Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-02 Thread Frank Schafer
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: My question :- I need to copy all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? If both drives are the same

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird, clamscan, mbox-maildir

2005-09-02 Thread PaulNM
Hi all, Recently I've been messing around with clamscan on my system and checking all my files. Anyway, clamscan found some things in my thunderbird files. Thunderbird currently uses mbox format for storing emails. The clamscan info I've read says it stops at the first positive hit in an

Re: [gentoo-user] (AMD64) wrong soundcard is becoming default - Gnome unhappy

2005-09-02 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi I just had a quick look at your message, I think I may provide you a solution: It all depends on which driver is called first - so may control this by adding the modules of your two soundcards in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Add the one you need to work with Gnome first and the other

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

2005-09-02 Thread Jules Colding
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 00:07 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: On 9/1/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first log in after a boot I get a message I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit. I answer OK 1 time and it stops.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:18:00 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm setting up the same thing, although I used the 64-bit Gentoo install CD. Why are you using 32-bit? I did some RTFM, and it appears that emerging 32-bit apps requires a bit of a hassle. You basically have to install a 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge (?) broke thunderbird opening links in firefox

2005-09-02 Thread Nick Rout
Anton, see a very recent thread on this! On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 21:07 +0200, Antoine wrote: Hi, I think it was that anyway - I certainly haven't played with the config of either for a long time. I get nothing when I run thunderbird from the cl either... I searched for a preference somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:18 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: The final straw for me was that LILO is masked out for 64 bits, and GRUB is the only available bootloader. GRUB seems to have been afflicted by Microsoft-featureitis disease. It's got a whole lot of additional complexity, which allows it

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird, clamscan, mbox-maildir

2005-09-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 02:27 -0400, PaulNM wrote: Hi all, Recently I've been messing around with clamscan on my system and checking all my files. Anyway, clamscan found some things in my thunderbird files. Try this. #formail evilmailbox -s thescript.sh nicemailbox #!/bin/bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: [Way off topic] But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code Portage? Doh! /me goes into a corner for awhile. Thanks! -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-02 Thread Harald Arnesen
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Blount schreef: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount

[gentoo-user] apmd using wrong gcc path

2005-09-02 Thread Rich Cumbers
Hey guys I am trying to emerge gnome, however it fails on the emerge of apmd. Firstly some details of my system: amd64 running native using gcc 3.4.4 The error message it spits out indicates that it is looking for gcc compiler verion 3.4.3: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g ++:

Re: [gentoo-user] (AMD64) wrong soundcard is becoming default - Gnome unhappy

2005-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 02 September 2005 09:05, Stefan Frank wrote: Hi I just had a quick look at your message, I think I may provide you a solution: It all depends on which driver is called first - so may control this by adding the modules of your two soundcards in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.

[gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

2005-09-02 Thread Iulian
I don't know how to solve: /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../..-O3 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fstack-protector -g -DDEBUG -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -c -o connection_list.lo `test -f

[gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

2005-09-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all greyscale) have no colour! This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer is going through one of its always segfaulting stages so I cant tell if its related to this

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet schrieb: On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo *

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

2005-09-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) schrieb: Alexander Skwar, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/104415 It's fixed now. sync and update baselayout. Glad

[gentoo-user] Re: apmd using wrong gcc path (FIXED)

2005-09-02 Thread Rich Cumbers
Turns out that my gcc had not updated properly, I re emerged gcc and libtools and all is dandy! Is it a good idea to emerge -e world after updating gcc? Cheers Rich On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 11:51 +, Rich Cumbers wrote: Hey guys I am trying to emerge gnome, however it fails on the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread danielhf
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:28:21PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the best window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Sep 2 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems that nobody likes FVWM Hey, I use FVWM and love it, have for a long time ;) FVWM is small, ultimately customizable, and can do everything any other WM can do, with a bit of work. Virtually any dreamable interface is possible with it. This

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Iulian schreef: I don't know how to solve: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I. -I./.. -I../.. -O3 I could (definitely) be wrong, but I doubt that the ebuild forces -O3 in the CFLAGS; perhaps you should consider dropping down to -O2 and see if that helps. Also, the fact that -O3 is

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work : solved with comment

2005-09-02 Thread Philip Webb
050901 Philip Webb wrote: 050902 Holly Bostick wrote: Philip Webb schreef: I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, they work fine : temperature,

[gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... so i wnet out there into portage to visit sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, and only found an old version of the kernel matching 2.6.9-r9 so i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. 8.14.13-r2 supports 2.6.12 with an (included) patch, and 8.16.20 (-* masked

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Nebinger
If I replace the pixie emerged by portage does that mess up anything as far as portage is concerned? Well, other than if an upgrade comes through emerge --update world would try to overwrite what you install. Otherwise portage will think it's in there. I have one more dumb question. What

Re: [gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Greg Shikhman schreef: Hi, After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 9/1/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) and here's another. *grin* currently using enlightenment. i like the pager, i like the config options, and quite frankly, the drag bar is just nifty. i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Benno --

[gentoo-user] codec fmp4?

2005-09-02 Thread Matias Grana
I'm trying to play a movie with mplayer. Sound comes OK, but not video. I get this: AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [FMP4] 480x264 24bpp 29.970 fps 971.1 kbps (118.5 kbyte/s) Clip info: Software: MEncoder 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.2 [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. not for me... same config (as in 2.6.11)

Re: [gentoo-user] (AMD64) wrong soundcard is becoming default - Gnome unhappy

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Stefan, Nice idea but it seems it didn't work in my case. I set this in /etc/modules.autoload lightning ~ # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 # /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots.# # Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. snd-intel8x0

[gentoo-user] emerge gnucash fails

2005-09-02 Thread Michael Madden
I am trying to install gnucash 1.8.9 on Gentoo 2005.1, and all the dependencies install fine but during the build of gnucash, I get the following error. Has anyone else seen where it could not find the library gwrap-glib? gcc -shared .libs/gw-core-utils.o -Wl,--rpath

[gentoo-user] Naming drawers in Gnome

2005-09-02 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! I just upgraded to Gnome 2.10.2 and realized that when I add a new drawer to a panel there's no name field anymore. Funny thing is that my existing drawers still show their name tags as tooltips when I move the mouse cursor over. So I was wondering if someone could check if he/she has the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Benjamin Grauer schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work with 2.6.12 kernels.. not for

[gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
According to everything I've read, the ATI 9550 should be fully supported with Xorg. I have followed the steps in the Gentoo ATI FAQ to the letter (in fact several times over) and I simply can not get this card to work right. The log always reports DRI initialization failed! and my desktop is so

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Freitag, den 02.09.2005, 10:34 -0500 schrieb John Lange: The following 4 items are included inline to help with debugging. Please excuse their rather large size. 1) Xorg.log 2) lsmod 3) glxinfo 4) fglrxinfo I'm sorry but you forgot the real important file here: your xorg.conf -- Mit

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge net-libs/libtorrent-0.7.2 failed

2005-09-02 Thread Iulian
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) = System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre7 ccache version 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging an old kernel (but not too old)

2005-09-02 Thread Benjamin Grauer
Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Benjamin Grauer schreef: Hi there i use an ati graphicscard with fglrx, and since this f* driver does not work with 2.6.12-kernels, i wondered if i could emerge old kernels... Yes it does work

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
Ah, here it is as generated by fglrxconfig. --- # File: xorg.conf # File generated by fglrxconfig (C) ATI Research, a substitute for xf86config. # Note by ATI: the below copyright notice is there for servicing possibly # pending third party rights on the file format and the instance of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with Virtual Channels

2005-09-02 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 8/30/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:28:37 +0200Christoph Eckert wrote: Recent ALSA versions do softwaremixing using the DMIX plugin per default. Older versions can do it by creating an soundrc file. Unfortunately this does not help with legacy applications which

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

2005-09-02 Thread inferno
Hi, I know that for x86/AMd 64 there is a Packages CD. Try searching on your country mirrors for the CD. Best regards, Cristi Stoica Justin Kelly wrote: Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
I was able to get it to unmount using umount -l (lazy), but trying to mount it again produces: mount 192.168.1.36:/usr2/public mount: RPC: Program not registered John D -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 1:31 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
Hello John, On Friday 02 September 2005 19:31, John Dangler wrote: I setup nfs on a file server and my laptop and the first couple of days everything was running fine. I had to reboot the file server, and now all commands on the laptop to the /mnt directory lock up. e.g. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnucash fails

2005-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:20:11 -0500, Michael Madden wrote: I am trying to install gnucash 1.8.9 on Gentoo 2005.1, and all the dependencies install fine but during the build of gnucash, I get the following error. Has anyone else seen where it could not find the library gwrap-glib? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

2005-09-02 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Try again (while logged out of KDE): rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 rm ~/.kde ln -s .kde3.4 ~/.kde Your .kde is a dir, it should be a symlink. Yes, I noticed that on my home box. Will give it a try, when I can (I won't be accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Oscar
You need to enable the GLX extension en xorg.conf, ie: in the Module-section (Section Module), append Load glx before EndSection, and try again :) Oscar On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:34:56 -0500 John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. --

[gentoo-user] Initscript execution order

2005-09-02 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon all, Is there a simple way to determine the order initscripts are executed, taking into account ineed, iuse, before, etc...? Perhaps something that would show a tree structure similar to emerge -auDt. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer.

[gentoo-user] Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

2005-09-02 Thread Mick
Hi All, It has been mentioned in this list and elsewhere that toggling network.prefetch-next to false in the about:config should do just that. I was just looking at my netstat output as soon as I fired FF and guess what I saw! There was also a connection to 212.58.226.19 which is one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
Sorry for not including it in the original posting but here is the section from xorg.conf which includes the load glx. Following that is the error message it generates in the log file. Then the listing of /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ which (sort of) contains a libglx.so. I think this may be where

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Mick schreef: Hi All, It has been mentioned in this list and elsewhere that toggling network.prefetch-next to false in the about:config should do just that. I was just looking at my netstat output as soon as I fired FF and guess what I saw! There was also a connection to 212.58.226.19

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: but I'm clueless as to why libglx wouldn't be working. (II) LoadModule: glx (WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx (II) UnloadModule: glx (EE) Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) The module not existing would seem to be a good reason that it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
Thanks for the reply Holly. Symlinks are as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do it again... Following is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Holly Bostick
John Lange schreef: Thanks for the reply Holly. Symlinks are as follows: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 9 08:47 linux - linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root4096 Sep 2 08:54 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 I've re-emerged the ati drivers several times but can't hurt to do

Re: [gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-02 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/2/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I setup my laptop to connect to apps like phpmyadmin on the localfileserver?both are running gentoo 2.6.12-r9 .vfs is setup and running, but when I try to connect from the laptop to thefileserver on other apps likephpmyadmin, I get The

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Matt, on Wednesday, 2005-08-31 at 17:28:21, you wrote: Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on what people like/disklike in a window manager. It's been XFCE here for a while. When I ran NetBSD years ago, nothing but fvwm would run at decent speed (not that there had

[gentoo-user] OT: Compiling non-portage app for gdb

2005-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Can someone suggest how a non-programmer can compile a non-portage app to run in gdb so that I can get a trace of a segfault? I have the code. It compiles and segfaults on my AMD64 machine. I'd like to send the developers some debug data. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
Yup. Done it each time I emerged the ati drivers. Here it is again just for the heck of it. # opengl-update ati * Switching to ati OpenGL interface... Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies...[ ok ] I wish it was that easy :\ Note the dates

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

2005-09-02 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía: Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is there anything like the Packages CD but more :) Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread Wade Brown
I suppose to make this thread complete I'll be the first (maybe only?) one to voice support for good old WindowMaker. I think the biggest reason I still use it is that I'm just stuck in a rut, I have been running it for ages and have never wanted anything better. It's definitely light weight

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive

2005-09-02 Thread Michael Crute
Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy the problem but the downside is I can't save my files unless I additionally carry around

RE: [gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-02 Thread John Dangler
Mike~ Thanks for the reply. I did check the settings in my.cnf and skip-networking is commented out. I looked at the rest of the configuration and it seems as though it should allow the connection… Help is definitely appreciated… John D -Original Message- From: Michael Crute

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive

2005-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy the problem but the downside

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot disable FF's prefetch 'feature'

2005-09-02 Thread Mick
Holly Bostick wrote: Have you restarted Firefox since you changed the setting? Any such changes won't take effect until the program is closed and re-opened. Yes, of course I have. Quite a large number of times . . . and also checked it at least three times to make sure that it hasn't reverted

Re: [gentoo-user] connections

2005-09-02 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/2/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike~Thanks for the reply.I did check the settings in my.cnf andskip-networking is commented out.I looked at the rest of the configuration and it seems as though it shouldallow the connection…Help is definitely appreciated… One thought would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive

2005-09-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be treated like a regular hard drive, correct? Incorrect. Flash memory only has

[gentoo-user] Getting problems with nVidia and OpenMosix kernel

2005-09-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi there, I got a Gentoo box with two kernels, one is linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 kernel sources and the other linux-2.4.30-openmosix-r3. On the 2.6 kernel, the nvidia driver works fine. But on the OpenMosix version, whenever I try to start X, it crashes, and in the log, there are no error

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of glibc-2.3.5-r1 fails

2005-09-02 Thread Lincoln Baxter
On 9/1/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:19:39 -0400 Lincoln Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc. Does anyone else get this: I haven't seen the problem. A few things to look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Sergio Polini
Holly Bostick: John Lange schreef: And does that file name libglx.so.1.0.7174 seem right? Now that you mention it, no. Isn't that an nVidia file (I'm not sure, having never had an nVidia card, but that number looks like an nVidia driver revision number to me). Here's mine: [cut] Here's

Re: [gentoo-user] installation 2005.1

2005-09-02 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 02 September 2005 09:37 pm, Dita widyo wrote: hello,i am new using gentoo linux,as far i used to use windows.now i am trying linux and i choose gentoo.but i have problem with the installation.after ekstract source file using command tar -xvjpf some file can not extracted.example

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread Sergio Polini
John Lange: Note the dates in: /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174

Re: [gentoo-user] booting into single mode

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:07:28 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Append softlevel=single to kernel boot parameters. Do you know what the difference is, if any, between that and bootlevel? -- Ian. EOM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:18:00 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did some RTFM, and it appears that emerging 32-bit apps requires a bit of a hassle. You basically have to install a 32-bit chroot environment, which you drop into to do the 32-bit emerges. This is a hassle, but not a

Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Hastie
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:47:56 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ive recently rebuilt a few things and Ive just noticed that my movies (the few clips that I have are mostly MS AFS and avi are all greyscale) have no colour! This occurs with xine and totem - mplayer is going

Re: [gentoo-user] My movie clips have lost their colour

2005-09-02 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, but Ive just fixed it - well rather its fixed but I dont know the cause. I recompiled a number of video programs and related stuff, and after a reboot its all back to normal. Thanks, BillK On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 05:04 +0100, Ian Hastie wrote: On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:47:56 +0800 William