On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS.
Unless you're using a laptop.
Solar UPS?
Battery!
actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mode doesnt detect
On 10/29/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS.
Unless you're using a laptop.
Solar UPS?
Battery!
actually
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Joe Menola wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS.
Unless you're using a laptop.
Solar UPS?
Nuclear Reactor UPS
The good side, you can go a LONG time on UPS, and you can
Hi everybody!
Just now i update my firefox to version 2.0,but after that ,i can't
start my firefox.
# firefox
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-(
How to fix it?
Thanks in advanced!
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On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:03, Chris Walters wrote:
Nuclear Reactor UPS
The good side, you can go a LONG time on UPS, and you can run your whole
house off from it...
The bad side, you have to pay to build the reactor and to dispose of the
waste (very expensive)...
Too complex. Just get
Having made some progress I thought I better answer my own post below for any
Belkin users out there who would rather use Linux drivers:
On Monday 23 October 2006 16:55, Mick wrote:
Also, this is what dmesg shows:
===
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open'
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I assume you've changed your CHOST when upgrading glibc without having a clue
about you were doing...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml
Yes, now I remember something like that.
Don't know if it was glibc, but some
package told me to do so. So I did
Hi list,
the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it
xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl).
Although the system is quite usable there is still an issue: i thought
the system would have relied
On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote:
Hi list,
the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it
xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl).
Although the system is quite usable
Hi Tomas,
I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or
something the CPU goes up to 100% ...
well, you're probably right since i've seen the same behaviour also in
other machines. But i'm asking myself if the GPU should not take care
of performing these
Hello. My purpose of using a network file system is to back up my web
server. For some special reason the backup application I am using need
to directly access a mounted network file system rather then using a SSH
connection.
For me, security is the biggest concern. The backup script should be
I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or
something the CPU goes up to 100% ...
PS: this makes my system a bit unresponsive when running heavy
applications like Firefox or OO
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On Sunday 29 October 2006 06:48, 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] the most secure shared network system?
Coda/NFSv4/others?':
Hello. My purpose of using a network file system is to back up my web
server. For some special reason the backup application I am using need
to
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
Oh, and just for the the record. Whatever you do with this don't downgrade
glibc! :p That will make you even more screwed that you are already. I guess
you've learned by now that you should never run --depclean blindly. Always
run it with --pretend first and
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:33, Richard Fish wrote:
Hmm, looks like man mount hasn't kept pace with the kernel.
Apologies.
yeah, that is a big problem. The data=journal option is AFAIR two
years old.
The manpages are pretty... out of sync.
This calls for
On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:17, Hans de Hartog wrote:
[SNIP]
I guess you've learned by now that you should never run
--depclean blindly. Always run it with --pretend first and ensure that it
doesn't do something stupid. Unfortunately this is a little late for that
though... :(
At the
On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:46, Richard Fish wrote:
It isn't something they can fix on their end.
You didn't mention what browser you are using, but assuming it is
firefox does the flash plugin show up when you go to about:plugins?
If not, then somehow it is not installed or not installed
Hope that you get a more useful response FWIW, I Had precisely these
symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is rock
sold now. I think there were two things going on:
1. This might be a kill switch? Some of my problems were certainly due
to the kill switch. I
On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:19, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:33, Richard Fish wrote:
Hmm, looks like man mount hasn't kept pace with the kernel.
Apologies.
yeah, that is a big problem. The data=journal option is AFAIR two
years
When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages involving
early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
These broken files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but equery
can't find out for me what package,
Dude - I use xfs w/o a UPS for desktops and laptops. I use it on
servers with RAID and with UPS protection. I also keep good backups
for the servers. I have been using XFS since _just_ _after_ it came
to Linux. I have used XFS on several hundred systems (which I have
been responsible for).
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote
You don't insult the program, you insult the people behind it.
No such thing. I was stating that amarok is extreme overkill for
simple streaming audio playing. It is aimed at a totally different
target market. I'm not slagging
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
Hope that you get a more useful response FWIW, I Had precisely these
symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is
rock sold now. I think there were two things going on:
1. This might be a kill switch? Some of my problems were certainly due
to
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:05, Walter Dnes wrote:
I consider Super eye-candy interface and Funky visualisations as
insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about
them. I am obviously not their target market.
both is OPTIONAL.
without xmms/libvisual, there is no
On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:56, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
On 10/28/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid
(I prefer xfs but
On 10/29/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:56, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
On 10/28/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
I'd recommend changing to ext3
Novensiles divi Flamen wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:03, Chris Walters wrote:
Nuclear Reactor UPS
The good side, you can go a LONG time on UPS, and you can run your whole
house off from it...
The bad side, you have to pay to build the reactor and to dispose of the
waste (very
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Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
That's not true. Up to 2.6.17.5 it /may/ eat your data. I ran
2.6.17, in the buggy state, for 2 weeks before I upgraded. It did
_not_ eat my data. Don't get me wrong - it was lucky, and yes - it's
a heinous bug.
Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote
I consider Super eye-candy interface and Funky visualisations as
insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about
them. I am obviously not their target market.
Obviously, I *am* amaroK's
Yeah, I will try JFS again some day. Not today, but someday. XFS
slow deletion is my personal pet peeve. I have been using XFS for so
long, so successfully, that I am hesitant to change. Plus, I have a
large number of existing installs.
Last year, I setup a JFS system on a dual-opteron.
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:40, Colleen Beamer wrote:
Anyway, with respect to the subject line, if my interpretation is
correct and xmms is being removed from the package list, what can I use
to play 'mod' files?
audacious with the media-plugins/audacious-dumb plugin?
or, emerge xine-lib
When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages
involving
early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known
bug, because some gentoo-tools have
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:03, Chuanwen Wu wrote:
Hi everybody!
Just now i update my firefox to version 2.0,but after that ,i can't
start my firefox.
# firefox
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-(
How to fix it?
Thanks in advanced!
The output of:
# equery check
On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote:
Hi list,
the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it
xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz
Hi All,
I find myself in Geneva for the weekend, where I am using a WiFi connection.
The ISP is bluewin.ch and the speed is quite low. On average I have seen max
download speeds of 448Kbps, while a stream download from e.g. apple trailers
soon settles down to around 93kbps.
Trying to emerge
Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active.
If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done
on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it.
On 10/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update.
After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck
/dev/sda
That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2
The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hde
(hd1) /dev/hdh
(hd2) /dev/sda
I edited the
Howdy,
I was installing djmount (from b.g.o.) and it kept failing. Looked like
a parallelization issue, so tried changing MAKEOPTS from -j2 to -j1,
which let the package compile. I'm running a hypterthreaded P4 and
this is the first package to have problems with -j2 in over a year.
Is there
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Update.
After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck
/dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped
to hd2
The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0)
I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday).
My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual
core processor.
I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS
into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4,
On 10/29/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was installing djmount (from b.g.o.) and it kept failing. Looked like
a parallelization issue, so tried changing MAKEOPTS from -j2 to -j1,
which let the package compile. I'm running a hypterthreaded P4 and
this is the first package to have
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
swapspace is on /dev/sda2, /boot is on /dev/sda1, and root is on /dev/sda6
[snip]
My grub.conf file is as follows:
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,5)
kernel
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
Try running grub, then at the grub command line:
root (hd2,5)
setup /dev/sda
quit
-jm
When I run setup /dev/sda, I get the error
Error 11: Unrecognised device string
Try setup (hd2)...also I think the root command needs to be
Richard Fish wrote:
mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cate-gory
echo export MAKEOPTS=-j1 /etc/portage/env/cate-gory/package
You can also set variables for specific package versions or even -rX
releases. See /usr/portage/profiles/base/profile.bashrc.
-Richard
Great! Thank you Richard!
The more
Hi Richard,
The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf
file per your instructions was
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/e2fs_stage_1_5 exists... yes
Running embed
PS: The /boot/grub/devices.map presently contains
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/hde
(hd2) /dev/hdh
Jeff
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 29, 2006 3:55 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
Hi Richard,
The full
Hi!I want to connect my xda 3 to my gentoo box. I have familiar (GPE) on the xda. I found that I need usbnet for connecting. I tried to compile my kernel with usbnet support but when I try # modprobe usbnet I get:FATAL: Error inserting usbnet
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, since the real ordering of the drives during the boot cycle is /dev/hda
(the DVD drive) then /dev/sda, does that mean that the correct sequence is
(hd0) /dev/dvdrw
(hd1) /dev/sda
(hd2) /dev/hde
(hd3) /dev/hdh,
Nope. /dev/dvdrw isn't
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:40, Colleen Beamer wrote:
Anyway, with respect to the subject line, if my interpretation is
correct and xmms is being removed from the package list, what can I use
to play 'mod' files?
or, emerge xine-lib with the modplug useflag
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Richard,
The full output from running your suggested command after editing the grub.conf
file per your instructions was
Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes
Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes
Checking if
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 13:36 +0100, Marco Calviani wrote:
Hi list,
the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag.
what aiglx flag?
$ equery u xorg-server | grep -i aiglx
$ nothing
After having enabled it
xorg started running with
Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen,
repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text.
I tried installing Mandriva Linux 2007 using Lilo in text form, and that also
failed (repeatedly adding '99' to the top line on the screen. It also crashed
when I tried to
William Kenworthy wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:11 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch.
This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor.
Using the ipw220 (sony vaio), it generates a
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install.
If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll
take the computer back to the shop :-/
It seems to me that bios and grub have different
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 01:44 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Monday 30 October 2006 01:25, Iain Buchanan wrote:
the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag.
what aiglx flag?
$ equery u xorg-server | grep -i aiglx
$
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is top of the
hard drive order list, and I'm stumped.
Jeff
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From: Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 29, 2006 8:06 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems
On
On Monday 30 October 2006 02:43, Iain Buchanan wrote:
[SNIP]
By default equery only queries your installed packages (the specific
versions).
# equery -N u -a xorg-server | grep aiglx\\\|xorg-server
[ Searching for packages matching xorg-server... ]
[ Found these USE variables for
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is
top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped.
Jeff
Perhaps simplifying the environment might help diagnose the problem.
Have you considered
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:59 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:11 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch.
This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a
I can't remember - is grub trying to boot off the RAID? I found grub couldn't
handle my SCSI RAID and when I checked it was a known issue?
On Sunday October 29 2006 21:14, David Relson wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Jeff Cranmer wrote:
The Bios drive order appears
JC Denton wrote:
FATAL: Error inserting usbnet
(/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r9/kernel/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.ko): Invalid
module format
You need to boot the right kernel (the one you just compiled), or compile
usbnet against the running kernel.
Regards,
Norberto
pgpagXjLPJFor.pgp
I can't emerge -u esound. The following error:config.status: executing depfiles commandsEsound Configure Settings:Debugging support: nolibwrap support: yesLIBS=-lasound make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/esound-0.2.36-r2/work/esound-0.2.36'Making all in
On AD 2006 October 30 Monday 12:11:08 AM -0300, Paulo Roberto Candido dos
Santos wrote:
jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I would start by remerging app-text/opensp and see if that fixes this
error.
Justin
On AD 2006 October 29 Sunday 08:25:58 PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote:
On AD 2006 October 30 Monday 12:11:08 AM -0300, Paulo Roberto Candido dos
Santos wrote:
jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I would
I already remergedopensp.Itwon'twork.Remerging openjade solved the problem.The barbarian mode also works (ln -s libosp.so.5.0.0 libosp.so.4).Thanks!On 10/30/06,
Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On AD 2006 October 29 Sunday 08:25:58 PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: On AD 2006 October 30
On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, no prompt appears. It just hangs at the boot-up screen,
repeatedly adding 'GRUB' to the top line of text.
Hmm, GRUB isn't very informative. That particular string should
only be printed once when the stage1 loader (the part
2006/10/30, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The output of:
# equery check mozilla-firefox
[ Checking www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0 ]
* 3570 out of 3570 files good
# equery check mozilla-launcher
[ Checking www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.52 ]
* 3 out of 3 files good
?
Also does
On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote:
Dale ha scritto:
If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like
power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig
because of this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK.
Thanks a lot for the advice.
I have done some searches and cannot find anyone else with a problem
like me. Basically when ever I try to use the new flash beta it will
work for 1 to 10 minutes on various sites and then just stop. The
system does not hang the processor usage remains normal. Whatever I
was playing with the
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:51, Dale wrote:
I'm thinking you could make the capacitors on the high voltage side
MUCH larger so it would last longer. It would still have to be a
fast shutdown though. Something like shutdown -h -t -5 minutes ago.
LOL The only thing about that is charging
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