Re: [gentoo-user] swap partition on Raspberry

2013-06-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/06/13 23:46, Jan Hönig wrote: > Hello, > well i have set my Raspberry (B) with ArchLinuxArm. I decided againts > gentoo, because of the long compilling time (for example git takes a long > time). Maybe i try gentoo on my second sd card... > > A1: I have set an extra swap partition. I followe

Re: [gentoo-user] printing only works from Chrome

2013-06-07 Thread Fast Turtle
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:01:22 -0700 Grant wrote: > One of my systems will print to the print server from Chrome but not > Abiword or LibreOffice. I'm not sure where to start with this one. > Any ideas? > > - Grant > did you by chance forget to enable the cups flag?

Re: [gentoo-user] printing only works from Chrome

2013-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:01:22 -0700, Grant wrote: > One of my systems will print to the print server from Chrome but not > Abiword or LibreOffice. I'm not sure where to start with this one. The print server's log files, which will show you whether the request is reaching the server. And, if it is,

[gentoo-user] printing only works from Chrome

2013-06-07 Thread Grant
One of my systems will print to the print server from Chrome but not Abiword or LibreOffice. I'm not sure where to start with this one. Any ideas? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/udev?id=97595710b77aa162ca5e20da57d0a1ed7355eaad > > From there you can find the code that does the renaming in udev. Thank you for the description and links... that was the kind of in

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/06/13 21:09, Samuli Suominen wrote: [ .. ] One more link related, http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/udev?id=97595710b77aa162ca5e20da57d0a1ed7355eaad From there you can find the code that does the renaming in udev.

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/06/13 18:05, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Regarding this string "eth0": 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*" It's just a name. I'm interested in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fbpanel - Fluxbox - Gkrellm Questions

2013-06-07 Thread Fast Turtle
Took me a while to figure out what sudo was complaining about - my shutdown line includes a 15 second delay /sbin/shutdown -h 15 needed to be t=15. Once I solved that, it quit complaining. I'd though to simply take advantage of the already available line for the wheel group being allowed to execu

Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

2013-06-07 Thread staticsafe
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:32:41AM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? > > > > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. > > Hi Philip, > > Is this a true statement

Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

2013-06-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? > > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it. Hi Philip, Is this a true statement: Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda. Therefore som

Re: [gentoo-user] swap partition on Raspberry

2013-06-07 Thread Jan Hönig
Hello, well i have set my Raspberry (B) with ArchLinuxArm. I decided againts gentoo, because of the long compilling time (for example git takes a long time). Maybe i try gentoo on my second sd card... A1: I have set an extra swap partition. I followed this guide for resizing my main partition (i h

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Regarding this string "eth0": >> >> 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? >> (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*" > > It's just a name. I'm interested in a bit more resolution here. I belie

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Mick
On Friday 07 Jun 2013 09:06:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/06/2013 06:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > An ethernet device is sometimes represented by the string "eth0". > > Regarding this string "eth0": > > > > 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? > > (no!) Is it ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting the clock with ntp

2013-06-07 Thread Dale
Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hi, > > What is the gentoo equivalent to this ubuntu command: > > apt-get install ntpdate && ntpdate pool.ntp.org > > The first command installs ntpdate, a program that uses ntp to > immediately set the clock, even if it is going to be a large > adjustment. The second co

[gentoo-user] swap partition on Raspberry

2013-06-07 Thread fruktopus
Hello, i am setting up gentoo a Raspberry (B) following the gentoo wiki [1], first i prepare the SD-Card. The wiki links to the instructions over at embedded linux wiki [2]. I wonder about the disk layout. Q1: Do i need a swap partition, and if yes is 512m ok? The gentoo wiki creates one, the e

Re: [gentoo-user] Who/what names hard drives /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc

2013-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
130606 Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb? You, when you connect up the drives in the box, if you build it ; the manufacturer, if you buy the machine ready-built. If the latter, open the box -- carefully (smile) -- & check the connections inside

Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Aspire Part 2 - Xorg

2013-06-07 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:00:16 +0800 "AR (aka AleiPhoenix)" wrote: > Hi, I have this netbook too. The actual CPU type is N2800 and > intergrated graphic is GMA3600 so the graphics drivers in kernel > support is GMA500. Do you have that enabled? My CPU is a N550. Can you cat ur make.conf? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Aspire Part 2 - Xorg

2013-06-07 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:01:49 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: > I notice you mention sabayon a few times - are you using sabayon or > gentoo - they are not exactly the same and if you are mixing guides > this may be the reason you are having such odd problems. I use Gentoo, only for insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices?

2013-06-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/06/2013 06:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > A USB serial device is identified by the characters "/dev/ttyUSB0". > One might call this string a "device on your filesystem" and it can be > opened/closed just like any other entry in the filesystem. > > An ethernet device is sometimes r