[gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-03 Thread James
Daniel Iliev ilievnet.com> writes: > > Close. You can't use win32codecs on amd64 at all, unless you are > > using a 32 bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC > > cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit > > binary and put it in the tree. > Additionally:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread b.n.
Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. ha scritto: > Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel? Basically, when you need to. I lived with 2.6.16 until two weeks ago, and before 2.6.16 I lived with 2.6.12 much longer. If you don't feel the need of a new kernel, I don't see any reason to upgrade. I usually upgrade when s

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition? [SOLVED]

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 19:44 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:29:39 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know why the > > module names were changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19? > > the developers probably do. anyway, you should make it a practice t

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition? [SOLVED]

2007-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:29:39 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why the > module names were changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19? the developers probably do. anyway, you should make it a practice to use make oldconfig probably as it's the reason the developers feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.
Due to this issue, Why someone have to upgrade his kernel from .18 to .19, there are IMPORTANT reazon to do that? I'm not computer professional, Gentoo is just a hobby for me, as well as my desktop and laptop computer and also Gentoo never stop to works without a clear reason as done by WINDOW$,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Neil Walker
Joe Menola wrote: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. That is totally untrue . :( All of my machines are using kernel 2.6.19 and they all see the hard disks as /dev/hdx apart from the one that is actually using SATA. Neil -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody Know x86 Assembler?

2007-02-03 Thread Pierre-Yves Rofes
Neil Hodges a écrit : > Hello, > > Does anybody know x86 assember? The following code is in a kernel > source file, and GCC fails to build it, saying "invalid operands to > 'mov'". What's wrong with it? > > - Neil > > Code: > > asm volatile ("movl %%fs,%0":"=m" (*(int *) &m.fs)); > asm volatile

Re: [gentoo-user] scp login but confine the user to his home directory?

2007-02-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/2/07, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/2/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I'm wondering if it is possible and/or advisable to set up an > account where a user can scp files in and out of his home directory > using scp but if he logs into the machine using ssh he

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Ben Kelly
Michael Sullivan wrote: I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5 zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 genkernel all After

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Graham Murray
Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx > including ide. But only if you configure it so that libata handles the ide drives. I believe that the default is to have pata handled by the IDE drivers and sata by libata -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry

2007-02-03 Thread Shawn Singh
Dan, The cable checked out. I used it to hookup my work laptop with the other laptop I was using as my client, and was able to ping each host. The fact that I had no link made me curious ... and I realized it made user error ... I was "SURE" that I verified the NIC I was plugging into was eth1, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:20 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used > > genkernel. I followed these steps: > > In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning.  I used > genkernel.  I followed these steps: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some othe

[gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5 zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 genkernel all After it successfully built, I

[gentoo-user] Re: deleted ._cfg files

2007-02-03 Thread Kamen TOMOV
On събота, Февруари 03 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:08:01 Kamen TOMOV wrote: >> I accedentally deleted a few ._cfg files. Is there a way to get them >> back? I tryed preinstalling the corresponding packages but with no >> avail. > > You probably need to about -

Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:40:20PM +1000, Richard Watson wrote: > Do you have your dns configuration correct? > >please check you /etc/resolv.conf file. Does your DHCP server send > >nameserver to the client? > > Thanks for your reply. When the interface is up /etc/resolv.conf has a name > change

[gentoo-user] Re: Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread reader
"Richard Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 > nameserver 61.9.208.14 > nameserver 61.9.208.15 > > Which is the primary and secondary DNS on my cable modem for > Telstra. So I guess the DHCP server is sending the nameserver > info. Still no go ... Can yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:26:22 +0300, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi - After a last emerge --sync I've been having trouble accessing the internet. My network interface comes up OK. I receive an address for the DHCP server (i.e. "eth1 received address 192.168.0.7/24") and I can s

Re: [gentoo-user] Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread Richard Watson
Do you have your dns configuration correct? please check you /etc/resolv.conf file. Does your DHCP server send nameserver to the client? Thanks for your reply. When the interface is up /etc/resolv.conf has a name change to /etc/resolve.conf-eth2.sv and contains the following: # Generated by

[gentoo-user] Re: "Emacs" installed but GUI is of XXL size :-(

2007-02-03 Thread reader
arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hai all, > > i have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.1. i have installed Emacs. > everything is fine but Emacs's size is TOO BIG. Emacs tool bar is of > XXL size, its menu is of XXL size. > > what is wrong? Sounds like your desktop resolution is too low. Or

[gentoo-user] Re: Network works OK internally but can't access Internet - very frustrated

2007-02-03 Thread reader
"Richard Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi - After a last emerge --sync I've been having trouble accessing > the internet. My network interface comes up OK. I receive an address > for the DHCP server (i.e. "eth1 received address 192.168.0.7/24") > and I can see and access my Intranet webpag

Re: [gentoo-user] deleted ._cfg files

2007-02-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:08:01 Kamen TOMOV wrote: > I accedentally deleted a few ._cfg files. Is there a way to get them > back? I tryed preinstalling the corresponding packages but with no > avail. You probably need to about --noconfmem in `man emerge`. -- Bo Andresen pgpqw0iRpKuOT.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] deleted ._cfg files

2007-02-03 Thread Jakob Buchgraber
Kamen TOMOV wrote: Hi, I accedentally deleted a few ._cfg files. Is there a way to get them back? I tryed preinstalling the corresponding packages but with no avail. Thanks! Try: emerge --unmerge && emerge If this doesn't work just unmerge the package delete the corresponding /etc dir

[gentoo-user] deleted ._cfg files

2007-02-03 Thread Kamen TOMOV
Hi, I accedentally deleted a few ._cfg files. Is there a way to get them back? I tryed preinstalling the corresponding packages but with no avail. Thanks! -- Камен -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] audio: can hear sound from line/mic but cannot record it

2007-02-03 Thread b.n.
b.n. ha scritto: > Hi, > I have an odd problem with audio recording. > > When I plug my guitar to the line in/mic in, it plays. I can hear the > sound fine. So the input device seems to work correctly. > > But when I try to *record*, no matter the application (audacity, rezound, > arecord) the ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups and -collision-protect

2007-02-03 Thread Mick
On Friday 02 February 2007 00:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:28:20 Mick wrote: > > Updated cups to 1.2.6 and the ebuild told me to run: > > [SNIP] > > > # FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge -va1 > > $(qfile -qC /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups | sed "s:net-print/cups$::") >

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating gentoo to a new machine

2007-02-03 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello, On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: > Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm > currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I > build another gentoo system where everything were smooth and I di

[gentoo-user] Migrating gentoo to a new machine

2007-02-03 Thread Seo Boon, NG
Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I build another gentoo system where everything were smooth and I did a emerge world/systems to get everything update. Now the question is - ho

[gentoo-user] "Emacs" installed but GUI is of XXL size :-(

2007-02-03 Thread arnuld
hai all, i have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.1. i have installed Emacs. everything is fine but Emacs's size is TOO BIG. Emacs tool bar is of XXL size, its menu is of XXL size. what is wrong? -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ Linux registered user #439610 http://counter.li.org/ -- gentoo-us