RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Mark M. Hart
Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre8 [May 6 2006 11:12] Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh Starting MOL session 0 The kernel module '/usr/lib/mol/0.9.71/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/sheep.o' appears to be missing. Running in PowerPC 750 mode, 96 MB RAM Timebase: 16.70 MHz, Bus: 66.82 MHz, Clock: 233 MHz Using

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Mac-on-Linux 0.9.71-pre8 [May 6 2006 11:12] Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh Starting MOL session 0 The kernel module '/usr/lib/mol/0.9.71/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/sheep.o' appears to be missing. Running in PowerPC 750

RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Mark M. Hart
Here's after re-emerging with USE=sheep I actually got a window for a split-second with the mac-on-linux penguin symbol. Please let me know how to re-emerge with the network masquerading enabled; do I do a USE=nat or USE=tun or something like that? Anyway, here goes: startmol Mac-on-Linux

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac on Linux?

2006-05-07 Thread Joseph Jezak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark M. Hart wrote: Here's after re-emerging with USE=sheep I actually got a window for a split-second with the mac-on-linux penguin symbol. Please let me know how to re-emerge with the network masquerading enabled; do I do a USE=nat or USE=tun

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-07 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Sunday 07 May 2006 01:03, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 17:30, Pawel K wrote: Hello How to force open office to type national (Polish) fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the document containing them but when I press the combination right alt-char it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness

2006-05-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:57:57PM +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote Since using Gentoo the reader apparently is not seen on boot (if no card is plugged in). When I plug a card in and try to mount it I get an error message (no such device). So my guess is that I am missing a small something in

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness

2006-05-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] national keyboard in open office

2006-05-07 Thread Dave Jones
Martins Steinbergs wrote on 07/05/06 07:54: On Sunday 07 May 2006 01:03, Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 17:30, Pawel K wrote: How to force open office to type national (Polish) fonts. I can see them on the screen when opening the document containing them but when I press the combination

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness

2006-05-07 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
'On Saturday 06 May 2006 11:57, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader weirdness

2006-05-07 Thread Thierry de Coulon
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

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6 glxgears gives 1320 fps but if I simultaneously execute (for example)

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/6, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! I know kde can use prelink to accelerate. Can gnome do it? If it can,how?I know in kde we should change the file 99kde-env in /etc/env.d,but here i can't see any file relate gnome. Thank you in advance! From

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/6, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am really impressed with the speed improvements in Gnome 2.14 vs 2.12. Then is there anyway to accelerate gnome? As JimD wrote - 2.14 will be A LOT faster then 2.12. That's also what you'll find on gnome.org. Does anyone know, when

[gentoo-user] kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()

2006-05-07 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Hi to Everyone! I have a DELL Inspiron 6000 and installing KDE I see this error message printed constantly on the console: kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status() Google doesn't give me any help, so I ask you if someone knows how to solve this. Thanks! Mauro --

[gentoo-user] What exactly is kernel timer frequency?

2006-05-07 Thread Jure Varlec
What exactly does 'Timer frequency' (under 'Processor type and features') do? Which timer does it control? I'm asking because it seems to have interesting effects. I used to have it set to 1KHz. Yesterday, I tried setting it to 100Hz just to see what effects it would have. I didn't notice any

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Rohit Sharma
marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Alexander Skwar wrote: Does anyone know, when 2.14 will finally be unmasked? Alexander Skwar Don't worry about the mask status. 2.14 is the official stable release from Gnome. Just follow this guide until it is unmasked; http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_to_GNOME_unstable Jim --

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
JimD wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Does anyone know, when 2.14 will finally be unmasked? Alexander Skwar Don't worry about the mask status. Yes, I do, because of: #Most of these packages will break/not compile because of eclass #changes that won't be made until every package is in the

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
JimD wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Does anyone know, when 2.14 will finally be unmasked? Don't worry about the mask status. Ah! It's no longer hardmasked! http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119872#c29 --- Comment #29 From John N. Laliberte 2006-05-06 15:01 PST [reply]

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). I have not tried it myself,

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/7, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/5/6, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am really impressed with the speed improvements in Gnome 2.14 vs 2.12. Then is there anyway to accelerate gnome? As JimD wrote - 2.14 will be A LOT faster then 2.12. That's also what you'll

[gentoo-user] Firefox: (no picture)

2006-05-07 Thread Wes Gray
Usually when I click on a video in Firefox I get a black screen that says (no picture). Any idea what I need to emerge to get videos working? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-07 Thread maxim wexler
mebbe you must change permissions on the device. What does $ls -l /dev/sda say? --- Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain isn't acting normally (so searching on the forums didn't solve anything either) :( I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cruzer

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A parameter can be set to 1000 [default] and can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, marcin wrote: If by Low latency desktop you mean Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) then i have tried this and it doesn't help. I set the kernel timer frequency to 100 Hz. There are other things that affect the latencies too. One is the timer frequency setting. The

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread Ptitjack
wu chuanwen a gentiment tapote: 2006/5/7, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: Then is there anyway to accelerate gnome?My machine is not very fast!(yeah,of course my machine is not as good as yours) What are the specs of your computer? Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:43, Rohit Sharma wrote: I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which facilitates the role of Low latency desktop in the 2.6 kernels. A

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread Jacques Montier
Ptitjack a gentiment tapote: wu chuanwen a gentiment tapote: 2006/5/7, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: Then is there anyway to accelerate gnome?My machine is not very fast!(yeah,of course my machine is not as good as yours) What are the specs of your

Re: [gentoo-user] kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Hi to Everyone! I have a DELL Inspiron 6000 and installing KDE I see this error message printed constantly on the console: kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status() Google doesn't give me any

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox: (no picture)

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wes Gray wrote: Usually when I click on a video in Firefox I get a black screen that says (no picture). Any idea what I need to emerge to get videos working? Thanks! mplayerplug-in normally will display everything that mplayer is capable of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge linux-headers failed

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ali Tlisov wrote: Hi! I'v got this when attempted to emerge linux-headers: * gentoo-headers-2.6.11-5.tar.bz2 unpacked * Applying linux-2.6.12.1-blackfin.patch.patch (-p0+) ...[ ok ] * Applying 2.6.0-fb.patch (-p0+) ... [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] qt cycling reason

2006-05-07 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: After last qt upgrading (at ~x86) 'emerge -pvDut world' out is below. Does it mean qalculate-kde and kdelibs qt-dependency are incorrect in their ebuild files? -- These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] can gnome use prelink?

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
wu chuanwen wrote: Celeron(R)2.0G,Ram=512mb,disk=40Gb That is not bad at all. yeah!I am using Gnome2.14.I konw it's nice.I am just trying to find some ways to make it more fast! Is it possible. What is slow about it? Just the startup or the use of applications or both? One thing I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, Tero Grundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, marcin wrote: If by Low latency desktop you mean Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) then i have tried this and it doesn't help. I set the kernel timer frequency to 100 Hz. There are other things that affect the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my laptop with or without nbench running. What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6 glxgears gives 1320 fps but if I simultaneously

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 17:41, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: are you sure? AFAIR 250 is default since som time. No, 1000 has always been the default for 2.6. kernels. not anymore! unpacked a 2.6.16

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 corrupted after power cut off when emerged world

2006-05-07 Thread Maurice E Johnson
Why the --newuse portion of the command line did you change your system or otherwise modify your USE variable? Looks like you were interrupted during install of a package (specifically baselayout). I see that you have re-emerged baselayout with no luck. If you are like me, you don't empty

[gentoo-user] wnck-applets problem

2006-05-07 Thread Zahid Hossain
Guys, my gmplayer used to run fine earliar..before installed gnome-2.14.. now after the upgrade.. the gmplayer would crash the wnck-applets and then i have to reload window-manager and panel applets. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this annoying problem.. I am using gcc-4.1.0 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my laptop with or

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread marcin
On 5/7/06, marcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... Yesterday I did an emerge -u world which

[gentoo-user] ssh logs?

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Does ssh keep a log anywhere of outgoing ssh sessions and the IP address they were connecting to? I have been connecting to a machine that runs noip but the noip address is coming up 0.0.0.0 implying noip isn't running or the machine is powered down. I'd like to figure out what address the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: On 5/7/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marcin wrote: Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin I am using gentoo-sources with the Anticipatory I/O sched and did not notice a slow down when I ran glxgears and nbench. I get about 980 fps on my

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask things

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Robert Persson wrote: Stick with 6.8.2 for the time being. 7 works a little better with wine, but overall it is the kind of pain in the arse that shoots most of the way back up your digestive tract. Robert Or stick with xorg-7 and don't do all the little updates? If i have a working

Re: [gentoo-user] What exactly is kernel timer frequency?

2006-05-07 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Jure Varlec wrote: What exactly does 'Timer frequency' (under 'Processor type and features') do? Which timer does it control? I'm asking because it seems to have interesting effects. I used to have it set to 1KHz. Yesterday, I tried setting it to 100Hz just to see what

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh logs?

2006-05-07 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Does ssh keep a log anywhere of outgoing ssh sessions and the IP address they were connecting to? I have been connecting to a machine that runs noip but the noip address is coming up 0.0.0.0 implying noip isn't running or the machine is powered

Re: [gentoo-user] kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()

2006-05-07 Thread Mauro Arnoldi
Alle 18:12, domenica 07 maggio 2006, Jeremy Olexa ha scritto: Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Hi to Everyone! I have a DELL Inspiron 6000 and installing KDE I see this error message printed constantly on the console: kded: ERROR: KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status() Google

[gentoo-user] xrdb hangs login

2006-05-07 Thread James
Hello, MY gentoo laptop has been working fine for years However, now upon login (of any user) it hangs. SSh into the machine and I see that xrdb is hung. Killing off the process allows the kde login apps to complete and everything else is normal. I have re-emerged kdebase but this does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
--- Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask things anymore. The problem is, that you still habe packages unmasked and therefor, you now get xorg 7.1 stuff. Please clean your portage.unmask of any xorg-stuff. I have just cleared package.mask and

[gentoo-user] gentoo installation: reboot problem (lilo)...

2006-05-07 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just finished basic gentoo installation, installed boot-loader (lilo) and tried to restart. But to my surprise, computer does not boot. All I can see is blinking underscore character in top left corner of screen, no prompt, nothing more... === lilo.conf === password = restricted delay=5

[gentoo-user] modular xorg and aiptek tablet

2006-05-07 Thread Lord_Asriel
Hi, I desperately need suggestions about how to make my aiptek tablet work. I successfully emerged xorg 7.0-r1 with USE flag: INPUT_DEVICES=aiptek evdev keyboard mouse synaptics (x11-drivers/xf86-input-aiptek and xf86-input-evdev version 1.0.0.5), compiled the standard aiptek driver in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh logs?

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Does ssh keep a log anywhere of outgoing ssh sessions and the IP address they were connecting to? I have been connecting to a machine that runs noip but the noip address is coming up 0.0.0.0

[gentoo-user] xorg downgrade problems

2006-05-07 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I have an update problem since when I downgrade from xorg 7.0 to 6.8.2: I can't update some programs like xorg, kde or k3b or install licq... The messagge is always the Xft is missing... but it is a package from xorg 7.0... I tried ti upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, AS stinks, when mldonkey is running. The whole system crawls, while waiting for some moment, where it can access the harddisk, that is abused by mldonkey. CFQ is much better in that szenario. BTW, nbench is a CPU/memory benchmark, right? So why should the IO-scheduler has an influence on

Re: [gentoo-user] What exactly is kernel timer frequency?

2006-05-07 Thread Jure Varlec
On Sunday 07 May 2006 21:47, Jure Varlec wrote: So now I mostly understand what this does. But the way the clock acts still seems funny. Where could that jump come from? 100Hz seems too high for that, unless I'm missing something. I played with it some more. Only with superkaramba for now, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 19:20, Tero Grundström wrote: Anyways, 1000Hz is still the preferred setting for desktop (according to menuconfig and CK). That is of course only if you don't have problems. yeah, but 250 is not worse in 'responsiveness'

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with lm_sensors.

2006-05-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jeff wrote: It would seem that my setup is ready for lm_sensors, but then when I run sensors after sensors-detect, What did sensors-detect say? Paste the stuff that comes after Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: java comm ports issue

2006-05-07 Thread Leigh Stewart
I solved the problem by installing the latest stable binaries directly from rxtx.org. To anyone having trouble with this, I would recommend you do the same. Maybe someone could update the ebuild to the most recent version... On 5/4/06, Leigh Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using rxtx, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
marcin wrote: I have tried some other tests If I set export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 then everything is OK! glxgears has 75 (as my vertrefresh) even if cpu burns Without VBLANK I have noticed that glxgears takes a lot of sys time. $ watch -n 0,1 cat /proc/stat | grep cpu0 | cut -d' ' -f4 and

[gentoo-user] Shutdown halts partway with Give root password

2006-05-07 Thread glen martin
Well, this is weird. We've all seen Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):, usually after an unclean shutdown. I'm getting it on shutdown itself. I've never even heard of this, and searching google I haven't found any reference to it. This is a home theatre PC

[gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
I am looking to get a new video card. I have used an NVidia with Linux for a *long* time now. I can't recall when I last bought an ATI card, at least 6 years or more. Anyway I want to get some feedback on the current ATI driver state. Are they stable and pretty easy to use/install? Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
W.Kenworthy wrote: I have just set up a Sony Vaio with an i915 that runs ~850-900fps - acceptable, but how does this compare with your i915? Sorry if you already mentioned this, but I have come on this thread late. Billk My laptop is a Pentium M 1.73GHz with 1GB memory. With gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:21, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 19:20, Tero Grundström wrote: Anyways, 1000Hz is still the preferred setting for desktop (according to menuconfig and CK). That is of course only if you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, this is with their windows drivers, and their linux drivers are even worse: http://www.3dnature.com/ati.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Colinux, amd 64 and distcc

2006-05-07 Thread Michael Andersson
Hi there, I have just installed colinux using gentoo on my windows box witch has a amd 64 3800+ cpu that i want to use as a distcc slave to my "real" gentoo box that has a amd athlon 1Ghz. So a few questions regarding this. 1. Can/should i recompile the colinux gentoo installation using march

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hi, this is with their windows drivers, and their linux drivers are even worse: http://www.3dnature.com/ati.html Uuuggh. I thought ATI would have gotten better by now. I guess I can check in on them in another 5 years or so. Jim --

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
P-M 1.2Ghz, CFQ 250Mhz. I have found 1000hz doesn't help much with response (on my last system), but did slow most benchmarks slightly - 250 was a good compromise. I'll give the ant scheduler a try on the next reboot as I originally went CFQ as ant seemed to cause lockout on high disk use - but

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Jerônimo Backes
Are they stable and pretty easy to use/install? Any problems with games? How about commercial OpenGL games ported to Linux like Call of Duty and Doom 3? They are a pain in the ass! Worse than childbirth or a golf ball inside your kidneys. Problems with games? After all that pain, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
Just in case you still had some lingering possibility of using ATI, I thought I'd respond as well :) Firstly, once you have gone through the pain of getting the ati drivers to work (and sure, some people fluke the right combination first go and wonder what all the fuss is about) - things such as

[gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Adrian
Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen now everything I try to emerge I get: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread fire-eyes
On Sunday 07 May 2006 18:54, JimD wrote: I am looking to get a new video card.  I have used an NVidia with Linux for a *long* time now.  I can't recall when I last bought an ATI card, at least 6 years or more. Summary: ATI does make good hardware. However, good hardware paired with poor

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 corrupted after power cut off when emerged world

2006-05-07 Thread Norberto Bensa
Maurice E Johnson wrote: I see that you have re-emerged baselayout with no luck. He did fix the problem after running etc-update. He just forgot to CC gentoo-user :-/ Regards, Norberto pgpzSYZCfiQEy.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] i can't boot gentoo (regarding to something corrupted or deleted (?))

2006-05-07 Thread nacho
Hi there, i have this big big problem: i tried to emerge openoffice(bin) and i have left without space in the root partition (openoffice installs in /opt which is in the / partition in my case) so emerge stops with an error. Then i rebooted a cupple of times and everything was ok (except that any

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I could rip the ATI card out of this otherwise FANTASTIC laptop, and throw in an nvidia... but that can't happen. Well, as someone who recently changed from an ATI to an NVidia laptop, my view is that, while things _are_ better on this side

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg downgrade problems

2006-05-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/7/06, Luigi Pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I have an update problem since when I downgrade from xorg 7.0 to 6.8.2: I can't update some programs like xorg, kde or k3b or install licq... The messagge is always the Xft is missing... but it

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Jerônimo Backes wrote: NO! (expand the fontsize to 100 pt or something to get the meaning) ATI support for linux is the crapiest thing on earth! I guess it is safe to assume you don't like ATI : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
fire-eyes wrote: I strongly suggest avoiding ATI on Linux. My first card was a Radeon 9000. With ati's drivers, the following things were a daily occurance: Complete system hangs (even sysreq didn't matter at this point), games showing severe tearing artifacts, random X deaths, etc. I got

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: By way of contrast, I've been running Tyan and Supermicro boards with ATI radeon 9000 and 9200 cards for years without any issues on FreeBSD 4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and now 6.0. Ooops - meant to write ...on FreeBSD 4.86.0 and *Mandrake Linux before that* (was reading

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI and Linux

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: The biggest complaint I have (and that I see frequently on the nvnews forums) with NVidia's drivers is the time between releases. They used to do a release about every two months, but lately that has slid to 4 or even 5 months sometimes!! Which means I will probably have

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Teresa and Dale
Adrian wrote: Greetings. I'm trying to set up a new Gentoo box. I downloaded the latest portage snapshot, untared it and ran emerge regen now everything I try to emerge I get: Security Violation: A file exists that is not in the manifest From doing a google, it looks like i need to run

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:31 JimD was like: Or stick with xorg-7 and don't do all the little updates?  If i have a working package, I won't do an update unless the *package* changes.  For example I wouldn't update a working foo-1.0-r1 to foo-1.0-r2.  I would (probably) do an update to foo-1.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-07 Thread Adrian
On Sun, 07 May 2006 23:06:46 -0500 Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: I did a manual download once, I think the command you want is emerge metadata. May want to try that first. I'm also familiar with dial-up. I used to be on a slow 26K connection. It sucks. My sympathies

[gentoo-user] can't configure java

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
When I try to use java-config, the following happens: zebedee foobar # java-config --list-available-vms [blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03] Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.03 (/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03) [sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06] Sun JRE 1.5.0.06 (/etc/env.d/java/20sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06) *

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread JimD
Robert Persson wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:31 JimD was like: Or stick with xorg-7 and don't do all the little updates? If i have a working package, I won't do an update unless the *package* changes. For example I wouldn't update a working foo-1.0-r1 to foo-1.0-r2. I would (probably) do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:21, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I went 250Hz a long time ago, and it did not hurt me in any way. But I am also only using vanilla kernels without patches ;) Whether its

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Persson
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:07 Philip Webb was like: glsa-check -l | grep \[N\] Thanks for that. That will be handy. On the other hand it failed to report the security hole that is supposed to have been the reason for the xorg-server update that caused me all that grief earlier today, which is