Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Robin Atwood wrote > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if > anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all > the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned > about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:57, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread walt
On 03/31/2011 12:46 PM, James wrote: Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. I just want to make sure you know that BTRFS is experimental and not intended yet for use on production machines. Otherwise, have fun :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb media reader

2011-03-31 Thread Adam Carter
> > > > SD is another kernel module. There are different categories for SD and > > > Memory Stick drivers in the kernel config. Look in the Device Drivers > > > section. > > > I did not see much, but enabled everthing. I cannot reboot for > a few days for other reasons... > If you're just add

[gentoo-user] Re: unable to emerge lvm2 in new install of gentoo

2011-03-31 Thread walt
On 03/31/2011 02:25 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to install a new gentoo install, its a 64-bit and I have copied the world file from my old 32-bit install and I am chrooting into the 64-bit install. Now things are not going too bad, but when I try to emerge lvm2, I get the f

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM, James wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo > software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, > guides and documents to reference are all welcome. > > I have this link, which is down as the best example: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com

[gentoo-user] RAID on new install

2011-03-31 Thread James
Hello, I'm about to install a dual HD (mirrored) gentoo software raid system, with BTRFS. Suggestion, guides and documents to reference are all welcome. I have this link, which is down as the best example: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Additionally, I have these links for a gui

[gentoo-user] Re: usb media reader

2011-03-31 Thread James
Joost Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > SD is another kernel module. There are different categories for SD and > > Memory Stick drivers in the kernel config. Look in the Device Drivers > > section. I did not see much, but enabled everthing. I cannot reboot for a few days for other reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread Ryan Harris
I have an hp dv7-3085us. Everything on it worked fine with Linux out of the box. Webcam,bluetooth,wireless,audio, ect... Hibernation works great with tux on ice. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread BRM
At work, we've had a lot of success with Lenovo's. My T61p (3 years old) is fully supported by Linux - wireless included - according the documentations; I can't quite verify as I haven't been able to transition it (yet) to Linux. Colleagues haven't had issues with another model, but I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe

2011-03-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
2011/3/30 Andrzej Styczeń : > Hello, > > I try today install Gentoo on my PC. Every thing go well until to install > net-dialup/rp-pppoe > then I got: >>=x11-libs/cairo-1.10.0 [-qt4] > > How to resolve. If I add the 'qt4' flag to USE in > /etc/portage/package.use > this not work. If I set it global

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone > else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware > worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about > WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer poin

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-31 Thread kelly hirai
On 03/31/11 08:34, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 31.03.2011 14:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > >> ALSA_CARDS is not a extended USE_FLAG. > It should say ALSA_CARDS are not normal USE_FLAGs but extended USE_FLAGs > that did the trick. thanks sebastian! k.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>> The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, >>> assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to >>> install open-vm-tools, which installs the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 31.03.2011 14:25, schrieb Sebastian Beßler: > ALSA_CARDS is not a extended USE_FLAG. It should say ALSA_CARDS are not normal USE_FLAGs but extended USE_FLAGs signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-firmware +usb-usx2y

2011-03-31 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 30.03.2011 16:03, schrieb kelly hirai: > USE=usb-usx2y emerge -a --newuse --deep alsa-firmware > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.23 ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 > maestro3 ymfpci -aica -asihpi -darla20 -darla24 -echo3g -emi26 -emu1212 > -emu1616 -em

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a 2.6.34 kernel. You'll still want to install open-vm-tools, which installs the other modules via open-vm-tools-kmod, like vsock and vmci, plus the us

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:00:59 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Alright. I did emerge --update portage > > Should I emerge these, too: > + glibc > + zlib > + xz-utils > + gzip > + rsync Just let emerge --newuse world do its stuff. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 16:05, KH wrote: > Am 31.03.2011 10:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> Hello again. I hope you're not yet bored of my newbie questions... >> >> Out on a whim, I just did `emerge --update --newuse --pretend world` >> *just* before emerging the sources. I got this: >> >> [ebuild  

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:32:30 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: > 2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch : > > Hi, > > > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory > > and therefore unresponsive or it

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Maciej Grela
2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory > and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. > > How can I find out which process tries to start

Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/31/2011 01:26:05 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big problem on a very import machine here. > Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, > it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory > and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. > > How can I find out whic

[gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash

2011-03-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to so

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup: where is foomatic-rip?

2011-03-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, William. Thanks for the help! I had to emerge foomatic-filters-ppds, after which it was easy. My printer now prints. Alan Mackenzie. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:29:20PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > rattus ~ # locate foomatic-rip > /usr/bin/foomatic-rip > /usr/lib/ppr/interfaces/foomat

Re: [gentoo-user] New installation and problem with rp-pppoe

2011-03-31 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Wednesday 30 of March 2011 15:21:44 Neil Bothwick wrote: > The KDE profile sets the X USE flag, add -X until you are ready to emerge > the desktop. Thank you. This didn't work. Please see: # USE="-X" emerge -av net-dialup/rp-pppoe These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calc

[gentoo-user] unable to emerge lvm2 in new install of gentoo

2011-03-31 Thread covici
Hi. I am trying to install a new gentoo install, its a 64-bit and I have copied the world file from my old 32-bit install and I am chrooting into the 64-bit install. Now things are not going too bad, but when I try to emerge lvm2, I get the following: make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portag

[gentoo-user] xbmc font rendering issue after upgrade mesa or/and xorg ati driver

2011-03-31 Thread Füves Zoltán
Hi Community! I just start to give up because don't understand the reason of this problem Tried to upgrade, downgrade, change language and font settings without any positive result If anybody has similar problem or can help to start debugging this issue I wil be very grateful. this is the err

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread KH
Am 31.03.2011 10:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Hello again. I hope you're not yet bored of my newbie questions... > > Out on a whim, I just did `emerge --update --newuse --pretend world` > *just* before emerging the sources. I got this: > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.45 [2.1.9.25] USE="

[gentoo-user] emerge --update --newuse world before emerge source?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello again. I hope you're not yet bored of my newbie questions... Out on a whim, I just did `emerge --update --newuse --pretend world` *just* before emerging the sources. I got this: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.45 [2.1.9.25] USE="-python2%" [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.11.3 [2.11.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-03-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:58, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 3/30/2011 2:57 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 3/30/2011 12:55 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Hello, list! >>> >>> I want to deploy some Gentoo-based VMs on VMware. From portage-search, >>> I see some 'tools' related to VMware, namely: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] usb media reader

2011-03-31 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 30 March 2011 20:07:31 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 30.03.2011 19:52, schrieb James: > > Hello, > > > > lsusb shows: > > Bus 001 Device 035: ID 05e3:0710 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 33-in-1 > > Card Reader > > > > OK, so I plug in a CF card and run fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 411