Re: [gentoo-user] Create mutli-file .zip archives from the command line?

2008-01-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 16:13 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:21:30 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I thought to do was to break the .iso into a multi-part .zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB

2008-01-12 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 15:27 -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 3:00 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out. Since a USB stick is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-07 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:15 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a reason for the existence of genkernel - it's so that you don't have to go through all this pain and suffering, and can instead remove stuff a bit at a time with reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: trial-and-error is probably your best bet. Get it working with a full genkernel setup. Note which modules get used in real life, start removing them in batches and make notes when stuff breaks There's a reason for the existence of

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration from single to dual core

2008-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 00:14 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: I have been running a machine for a long while. I am beginning to think that the old saw that Gentoo isn't release oriented is hogwash: each installation seems to be more polished, leaving behind a windrove of cruft accumlating over the

Re: [gentoo-user] Migration from single to dual core

2008-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 00:14 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: So it's back to the old threads about whether 64 bits is superior to 32, etc. My question now is, given that the system is working damned well now, what is the best way to handle this: recompile everything? Should I recompile gcc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodak Z1275

2008-01-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 20:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. How I can connect my digital camera Kodak Z1275 to my love gentoo? Did you try media-gfx/gphoto2 ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge failing on ebuild [econf failed]

2007-12-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:45 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It didn't look like it. I don't have it now since I've found I the switch to minimal has caused my gcc to not be ready to compile binaries. I'm in there now with live cd trying to fix things up. I copied the livecd gcc binary

Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-16 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. I'll check and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:13 -0600, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Okay, here it goes: I think we could need a better support for binary packages. There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
, I don't like to bother our had working devs and bug wranglers with stuff like that. - Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] disk problem after kernel update

2007-12-09 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:59 +0100, pat wrote: Hello, I've try to update kernel from 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 to 2.6.23-gentoo-r3. I've copied config, run make oldconfig and then make. At boot time the new kernel maps disks as hdax, but previous kernel mapped disks as sdax. So, if I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 15:27 -0500, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 + Neil Walker wrote: David Relson wrote: I've gotten this same NMI error the last 4 times I've booted -- even using a second copy of the 2007.0 LiveCD that I happened to have Given that

[gentoo-user] Intel Graphics Triple Monitor Setup

2007-11-24 Thread Florian Philipp
... Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?

2007-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:51 -0600, Dale wrote: b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: Hi, I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Thanks for your post! Thanks to you I just noticed that I never added smartd to my default profile... so I did yesterday.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp Thanks for all

[gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:12 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:25:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp squawked: Can anyone confirm that it is not possible to transcode ogg-flac files to ogg-vorbis although the necessary use flags are set (vorbis-tools +flac; flac

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:49 -0500, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello, After a successful upgrade from profile 2006.1 to 2007.0, I decided to unmerge some unused packages from world and accidentally had glibc on the emerge command line from a cut and paste operation. glibc was unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:35 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: busybox ash And then? I guess Python will still not work - no emerge. Bye... Dirk He just wanted to copy over some files from backup. Specifically he requested

[gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-11 Thread Florian Philipp
/Noise.oga: flac --ogg /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav -o /tmp/Noise.oga 3. Try to transcode the oga-file to ogg-vorbis: oggenc /tmp/Noise.oga Transcoding normal flac-files is still possible. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[gentoo-user] oggenc ogg flac files

2007-11-11 Thread Florian Philipp
/Noise.oga: flac --ogg /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav -o /tmp/Noise.oga 3. Try to transcode the oga-file to ogg-vorbis: oggenc /tmp/Noise.oga Transcoding normal flac-files is still possible. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] APM kills harddrives?

2007-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Thomas Hobbes schrieb: Hi, there are some reports that Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.10 kills harddrive: http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/ I can confirm this behaviour for FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE 200710 i386 and Gentoo Linux 2007.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: But again, the average person with a single disk running on a laptop computer probably has no use for LVM. Actually I'm very happy I've chosen LVM for my laptop because I didn't know that I would keep 20GB worth of videos on my home partition when I've made up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-11-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I need some special functionality. I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* (which might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted Backups

2007-11-02 Thread Florian Philipp
James schrieb: Florian Philipp f.philipp at addcom.de writes: I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I need some special functionality. I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card

[gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
, gpg and find will do it, don't you think? The alternative would be rdiff-backup with some kind of encrypted and possibly compressed file system. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted Backups

2007-10-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:03 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I need some special functionality. I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making daily full and hourly

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

2007-10-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Dan Farrell schrieb: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, After a mammoth session on an old machine, which crashed, I ended up with these files that refuse to be deleted: === # ls -la

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

2007-10-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Mick schrieb: On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Dan Farrell schrieb: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, After a mammoth session on an old machine, which crashed, I ended up with these files that refuse to be deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] ssl timeout when downloading file(s)

2007-10-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Eric W Phillips schrieb: I have been trying to install firefox extensions and kept getting timeout errors. I have since discovered that I am unable to download files over an ssl (https://) encrypted connection using Firefox or Konqueror. I have not been able to find any help on this issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local portage/rsync mirror on OpenBSD

2007-10-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Samuel Baldwin schrieb: I don't use OpenBSD but I can assure you that there is nothing special about portage's usage of rsync. Every howto about rsync servers and BSD should work. Just look into the script for settings like recursion and compression. Well, I mean't every gentoo one says emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits

2007-10-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:35 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, ppl I have the habit of imposing some limitations over all users via /etc/security/limits.conf. For example I used to limit the number of concurrent processes one can execute to prevent the system from simple

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: 071020 b.n. wrote: Philip Webb ha scritto: Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. It won't affect today's installation

[gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native binaries, am I correct? I wonder how I can change that. Just re-emerge gcc with USE=gcj and all packages containing java code? Is it even a good idea? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: 071007 Chuanwen Wu wrote: The chipset is ICH8. So,is there anyway you see I can install gentoo on my machine? You have an informed reply re your Dell, which I don't know, but more generally you could try to install from Knoppix -- that's what I used when I installed my

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros cons

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Philip Webb schrieb: Does anyone have advice based on experience using LVM ? I sb partitioning a new 320 GB hard drive soon for a simple desktop box. That is 8 times the size of the HDD in my present machine, which I haven't exhausted by any means. LVM seems more professional allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lilo ReiserFS on 64 bits

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Canek Peláez Valdés schrieb: On 10/2/07, Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't install 64bit linux, there are unresolved issues with 64bit linux I've been using 64 bit linux for almost two years: I don't have any single problem, and I only use two 32 bit binary programs: Firefox (for Flash)

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb: Grant skrev: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid,

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Arnau Bria schrieb: Hi, My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it has fs errors, so I have to fsck it. Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want to copy data from old disk to new disk,

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Dale schrieb: Florian Philipp wrote: Arnau Bria schrieb: Hi, My system runs on several ext3 partitions. Last times I restart it, it has fs errors, so I have to fsck it. Now, I have a new disk and I want to set a RAID1, but first, I'm wondering what to do to save my fs consistency. So, I want

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3 with errors

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Etaoin Shrdlu schrieb: On Sunday 30 September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Which shell do you use? Bash's default behavior (I don't know whether you can change that) is that it doesn't expand * to all files and directories but only the nonhidden. Just try the following: ls -l --directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.6

2007-09-29 Thread Florian Philipp
pat schrieb: Hi, I have cetrino processor and I want to update system, but it's not possible, because of gcc 3.3.6. Yes, I've read previous threads, but I have another questions: 1) is it possible to block the gcc 3.3.x? 2) how to find ebuilds which are depends on this gcc? 1) echo

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Skwar schrieb: Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar schrieb: Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Uhm, what's bad about tar cf - | p7zip

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine: Intel quad vs duo

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Philipp
James schrieb: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: I'm getting close to buying the parts for my new machine (see earlier msgs) an Intel quad-core mentioned by a helpful responder has now come down almost within my price range. The CPU I have been contemplating for some weeks is

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Daniel Barkalow schrieb: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Just a thought: Is it possible to compile a 64bit kernel and use him on the current system? That way you could set up your new native 64bit system in a chroot before overwriting the old one and thus minimize downtime

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:38:36 -0400, David Relson wrote: I recall installing Gentoo as being a P.I.T.A, hence take no pleasure in the idea of re-installing. I was hoping for something relatively simple, like changing CHOST and emerging world unpacking amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Skwar schrieb: Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Uhm, what's bad about tar cf - | p7zip It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive

[gentoo-user] star

2007-09-22 Thread Florian Philipp
unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New mobo and USB problems

2007-09-22 Thread Florian Philipp
David Relson schrieb: Greetings, I've got a brand new ASUS M2A-VM HDMI motherboard, with AMD 690G northbridge and ATI SB600 southbridge. The on-board video is now working (using the vesa driver) and DMA is working for the IDE drive. Not yet working is USB. As shown below, lspci reports

Re: [gentoo-user] star

2007-09-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star. I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j) seem

Re: [gentoo-user] How to know current state of LCD

2007-09-19 Thread Florian Philipp
kou yu schrieb: I can turn on/off LCD by using vbetool vbetool dpms on/off But I can not find a way to know the current state of LCD. on? or off? Is there any method, command or something else to indicate the state of LCD? cat /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/state If it's not what you need, do

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M2A-VM HDMI woes

2007-09-18 Thread Florian Philipp
David Relson schrieb: Well, I've done it this time :- It seemed time to upgrade from my AthlonXP so I bought a new motherboard (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI), cpu (AMD 64 X2 5000), and memory (2GB DDR2 800). With all the new hardware, my hopes were high!! Then I removed the old mobo/cpu/ram from

Re: [gentoo-user] In-Kernel Standby [Fork of Standby]

2007-09-17 Thread Florian Philipp
the necessary parts. I don't know how many changes in the scripting exist, though and I've never tried suspend1. Regards Florian Philipp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] usb suspend bug for mouse?

2007-09-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Thufir schrieb: I have a run of the mill USB optical mouse which has worked fine for several years. Recently it started stalling , hanging or freezing from gentoo. This morning I booted into Fedora and it seemed to work fine (for a few minutes). The pattern is that a window is opened,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:38:26 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the kernel can handle connection state matching :) I can apply your rules with one exception: iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE The same error message as before

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't build pango

2007-09-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Jean-Philippe Caruana schrieb: Hi, I try to build gnome on my system, but I can't build the pango dependence : here is the (end of the) message : !!! ERROR: x11-libs/pango-1.16.5 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1638: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 985: Called qa_call

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll attach relevant ifconfig, route and iptables -L output. Hm, OK. This: snip Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Dan Farrell schrieb: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:48:20 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is on what computer? On the server (I guess it's the router) the last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:30:51 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK. This: snip Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 10.8.0.1 anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:50:52 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion for a proper setup would be $ iptables -F FORWARD $ iptables -P FORWARD DROP $ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Dan Farrell schrieb: On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:12:11 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm trying to set up my laptop as the router for my PC. ... My problem: As soon as set up eth0 with ifconfig 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 ppp0 is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Florian Philipp schrieb: Dan Farrell schrieb: On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:12:11 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm trying to set up my laptop as the router for my PC. ... My problem: As soon as set up eth0 with ifconfig 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

[gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm trying to set up my laptop as the router for my PC. In the end it should look like this: ppp0 - laptop - eth0 --- eth0 - PC My problem: As soon as set up eth0 with ifconfig 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 ppp0 is no longer used. I tried to follow this howto:

Re: [gentoo-user] Which -march and flags for Intel Dual Core (*NOT* Core Duo)?

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 03:43:35 schrieb Statux: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Two identical cores show up in /proc/cpuinfo. To save space on the list, I'm only listing the 2nd one. I'm about to do an install. Any ideas for USE and other settings also

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 18:42:38 schrieb Arnau Bria: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link Just to make that point clear: Did

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 05:44:55 schrieb Philip Webb: 070826 Aaron Clark wrote: On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 07:52:35 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 21:53:47 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 25 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philipp

[gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way to shut down the ethernet and WLAN adapters of my notebook when I don't need them? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down WLAN and network

2007-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 27 August 2007 19:45:47 schrieb Noud Aldenhoven: On 8/27/07, Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag 27 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi! I've already tried my luck on gentoo-laptop but that list seems to be dead. Is there a neat and easy way

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 26 August 2007 21:53:47 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 25 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 16:12:00 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 17:31:33 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 16:12:00 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Montag 20 August 2007 14:11:55 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Montag 20 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] About the expat update and such

2007-08-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Freitag 24 August 2007 14:13:23 schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! The last expat update was an example of something that annoys me about gentoo. I usually do world updates every few days, mostly without trouble. I only tend to forget to restart services, but even for this there is an

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 install

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 23 August 2007 19:14:12 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello James, Googling mostly reveals suggestions about file system being corrupt. I ran file system chekcs (reiserfsck) per previous instuctions and /boot and / come back clean and happy. If you must use reiserfs on /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 02:53:54 schrieb Philip Webb: 070821 James wrote: Philip Webb purslow at sympatico.ca writes: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 00:05:24 schrieb b.n.: Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: - supported Intel onboard video card with its own video RAM - good supported onboard audio with 5.1 surround you can not put an amd chip on an intel board a vice versa. *bangs on his head* - of course...

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 20 August 2007 14:11:55 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Montag 20 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hmm ... this morning I've got the idea that maybe USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup is the problem but disabling it didn't change anything. At least it's not a gentoo-only

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

2007-08-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 20:38:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Dienstag, 21. August 2007, sean wrote: Looking for some recommendations as to which, either the latest from Blackdown or Sun. The only two applications that come to mind that I will be using that include Java is

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-22 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 16:12:00 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Montag 20 August 2007 14:11:55 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Montag 20 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Hmm ... this morning I've got the idea that maybe USB selective

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE blocking files

2007-08-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 13:59:32 schrieb Daniel D Jones: Is this a know issue or is something screwy with my system? [blocks B ] =kde-base/kmail-3.5.6-r1 (is blocking kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.7-r1) [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r2) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 13:41:39 schrieb brullo nulla: I have an old but functional ATI Radeon 9200SE. Won't it work anymore? If there's something better, with decent 3D supported and onboard, let me know... emm.. since most boards don't have agp anymore. No, it won't. And even if

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 16:57:02 schrieb brullo nulla: On 8/21/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might add to avoid using on board video or video cards like my own, an NVIDIA based LE 6200, that uses system RAM. Even if you aren't doing games. You are using only 1GB of RAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Video stutters until system restarted

2007-08-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 18:36:02 schrieb Grant: I'm running an amd64 athlon x2 2.6ghz with 2gb ram and video playback stutters if I try to play a video after the system has been running for awhile, even after closing all programs. Restarting always fixes it. How would you track this down?

Re: [gentoo-user] apache won't start due to libexpat

2007-08-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 20 August 2007 10:41:11 schrieb Daevid Vincent: I've been struggling for a few hours with this... daevid ~ # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Apache2 has detected a syntax error in your configuration files: /usr/sbin/apache2: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 20 August 2007 08:15:57 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 16:52:37 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 16:52:37 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Samstag 18 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom CFLAGS

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 19:32:32 schrieb Daniel Iliev: Hi, list Is there a way to use custom CFLAGS for a given package? I want to set CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe globaly in make.conf and compile certain packages with different CFLAGS. In other words I'm looking for functianlity like

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Sonntag 19 August 2007 20:13:14 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Philip Webb, I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files, the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ? Fragmentation? I don't think so. Because there are no moving parts, the latency

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 04:51:50 schrieb Crayon Shin Chan: On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote: I've successfully mounted the stick copied a file onto it: it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored. For performance reasons a write-cache is used -

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 20:28:43 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 13:03:40 schrieben Sie: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Okay, I've found option.ko and airprime.ko. tail -f /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 20:01:15 schrieb Walter Dnes: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've got a few reasons for

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 19:38:01 schrieb Mick: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? Both should work fine. As far as I can remember SLUB was created because of SLAB's huge overhead on clusters with more than 100 processors. SLAB is well tested. SLUB is less complex and might give

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 22:51:20 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. I wouldn't recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend or sleep *ON A DESKTOP PC*?

2007-08-18 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Samstag 18 August 2007 23:57:02 schrieb b.n.: Walter Dnes ha scritto: This is getting frustrating. All my searching turns up stuff that involves responding to some event that is triggered by closing the lid on a laptop. That is obviously not going to happen on a desktop PC. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Merlin XU870

2007-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 21:07:49 schrieb Michael Gisbers: Am Mittwoch 15 August 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp: Okay, I've found option.ko and airprime.ko. tail -f /var/log/messages still doesn't output anything. Might that be a configuration issue (syslog-ng? kernel?)? Which kernel do

[gentoo-user] I can not burn

2007-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
As it seems, non of my Gentoos can burn CDs anymore. On my laptop I try to use Graveman. As soon as I start the burning process the CPU usage reaches 100% with 80% cdrecord and 20% Graveman while the drive does not even spin up and the percentage indicator stays at 0%. On my desktop I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] I can not burn

2007-08-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 19:40:23 schrieben Sie: On my laptop I try to use Graveman. As soon as I start the burning process the CPU usage reaches 100% with 80% cdrecord and 20% Graveman while the drive does not even spin up and the percentage indicator stays at 0%. On my desktop I

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