[gentoo-user] rsync mirror
I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. I have rsyncd running and that appeared to work. I ran the rsync-gentoo-portage.sh script and it did pull down the digests, directories, etc. I can't seem to figure out how to get all the actual source files downloaded and mirrored. My setup is per the docs on the gentoo webpage with slight changes to directory locations. Anyone have any idea where there might be a better howto or some other documentation I might look at? I've never mirrored a site before. Thanks in advance for your help! Robert ps. I have checked the usual howtoo and doc sites and haven't come up with anything specific so I'm sure I missied something. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] procmail lock failure
Hi Whenever an email gets delivered to my inbox I get the following error in the procmail log ## procmail: Lock failure on /var/spool/mail/ram.lock any ideas why procmail is having problems creating the lock file? Cheers Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mounting Problems USB and Firewire External Drives
I have Gentoo 1.4 and KDE 3.1 installed. I have supermount compilied into my CK3-sources kernel. I have an external 80GB Firewire Drive and a 32MB USB Pen Drive, my problem isn't so much that I can't mount them but how they are ordered in /dev since they are both seen as SCSI devices. To fruther explain my problem here is my /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.10 2002/11/18 19:39:22 azarah Exp $ # # noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail and tail freely. # fs mountpointtype opts dump/pass # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/ataraid/disc0/part3/boot ext3noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part6/ ext3noatime 0 0 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part5noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,ro,mode=444,noauto 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). Adding the following # line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will use almost no # memory if not populated with files) tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 /win-c vfat umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/ataraid/disc0/part2 /win-d vfat umask=707,gid=0 0 0 #/dev/sda1 /mnt/fw1 vfat user,0,umask=707,gid=0,noauto 0 0 #/dev/sda2 /mnt/fw2 vfat user,0,umask=707,gid=0,noauto 0 0 #/dev/sda3 /mnt/fw3 vfat user,0,umask=707,gid=0,noauto 0 0 #/dev/sda4 /mnt/fw4 vfat user,0,umask=707,gid=0,noauto 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 /mp3 vfat umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fw1supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sdb1,--,user,0,umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/fw2supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sdb2,--,user,0,umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/fw3supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sdb3,--,user,0,umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /mnt/fw4supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sdb4,--,user,0,umask=707,gid=0 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbsupermount rw,fs=msdos,dev=/dev/sda1,--,user,0,umask=707,gid=0 0 0 If I mount only the Firewire Drive or only the USB Pen Drive then I have no problems but when I use them together that' s when things get sticky. The problem involves the last 5 lines of my /etc/fstab. You'll see that 4 of the lines have sdb1 mounting to fw1(4 partitions in the firewire drive-fw1, fw2,..etc), sdb2 mounting to fw2,...etc. The last line is the USB drive sda1 mounting to /mnt/usb. If I mount the firewire drive first then it goes to sda NOT sdb, I wondered how to fix this and a 30 minute search thru the forums I saw that you could create dev entries for devices in /etc/devfsd.conf. So I modified mine and here is the relevant section of my modified /etc/devfsd.conf file: #Create sdb1 for 1st Partition Firewire Drive LOOKUP ^sdb1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 sdb1 REGISTER^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sdb1 UNREGISTER ^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sdb1 #Create sdb2 for 2nd Partition Firewire Drive LOOKUP ^sdb2 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 sdb2 REGISTER^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sdb2 UNREGISTER ^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sdb2 #Create sdb3 for 3rd Partition Firewire Drive LOOKUP ^sdb3 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 sdb3 REGISTER^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sdb3 UNREGISTER ^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sdb3 #Create sdb4 for 4th Partition Firewire Drive LOOKUP ^sdb4 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 sdb4 REGISTER^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sdb4 UNREGISTER ^scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sdb4 #Create sda1 for USB Pen Drive LOOKUP ^sda1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 sda1 REGISTER^scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname sda1 UNREGISTER ^scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink sda1 # Support additional
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:12 pm, Anthony de Boer wrote: SYNC=rsync://192.168.69.5/gentoo-portage/ and now emerge sync there gets data from the first machine. I'm not doing the every-30-minutes rsync that the document requires for official mirrors, because I'm simply doing emerge sync on the first machine before the second one. I setup simular and do rsync ok but the files still end up being pulled off an http mirror. I am still searching for a link that will show http mirroring. That seems the next step. If you go by the gentoo docs you would think your all setup and mirroring. NOT! There still seems to be a ton of pieces missing from the puzzle. I'm still trying to piece it all together. Can someone here that has setup a full portage tree complete with ALL downloads (yes that's a ton of disk space) please step forward and point us in the correct direction on how to do this on gentoo? There are allot of mirrors out there so I know it's being done. :) Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:12 pm, Anthony de Boer wrote: I've done this. I started with the rsync-mirror documentation at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml This is what I've found so far: http://sunsite.dk/info/guides/rsync/rsync-mirroring.html Still doesn't seem to copy the entire portage tree directory but I'm still working on it. I hope someone see's our problem that is currently an offical mirror and knows how to do this and will give us an example script to start with. Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gcc Myths and Facts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I wrote a small and humble article about gcc - some myths and some facts. I hope it helps clarifying some misunderstandings around gcc and the optimizations.Could be useful for make.conf. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/730/ Comments are welcome. Best Regards, João Seabra -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Tht9Ksn52134YYcRAk2NAKC70L1oUWidMaHzIIwgcYDBeOTNxACePTPD awacq7v/aE0GeAid5xyedG8= =vIUY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. A http server is only needed if you want to be a mirror for distfiles as well as the portage tree. The easiest way to share your portage tree and source files across multiple computers on a local network is with nfs. Put something like this in /etc/exports: /path/to/portage 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync) Then on each of your client machines add the following to /etc/fstab: server:/path/to/portage /usr/portage nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 On both server and client make sure that you have portmap and nfs added to the boot runlevel (rc-update add portmap boot; rc-update add nfs boot) Now when you rsync from *any* machine the portage tree will be update. When you emerge a package from *any* machine the source files will be saved in distfiles and be available to all machines. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge python breakage
Hi, I'm building a new system, and I've managed to break it just by running emerge python. What happened was that I emerged fetchmail, and it said that in order for fetchmailconf to work I would have to re-emerge python with the tcltk USE flag set. Actually that flag was already set, but I think python was built as part of system before I emerged ufed and set up the flags. Anyway, I ran emerge python and it seemed to build and install just fine, but afterwords, every time python starts it prints 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback, and when I try to run emerge it says: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2, in ? import os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading,shutil ImportError: No module named portage If I run python -v /usr/bin/emerge it says among other things: 'import site' failed; traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.2/site.py, line 84, in ? if dir and not os.path.exists(dir): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'argv' Thinking maybe the portage python module had been deleted or corrupted or something, I tried untarring the portage rescue tarball (I couldn't emerge it of course because emerge is broken). It didn't make any difference to the problem (but it did overwrite /etc/make.conf) Any ideas why Python has broken (was it something I did wrong or a bug in the ebuild?) and more importantly, how can I fix it without reinstalling from scratch? -- Alex Holden - http://www.linuxhacker.org If it doesn't work, you're not hitting it with a big enough hammer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with phoenix
Phoenix and it's plugins go to /usr/lib/phoenix. I'm running phoenix-bin as a user and had no problems with the java and flash plugins. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:37:17 -0800 Susie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering has anyone else had this problem with phoenix? When I installed some plugins and a few of the themes it works just fine as root. The moment I switch to user I get a blank grey phoenix with no menu bar or anything. If I'm running a root instance of phoenix then launch a user one at the same time the user one behaves fine. I'm wondering if somewhere a permission for a file or something is wrong but I'm not sure where to look. Anyone have any ideas? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
On Saturday 15 February 2003 13:48, Ralf Kessler wrote: Hi, System: Duron 1200 MHz 512 MB RAM fast HDD (DMA is on) Gentoo 1.4-rc2 kde 3.1 and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors in /var/log... i have the same problem, on both my machines, i've had it since i upgrade from kde 3.0.4 to kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 14:57, keanu wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 13:48, Ralf Kessler wrote: Hi, System: Duron 1200 MHz 512 MB RAM fast HDD (DMA is on) Gentoo 1.4-rc2 kde 3.1 and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors in /var/log... i have the same problem, on both my machines, i've had it since i upgrade from kde 3.0.4 to kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Mine too but I have Pentium2 300 Mhz so doesn't count doest it? :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TjqYczD4Ii52ssMRAqLAAJ0YjT5DjKRVBC0HG+UP1ewxY0Zw3gCfZEe5 L5zO9Ar8cwpNZ+BeL0U+9DQ= =s3vz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( It could be because KDE and QT are very big resource hogs. :o) To speed things up, you might try using pre-linking - but I haven't tried it. Personally, I used XDM with KDE, and it worked just as well and reasonably quickly. Loading KDE was what took longer after that. These days I use Blackbox as my desktop instead - it's impressively lightweight. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagline: The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
I heard Ralf Kessler said: and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up almost instantly. Hope this helps! -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 15:26, Sundance wrote: I heard Ralf Kessler said: and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The What problem in /tmp? problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up almost instantly. Hope this helps! -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TkDdczD4Ii52ssMRAm9ZAKCpBSmuO22eMphrfnC56d4ZFcLJ+QCdHUL9 PZN6kMjCVxa5Uo1bgrFS2bk= =4E9M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
I heard Jorge Almeida said: I have that version of XFree and also no joy... Okay, so it is weird. There has just been a power outage, and when it went back up, KDM took 30 seconds to load here too. I'm now officially confused. :) Hmm, after some experimentation, it would seem that wiping out /tmp prior to starting KDM solves the problem. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks. :) -- S. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
Hi, Am 15.02.2003 um 14:26:20 schrieb Sundance: What version of XFree are you using? I used to have this problem with XFree prior to 4.2.1-r2. It was a problem with permissions in /tmp. The problem disappeared at once when I upgraded XFree -- now KDM loads up almost instantly. sorry, but i have XFree-4.2.1-r2... Best Regards Ralf -- .-. Ralf Kessler * Freiburg/Germany * http://www.ralfkessler.de/ .-. oo| Citizen of Ladonia*Mailadresse im Headeroo| /`'\ GnuPG 1.2.1 Key-ID: 0x9AB09860 (DSA/EG) /`'\ (\_;/) PGP-Key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Autoresponder) (\_;/) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:48 am, Ralf Kessler wrote: and kdm needs about 30 seconds to start... :-( Why? I can't find any Errors in /var/log... I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need to remerge font-config. I think this applies to kde as well because when I merged one of the 3.1_rcX builds, it started up very slowly, after I merged font-config again, it went away. - -- Pat Double, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Tka2dOmLNuoWoKgRAiRnAJ4oKTi6gruXebLxtoEo10t1q7ggyQCfdohd mkoTm4V57Gdl5pQvq/VUwOk= =fhW1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] procmail lock failure
On 08:56 Sat 15 Feb , Mr R A Mercer wrote: Hi Whenever an email gets delivered to my inbox I get the following error in the procmail log ## procmail: Lock failure on /var/spool/mail/ram.lock any ideas why procmail is having problems creating the lock file? Have not had this error myself but the man page says it... Can only occur if you specify some real weird (and illegal) lockfilenames or if the lockfile could not be created because of insufficient permissions or nonexistent subdirectories. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge python breakage
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:41 am, Alex Holden wrote: Hi, I'm building a new system, and I've managed to break it just by running emerge python. What happened was that I emerged fetchmail, and it said that in order for fetchmailconf to work I would have to re-emerge python with the tcltk USE flag set. Actually that flag was already set, but I think python was built as part of system before I emerged ufed and set up the flags. Anyway, I ran emerge python and it seemed to build and install just fine, but afterwords, every time python starts it prints 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback, and when I try to run emerge it says: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2, in ? import os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading,shutil ImportError: No module named portage If I run python -v /usr/bin/emerge it says among other things: 'import site' failed; traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.2/site.py, line 84, in ? if dir and not os.path.exists(dir): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'argv' Thinking maybe the portage python module had been deleted or corrupted or something, I tried untarring the portage rescue tarball (I couldn't emerge it of course because emerge is broken). It didn't make any difference to the problem (but it did overwrite /etc/make.conf) Any ideas why Python has broken (was it something I did wrong or a bug in the ebuild?) and more importantly, how can I fix it without reinstalling from scratch? This won't help you, but I always add tcltk to USE flags (you need it to get tkinter), and python always builds without any problems. In your current situation, get one of the /usr/portage/sys-apps/files/portage-rescue... files. -- Collins - kmail 3.1 test -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
Hi, my KDM is now starting normally :-))) Am 15.02.2003 um 07:55:02 schrieb Pat Double: I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need to remerge font-config. I think this applies to kde as well because when I merged one of the 3.1_rcX builds, it started up very slowly, after I merged font-config again, it went away. yes it seems ti be an 'font-problem'. I doesn't reemerge font-config, but i start xfs now at startup and after an reboot, KDM is running fine :-) THX to all Best Regards Ralf -- .-. Ralf Kessler * Freiburg/Germany * http://www.ralfkessler.de/ .-. oo| Citizen of Ladonia*Mailadresse im Headeroo| /`'\ GnuPG 1.2.1 Key-ID: 0x9AB09860 (DSA/EG) /`'\ (\_;/) PGP-Key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Autoresponder) (\_;/) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM is starting veeery slowly...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:55 am, Pat Double wrote: I remember a message a while back saying after you upgrade XFree you need to remerge font-config. I think this applies to kde as well because when I merged one of the 3.1_rcX builds, it started up very slowly, after I merged font-config again, it went away. Sorry, I meant fontconfig. - -- Pat Double, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Tk0tdOmLNuoWoKgRAoTvAJ9nX247hqsO/SXLnYy0lYiUACctzgCeO28T 4JeP7vsf6vF4pgTWLxtGJ5s= =93s4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem with VTE (gnome2.2)
Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my built-from-binary gnome2.0 to gnome2.2. It's the first time i have a big problem with emerge. When emerging gnome, the VTE package gives me a thousand error messages like vte.c:15713: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type vte.c:15714: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type vte.c:15716: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type vte.c: In function `vte_terminal_get_status_line': vte.c:15738: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [vte.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-libs/vte-0.10.19 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure ... I tried to compile it myself, but it crashes anyway. I tried also to use the flag ACCEPT_KEYWORD=^x86 (SORRY i dont know how to write ASCII symbols in linux. ALT+126 doesnt works!!).It only makes emerge to download Vte.0.10.19 instead 0.10.17 . I'm a bit annoyed, i can't upgrade gnome :( Any ideas?? thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 06:18:18 -0800 Bobby R. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give this a try. By Fluxbox for Fluxbox... http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/ And there is also this ... http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.php3 On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:19:46PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Besides idesk, are there any other ways to add icons to a fluxbox desktop? BillK -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Bobby R. Cox - Saturday Feb 15 2003 06:05:01 PST - Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Try emerge -s fbdesk. Then if you know how to emerge masked packages you'll find that it works, but some icons turn out square instead of nice and round. msg01457/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge python breakage
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 14:21, Collins wrote: This won't help you, but I always add tcltk to USE flags (you need it to get tkinter), and python always builds without any problems. In your current situation, get one of the /usr/portage/sys-apps/files/portage-rescue... files. As I mentioned earlier Python did appear to build without any problems but it didn't work properly after installation, and the only significant thing unpacking the Portage rescue tarball did was to overwrite my make.conf and mess up some cache somewhere. After I'd fixed the Python problem by copying /usr/lib/python2.2 from another machine I managed to fix the corrupted portage cache problem by re-emerging portage. -- Alex Holden - http://www.linuxhacker.org If it doesn't work, you're not hitting it with a big enough hammer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?
Is that strictly needed? Try using a common NFS mounted distfile directory. The first machine to request a tarball will load it into the common directory and the rest get it from there. With a http server, you will still have to get the tarballs in some way, and probably have a lot of unwanted ones in the process if you grab the lot *catch is you need to ensure that only one machine does the download at a time as two or more downloading the same tarball makes a mess! As I control which machine is emergeing, this does not cause a problem for me - there is probably some procedural or scriptable solution if one thinks hard enuff! BillK On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 18:18, Robert Cole wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 02:12 pm, Anthony de Boer wrote: SYNC=rsync://192.168.69.5/gentoo-portage/ and now emerge sync there gets data from the first machine. I'm not doing the every-30-minutes rsync that the document requires for official mirrors, because I'm simply doing emerge sync on the first machine before the second one. I setup simular and do rsync ok but the files still end up being pulled off an http mirror. I am still searching for a link that will show http mirroring. That seems the next step. If you go by the gentoo docs you would think your all setup and mirroring. NOT! There still seems to be a ton of pieces missing from the puzzle. I'm still trying to piece it all together. Can someone here that has setup a full portage tree complete with ALL downloads (yes that's a ton of disk space) please step forward and point us in the correct direction on how to do this on gentoo? There are allot of mirrors out there so I know it's being done. :) Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop
Not using gnome, but fluxbox. Nautilus has lots of bad things that I am trying to avoid on a low memory, slow processor machine. idesk has some anoying problems ranging from reqiring *3* mouse click to execute an icon (two machines) to segfaulting on another, so I am looking for a lightweight alternative. BillK On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:22, Matthew Graybosch wrote: * William Kenworthy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Besides idesk, are there any other ways to add icons to a fluxbox desktop? BillK Wouldn't Nautilus do the job of set to draw the desktop? -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net Good men know their limits. Great men overcome them. -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86
Go to the config options and you can select what or all the test you want run. It takes a long time to do them all. On Saturday 15 February 2003 00:32, Shane Hickey wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:58, Dave Klipec wrote: psyched to try this out. I'd never heard of this package before. Thanks for the help. Just for the record, I booted to memtest86 and it ran the default tests automaticly. I will have to explore the configuration options as the tests repeated after finishing the first 7 tests in about 18 minutes on my Athlon 700 with 96 megs of pc-100 RAM -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ports
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:53, Carl Hudkins wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 18:57, Eric Miller wrote: I am behind a firewall. Exactly which ports do I need to have open to use emerge? It may depend on your firewall (such as whether it uses state tracking), but here I haven't done anything special. AFAIK, allowing FTP and HTTP(S) should be enough. The rsync protocol (according to the man page) uses port 873, so you may need to open that one as well. Remember that are outward connections, so you must allow setting up connections to those ports (20/21, 80,873), not inward connections. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net msg01464/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] add icons to a fluxbox desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 17:11, William Kenworthy wrote: Not using gnome, but fluxbox. Nautilus has lots of bad things that I am trying to avoid on a low memory, slow processor machine. idesk has some anoying problems ranging from reqiring *3* mouse click to execute an icon (two machines) to segfaulting on another, so I am looking for a lightweight alternative. BillK On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:22, Matthew Graybosch wrote: * William Kenworthy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Besides idesk, are there any other ways to add icons to a fluxbox desktop? BillK Wouldn't Nautilus do the job of set to draw the desktop? -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net Good men know their limits. Great men overcome them. Try xfce4 available from cvs only, it has desktop support also BUT the most powerfull is the toolbar, it allows you to add shortcuts as many as you want and believe me, in this way you don't have to minimize your windows to be able to find the shortcuts from the descktop :-) Here you may see my screenshots: url http://whatsup.co.il/modules.php?name=Albumfile=view_child_catcid=10 /url :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TlsyczD4Ii52ssMRAnyBAKCBKbKbx8K4Qg94f16ruGZVz8yQGQCgnCj/ jdnMXVphW3Z5AA8KZqEoNW4= =1pui -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache, PHP and HTTPS issue
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It sounds like you didn't run the ebuild scripts after installing. Read the doc's on how to install things before expecting magic... - -James On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:17 pm, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: Hi Everyone i have installed apache, mod_ssl and php. I have set APACHE_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache to include -D SSL and -D PHP4 Now when i run apache i cannot do a https to that box. Why is that? Also when i run a test.php script (containing ? phpinfo(); ?), it does not run the php script. Any ideas whats happening? Thanks balaji -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+TnAqPA2DUEnH1PARApzlAJ9ywENUt+5XgSvuLc3RWNERFnTQ4QCfcjXW CCiKdyhdbKhaJikK6lXF61M= =lsVU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:13 am, Troy Dack wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. A http server is only needed if you want to be a mirror for distfiles as well as the portage tree. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. :) The easiest way to share your portage tree and source files across multiple computers on a local network is with nfs. This doesn't work for my purposes but I'll keep it in mind. Do you know how to mirror the distfiles? Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync from a local computer ?
On Saturday 15 February 2003 07:08 am, William Kenworthy wrote: Is that strictly needed? Try using a common NFS mounted distfile directory. The first machine to request a tarball will load it into the common directory and the rest get it from there. With a http server, you will still have to get the tarballs in some way, and probably have a lot of unwanted ones in the process if you grab the lot I have business reasons for wanting to do this. I'm looking at deploying gentoo in business environments and machines have different needs for different software. Yes an NFS mirror would probably work ok after I built the distfiles directory up but what of updates? It an update of say openoffice was put into the tree I would end up downloading that once while I sat there. If I had a mirror going that wouldn't happen. Plus I'm looking at having this server mirror other things as well so the best fit in this case is an http mirror. Finding a good howto for that is proving to be troublesome however. Robert. p.s. in enviroments where bandwidth isn't an issue I would of course see about setting that site up as a public mirror. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Again: constant hangings
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:50 pm, Bruno Lustosa wrote: * Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [14-02-2003 23:50]: What should I do? emerge memtest86 Alright. Memtest86 tested for about 10 minutes, until it found an error in address 252.2mb (at the end of the testings), and then HUNG!! I believe now, that this is a bad hardware issue. Perhaps gentoo is stressing the hardware more than windows or debian, because of so much compiling (and compiling eats memory). I'll try to replace the DDR modules for a new one (perhaps 512mb), and then run memtest86 before anything. Thanks! Bruno, Compiling strains the CPU MUCH MORE ( 80+%) than normal use seen under windows other binary based OSes. If you have the means to buy extra DDR that's surely worth a try. I'm still curios as to what Heatsink+Fan combo you have cooling your motherboard... and would recommend replacing it w/ a Coolermaster HAC-V81 ($15 w/ free shipping at newegg.com) if you're using the retail... the thing is very loud at full speed, but comes w/ a rheostat that allows you to adjust the voltage - RPM - noise of the fan to medium/low which is at a VERY tolerable level (quiter than an AMD 60mm retail fan).. also what is your case temperature? Brice -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide needs to be updated (or clarified)
The Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml) instructs to edit the XF86Config for Nvidia cards as such: Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce #Driver nv Driver nvidia #VideoRam32768 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection I have attatched a nohup emerge nvidia-kernel emergenvkernel.log and one for the glx as well. Here are my questions: - Is the module called nvidia or NVdriver? - Why does the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide fail to mention the opengl-update nvidia, yes it is mentioned in the emerge as it flies by on the screen...but it deserves to be mentioned in the guide. Even after all this digging (and posting, this is my third!)I still cant get 3D support for my GeForce2MX in Gentoo... Any guidance? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com emergenvglx.log Description: emergenvglx.log emergenvkernel.log Description: emergenvkernel.log -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS nightmares
So I checked my cups error log. It kept giving me the error that I should check my cups configuration file because FileDevice was disabled (default configuration)... # FileDevice: determines whether the scheduler will allow new printers # to be added using device URIs of the form file:/foo/bar. [b]The default # is not to allow file devices due to the potential security vulnerability # and due to the fact that file devices do not support raw printing.[/b] # FileDevice Yes By changing this option to 'YES', I was now able to issue the: 'foomatic-configure -s cups -p 75104 -c /dev/lp0 -n HP -d ljet4' command without receiving any errors. So then I had to go back into the cups web interface and reset the printer configuration, re-adding the location and everything as I had before: Name: HP Location: /dev/lp0 Description: HP LaserJet 4 Plus Device: Parallel Port #1 (Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 4 Plus) Make: HP Model: HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) Now when I print a test page, it works correctly. During this process, at some point, I had emerged gimp-print. I don't know if this had anything to do with the now working printer; Does anyone? Also, is this the solution for other people experiencing these problems printing to a local parallel printer)? (Changing FileDevice to Yes in cupsd.conf and disabling IEEE 1284 Transfer mode in the kernel configuration? Should the gentoo printing documentation be changed to reflect this? Thanks, Devi0s On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:47:21 -0500 Felix Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to place the modules in my modules.autoload file in order to load them at boot time. At 05:19 AM 2/10/2003 -0500, you wrote: I followed the gentoo printing guide to no avail - still having problems. I have an HP LaserJet 4 Plus hooked up via the parallel port. I have parport, parport-pc, IEE 1284 Transfer mode, and lp configured correctly in my kernel configuration. I did: emerge cups emerge foomatic Weird behavior: I (as root) cat test.txt (Hello World:) /dev/lp0. Though the command returns no error, nothing happens. I keep doing it: cat test.txt /dev/lp0 cat test.txt /dev/lp0 cat test.txt /dev/lp0 cat test.txt /dev/lp0 All of these return NO errors, but nothing happens. So I issue this command: foomatic-configure -s cups -p 75104 -c /dev/lp0 -n HP -d ljet4 And get the following error message: lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible Could not set up/change the queue HP! Then I set up cupsd: rc-update add cupsd default So I use mozilla to go to http://127.0.0.1:631, set up the printer with the following settings: Name: HP Location: /dev/lp0 Description: HP LaserJet 4 Plus Device: Parallel Port #1 (Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 4 Plus) Make: HP Model: HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 (en) So I print a test page and get: Hello World Hello World Hello World Hello World Hello World So I print another test page. This time, nothing happens. I print another test page... nothing happens. Etc... So I go and look at the 'completed' jobs: HP-11 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job HP-12 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job HP-13 (stdin) devios 93k aborted Restart Job HP-14 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job HP-15 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job HP-16 Test Page 15k aborted Restart Job I can't seem to find any help on this anywhere. Any help would be greatly appeciated. Research I've done to this point seems to suggest this is a gentoo problem - as if some dependencey or config file entry is missing somewhere... There are a lot of similar issues from gentoo users. In any case, I just would like a working printer so I don't have to continue using Microsoft products. I'd appreciate it if you could cc my email address on all responses. Thanks, devi0s -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Felix Rodriguez Programmer Analyst Phone: 860-685-3984 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
OK. I'm going to try to write a step-by-step how to for enabling the most current Nvidia modules and glx on a gentoo system. Bear in mind -I STILL DON'T HAVE IT WORKING ON MY SYSTEM- so I need some help, esp with the check if this step works parts. Before I start the parts I know, I have two questions; -Are there any kernel configs that need to be made before this will work? -Are there any USE flags that need to be set or unset? This how-to assumes you have X properly configured and functioning, with your XF86Config configured for you mouse and monitor. See the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide if you need to configure this. Step One: emerge nvidia-kernel Check step one: (dunno? modprobe nvidia?) Step Two: emerge nvidia-glx Check step two: opengl-update nvidia (again, guessing that this won't work if emerge nvidia-glx failed) Step Three: edit XF6Config to load glx and use driver nvidia Check step three: startx, you should get the Nvidia splash screen if everything was done properly Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. What else? I must be missing something...coz I can't get mine to work. What step is missing from the above? I'm *sure* others have had problems because of old or incomplete docs, so please be as detailed as possible... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirror
I haven't tried this personally, but overall it looks like a simple matter. I believe you will need to set up a machine on your lan with rsync access to one of the public mirrors that offer rsync access such as http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/ and with either ftp or http server capabilities. Then on your local machines just change the /etc/make.conf and set the local server as only your GENTOO_MIRROR. You will need something to support the file transfers, such as ftp or http, if that was your specific question. To be a mirror for the portage tree you would only need rsynce, but distfiles require either ftp or http. On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:14, Robert Cole wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:13 am, Troy Dack wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:46, Robert Cole wrote: I'm trying to setup my own personal mirror so I can setup multiple machines without busting my bandwidth. The documentation has massive holes in it. For example it appears that an http server is needed but the rsync mirror docs for gentoo say nothing about that. A http server is only needed if you want to be a mirror for distfiles as well as the portage tree. That's exactly what I'm trying to do. :) The easiest way to share your portage tree and source files across multiple computers on a local network is with nfs. This doesn't work for my purposes but I'll keep it in mind. Do you know how to mirror the distfiles? Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Ben M. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
The readme for 1.3.x says 1. For XF86Config Have Load GLX line Remove/comment out dri, GLCore line 2. What's the opengl-update? I never ran it and OpenGL worked on my sysetm. 3. The requirement to put nvidia driver in modules.autoload is a function of something gentoo did. I did not have to originally - it would load when I did startx however in the last couple of weeks the same nvidia version had to go in autoload. Then I found that for testing I had to load the driver with modprobe to run startx or no driver was found and startx failed. Put this step before running startx. OK. I'm going to try to write a step-by-step how to for enabling the most current Nvidia modules and glx on a gentoo system. Bear in mind -I STILL DON'T HAVE IT WORKING ON MY SYSTEM- so I need some help, esp with the check if this step works parts. Before I start the parts I know, I have two questions; -Are there any kernel configs that need to be made before this will work? -Are there any USE flags that need to be set or unset? This how-to assumes you have X properly configured and functioning, with your XF86Config configured for you mouse and monitor. See the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide if you need to configure this. Step One: emerge nvidia-kernel Check step one: (dunno? modprobe nvidia?) Step Two: emerge nvidia-glx Check step two: opengl-update nvidia (again, guessing that this won't work if emerge nvidia-glx failed) Step Three: edit XF6Config to load glx and use driver nvidia Check step three: startx, you should get the Nvidia splash screen if everything was done properly Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. What else? I must be missing something...coz I can't get mine to work. What step is missing from the above? I'm *sure* others have had problems because of old or incomplete docs, so please be as detailed as possible... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
Hi, On Saturday 15 February 2003 21:20, Eric Miller wrote: OK. I'm going to try to write a step-by-step how to for enabling the most current Nvidia modules and glx on a gentoo system. Bear in mind -I STILL DON'T HAVE IT WORKING ON MY SYSTEM- so I need some help, esp with the check if this step works parts. Before I start the parts I know, I have two questions; -Are there any kernel configs that need to be made before this will work? Maybe, someone should write down, that it is plain stupid to build kernels without mtrr support? Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. No. X is loading the nvidia modul itself. Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner way. What else? I must be missing something...coz I can't get mine to work. What step is missing from the above? I'm *sure* others have had problems because of old or incomplete docs, so please be as detailed as possible... opengl-update nvidia Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with VTE (gnome2.2)
Marcos Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !!! ERROR: x11-libs/vte-0.10.19 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure ... I tried to compile it myself, but it crashes anyway. I tried also to use the flag ACCEPT_KEYWORD=^x86 (SORRY i dont know how to write ASCII symbols in linux. ALT+126 doesnt works!!).It only makes emerge to download Vte.0.10.19 instead 0.10.17 . I'm a bit annoyed, i can't upgrade gnome :( Any ideas?? You should file a bug at the URL below. Give the full output of the following: emerge vte build.log emerge info build.log -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:44, gabor wrote:
Usually this behavior only occurs on a slower machine. I used to encounter
that on my PIII-800MZ, but now that I'm using an Athlon-XP 1900, I don't see
that behavior. You can overcome that by giving the X server a negative nice
value before starting something like a kernel compile or a lengthy emerge.
If you would like, I can dig around and locate the script I used to run at
startup from local (requires sudo).
ok, please locate that script.
Someone posted this attachment ages ago, works nicely for me, and
doesn't require sudo.
--
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/* wrapper.c
* Casey Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
* This is a quick hack that starts X with a priority
* of -10 for increased responsiveness. It should work
* but it may not :) There is no warranty or anything.
* Although I can't see anything possibly going wrong as
* there's only about 3 lines of code, worst case you
* have to reinstall X. Basically, you should never run
* code that you don't understand. That said:
*
* To use this program, verify that /usr/X11R6/bin/X is
* really a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (the actual
* server binary) If not, then change the *app to point to
* the actual binary.
* At the console (be careful..no typos):
* kill X and anything X-related (ie: xdm, kdm)
* $ gcc wrapper.c -o XFree86.wrapper
* $ su
* $ cp XFree86.wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ ls -alk X (make sure its a symlink..if not STOP)
* $ rm X
* $ chown root.root XFree86.wrapper
* $ chmod u+s XFree86.wrapper
* $ ln -s XFree86.wrapper X
* $ exit
*
* You should now be able to startx or xdm or whatever.
* Open an xterm and run 'top'. The process XFree86
* (which is the server) should be running at nice -10.
*
* If not, then make sure the XFree86.wrapper is suid
* root, executable by all, owned by root, and pointed
* to by /usr/X11R6/bin/X.
*
* To revert is easy.
* $ su
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ rm X
* $ ln -s XFree86 X
* $ exit
*/
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include sys/types.h
const char *app = /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86; // the actual binary
const int root = 0; // root's uid
const int n = -10;// desired nice priority valid range -20..20.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
seteuid(root);// The X server must be started as root under any Linux
nice(n); // Makes it nice
execv(app, argv); // This is it!
/* Should never see this unless *app points to invalid binary */
fprintf(stderr, Failed to execv %s with nice value of %d\n, app, n);
exit(1);
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86
Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default tests) and I rebooted then did startx. The nVidia splash screen stayed up for about one minute, then KDE started. This took somewhat longer than normal but I had no mouse. I exited X and looked at my XF86Config... No changes. I tried to reboot with the same results as before. Then, I shut it down and let it sit for 15 minutes. I fired it up and started X and all was back to normal. What happened? Do you suppose that the memory or processor got too hot? I have no means of checking temps in bios. (no emerges or config changes since last reboot) On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:17, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Go to the config options and you can select what or all the test you want run. It takes a long time to do them all. On Saturday 15 February 2003 00:32, Shane Hickey wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 20:58, Dave Klipec wrote: psyched to try this out. I'd never heard of this package before. Thanks for the help. Just for the record, I booted to memtest86 and it ran the default tests automaticly. I will have to explore the configuration options as the tests repeated after finishing the first 7 tests in about 18 minutes on my Athlon 700 with 96 megs of pc-100 RAM -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86
On 19:11 Sat 15 Feb , Ernie Schroder wrote: Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default tests) and I rebooted then did startx. The nVidia splash screen stayed up for about one minute, then KDE started. This took somewhat longer than normal but I had no mouse. I exited X and looked at my XF86Config... No changes. I tried to reboot with the same results as before. Then, I shut it down and let it sit for 15 minutes. I fired it up and started X and all was back to normal. What happened? Do you suppose that the memory or processor got too hot? I have no means of checking temps in bios. (no emerges or config changes since last reboot) I think its a heat issue. I get similar results if i overclock too high. Even if the cpu temp is ok, the memory or power supply are definitely stressed and letting them cool off solves the problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86
On Saturday 15 February 2003 19:35, mikepolniak wrote: On 19:11 Sat 15 Feb , Ernie Schroder wrote: Memtest has found errors in test 6 on my 512 stick of pc133. I wasn't having any problems but thought I'd run the test from an iso image just for kicks. So I finish the test,(took about an hour for the default tests) and I rebooted then did startx. The nVidia splash screen stayed up for about one minute, then KDE started. This took somewhat longer than normal but I had no mouse. I exited X and looked at my XF86Config... No changes. I tried to reboot with the same results as before. Then, I shut it down and let it sit for 15 minutes. I fired it up and started X and all was back to normal. What happened? Do you suppose that the memory or processor got too hot? I have no means of checking temps in bios. (no emerges or config changes since last reboot) I think its a heat issue. I get similar results if i overclock too high. Even if the cpu temp is ok, the memory or power supply are definitely stressed and letting them cool off solves the problem. I tend to agree with you. Even though it's a 350 watt powersupply, and there are 2 big case fans in the box, when I reached back there to check the mouse plug there was a world of heat coming out from the PS I am confused, though, by the fact that only test 6 showed errors. It seems that test 7 is more rigerous but did not produce any new errors. Can someone explain that? Sorry for the double Mike. Still have trouble with the list -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Arial doing italics not bold
I have to admit little knowledge of X's font handling, so I have no idea what would be causing this problem. In programs using whatever X's default font rendering is, Arial's bold style is instead rendered in italics. For example, Mozilla (non-xft) render's the headline on CNN.com's front page in italics. GIMP shows the same behavior when I tell it to use Arial in bold. An Xft-enabled build of Mozilla works fine, though. I have not noticed any other font problems. Any suggestions? /jgt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Please help me w/ overlay for xawtv
I can run xawtv (and zapping) grabber mode, but I would much prefer overlay (less overhead). When I try overlay I get a wierd cyan screen with some green square looking things - sometimes there is part of a scene, but nothing moving. I've tried two different cards (one ati tv wonder and an older hauppaugge card - both worked fine in overlay mode under Mandrake 9.0). I have a GeForce4 MX 440 card and I am using the nvidia-glx-1.0.4191-r1.ebuild and nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r1.ebuild versions of the nvidia driver - I have tried using the nv driver as well to no avail. this is the Module section in my XF86Config Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Load dbe # Double buffer extension Load v4l Load extmod # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load type1 Load freetype # This loads the GLX module Load glx Load dri EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection this is the output of xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.83, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-win4lin-r1) looking for available devices port 103-103 [ -xvport 103 ] type : Xvideo, video overlay name : video4linux port 104-104 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : NV17 Video Overlay port 105-136 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : NV05 Video Blitter /dev/v4l/video0: OK [ -device /dev/v4l/video0 ] type : v4l name : BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) flags: overlay capture tuner and my xvinfo output X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: video4linux number of ports: 1 port base: 103 operations supported: PutVideo supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 depth 24, visualID 0x23 depth 24, visualID 0x24 depth 24, visualID 0x25 depth 24, visualID 0x26 depth 24, visualID 0x27 depth 24, visualID 0x28 depth 24, visualID 0x29 depth 24, visualID 0x2a depth 24, visualID 0x2b depth 24, visualID 0x2c depth 24, visualID 0x2d number of attributes: 12 XV_ENCODING (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) XV_BRIGHTNESS (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) XV_CONTRAST (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -157) XV_SATURATION (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -8) XV_HUE (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) XV_VOLUME (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 999) XV_MUTE (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) XV_FREQ (range 0 to 16000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 3092) XV_COLORKEY (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 66046) XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) XV_SET_DEFAULTS (range 0 to 0) client settable attribute XV_ITURBT_709 (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) number of encodings: 28 encoding ID #0: pal-television size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #1: ntsc-television size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #2: secam-television size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #3: palnc-television size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #4: palm-television size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #5: paln-television size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #6: ntscjp-television size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #7: pal-composite1 size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #8: ntsc-composite1 size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #9: secam-composite1 size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #10: palnc-composite1 size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #11: palm-composite1 size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #12: paln-composite1 size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #13: ntscjp-composite1 size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #14: pal-svideo size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #15: ntsc-svideo size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #16: secam-svideo size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #17: palnc-svideo size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #18: palm-svideo size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #19: paln-svideo size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #20: ntscjp-svideo size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #21: pal-composite3 size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #22: ntsc-composite3 size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #23: secam-composite3 size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.02 encoding ID #24: palnc-composite3 size: 640 x
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. No. X is loading the nvidia modul itself. Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner way. Really? X won't even start up for me if I don't load either the nvidia or NVdriver module via /etc/modules.autoload. Speaking of which, maybe you should explain that there are two sets of drivers for NVidia cards: 1. The gentoo-supplied versions are nvidia-glx-1.03123 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 and use the NVdriver kernel module. 2. The NVidia-supplied drivers are nvidia-glx-1.0.4191 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191 and use the nvidia kernel module. You can use either one. The NVidia versions have proved more stable in my environment, but others have had better luck with the earlier versions. Also, I believe if you run the 'opengl-update nvidia' command and you have the gentoo version on your system (i.e. you emerged them at some point) then it will make the gentoo glx drivers active, even if you previously installed the NVidia version. If you have mixed versions (kernel and glx) then some programs (like glxgears) won't run. You have to reinstall the NVidia version of the glx drivers to correct this. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:25, Daniel A. Segel wrote: Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. No. X is loading the nvidia modul itself. Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner way. In fact it's devfs that loads the module. Really? X won't even start up for me if I don't load either the nvidia or NVdriver module via /etc/modules.autoload. Then your module configs are not correct or your devfs configuration is some how screwed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing an Nvidia 3D Support how to- Need some help
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:25, Daniel A. Segel wrote: Step Four: Have NVdriver autoload at startup by including it in /etc/modules.autoload. No. X is loading the nvidia modul itself. Do not(!) put it into modules.autoload, letting X do it is the cleaner way. Really? X won't even start up for me if I don't load either the nvidia or NVdriver module via /etc/modules.autoload. Last time I had to think about that was sometime before christmas ;o) Speaking of which, maybe you should explain that there are two sets of drivers for NVidia cards: 1. The gentoo-supplied versions are nvidia-glx-1.03123 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 and use the NVdriver kernel module. 2. The NVidia-supplied drivers are nvidia-glx-1.0.4191 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191 and use the nvidia kernel module. You can use either one. The NVidia versions have proved more stable in my environment, but others have had better luck with the earlier versions. Also, I believe if you run the 'opengl-update nvidia' command and you have the gentoo version on your system (i.e. you emerged them at some point) then it will make the gentoo glx drivers active, even if you previously installed the NVidia version. If you have mixed versions (kernel and glx) then some programs (like glxgears) won't run. You have to reinstall the NVidia version of the glx drivers to correct this. I reinstalled my hole system after an hd crash on thursday with the help of a live-cd with the GRP-Packages. I did an emerge -up world, installed the 3123 -stuff, than changed to ~x86 because of Xfree 4.2.99.4. 4191 was an absolut clean update. 4191 was installed, the 3121 files removed and X started fine. I switch happy between console and X, are playing q2vegastrike and have no problems... instead I am surprised that such a lot of people have problems. Ok, most of them are 'hey, i don't read README, I want YOU to read it for ME' or 'I love this very high optimiziation options, even they are complete useless and make everything unstable', most of the rest are via-users.. Please people, don't be offend, but a lot of mails in this list is stuff that is greatly explained in the provided documentation or completly discussed in the nvidia-linux-forum. Glück Auf, Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Alsa, sound all problems solved!
Title: Alsa, sound all problems solved! Some may remember my problems here getting sound to work. Right now I am listening to mp3s in XMMS using ALSA as a regular user. Since I last fought sound, I have upgraded my motherboard so I am using Alsa and snd-intel8x0 (Intel 82801BA/BAM /proc/pci says). Here is how I got it going for those that may have problems: 1. Recompiled the kernel with no sound support. 2. Followed the instructions in the ALSA guide to the letter - with one exception: It says to add sound card support as a module and no other drivers, I added support for Intel ICH as a module as well. Would not work without it. 3. Followed the rest of the steps to get Alsa going outside KDE. One exception: In alsamixer, the command in code listing 3.5 'alsamixer set Master 100 unmute' and 'alsamixer set PCM 100 unmute' does not actually do either, you have to us the up arrow to increase the sound AND press 'm' to unmute. Amixer is the same (is amixer a link to alsamixer?) 4. In KDE I had to set arts to not start when KDE does. Aside from the above I followed the instructions to the letter. I do not feel so stupid now, I got so frustrated trying to make it work last time. I just wanted to pass this on in case it helps someone else.
Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia + GCC 3.2?
VIA-KT-400, Mobo=Gigabyte GA-7vax Hope this helps... -- Viktor On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:27:22PM -0300, Papo wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:18:58 + Viktor Lakics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same video card (GeForce4 MX440 TV out), I use nvidia 1.0.3123-r2 and gcc 3.2.1 and EVERYThing is fine. Do not see anything what you experience... -- Viktor Hi! What chipset does your motherboard have? txs! Papo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ___ Viktor Lakics email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg01496/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
