[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Jan Seeger wrote: Hey list, I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567L

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work [SOLVED]

2008-09-05 Thread pat
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:04:14 -0500, Dale wrote > pat wrote: > > Dale wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > pat wrote: > > > Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org > > keyboard section > > but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work

2008-09-05 Thread Dale
pat wrote: Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pat wrote: Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org keyboard section but doesn't help. Is it what you have meant? Thanks Pat That may be one but there is als

Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)

2008-09-05 Thread luis jure
on 2008-09-05 at 14:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: >On Friday 05 September 2008 13:41:39 luis jure wrote: >> sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that >> the x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available >> and can not be set. [..] >That's strange as I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work

2008-09-05 Thread pat
Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pat wrote: Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org keyboard section but doesn't help. Is it what you have meant? Thanks Pat That may be one but there is also this one:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I > now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal > install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless car

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:22:20 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: > If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? Use the most recent live CD you can find. As long as it has rsync, tar and chroot, you can use it to install Gentoo. -- Neil Bothwick "It compiled? The first screen ca

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread Jan Seeger
Hey list, I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567LM Gigabit network

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron not sending mail

2008-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron >> still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to >> send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and wit

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron not sending mail

2008-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron > still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to > send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and without -t). > > I re-emerged vixie-cron with the debug USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?

2008-09-05 Thread James Ausmus
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > Build it into the kernel. There's usually not much point in building > something as a module if you're going to load it every time you boot, > unless you want to pa

[gentoo-user] vixie-cron not sending mail

2008-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and without -t). I re-emerged vixie-cron with the debug USE flag, but it didn't seem to produce any debug info that I can find an

[gentoo-user] Re: openoffice only works as root

2008-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working > for non-root users. When I run > > strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer > > I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a > child that was for

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root

2008-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 05 September 2008 16:01:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working > for non-root users. When I run > > strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer > > I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a > child that was fo

[gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root

2008-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working for non-root users. When I run strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin, and oosplash.bi

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome: "There was an error launching the application"

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:17 AM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive just updated some 180 packages on my gnome desktop. I now have a > weird problem where if I click on a gnome program, it pops up a dialog > "There was an error launching the application." > > The apps in question wo

[gentoo-user] gnome: "There was an error launching the application"

2008-09-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Ive just updated some 180 packages on my gnome desktop. I now have a weird problem where if I click on a gnome program, it pops up a dialog "There was an error launching the application." The apps in question work fine if run from a terminal. Icons on the taskbar seem to work ok (i.e., how I star

Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)

2008-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 05 September 2008 13:41:39 luis jure wrote: > on 2008-09-04 at 10:47 Willie Wong wrote: > >Not quite sure what you mean. Please show: > > sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that the > x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available and > can n

Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)

2008-09-05 Thread luis jure
on 2008-09-04 at 10:47 Willie Wong wrote: >Not quite sure what you mean. Please show: sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that the x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available and can not be set. this happens only on my amd64 laptop, not on my ol

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?

2008-09-05 Thread Wang, Baojun
在 2008-09-05五的 09:07 +0100,Neil Bothwick写道: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > > > depend section of /etc/init.d/hwclock, there is a line > > > > before * > > > > thus hwclock will start before modules (where I put rtc-cmos > > in /etc/conf.d/modules), so it will alw

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?

2008-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > depend section of /etc/init.d/hwclock, there is a line > > before * > > thus hwclock will start before modules (where I put rtc-cmos > in /etc/conf.d/modules), so it will always fail to ajust hwclock. Build it into the kernel. Ther