Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:57, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:10, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 3/31/2011 4:31 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: The specific modules you mentioned are included in your kernel already, assuming you are using at least a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Robin Atwood wrote I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-04-01 Thread Fernando Antunes
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Robin Atwood wrote I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 18 December 2010 10:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:56:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've bought (against my better judgement) an Atom N270 box to be a LAN server, but it's a bit slow compared with the other boxes on the network. A big bit, actually - 69

[gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I want a box on my LAN to be a local web and database server. I've installed Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin and I'm about to get phpmyadmin going. The problem is that Apache is displaying the contents of php files instead of interpreting them. What have I missed? I have

[gentoo-user] How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Just for fun, not for boasting ;-) Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest. `free -m` directly after booting + login: Mem: total 499 used 28 free 470 shared 0 buffers 1 cached 12 Granted, system is quite possibly unusable for serious purposes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Friday 01 April 2011 13:57:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I want a box on my LAN to be a local web and database server. I've installed Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpmyadmin and I'm about to get phpmyadmin going. The problem is that Apache is displaying the contents of php files instead

[gentoo-user] Adobe-flash becomes quite slow.

2011-04-01 Thread Einux
Adobe-flash becomes quite slow in my laptop after I updated world(or maybe I reconfigured kernel options) several days ago. I've made a lot of modifications, so I'm not sure exactly which action leads to the malfunction of adobe-flash. I use the latest stable version of adobe-flash(10.2.153.1),

Re: [gentoo-user] How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Einux
I'm the network manager in my school. I set up a Gentoo box using VirtualBox with 128M of RAM, to serve as the squid reverse proxy server and dns server in my local campus network. And it turns out: {{{ gentoo-vm squid # uptime 22:49:48 up 7 days, 10:28, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.33, 0.45

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe-flash becomes quite slow.

2011-04-01 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:56:56PM +0800, Einux wrote: Here's my lspci result: {{{ 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread walt
I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which 'tools' package for VMware DomU?

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/1/2011 2:09 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hmmm... I've compiled VMXNET into the kernel, but can't get VMXNET to perform; booting complained of inexistent network. Adding e1000 into the kernel works though. Could it be because the Cloud Provider has preconfigured my VMware vSphere with

[gentoo-user] Re: xbmc font rendering issue after upgrade mesa or/and xorg ati driver

2011-04-01 Thread Füves Zoltán
Reply to the question :D Temporary solution: I downgrade to media-libs/mesa-7.9.1 and fonts came back and mask any bigger version of this package. something bad happened in media-libs/mesa-7.10.1 So I wait until the next release Z. 2011/3/31 Füves Zoltán zolee...@gmail.com: Hi Community!

Re: [gentoo-user] How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:36 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just for fun, not for boasting ;-) Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest. `free -m` directly after booting + login: Mem: total 499 used 28 free 470 shared 0 buffers 1 cached 12

[gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Good grief! How'd you do that?! *bow in respect* Rgds, On 2011-04-02, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:36 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Just for fun, not for boasting ;-) Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xbmc font rendering issue after upgrade mesa or/and xorg ati driver

2011-04-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 April 2011 19:45:58 Füves Zoltán wrote: Reply to the question :D Temporary solution: I downgrade to media-libs/mesa-7.9.1 and fonts came back and mask any bigger version of this package. something bad happened in media-libs/mesa-7.10.1 So I wait until the next release

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5 you should try at least language and php5 ! That missing 5 is important - thanks. Then, however, I got this: * apache2 has detected an error in your setup: apache2:

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 08:09:04 walt wrote: I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe-flash becomes quite slow.

2011-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 01 April 2011 22:35:39 Einux wrote: Adobe-flash becomes quite slow in my laptop after I updated world(or maybe I reconfigured kernel options) several days ago. I've made a lot of modifications, so I'm not sure exactly which action leads to the malfunction of adobe-flash. adobe flash

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 02:22 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Good grief! How'd you do that?! *bow in respect* Rgds, Well, firstly, I managed to get it down to 3MB (though I cheated *a little*): lilpenguin ~ # sync ; echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # kinda cheating lilpenguin ~ # free -m

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Friday 01 Apr 2011 08:39:04 PM walt wrote: The good old nv driver still works with 1.10, happily. have you tried nouveau? works well here. -- - Yohan Pereira A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer

[gentoo-user] How to install viewvc w/o apache and related cruft?

2011-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to install viewvc, but emerge insists on installing apache and webapp-config. I don't want to install apache (or any other web server) -- all I want to install is viewvc. I installed webapp-config, installed viewvc using emerge --nodeps, then unmerged webapp-config. Now viewvc runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
.. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: root@lilpenguin $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:18 4 13 0 0 1 -/+ buffers/cache: 2 15 Swap:0

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.10 breaks nvidia-drivers

2011-04-01 Thread John Campbell
On 04/01/2011 08:09 AM, walt wrote: I just updated from xorg-server-1.9 to 1.10, but even the newest beta from nvidia complains that 1.10 isn't supported yet for my video cards GeForce FX 5200 and GeForce 6150SE. Perhaps drivers for newer cards will work, but I don't know. The good old nv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/01/2011 02:00 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: .. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and APIC: root@lilpenguin $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:18 4 13 0 0 1 -/+

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install viewvc w/o apache and related cruft?

2011-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:40:33 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: How do I convince portage that viewvc does not require an external web server and I don't want apache or webappconifg installed? It's a web app, so I'm not surprised it depends on a web server. Try putting apache in

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread kashani
On 4/1/2011 12:56 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 13:18:39 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have APACHE2_OPTS=-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5 you should try at least language and php5 ! That missing 5 is important - thanks. Then, however, I got this: * apache2 has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 14:44 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: ... So, what can you actually *do* on this, other than an ls or two? Well, first the challenge did not require that it had to have any use. But thinking about what you said, I remember when I first started using Linux, it was not

[gentoo-user] Re: How to install viewvc w/o apache and related cruft?

2011-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-04-01, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:40:33 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: How do I convince portage that viewvc does not require an external web server and I don't want apache or webappconifg installed? It's a web app, Yes, it can be a web app. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread Adam Carter
dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module? And you'll also need this in your httpd.conf; AddType application/x-httpd-php .php