On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amar Cosic skrev:
emerge kde-misc/krename and see if it is useful to you.
emerging extra stuff just for a very simple mv or rename ? Oh my God .
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Hi,
I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it
is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt'
as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ?
Thks,
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would doubt that this is possible. I once feature-requested on the
slim-dev mailing list [1] for the root password to be removed [2], but
dunno if the devels took this into account. Since recently SLiM got
back to
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Video cards is the big sticking point
For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last
Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA wont hurt
for a common desktop usage.
As for the
Tank you.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due
to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS
driver.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, I haven't had any difficulties with the nVidia drivers. I'm running a
GeForce 7900GTX, which uses the same linux driver as the Quadro does.
Same here with nvidia driver on a 8800GTS GC.
A former ATI addict who left for
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable
is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way
Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not
painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what
tools do you need ?
Hello Grant,
Let's check first your kernel config:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/KernelConfig
If you still face trouble, I advise you to have a look at the website
doc which looks pretty good..
Gal'
On Dec 1, 2007 7:32 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to set up a new laptop's
On Dec 16, 2007 2:09 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have a list of significant improvements you want implemented?
There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These
problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a
relic of the Windows era.
There is a softlevel option to add in your grub entry to switch to a
different RC.
have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level
Gal'
On Dec 18, 2007 5:16 PM, Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without
starting
I won't answer you with a size since its mainly depends on your own
needs, but don't you know that solutions like lvm or evms provide lots
of flexibility to manage your HD resources ? I advise you to look at
lvm howto. It allows you to add/remove/move/enlarge your partitions as
you need in a truly
On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all
ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on
a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much in size, probably
does
To boot my linux, I faced a JMicron eSata/Pata controller problem,
that prevented my SATA disk from being recognized. = I had to use a
2.6.23 kernel, founded on the gentoo forum. (the knoppix latest
released I used were 2.6.19 !!!) Do you also have a JMicron controller
?
Is there any other
On Jan 7, 2008 1:23 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Windows install that I mentioned having problems with AHCI is Vista.
Good to know I just faced problem with AHCI on XP, and thought
that there were no matter on Vista... so install drivers first for the
whole M$ family...
On Jan 11, 2008 11:19 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 11 January 2008, Galevsky wrote:
You can say that devs have no time to make it, but please, don't tell
that Gentoo doesn't need any installCD (outdated means no CD at all
for many computers nowaday).
Please tell me
On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Shaochun Wang:
Currently, Gentoo has not updated
its installation CD for a long time!
They don't need to. One week ago I used a GRML cd to install a new Gentoo
system.
On Jan 11,
On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I
also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. To
install Gentoo, I'd boot my favorite rescue
On Jan 11, 2008 11:30 AM, Daniel Pielmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 2007.1 release has been canceled by the release-engineering-team
because of multiple-problems, maybe there will be a 2008.0 release
with fresh install-media.
Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is
On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Eddie Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
You are missing the point of Gentoo then. We are NOT a binary distro (to
repeat ad nauseum). If you want that kind of install, please change
distros. I do find these other methods of install to be interesting though.
Has anyone
On Jan 11, 2008 8:08 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ?
Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts
in creating live CDs is leveraged. NIH is not a good point of view, if
you ask me.
Using extra rescue
On Jan 13, 2008 7:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008. 01. 13, vasárnap keltezéssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt írta:
I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the
minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement.
...
Regards,
On Jan 13, 2008 8:03 PM, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will prepare a project page on my website and I try to create the
first release in some weeks. Probably less, than one, depends on my free
time.
I will send a mail to this list to inform you about the progress :)
Sounds good
On Jan 13, 2008 8:24 PM, Michael Schmarck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'd rather say, that it would be better, if there were no install
CD at all.
But it can be done.
It's not worth the effort, though, as far as I'm concerned.
Since your are not concerned about releasing them, you
On Jan 14, 2008 1:19 AM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me explain. You began complaining because the Gentoo live cd
*exists*, but it is out of date and didn't support your hardware. It's a
reasonable complain in the assumption you need the Gentoo cd (and you
can't do with anything else):
On Jan 14, 2008 10:17 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:27:30 +0100, b.n. wrote:
If I can give you an advice: don't create a new livecd from scratch.
Take an Ubuntu, Knoppix or similar live cd, just add these three files
in a /gentoo directory, and
On Jan 14, 2008 10:39 AM, Cocoy Dayao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah. i agree.
In fact, imho the most perfect gentoo installer is the mini live cd!
what more can anybody need?
would it take much effort to maintain/refresh a mini live cd installer?
Couldn't that be refreshed every couple of
What looks strange -from an external point of view- is that there is
lots of high-skilled people here... with huge Gentoo experience. How
did these people not manage to build some plan ? With all the
engineers, team leaders, project chiefs, and so on... involved in
Gentoo project ?
It looks like
On 1/14/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a wonderful new tool available for questions like this!!
http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery?dir=package=full_file=file=partprobeversion=pflquery=submitted
Many tanks, it is a good URL to know :)
Gal'
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On Jan 14, 2008 5:54 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're excited by different things :)
No doubt :)
Gal'
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radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK,
LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Galevsky
2009/4/30 Galevsky galev...@gmail.com:
Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset.
snip
and now my web sites can't connect to the DBs and I face the
following error:
Can't initialize character set utf-8 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/)
Well can someone tell me if a utf
Hi all,
I am facing a weird issue: I have an image stored in a public
directory that can be reached by its url with any browser. No problem
to display it (from everywhere). But when I try to access it from my
post on any forum (with BBCode [img] tag), the image is not displayed.
Any idea ? a
tho. Mandrake
used modules like a mad man.
Look at the kernel definition line:
kernel (hd1,1)/boot/kernel-2.6.27-r4 root=/dev/hdb2
You have to specify a file as a kernel and a / partition. Wherever
they are. If you want to share -or not- a unique /boot, feel free.
Galevsky
/etc, /var, /usr, /bin and so on I can see the (potential) problems.
But just /root ? It is a must to have it does not contain important
tuned up files, does it ? It is just an account that root use for
admin task, so is there a known problem to share it ?
I used to mount /root aside from /.
Is there a way to have human readable format with emerge ?
It could be much more convenient to have this kind of information more
readable :
Number of files: 122567
Number of files transferred: 675
Total file size: 159275947 bytes
Total transferred file size: 3030220 bytes
Literal data: 3030220
Great !!
Thanks guys,
I was out of business since I am launching emerge --sync and emerge
helper does not provide -h option. I need more readings on Portage I
think.
Gal'
2007/4/3, Heinz Hombergs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
emerge --sync makes a
Hi,
I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the
compilation failed with the DOC use flag :
[...]
make: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
latex src/user.tex /dev/null
latex src/interface.tex /dev/null
make[1]:
Hi,
I emerged app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4 on my gentoo box but the
compilation failed with the DOC use flag :
[...]
make: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4/work/xen-3.0.2/docs'
latex src/user.tex /dev/null
latex src/interface.tex /dev/null
make[1]:
No one can advise me to open a bug or consider my own configuration ?
Am I alone facing pb with Xen doc compilation ?
Gal'
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Another question: Which options are appropriate to mount my backup partition
while executing the script:
noexec,async,dev,rw ?
Hi,
default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. match
your needs, but nouser : you have to know before if the users would
launch your script on
Hi,
you can learn the xml concepts at http://www.w3schools.com/. Then,
depending on the language you choose, there is lots of libs to deal
with xml in many languages. Though you always have two different ways
of parsing your xml file: a SAX parser approach, that runs on an
element-by-element
Well, a man libxml2 gives you all that you need:
Documentation for libxml is available on-line at
http://www.xmlsoft.org/
;o)
Gal'
2007/5/29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
-Original Message-
From: Galevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Syslog-ng
Is that kind of conf (described in Quick Start section) far away from
what you are looking for ?
Gal'
2007/5/30, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd
layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other
Just my two cents: don't forget to use temporary email boxes like
yopmail.com, these boxes can be very helpful for the kind of tests you
may run.
Gal'
2007/6/1, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
testing if apache works is easy,
Ya there is. Have a look at GParted, and burn this useful live-cd.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gal
2007/6/5, Platoali [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi
I have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
I want to move this partition to the end or begining of hard, so I
Hi all,
I am still facing the problem. I run my box with -doc flag for a
while, but had re-emerged system and world with doc flag then
disappointed to see that doc compiling for app-emulation/xen-tools
still failed.
Is there anybody for who xen doc compilation succeeds ? I tried to
update
Hi all,
I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation.
Compil' gave up on :
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset':
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c:162: error: 'struct skb_shared_info'
has no member named 'tso_size'
Solution here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177142
Sorry.
Gal'
2007/6/8, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
I recently emerged xen-sources and launched a dom0 kernel compilation.
Compil' gave up on :
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.c: In function 'send_reset':
net/ipv4/netfilter
Surely not. As for the dual bout with an other OS (let's call it
MS-Win ;o)), people can easily face a wrong time due to a bad
configuration in linux side: the hardware time should be set as local
time instead of UTC to avoid a time difference between both the OSes.
But no time reset symptom
Hi all,
I faced an ethernet driver miss during my kernel configuration,
because I had a wrong idea of what 'make oldconfig' did. I thought the
oldconfig target build up a new .config file starting from the
/proc/config.gz one then asking for new options.
But It was not the case here:
sd-4421
Many thanks Alexander, I misunderstood what oldconfig means. just
any existing .config file into ... into the src dir. LOL. Thanks
again.
Gal'
2007/6/16, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
· Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Now I have to build my conf again since the whole configuration may
I advise you to read the dev howto at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoodev
Gal'
2007/6/19, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello,
The devs seems to be busy. Also, I should have learn this some time
ago anyway. There is a existing ebuild for JFFNMS, but, it is masked
for amd64. Is
surely not all the gentooers. Not me, since my bookmarks are
day-to-day matters but the doc.
2007/7/4, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
So: am I the only one who likes this?
++ kevin
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Hi ML,
I need your help to find the right way.
I am running a
Linux sd-4421 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat Jun 16 19:27:48 CEST 2007
i686 VIA Esther processor 2000MHz CentaurHauls GNU/Linux
remote box. This kernel was compiled on my own. It is good. But I need
a xen box now. So I emerged the
+0200, Galevsky wrote:
... the matter is Grub falls back to previous 2.6.20 kernel. So I have
no log at all about what went wrong during the dom0_2.6.18 boot.
Any idea to know what went wrong ?
Nevertheless, if you want to actually know what the error
is then you should disable the fallback
2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote:
Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back, but
nothing added neither to boot.log nor to dmesg. I am sure to target
the right kernel image with no typo into grub.conf
2007/7/5, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:40:20 +0200
Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2007/7/5, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:36 +0200, Galevsky wrote:
Many thanks for you suggestion. I tried a boot with no fall back,
but nothing
Sorry, I was building again my kernel image to confirm that It was not
a stupid mistake.
2007/7/6, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I recently discovered 'savefallback' in grub which I did not know about.
I'll assume you're using that but again, I haven't seen your grub.conf.
Dan Farrell made
2009/8/5 Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com:
I'm trying to do distributed compile with a remote machine that I don't have
root password to. I have a local account with sudo permissions and an account
of the same name on the remote machine. I have set up ssh so I can shell
across without
-4.3.2 emerge process.
Galevsky
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