Re: [gentoo-user] no stinkin bootloaders!

2013-11-09 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi James, I banged my head a little against this problem as my new laptop has no option to turn the secure uefi off. I had no success with gentoo, but I was able to install fedora 18. Although when recompiling the kernel to use my security key, I never managed to boot it. I suspect the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-04 Thread Davide Carnovale
Stroller, i didn't knew what a chroot was back then either, but i've found in gentoo a vdery good teacher. If you are willing to learn, with gentoo you can go as deeper as you want and learn a lot. Most of the linux knowledge i have i owe it to gentoo. As far as i understand know, chroot is

[gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the days, for being fast, as it was one of the first

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
it... D 2013/4/2 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com: On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
...@gmail.com ha scritto: On 02/04/2013 19:51, Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Thanks to the devs

2012-05-23 Thread Davide Carnovale
+1 thank you guys! D 2012/5/23 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com I've noticed a lot of overt participation on this list by gentoo devs[1], especially in scenarios where they're explaining rationales and reasoning behind changes that affect users. I'd just like to say thank you for the work you

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Davide Carnovale
Did you tried shift + pgup? it will let you scroll a bit up. Opposite for shift +pgdown D Il giorno 30/gen/2012 11:56, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au ha scritto: Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with KDE after a emerge world. Now when I log into my box at a text console, no X running

[gentoo-user] weird problem with missing docs during emerge

2012-01-26 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi all, a few days ago i had to reinstall my gentoo box. while doing so, various ebuilds failed while trying to copy some documentation. I don't have the doc use flag enabled, so i found it weird that emerge was looking for it. My temporary fix was to enable the doc flag on a per package basis,

Re: [gentoo-user] Holiday greetings!

2011-12-24 Thread Davide Carnovale
Happy holidays to everyone =) D Il giorno 24 dicembre 2011 18:48, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com ha scritto: On Saturday 24 Dec 2011 15:14:00 Joseph Davis wrote: Just wanted to say thanks and Happy Holidays to everyone on the list, I love reading here! Cheers - Joseph Happy Christmas

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the souce code of software?

2011-11-10 Thread Davide Carnovale
hi, i guess you're looking for ls /usr/portage/distfiles/ D 2011/11/10 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com Could anyone tell me that where I can find the source code of software on my system? Such as ls, cd .etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-03 Thread Davide Carnovale
Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de On 05/02/2011 06:05:08 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: @alan, no error are printed, where and what should i look for in the logs? @helmut python just returns to the console, without error or effect of any sort, does it means python has get unmerged

[gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi all! i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge throw an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure. since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge, the command simply return to the shell without any kind of error or any other

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

2011-05-02 Thread Davide Carnovale
On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all! i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge throw an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure. since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge, the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-03-30 Thread Davide Carnovale
my acer aspire 5740d has an ati card that works, a sunyin (or something) webcam that works, intel hda audio works (although i had to fight for the mic to work) and wifi works too (don't recall what card it has...) never tested hibernation or suspend though... D 2011/3/30 Robin Atwood

[gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hello everyone, it's two days i'm struggling to get a decent video quality on a fresh gentoo install. i have an ATI mobility HD5650 on a laptop. i've set VIDEO_CARD=radeon on /etc/make.conf and emerge xf86-video-ati and radeon-ucode i've also followed hints from here:

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
drivers or the xorg ones? can you please share your xorg config file? BTW i'm using xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 can that be the problem? D 2010/12/27 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
, merging it with my autogenerated one (for monitor etc...) thanks a lot! will let you know if it works D 2010/12/27 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com wrote: by decent video quality i mean, that i see the images

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
now. thanks also for the config file walkthrough will let you know if i'll fix this. D 2010/12/27 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com On Monday 27 December 2010 23:23:32 Davide Carnovale wrote: Volker, my card should not be supported by the ati-drivers package as it's too old

Re: [gentoo-user] very poor video quality with xorg-server and ati video card

2010-12-27 Thread Davide Carnovale
problem solved, hooray! thanks Volker for the guidance! it turned out to be a problem related to the kernel config, as i had ati dri built there, and possibly some framebuffer problems too. Thanks a lot! Davide 2010/12/28 Davide Carnovale francesco.davide.carnov...@gmail.com Mark, your config

R: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo from a Debian?

2010-09-15 Thread Davide Carnovale
You definitely can. The usual gentoo install is based on the support of another system, being that gentoo or debian makes no difference as long as you can chroot at some point. But i think you might have some problems if you want to install a 32bit gentoo from a 64bit system. If that's not your

R: Re: R: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo from a Debian?

2010-09-15 Thread Davide Carnovale
You're welcome! I was just online at the right time =) Il giorno 15/set/2010 13:40, a...@sourcegarden.de a...@sourcegarden.de ha scritto: On 09/15/10 13:33, Davide Carnovale wrote: You definitely can. The usual gentoo install is based o... Great stuff, thanks for fast answere. Greeting from

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server/nvidia/x86-driver updated: No kbd, no mouse

2010-04-25 Thread Davide Carnovale
Hi, something like that happened to me too, i am guilty of not having followed the guide, but i solved the problem booting from a live cd, chrooting into my gentoo and rebuilding xf86-input-* packages HTH Davide 2010/4/25 meino.cra...@gmx.de Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net [10-04-25 14:37]: On

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox mouse gestures

2010-01-06 Thread Davide Carnovale
Get what you need from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ HTH Davide 2010/1/6 fajfu...@wp.pl Hi How can I install mouse gestures for firefox under gentoo. I cannot find any package that seems to be proper for that. great thanks for help