Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.

2012-10-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Canek. > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very >> > happy about

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.

2012-10-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, again! On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > All this seems rather strange. Why shouldn't I be able to use my floppy > > drive? > Your kernel config/setup has something really weird. Yes. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.

2012-10-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Canek. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:16:56PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very > > happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom? > Nobody removed anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
well, looks like I have a problem w/grub2 too. Using the 'c' option, the old kernel panics AND so does the new one. TIL set root=(hd1, msdos6). msdos6? No idea where that comes from ;(

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.

2012-10-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Everybody! > > Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very > happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom? Nobody removed anything; it's still there, in 3.6.3. I'm not using it, but I can select it wit

[gentoo-user] Floppy disk support removed from kernel 3.4.9.

2012-10-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Everybody! Floppy disk support has been removed from kernel 3.4.9. I'm not very happy about this. Does anybody know why, or by whom? This removal has been done in a somewhat peculiar manner. The config option was called CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, and used to be at /. It is now not visible there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2012, 01:34:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:10:17 -0500, Dale wrote: >> > Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the >> > kernel you are using works and is not a se

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:34:39 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > > after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I > > have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel recognizes the > > mouse and it appears in lsusb.

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe flash isnt working

2012-10-28 Thread walt
On 10/27/2012 07:15 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have noticed that adobe flash isnt working and googling says some versions have an sse2 bug. I have the latest from portage (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.243 with sse2check enabled) Should it work, or should I look elsewhere. I have the s

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:34:39 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I > have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel recognizes the > mouse and it appears in lsusb. I carried over the kernel from last time > w/make oldconfig. All

Re: [gentoo-user] X was crash at login window (gdm)

2012-10-28 Thread sam new
believe or not, I have double checked the /etc/ini.d , there is no service script udev-postmount since Udev-180. I downgrade to Udev-171-r8 and all things goes well ,udev-postmount service has auto started at runlevel,I can enter the X now ,but has something wrong with Gnome3.4 .and It gets fallba

Re: [gentoo-user] dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-28 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2012 8:45 PM, "Kfir Lavi" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have a laptop and an external monitor. > > I would like to have both monitors showing different desktops. > > My aim is to have IRC and Email client on one side, and my shel