Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox

2010-10-09 Thread Mick
On 9 October 2010 03:29, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote: On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/10/8 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: I want to install MSWindows in a VM.  I want to be able to use the guest MSWindows OS to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?

2010-10-09 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/10/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. When I give acpi in the gentoo wiki I found installation instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. I am confused now... I am

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Carter
The same TX RX are shown for both interfaces. That implies that they are layer 2 counters and will therefore be the same for a given physical interface. I don't know whether the tools have changed much since those I'm using on this box, but the difference *might* be that Grant's IPs are on

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?

2010-10-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Oct 2010, at 05:40, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. When I give acpi in the gentoo wiki I found installation instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-10-09 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Monday 30 August 2010, Pau Peris wrote: Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules which are not currently working. I'm trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [10-10-08 16:36]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: for a long time I have compiled makehuman from the svn tree. quick guess...lafilefixer --justfixit? In the past with some video games, I had problems with the .la files after compiling new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Oct 2010, at 13:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. Would it possible, that this flag is set for 32bit-Linux by default and is totally missing (not shown when

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 07:49, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmeljohannes.kim...@gmx.de wrote: On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Heya, I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/9/10, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:03:19PM +0300, Arttu V. wrote I think the eclass(es) might be messing up the config, e.g., by force-feeding pango and some other settings. Could you try also copying the mozcoreconf-2.eclass to your local

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. --enable-oji will Firefox run without this? And what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beyond-Gentoo question

2010-10-09 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [10-10-09 18:16]: On 9 Oct 2010, at 13:14, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... I finally found the reason for haveing no z-buffering available... The libsdl was copiled without the opengl USE-flag set. Would it possible, that this flag is set for

[gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello, I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... Anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea Conti
On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Note however that the ebuild will *not* update the

Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-10-09 1:48 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Thanks - I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-09 Thread Yohan Pereira
thats odd im typing this from kmail. whavt version? -- - Yohan Pereira.

[gentoo-user] USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
Hi, When I ran eix hdf command, all of a sudden my usb drive started making weird noises. I only have ccache, distfiles and packaes directories on sda2, the usb disk partition. I don't know why eix waked up the disk. Eix hung there non-responding for a moment as the disk kept making noises, so I

[gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: I am not sure what may have caused the issue but there are two things I suspect that may have caused this. 1. I usually forget the device is mounted and sda1 partition swappedon while suspending/sleeping the system. I run fsck.ext3 on the

[gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread walt
On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote: 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new disk drivers in the kernel CONFIG_ATA section rather than the older and deprecated CONFIG_IDE section. That will

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread James
Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia card. I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT appear in the screenshot. -james On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Adam Carter

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 October 2010 19:22:57 Daniel D Jones wrote: Any help on tracking down the cause is greatly appreciated. That's interesting. Here it's the other way round: on first logging-in to the desktop, with kmail saved as an application from the previous session, kmail takes for ever to

Re: [gentoo-user] text in xterm

2010-10-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:29:36PM +, James wrote: Using various different hardware configurations -- my laptop has a Intel 915GM. The same thing happens on my iMac which has an nVidia card. I tried to take a screenshot of the issue, but the artifacts do NOT appear in the screenshot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-09 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote: 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new disk drivers in the kernel CONFIG_ATA section