dev/st0 is there. How should I start the device, as far as I remember I built all scsi modules into the kernel. Gavin. On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:40 -0700, Duncan wrote: find /dev/ -name st0 -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: initio seen, mt -f doesn't work

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, root is in tape group. I cannot use mt as a user anyway. I can't see initio in 'dmesg' anymore, also?? Thanks On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 08:13 -0700, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:57:31 +: But when I use mt I get ' mt -f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware [fixed]

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
. -- theboywho [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] memory

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this immediately? Gavin -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-amd64] scsi tape

2005-12-07 Thread Gavin Seddon
. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
} ${2} Brett theboywho wrote: On Monday 05 December 2005 11:10, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hithanks for all the responses. If I chgrp to vmware will I be able to use su? I think to be able to 'su' you need to be in the wheel group as well. I added myself to the vmware group

Re: [gentoo-amd64] further vmware issues

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I tried to remerge but, 'Oemerge remodprobe Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy remodprobe.' Thanks Gavin ps I 'rm -rf /etc/vmware' n Tue, 2005-12-06 at 21:27 +0800, Taka John Brunkhorst wrote: remodprobe, reconfig -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy

[gentoo-amd64] athlon-xp

2005-12-06 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi I am so impressed with Gentoo I have volunteered to put it on a pals pc. He has an athlon-xp. Would this use a x86 inst. cd? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-amd64] vmware

2005-12-04 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, I have tried to start vmware and I get 'failed to start unable to connect to peer process. I have purchased vm previously but this still happens with my serial. Do I need this and can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University

Re: [gentoo-amd64] kile wizard only works when root[fixed]

2005-12-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance ) KCrash: Application 'kile' crashing... Unable to start Dr. Konqi' Drkonqi is merged and I am in 'wheel' Thanks. Everything else seems ok so I will leave this Q? Gavin. On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 21:21 +0100, Florian D. wrote: Gavin Seddon

[gentoo-amd64] test

2005-12-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] k3b not workong

2005-12-01 Thread Gavin Seddon
-1.2.0-r1/work/cdrdao-1.2.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 63, Exitcode 2 !!! could not compile' tHANKS. n Thu, 2005-12-01 at 07:27 -0600, Brett Johnson wrote: Gavin Seddon wrote: !!! ERROR: app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.0-r1 failed