[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
abhay wrote: On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this being the boot partition. Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f":

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
I am by no means an expert on this subject, but any time you have an X server problem, you run "startx -- :1" from a shell. This starts the X server up on virtual terminal 8. The X server starts dumping out information, which might be helpful for diagnostics. -Pingveno sempsteen

[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
would be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. Weird. -Pingveno Grimaldy Soto wrote: I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main partition, if not you can use th

[gentoo-user] Re: Keeping /usr/portage/distfiles empty. Need the room. :/

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
Dale wrote: Hi all, I am putting Gentoo on a fairly small hard drive. I would like to clean out distfiles to save room. I would like to tell it to download the source file then delete it when the compile is finished. I looked in the make.conf.example but I didn't see anything that tells it to

[gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any tricks to con it into working? -Pingveno P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] distcc & LiveCD

2005-10-29 Thread Pingveno
er Debian or Gentoo with an old version of GCC. In both cases, there would inevitably be compilation problems. Is there a reasonably easy way for me to put together a LiveCD with the necessary software? -Pingveno P.S. Can the CD use RAM (512 MB) for its filesystem, or should I find a way to w

[gentoo-user] GRUB speed up

2005-10-03 Thread Pingveno
just old. Any optimization ideas out there? -Pingveno -- "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?" - The Dish of the Day serving itself at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe default=0 timeout=1 splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #tit

[gentoo-user] LiveCD distcc

2005-06-07 Thread Pingveno
I'm running two computers in my house, one 550 MHz Pentium 3 and one 3 GHz Pentium 4. The slow one is running Gentoo Linux, while the fast one is running Windows. I'd like to put together a LiveCD that can run distcc on the faster computer just via a reboot. There's a Knoppix mod with distcc, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] Zsh - Home, End, Delete

2005-06-06 Thread Pingveno
Gabriel Fernández wrote: >El Lun 06 Jun 2005 17:57, Pingveno escribió: > > >>In zsh, I'd like to use the "Home", "Delete" and "End" key to get to the >>beginning of a line, do forward delete, and get to the end of the line. >>However

[gentoo-user] Zsh - Home, End, Delete

2005-06-06 Thread Pingveno
In zsh, I'd like to use the "Home", "Delete" and "End" key to get to the beginning of a line, do forward delete, and get to the end of the line. However, I only see a "~" character entered. Any fix? -- Linux User #340304 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend

2005-05-27 Thread Pingveno
Pingveno wrote: I'm trying to get software suspend to work on my computer. While configuring my kernel, I added in support for software suspend aka hibernate. Alas, I have no idea what command to run to suspend the computer. gentoo-wiki.com has an article on software suspend 2, whi

[gentoo-user] Software suspend

2005-05-26 Thread Pingveno
a features from a new version of software suspend; I just want to get it to work. A full set of kernel sources would be rather undesirable, so I'd rather not going down that road. What would be the best plan of action? -Pingveno -- Linux User #340304 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wiki software

2005-05-24 Thread Pingveno
ul and flexible. The one real problem with the WYSIWYG editor is that it requires a component in the browser - a component only present in Gecko (aka Mozilla) and MSIE. If the browser doesn't have the component, happy HTMLing. www-zope has all the Zope software from that is in the Gentoo re

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread Pingveno
ion. It is powerful and excellently constructed. But to say maintenance and upgrading is easy is like saying Windows is as suitable as Unix/Linux in a server environment. It's just not true and realistic. -Pingveno Ryan Viljoen wrote: Hahah I get batted by my friends regularly about using Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

2005-05-17 Thread Pingveno
y to fail to open *anything*. mozilla-laucher sits in /usr/libexec, giving the error "unknown browser" when I attempt to launch it. I tried editing prefs.js, but Thunderbird reverted prefs.js to its previous state when I next started it up. -Pingveno -- Linux User #340304 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg and etcat deprecated?

2005-05-09 Thread Pingveno
neous, while equery size (a python program that directly uses the portage API) took several seconds. BTW, this was after one run of pkg-size to get all of the files cached in RAM, just for fairness. I love Python dearly, but it's annoyingly slow for some things. This is one of them. -Ping

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-08 Thread Pingveno
I don't have a suggestion, but I'm very sympathetic. I've always hated Apache configuration, it seems like a mass of well-hidden options without a robust gui designed to give web site admins a headache. :-) -Pingveno Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have spent a way too much time i