On Monday 03 August 2009, Grant wrote:
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3960872076 754795944 157266648 83% /
The partition is fairly full, probably the system has a hard time finding a
spot to create an unfragmented file. I remember
I did not try recently. 3-4- years ago it may still have been Linux PPC. Now
it is MacTel so it mainly should be a question of supported hardware and
booting.
Thierry
On Friday 27 February 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
I'm considering attempting to set up an Intel Mac Mini as a
MythTV frontend.
On Saturday 23 August 2008, Guillermo Dutra wrote:
Jajajjaja Very funny, but I have to recognize that while I was compiling
and installing gentoo trough 2 days to get the X work with kde , I
thinked seriously to kick the lcd screen or distroy the keyboard. But
now I don change it!!!.
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Graham Murray wrote:
I have a similar problem. I have installed and selected dictionaries,
but openoffice will only allow me to select English as the language for
spell checking.
I don't know what version of OOo you are using and I don't run it on Gentoo
now so I
On Tuesday 19 August 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
The gentoo build removes the wizard and uses hunspell instead. My
personal view is these suck big time and I would rather have the proper
OO ones for en_AU. What happened to the policy of not mucking with
upstream if at all possible?
On Friday 04 April 2008, Francesco Talamona wrote:
VirtualBox can be configured in either way!
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux
Ciao
Francesco
Many Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Not being a network expert, I must admit I used the wizards... and virtualboy
had
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote:
I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual
you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number
of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you
must shut the VM down before
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote:
Hi group,
I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest
and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I
found the output crowded with puffy, oozing
electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for
Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both
OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not
mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will.
(...)
I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250
You are right that XP should work - or
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote:
Hi group,
Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies
suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere
between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards
without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off.
And when it
On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
So my
opinion is that samsung and seagate seem to deliver (so far...),
maxtor/wd/others, it's a toss-up, and IBM==bad.
Harddisks are build by the thousands, and I know of no industrial product that
never has a unit go bad.
I once had three
On Monday, 24. September 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
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
an 'Intel Core
Hello,
Trying to show that we could use Linux in our chool, I am trying to connect a
machine per wifi to a rather Macintosh oriented network.
I know I can connect from a (PC) laptop running Mac OS, and the Linux machine
is so far that I know the card works and I can see the network. It's an
On Monday, 13. August 2007, Tim wrote:
Have you tried just using 'init 0' rather than 'shutdown -h now'?
(...)
I'd say check in your BIOS to see what power options there are - some
BIOSes can change the action on receiving a power button signal.
Thanks for your suggestions. Init 0 did not
Hello,
I've got an older Compaq EVO D510 desktop that I was thinking to setup as a
lab machine (that should be also used by people who basicaly have no Linux
knowledge). I've installed Gentoo on it and it works well but for one thing:
When I want sto shut it down, it reboots! This happens as
On Monday, 6. August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a french man. As such, I use iso-8859-15 encoding system wide w/o
problem.
Few questions:
- Should I switch to UTF-8 ?
- Why ?
- Any known problems related to this migration ?
As usual, I found a gentoo.org doc about it will use it
On Monday, 6. August 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Where do you set KMail to do auto-detect? As far as I can tell,
KMail always obeys the encoding specification given in the mail
itself, and probably only in the absence of that tries to do some
autodetection.
You seem to be right - I've
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote:
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes
when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I
have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other
meta-distro out there? It's
Hello,
I've managed to emerge the gentoo base, X and KDE and all are running fine. My
last problem is sound. After several attemps (with the kernel ALSA module and
ALSA-driver), I've got my SB Live correctly loaded with ALSA Driver - at
least there is no error message. I didn't load any module
Hello,
I'm in the process of emerging kde-meta. However, the process is stopped by
the kopete ebuild that says I should reemerge x11-libs/qt-3* with USE=opengl.
Now emerge --pretend does not return anything that looks like qt-3, neither
does emerge --search.
In any case, what I would like is
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:39, Peter Alfredsen wrote:
On Sunday 17 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do following:
1) in /etc/portage/package.use add this:
x11-libs/qt-3* opengl
=x11-libs/qt-3* opengl
Is more likely to succeed, I think.
/PA
Thanks to all!
I had added the use flag
hello,
I'm trying to install on a Gigabyte M61PM-S2. that card works well, but uses
some chipsets that are only supported in the latest kernels.
Network is such a chipset, it's an nvidia nForce 430 chipset that uses a
Realtek RTL8211 PHY that, apparently, does not require drivers (if I
On Saturday 16 June 2007 22:55, Xavier Parizet wrote:
Coud you provide us the output of dmesg according forcedeth module (dmesg
|grep forcedeth), route -n, ifconfig ethX and /etc/conf.d/net ...
I could, but this is no more necessary
On Saturday 16 June 2007 23:20, Uwe Thiem wrote:
A guess
Hello,
I've a somewhat old system (it was installed with 2005.1 at the time) that I
wanted to try updating.
However, emerge --update --pretend world thows an awfull lot of blocking
packages, mostly x11-something, but including KDE, java and others.
There is no question of unmasking all these
Hello,
I'm in the process of compiling a new system using 2006.1 (minimal
install/amd64). My only problem at the moment is that every time I start the
system the nameserver information has diseapeared from /etc/resolv.conf.
There is a text line saying that the file was created by the net
On Friday 09 March 2007 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:30:51 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
There is a text line saying that the file was created by the net
scripts so I guess resolv.conf gets re-created at each boot, but I
don't find in which net script I should pour
On Friday 09 March 2007 18:50, Dan Farrell wrote:
In that case, you may not want to use DHCP to configure your devices ; )
I don't use it (or at least I never intended to). I've set up a network
configuration with fixed IPs and copied the configuration files as instructed
in the handbook -
On Friday 09 March 2007 21:57, Dan Farrell wrote:
In all likelihood, you didn't edit /etc/conf.d/net for one of your
network interfaces, which ifplugd then tried to bring up. you may want
to change /etc/conf.d/rc.
Yes, I did edit /etc/conf.d/net. Actually everything works correctly (I get
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Have you read /etc/conf.d/net.example? This part may apply here:
Hum, no, I did not - I blindly followed the handbook
# NOTE: Setting any of these will stamp on the files in question. So if you
# don't specify dns_servers but you do specify
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
My 14 year old asked if there is a simple app in portage that would
allow him to chop an existing video into a couple of pieces? I guess
he wants to upload something to You Tube but it's either too long or
too large.
I expect it
On Sunday 17 December 2006 04:34, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Can anyone suggest a simple, easy-to-use software package for light
editing of video files (cutting commercials out of MythTV recordings).
I tried to use avidemux, but it went into an infinite loop when I tried
to save the file after
On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, Alan wrote:
I'm not sure I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and
at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory
management or something). Not sure if this has changed in the 5.x
series or not, but it's something to
Now I love Gentoo as a distribution, but the way to setup X *must* be
improved! I have just finished installing on an older Athlon with a Nvidia
2mx graphic card.
Xorg -configure just fails: it says it can't detect my mouse (it's an IBM ps/2
trackpoint).
xorgconfig gives an unusable config.
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm seeing stuff on line that indicates it is now possible to write to
ntfs formated disk from linux (at least semi-reliably).
I'd like to delete a few directories and files that the windows xp OS
sees as `system files' and will not
Hello,
Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo on it.
I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I could compile
an x86_64 version, but I was thinking it would be more compatible to stay
with the 32bit for now.
Any experience?
Thierry
--
On Thursday 27 July 2006 14.41, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Hello,
Having got a virgin dual core (Intel D 805) I'm about to install Gentoo
on it. I was wondering what would be best. If I understand it right, I
could compile an x86_64 version, but I was thinking
On Thursday 27 July 2006 15.10, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so
Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines -
larger addressable space of RAM.
Will you do number crunching with floating point numbers
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16.21, Tito Valentin wrote:
Hello All,
I can't seem to get sound working. I compiled the kernel so sound
support and also installed the alsa drivers and still no luck. When I
boot the machine I get a lot of snd errors saying that it failed to load
the drivers. When I
On Sunday 14 May 2006 19.31, Tito Valentin wrote:
Thierry,
Here is what my sound card is based on lspci:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
I can add the card manually when I do:
# modprobe snd
But after that,
On Sunday 07 May 2006 09.32, Walter Dnes wrote:
I have *EXACTLY* the same situation, and I figured out what was
causing it, and I came up with with a workaround; I wouldn't call it a
perfect solution.
(...)
Thanks a lot for your report. I'll check what I did, I don't remember if I
compiled
On Sunday 07 May 2006 10.59, Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
Sounds like you might be missing a module on startup , try adding
usb-storage to the module autoloading script for your kernel.
Hello Ognjen and thanks for your suggestion. I'm ashamed it really was that
simple. I just thought usb-storage was
Hello,
I've got an usb multi-card reader. The device does work, however since I run
Gentoo it behaves a little different than before. Previously the reader would
be indentified on boot (usually reserving /dev/sda to /dev/sdd). I set up
those drives in /etc/fstab and created devices on the
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Hi,
OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has
already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to
working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this
happens again, this is windoze
Hello all,
I am trying to configure a small network (two desktops and a notebook) to
share printers.
Desktop 1 runs Gentoo and has a B/W Laserjet on LPT1
Desktop 2 runs OpenSuSE 10.0 and has a color Laserjet on LPT1
The Notebook is a Thinkpad runing OpenSuSE 10.0 nad has no printer attached.
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23.29, Mick wrote:
On 19/04/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't be that difficult. For example to print from Desktop2 to
printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2 and add
printer:
Printer Type: IPP Printer
URI:
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody.
To-day I installed kdebase using emerge kdebase.
But the installed version was 3.4.3.
Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version?
emilio
I did not sync recently but (on my amd64 machine) emerge --pretend =kde-3.5.0
On Monday 13 March 2006 17.34, Chris Frederick wrote:
Mike Myers wrote:
This is a transcode problem. There's a couple filters for transcode
that are bad. Get rid of (or rename) the
/usr/lib/transcode/filter_compare.so and
/usr/lib/transcode/filter_logo.so files. I had the same problem and
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23.37, Mike Myers wrote:
I'll try that out. I'm using a laptop with a pentium M though.
Then maybe it's a bug in the ebuild (either DVDrip or transcode).
Thierry
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 22.32, Mike Myers wrote:
Hey everybody!
I'm trying to find something that I can use to rip and then remake
DVDs. I have some japanese dvds that won't play on almost any regular
dvd players because of the stupid region thing. K3b didn't seem to have
anything for
Hello,
I'm running an amd64 Gentoo (but this is not a specific amd64 question) and
have installed a few ~amd64 masked packages - and some work amzingly well.
So I googled for information as to where I might report success, so that they
might be unmasked, but didn't find that info.
Where - and
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21.02, Dave Nebinger wrote:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Where - and how - should I report masked packages that work?
You don't need to report success. There are teams of folks who 'bless'
the packages into unmasked status when they feel they are ready.
Your lack
Hello,
I've been installing Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43 and, while I've been able
to get a mostly working machine, I need some help for fine tuning:
First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a domain name.
The domain name is correctly written in /etc/conf.d/domainname,
On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi!
From the manpage:
domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name
nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name
ypdomainname - show or set the system's
On Monday, 23 January 2006 21:15, Simon Kellett wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Depends a bit on what you want: basic stuff or 3d-gaming !
Basic stuff. Not into games, and I don't watch movies on my computer
either.
Same as me then: I just bought the cheapest card with an nVidia chip,
On Monday, 23 January 2006 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Resolution is 1680 x 1050. I do need to make sure the 6600 can do this
with the Linux driver.
Here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15118735
I read: Is it possible to have 1680*1050 displayed under Linux?
Yeah, I have a nVidia
Hello,
I'm using DVD:rip on a Mepis/Debian installation with no problem. I don't
remeber exactly the versions of DVD:rip and transcode, but it just plain
works.
On my new Gentoo install DVD:rip starts OK, but then all goes wrong: ripping
fails with message could not read this frame, then
On Monday, 7 November 2005 22:31, Peper wrote:
Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ?
I had it working with 2.6.12 , but got an error with 2.6.14 :
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialise NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none
Hello,
I had tried Gentoo two years ago and now I'm back after some time using a
Debian derivate (is still my main system for the time being).
I spent quite a time emerging and compiling from a stage 2 and most things
seem to work well. There are two little things that don't work just the way
On Sunday, 6 November 2005 21:30, John Jolet wrote:
I do it in the /etc/conf.d/net. default gw 192.168.0.1 is the entry and
it goes in fine. however, the entry I have is routes_eth0 not
route_eth0.
Thanks, that was it - I must have made a typo...
Thierry
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