Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf
Help would appreciated.
Maybe because that is a Truetype font not a bitmap font.
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything
you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always
required
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need
to have an initrd (or
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both
do.
Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs).
Sshh!
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Gentoo it's easy to get away with not using an initramfs. Everything
is built from source and you roll your own kernel so we don't need to
jump through the boot time hoops that a binary distro must to be able
to support everything and boot.
You will always have a
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
I wasn't aware of ext2online.
Then forget it again. Resizing ext2/3 is done with resize2fs nowadays.
Bye...
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs).
Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that they
need an initrd or they'll all want
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Do you even need one?
Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a
laptop) also be encrypted.
Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs
for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root.
OTOH, if you put
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
[snip]
The only case I can think of that *requires* initramfs right now is
booting off a raid device
Strangely enough, I am currently booting from a software raid device,
so you don't need an initramfs for that either.
Hi,
Mick wrote:
On Monday 20 August 2007, James Ausmus wrote:
On 8/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was
probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally
friendly . . .
[snip...]
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o]
Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x]
Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
I wasn't aware of ext2online.
Then forget it again. Resizing ext2/3 is done with resize2fs
nowadays.
Oops, my bad.
It comes from not using ext2/3 on my own personal machines, and many
Alan McKinnon wrote:
You have software compiled in the kernel, not as a module the, right?
Correct.
A reduce might be a different case altogether. BUT, it's not an
especially different operation to a defrag on Windows, and I have yet
to see a Windows admin debate whether he should defrag
Daniel D Jones wrote:
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o]
Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x]
Error 2
On 9/4/07, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5
/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o]
Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/modules/fg
lrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/mo
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Do you even need one?
Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a
laptop) also be encrypted.
Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs
for LVM and the
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:19:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
emerged openoffice lately? :-)
It pretty much always fails if you have 5G in /var/tmp/portage. On a
laptop, that's 8% of my total disk space just sitting there free
waiting for the day I emerge openoffice again. Umounting /var to
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:14:12 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
OTOH, if you put /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and all the others on LVM, you
could just leave the root partition unencrypted, as it wouldn't contain
anything sensitive.
Apart from some contents of /etc.
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:44 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Anything special if I put the LVM over a software raid?
No, that's what I do. / is on a RAID-1 partition, then I have an LVM
physical volume on a RAID-5 partition for /usr, /home et al.
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I wonder how much deeper would the
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Could you give me a pointer?
Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is
part of e2fsprogs.
I actually meant e2fsprogs. Bad manual copy/paste operation.
But I was just looking for the
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. I have solved the problem for now, but live in fear that there
is something untoward going in on my hardware.
Quite possible. It can also be caused by misconfiguring kernel
drivers. I recently (accidently) selected the ATI agpart
I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the fact
that the server is pingable really doesn't provide useful information in
this particular case.
Have you tried if the servers they try to connect are reachable from
you? Just to be sure it's not their fault.
I can ping
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:25 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf
Have you compiled mplayer with truetype USE flag?
I have now :-).
thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the fact
that the server is pingable really doesn't provide useful information in
this particular case.
Have you tried if the servers they try to connect are reachable from
you? Just to be sure it's not
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was only trying out Amarok.
What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource
utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid.
audacious seems almost completely better to me
I suspect they
Hi,
I have here a problem.
I updated the shell bash today and the computer stalled while installing
bash so I was not able to reboot my PC.
I rebooted then from a rescue system and the bash was completely crashed
so I copied the bash from the rescue system.
Now I can boot my system again.
Now I
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:00:26 + (UTC), James wrote:
The ide disk setup is very simple:
Hello Everyone,
I feel, stupid. The answer was in the arcane bios settings.
I has to delete the bios harddrive entries and let
the bios auto discover the
I'd like to adjust the sound levels coming out of my computer in a
manner similar to an equalizer. I'm using a Sound Blaster Live and
alsamixer only has the standard bass/treble adjustment available. Is
there a way to get a more fine-grained control over the sound before
it hits the sound card?
070904 Matthias Fechner wrote:
I updated Bash-3.2_p17 and the computer stalled while installing it
so I was not able to reboot my PC.
I rebooted from a rescue system and copied Bash from there.
Now I can boot my system again.
Now I try to reinstall bash again but I get the following error
Hi Philip,
Philip Webb wrote:
The first thing to try what it says: run Ranlib.
However, it's not clear which library you need to run it on:
my system has no dir /lib/readline ;
I found the directory, it's:
/var/tmp/portage/app-shells/bash-3.2_p17/work/bash-3.2/lib/readline
But that should
Thank you. I noticed that when I ran make oldconfig on a new kernel, the
configs were not what I'd expected. The wrong CPU type was configured.
Alan
On 9/5/07, Don Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/3/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. I have solved the problem for
I reinstall now bash 3.1_p17 which works fine.
So it should be a bug in the bash-package 3.2_p15-r1?
Current stable version of bash is 3.2_p17! Maybe try this one.
3.2_p15-r1 is not in the tree anymore. Maybe you should sync your tree!
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I reinstall now bash 3.1_p17 which works fine.
So it should be a bug in the bash-package 3.2_p15-r1?
In your first message the portage output says version 3.2_p17 now you
write 3.2_p15-r1, which one is bugging you?
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Hello Daniel,
* Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-09-07 22:55]:
In your first message the portage output says version 3.2_p17 now you
write 3.2_p15-r1, which one is bugging you?
the bugging version is 3.2_p17.
I reinstalled now 3.1_p17 which works.
(regarding to eix 3.2_17 and 3.1_p17 are
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit
of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a regular
partition, everything
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
What you can't do, and to my knowledge no regular fs can do, is to
*reduce* a mounted partition
But who would want to do that? I always need *more*
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:33PM +0200, b.n. wrote
I use a SATA disk at home but they are not in IDE mode, AFAIK... it
shows up as /dev/sda - Can you explain me the difference? Is it needed
for some chipsets?
There are two different ways of doing things, and they require
different
· Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs).
You only need an initrd, if you wish to have / on LVM. But if you put
/ (incl. /boot) on a normal partition, there's no need at all for an
initrd.
Alexander
· Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, I haven't spent much time looking at rescue CDs, I have always
used Knoppix up to now and it has been good enough. I'll just check that
recent LVM tools are on it.
Knoppix is *NOT* a rescue disc! It lacks some essential tools, eg.
LVM stuff.
I recommend
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:08:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the
habit of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a
regular partition, everything else in
· Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit
of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on
sean wrote:
I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just stick
with that. I was only trying out Amarok.
That should have been without error.
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Dan Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400
I was only trying out Amarok.
What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource
utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid.
I thought it looked interesting, but much more then I really need.
Stable x86 just got a new apache server, and it's puzzling me.
For one thing, /etc/conf.d/apache2 now ends with this
# Environment variables to keep
# All environment variables are cleared from apache
# Use this to preserve some of them
# NOTE!!! It's very important that this contains PATH
#
Hi
I'm VERY new on GENTOO
I'm from Argentine, my english (and my spanish too), is very poor
I was using RedHat until 6.2, I allways made all configuration, compilation,
etc, etc by hand
I have scripts to install a complete RH 6.2 server with more than 1000 lines
Now, I'm trying to understand how
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