[gentoo-user] Need networking help. Can't ping google.

Hi, I got my system put together. I have booted a Gentoo 10 CD. This is the setup as far as the network goes. Internet DSL modem Gentoo rig named smoker New rig, no name yet. Lightening will work for now. ;-) I got it working from internet ...

Message posted on the December 9th, 2010 - 10:20 PM ET

Comparison of free picture/photo editing software

We can’t say it enough: it isn’t necessary to invest in commercial software to successfully edit your photos! In this article we will look at free programs and trial versions which respond to the basic needs of novice, and in some cases, even ...

Review published on the November 17th, 2009 - 9:19 AM ET

[gentoo-user] need firewalld?

Hi Gentoo-users, I just noticed some strange message when shutting down my server: ... * Bringing down interface eth0 * Caching network module dependencies need firewalld * Removing addresses ... What does that "need firewalld" ...

Message posted on the December 8th, 2012 - 6:40 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Need Help!

Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the ...

Message posted on the June 22nd, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

My personal workstation is a dual-boot setup with Gentoo and Windows XP. A long time ago, I set up Samba on another computer on my network to provide extra hard drive space to our Windows installations. They used to work, but we haven't used them ...

Message posted on the June 14th, 2010 - 5:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need dovecot configuration help

A couple of days ago I applied via etc-update a new init script and conf file for dovecot. Now I cannot get local LAN mail from it. I was previously able to. My current dovecot version info is: carter ~ # emerge -pv dovecot These are the ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2011 - 3:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

Hello. I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card. I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux. I think I've followed the steps found at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly, but I'm still ...

Message posted on the October 23rd, 2011 - 5:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need more NFS help

A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I restart the computer (any of the three on my LAN), the NFS shares listed in /etc/fstab are not automatically mounted. ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2011 - 11:10 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan ...

Message posted on the July 21st, 2012 - 5:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] need more swap

I have a one-off number crunching job that needs a large amount of swap. It is apparently possible to have up to 16TB of swap with an AMD opteron but I cant find out how - anyone here done this? I have a 125GB scssi disk I would like as one large ...

Message posted on the May 16th, 2010 - 8:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need for revdep-rebuild

Hello list, Just a note to anyone who hasn't already found out the hard way: After upgrading icu today I found that system-config-printer-common wouldn't compile because it couldn't find the right icu library. Revdep-rebuild was required to fix ...

Message posted on the July 25th, 2011 - 1:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need to turn on wireless

Hi all, I haven't used built-in wireless on Linux in years but come Thursday I'll likely have to spend 12 or more hours waiting around in a hospital so I'm making an attempt to get it working. Can someone point me at instructions oriented toward ...

Message posted on the July 18th, 2011 - 9:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Need help : Compiling xe-guest-utilities (xenstore) from Source

Okay, I got the .rpm for Citrix's xe-guest-utilities from this thread: http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID68339 Granted, it's slightly older than the latest version, but that's not my main problem. The problem is: How do I run a ...

Message posted on the July 4th, 2011 - 10:30 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Need Preferred Applications help

A couple of weeks ago I switched my gcc profile over and rebuilt everything with emerge -e system and emerge -e world. Now, when I click on a link in Evolution, seamonkey opens to a blank page instead of to the link that I clicked on. I'm using ...

Message posted on the May 9th, 2011 - 7:00 PM ET

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