Soft32 Linux Forums help - Gentoo Linux - User http://forum.soft32.com/linux/User-forum-77.html Top 15 Messages on forum.soft32.com http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-remove-device-mapper-install-ftopict500077.html#1252203 [gentoo user] can t remove device mapper can t install it Maxim Wexler schrieb: > Hi group > > Going through a rough patch after a world update The SD card on my > netbook doesn t get mounted ext2 filesytem not found etc I ve had > this problem before which I traced to the lack of support for SD cards > in the kernel This time it s something else Nothing wrong with the > fs it can be checked and mounted manually Device mapper is not in http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-cdrecord-fails-burn-dvd-ftopict499006.html#1251983 [gentoo user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd Jos Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > Do you mean a test without V or v ? > > > > Without v as in this case cdrecord does not read the drives buffer fill ratio > > It seems that there is a bug in Pioneer firmware that is triggered by calling > > SCSI get buffer cap 0x5C and that results in throwing away the DMA data > > Good news > > With the command wi http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-gentoo-ssds-intel-ftopict499922.html#1251950 [gentoo user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone? On Fri Nov 20 2009 at 8:38 AM James wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail com> writes: > > >> since ssds don t like write erase cycles you should only put your system on >> the ssd Everything else PORTDIR PKGDIR var tmp usr tmp and usr src >> should be on a harddisk > > > I d be curious to see a complete fstab with an SSD; a http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-GCC-bad-Help-ftopict499908.html#1251783 [gentoo user] GCC gone bad Help On Thu Nov 19 2009 at 12:51 PM Michael Sullivan wrote: > I ve started seeing this line after failed emerges: > > > > checking for C compiler default output file name configure: error: C > compiler cannot create executables > > Checking gcc config returns this: > carter sys devel gcc config l > gcc config: Active gcc profile is invalid > [1] i686 p http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-Avahi-mDNSResponder-time-ftopict499909.html#1251763 [gentoo user] Avahi mDNSResponder at the same time? On Thu 2009 11 19 at 11:38 0800 John Lowry wrote: > I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder compat > USE > flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi > installed at the same time yet I am getting blocked packages error > messages Is this impossible to pull off? If you USE=mdnsResponder compat you are telling avahi that you don t want m http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-sound-intel-imac-ftopict499491.html#1251459 [gentoo user] sound on intel imac > After my post I knuckled down and worked systematically through the > model= options for ALC883 888 and ALC882 885 having gleaned from the > internet that these are most similar to the 889A The possible choices > are listed in usr src linux Documentation alsa HD Audio Models txt > Several choices produced sound but only this for ALC882 885 : I had some trouble getting everything http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-ps-shows-pegasus-process-running-ftopict498934.html#1251458 [gentoo user] ps shows pegasus process running what is it? > To disable namespaces I would have to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y correct? > > This is rather counterintuitive to me as my main workstation is far > from an embedded or small system ok not compared to the > 4096 cpu clusters in http: xkcd com 619 but compared to for > example my embedded ALIX PC I use as fw router something > I wonder which EMBEDDED options would help me http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-Keyboard-Mapping-Issues-solved-ftopict499809.html#1251442 [gentoo user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues [solved] 2009 11 18 daid kahl : > Hello > > After some recent updates my keyboard shows some strange and > undesirable behavior It is a MacBook no previous keyboard > problems with US mapping and UTF 8 mode > It appears that the problem is some unholy alliance between hal 0 5 13 r2 and the 2 6 30 gentoo sources I was upgrading from a fairly outdated kernel 2 6 27 http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-x86-ftopict499252.html#1251397 [gentoo user] Going ~x86? > I wonder if it s worth the trouble I read here that running a full ~x86 > system would probably be easier And I d like to try but while going from > x86 to ~x86 is easy the other way is quite hard isn t it? If possible at > all I just wanted to throw my two cents in here although much has been said I was running ~x86 for about two years Then I waited 6 months and was able http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-strange-cron-messages-ftopict499478.html#1251245 [gentoo user] strange cron messages On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:08:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Hectic day at work? : > > I m not working today decorating is even more stressful : Sign in my local paint store: Husbands choosing colours must have a note from their wives I feel your pain I redid a bathroom sink the other day and am deftly avoiding the looming repaint of the living room and one bedroom : http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-Keyboard-Mapping-Issues-ftopict499721.html#1251243 [gentoo user] Keyboard Mapping Issues >Is there some > simple tool in portage to report 1 The local build date of an > installed package 2 Display the emerge history? Such tools would > assist me in locating the problem which I assume resulted from an > upgrade Sorry I am looking at var log emerge log now ~daid http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-scrollback-framebuffer-ftopict499504.html#1251167 [gentoo user] scrollback using framebuffer On Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:48:21 Maxim Wexler wrote: > > CONFIG_FB=y > > CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y > > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > > CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y > > CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=256 > > Identical to mine > > > I have no settings for scrollback on the kernel command lin http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-Missing-icons-K3b-ftopict499417.html#1251034 [gentoo user] Missing icons in K3b Jacques Montier wrote: > > Oups sorry : here it is : > > USE= X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr > cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss > encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal > iconv java jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad mikmod modules mp3 mp4 mpeg > mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg o http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-Blocking-login-attempts-sshd-vsftpd-ftopict499498.html#1250843 [gentoo user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd In gmane linux gentoo user you wrote: > On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:21:55 Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat Nov 14 2009 at 07:07:28PM 0500 Richard Marza wrote >> >> > Thank you for the information I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in >> > threads but there were issues with it not working properly Some users >> > created custom scripts to get the job done correctly >> >> Hav http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-user-install-nvidia-driver-virtualbox-kernels-ftopict499515.html#1250778 [gentoo user] install nvidia driver and virtualbox for two great thanks 2009 11 15 Alan McKinnon : > On Sunday 15 November 2009 04:06:27 Zhang Jun wrote: >> Hi list >> >> I want to keep two kernels in my pc but have some problems on video >> card driver and vbox: >> >> pc ~ cd lib modules >> pc modules ls >> 2 6 28 tuxonice r10 tuxonice 2 6 30 tuxonice r6 >> pc modules uname r >> 2 6 28 tuxonice r10