Re: [gentoo-user] why my screen on book computer is too small?

2005-04-15 Thread steven pan
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to find your laptop model On 4/14/05, :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI; I use the HP omin book to install the gentoo linux; when I use the console in the system, the console's only the 600*480; I want the change the console to the whool screen(1024*768); of course

[gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Watson
I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it crashing on Windows 98 ... Does anyone have any tips that I should consider that are not in the Gentoo Install instructions. I've run up a few servers with Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-15 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
mudrii wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Pupeno wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:10:11 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm contemplating installing Gentoo on a 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with | a Belkin Wireless card in the PCMCIA Card slot. I'm sick of it | crashing on Windows 98 ... | | Does anyone have any tips that I should consider

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-15 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:09:29PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any info about this. What address have you used? I want to subscribe here but get no

RE: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Watson
-Original Message- From: Ciaran McCreesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 4:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad with Belkin Wireless On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:10:11 +1000 Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm

[gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

2005-04-15 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
I send this message yesterday but don't seem to have received my own message or a reply so sending again in case something went wrong. The message in the Subject doesn't happen if I login as root but I can't figure out where the permission problem lies. Nelis -- Forwarded message

[gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

2005-04-15 Thread Qiangning Hong
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Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

2005-04-15 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Every time I open up a terminal(gnome-terminal or xterm) I get the message above. I've read up on the profile changes and made the change which I think is correct: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 8 08:39 /etc/make.profile -

[gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Sorry if this is SPAM to some. This article was written for the newest Free Online Magazine called MyOSS Magazine. Written by Me and reviewed by Nigel Cunningham. Feel free to download and distribute. :-) Suspending with Software Suspend 2 Learn about the successor to the linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 14 avril 2005 à 15:17 -0400, Trey Gruel a écrit : On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: kernel-2.6.11.4 plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? possibly not. the gentoo-sources package has its own

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-15 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:50:30 -0400 Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there | any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD | and install

[gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help) Fred -- Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frédéric Grosshans wrote: The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Anyone knows how to avoid this ? (My kernel is a 2.6.11-r6 gentoo-sources kernel, if that can help)

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread William Kenworthy
also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it will write correct drift and adjustment values. BilkK On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 13:51 +0200, Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerge

2005-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:08:31 +0900, mudrii wrote: Is there any way to resume emerging ? I have a workstation which spent about 5 hours compiling OpenOffice and I had to turn it off, I'd like to continue building it (that's the idea behind make and incremental building, isn't it?). Is

[gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Roberts
I just installed my first off-board video card, an Asus N6600GT. Followed the nvidia guide, it worked like a champ under kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5. Got a gazillion frames per second. Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. Says me, I'll just go through the steps

[gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to work. It seems to be

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers. The installation process builds and installs kernel modules under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/... So under r5 it can find the modules,

[gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

2005-04-15 Thread fire-eyes
How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand kde is a meta package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it would). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread rodrigo
El 15/04/05 13:17:21, Bill Roberts escribió: I just installed my first off-board video card, an Asus N6600GT. Followed the nvidia guide, it worked like a champ under kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5. Got a gazillion frames per second. Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid

Re: [gentoo-user] Umerge All Versions of KDE

2005-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:56:21 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: How do I unmerge all versions of KDE? I understand kde is a meta package, so emerge -C kde isn't going to do this (though I sure wish it would). emerge -C kde emerge depclean -p emerge depclean Should do it, just make sure you verify the

[gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
I got the alsa sound set up right (I think) and now I turn my attention toward support for my Mitsumi Optical wheel mouse. I never had a problem with it before the past two days' install. I ran X -configure and got a configuration file: xorg.conf.new: baby root # cat xorg.conf.new Section

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-15 Thread Robert G. Hays
Frédéric, Working fast here to get to other things I need to finish... Thank you very much for the additional clarity hee -- I may have to try a vanilla to see how tht works, and thn apply the patches forward until it re-breaks. Thank you!, rgh. Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 14 avril 2005

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers. Only the kernel part of the nvidia packages. You need to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

2005-04-15 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Michael Sullivan wrote: I had to reinstall Windows the other day and it accidently wiped out my Linux partitions (lucky for backups!). I decided that I would make a Gentoo 2005.0 LiveCD and reinstall Gentoo from there. For a long time I've wanted to use a 2.6 kernel, but I could never get it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

2005-04-15 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be marked stable on x86? TIA, I don't know about being marked stable, but I emerged KDE 3.4 the very next day it was released and apart from the Kopete crash after exit, everything was awesome :) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-15 Thread Robert G. Hays
inlining... Oh, If you have sata, I do not speak SATA yet; so in that case my advice might be deprecated... J.I.C.! Tom Moyer wrote: my dvd drive is only like 2 monthes old. It is a Memorex Dual Layer DVD+/- RW I think it is fairly fast. I guess now I'm just wondering would it be worth my

RE: [gentoo-user] What's with the runlevels?

2005-04-15 Thread Dave Nebinger
Anyways, the question is, how do I make xdm start in runlevel 5 and not in runlevel 3? I can't even init 3 to exit the X server. I did Your /etc/inittab file probably has runlevels 3 5 mapped to default. Create a new directory in /etc/runlevels named console. Do the rc-update to install

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf issue [SOLVED]

2005-04-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
It was actually /dev/input/mouse0, but I found it and now the mouse works right. Thanks for your help! :) On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:59 +0200, Cyrille Damez wrote: I guess the problem is the last line of this section: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip (udev?) question

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Richard, Thanks for the response. Yes, xine works fine. I just start xine and then choose DVD from the gui. Up pops the movie's menu and off I go. No problems at all. On the other hand dvdrip is struggling a bit. I may be usign it incorrectly for all I know. I'm just

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I send this message yesterday but don't seem to have received my own message or a reply so sending again in case something went wrong. The message in the Subject doesn't happen if I login as root but I can't figure out where the permission problem lies. Nelis --

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 20:16 +0800, William Kenworthy a écrit : also worth trying: stop ntp or whatever time sync program you are using, then delete /etc/adjtime and /etc/ntp.drift (or whatever the drift is) Then run ntp, leaving it to run for a few hours so it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia newbie

2005-04-15 Thread Edward Catmur
On 15:39 Fri 15 Apr , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Upgraded the kernel to r6. No joy, X won't start, can't find valid module. After upgrading a kernel you need to boot into console mode and reinstall the drivers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up alsa

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
Michael Sullivan wrote: The Gentoo Alsa Guide recommended installing alsa-driver even when using a 2.6 kernel: we still recommend that you use media-sound/alsa-driver as they are more up to date than what is provided in the kernel tree. FWIW, I'm using the in-kernel alsa drivers without any

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Fish
... all gento x.org/opengl users are afflicted, or is just us KDE users who are so lucky... Believe it or not folks, English *is* my native language! Sorry for the disconnect between my brain and my keyboard. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] partition resizing problem

2005-04-15 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, Well.. Last night I attempted to resize a few partitions from my Suse install to make room for Gentoo. I booted off a Knoppix CD, ran qtparted to resize /dev/hda2 (/boot, it wasn't mounted), and rebooted to do some other work. Didn't boot. Instead brought me to a grub prompt

[gentoo-user] Is gentoo-laptop list still working?

2005-04-15 Thread Rob
I haven't gotten any posts in a long time. Trying to post myself doesn't seem to work either. But I get no error messages. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable kde 3.4.0

2005-04-15 Thread Robert Persson
On April 15, 2005 07:57 am, quoth Mrugesh Karnik: Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if there is an estimate of when kde 3.4.0 will be marked stable on x86? TIA, I don't know about being marked stable, but I emerged KDE 3.4 the very next day it was released and apart from

Re: [gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

2005-04-15 Thread YoYo Siska
Qiangning Hong wrote: I have a file with special permission requirement. I want user1 and user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not access it. How to set the permission bits? No ACL support. undoable with standard acces rights in linux :( you could create a

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing problem

2005-04-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:17:43PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: I don't know how painless these are...it will depend on your level of comfort with grub and disaster recovery from Knoppix, but my suggestions are: 1. If you can set the partition table back _exactly_ as it was before (don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-15 Thread Antonio Coralles
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sytem time of my computer drifts by roughly 5 min per day, while the hwclock stays at the correct time. Maybe you should look at this:

[gentoo-user] Configuring Belkin 802.11b / F506020 Wirelesss Card

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi .. I'm installing Gentoo on a IBM laptop with a PCMCIA Belkin 802.11b F506020 card. The LiveCD boots straight up and sees it after I run # net-setup wlan0 However I can't seem to figure out how to get the card to run now that I have a bootable system. I installed: # sys-apps/pcmcia-cs #