[gentoo-user-pl] Sabayon

2007-05-01 Thread brodata_vojovniczka
Z samą instalacją gentoo (tą graficzną, installer-gtk) nie dałem sobie rady (wysypywał błąd z kernelem). Niedługo pójdę po płytki dvd i zainstaluje sabayon linux (sabayonlinux.org) i przerobie go na gentoo (profil, kernel). dzieki wielkie za te polecenia! Pzdr. env -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread jdangler
Hi, all... I have a Dell Latitude D420. I used the minimal CD to install gentoo on this machine, and to date, have The OS running, along with X server emerged. The video (according to lspci) says it is Intel 945GM. I have found some articles detailing how this doesn't work with gentoo, but would

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Tue, 1 May 2007 15:27:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all... I have a Dell Latitude D420. I used the minimal CD to install gentoo on this machine, and to date, have The OS running, along with X server emerged. The video (according to lspci) says it is Intel 945GM. I have found some

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as a swap partition. True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to

[gentoo-user] xdm configuration changes

2007-05-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, This is what I updated yesterday and as a result my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 is no longer used to define the look of the xdm login screen. It seems that it is all defined in Xresources now? = Mon Apr 30 17:29:46 2007 sys-apps/ed-0.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Stuart Howard: I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :) Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. I shall consider it a lesson to

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 30 April 2007 10:56 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I'd like to let my system automatically back up every time I shutdown or reboot using KDE's menu entry with a simple script. However, it would be great to preserve a

Re: [gentoo-user] Add something to KDE's shutdown

2007-05-01 Thread galevsky
Another question: Which options are appropriate to mount my backup partition while executing the script: noexec,async,dev,rw ? Hi, default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. match your needs, but nouser : you have to know before if the users would launch your script on

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as a swap partition. True, but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDN world minus one package

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Jesse Adelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-05-01 14:08]: [...] Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past, I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant... You've grabbed the .ebuild for the version

[gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io scheduler deadline registered (default) I have tried booting with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDN world minus one package

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Jesse Adelman, Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past, I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant... Why? Overlays are for ebuilds not in the portage tree, and this ebuild is no

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: === Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote: As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order. I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send mail instead of my ISP's server.  Is this possible with the TLS/SSL encryption that Gmail uses? Sure. From /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM subsystem. The whole point of the swap partition is to simplify access to swapped pages and therefore make it very fast. that does not

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrew, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: === Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-05-01 Thread Dan Cowsill
Ah, thanks a bunch. That did the trick. On 5/1/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote: As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order. I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send mail instead of my ISP's server.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, btw, ghc could

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: True, but you're adding a layer (or more if you're using lvm) to the VM subsystem. The whole point of the swap partition is to simplify access to swapped pages

Re: [gentoo-user] strange equery result

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:03:23 maxim wexler wrote: On my way from updating from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernels decided to upgrade ati-drivers and went to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers for a refresher. It says to run equery to see that dloader use flag is off but this is what I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, I trust the kernel devs how said, that a swapfile in 2.6 should not be slower. should not is not the same as is not I better trust my own experiences... /dev/swap-device none swap sw 0 0 (Note mount-point is none.) you 'activate it', which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-05-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 1. Mai 2007, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: no, I trust the kernel devs how said, that a swapfile in 2.6 should not be slower. should not is not the same as is not I better trust my own experiences... and I mine - which showed me in the past, that both

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread David Snider
Roger Mason wrote: Hello Andrew, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === On Tuesday 01 May 2007, you wrote: === Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk,

[gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hy everybody, can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be located under

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Joshua Doll
Would ROOT= in the emerge command work? --Joshua Doll Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hy everybody, can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I thought about that too, but wouldn't that more or less create a new system. For instance if I emerged a library (say libpcap) with ROOT=/libs and then tried to emerge wireshark (which depends on libpcap) with ROOT=/analysis I think that wireshark

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDN world minus one package

2007-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Adelman wrote: Hi, all. I want to do an emerge -uDN world, mostly to update Xorg to the newest stable version. However, I have one package that I don't want to update, that being media-tv/mythtv. Now, the version of mythtv (and associated

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Cox
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:28:06PM +0200, Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hy everybody, can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 As far as I know there is no way to change the prefix via portage, since its all hardcoded (kinda makes me wonder why this was never added as a feature tho). Makes me wonder, too. I'm starting to think about writing a patch. It should be

[gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-01 Thread waltdnes
I apologize if this is a duplicate. I've just done a re-install and I don't think my first attempt got out. I tried Xubuntu on a 1999 Dell with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of ram. The install was excruciatingly slow, and once installed it was only painfully slow. So I went back to Gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 minimal CD boot problem

2007-05-01 Thread Roger Mason
David Snider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I'm trying to install gentoo on a Dell Dimension C521, which has an AMD Sempron 3400+ CPU. I downloaded and buned the AMD64 2006.1 minimal install disk, but when I try to boot from the CD it hangs, the last message being: io

RE: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread JD
Noven~ Thanks very much for the help! I got the kernel rebuilt and compiled, and used some of your xorg.conf suggestions. X comes up fine on the D240 now! I really appreciate your help with this. Jack -Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:06:43 JD wrote: Noven~ Thanks very much for the help! I got the kernel rebuilt and compiled, and used some of your xorg.conf suggestions. X comes up fine on the D240 now! I really appreciate your help with this. Excellent, glad to hear you got it working. FYI Beryl

RE: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420

2007-05-01 Thread JD
-Original Message- From: Novensiles divi Flamen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:59 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo user - D420 On Wed, 2 May 2007 08:06:43 JD wrote: Noven~ Thanks very much for the help! I got the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Spamassassin and sendmail

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:56 +0200, Jarry wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Can anyone tell me how to integrate sendmail and spamassassin? All my efforts till now have failed. Here's my info: baby ~ # emerge -pv sendmail spamassassin procmail I think you should emerge

[gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I have to start using WPA-PSK, to replace my plain old WEP :) because we've migrated at work. I use wpa_supplicant via /etc/conf.d/net; net.wlan0 is symlinked to net.lo; but the interface never comes up. wpa_supplicant.conf reads: network={ ssid=Xxxx scan_ssid=1 mode=0

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:28:06 Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be located under

[gentoo-user] Netboot questions

2007-05-01 Thread Dave Oxley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a EMT64 server that runs a mythtv backend as well as other things and a AMD64 mythtv frontend which has been running with its own hard disk and therefore install of Gentoo for sometime. I am looking at building another frontend without a disk

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Fabio A Correa
Hello Iain, and conf.d/net reads wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dndiswrapper Instead of this, you should use wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext the Linux wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while working along with ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper cannot manage encryption by itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Whats the purpose of this? To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Useless error messages from iptables-restore

2007-05-01 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote RTFM didn't find anything useful and I know the rules worked before. Help. For what it's worth, I'm running linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r7 on the Dell. I went and did it the hard way. I started by commenting out almost

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!

2007-05-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:45 -0500, Fabio A Correa wrote: Hello Iain, and conf.d/net reads wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dndiswrapper Instead of this, you should use wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext the Linux wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while working along with

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hi all, I'm having a heck of a time with the nvidia-drivers on my new Dell Inspiron M1710. I can install the driver, but when the laptop is booting, the font doesn't resize - something do do with the framebuffer, but I don't know how to correct it - I've followed the nvidia Guide from the