[gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi there, It just occurred to me that the emerges shall be much faster if emerges were able to use config.cache set by other applications. The steps during ./configure could be saved globally in an /etc/config.cache which could be copied over by the current emerge step as it if was its own - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:24:17 + Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But since I am a very average guy and there are many people much | smarter than myself out there in gentoo, I think this idea has been | discarded long ago since there are incompatibilities amongst various | software in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:24 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi there, It just occurred to me that the emerges shall be much faster if emerges were able to use config.cache set by other applications. The steps during ./configure could be saved globally in an /etc/config.cache which could be copied

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:23:51 +0100, Maarten wrote: You suck AND you are wrong I do not suck. YOU suck! Do NOT! Do TOO! No you suck. And you are wrong... Now what age-group type conversation does that remind you of...? The Internet Age :( -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #01: No

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Thanks Etaoin, this has solved another issue. And another thing is learnt.. # rm -rf default/ rm: cannot remove `default/': Not a directory # rm -rf default # If you include the trailing slash, rm thinks that you are asking it to delete a directory, which default is not (it's a

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to locate mail

2006-02-18 Thread Mick
Christopher Cowart wrote: If a cron generates any output while it's running, it tries to email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Chris, I never understood this [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably because I have inadequate knowledge of many matters relating to mail within an OS). Where is [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] wireless dhcp timeout

2006-02-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i have a small (indeed not very significant but annoying) problem with my wireless card. The first time i start the dhcp client, even if the dhcp is offering, the client goes in timeout; always the second time it works immediately. What may be the cause of this effect? Regards and

RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Mrugesh Karnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2006 11:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help? It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Maarten
Ryan Tandy wrote: Maarten wrote: Or else, if /usr can be mounted noexec without trouble, I'll donate 75 bogomips to the FSF. Can we get that in writing, with a signature, creative use of {sym,hard} links and nested mounts notwithstanding? ;) Certainly ;-) Oh well, it only

[gentoo-user] digikam fails to install

2006-02-18 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
hello gentoos, I recently updated to kde 3.4.3 and on the way a lost digikam, which simply doesn't install. ### larissa frelun # emerge digikam Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-gfx/digikam-0.8.1-r1 to / md5 files ;-) digikam-0.7.4-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam fails to install

2006-02-18 Thread Fredrik Lundgren
Sorry, I forgot of course I also run ### emerge --oneshot =media-libs/libkipi-0.1.2 =media-libs/libkexif-0.2.2 ### which worked as supposed but no luck with digikam after that either. Fredrik - Original Message - From: Fredrik Lundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Izar Ilun
Hi, Well, I've already posted this problem at Gentoo forums, but as I get no answers I decided to ask for your help too. I'm quite desperated! Here's the issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435070.html Help me please!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:58, Izar Ilun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Kernel Panic': Hi, Well, I've already posted this problem at Gentoo forums, but as I get no answers I decided to ask for your help too. I'm quite desperated! Here's the issue:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:58, Izar Ilun wrote: Here's the issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435070.html From your post: title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 root(hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet splash initrd

[gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Hi, Since I have started a project that needs to be redistributed (it'll be GPL) I've started to deeply read Autoconf and Automake manuals. Well, I had read some of FHS too, to know what I should do and what I should not do with my file hierarchy. But, what came to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
On Saturday 18 February 2006 09:52, Rafael Fernández López wrote: ./configure ; make ; make install (in an app called 'whatever') and it could create for example /home/me/bin/whatever and /home/me/share/doc/whatever or /home/me/doc/whatever, and so on. This is what --prefix is for. ./configure

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 16:52 Rafael Fernández López wrote: [...] But, what came to my mind (maybe it's possible today) is that we could make a new file system subtree in every ~. [...] Hi, how do you want to realize it? For what should it be good? I think there is a Portage variable

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when no ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix is), and by default with one shot ./configure ; make ; make install it could be installed in home. Bye, Rafael Fernández López.

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

2006-02-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bruce Burden wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:29:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20050502 0 kB There's a much more recent version of this, have you tried that? Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: This is what --prefix is for. ./configure --prefix=~/ make make install This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be / What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My idea is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Zac Slade
On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:20, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when no ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix is), and by default with one shot ./configure ; make ; make install it could be

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 February 2006 15:05, Maarten wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: Maarten wrote: Or else, if /usr can be mounted noexec without trouble, I'll donate 75 bogomips to the FSF. Can we get that in writing, with a signature, creative use of {sym,hard} links and nested mounts

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
18. Februar 2006 17:16, Rafael Fernández López: What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My idea is to make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that would like to, without having to read man configure. New users usually do not install apps that their

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com OR Has anybody seen the owner recently?

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, had the same problem some weeks ago. Reason was some header mangling done in the rz of my 'provider' that made the mailing list discard my messages. If gentoo+owner does not get back on you, maybe because they do not get your messages? Try bugzilla. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Hi all, I have a problem with KMail regarding the GnuPG plugin. I think i just do not know how to use it and where to find documentation, so a little help would be useful. The plugin itself works fine, I can send encrypted and signed messages, I get always a prompt in which I can enter my

[gentoo-user] odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-18 Thread James
Hello, /dev/null is acting weird. The permissions have recently changes on a system I sync regularly. I can change the permissions back to 666, but every time the system reboots, dev null resets to: crw-rw 1 root 1, 3 Jan 20 10:05 /dev/null How to I make permanent changes so that /dev/null

[gentoo-user] apsfilter issue

2006-02-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, After struggling unsuccessfully with CUPS I installed lprng and apsfilter. I got as far as printing the test page in apsfilter-setup but any attempt to print fails. Here's a recent xterm session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpq Printer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - cannot open connection - No such

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

2006-02-18 Thread James
Bo Andresen bo.andresen at gmail.com writes: I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to get 3d rendering working with the free dri drivers so I followed this howto: http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml Extremely cool! I tried some time ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi, On 'gentoo-portage-dev' ML there are such patch (for portage-2.1_preX) plus in portage there's a package: * dev-util/confcache Available versions: 0.3.3 0.4 0.4.1 Installed: 0.4.1 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/confcache Description:

[gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
18. Februar 2006 17:46, James: /dev/null is acting weird. The permissions have recently changes on a system I sync regularly. I can change the permissions back to 666, but every time the system reboots, dev null resets to: crw-rw  1 root 1, 3 Jan 20 10:05 /dev/null How to I make

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? Cdrecord tries to detect the disk manufacturer at the beginning of the write process. Look for cdrecord output messages. Here is an example using a TDK blank CD (your

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

2006-02-18 Thread Rafael Fernández López
As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no way to do it? Bye, Rafael Fernández López. pgp9zokH8act6.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? cat /proc/ide/hdd/model This works if your cdrom is /dev/hdd, replace otherwise. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Maarten
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 18 February 2006 15:05, Maarten wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: Maarten wrote: Oh well, it only amounts to 23 days of my Athlons' undivided attention. I'll live. ;-) 23 days conpressed into one second. That will be the hard part. ;-) Well, maybe. Depending on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Izar Ilun
Ibai and me are the same, so I apologize again for amuising you! :-)On 2/18/06, Ibai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fisrt of all, thanx for answering, I apologize for the excesive amount of info I brought! Well, I'll try to answer your posts in order Just a guess. Do you have /dev/console device

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:54:04 -0800 gentuxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I doubt I could fit all the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-18 20:25:58 +0300 (Sat, Feb), Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? The only one I found so far is: cdrecord -dummy -v dev=/dev/cdrw /dev/null but it does not work on non-writers, and I havent looked for such tool too hard :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:57 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi, On 'gentoo-portage-dev' ML there are such patch (for portage-2.1_preX) plus in portage there's a package: * dev-util/confcache Available versions: 0.3.3 0.4 0.4.1 Installed: 0.4.1 Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
This shows a drive model rather media manufacturer. === On Saturday 18 February 2006 20:46, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: === --- Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? cat /proc/ide/hdd/model This works if your cdrom is /dev/hdd,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? Cdrecord tries to detect the disk manufacturer at the beginning of the write process. Look for cdrecord output

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? the drive? hdparm man hdparm, if you don't know which option you need. the blanks? none that is reliable - best to look at the package and google -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-18 18:52:49 +0100 (Sat, Feb), Izar Ilun wrote: Do you have /dev/console device existing? No, I don't. At less now that I'm chrooting Gentoo via Ubuntu... So check once more (ls -l /dev/console), try to create it, and see what happens: mknod -m 0600 /dev/console c 5 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
You need three things (my experience) - a patch for portage-2.1_preX/4; emerge confcache from portage and put FEATURES=...confcache... in /etc/make.conf. This works for me. The patch is:confcache-final (IIRC) search mailing-list archives for it. Or mail me directly. Thanks Rumen - I'll take

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

2006-02-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i was trying to upgrade udev from version 070-r1 to 079-r1; however before trying to build the package it says: emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/udev-079-r1 to / md5 files ;-) udev-079-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) udev-081.ebuild md5 files ;-) udev-081-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:13, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: this information is very useless... because the information is printed into the stamper to make the blanks. And when a manufacturer sells its stampers to another on, or a third buys them on the 'second hand' or 'grey

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

2006-02-18 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-18 19:42:03 +0100 (Sat, Feb), Marco Calviani wrote: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev/files/udev.rules.post_012 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size i have tried with emerge sync, but nothing changed. Any help? Compare your file

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
And he may have a good quality one but it's dying. I had to replace a PC Power and Cooling recently. After 5 years one of the voltages was dropping low. I finally caught it because on an alert by the motherboard monitor which gave me an alarm. That system was doing the same - lock up or

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

2006-02-18 Thread Adrian Vraciu
On Saturday 18 February 2006 20:42, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i was trying to upgrade udev from version 070-r1 to 079-r1; however before trying to build the package it says: emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/udev-079-r1 to / md5 files ;-) udev-079-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) udev-081.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade fails

2006-02-18 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Mariusz Compare your file to my one, attached. Are there any differences? diff sees no differences between the two files. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Not getting gentoo-user at espersunited.com OR Has anybody seen the owner recently?

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
--- Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, had the same problem some weeks ago. Reason was some header mangling done in the rz of my 'provider' that made the mailing list discard my messages. If gentoo+owner does not get back on you, maybe because they do not get your

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 18 February 2006 11:52, Izar Ilun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic': Just a guess. Do you have /dev/console device existing? No, I don't. At less now that I'm chrooting Gentoo via Ubuntu... ls /mnt/gentoo/dev/[hms]* -ld ubuntu / # ls

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-18 Thread Thomas Kirchner
* On Feb 17 16:16, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: net.eth0 isn't actually failing when ifplugd detects no cable. It is shown as inactive rather than stopped. You could try starting the interface from /etc/conf.d/local only if eth0 is not active with etc/init.d/net.eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unable to locate mail

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher Cowart
Thanks Chris, I never understood this [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably because I have inadequate knowledge of many matters relating to mail within an OS). Where is [EMAIL PROTECTED], where is mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] stored, how is it meant to be retrieved? localhost means your box. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:51:21 +0100 Maarten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back to the thread... I started wondering about something. I thought a 100% full root filesystem was deadly, but never thought about /tmp. So I'd like to ask, what is more deadly for a system, a full root FS, a full /tmp

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

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I've read in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there's no way to make it work for a Radeon above 9100. Oh !! mine is Mobility Radeon 9700, if I want DRI through open source drivers, I've no way to do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher Cowart
I've experienced this problem before. The developers insist the ebuild is absolutely correct, but it doesn't always attempt to migrate conf changes to /etc/udev. The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to $ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-* $ sudo emerge -av udev This will

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail and GnuPG plugin

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher Cowart
Add the following lines to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf: keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-disabled include-revoked \ honor-keyserver-url (Except don't break the line in your conf) The keyserver-option auto-key-retrieve tells gpg to try to get a key from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:58:24 -0500, Thomas Kirchner wrote: preup() { [ ${IFACE} == eth0 ] /etc/init.d/net.eth1 --quiet status /etc/init.d/net.eth1 pause return 0 } Thanks for this - it looks quite handy. Is preup() executed after ifplug notices a connection? When does postup()

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer - HOWTO identify?

2006-02-18 Thread James
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: On Saturday 18 February 2006 18:25, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Is there a tool to identify a CD/DVD/R/RW-manufacturer? the drive? hdparm man hdparm, hdparm i /dev/hdc Model=TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412,

[gentoo-user] lspci shows 2 entries for video card?

2006-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm trying to see if I can tweak things a little bit. Here are the last 2 entries from the output of lspci -v... 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 1b60 Flags:

[gentoo-user] Which disk drivers do I need

2006-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm trying to clean some cruft out of the kernel. lspci shows... 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Izar Ilun
I'll tell you later on, now I'm tired alkoholic! ;-)On 2/18/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Saturday 18 February 2006 11:52, Izar Ilun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wroteabout 'Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic': Just a guess. Do you have /dev/console device existing? No, I don't. At

[gentoo-user] klaptop appears in weird spot!

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, the kde laptop taskbar applet, klaptop, occasionally gets dislodged! atm it's in the top left corner of the screen, but the main panel is down the bottom. I can still click on it, and see how much power is remaining, but it seems a bit weird. The only way to get it back into place is to

[gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??

2006-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi again, The kde tryout is progressing well. However, I just tried to plug in my usb storage drive. Nothing happened. I found the Settings Peripheral storage media; and there is an option: Enable HAL backend (No support for HAL on this system) which is greyed out. I have definately

[gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior?

2006-02-18 Thread Jeff
Hey all. I'm curious as to why a handful of /dev/ entries seem to be pointing to the same device - notably, to hdc, which is my DVD burner. See here: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrw - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root