[gentoo-user] A couple questions related to fbsplash - gentoo user laptop - order by pertinence

[gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

Hello, I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there and I don't ...

Message posted on the October 27th, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] bumblebee and nvidia optimus

Hello guys, my laptop asus a55kv have two video controller, intel and nvidia, and i would like to configure bumblebee to use Xorg server. someone have configured bumblebee? Regards.

Message posted on the October 25th, 2012 - 2:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] dhcp delays when booting (wicd)

Hi, I've been using wicd for quite awhile on my laptop and it works fine with both wired and wireless interfaces. However I'm using it more lately where I have to boot the machine from scratch. In this case I face a rather long delay once or ...

Message posted on the October 16th, 2012 - 3:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop

Hello, The output of wpa_supplicant -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -d dhcpcd on my laptop shows continuous output to screen which appears to be looping on association and disassociation to my wireless router (I am not ...

Message posted on the December 11th, 2010 - 3:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Apache and PHP5

Today I emerged mysql, apache, PHP5, phpmyadmin and joomla on a Laptop (~x86) to be able to play a bit with Joomla. But I can not get phpmyadmin or Joomla to work (both with the same error). Mysql and apache starts OK and the the phpmyadmin setup ...

Message posted on the December 4th, 2010 - 3:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?

Hello list, I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop and I want to install wicd in place of the manually configured network, rather than installing the standard network setup and then ripping it out again to put wicd in its place. The problem is ...

Message posted on the November 4th, 2010 - 12:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560

Hello, After a recent new gentoo install on a lenovo laptop I get during booting: Filesystem isclean * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ... Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 < unlock 14274560 ...

Message posted on the September 14th, 2010 - 11:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] mysql

Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 root@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns ...

Message posted on the July 11th, 2010 - 12:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] ethernet not working on new laptop (dell e6510)

I just purchased a dell latitude E6510, with a gigabit (hardwired) ethernet. It works fine under windows. I now have the (newest) gentoo installation disk (april) in the machine. The device is recognized and the e1000e module is loaded. ifconfig ...

Message posted on the June 10th, 2010 - 2:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections

The other night, my laptop decided it didn't want to start Gentoo anymore. Long story short, I ended up using fsck to fix the disk, after which it booted ok. However, the fsck was a bit destructive; at the very least, a few files from my torrents ...

Message posted on the June 1st, 2010 - 5:50 AM ET

[gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

I have set up sound to a jabra halo bluetooth headset and it works using "mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth soundfile". This works fine for apps like mplayer which can specify the right output device. However, I want to use espeak (in a ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2010 - 8:30 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Where's my wireless AP?

Last night I was connected wirelessly to my access point and all worked fine. Well, towards the end the connection was bobbing up and down as far as my unreliable broadcom NIC is concerned (nothing wrong with the router). I decided to shut it down ...

Message posted on the April 18th, 2010 - 5:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] wicd

So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area. Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using ...

Message posted on the December 25th, 2011 - 1:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Problem build gconf

Hi Guys, i got a problem build gconf. The problem is somehow emake again o.O * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 3235: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2496: Called die * The ...

Message posted on the October 4th, 2011 - 8:20 AM ET