Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-05 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files: xorg.conf.home xorg.conf.work. Hm... that's what I wanted to avoid, since it's usually a PITA to maintain multiple instances of a config (I'm already doing this with sendmail...). Then I do not start X during startup. Instead I log into the console

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppleMac in a Virtual Machine?

2007-07-03 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
Hi Mick, On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:35:57AM +0100, Mick wrote: I have no experience with vmware and was wondering if there is an equivalent application to allow a MS Windows or Linux machine to run OSX. You have several alternatives, one of which is to google for Mac OS X on a x86 - it is

[gentoo-user] Monitor recognition at boot time

2007-07-03 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
Hello folks, I was wondering whether some of you could have any ideas about how to identify a certain monitor plugged into my card's secondary output at boot time (before X starts) automatically. The situation is the following: I have a laptop (Samsung R65) with an nVdidia GeForce Go 7400

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppleMac in a Virtual Machine?

2007-07-03 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:42:43PM +0100, Mick wrote: Of course! (slaps forehead) As long as the MS Windows Safari behaves like the AppleMac Safari, WINE will probably do the trick (assuming it installs and runs). Will give it a go. Thanks! I don't really know - back then when M$ still

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:51:49AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Well, yes. But be aware of the fact that - depending on the configuration, this *might* not work when issued

Re: [gentoo-user] shopping for a laptop - tools to bring

2007-05-16 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 May 2007 08:12:35 -0400 Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of shopping for a new linux laptop. I'm currently running on an HP Pavilion ze1000 with an upgraded disk. It mostly works, but the VIA graphics chips

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:37 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:37:57 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Gentoo is actually all about keeping all of the stuff as minimal as possible ;) Gentoo is all about doing what you want, not what other people

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-12 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Sat, 12 May 2007 11:34:39 -0400 Francisco Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends, Johannes bro.. I can't give up with that, I know we can solve your problem, I feel it :D Watch out, or you'll end up as a case for the Scary Devil Monastery. I've probably already reached this point. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers for 8600 GT

2007-05-12 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:30:50 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I don't think that there is an overlay for those drivers. Take a look at this bugs [1][2] which are dealing with the new drivers. Maybe they will be added to the tree soon. Thanks for

RE: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-10 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
and just guessing :). Regards, Aleks -Original Message- From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:13 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote: Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-10 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X

2007-05-10 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:24 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:43 + b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would

Re: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails

2007-05-09 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 01:01 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR