Dunno why therers no dependency, I had the same thing with dvd::rip even though I've got use flags for vorbis set

Have you emerged vorbis-tools?

Yeah, I looked on the folding@home website a while ago. If I remember correctly it uses GMT in the log. If you're 3 hours off from the meridian then it should be OK.

Have you tried copying the required files from the CD into the /usr/portage/distfiles directory, or setting the variables in make.conf to tell portage where else to look (PKGDIR ?)

with xscreensaver, you can start it straight away (can't remember the command, try man pages), so presumably if you set it to blank the screen with no screensaver, then you can create a button for it and just have it run the command ('xscreensaver -now', or whatever it it...)

There are already three: arch, ~arch and -arch (e.g. x86, ~x86, -x86). -arch either don't work, or have serious bugs, ~arch usually seem to work (for me at least...)

Well, you can do it two ways (probably more...):

1) NOT the way to do it:
#ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge nvidia-blahblah
. . .
#emerge -U world

The -U is --upgrade-only, rather than just -u (--update). It does not downgrade, but this can cause problems: e.g. an ebuild might be removed for ...

erm... I was probably talking crap I thought maybe that only the files might have been burned, not the bootable part of the disk (a bit like if you copy files from a floppy without formatting it so its bootable). I'm not even sure you can do this, just a guess.

You might have got a bad image, (use the md5sum to check it) or maybe a bad burn... I had this problem once, I'd used a quick-erased CD-RW and it didn't burn right (nero cd-speed showed loads of red sectors). Another burn to a CD-R and it worked fine (also a full erase then full burn worked to my CD ...

Have you checked you cabling? Is your CD-ROM drive powered and plugged into the IDE cable? (and is that attatched to the motherboard...)

How did you burn the ISO? Nero's 'burn image' or gcombust burn iso or whatever works fine for me, I just wondered if you just somehow burnt the files on the ISO ...

ok, forget my method

You could use samba too. I don't know if the LiveCD has samba support, but you could boot from a Knoppix CD and install Gentoo that way as described in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap3 (Knoppix has samba support, so you could then mount your distfiles from your other machine)

Well, its called Pierce's Law, not Pirce's Law! When you Google something it normally gives you a spelling suggestion...

You're missing a bracket on the first axiom, is it just a final closing one?
i.e. (A->(B->A) *)*

With a truth tale its easy, but I gues you want to do a 'proper' proof. Google ...

Might be due to your makefile, can you post it?

MagnusBerg wrote:

RobMcM wrote:This will write the current settings to a .vimrc file that gvim will load on startup:

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:mkvimrc ~/.vimrc

Why didn't you said that before?

before what?

This will write the current settings to a .vimrc file that gvim will load on startup:

well, if you used windows I'm sure it would be fine

Anyway... I think after you install more codecs you have to re-emerge mplayer, so maybe the same applies to xine.

if you run 'free' it will tell you your memory usage (note that low free ram is good - it means its being used effectively by cache + buffers, its the swap usage you should look at).

Emerging will use 100% of the CPU, so except it to slow down a bit anyway. What kernel are you running? For protage ...

my Netgear DG824M has an option where you give it your dynamic dns link and when it connects to the internet it update you dyna dns automatically. Maybe the linksys has something similar. Alternatively, you could have a cron job to peridically run a script which gets the IP, then updates the dynamic ...

ati-drivers and 2.6.6 work fine here.... It looks like you're using DRM in the kernel. If you're using ati-drivers, there's no need for DRM (isn't there?). Just remove it from your kernel (you only need agp gart in there) and try that... It won't 'solve' your problem, but its a workaround.

The ...

Do you mean it is slow while emerging, or that it gets slower, and slower, and s l o w e r . . .

Is your swap used heavily? I have 512MB RAM and 512MB Swap, but my swap never gets used (it did when I only ran 256MB RAM, 'emerge kde' was painful 8O)

Are you running loads of stuff while you emerge ...

It slows there machine to a crawl infact at some point you cannt move the mouse or type.
In /etc/make.conf, increase portage niceness so that it runs with less priority.

I was thinking of adding update as a cron job and just do it every night at midnight.
Does a desktop system really need the ...

When you say 'shutdown', do you mean a controlled switch-off, or do you mean it just dies straight away?

You might want to look at your power supply, maybe it wasn't just a powercut, maybe there was a power surge in there too...

Maybe its the BIOS switching it off because of out-of-spec voltages ...

you might like to edit out your password, unless its just for testing...

i log in as root.. - is it bad??

If its all the time, not just for emerges or kernel installs then in a word, yes. Not only does it open you up for potential security risks, but it also means you might be more likely to bork your machine - if a normal user tried to (accidently or otherwise ...