Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:21:01 +0100, Thufir wrote: I was just perusing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabayon_Linux, which seems interesting, as it uses anaconda, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda, during the install. Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote: cp arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage /boot ?? No OR cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot ?? No Afterwards shall I run; # make install Yes. This will install the correct kernel to the correct location. # make modules_install I

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 01:46, Stephen Liu napisał: Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users... Correct sequence for kernel generation/update is: Go to your new kernel directory and first get your running kernel config (if you enabled this in previous kernel): #

[gentoo-user] kernel config for laptop

2006-09-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Used my desktop kernel-config as a base for a laptop config. Quite all is OK, except console/text-mode scrolling. The text scrolls till the end of screen then scrolls only on the last line. No such problems under X. Any hints will be appreciated. Haven't looked very much in kernel-config, just

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 September 2006 08:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire operating system from source code, the initial install is made using pre-compiled binary packages. How is this different from a standard Gentoo install? I presume

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Pawel, Tks for your advice. Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users... Oh, sorry. I did not recognise that after changing to yahoo mail beta. Now I enabled Compose messages as plain text. Please advise me if

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire operating system from source code, the initial install is made using pre-compiled binary packages. How is this different from a standard Gentoo install? I presume

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:51, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net? I have tried this and it does NOT work. I'm afraid it gives nothing! It sounds like dns_domain is not set. Considering that I have tried it ... I know it not

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Mick Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On. Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo. Would it be better? Tks Remarks: This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change it back to its previous version. Tks B.R. SL --

Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire operating system from source code, the initial install is made using pre-compiled binary packages. How is

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:35, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Mick Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On. Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo. Would it be better? Tks Remarks: This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change it back

[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a Search form which displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with Konqueror and there

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:30, Jorge Almeida wrote: When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a Search form which displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such information is kept? I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page. You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to: Edit-Preferences-Privacy-Saved Forms OK, thank you. Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions : 1 answered

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060923 Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18 -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- , but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer. (1) I used 'make xconfig' it didn't show me the 'PPP' option: when I used find from the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Cannot delete symlinks which point to folders on a different filesystem

2006-09-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 23 September 2006 14:26, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! I'm having a problem with Nautilus from Gnome 2.16 (I also had this with 2.14.x). On my Desktop folder, I've got a symlink: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ ls -la `pwd`/Bilder lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexander alexander 20 23. Sep 16:07

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Remy Blank
Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing Shfit-Delete. Not user-friendly, but still quite useful. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Remy Blank wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing Shfit-Delete. Thanks. Not user-friendly, but still quite useful. Not

[gentoo-user] Re: sabayon

2006-09-24 Thread Thufir
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:47:11 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote: Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire operating system from source code, the initial install is made using

Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

2006-09-24 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 11:51, Stephen Liu napisał: I'm suffering poweroff problem, on exiting System halted but not poweroff. First of all - you may try the installation CD of Gentoo - boot it and give 'halt -p' at command prompt. If it switches off, that means error in your

[gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry McBride
Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation. Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that explains the new

[gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

2006-09-24 Thread Sergio Polini
I need your help ;-) I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-( My configuration: HP dv5078EA (laptop) Gentoo AMD64 Kernel 2.6.12-r10 in /usr/src/linux/.config: CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m # CONFIG_DRM is not set output of

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

2006-09-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/24/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # CONFIG_DRM is not set If you want DRI, you have two choices: 1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver. For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in your kernel configuration. This doesn't work

[gentoo-user] qmail and spamassassin

2006-09-24 Thread henkg
Hello, I am trying to install spamassassin in my qmail system. I followed the instructions in the gentoo docs, so installed spamassassin followed by qmail-scanner. I added an export line to conf-common and checked qmail-scanner-queue.pl and restarted svscan. Simple messages are processed

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

2006-09-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation. Would anyone happen to

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:33, Sergio Polini wrote: I need your help ;-) I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-( --snip-- Any hints? Thanks Sergio Which kernel? Here, running 2.6.18, I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed sufficiently with 2.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

2006-09-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 25 September 2006 01:34, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote: Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work

[gentoo-user] Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

2006-09-24 Thread Lord Sauron
I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some replacement ones. I think that by setting

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since some forms I might want to keep. There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

2006-09-24 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote: I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? yes I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the DHCP host gives are wrong and are very

[gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, written any files to it since the unfortunate accident. The tool I used to create the xfs

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

2006-09-24 Thread Nick Rout
the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the e in resolv !) On 9/25/2006, Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote: I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this exactly... Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated? yes

[gentoo-user] rsync locks up and doesn't continue

2006-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I have a script that downloads my distfiles from machines on our LAN before going over the internet. It uses rsync over ssh to get files locally, then defaults to wget for internet downloads. The command line is basically this: /usr/bin/rsync -avzP --password-file=filename

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 17:47 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware, written any files to it since the

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 2 . In fact, I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in /etc/inittab . Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X

[gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

2006-09-24 Thread Christopher Granade
I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the following during compiling: WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no

[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
Resuming Nvidia with modular X proved to be easy using the Guide, which anyway agrees to my home-made help file from previous occasions. The ~x86 driver pkg 8774 offered no difficulties with kernel 2.6.18 , except that I had to add a line to xorg.conf : Section Monitor ... DisplaySize 280

Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

2006-09-24 Thread Philip Webb
060924 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns, Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session, so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key. -- lots of interesting

[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

2006-09-24 Thread Harm Geerts
On Monday 25 September 2006 02:50, Nick Rout wrote: the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the e in resolv !) Good catch, I missed that :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

2006-09-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 25 September 2006 04:49, Christopher Granade wrote: I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the following during compiling: WARNING: Symbol version dump

[gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-24 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Gentoo_amd64 My ISP tried to block their unwellcome sites on the proxy server, I suppose, disallowing their subscribers visiting them. The blocked sites can be visited locally or abroad without problem via other ISPs OR via www.proxydom.com by me. I tried to verify my suspicion

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
Stephen Liu wrote: [...] $ sudo emerge -av bind-tools -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

2006-09-24 Thread Thomas Kear
On Monday 25 September 2006 4:40 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: Please advise which package shall I installed? $ equery belongs `which dig` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ] net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig) Hope that helps pgpVFUvb4Q0aU.pgp Description: PGP signature