On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:56:42 + (UTC), James wrote:
Or maybe something cool related to the usb buss and
a trick to *uniquely lable* usb devices.
I'd need
a tool/script/program to rip the serial number from the usb
buss. and then compare it to the FStab or udev rules.
Maybe
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, James wrote:
Also, I'm thinking about a udev rule or fstab entry
on the gentoo system to uniquely identify the drive
as I often attach several usb(stick or drive) devices
to one system at any given time; so I'm looking for
a scheme that they will each
James wrote:
Can you flesh out your idea with a little bit more detail?
(remember I have many usb devices and move them frequently between
windows and Gentoo systems).
James
Just to be clear this isn't *my* idea, see:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Fstab
ubuntu and I assume
No I haven't. I'll try one soon. This is a new 1GB DDR2 from
Kingston. It would be interesting if it fails. Note that w/ Ubuntu's
kernel, I have not encountered a balk at all in booting.
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 3:51 PM, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan E. Davis wrote:
When
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Partly because I needed to print, and partly to rule out hardware
issues, I booted ubuntu 7.10, and installed. No problem has been
encountered over the past few days of using ubuntu. I can print, and
no lockups are encountered (so far, KOW).
Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu
kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything as
modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of what is
being utilized?
Alan
On Jan 9, 2008 11:00 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Thank you for the suggestions. I wonder out loud whether the Ubuntu
kernel is using something like a genkernel install, with everything
as modules. If so, in that case, how would one get a snapshot of
what is being utilized?
Like most
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
This all seems to betting unnecessarily complicated. See
http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php for an explanation of how to
write udev rules to give persistent naming based on any attribute of the
device, including serial numbers.
OK, let me
It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
'C compiler cannot create
For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf:
(wrapped for mail)
kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \
vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary.
I have it there to allow console mode to have much larger resolution than
On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on
On Jan 8, 2008 8:24 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
Forgot to mention: about the problem with ripping CDs, and if it sort
of works when you start hald, I'd say you should try re-emerging it.
Maybe something got corrupted somehow, or is just outdated.
Good
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No
messages in dmesg.
Have you tried a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
last seven. Pretty much the same on every CD I've tried so far. No
messages
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf:
(wrapped for mail)
kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \
vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary.
FWIW, I have only
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
It should be there. Which kernel sources and release are you using?
Ok, I just noticed that you're talking about 2.6.23-r5, which seems to
imply you're using gentoo-sources. In this case, what I said before is
still true, but FB_VESA also
Christopher Copeland chrcop at gmail.com writes:
As Neil said, udev rules can make it work or you can edit one line of
your fstab. So that this:
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb type defaults 0 0
Becomes:
UUID=123456 /mnt/usb type deftauls 0 0
This make perfect sense...
You can
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
sound-juicer still only rips the 1st six tracks and then skips the
last seven. Pretty much the same on
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc
and python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm
working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
posted? (Its not in `man vga')
And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
probably also has the decimal equivalents.
You can ignore this request... I found a nifty hex to decimal
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By the way about the vga= setting. I grabbed a chart from some where
long ago showing the notation I was using:
##640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x307
## 32k 0x310
Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
During make menuconfig, hit / and enter the text you want to search
for (in this case, obviously, it's FB_VESA), and hit enter. It
should show you where that particular option is found in the
configration. In my case (vanilla 2.6.23.9), it shows
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Tony Stohne skrev:
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less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
should do it, i think.
No, that was not it. Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
Regards
//Tony
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On Wednesday 9 January 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
then. But again, it does not matter whether you use hex or decimal, as
long as the value you use is the same.
Sorry, bad wording. I meant: as long as the number you enter (whether hex
or decimal) represents the video mode you want to get.
--
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way about the vga= setting. I grabbed a chart from some where
long ago showing the notation I was using:
##640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
## 256 0x301 0x303 0x3050x307
## 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
posted? (Its not in `man vga')
And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
probably also has the decimal equivalents.
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Tony Stohne wrote:
Tony Stohne skrev:
...
less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
should do it, i think.
No, that was not it. Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
Regards
//Tony
Courtesy of fb/vesa.fb, kcalc hex-dec and 10 minutes free time ;-)
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On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Things here are still basically a disaster. I rebooted. No change.
sound-juicer still only rips the 1st
On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Things here are still basically a
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:17:37 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
posted? (Its not in `man vga')
And I don't recall where I got
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:41:16 -0800, Mark Knecht
On Jan 9, 2008 5:16 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 7:08 PM, Naiani Rosa de Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 10:49 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi Dale,
I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are
not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem
to work fine with hald disabled.
I think the overall set of problems were:
1) sound-juicer has developed some sort of
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi Dale,
I disabled hald in rc-update and rebooted. Now Totem and Gnome are
not auto-mounting anything. K3b can see the CD. cddb and ripping seem
to work fine with hald disabled.
I think the overall set of problems were:
1) sound-juicer has developed some sort of
Thanks for the input.
I tried it on both of my Gentoo boxes. One worked and the problematic one
gave me the following output;
# gcc test.c -o test
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
I'm going to try quickpkg again but this time from the working box. The
Alan,
I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet
anyway, give me time though.
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