Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-03 Thread Tim
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to >> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, >> from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well >> al

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)

2008-05-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc Thanks. Thanks. Thanks!!! BTW, nice handbook. After 6 years, clean boot in the first try. Gentoo's Docs rocks! This message was sent using IM

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)

2008-05-03 Thread deface
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 02:18 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hello list, > > since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing > Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six > years!! > > So. I have two othe

[gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)

2008-05-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six years!! So. I have two other boxes (Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD X2 3800+) that also run Gentoo (x86) and I would like to use them as distcc hos

[gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
I've never done this before so it seems like right now would be a great time to learn. Thanks in advance. I've just done this installation on my laptop. For the most part it's working fine. Still a few things to iron out but it's good enough that I'd like to save the state of the machine so that s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Philip Webb
080503 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: >> On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: >>> In my case, it isn't kdm.log , as I don't have Kdm installed >>> (I use 'startx' from a raw command-line after booting). >>> One way to find out more would be to file a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Sunday 04 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: === > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: > > > > > > Too bloody smart for it's own good > > > > yeah. > > > > i can't burn

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Thanks. Unfortunately I'm not using 4.2, but 4.1 http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-devel/gcc 4.2 is in testing for amd64. 2008/5/3, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > > Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. > > > > Yes, as long as you

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:37:21PM -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: > Is hdd a hard drive, dvd-rom drive, etc.? If it's a hard drive, > do you have media in the dvd drive when this "polling" occurs? Is hdd a hard drive, dvd-rom drive, etc.? If it's a *dvd-rom drive, do you have media in the dvd dri

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:05:08PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > === On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls > > hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to > > config? > > Sorry, in

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > === On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody > > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what > > to config? > > Sorry, in spite of multipl

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls > hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to > config? Sorry, in spite of multiple answers I still don't know how to disable the polling :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: > > > > Too bloody smart for it's own good > > yeah. > > i can't burn dvd/cd anymore thanks to hal. Every couple of seconds > ano

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody > > > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what > >

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody > > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what > > to config? > > hal Seems like hal is getting like it'

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 4.2 seems right.  4.1.2 is the newest version that is _not_ > > experimental for x86 and/or amd64.  4.1.2 doesn't support > > march=native.  So the choice seems to be go experimental or wait > > :-< > > what is the problem? native or k8, what

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100 > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > > > David Relson wrote: > > > > > > ...[snip]... > > > > > > > As part of identifying the capabilities and

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:03 +0100 > > Neil Walker wrote: > > Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > > Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. > > > > Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has > > support for it. I

[gentoo-user] Marvell Topdog Wireless Card?

2008-05-03 Thread Les Henderson
Following instructions I found on the web: # lspci -nn 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device [11ab:2a08] (rev 03) # ndiswrapper -i NetMW14x.inf driver netmw14x is already installed # ndiswrapper -a 11ab:2a08 netmw14x driver 'netmw14x' is not installed (pr

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > > David Relson wrote: > > > > ...[snip]... > > > > > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your > > > operating system (distro) ./configure creat

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:03 +0100 Neil Walker wrote: > Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > > Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. > > Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has > support for it. I think it came in with gcc 4.2. 4.2 seems right. 4.1.2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On 19:31 Sat 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls > hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? You may want to check the output of dmesg and whatever log files you may have in /var/log/. lshal may

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Neil Walker
Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has support for it. I think it came in with gcc 4.2. (sorry for my bad english :) Your English seems fine to me - better than some native E

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls > hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-03 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > That surprises me Neil. It seems more 'automatic' than a nuts & bolt > > guy such as you might choose. > > > > > > Well, it seems to do a pretty good job and, with 14 machines with a mix of > Intel an

[gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote: > I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to > be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, > from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well > alone, as it is business critic

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Abraham Gyorgy
Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. (sorry for my bad english :) 2008/5/3, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? > > > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" > > CXXFLAGS="-O2 -marc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > > 080419 Volker Armin Hemmann & Mick discussed: > > M> a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time > > M> to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. > > VAH> lsof & grep can tell you which files are access

Re: [gentoo-user] xen+kvm+win2k problem

2008-05-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:19 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm trying to install win2k on xen w/ hw-virtualization. > The vm boots into the installer and tells it collects some > system information - from that point on it hangs. > > One point I already figured out is I forgot to

[gentoo-user] xen+kvm+win2k problem

2008-05-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm trying to install win2k on xen w/ hw-virtualization. The vm boots into the installer and tells it collects some system information - from that point on it hangs. One point I already figured out is I forgot to include the tap/tun device in the kernel. I fixed this, but it still did

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > David Relson wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your > > operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small > > programs and compiles them. I can see how cac

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

2008-05-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > 080419 Volker Armin Hemmann & Mick discussed: > M> a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time > M> to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. > VAH> lsof & grep can tell you which files are accessed. > VAH> Maybe it takes a looong time writing

Re: [gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Henry Gebhardt wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they > > change daily. To update e17, one must checkout and rebuild > > everything as portage has no way of kn

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
Gavin Seddon wrote: Max wrote: Hi, That doesn't sound too bad. How you test the cam? cu Max On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 11:43 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi It's nearly there I get 'lsmod Module Size Used by uvcvideo 40580 0 compat_ioctl32 1536 1 uvcvide

[gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your operating > system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small programs and > compiles them. I can see how caching compilation info would help with > this. I ran a quic

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
Max wrote: Hi, That doesn't sound too bad. How you test the cam? cu Max On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 11:43 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi It's nearly there I get 'lsmod Module Size Used by uvcvideo 40580 0 compat_ioctl32 1536 1 uvcvideo videodev

[gentoo-user] [OT] Virtualbox-ing existing WinXP

2008-05-03 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well alone, as it is business critical. I have read the Virtualbox documentatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Henry Gebhardt
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they change > daily. To update e17, one must checkout and rebuild everything as > portage has no way of knowing what must be updated. So I have a script > with

[gentoo-user] Force an ebuild in DEPEND to be merged

2008-05-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Is there a way to force a package *directly*listed* in DEPEND to be re-merged, regardless of whether it is already installed, up to date or not? i.e. if a DEPENDS on b, then 'emerge a' will actually run 'emerge b a' Reason: I use cvs-e17 and all ebuilds have version - but they cha

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-03 Thread Max
Hi, That doesn't sound too bad. How you test the cam? cu Max On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 11:43 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi > It's nearly there > I get > 'lsmod > Module Size Used by > uvcvideo 40580 0 > compat_ioctl32 1536 1 uvcvideo > videodev

[gentoo-user] webcam

2008-05-03 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi It's nearly there I get 'lsmod Module Size Used by uvcvideo 40580 0 compat_ioctl32 1536 1 uvcvideo videodev 27520 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat12036 2 uvcvideo,videodev extreme video # lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs??? > *rofl* The point is: the way autoconf does its 'checks' is completely insane - beginning with the expectation that an dumb script is more clever than an operator ;-o I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2008, at 18:52, Michael Higgins wrote: ... I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub & that's it? '-) See also Mark Knecht's

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 May 2008, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. I would be ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

2008-05-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:40:09 Mick wrote: > HTH. Thanks to both of you. I'll leave the bind address unspecific. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: That surprises me Neil. It seems more 'automatic' than a nuts & bolt guy such as you might choose. Well, it seems to do a pretty good job and, with 14 machines with a mix of Intel and AMD processors, it makes maintenance a lot more straightforward. In the past, I spent