Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: I know this is a long shot, and not many people run diskless hosts. I have one with kind of a loud fan that uses a lot of energy - it's a pentium 4 in a slimline case and it runs pretty hot, so I can't adjust the fan speed based on temperature,

Re: [solved] Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama on 945GM: Set VBE mode failed

2007-05-24 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007 18:08 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Have you tried booting (with the device plugged in) into single user mode, then trying to convince the system to use the built in screen as the default device (fn-f7 on my machine), and finally exiting the single user shell to go

[gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would be the most relevant gcc optimization for

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/24/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? This from the GCC website about 4.2.0 release changes: IA-32/x86-64 * -mtune=generic can now be used to

[gentoo-user] Re: which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? In the kernel: Yes. At least in 2.6.21. And is there explicit support in the latest gentoo kernel for Core 2 Duo, or does it go under Pentium 4 family? I'd say, it

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:30 -0400, Denis wrote: After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona' flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it? Yes. We don't have gcc-4.2.0 in our portage available

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the devs consider it suitable for at least the testing branch or when you do echo =sys-devel/gcc-4.2* /etc/portage/package.mask, whichever comes sooner. Even that will not work (yet) as gcc-4.2 is not actually masked it is not keyworded. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bear in mind that GCC is almost certainly masked for good reason. It's not like you're using a binary distro and only need a compiler for a few packages. Feel free to try it in the knowledge that if it breaks your system, you get to keep the

[gentoo-user] OT - Disabling hidden file view in GNOME dialog boxes

2007-05-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
Whenever I try to Open/Save in GNOME, it pulls up a dialog box that lists hidden files as well as visible files. Those hidden files are hidden for a reason, the reason being that I did not consciously create them, so I should not have to wade through them in order to get to my files. How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Disabling hidden file view in GNOME dialog boxes

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:22:46 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Whenever I try to Open/Save in GNOME, it pulls up a dialog box that lists hidden files as well as visible files. Those hidden files are hidden for a reason, the reason being that I did not consciously create them, so I should not

[gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Thiago Lüttig
hi folks ! My gentoo desktop needed to be reinstaled this week, and i did it :) well, all compiled, without a single error, kernel 2.6.20-r8 installed, ok. when i start my kde, it hangs, showing only the X window with mouse cursor, when i return to the terminal, i got some messages refering to

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007, Thiago Lüttig wrote: hi folks ! My gentoo desktop needed to be reinstaled this week, and i did it :) well, all compiled, without a single error, kernel 2.6.20-r8 installed, ok. when i start my kde, it hangs, showing only the X window with mouse cursor, when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Error starting kde with kernels above 2.6.18

2007-05-24 Thread Fabio A Correa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Thiago, Thiago Lüttig wrote: saying, it cannot contact DCop Server or connect to the X server. I Could you please post the messages the console printed? Have you tried to startx as another user? As root? Could you please attach

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:05:14 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:23 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know swapon doesn't work on regular files, so to add my swap I need to first use losetup to set up /dev/loop0 as my swap device.

[gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. My question concerns sharing some directories between the two (naturally only one is active at a time). In particular can I share * distfiles (DISTDIR) * logs

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:56:30 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, for what it's worth, Your entire post seems half-assed, and I think you need to think it through carefully: 1. What are you *actually* trying to do? Seems like the fan is loud, so a) replace the fan with a

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. My question concerns sharing some directories between the two (naturally only one is active at a time). In

Re: [gentoo-user] two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:14:53PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote Hi group, I connect to the web using $sudo /usr/sbin/pon isp on one machine(2.6.20-gentoo-r6). On another machine(2.6.19-gentoo-r5), I get :sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied. Is picky a member of both

[gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick install guide. Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick install guide. Here's the error I get at boot

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because there isn't an amd64 version available). Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see? maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support? I wanted to attach a dmesg output but I don't know how where I can extract it. It's a fresh install, and the only way I can boot right now is with the Gentoo CD... The file

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Will Briggs
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. I assume you've checked whether it is 64-bit compatible. Not all Core 2 Duo's in 6400's are. I have a T2400 processor in my 6400 which

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread david
What make and model motherboard? Did you set the clock with date? Did you cp your zone information? -- Powered by Gentoo/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I

[gentoo-user] Problem with keyboard in XFCE and Fluxbox

2007-05-24 Thread gosha-necr
Hi all! I have a problem with symbol 'vertical-line' (now i'm in fluxbox session,and cannot insert it :)) In gnome or plain console (tty1..6) all works fine, keyboard works without any problem, but in XFCE and Fluxbox i have a problem.. in quake3 keys a,w,s,d not working... vertical line not

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/24/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
Device Drivers: Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --- one below scsi, two below ide. Yes, I combed through that and set all the necessary options there before, so I doubt this is the problem... I've just reconfigured the kernel and recompiled it on another fresh

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
SOLVED. I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I didn't bother with some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-24 Thread maxim wexler
Is picky a member of both users and wheel? Yes Does picky's machine run PAM? PAM has additional config files to control Yes, and /etc/pam.d/sudo is identical on both machines Also permissions under /usr/bin/sudo are identical on both machines: ---s--x--x. As are all other bin and sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: SOLVED. I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I didn't bother

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft laying around in there. In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more painful to fix because I had to go through the

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft laying around in there. In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more painful to fix because I had to go through the procedures twice and

[gentoo-user] Problem configuring ppp forpppoe

2007-05-24 Thread John covici
Hi. I am having difficulty configuring ppp to use pppoe. A kernel module pppoe and pppox are loaded, but I get the following error from pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd unknown option eth2 Now eth2 is what I have in the link_ppp0 line in the /etc/conf.d/net Any assistance would be appreciated. Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-24 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Will Briggs wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a core 2 duo (dell 6400), which is currently running x86. I am thinking of setting up another partition and dual booting amd64. Not all Core 2 Duo's in 6400's are. I have a T2400 processor in my 6400 which is not em64t enabled. Not