[gentoo-user] NTFS vs ext3

2006-11-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
think it has ext3 write support.. Or should i go the other way around and put my data on an NTFS partition, and if i do that is the NTFS write support stable by now.. it's been a long time since i dual booted so back then NTFS support was not really a good idea.. thank you in advance -- Ghaith

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
thank you for your reply,i will try that setup when i get home, but for now the network seems functioning on 100mbps though sometimes it disconnects unexpectedly however it has been stable for 2 days,anyway i was trying to force that setting as instructed from the ISP, though i never had to do

[gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello,i need to get my ethernet link speed to 10Mbits full duplex i'm using mii-tool to do it but is there a way to do it before net.eth0 starts at boot, maybe some line to add in /etc/conf.d/net i added the normal command i'm usign though it didn't seem to work, i then added it to

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet link speed

2006-06-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
well actually it can function on 100 mbps but it would be extremly slow for some reason (really long cable) so the isp just told me to keep the link at 10 mbps.On 6/6/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't it auto-detecting the link speed?-- Ghaith HachemTristMoon

Re: [gentoo-user] after an update i can't boot my kernel anymore

2006-03-20 Thread Ghaith Hachem
you continued the emerge after glibc failed right? emerge --resume --skipfirst On 3/20/06, Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, if i do an update of my system like this : emerge -pDN system --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that would be merged,

[gentoo-user] gdm keeps restarting after xorg update (was removing xorg 7)

2006-03-17 Thread Ghaith Hachem
after an emerge -e xorg-x11 i got xorg 7 working again however when i start gdm it just keeps restarting with no errors given startx is working fine inface that's how i got into the system to write this message :) so any idea about what could be the problem? thx -- Cheers, Ghaith --

[gentoo-user] removing xorg 7

2006-03-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i was installing xorg 7 yesterday updating from the old one following the guide on gentoo.org gdm wouldn't start anymore.. i kind of messed up the system after that.. now it wouldn't start X normally i reemerged xorg 6.8 i was able to start X but fglrx is not working.. emerges are failing..

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-15 Thread Ghaith Hachem
This might sound weird but yesterday i was making an iso out of a 700MB cdrom with the cp /dev/hda command it gave an error then i started gnome cd master and did the image it copied normally it happened to 2 cds so try that -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@gentoo.org

2006-03-14 Thread Ghaith Hachem
try as root chown YOURUSER:users /home/YOURUSER -R this should fix your permission problems if it still don't load create a new user with a new home directory start gnome there if it loads copy over your backups like .mozilla .amsn and stuff gnome once failed to load when i installed gentoo after

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-14 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/15/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i've run the live cd and the installer on my MSI neo4 with amd athlon 64 3000+ and 1GB of RAM with no errors.. i just ran into a problem that i made myself by canceling the installation while still partitioning the system it deleted the partitions but that was easliy fixed. a bug in the installer

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i think this should be easy, make the new partition copy the contenet of /usr to it change your fstab to include the new modifications i'm not sure how to delete the old one after it's mounted maybe mount -o bind? or just boot a live cd and delete the content of your old /usr from there when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gentoo live cd? I didn't know it started gnome. the new 2006.0 boots gnome and you can start graphical installer now for the problem, press ctrl+alt+F1 there you can kill configure your xorg with xorgconfig when done restart X with

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it worked great) On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor goes off on boot

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the x cards are particularly problematic in terms of X drivers at this time. yep the card sucks i'll get an nvidia as soon as i can maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources this page shows that the 2.6.15-r1 is availiable for x86 and amd64 gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 ~alpha amd64 arm ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86 check if the 2.6 kernel is masked.. maybe sync again though it's weird that all the other versions are masked

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] lost partition table

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore it -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table [SOLVED]

2006-03-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
: On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Hello

2006-03-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/7/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember asking about a graphical frountend [like synaptit in Mepis] and was told we're working on it. How's it coming? take a look at porthole it's in portage $ eix porthole * app-portage/porthole Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: antivirus

2006-03-06 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG On 3/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:55:18 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-7: no console switching; can't exit gnome sanely.

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
the only thing that solved this issue for me is downgrading to the 2.6.14 and forcing gdm to restart X each time i log out it's in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf # If you are having trouble with using a single server for a long time and # want gdm to kill/restart the server, turn this on

[gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is clean i've been missing some documents from these partitions on windows but they are

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 3/6/06, Masood Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont think linux can get infected by windows viruses. ofcourse but i wanted to make sure it's clean since i have a 120GB ext3 partition shared with windows so if the virus got in it would re-infect the windows once i reinstall it and be on all

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread Ghaith Hachem
yep exactly what i need, the way linux works would just make it hard to get infected but i had a shared partition infected and that would be a good reason to have a scanner On 3/6/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware and all java applications not running

2006-03-04 Thread Ghaith Hachem
none of these seemed to work.. i guess i'll try an emerge -e system or reinstall i want to try the new installer anyway On 3/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i have recently noticed that many java application are not running

[gentoo-user] vmware and all java applications not running

2006-03-01 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i have recently noticed that many java application are not running anymore like Mercury $ /fdrive/external/home/angel/1709_Linux_NoVM.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

[gentoo-user] tcltk weird behaviour

2006-02-22 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello i've recently noticed several apps failing to start $ amsn Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black Error in startup script: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name Black (default value for -highlightcolor in widget .) invoked from

Re: [gentoo-user] coreutils downgrade problem

2006-02-21 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i faced the same problem today http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435291.html check there On 2/20/06, Marko Kocić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this problem couple of times. emerge says that I should downgrade coreutils: citadela ~ # emerge -pvuD system [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-19 Thread Ghaith Hachem
using generic Radeon drivers less performance but the system do not lock up. :( snip. On 2/19/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any luck getting it to work? i have moved to modular X but ati-drivers still get the system locked up On 2/15/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-19 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i switched to the 2.6.14 kernel and forced gdm to restart x if i logout (in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf) it seems to be normal for now i'm still testing though On 2/19/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: generic drivers? no DRI right? at least not in here i'm using that too i was thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-17 Thread Ghaith Hachem
havn't tried it since i have a newer unspoorted ship (X300SE) but try this guide here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers On 2/17/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get 3d rendering

Re: [gentoo-user] package dependencies

2006-02-16 Thread Ghaith Hachem
usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need On 2/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to tell what packages are required by what? for instance i have a package that is blocking another package when i do

[gentoo-user] flash fonts and images

2006-02-15 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i think it's a comon problem some fonts are missing from flash and so are some graphics it seems is there any work arround or solution for that? maybe an alternative for macromedia flash? -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-15 Thread Ghaith Hachem
a conflic between fglrx and i2c_isa.. could be that ? On 2/15/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have the exact problem with kernel 2.15 and framebuffer disabled. it used to work fine with the same drivers and the same kernel before the only thing that changed in my 2 isntalls

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-15 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i noticed that the system still freezes sometime i guess it's a kernel problem maybe? i think xorg 7.0 has DRI support for this videocard but why is it still masked On 2/15/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try that . and then I will tell you. On 2/15/06, Ghaith Hachem

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X300 problem

2006-02-14 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i have the exact problem with kernel 2.15 and framebuffer disabled. it used to work fine with the same drivers and the same kernel before the only thing that changed in my 2 isntalls is that the new one has gcc-3.4.4 while in the old i didnt' update gcc On 2/14/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] First Mail to this list: Different isos ?

2006-02-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
if you will be downloading everything from the net size wouldn't matter just use the minimal cd if you want it's just a working environment to use to extract the basic files then chroot i once did it from an already installed distro.. and even from windows (read the archives the topic was still on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: network card not detected

2006-02-09 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i had compiled my kernel manually anyway it was another typo actually thx for the help On 2/8/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running a livecd in your computer, than lsmod and check wich modules this livecd loads. have you emerged coldplug? On 2/8/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not playing...

2006-02-09 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i have had this problem before is anything else using alsa or oss? like gaim maybe is alsa probably configured? this article in the wiki seemed to solve this problem to me http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix On 2/10/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, When I

[gentoo-user] Re: network card not detected

2006-02-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
UPDATE i loaded the forcedeath modules and ifconfig -a showed the card but as i added it to the modules.autoload it said module not found what am i missing? On 2/8/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i was trying to install gentoo with the lastest gentoo-sources (2.6.15-r3 i

[gentoo-user] Re: network card not detected

2006-02-08 Thread Ghaith Hachem
forcedeth i meant sorry i should have checked before i posted that On 2/8/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UPDATE i loaded the forcedeath modules and ifconfig -a showed the card but as i added it to the modules.autoload it said module not found what am i missing? On 2/8/06

[gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably impossible

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:38 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 2/7/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:20:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install? (That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done... For that matter, why not use partimage/rsync/tar to

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
On 2/7/06, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can mount the ext3 partition in cygwin and you can use wget then I dont see why you can't do so, setup the basic system and then see if you can chroot it. I havent used cygwin extensively though. stuck on the chroot with a /bin/bash

Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions is there a way i

[gentoo-user] network card not detected

2006-02-07 Thread Ghaith Hachem
hello, i was trying to install gentoo with the lastest gentoo-sources (2.6.15-r3 i think) it's not detecting my onboard ethernet it used to work fine with the 2.5.12 lspci shows the ethernet as CK804 (my board is MSI k8neo with nvidia chipset) i compiled the nforce reversed engineered module it

Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv

2006-02-06 Thread Ghaith Hachem
here's a guide on the gentoo wiki to install the packages without portage http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_install_programs_without_portage i guess it's the closest you can get if there's a way to do it with emerge i'd like to know it for sure. On 2/6/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: