Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions
-- Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:19:01PM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: Which is the best supported IDE RAID chipset? I'm after a motherboard with onboard IDE RAID support. I gave up on an ASUS A7V8X with a Promise Fasttrack onboard IDE RAID controller. I'm certainly no expert here, but I have been snooping around a bit for Linux and IDE RAID information. If I understand the situation correctly, there are very few true hardware IDE RAID controllers supported by Linux. (I believe that one company offering these is 3ware). But these are REALLY expensive. From what I gather, most of the commodity IDE RAID boards (Promise, HighPoint) are not hardware RAID; they rely on drivers (read: software) to do much of the RAID work. With this in mind, it appears your time would be better spent simply using the Linux md (multi-disk) functionality for software-level RAID (without needing any special hardware). Unless you have lots of money and can't afford to give up a tiny percetage of your CPU power, Linux md is the way to go. I used md on top of an onboard RAID MB (Iwill, as I recall, and I don't remember what the chipset was). I'd bought the system expecting to get RAID, and found out what I essentially ended up with was a couple extra IDE busses. My experience was that md was far too much of a CPU hog when doing excessive disk accesses (ripping and encoding ogg's, for instance), and I ended up going with a hardware solution. I've been much happier with it. If you've got the money (and particularly if you want to do RAID-5), I highly recommend the 3ware cards. They've got a 4-channel card (so you can put each drive on a separate channel, with none of this master/slave stuff) which supports RAID-5 (as well as 0, 1, etc. of course), has open-sourced drivers (included in the kernel) and acts as a single scsi interface (per array). They're a bit pricy, but well worth it in my opinion. Someone please correct me if any of this info is inaccurate! With this in mind, however, what ARE the good RAID motherboards (for the extra IDE channels) or good add-on IDE PCI controllers? By good I mean having mature, stable Linux drivers? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] squid + pam_auth
I want to autenticate my users in squid! I add into squid.conf auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours my /etc/pam.d/squid auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth sessionrequired /lib/security/pam_limits.so I have /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth suid! my browser asks me for the password, but it cant authenticate! Any tips? thanks in advance! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GLSA: glibc (200303-22) on gentoo 1.2
Many of my machines are running gentoo 1.2, not 1.4. /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.0/packages has glibc pinned to *=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r7 Is this an oversight? or is something known about the status of 2.2.5-r8 with that profile? Yes, my mistake. I fixed it a couple of days ago, but I forgot to reply to you. Thanks for finding this so fast! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Building for old glibc
I'm now using Gentoo 1.4 stable on my machine in the office, however I have to build software for customers running old versions of Mandrake which use glibc 2.2.4 Is there any easy way to do this? Possible methods I'm thinking of are 1) Copying glibc 2.2.4 to somewhere outside my normal library search path, then adding it to the start of the link path when building software for release. 2) Creating a chroot environment using glibc 2.2.4 including the NSS stuff. The program I'm building is staticly linked, although glibc is always dynamically linked, so the rest of my environment should not matter. -- Mark Gordon Paid to be a Geek a Senior Software Developer Currently looking for a new job commutable from Slough, Berks, U.K. Although my email address says spamtrap, it is real and I read it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] X - VT_GETMODE failed (Was: runscript problems - /dev/vc/*)
OK, by apparently black magic, the vc problem seems to have gone away. I found a previous error - CHAR-MAJOR-10-135 something to do with a Real Time Clock which I fixed and this also seemed to sort out the vc thing. Except(1): The ALSA problem still remains. I think I am just going to completely reinstall ALSA from scratch. Except(2): (more seriously) X won't start! I get: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: VT_GETMODE failed Any ideas what is causing this?! Thanks Dan On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:06:28AM +, Daniel Jaeggi wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:42:02PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: You do have in you kernel config under Character devices this selected: -- [*] Unix98 PTY support (256) Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use (0-2048) -- Yes. ? If you do, have a look at my advice in bug #18040: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18040 It is most prob also nuked device nodes. OK, I followed both suggestions here to no avail. Nothing changes Thanks anyway! Any other suggestions? Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
Hi all Sort of a strange kernel problem. I have installed gentoo-1.4-rc3 with gentoo-sources kernel ver 2.4.20-r1. For my gentoo system i use /boot at /dev/hda11 (ext2), / at /dev/hda12 (ext3) and /home at /dev/hda13 (reiserfs). Here is an exception from my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda image=/boot/bzImage vga=788 optional label=gentoo When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? PS all the used filesystems are compiled into kernel Tnx in advance, Anton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] autocleaning
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 09:05, Adam Mercer wrote: Hi I'm trying to set my system up so that I have a choice of two kernels, a vanilla kernel and a patched kernel - however as I use ALSA I'm having problems installing the alsa-driver package for both kernel. When I install one the files for the other kernel are removed. How can I have alsa-driver for two different kernels? I've tried setting AUTOCLEAN=no in make.conf but that seems to have no effect... Ideas anyone? Use this to emerge alsa-driver: --- #!/bin/bash echo Removing any installation records for alsa-driver from /var/db/pkg/ if [[ $(epm -qaG|grep alsa-driver) != ]]; then rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/$(epm -qaG|grep alsa-driver) fi AUTOCLEAN=no emerge alsa-driver --- Peter -- Gentoo-1.4.3.4 Unstable. KDE: 3.1.1 Qt: 3.1.2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ 768MB. Kernel: 2.4.20-xfs-r2. GCC 3.2.2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GLSA: glibc (200303-22) on gentoo 1.2
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:13 am, Daniel Ahlberg wrote: Many of my machines are running gentoo 1.2, not 1.4. Yes, my mistake. I fixed it a couple of days ago, but I forgot to reply to you. Thanks for finding this so fast! Yes, I have already spotted the change and upgraded all our machines, but I forgot to confirm it was working. Thanks for fixing it so fast. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new ebuilds for testing ....
hi all Have submitted some new ebuilds for testing .. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18282 new Ebuild for latest NVSDK from Nvidia http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18281 updated ebuild for nvidia-cg-toolkit for latest version These are primeraly for nvidia cg tookkit and NVSDK. there are some warning when the ebuild runs so if anybody can lend a hand getting those to stop since I'm not sure how to. Some more ebuilds to check out is: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14415 OpenEXR-1.0.4.ebuild (New Package) This is fo the OSS released library from Industrial Light and Magic. Very nice. I've updated to latest version which is acually 1.0.5 and can use the NVSDK and cg toolkit from nvidia hence the previos two ebuilds, but does not require them. I'm also thinking of suggesting a new USE for NVSDK since it will possibly become a commen option for openGL stuff. anyway ... feel free to comment, flame, etc Henti Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Did you add the default option? In your case: default=gentoo Here is how my /etc/lilo.conf looks like. - --- boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/.map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 lba32 default=linux image=/boot/bzImage-27-r2march label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda2 image=/boot/bzImage-21march label=linux-old read-only root=/dev/hda2 --- * ? ? ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-28 12:19:00]: Hi all Sort of a strange kernel problem. I have installed gentoo-1.4-rc3 with gentoo-sources kernel ver 2.4.20-r1. For my gentoo system i use /boot at /dev/hda11 (ext2), / at /dev/hda12 (ext3) and /home at /dev/hda13 (reiserfs). Here is an exception from my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda image=/boot/bzImage vga=788 optional label=gentoo When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? PS all the used filesystems are compiled into kernel Tnx in advance, Anton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- +++ | Name: Yeechie Tu | eMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Alias: Yinchie | Website - http://www.relaxz.net | |++ | GnuPG ID: 85BE42A5 | | Fingerprint: D216 AC76 C8AA 158F FA26 2499 8E34 6AF4 85BE 42A5 | +-+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj6EOpIACgkQjjRq9IW+QqUrbwCgnBJ18Aw6DSkdA2HgEgk/kFN8 stYAn30VfKEFpQo5TcXKXPb7kBhIq4M5 =j5Ho -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hrmm, sorry. I have no idea :| Maybe you should try asking around on the Gentoo forums if you havent done that already. * ? ? ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-28 13:38:50]: Well, i don't think it would matter. Just didn't include that line in the previous message. To be precise my lilo.conf looks more like following: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map prompt timeout=100 lba32 default=windows image=/boot/bzImage label=gentoo vga=788 optional other=skipped windows part -Original Message- From: Yeechie Tu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:06 PM To: gentoo-user Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem Hello, Did you add the default option? In your case: default=gentoo Here is how my /etc/lilo.conf looks like. --- boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/.map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 lba32 default=linux image=/boot/bzImage-27-r2march label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda2 image=/boot/bzImage-21march label=linux-old read-only root=/dev/hda2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- +++ | Name: Yeechie Tu | eMail- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Alias: Yinchie | Website - http://www.relaxz.net | |++ | GnuPG ID: 85BE42A5 | | Fingerprint: D216 AC76 C8AA 158F FA26 2499 8E34 6AF4 85BE 42A5 | +-+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj6ERm4ACgkQjjRq9IW+QqUd+QCeP8qohF0p5w9w7UU4YYpGBz8Y 7UMAn0l+Y4rVdzHxxypHWgBrrqB3QTv4 =ttab -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] epgraph creation failed
28 2003 14:41, / konstantinos Dolkas : Hello, Since the last portage update I am having a problem with dependencies in some ebuilds. When I try to emerge -up --deep world I get errors. More info is provided in the attachment. All other portage function work perfectly e.g. emerge -p world Please help... I am also having problems with the latest kde3.1.1 release... Kdebase compiles perfectly but kdemultimedia and kdenetwork crashes I still have 3.0.5a installed (In case it matters) Thanks in advance, Konstantinos Dolkas Some more info about the error message in kdemultimedia... S1_S3_EERKS1_+0x123): In function `std::vectorArts::GraphPo int, std::allocatorArts::GraphPoint ::_M_insert_aux(__gnu _cxx::__normal_iteratorArts::GraphPoint*, std::vectorArts: :GraphPoint, std::allocatorArts::GraphPoint , Arts::Gra phPoint const)': : undefined reference to `std::__default_alloc_template(boo l)1, (int)0::_S_force_new' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [libartsgui_idl.la.closure] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdemultimedia-3 .1.1/work/kdemultimedia-3.1.1/arts/gui/common' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdemultimedia-3 .1.1/work/kdemultimedia-3.1.1/arts/gui' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdemultimedia-3 .1.1/work/kdemultimedia-3.1.1/arts' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdemultimedia-3 .1.1/work/kdemultimedia-3.1.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.1.1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 116, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make Please help!!! Thanks in advance , Konstantinos Dolkas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] distfile mirroring how-to ?
Another question on a similar subject. Is there any statistics available for how much bandwidth a portage mirror or a distfile mirror will use? I saw that I could limit the number of connections, but not the bandwitdh. Can someone give me some examples of bandwidth usage. //kim -Original Message- From: Philippe Van Hecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] distfile mirroring how-to ? I have already posted this question but didn't recieved any help for this. may be this not the good mailing-list. I am working for BELNET the Belgian national research network for education, research and public services (see http://www.belnet.be). We would like to mirror the distfiles of the gentoo distribution and not only the portage tree. Any body can help me to do this ? Tank -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
I have pentium4 2.26 and compiled the kernel with -march=pentium4 -o3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Original Message- From: Kwan Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 05:52,wrote: When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? PS all the used filesystems are compiled into kernel Errors like this are often caused by selecting the wrong processor option in your kernel build. What did you select? What processor do you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 05:52,wrote: When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? PS all the used filesystems are compiled into kernel Errors like this are often caused by selecting the wrong processor option in your kernel build. What did you select? What processor do you have? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Spamassassin
I have spamassassin working well with kmail now. Is the ruleset regularly updated, and how do you do that? I read that it now does Bayesian logic too. How do you train it? -- Stephen From here to there and there to here, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:52:59 +0300 ÷ÏÒÏ×ÁÔÏ× áÎÔÏÎ óÅÒÇÅÅ×ÉÞ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? did you tried to leave out the vga=788-line - -- Menschen - kleine Säcke aus denkendem Wasser, zusammengehalten von fragilen Kalzium-Ansammlungen ;-) Public key availabe here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x97DE51D7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hFJ66YDQUZfeUdcRAuw9AJ9CwN2kVBfdNjMFNOC4iPY0eVoLZwCgoHLI ZOwq0fygI4v8rwrJvRj2VuU= =Nez6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] distfile mirroring how-to ?
I have already posted this question but didn't recieved any help for this. may be this not the good mailing-list. I am working for BELNET the Belgian national research network for education, research and public services (see http://www.belnet.be). We would like to mirror the distfiles of the gentoo distribution and not only the portage tree. Any body can help me to do this ? Tank -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
As a matter of fact i run one more linux distribution along with gentoo on this machine. It has the same kernel version and this vga line makes no problem. I really don't think that is the issue. Framebuffer for my videocard - nvidia geforce mx440 - is supported and compiled into the kernel. -Original Message- From: Matthias Grimm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem did you tried to leave out the vga=788-line -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassassin
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:35:38 -0600 Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spamassassin working well with kmail now. Is the ruleset regularly updated, and how do you do that? I read that it now does Bayesian logic too. How do you train it? The Bayesian logic self-trains as it identifies spam or ham, which is very nice. To give it a training kickstart, you can manually point it at mailboxes, directories, or individual message files of spam or ham using the sa-learn command (see the man page for details). But generally, let's say you use Maildir folders with kmail and you have taken the trouble to set aside a collection of spam, and like most everyone, you have a collection of good email in your inbox. In this case, you can just say: sa-learn --ham --dir ~/Mail/inbox/cur sa-learn --spam --dir ~Mail/spam/cur The nice thing is that you can experiment and re-run things, and it won't screw up the database. It knows when it has already encountered a particular message. Supposedly. ---scott -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions
Matt Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] If you've got the money (and particularly if you want to do RAID-5), I highly recommend the 3ware cards. They've got a 4-channel card (so you can put each drive on a separate channel, with none of this master/slave stuff) which supports RAID-5 (as well as 0, 1, etc. of course), has open-sourced drivers (included in the kernel) and acts as a single scsi interface (per array). at work we've recently tested the 8-way 7500-series controller from 3Ware. so far it just works. okay, so since Serial ATA (that would be the 8500-series) drives are still in the blue we have 9 IDE-cables in the cabinet. a bit of a trick to get it tidy, but still. performance is good, no problems at all so far. /dev/sda1 reiserfs1.3T 373G 957G 28% /mnt/testraid it's also fun to see T in the output from 'df -h'. :-) -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare host-only networking question
I never use host-only network just bridged, a possiblility would be that your firewall blocks netbios port 139 Patrick On 28 Mar 2003 08:55:43 + Martin Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying out VMWare to run Win2K inside Gentoo, but I cannot seem to get host-only networking to work. I am running Samba (not the one installed with VMWare), and the only time I can get the host to appear in the guest OS is when I specify netbios name = gentoo in smb.conf. (The actual host name is NOT gentoo, but when I use localhost, I get nothing,) But Win2K tells me that Gentoo is not accessible... Any idea what I am doing wrong? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator Live Linx Extensible Solutions Ltd. Tel +972-4-8651507 Mobile +972-53-864280 -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better than what is initially put in. PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel installation problem
Matthias Grimm wrote: When i rub /sbin/lilo, it adds gentoo with no error messages, but when i boot the machine and press the gentoo line, the screen goes blank again without any error messages, the hd light turns on for some 10 seconds and then turns off. Nothing happenes untill i press reset. Any ideas how to make it start? did you tried to leave out the vga=788-line Better yet, change it to vga=normal (which I believe is the default anyway). I had this problem a while back with Slackware. I compiled in support for the ATI Rage 128 framebuffer instead of the VESA VGA framebuffer. It turned out my chipset was too new. After I selected the Slackware option in Lilo, the screen would go completely blank, but it was obvious the computer was still booting from all the hd activity. And, as someone else pointed out, you need to add 'root = /dev/hda12' under your Gentoo section. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kmail question
kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
Huh? What am I not understanding about new releases here? On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:56, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: ... Great! The plethora of docs on the gentoo site will get you through it. You could either use Gentoo GRP precompiled packages to save time in which case you'd have to use 1.4 rc2 or you could compile the entire system from scratch in which case you could use any installer latest of which is 1.4 rc3. Note that all installers get you to the same point in remaining up to date. ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: VMWare host-only networking question
On Friday 28 March 2003 09:55, Martin Polley wrote: Hi all, I am trying out VMWare to run Win2K inside Gentoo, but I cannot seem to get host-only networking to work. I am running Samba (not the one installed with VMWare), and the only time I can get the host to appear in the guest OS is when I specify netbios name = gentoo in smb.conf. (The actual host name is NOT gentoo, but when I use localhost, I get nothing,) But Win2K tells me that Gentoo is not accessible... Any idea what I am doing wrong? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator Live Linx Extensible Solutions Ltd. Tel +972-4-8651507 Mobile +972-53-864280 I think you are doing it the hard way. Why don't you use Samba installed with VMWare? You have VMWare installed, right? Take a look at /opt/vmware/lib/help/networking_host_samba.htm Cheers Francesco. -- Linux Version 2.4.20-openmosix-r2, Compiled #1 Sun Mar 16 16:13:28 CET 2003 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 512M RAM, 3060.53 Bogomips Total macula.fastwebnet.it -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
From the kmail help manual: 6.6. How can I use a different browser than Konqueror to open links in messages? Change the File Associations for HTML files using KControl. So you will need to edit the program associated with opening html files in kde. Doesn't look like there is a way to do it for kmail only. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:11, Ernie Schroder wrote: kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare host-only networking question
The VMWare docs say you only have to add one line to your smb.conf file. Do you have interface = eth0 vmnet1 in the smb.conf? This tells the samba server that it has to listen on eth0 and vmnet1. Of course the interface names should reflect the ones you're actually using. See page 307 of the VMWare docs. It says any samba Dean O. On Friday 28 March 2003 03:55 am, Martin Polley wrote: Hi all, I am trying out VMWare to run Win2K inside Gentoo, but I cannot seem to get host-only networking to work. I am running Samba (not the one installed with VMWare), and the only time I can get the host to appear in the guest OS is when I specify netbios name = gentoo in smb.conf. (The actual host name is NOT gentoo, but when I use localhost, I get nothing,) But Win2K tells me that Gentoo is not accessible... Any idea what I am doing wrong? TIA, Martin Polley Technical Communicator Live Linx Extensible Solutions Ltd. Tel +972-4-8651507 Mobile +972-53-864280 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
On Friday 28 March 2003 11:32 am, Kurt Bechstein wrote: From the kmail help manual: 6.6. How can I use a different browser than Konqueror to open links in messages? Change the File Associations for HTML files using KControl. So you will need to edit the program associated with opening html files in kde. Doesn't look like there is a way to do it for kmail only. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:11, Ernie Schroder wrote: kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thanks Kurt, I was looking for something specific to kmail but that does the trick -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
Not a problem. Glad to hear it worked. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:45, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 11:32 am, Kurt Bechstein wrote: From the kmail help manual: 6.6. How can I use a different browser than Konqueror to open links in messages? Change the File Associations for HTML files using KControl. So you will need to edit the program associated with opening html files in kde. Doesn't look like there is a way to do it for kmail only. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:11, Ernie Schroder wrote: kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Thanks Kurt, I was looking for something specific to kmail but that does the trick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants X 4.2.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 March 2003 18:00, Johnny Andersson wrote: Hi. I upgraded from XFree86 4.2.1 to 4.3 (while 4.3 was still masked). I removed 4.2.1. Since then,' emerge -u world' wants to re-emerge 4.2.1. I A good thing to do if you have emerged masked packages, is to use the -U (upgrade only) switch to emerge instead off -u (upgrade) which will downgrade the masked packages. - -- Sigurd Stordal President of GOGS Experimental Petrologist -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hIDSSB4UOs/snOURAkwXAJ0VpSlfa+dyCGW12X0hWHqwo/M+agCeKoan Yf8geyJ+UaPLJ6VpoG4NY8o= =Dkhw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants X 4.2.1
You could always use emerge -U world rather than -u. The capital U basically says to not downgrade a package to a lower version. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:00, Johnny Andersson wrote: Hi. I upgraded from XFree86 4.2.1 to 4.3 (while 4.3 was still masked). I removed 4.2.1. Since then,' emerge -u world' wants to re-emerge 4.2.1. I can't see why; qpkp --dups tells me that I have no xfree dups lying around. I don't think anything should depend on an older X, and I don't want to have to copies of X on the machine. Hints appreciated. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Screen for login
Hi! Does someone use screen for logins? Does it work? And if, how? -- Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants X 4.2.1
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:00:52 +0100 Johnny Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think anything should depend on an older X, and I don't want to have to copies of X on the machine. There are no packages, which depends on the older XFree and emerge doesn't want to install an additional version of XFree, it wants to downgrade your XFree 4.3 because it wants you to have the latest stable version of all packages. The latest stable Version of XFree is 4.2.1, so it wants to 'upgrade' your 4.3 to 4.2.1 (well, this actually would be a downgrade, but...). Use emerge -U world instead (with an uppercase U), this prevents downgrades -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
Try going to the control center/associations and set it up there. On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:11:08 -0500 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail question
Am Freitag, 28. März 2003 17:11 schrieb Ernie Schroder: kmail opens URL's in konqueror by default. How can I change it to open them in Phoenix? I can't find a setting in kmailrc. read the kmail-handbook chapter 6 Frequently asked questions 6.8 (at least in the german handbook at this position) pegasux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] configuring samba client for printers
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote: This is how I did it: emerge cups samba I already had cups and samba rc-update add cupsd default I did this and then also did /etc/init.d/cups restart point browser to http://127.0.0.1:631/ This gives connection refused in mozilla I tried print command in evolution... and I dont see any new printers in there. :( Spundun Spundun Bhatt wrote: Hi, Has anybody done this? What I want to do is to be able to print documents by just hitting the print button on acroread,evolution,phoenix/mozilla and other document viewers. I use gnome (dont think that should matter though) I have samba installed. The printers are on network and are accesible through both windows and sun machines. I assume it suppports smb protocol... I dont know how its managed on suns. There are more than one printers... if I could get the list of all the printers (automaticall) in the drop down box in the print dialog... that would be cool. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants X 4.2.1
On Friday 28 March 2003 18.18, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote: packages. The latest stable Version of XFree is 4.2.1, so it wants to 'upgrade' your 4.3 to 4.2.1 (well, this actually would be a downgrade, but...). Use emerge -U world instead (with an uppercase U), this prevents downgrades I understand now. Kinda makes sense, too. Thanks to those who answered. Now let's update a few weeks worth of packages... :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] autocleaning
-- Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly: Use this to emerge alsa-driver: --- # !/bin/bash echo Removing any installation records for alsa-driver from /var/db/pkg/ if [[ $(epm -qaG|grep alsa-driver) != ]]; then rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/$(epm -qaG|grep alsa-driver) Or: find /var/db/pkg -type d -maxdepth 2 -name 'alsa-driver*' \ | xargs rm -rf fi AUTOCLEAN=no emerge alsa-driver --- While I'm sure that'll work, it seems like kind of a hack. It'll remove any record of the installation, so those files will never get cleaned. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration
I'm trying to set up a Gentoo Router / File Server / Firewall... I've got multiple NIC's in the box (one for each port, to each room in the house). However, that leaves me one short to connect the cable modem. I connected it via USB and using the CDCEther driver (as a module) I do see the following in my dmesg log... In my /etc/conf.d/net I have all (eth0 to eth5) of my cards configured to use DHCP (which the cable modem will need in the end). However, eth5 is saying can't start or some other words for I failed but I'm not going to tell you why. I don't see anything in the logs though... any ideas? Thanks! Matt CDCEther.c: CDCEther.c: 0.98.6 7 Jan 2002 Brad Hards and another usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther CDCEther.c: Ethernet information found at device configuration. Trying to use it anyway. CDCEther.c: Found Header descriptor, CDC version 110. CDCEther.c: Imperfect filtering support - need sw hashing CDCEther.c: Can't use SetEthernetMulticastFilters request CDCEther.c: detected BULK OUT packets of size 64 CDCEther.c: interrupt address: 5 CDCEther.c: interrupt interval: 64 CDCEther.c: eth5: Motorola Corporation SB4100 USB Cable Modem 002040D15FBF CDCEther.c: eth5: 00:20:40:D1:5F:BF CDCEther.c: eth5: set multicast filters CDCEther.c: eth5: set multicast filters CDCEther.c: eth5: set multicast filters CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: rx status -84 CDCEther.c: BULK IN callback but driver is not active! CDCEther.c: got intr callback CDCEther.c: eth5: set multicast filters CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: eth5: too many MC filters for hardware, using allmulti CDCEther.c: rx status -84 CDCEther.c: BULK IN callback but driver is not active! CDCEther.c: got intr callback -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in /boot?? My /boot is only 8MB, enough to hold 3 or 4 kernels and grub. Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] configuring samba client for printers
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what does lun means?
Hello, * Norberto wrote on 03/28/03: Content-Description: signed data Hello, I know what host, bus, and target means, but what about lun? What does it mean? /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 Oh, that's interesting. When you have a multiple SCSI-Tape-Streamer every Tape is addressed via LUN's, I think local units. But the devfs-lun... It could be, that you can combine a few partitions, like LVM perhaps. Greets, Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what does lun means?
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Re: [gentoo-user] configuring samba client for printers
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:39, Spundun Bhatt wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:16, Andrew Gaffney wrote: This is how I did it: emerge cups samba I already had cups and samba rc-update add cupsd default I did this and then also did /etc/init.d/cups restart point browser to http://127.0.0.1:631/ This gives connection refused in mozilla Okkey... to all the ppl who think you dont need to reboot linux. ... I rebooted and the link worked... :) ( I am sure theres a command to do the same without rebooting and I would like to read about that) From the docs it looks like cupsd is necessary only if you have a printer attached to your own machine.. i.e. on the server side. [...goes to read more docs..] I tried print command in evolution... and I dont see any new printers in there. :( Spundun Spundun Bhatt wrote: Hi, Has anybody done this? What I want to do is to be able to print documents by just hitting the print button on acroread,evolution,phoenix/mozilla and other document viewers. I use gnome (dont think that should matter though) I have samba installed. The printers are on network and are accesible through both windows and sun machines. I assume it suppports smb protocol... I dont know how its managed on suns. There are more than one printers... if I could get the list of all the printers (automaticall) in the drop down box in the print dialog... that would be cool. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what does lun means?
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:18 am, Norberto BENSA wrote: Hello, I know what host, bus, and target means, but what about lun? What does it mean? Local Unit Number - Correlating to the what number you have set on your device (in those cases where you have the option - some devices are hard set to one number and don't give you the option of changing it). /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 Many thanks in advance, Norberto -- Know your neighbor. Discover independent media: http://www.thislife.org/ - This American Life http://www.alternativeradio.org/ - A voice for groups that might otherwise not be heard. http://www.worldlinktv.org/ - offering a global perspective on news, current events and culture -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] configuring samba client for printers
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:23, Sigurd Stordal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I already had cups and samba If you have KDE print manager (or kups as I think it's called), you can add printers, and just lett it scan the entire network for smb printers. It works. You can also try to scan for networked printers, and connect directly. Thanx. but I dont have kde installed is there anything for gnome? I am going to try xpp in a little while. by the way lpstat -p shows zero entries from my box which has both samba and cups installed but shows pages and pages of printers on the sun box next to it. Thanx for you help Spundun - -- Sigurd Stordal President of GOGS Experimental Petrologist -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hJMWSB4UOs/snOURAtsaAJ9hs9vTxwtgPyP+Cc1ZoeOOc22PMACeL5cM 9JiD/DxdDYlbN7NrDc2iVkY= =f8vg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] configuring samba client for printers
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:38, Spundun Bhatt wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:23, Sigurd Stordal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I already had cups and samba If you have KDE print manager (or kups as I think it's called), you can add printers, and just lett it scan the entire network for smb printers. It works. You can also try to scan for networked printers, and connect directly. Thanx. but I dont have kde installed is there anything for gnome? I am going to try xpp in a little while. xpp exits immediately with an error message No printers found, aborting. Any idea how to make this printing thing work! Thanx a lot Spundun by the way lpstat -p shows zero entries from my box which has both samba and cups installed but shows pages and pages of printers on the sun box next to it. Thanx for you help Spundun - -- Sigurd Stordal President of GOGS Experimental Petrologist -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hJMWSB4UOs/snOURAtsaAJ9hs9vTxwtgPyP+Cc1ZoeOOc22PMACeL5cM 9JiD/DxdDYlbN7NrDc2iVkY= =f8vg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome fonts under KDE
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:31 pm, SADO Hiroyuki wrote:
You can set font size by putting this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
style user-font
{
font_name=Courier 14 # font-name font-size
}
class * style user-font
I have to say thanks very much for this tip! I've been having the same
problems, and just set this up and it works beautifully!
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[gentoo-user] Mozilla font settings
Hi! I have just emerged Mozilla 1.2.1 (Gentoo stable tree) and right after first start I've noticed a problem: when changing font preferences mozilla does not show the current setting. Instead it shows the first font in every drop-down menu (serif, sans-serif, monospaced, etc). Strange behavior, especially if you consider that until you press ok in preferences window Mozilla shows the default settings (Times, Courier, Helvetica, etc). After ok I see Alamo font for every font type/shape, and pages without there own CSS or font settings become almost unreadable (i.e. mozilla.org). Not only that, but the whole Mozilla GUI starts to use this font so that Mozilla itself becomes really ugly. DId anybody experience this? How can I set my fonts without doing it manually for every encoding? Regards, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen for login
Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Does someone use screen for logins? Does it work? And if, how? echo /usr/bin/screen /etc/shells chsh -s /usr/bin/screen username info screen for more info -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome fonts under KDE
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:51:09 -0800
Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 05:31 pm, SADO Hiroyuki wrote:
You can set font size by putting this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
style user-font
{
font_name=Courier 14 # font-name font-size
}
class * style user-font
I have to say thanks very much for this tip! I've been having the same
problems, and just set this up and it works beautifully!
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That a beautifully executed class:) Although alternatively and more simply:
echo gtk-font-name = fontname fontsize .gtkrc-2.0 would have accomplished the
same:)
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what does lun means?
Logical unit number. It's the ID of the particular device. On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:18:42 -0300 Norberto BENSA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I know what host, bus, and target means, but what about lun? What does it mean? /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 Many thanks in advance, Norberto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize
Greetings. Currently I have LVM on the machine, and I'm doing some test with it. I admit it, I am a newbie with LVM. The fact is that I want to use the rezising capabilities of LVM. Here some information. vgdisplay -v --- Volume group --- VG Name vg VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV256 Cur LV5 Open LV 5 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV256 Cur PV1 Act PV1 VG Size 12.20 GB PE Size 4 MB Total PE 3124 Alloc PE / Size 3005 / 11.74 GB Free PE / Size 119 / 476 MB VG UUID gzNp5N-EHZR-VUho-p6DR-FOt2-7vs6-fxr7aS --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg/swap VG Namevg LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available LV # 1 # open 1 LV Size256 MB Current LE 64 Allocated LE 64 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg/usr VG Namevg LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available LV # 2 # open 1 LV Size6 GB Current LE 1536 Allocated LE 1536 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg/var VG Namevg LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available LV # 3 # open 1 LV Size2 GB Current LE 512 Allocated LE 512 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg/home VG Namevg LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available LV # 4 # open 1 LV Size1.49 GB Current LE 381 Allocated LE 381 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/vg/opt VG Namevg LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available LV # 5 # open 1 LV Size2 GB Current LE 512 Allocated LE 512 Allocation next free Read ahead sectors 1024 Block device 58:4 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name (#) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target9/lun0/part3 (1) PV Status available / allocatable Total PE / Free PE3124 / 119 Now, when I run ext2resize to make the operation, I got it. ext2resize -v /dev/vg/usr 3g ext2resize v1.1.17 - 2001/03/18 for EXT2FS 0.5b ext2resize: ext2_open: fs has unsupported feature(s) enabled: compat 20 incompat 4ext2resize: can't open /dev/vg/usr What's worng...?? Currently I'm using ext3 filesystem. Another way to try it is with parted. Using /dev/vg/usr (parted) resize Partition number? 1 Start? 0 End? [6143.9995]? 2000 Warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Ignore/Cancel? I Error: Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled (parted) Is there a way to make the resize (with any tool or some specific tool) without unmount the filesystem...?? What's wrong with parted and with ext2resize...?? Anybody can help me on this...?? Thanks a lot Carlos A. Molina G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Cisco AiroNet 2.5-series kernel
Having stability problems with a 2.5.66 kernel and a Cisco AiroNet card. After working through several nuances of the new 2.5-series configuration, I have my system working (except that it complained about not finding RTC and ide-cd modules ... when i compiled an ide-cd module despite not having a cdrom, it said it already had ide-cd loaded in the kernel). The Cisco card comes up and configures and all is good. Until I start trying to send a decent stream of traffic through it. Then the entire system locks hard. Anyone with experience with this? Is it possible that I'm missing something obvious? Thanks, Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration
-Original Message- From: Matt Neimeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration I'm trying to set up a Gentoo Router / File Server / Firewall... I've got multiple NIC's in the box (one for each port, to each room in the house). However, that leaves me one short to connect the cable modem. I connected it via USB and using the CDCEther driver (as a module) I do see the following in my dmesg log... In my /etc/conf.d/net I have all (eth0 to eth5) of my cards configured to use DHCP (which the cable modem will need in the end). However, eth5 is saying can't start or some other words for I failed but I'm not going to tell you why. I don't see anything in the logs though... any ideas? emmmA generally less expensive, and easier solution to using 4 ethernet cards would be to use a hub or a switch (switches allow full-duplex operation and generally result in better network performance). I've seen 4-port switches for as little as a dollar or two, and good name brand 7-port switches for $30 recently. Unless you have some good reason to do this the way you have, I would really recommend you purchase a switch, as it would reduce configuration nightmares (and also leave you with a port into which you can plug your modem). -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration
I'll second Rex's suggestion. Four Network cards to handle each computer is not really good. Get a cheap switch and you avoid all the hassles. On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:30:50 -0800 Rex Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Neimeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Cable Modem Configuration I'm trying to set up a Gentoo Router / File Server / Firewall... I've got multiple NIC's in the box (one for each port, to each room in the house). However, that leaves me one short to connect the cable modem. I connected it via USB and using the CDCEther driver (as a module) I do see the following in my dmesg log... In my /etc/conf.d/net I have all (eth0 to eth5) of my cards configured to use DHCP (which the cable modem will need in the end). However, eth5 is saying can't start or some other words for I failed but I'm not going to tell you why. I don't see anything in the logs though... any ideas? emmmA generally less expensive, and easier solution to using 4 ethernet cards would be to use a hub or a switch (switches allow full-duplex operation and generally result in better network performance). I've seen 4-port switches for as little as a dollar or two, and good name brand 7-port switches for $30 recently. Unless you have some good reason to do this the way you have, I would really recommend you purchase a switch, as it would reduce configuration nightmares (and also leave you with a port into which you can plug your modem). -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions
I've used add-in ATA-100 IDE constrollers based on the CMD649 chipset with no problems... I think it was a CompUSA brand or something like that. Good Luck, Lee On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:32:24PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: snip Someone please correct me if any of this info is inaccurate! With this in mind, however, what ARE the good RAID motherboards (for the extra IDE channels) or good add-on IDE PCI controllers? By good I mean having mature, stable Linux drivers? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!'' -- Sleepy John Estes, ``Leaving Trunk'' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize
On Friday 28 March 2003 21:01, Carlos Molina (Net-Uno) wrote: Currently I have LVM on the machine, and I'm doing some test with it. I admit it, I am a newbie with LVM. The fact is that I want to use the rezising capabilities of LVM. Good question. I am new to LVM too... Is there a way to make the resize (with any tool or some specific tool) without unmount the filesystem...?? Perhaps converting the ext3 to ext2, resizing it and than converting back to ext3... Arnold -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize
Is there a way to make the resize (with any tool or some specific tool) without unmount the filesystem...?? e2online should do the trick, but only if you want the file system to grow (fragmentation problems arise with shrinking). Anyway you must apply a specific patch to the underlying kernel to avoid messing data in the file system. Cristiano JabberID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #: 168127096 Yahoo: cristiano_paris MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Public Key Fingerprint (keyserver.linux.it) pub 1024D/9F064556 2002-01-18 Cristiano Paris Key fingerprint = 9D20 667A 9B12 1DA2 2A41 F32E C93E 490C 9F06 4556 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen for login
Hi all, I attempted this, but it doesn't seem to work. If I set /usr/bin/screen to be a login shell for a user, when I log in as that I get logged out immediately. Am I missingsomething? William On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:36:31PM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote: Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Does someone use screen for logins? Does it work? And if, how? echo /usr/bin/screen /etc/shells chsh -s /usr/bin/screen username info screen for more info -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:41:56 +0100 Cristiano Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks that reiser is more robust fs than ext3 when it works with LVM... I should think to migrate ext3 to reiser Reiser has the tools that do all the work for you on LVM.. Any drawbacks, comments with reiser and LVM...?? Thanks a lot Is there a way to make the resize (with any tool or some specific tool) without unmount the filesystem...?? e2online should do the trick, but only if you want the file system to grow (fragmentation problems arise with shrinking). Anyway you must apply a specific patch to the underlying kernel to avoid messing data in the file system. Cristiano JabberID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #: 168127096 Yahoo: cristiano_paris MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Public Key Fingerprint (keyserver.linux.it) pub 1024D/9F064556 2002-01-18 Cristiano Paris Key fingerprint = 9D20 667A 9B12 1DA2 2A41 F32E C93E 490C 9F06 4556 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Carlos A. Molina G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID suggestions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Friday, March 28, 2003, 4:19:01 AM, you wrote: Which is the best supported IDE RAID chipset? I am using the HPT-372 chipset without problems. This chipset is better than the Promise, coz you can change the chunksize to other than 64kbyte (with the promise, you cannot). My mobo is : EPOX 8K3A+ Full of features and rock solid. I recommend this one. Good luck, tybalt - -- Tarsoly Andrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] xpander media -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAPoS9awCY/UsdsHS1AQEu3QP9G52lPMWE0Q+Q7Y/yIr4VGpg0IG9pwM6c 6K6wmDGf9Nf5XbNi1PATbZcMpNPIiiUVvLDi7afJYz4UPD0WiInsZZsd6gH2MgtB eHC3SrxIQsUZUieiEjl/l8qd/S+gwUYr2KxtDYdUvNyhf8eAmAcvHnXaukopfCCX P5kL1HPtmgI= =rjXS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge gnome problems
I'm having problems emerging gnome. The errors seem to start here: /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink 'libORBitCosNaming-2.la' with the above command before installing it make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services/name' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services/name' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/ORBit2-2.6.1 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 287, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed Anyone seen this and/or knows a solution? thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM+EXT3+resize
On Friday 28 March 2003 22:03, Carlos Molina (Net-Uno) wrote: Reiser has the tools that do all the work for you on LVM.. Any drawbacks, comments with reiser and LVM...?? Just one thing from my own bitter experience: Stay away from reiser... I am just happy having my laptop with ext3 after reiserfs had crashes and blocked my from 3 important files... Arnol -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?
I use Mac OS -X (well, Jagwire) and I'm always using sudo instead of popping into su and out again. I've just installed sudo on Gentoo and configured wheel group as sudoers and used it to do something, and it instantly felt at home. I'm just wondering how many other people use sudo instead of su, and whether it should be perhaps included in a 'standard' install (by which I mean mentioned in the install docs). -- Ian Tindale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?
On March 28, 2003, Ian Tindale sent me the following: I use Mac OS -X (well, Jagwire) and I'm always using sudo instead of popping into su and out again. I've just installed sudo on Gentoo and configured wheel group as sudoers and used it to do something, and it instantly felt at home. I'm just wondering how many other people use sudo instead of su, and whether it should be perhaps included in a 'standard' install (by which I mean mentioned in the install docs). I've been using it for years. I used to work at a small ISP where people who didn't know much had to create user accounts, so we just gave them limited sudo privs. Also, I felt a little better about having it so not everyone knew the root password. And the logging of commands is nice, so you know who to beat up when something breaks :) -- Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a21? C++ UB$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ R@ tv@ b++@ DI D+(-) G++ e++ h++ r++ y? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Problem emerging Perl-5.8.0-r10
Hello, I have been using Gentoo for several months now on about 5 different systems without ever any problems, and am loving it. But today I ran into troubles on just one of my systems while doing an emerge -up system and while emerging perl. The problem appears to be while compiling DB_File, and here is the output from that, if anyone has any suggestions, they would be very welcome : Making DB_File (dynamic) Writing Makefile for DB_File make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r10/work/perl-5.8.0/ext/DB_File' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r10/work/perl-5.8.0/ext/DB_File' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r10/work/perl-5.8.0/ext/DB_File' cp DB_File.pm ../../lib/DB_File.pm AutoSplitting ../../lib/DB_File.pm (../../lib/auto/DB_File) gcc -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -DVERSION=\1.804\ -DXS_VERSION=\1.804\ -fpic -I../.. version.c /var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r10/work/perl-5.8.0/miniperl -I../../lib -I../../lib ../../lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap ../../lib/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap DB_File.xs DB_File.xsc mv DB_File.xsc DB_File.c gcc -c -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -DVERSION=\1.804\ -DXS_VERSION=\1.804\ -fpic -I../.. DB_File.c DB_File.xs: In function `ParseOpenInfo': DB_File.xs:1370: warning: passing arg 2 of pointer to function from incompatible pointer type DB_File.xs:1370: incompatible type for argument 4 of indirect function call DB_File.xs:1370: too few arguments to function make[1]: *** [DB_File.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r10/work/perl-5.8.0/ext/DB_File' make: *** [lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r10 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 277, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make Thanks in advance. Cheers, Travis Travis Mehrer Network Technician The Focus Corporation Ltd. One of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies 2003 Suite 302, 623 4th Street SE Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, T1A 0L1 Main: (403) 527-3707 Direct: (403) 502-1432 Fax:(403) 526-0321 www.focus.ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen for login
Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does someone use screen for logins? Does it work? And if, how? echo /usr/bin/screen /etc/shells chsh -s /usr/bin/screen username info screen for more info Thanks! Works fine. Are there any security issues using this beeing root? -- Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen for login
William Hubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I attempted this, but it doesn't seem to work. If I set /usr/bin/screen to be a login shell for a user, when I log in as that I get logged out immediately. Am I missingsomething? Do you get any error message? Perhaps try /usr/bin/screen -l from a bash prompt in case you miss the error message. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?
I'm just wondering how many other people use sudo instead of su, and whether it should be perhaps included in a 'standard' install (by which I mean mentioned in the install docs). I do. Nobody ever gets the root passwords. ;) The root pw can be changed via sudo if needed. sudo is a pretty useful tool, especially because of its logging capabilities. :) -jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs
Hello,
today I was about to burn a few CDs to save space in my HD but I just ruined 3
CDs. 'dmesg' show lots of messages like this:
ATAPI device hda:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Invalid field in parameter list -- (asc=0x26, ascq=0x00)
The failed Mode Select 10 packet command was:
55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00
hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: packet command error: error=0x50
hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: packet command error: error=0x50
NOTE: two months ago, I was able to burn, and I didn't change anything (except
for glibc) cdrtools-2.0, xcdroast-0.98_alpha13, gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r1
(with ptrace patch,) glibc-2.3.2.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Norberto
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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
On Friday 28 March 2003 07:58 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in /boot?? My /boot is only 8MB, enough to hold 3 or 4 kernels and grub. A /boot is reccomended and is good practice, but is not required - especially not at 100MB. Unless you keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) That's exactly my point, I think 100MB is just too much. Regards, Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 23:25, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 07:58 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in /boot?? My /boot is only 8MB, enough to hold 3 or 4 kernels and grub. A /boot is reccomended and is good practice, but is not required - especially not at 100MB. Unless you keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) That's exactly my point, I think 100MB is just too much. First of all, my words have been taken too literally. Secondly, there have to be a recommendations when proposing installation instructions in documentation. There is no correct way. The issue here is that this advice in the docs allocates sufficient space and at the same prevents corruption by keeping it separate. Bend it as you wish. As for why it is 100MB it is not so much because of necessity as in proportion to the modern day capacity and value of hard drive space. Also, it accomodates for future use and for worst case scenarios. As I've begun to try and compare several different kernels I've had no need to resize /boot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] replacing kernel on install CD
*nods* I require the custom kernel pre-install though. I.E. replacing the kernel used during the install process. Mitchell Smith After you get Gentoo running simply merge the kernel version you desire if it's different that what the install put in. Then run make menuconfig, configure the kernel, then make it and boot in in /boot. Add it to GRUB or LILO and you are in business. You build the kernel in Gentoo the same way you build it in any other distro. Hi list, I have some fairly specific kernel requirements during installation. Does anyone know how I can use a custom kernel to install the Gentoo system? Any advise on this subject would greatly be appreciated. Mitchell Smith -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE: replacing kernel on Gentoo install CD
Hi list, Further to my post earlier in relation to replacing the kernel on the Gentoo installation CD. Would it be possible for me to construct a floppy disk with a kernel image and a copy of lilo on it and then instruct that floppy disk to boot the root partition from the Gentoo Installation CD? passing a command something like linux root=/dev/hdc or someting similar at the lilo prompt? This way I am not actually changing the Gentoo ISO but creatinga custom kernel which will boot the Gentoo ISO. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Mitchell Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] replacing kernel on install CD
I guess that's what you essentially do. Gentoo is booted off the LiveCD with a kernel of Gentoo's choice. However, during the install you have to run make menuconfig and specify what you want for kernel options. Then you run make dep etc and when you are done you have your own kernel that will be used on your new system. There isn't much point in replacing the LiveCD kernel as it's only used to do the install. Your final system has YOUR kernel. *nods* I require the custom kernel pre-install though. I.E. replacing the kernel used during the install process. Mitchell Smith After you get Gentoo running simply merge the kernel version you desire if it's different that what the install put in. Then run make menuconfig, configure the kernel, then make it and boot in in /boot. Add it to GRUB or LILO and you are in business. You build the kernel in Gentoo the same way you build it in any other distro. Hi list, I have some fairly specific kernel requirements during installation. Does anyone know how I can use a custom kernel to install the Gentoo system? Any advise on this subject would greatly be appreciated. Mitchell Smith -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Log into remote X server via kdm
Hi all, My turn to go a bit OT, sorry :) I've been digging around for a while at this, but not found a good enough answer. What I want to be able to do is, 1 big headless server running X and KDE (or may even Gnome, and others too), and multiple desktops boxes (3-4 to start with) able to login to it. I can already hear calls of LTSP from the back, but... The desktops will be fully independent, capable of, and set up to run their own X servers and desktops. So that I can use them (especially the laptop) away from the home network they must start their own X server, and KDM login screen. From there give me the option on what server to login to. Yeah, I could use VNC, but having to log into one, to ssh into another to run a command, to log in again is... messy... Ideas? Cheers -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem burning CDs
On Friday 28 March 2003 10:32 pm, Norberto BENSA wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:00 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: try a new ide-cable. Ahhh... Ok. No luck. I've tried a new cable and even recompiled a new kernel, modules, still the same problem. Any ideas before I go to LKML? Norberto pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
Hi. I see by the mandrake hardware database that apprently they got this scanner to run. I've just bought one but can't figure out how to get it going. I thought it might take the plustek sane backend but no luck. I've enabled all 3 scanner settings and paraport in the kernel as modules, etc. Anyone got this particular scanner? How do I get it going? It's listed as a grey or not much known about in the sane database. However obviously something works with it if mandrake lists it as something that appears to be functioning/known hardware. Thanks. -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arienadean.tripod.com/ --- Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] replacing kernel on install CD
Okay, so can't you install it to a hard disk on a machine (the master disk) setting up the kernel you want, then do as you said - copy that disk to a CD? The only reason to do this is if you have a specific configuration that you want to use to configure multiple computers. We do this by creating a master disk with everything just the way we want it. We then tar up the whole disk and burn it to a CD with a self-boot kernel. Stick the CD in the machine to be configured. Boot-up and run a script that sets-up the partitions (we wipe the disk and recreate the file systems) and then un tar the disk image. Very quick to configure a new machine and the new machine is automaticly set-up as a new master (all the scripts were tared with everything else). Obviously the total size of the disk image has to be kept within a CD size. Mitchell James Mitchell Smith wrote: Hi list, I have some fairly specific kernel requirements during installation. Does anyone know how I can use a custom kernel to install the Gentoo system? Any advise on this subject would greatly be appreciated. Mitchell Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] distfile mirroring how-to ?
Philippe Van Hecke wrote: I also would like to do this. I have noticed that the gentoo-mirror that I currently have selected is mirroring many of the packages whereas with other mirrors the package requests are vectored off to the original source. I am dealing with a number of gentoo computers and would be nice to have all the packages mirrored on one of the local servers instead of constant access to the much slower outside connection. I wonder what the trade-off point is between local and web mirrors. Mitchell James I have already posted this question but didn't recieved any help for this. may be this not the good mailing-list. I am working for BELNET the Belgian national research network for education, research and public services (see http://www.belnet.be). We would like to mirror the distfiles of the gentoo distribution and not only the portage tree. Any body can help me to do this ? Tank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:56, Susie wrote: Hi. I see by the mandrake hardware database that apprently they got this scanner to run. I've just bought one but can't figure out how to get it going. I thought it might take the plustek sane backend but no luck. I've enabled all 3 scanner settings and paraport in the kernel as modules, etc. Anyone got this particular scanner? How do I get it going? It's listed as a grey or not much known about in the sane database. However obviously something works with it if mandrake lists it as something that appears to be functioning/known hardware. Thanks. -- Susie VE7 HFA According to mustang.com/sane the 2300c is not supported (unknown chip-set) There are countless querries re this scanner but I've not seen any success post. Some are getting some results using a plustek driver but limited. Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1, sent with Evolution -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] sound opinions?
Can anyone suggest why my sound doesn't work or where to look for further clues? I've built a gentoo box from older parts to learn with. I wanted just command line stuff to study servers like apache, proftp, samba, etc. so no gui. I remembered there's a sound card in the system and I can't figure out how to make it work. I enabled sound support and the soundcore.o and driver are built into the kernel (rather than as modules). See snippet below from .conf file. I've followed the gentoo website directions on installing alsa and done the emerges and conf file tweaks. alsamixer/amixer fails with error message can't connect with sound_ctl() which I take to mean it can't talk to the sound driver. The directions in the sound howto say to try cat endoftheworld /dev/dsp That fails; just sits there like a hang, no sound. mpg123 seems to play, but no sound output. The card and speakers worked when it was a winx so no reason to suspect any problem there. Thanks, Tom snippet from kernel .config file: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ALI5455 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_BT878 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_MIDI_EMU10K1 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_FUSION is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_CS4281 is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y # CONFIG_SOUND_ESSSOLO1 is not set - relevant portion from dmesg: es1371: version v0.30 time 13:24:17 Mar 20 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08 es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xe400 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY19(Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HP scanjet 2300c
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:25:08 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to mustang.com/sane the 2300c is not supported (unknown chip-set) There are countless querries re this scanner but I've not seen any success post. Some are getting some results using a plustek driver but limited. Thanks. I've actully found a kernel patch but for now I've tried recompiling the kernel with some options changed and somethings changed in modules.conf For anyone else with this scanner take a look at this(it adds support for 2300c and a few other things): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.4/usb-scanner-3-2.4.21-pre3.patch -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arienadean.tripod.com/ --- Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul. - Ralph W. Trine -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo migration stragety?
On 16:58 Fri 28 Mar , Alec Berryman wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 10:56 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. I never understood that. Why 100MB? How many kernels do you have in /boot?? My /boot is only 8MB, enough to hold 3 or 4 kernels and grub. I wouldn't say that Gentoo requires a /boot. Personally, I don't use one - OK, it might save my kernel if my other partitions corrupt, but if so a kernel would be the least of my worries. A /boot is reccomended and is good practice, but is not required - especially not at 100MB. Unless you keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) -- Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list There is one more reason to have a seperate /boot. Grub has small shell, which, though minimalist, allows you to cat files. So if you have it with everything else on /, a user could reboot and cat files they had no permission to read. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Who uses sudo?
PS: I am not using sudo. perhaps I should but there is only me at the pc doing administrative tasks and root needs the standard-environment-variables not the ones of a user... I still use sudo. You'r proble may be fixed by putting source /etc/profile in .bashrc, which is what I do. I find it convinient becuase it does not require a password. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] RE: replacing kernel on Gentoo install CD
There are ways to make your own custom livecd for gentoo, although the documentation seems to be pretty slim atm. There are various threads on http://forums.gentoo.org There is also a livecd-ng ebuild, that is supposed to do what you ask, but again, I hear the documentation etc is pretty slim.Try this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21327highlight=livecdng and also do a search for livecd-ng on the forums, for other threads like it. kev --Original Message- -From: Mitchell Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:43 PM -To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: [gentoo-user] RE: replacing kernel on Gentoo install CD - - -Hi list, - -Further to my post earlier in relation to replacing the kernel on -the Gentoo installation CD. - -Would it be possible for me to construct a floppy disk with a -kernel image and a copy of lilo on it and then instruct that -floppy disk to boot the root partition from the Gentoo Installation CD? - -passing a command something like linux root=/dev/hdc or -someting similar at the lilo prompt? - -This way I am not actually changing the Gentoo ISO but creatinga -custom kernel which will boot the Gentoo ISO. - -Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. - -Mitchell Smith - - --- -[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unmerged python.. ack
I accidentally unmerged python, and now I can't re-merge it, since emerge uses python. How can I fix this? Wcc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
