[gentoo-user] opera 7.11 and flash
Hello guys, I just merged (silly me, was gonna say installed) opera 7.11, but my flash doesn't work. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance, ZiM __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status
Yay! :-) That is all. On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:12, Donny Davies wrote: > Sometime this weekend (likely Friday or Saturday) Robin and I > will move these two packages to non-arch-masked status. So you > will no longer get the older versions by default. Yes, old > versions will still be available; we're not going to delete > Apache1 nor MySQL3 ebuilds. They will be kept available for > those who still want them. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
Rex Young wrote: note the kernel mount the HD fine, just no init scripts are executed and no prompt is given are there any isses with gentoo and running it on a 486? the gcc on 1.4_rc4 and 486 chips? or the compiled code on a 486. I know there are a few bugs with compiling gentoo on a 486 with gcc in 1.4_rc4 (courtesy of the bugtracking system) so I used the chrooted enviroment. some assistance or pointers? should I rebuild with i386 ? or withing -fomit-frame-pointer or remove -03 h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. I built a system for a 486 using gcc 2.95 about a year ago and had no problem at all. Things worked just fine. I even had X running on it for a while. Neat. Working from memory, I would say that the flags were: -march=i486 -O2 Pretty simple. I don't think that this is your problem, though. I can't imagine that optimizations would lead to a failed init. Do you see any sort of an error there that you can pass on? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list no errors present else I would have been able to figured it myself. there is no grub or lilo issues because I boot using a boot floppy that does not require any modules ( I did this and tested this out and it worked before I installed gentoo so I know it works) ask all the questions u want I am happy to answer and try to figure this 1 out though I think I may recompile with -march=i486 -02 and see how I go. cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance...
sounds like a classic case of dma not enabled... try emerging hdparm, setting dma, and then setting hdparm to run at boot. -chris On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:55, Sean Bossinger wrote: > Good evening: > > I'm a relatively new user to Gentoo, just started using it last week. > > I've noticed that when I'm running in my GNOME desktop, if I'm doing > anything that has to do with the filesystem, reading/writing to/from my > IBM-DTLA7030 drive, I get jitters in the desktop, and rather poor > performance overall. > > I am running my system with an Athlon Tbird 1200 processor, on an Asus > A7M-266 board, which has an ATA100 IDE drive interface to get to the > disk. > > My /boot is an ext3fs file system, while my / (the only other filesystem > that is mounted when this occurs) is ReiserFS. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > M -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Slow performance...
Good evening: I'm a relatively new user to Gentoo, just started using it last week. I've noticed that when I'm running in my GNOME desktop, if I'm doing anything that has to do with the filesystem, reading/writing to/from my IBM-DTLA7030 drive, I get jitters in the desktop, and rather poor performance overall. I am running my system with an Athlon Tbird 1200 processor, on an Asus A7M-266 board, which has an ATA100 IDE drive interface to get to the disk. My /boot is an ext3fs file system, while my / (the only other filesystem that is mounted when this occurs) is ReiserFS. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
Matthew Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > Vim is now a dependency of Mozilla?? :-/ and csh. believe it or not. although, neither of these dependencies are mentioned in the ebuild. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24115 > -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status
Sometime this weekend (likely Friday or Saturday) Robin and I will move these two packages to non-arch-masked status. So you will no longer get the older versions by default. Yes, old versions will still be available; we're not going to delete Apache1 nor MySQL3 ebuilds. They will be kept available for those who still want them. In the case of MySQL4, you should run revdep-rebuild after your upgrade, so that your libmysqlclient-dependant packages are linked with the new library. Please `emerge gentoolkit' to obtain the revdep-rebuild program. In the case of Apache2, be aware that several of what *were* third-party DSO modules, are now included with Apache itself. This means that you don't need to install mod_gzip, mod_ssl, mod_auth_ldap, mod_dav from /usr/portage/net-www anymore. Also, the whole `ebuild /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg/pkg.ebuild config' dance is not required for thirdy-party modules anymore, due to a simpler default configuration file schema. Thank you to everybody who has provided testing and feedback with respect to these upgrades. Donny. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mondoarchive question
Hi, I'm running mondoarchive for a week or two now, which is great because I already had to restore something. I make full backups on sunday, the rest of the week are incremental backups. Say it's saturday and I want to restore a file which has been changed that week, but I don't know which exact day, how can I find out which incremental set has that file ? Is there a way to find out which file is on which set ? Thanks, Dick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Connect to kdm with VNC
Hi,
I want to connect to kdm so I can log in as any user. SuSE 8.2 does
this easily and VNC is started via xinetd with:
# description: This serves out a VNC connection which starts at a KDM login
# prompt. This VNC connection has a resolution of 1024x768, 16bit depth.
service vnc10
{
type = UNLISTED
port = 5910
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
server = /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvnc
server_args = :42 -inetd -once -query localhost -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16
I tried this setting in xdm-config
! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests
! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm
!DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
...and this in kdmrc:
[Xdmcp]
Enable=true
Willing=/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling
Xaccess=/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
...but I'm still getting the standard ugly fvm(?) Window! Has anyone
ever managed to get this working?
Thorsten
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[gentoo-user] procmail log errors
Hello, I have attached a procmail log which complains about errors of not being able to write to folders and acquiring kernel locks. Any help on solving these problems would be much appreciated. With regards. .procmail.log Description: Binary data -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
> "Rex" == Rex Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rex> This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first Rex> version doesn't work? Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to Rex> me -- the fix is really more of a workaround. In xargs. One of the notes on that tree of bugzilla ids references an email sent to one of the gnu mail lists. The bug is that xargs' test for the size of the env comes before the args are parsed; the arg -s allows the env to be elarged, but xargs fails to take that into consideration before bailing out. The error only shows up at boot because the rc process must be creating an env larger than 20k. Once booted your shell has a much smaller env. (Mine is just under 3k.) -JimC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing mail servers
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > So I thought to myself why not go for a change? My thought was to unmerge > courier-imap and emerge courier so that I get an all in one package and > can use courier specific utilities for smtp and mail filtering > (maildrop?). Does that sound reasonable? What are my other alternatives? All the different parts of a courier mail system are completely independent. If you wanted to replace procmail with maildrop, you could do just that. It looks like the package is called 'maildrop' instead of 'courier-maildrop'. Just change the mailbox_command in postfix from procmail to maildrop. When I looked at maildrop, the syntax of the config file looked much easier. It might be a little more versatile, too, although I haven't played around with either enough to say with any authority. The area where it fell down for us, which probably won't be an issue for a home user, is that it does not support quotas. -- Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard Caution: product may be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Texmacs emerge
Hi all, After emerging latest texmacs version I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pmatos $ texmacs Fatal error: guile seems not to be installed on your system in 'install_texmacs' Even if I send optional command line arguments like -d, --debug-all, etc. I always get that. texmacs version is 1.0.1 and I have Guile 1.6.4 installed. Have anyone experienced this already? Best regards, Paulo J. Matos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] window manager selection
Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ] > 1. not but-ugly, like TWM, VTWM, CTWM, and FVWM >I care more about functionality, but these are simply >depressing to look at. http://terje.kvernes.no/tmp/snapshot2.png >. is this butt-ugly? [ ... ] > Sawfish is pretty nice, but I'm so sick of LISP-configurable SW I > think I'm going to puke. Trying to get Sawfish to do anything it > is fully capable of doing is a major endeavor for me, because I > just don't seem to be able to think the way LISP programmers do. you have my sympathy. for me, the almost-lisp part of Sawfish is the only redeeming feature of Sawfish. [ ... ] > 1. move a window to a pre-specified position on the screen check. > 2. enlarge a window by X pixels in width or height check. > 3. make a window a specified width by height, or one or the > other check. > 4. move a window to another desktop (but stay in the one you're > in). check. > 5. cycle between windows (not with a menu or pop-up window) check. > 6. don't cycle between some of the windows (e.g., gkrellm). check. > 7. for some X applications, put them on a pre-specified desktop > when they start (i.e., xterms on 1, ide on 2, browsers on 4, > etc.). check. > 8. de-iconify a window (usually this involves popping up a menu > and selecting which one you want (using the keyboard -- and not > the damn arrow keys -- sawfish could do this - or some LISP I > wrote, I can't remember). not sure about this one, I don't use icons and rarely ever minimize windows -- I just have 16-odd virtual desktops instead. > Does anyone know of a window manager that can come close? Does > anyone know of one that they are just impressed with the keyboard > shortcut configurability? due to space issues at home, I can't really use a mouse with my current fvwm setup. I never miss it though, as I do everything I need to do with the keyboard. > And for this last one, I'm not talking about some small set of > events that the author identified as worthy of keyboard > accessibility (a la WindowMaker, Enlightenment, Blackbox, all of them>). I'm talking about something like twm had, where > _everything_ can be done with the keyboard. yup. with fvwm I can also send mouse-events (clicks and move the mouse) with the keyboard, if the application really needs to talk to a mouse for some reason. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
Frank Hellmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 19:16, Chris Gentle wrote: >> I think the vim package is supposed to set up a symlink ex that >> points to vim. If you compile vim manually it gets created but for >> some reason ex didn't get created when I emerged vim. I created >> the link manually. Mozilla 1.4 compiled after that. > > Thanks. emerging vim solved the problem. Vim is now a dependency of Mozilla?? :-/ Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
Rex Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "-print0" option to find and "-0" option to xargs is a gnu extension > (AFAIK) to allow for files containing newlines in their name, but xargs > is definitely broken if it can't read an arbitrarily long list of > null separated filenames from stdin. > > I'm still completely puzzled by this problem. I wish I could reproduce > it without having to reboot! I'm curious too. Perhaps its a bug in xargs (corner case not being treated properly would be my hypothesis). Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Changing mail servers
Hello, At the moment I am using courier-imap, postfix and procmail. However, procmail just ain't working and this means that I'm getting thousands of emails (from all gentoo ML's) into my inbox rather than folders. I've tried a billion different combinations and not once has it made the slightest bit of difference. So I thought to myself why not go for a change? My thought was to unmerge courier-imap and emerge courier so that I get an all in one package and can use courier specific utilities for smtp and mail filtering (maildrop?). Does that sound reasonable? What are my other alternatives? Have you used the courier suite of mail applications and are you happy with it for all purposes? Feedback much appreciated. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 20:15, Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled Or, in lilo.conf : append="acpi=off" Why do you think that? What has ACPI common with the nvidia modul? I don't know ! But it works for my problem. I've found this answer on the Nvidia forum. I don't know ACPI neither NVidia driver and GeForce hard.. I have the 4363 driver and if the ACPI is enabled, the kernel crashed (Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen + B doesn't work) but I don't know the link between the both. I must admit IO-APIC is a real mad option, causing all forms of problems, but ACPI? I really need it to get my board running properly (and a lot of people to). I thought ACPI was like APM ? Long startup times have often some problem somewhere else, like a fontconfig mismatch, or missing, incorrect /etc/hostname when kdm/kde is starting slow and so on. X starts in less than 2sec, with the latest nvidia-drivers, ACPI and a lot of other stuff (I am a ~x86 man) so, it is maybe something completly different. Maybe but for the moment, I can use a kernel > 2.4.19 with the last Nvidia driver thanks to this changes. Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 14:48, MAL wrote: > Frank Hellmuth wrote: > > Does anyone know wether the missing "ex" is another missing package > > (which?) or what else could be the reason for that error? > > mozilla-1.4 is a masked package, and you should be posting bugs to > bugs.gentoo.org anyway. I've reported the missing (t)csh dependency before posting here. The missing vi(m) was reported by someone else at the same time I wanted to do. > Read the ChangeLog, mozilla-1.4.ebuild is not even complete. The ChangeLog says: 08 Jul 2003; Brad Laue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mozilla-1.4.ebuild: Bring Mozilla 1.4 with enigmail out into the open now that mozdev is back and the files are on our mirrors. Frank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 19:16, Chris Gentle wrote: > I think the vim package is supposed to set up a symlink ex that > points to vim. If you compile vim manually it gets created but for > some reason ex didn't get created when I emerged vim. I created > the link manually. Mozilla 1.4 compiled after that. Thanks. emerging vim solved the problem. Frank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Can you send us the configuration lines for Nvidia card, of your XF86config file? NVidia driver is very sensitive with optimizations. Make sure to turn off any custom optimization (comment these lines) like: # Option "RenderAccel" "true" disable Sidebanding and Fast Write operation (in /etc/modules.d/nvidia) and go with the latest drivers. > Hello out there, > > I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The > startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the > forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try > flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) > So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. > The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update for > the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to 4363. > > OK so here I am with the following problem > > - When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After > around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly the > Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I will send > it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and the log looked > to be still in the initialising phase. > > - If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 > seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. > > - When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: > > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to > /data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work > ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... > ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m > >>> Source unpacked. > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d > NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > nv_compiler.h > gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts > -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ > -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR > -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 > -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX > -DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c > nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': > nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' > nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 > !!! (no error message) > > Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Can you send us the configuration lines for Nvidia card, of your XF86config file? NVidia driver is very sensitive with optimizations. Make sure to turn off any custom optimization (comment these lines) like: # Option "RenderAccel" "true" disable Sidebanding operation etc and go with the latest drivers. > Hello out there, > > I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The > startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the > forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try > flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) > So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. > The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update for > the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to 4363. > > OK so here I am with the following problem > > - When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After > around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly the > Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I will send > it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and the log looked > to be still in the initialising phase. > > - If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 > seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. > > - When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: > > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to > /data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work > ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... > ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m > >>> Source unpacked. > rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d > NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > nv_compiler.h > gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts > -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ > -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR > -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 > -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX > -DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c > nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': > nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' > nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 > !!! (no error message) > > Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 20:15, Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: > In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled > > Or, in lilo.conf : > > append="acpi=off" Why do you think that? What has ACPI common with the nvidia modul? I must admit IO-APIC is a real mad option, causing all forms of problems, but ACPI? I really need it to get my board running properly (and a lot of people to). Long startup times have often some problem somewhere else, like a fontconfig mismatch, or missing, incorrect /etc/hostname when kdm/kde is starting slow and so on. X starts in less than 2sec, with the latest nvidia-drivers, ACPI and a lot of other stuff (I am a ~x86 man) so, it is maybe something completly different. Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What to expect from gentoo-sources 2.4.21?
You could try the pfeifer-sources which I believe is kind of the beta for gentoo-sources. On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:43, Christian Aust wrote: > Hi all, > > is there already a beta of the (hopefully upcoming) next version of > gentoo-sources based on 2.4.21? What version of the acpi patch will be > in there? Best regards, > > - Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What to expect from gentoo-sources 2.4.21?
Hi all, is there already a beta of the (hopefully upcoming) next version of gentoo-sources based on 2.4.21? What version of the acpi patch will be in there? Best regards, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator GPG: 3C89AD72 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] track changes on a web site
Hi, Does anyone know of a tool that combines the theories of cron, wget, diff and something to format it nicely and possibly email it to my account? With a general purpose of checking when websites change, of course. -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible. pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
2.5.x are development kernels, not look pretty kernels. On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:23:15 -0500, downtime null wrote > i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen > when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one > and that works fine (but no little tux :( ). i know that these are > really to different modes, but i can't understand why one works and > the other doesn't. i didn't have any problem with mode 791 (0x317) > with my old kernel, but 2.5.73 doesn't seem to like it. > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:00:49PM -0600, Rob Snow wrote: > > I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is > > probably due to missing: > > > > CONFIG_VT=y > > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > > > > in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You > > might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?
Rex, (It's strange to address anybody else that way.) >Can you post the output of: > >bash# id >bash# df /usr/portage/dev-perl/Array-Window >bash# ls -alh /usr/portage/dev-perl/Array-Window `type -p emerge` > >You say you received an error trying to chmod -- it would help to know >the actual command you typed and the exact error you received. [Not >including this kind of information is a pet peeve of mine, actually.] I can't send any of this information right now as I'm not at the machine, I'm at work. As to the chmod command, I used chmod 777 /usr/portage/dev-perl/Array-Window/Manifest and received a message that ended with permission denied. No matter what I do with these files (as root) I receive permission denied. I'll handle the other things you suggested tonight. -rex (I have never started and ended a letter or message with the same name:-) ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 22:00 schrieb Christian Herzyk: > Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 20:15 schrieb Frédéric COIFFIER: > > In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled > > > > Or, in lilo.conf : > > > > append="acpi=off" > > This results in an even longer startup time or lock up like with the newes > version (I have 4349 installed at the moment). > I will try disabling it in the kernel and reemerging the nvidia drivers, > though. > Using a new kernel without ACPI only resulted in an even longer startup tim (around 3 minutes). Any other guesses? Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Am Dienstag, 8. Juli 2003 20:15 schrieb Frédéric COIFFIER: > In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled > > Or, in lilo.conf : > > append="acpi=off" This results in an even longer startup time or lock up like with the newes version (I have 4349 installed at the moment). I will try disabling it in the kernel and reemerging the nvidia drivers, though. Christian > > Christian Herzyk wrote: > >Hello out there, > > > >I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The > >startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the > >forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try > >flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) > >So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. > >The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update > > for the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to > > 4363. > > > >OK so here I am with the following problem > > > >- When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After > >around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly > > the Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I > > will send it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and > > the log looked to be still in the initialising phase. > > > >- If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 > >seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. > > > >- When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: > Unpacking source... > Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to > > > >/data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work > > ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... > >^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m > > > Source unpacked. > > > >rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d > >NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > > > nv_compiler.h gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat > > -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual > > -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM > > -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR > >-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 > >-DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX > >-DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c > >nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': > >nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' > >nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' > >make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > > > >!!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. > >!!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 > >!!! (no error message) > > > >Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. > > > >Thanks in advance > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Excerpt from a conversation with a friend, early in my unix odyssey: "So now I've got all these floppy-sized archive pieces, and I haven't been able to figure out what program I'm supposed to use to concat-- er, never mind." [void in asr] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!
I will try vga=ask if my wife gives me some time today on the laptop. She is really angry on me for spending 24 hrs on computer :(( downtime null wrote: i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one and that works fine (but no little tux :( ). i know that these are really to different modes, but i can't understand why one works and the other doesn't. i didn't have any problem with mode 791 (0x317) with my old kernel, but 2.5.73 doesn't seem to like it. On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:00:49PM -0600, Rob Snow wrote: I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is probably due to missing: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one and that works fine (but no little tux :( ). i know that these are really to different modes, but i can't understand why one works and the other doesn't. i didn't have any problem with mode 791 (0x317) with my old kernel, but 2.5.73 doesn't seem to like it. On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:00:49PM -0600, Rob Snow wrote: > I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is > probably due to missing: > > CONFIG_VT=y > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > > in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You > might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x Mini-Kernel-Howto [was: kerenl 2.5.74 fails to boot]
i'm having trouble getting iptables to merge. i have all the ipv4 stuff compiled and installed as modules. do i need to load some modules before trying to merge? it gives me the error : make: *** [extensions/libipt_physdev_sh.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 55, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) i'm at a loss. On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:30:33PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:25:56 +0200 > Florian Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello Richey, > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:51:55 -0600 > > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > UNIX98_PTY support is on, and I can't see anything else obvious > > > that's missing in the configuration. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Since 2.5.x the devfs does _not_ mount /dev/pts! You have to mount it > > yourself. BTW the /dev/pts support in the kernel is needed, even > > if you have devfs (which should be the case). > > > > I'm afraid those informations are hard to find, so I post a small > > howto. > > > > [ rest of howto snipped ] > > > 9. edit /etc/fstab and add sysfs and devpts: > > none/dev/ptsdevptsdefaults0 0 > > none/syssysfs defaults0 0 > > > > Thanks, that was the answer. > > Also a couple of additions to your excellent howto: > > IMPORTANT !!!: > [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers > [*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL) > [*] /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs > [*] VGA text console > > The first line is something most newbies miss. > The 2.5 make oldconfig process turned off VGA text console support! > > -- > Collins Richey - Denver Area > if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the > worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
no. because 791 is the decimal mode number. 0x317 would be the hex equivalent. take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:55:53PM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: > I think I have the first two in my kernel config. > > Also in have > > vga=791 > > in my lilo.config > > Do I need to put 0x791 in place of 791? > > Also I remember that this time I enabled MTRR. I don't know about MTRR > but I have seen this on some forum. > > Thanks > Prabhat > > Rob Snow wrote: > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!
I think I have the first two in my kernel config. Also in have vga=791 in my lilo.config Do I need to put 0x791 in place of 791? Also I remember that this time I enabled MTRR. I don't know about MTRR but I have seen this on some forum. Thanks Prabhat Rob Snow wrote: I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is probably due to missing: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:50:49 -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. In the kernel settings, input devices HID keyboard > enabled HID mouse > disabled USB Mouse > enabled I am on HP ze5185 laptop. It has ATI radeon graphics chip. I am using an external keyborad and an USB wheel mouse. The KDE was working before with both mouse and keborad. But earlier I have to hit keyboard many times to get it detected while booting. Can someone tell me the correct kernel configuration for keyborad and USB mouse. Also what about the blank screen while booting. Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is probably due to missing: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:50:49 -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote > Hi All, > > I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest > problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. > > Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and > running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. > > In the kernel settings, > > input devices > > HID keyboard > enabled > HID mouse > disabled > > USB > Mouse > enabled > > I am on > > HP ze5185 laptop. It has ATI radeon graphics chip. > > I am using an external keyborad and an USB wheel mouse. The KDE was > working before with both mouse and keborad. But earlier I have to > hit keyboard many times to get it detected while booting. > > Can someone tell me the correct kernel configuration for keyborad > and USB mouse. > > Also what about the blank screen while booting. > > Thanks > > -- > P r a b h a t G u p t a > /\/\* > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?
Hmm, that's weird. You might run a file system check with whatever tools reiserfs has and repair if necessary. On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:39:16 -0700 Rex Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brett, Thanks for the response. I suppose that I should have said something about that. root. Also I had no trouble reading other files under /usr/portage/dev-perl. -rex -Original Message- From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:33:18AM -0700, Rex Young wrote: > Hello All, Hi, Rex. (Gosh what an unusual name :-) > I'm having a bit of trouble syncing. During an emerge sync I receive an > error: > > readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Manifest: Permission denied > readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/files/digest-Array-Window-0.1: Permission > denied > readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Changelog: Permission denied Can you post the output of: bash# id bash# df /usr/portage/dev-perl/Array-Window bash# ls -alh /usr/portage/dev-perl/Array-Window `type -p emerge` You say you received an error trying to chmod -- it would help to know the actual command you typed and the exact error you received. [Not including this kind of information is a pet peeve of mine, actually.] Regards, -- Rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?
Brett, Thanks for the response. I suppose that I should have said something about that. root. Also I had no trouble reading other files under /usr/portage/dev-perl. -rex >-Original Message- >From: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error? > > >Are you running as root or as a user? > >On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:33:18 -0700 > Rex Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hello All, >> >>I tried this on the forums yesterday, but as is typical >>for my luck on the >>forums, I >>received no response. >> >>I'm having a bit of trouble syncing. During an emerge >>sync I receive an >>error: >> >>readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Manifest: Permission >>denied >>readlink >>dev-perl/Array-Window/files/digest-Array-Window-0.1: >>Permission >>denied >>readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Changelog: Permission >>denied >> >>I tried to remove the files, and received a similar >>error. Checking >>permissions again returns the same error. >> >>And finally using chmod returns a similar error. Reiserfs >>is the filesystem >>I'm using. Frustration abounds. Can anybody offer some >>advice? >> >> >>-rex >> >>-- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> > > >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] festival --server bind failed
I've gotten festival working for the most part but piping to /dev/speech doesn't work. A thread in the Gentoo forums seems to say that festival needs to be running in server mode. It is recommended to stop speechd and do: "festival --server" this fails for me with: $ festival --server socket: bind failed Several people have had the same problem and asked advice on a fix but no one has offered a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction? A possible hint? saytime works but saydate just gives me a click in the speakers. (yes, saydate is emerged) -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] filesystem error?
Are you running as root or as a user? On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:33:18 -0700 Rex Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I tried this on the forums yesterday, but as is typical for my luck on the forums, I received no response. I'm having a bit of trouble syncing. During an emerge sync I receive an error: readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Manifest: Permission denied readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/files/digest-Array-Window-0.1: Permission denied readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Changelog: Permission denied I tried to remove the files, and received a similar error. Checking permissions again returns the same error. And finally using chmod returns a similar error. Reiserfs is the filesystem I'm using. Frustration abounds. Can anybody offer some advice? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] filesystem error?
Hello All, I tried this on the forums yesterday, but as is typical for my luck on the forums, I received no response. I'm having a bit of trouble syncing. During an emerge sync I receive an error: readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Manifest: Permission denied readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/files/digest-Array-Window-0.1: Permission denied readlink dev-perl/Array-Window/Changelog: Permission denied I tried to remove the files, and received a similar error. Checking permissions again returns the same error. And finally using chmod returns a similar error. Reiserfs is the filesystem I'm using. Frustration abounds. Can anybody offer some advice? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
In the kernel, the ACPI must be disabled Or, in lilo.conf : append="acpi=off" Christian Herzyk wrote: Hello out there, I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update for the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to 4363. OK so here I am with the following problem - When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly the Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I will send it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and the log looked to be still in the initialising phase. - If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. - When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: Unpacking source... Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to /data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m Source unpacked. rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > nv_compiler.h gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. Thanks in advance -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Writing a HowTo
Hi, I'm writing a HowTo on OpenLDAP + Auth-LDAP + Samba implemented on Gentoo in Portuguese and later i will translate it to english. My question is i'm using a template page like gentoo doc's, can i use it ? It's more a advice that a question, i'm using it cuz i like the way they make the doc's and split the code and even the colors :) Wen it's finish i intend to publish it on a site off course. Anyway it's just to know opinions on this. Thanx, RNuno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. In the kernel settings, input devices HID keyboard > enabled HID mouse > disabled USB Mouse > enabled I am on HP ze5185 laptop. It has ATI radeon graphics chip. I am using an external keyborad and an USB wheel mouse. The KDE was working before with both mouse and keborad. But earlier I have to hit keyboard many times to get it detected while booting. Can someone tell me the correct kernel configuration for keyborad and USB mouse. Also what about the blank screen while booting. Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:38, Rex Walters wrote: > I'm still completely puzzled by this problem. I wish I could reproduce > it without having to reboot! Try a vmware demo or perhaps UML to avoid real rebooting. -Arthur -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:21:19AM -0700, Andrew Farmer wrote: > > The problem is probably that, when the command is run at boot, > (find /var/lock -type f -print0) returns a very long list of files, Hmm... Why? What would create a lot of files in /var/lock? How long is a "long list"? Hundreds of files? Thousands? Millions? xargs is reading from stdin!! It should be able to read an infinitely long list of filenames. > which is too long for xargs to deal with properly. xargs was written *explicitly* to get around the problem of "too many files passed". That's why it reads from stdin. The "-print0" option to find and "-0" option to xargs is a gnu extension (AFAIK) to allow for files containing newlines in their name, but xargs is definitely broken if it can't read an arbitrarily long list of null separated filenames from stdin. I'm still completely puzzled by this problem. I wish I could reproduce it without having to reboot! Regards, -- Rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:08:58PM +0200, Frank Hellmuth wrote: > /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.4/work/mozilla/extensions/enigmail > ex: Command not found. I think the vim package is supposed to set up a symlink ex that points to vim. If you compile vim manually it gets created but for some reason ex didn't get created when I emerged vim. I created the link manually. Mozilla 1.4 compiled after that. -- Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
At 08 July, 2003 Rex Walters wrote:
> > the line
> >
> > ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> > ( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
> >
> > can be changed to:
> >
> > ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> > ( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f {} \; )
>
> This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first version
> doesn't work? Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to me -- the fix is
> really more of a workaround.
>
> The first version attempts to be more efficient (the latter forks a
> separate "rm" process for every file found).
>
> Can anybody explain what the problem is with the first version? When I
> try to run it manually (rather than as part of the runlevels boot
> process) it seems to work fine.
The problem is probably that, when the command is run at boot,
(find /var/lock -type f -print0) returns a very long list of files,
which is too long for xargs to deal with properly.
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[gentoo-user] Problem with nvidia
Hello out there, I 've been having trouble with nvidia drivers since the 4191 version. The startup times simply are/were horrible. I checked lots of articles on the forum and the postings on this list but they didn't help me (I didn't try flashing my cards bios but I really don't want to do that) So I held on to my version 3123 drivers and all was well. The last time I did an update world I didn't see that there was an update for the nvidia drivers to the newes version and so, well, updated them to 4363. OK so here I am with the following problem - When I start X with the newest drivers the system seems to hang. After around 5 minutes I shut down my machine (hard power off). Interestingly the Xfree log looks like all is well and X started without a problem (I will send it if needed). Once I shut down the machine a little early and the log looked to be still in the initialising phase. - If I install the 4340 version I have a startup time of something like 80 seconds (for X itself) which is not very tempting. - When I try to install any version prior to 4xxx I get the following error: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz to /data/dvdrip/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2/work ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Applying page_alloc.c patch... ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok ^[[34;01m]^[[0m >>> Source unpacked. rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriverecho \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc -v 2>&1 | tail -1`\" > nv_compiler.h gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNVCPU_X86 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c nv.c: In function `nv_get_phys_address': nv.c:2305: warning: implicit declaration of function `pte_offset' nv.c:2305: invalid type argument of `unary *' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 75, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Can any of you help here? I would love to go back to 3123. Thanks in advance -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reindexing fonts ...
begin quote On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 01:03:58 +0200 "D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On do, 03 jul 2003, Paulo da Silva wrote: > > > How do I reindex the fonts? > > > Sometimes (after a new kernel?) I see this happening > > during the boot process. How do I enforce it? When during the boot process? (try "grep font -i /etc/init.d/* ??? ) replace font for some searchterm that you know for certain (log output) > > Run fc-cache as root :) Call me uninformed, but, since when would fc-cache be called during bootup sessions? okay, perhaps if the system runs kdm/gdm or other graphical management, but I'm still unconvinced... //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
> the line
>
> ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> ( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
>
> can be changed to:
>
> ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
> ( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f {} \; )
This definitely fixes the error but I'm curious why the first version
doesn't work? Seems like a bug in gnu find or xargs to me -- the fix is
really more of a workaround.
The first version attempts to be more efficient (the latter forks a
separate "rm" process for every file found).
Can anybody explain what the problem is with the first version? When I
try to run it manually (rather than as part of the runlevels boot
process) it seems to work fine.
Puzzled.
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RE: [gentoo-user] emerge help
>I'm having trouble with mplayer since I installed my ATI Radeon 8500dv >video card. I thought I'd try to recompile mplayer and all the >dependencies. Is there a way I can tell emerge to re-compile all of >mplayer's dependencies as well as mplayer? > emerge -p --emptytree mplayer should do the job. I think that you'll be surprised by the length of the list, though. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ntp
begin quote On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:34:12 +0200 (CEST) Joel Palmius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a note of interest here: I don't think this is gentoo-specific > problem. I had exactly the same problem with two different versions of > Mandrake too. > > Amusingly enough I never had the problem with older versions of > Mandrake, so something must've changed during the last 18 months or > so. [ CUTS BIG BLOTCHES OF REPLIED TEXT] Well, don't take me to hard on this since I don't have quotes or links to back it up, and frankly I'm too lazy to pop up google right now and find the quotes for you ;) , but, I recall the timekeeping problem boiling down to changes with preemptive and lockbreaking systems, along with some changes to how the kernels internal tick's go. as said, running hwclock --hw2sys in a cronjob would work, but only at the price of brutalizing your logs, causing make to fail (it checks timestamps, and you just changed time on a running kernel) and generally cocking things up. Better to use ntp mainly because of its small sync changes. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
>note the kernel mount the HD fine, just no init scripts are >executed and >no prompt is given > >are there any isses with gentoo and running it on a 486? >the gcc on 1.4_rc4 and 486 chips? or the compiled code on a 486. > >I know there are a few bugs with compiling gentoo on a 486 with gcc in >1.4_rc4 (courtesy of the bugtracking system) so I used the chrooted >enviroment. > >some assistance or pointers? >should I rebuild with i386 ? or withing >-fomit-frame-pointer >or remove -03 > h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. I built a system for a 486 using gcc 2.95 about a year ago and had no problem at all. Things worked just fine. I even had X running on it for a while. Neat. Working from memory, I would say that the flags were: -march=i486 -O2 Pretty simple. I don't think that this is your problem, though. I can't imagine that optimizations would lead to a failed init. Do you see any sort of an error there that you can pass on? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] limiting the number of virtual consoles in usermode linux
thanks for the info. i will try it and let you know how it goes. i was more interested in _not_ starting any un-needed virtual consoles at all. anupam "Andrew" == Andrew Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> At 08 July, 2003 Anupam Kapoor wrote: >> hi all, >> >> is there a way to limit the number of virtual consoles that are >> launched when i start a uml instance ? Andrew> /usr/bin/deallocvt? Andrew> Not quite what you're looking for, but I think it'll do the job Andrew> well enough. Andrew> -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ...mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't start
Ahh, that did the trick.. thanks a lot On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:12, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jeremy Workman wrote: > > > * Starting spamd... > >Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib > > This is the problem. > > Type the following commands (As root): > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > (go through the configuration as it asks you to, select to follow > prerequisites when it asks you) > > install HTML::Parser > quit > > > That will get you a new Parser.pm file. > > Christopher Fisk > -- > BOFH Excuse #327: > The POP server is out of Coke > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] limiting the number of virtual consoles in user mode linux
At 08 July, 2003 Anupam Kapoor wrote: > hi all, > > is there a way to limit the number of virtual consoles that are launched > when i start a uml instance ? /usr/bin/deallocvt? Not quite what you're looking for, but I think it'll do the job well enough. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
Looks most likely like a problem with the ethernet card, especially with the way the hardware address zeroes out. If you wanted to watch it for a while, I'd use cron to regularly log (every minute) the output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1' You could also use the watch (1) command, which is in sys-apps/procps. $ watch "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall: ip_table.o some unresolved symbolswhile starting shorewall
Hi Anupam, I recompiled the kernel and now I am not able to see the boot messages and mouse is not working in KDE :( I will get back to you after fixning that. Thanks for response. Prabhat Anupam Kapoor wrote: what are the unresolved symbols that you see ? anupam "Prabhat" == Prabhat Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Prabhat> Hi All, I spend almost 2 weeks now compiling and recompiling Prabhat> gentoo. It'w working now but when I try to start Shorewall I Prabhat> get some unresolved symbols in ip_table.o Prabhat> I have compiled the ip_table as module in kernel and also Prabhat> enabled support for netfilter (replaces ipchains) Prabhat> Thanks Prabhat> -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Prabhat> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:20, Marshal Newrock wrote: > If you wanted to watch it for a while, I'd use cron to regularly log > (every minute) the output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1' Done. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ati-drivers error
On July 8, 2003 10:26 am, . wrote: > At this point emerge-ing ati-drivers was still failing. It took some > digging into the emerge code to figure out that you have to move the rpm > file I downloaded per the error message instructions to > $PORTDIR/$DISTFILES (/usr/portage/distfiles on my system). It was still > erroring out, because the latest version on the web was 4.3.0-2.9.13, > and the emerge code was looking for 4.3.0-2.9.8. Simply renaming the > rpm file to have .8 instead of .13. > > taddaa .. then it worked. sounds like a bug fit for bugs.gentoo.org. please post your stuff there too, so the package can be fixt by it's maintainer. -- writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - frank zappa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
The bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569
Refers to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21438
Where I see:
--- Additional Comment #7 From Alberto Ornaghi 2003-06-20 13:31
EST
the line
ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
can be changed to:
ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
( find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f {} \; )
But more recently:
--- Additional Comment #16 From Toralf Förster 2003-07-08 01:52
EST
the command
$>find /var/lock -type f -exec rm -f -- {} \; 1>&2
will also delete files like ".keep", here is an example:
$>find /var/lock -type f
/var/lock/subsys/.keep
/var/lock/.keep
/var/lock/LCK..modem
And:
--- Additional Comment #17 From Tobias Sager 2003-07-08 02:01 EST
find /tmp -type f -not -name .keep -exec rm -f {} \;
would solve this.
So, it would seem to me that:
the line:
ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
( find /var/lock -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f -- 1>&2 )
can be changed to:
ebegin "Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run"
( find /var/lock -type f -not -name .keep -exec rm -f {} \; )
Does anyone else agree with my conclusion?
Thanks,
Dan W. aka gen2
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Check out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:25, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >The title of this thread is a message (error message) I see on
> the
> > > boot screen. This started recently.
> > >
> > >How do I fix this? The Google answers I found suggested
> changing
> > > source code. Is this a new bug? Anyone else seeing this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> That's it. Thanks Kurt. I need to learn to use this bug tracker a bit
> more.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
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[gentoo-user] emerge help
I'm having trouble with mplayer since I installed my ATI Radeon 8500dv video card. I thought I'd try to recompile mplayer and all the dependencies. Is there a way I can tell emerge to re-compile all of mplayer's dependencies as well as mplayer? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel panic in boot during first installation
This is my first time with Gentoo. I install it follow steps in documentation (italian version - using stage 3). At first reboot I obtain after message "VFS: Mounted root (ext2 fylesystem) readonly." this sequence of messages: mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2 freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing inti= option to kernel Boot floppy disk doesn't work What do I have to do? Thx Fede_ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ati-drivers error
. wrote:
Following up on my mplayer help post, I decided to assume that it
was the radeon card that caused mplayer to break. I tried to emerge the
ati-drivers package, but that resulted in this error:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" sudo emerge ati-drivers
Password:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/ati-drivers-2.9.8 to /
* Switching to xfree OpenGL interface...
[ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
!!! ERROR: media-video/ati-drivers-2.9.8 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 27, Exitcode 0
!!! Please download fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.8.i586.rpm from
http://www.ati.com or
http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_download_ati.html (fetch
glx1_linux_X4.3.zip and unpack it)
I couldn't find anything for 4.3.0 at ati.com, so I grabbed the
glx1_linux_X4.3.zip file from schneider-digital.de.
Next problem Check.sh failes to run correctly. I've done a fair amount
of script writing/debugging, but this one has me baffled. Here's some
error output from it:
# ./Check.sh
: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
#
# sh ./Check.sh
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found:
: command not found:
: command not found:
'/Check.sh: line 98: syntax error near unexpected token `
'/Check.sh: line 98: `GetOsInfo()
#
My questions are:
1. Anyone had this problem with the Check.sh script? Better yet, know
how to fix it?
2. I'm new to unpackaging rpms and installing them on gentoo, any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Since I didn't get a response for this, I thought I'd post what fixed it
for me.
I had to remove the If statements towards the beginning of Check.sh that
will change i[345]86 to i686. This got the script to stop failing,
but it would then error out with:
"No package available for glibc 2.3. Try fglrx-glibc22-X43.tgz"
So I changed:
2)
PackageName="${MODULE}-glibc22${x_package_suffix}.tgz"
to:
2|3)
PackageName="${MODULE}-glibc22${x_package_suffix}.tgz"
This caused Check.sh to say everything was OK.
At this point emerge-ing ati-drivers was still failing. It took some
digging into the emerge code to figure out that you have to move the rpm
file I downloaded per the error message instructions to
$PORTDIR/$DISTFILES (/usr/portage/distfiles on my system). It was still
erroring out, because the latest version on the web was 4.3.0-2.9.13,
and the emerge code was looking for 4.3.0-2.9.8. Simply renaming the
rpm file to have .8 instead of .13.
taddaa .. then it worked.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm in big trouble with my network config. > The netadmin at my workplace just said me that it's few days that my PC > connects to the network changing MAC address (it changes the MAC addres > from the real one to 00:00:00:00:00:00) and then switches back after > some minutes. The same thing happened six months ago but since then I > never had any complaint from the netadmin until today. Looks most likely like a problem with the ethernet card, especially with the way the hardware address zeroes out. If you wanted to watch it for a while, I'd use cron to regularly log (every minute) the output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1' -- Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard Caution: product may be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:12, daniel wrote: > > first off, _calm_down_. i'm in agreement with zack -- wigging out mac > addresses are typically a hardware issue (especially on a closed network), so > for the price and availability of them, swap that out first before you start > freaking out about a hack. > I had some other infos. It appears that there are layer 2 ethernet frames travelling on the network with my IP address and the wrong MAC address. Maybe they're not even generated by my box. I just understood that the ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff is related to broadcast packets. Is there a particular meaning in source address 00:00:00:00:00:00? I also launched as root nohup tcpdump ether src 00:00:00:00:00:00 and src 192.168.202.156& This should list in /root/nohup any packet starting from my box with the wrong address. Am I right? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
> > Check out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >The title of this thread is a message (error message) I see on the > > boot screen. This started recently. > > > >How do I fix this? The Google answers I found suggested changing > > source code. Is this a new bug? Anyone else seeing this? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > That's it. Thanks Kurt. I need to learn to use this bug tracker a bit more. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
Check out: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23569 On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:25, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >The title of this thread is a message (error message) I see on the > boot screen. This started recently. > >How do I fix this? The Google answers I found suggested changing > source code. Is this a new bug? Anyone else seeing this? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb floppy
I found it: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/ML/tlinux-users/3100/3112.html thanks any way Alb On Jul 08 at 02:59PM+0200, Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a notebook with a usb floppy, can anyone say me how to make it > working? What should I write in fstab? > > Thanks, > Alb > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots
You can grab the whole window and then crop the image. On Sunday 06 July 2003 07:31 pm, Gëzim wrote: > > With Ksnapshot you can make a snapshot of a specific > > window, when you > > check the 'Only grab the window containing the > > pointer' box. The > > result would be the same as you wanted. > > But I don't want a whole window, I just want for e.g. > just the send button on this window that I'm writing > this message. And the application I'm talking about > lets you take the cursor and click&drag and done. > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Stephen From here to there and there to here, funny things are everywhere. -- Dr Seuss -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Resize an extended partition...
Thanks for the input. I think I will try to use parted to move the lower bound of the extended partition containing hdc6. Hopefully, it won't kill that partition. Regards, -Tracy -Original Message- From: Rui Malheiro Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resize an extended partition... On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:52, Budd, Tracy wrote: > My main question is can I enlarge an extended partition without disturbing a > logical partition(s) within? How (un)safe would that be? >From my personal experience, the answer is yes to the first question and quite safe to the second. I have messed with this laptop's partitions a couple of times now and had no *unrecoverable* problem so far. The procedure itself is quite safe *IF*: a) you don't make any mistake; b) the software you use doesn't make any mistake. Before you start, make sure you know exactly what you're doing. There are 4 tools for editing the partition table (that I know of): parted, fdisk, sfdisk and cfdisk. All have small differences that may cause things to fail if you mix tools. Read the documentation throughly and make sure you have backups of your data *AND* a printout of your partition table. To be on the safe side, get printouts of the partition table with at least fdisk and parted as I have had an issue where a partition created with fdisk and afterwards deleted and recreated with parted ended up a few sectors aside. Note: when you delete the extended partition you also delete all partitions it contains. In your case this means you will need to delete /hdc6 too, so backup *ALL* your data. It should all be OK, but from my experience things tend to go wrong when you *don't* have backups :p Good Luck :) -- Rui Malheiro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] xargs:environment is too large for exec
Hi, The title of this thread is a message (error message) I see on the boot screen. This started recently. How do I fix this? The Google answers I found suggested changing source code. Is this a new bug? Anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
Frank Hellmuth wrote: Does anyone know wether the missing "ex" is another missing package (which?) or what else could be the reason for that error? mozilla-1.4 is a masked package, and you should be posting bugs to bugs.gentoo.org anyway. Read the ChangeLog, mozilla-1.4.ebuild is not even complete. MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb floppy
Hi all, I have a notebook with a usb floppy, can anyone say me how to make it working? What should I write in fstab? Thanks, Alb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin doesn't start
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jeremy Workman wrote: > * Starting spamd... >Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib This is the problem. Type the following commands (As root): perl -MCPAN -e shell (go through the configuration as it asks you to, select to follow prerequisites when it asks you) install HTML::Parser quit That will get you a new Parser.pm file. Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #327: The POP server is out of Coke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On July 8, 2003 06:12 am, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > Sorry. I wasn't complaining about Gentoo. I meant that I'm almost > completely ignorant in network stuff. I only started dhcpcd as stated in > installation instructions but I could have made an error without even > noticing. The fact is that I'm probably the only one running Gentoo on > my network and I'm surely the only one with this problem, so I'm scared > of my netadmin thinking 'He runs Gentoo -> He is a power user -> His > computer has problems -> He's a script-kiddie playing with my network'. > Yes, maybe I misconfigured my kernel, or it's an hardware problem (which > didn't occurred before). Maybe my box has been rooted. The fact is that > I'm very scared by this thing (I always hated blackhat stuff, and I > don't wanna be accused of being a script-kiddie or a cracker). first off, _calm_down_. i'm in agreement with zack -- wigging out mac addresses are typically a hardware issue (especially on a closed network), so for the price and availability of them, swap that out first before you start freaking out about a hack. secondly, if you're seriously worried about someone hacking into your box on a corporate network, then you should talk to whomever is responsible for securing that network from the outside world. if a hacker can't get through the corporate firewall, then (s)he can't hack your box. if you don't have a corporate firewall, and you're just a bunch of linux boxes with separate ips (very odd) then i'd wipe the box, re-install, and get a firewall... but i'm paranoid. lastly, if you're running gentoo and running an update regularly, then you're most likely the one in the office running the most up to date and therefore secured software. swap out the nic, and if that doesn't work, recompile your kernel... but i don't see any to freak out just yet. stick to your guns, don't let this sysadmin accuse you of being a script kidde just because you use gentoo. i'm the only one here at my work, and i promote it like mad. sorry if the email sounds snippy, it's morning and i'm not entirely "with the world" yet. -- let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - mark twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: CPU throttling
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:32:41PM, Andrew Heberle wrote: > My speedstep capable laptop shows the same. As mentioned in a previous > email throttling and speedstep are different. > > Check out /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance for what you want. #cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance I applied the cpufreq patch to my gentoo-sources manually (had to alter 2 files by hand because of other installed patches), enabled CPU frequency selection, and compiled the amd-powernow module. and now : /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/powernow-k6.o: init_module: No such device /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/powernow-k6.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/powernow-k6.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/powernow-k6.o: insmod powernow-k6 failed > Have a read of http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ for more info, > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/processor.html in particular. OK, I'll read this. -- This message is made of 100 % recycled electrons \..| PGP Key: www.stud.uni-goettingen.de/~s242275/pgpkey.pub (o_ .\.|-- Jabber: te_linuxguru at amesasge.de(o (o //\ ..\| ICQ: 124557012 (/)_(/)_V_/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Mozilla 1.4 build fails, "ex" missing?!
Hi! My first try emerging Mozilla 1.4 ended with an error about a missing C shell. That dependency was ignored by the ebuild, nor is it mentionend on http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix-details.html. After emerging csh the compilation now stops with /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.4/work/mozilla/extensions/enigmail ex: Command not found. /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.4/work/mozilla/extensions/enigmail Makefile:43: @top_srcdir@/config/config.mk: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Makefile:45: @top_srcdir@/config/rules.mk: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden make: *** Keine Regel, um [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/config/rules.mk« zu erstellen. Schluss. Does anyone know wether the missing "ex" is another missing package (which?) or what else could be the reason for that error? Frank -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] window manager selection
I like xfce. Try xfce4 at www.xfce4.org. On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:55:07 -0500 Richard Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, I'm hoping someone can help me choose a Window Manager I -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php - error: ... while cross compiling
This was real fast response :-))), many thanks, yours Henri -- Henri Schomäcker - VIRTUAL HOMES Datendesign für Internet und Intranet henri.schomaecker_at_virtual-homes.de http://www.virtual-homes.de Public Key: /.gnupg/public_key.txt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php - error: ... while cross compiling
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:59:25 +0200 (CEST) "Henri Schomäcker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything ran fine but the emerge -u mod_php. > > When testing before configuring, I got the following errormessage: > # error: can not run test program while cross compiling > > I use: > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS='-march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe' > > When I try to emerge php, I get the same results. try this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=64713 -- Janne "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." - Immanuel Kant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php - error: ... while cross compiling
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:59:25PM +0200, Henri Schom?cker wrote: > I just updated system, including gcc and mod_php. > > ( gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice) ) > > Everything ran fine but the emerge -u mod_php. > > When testing before configuring, I got the following errormessage: > # error: can not run test program while cross compiling > > I use: > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS='-march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe' > > When I try to emerge php, I get the same results. Please file a bug and attach the output of 'emerge info' as well as /var/tmp/portage/mod_php*/work/php*/config.log Looking at that file may give you some ideas, but in many cases it is reasonably cryptic. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] emerge mod_php - error: ... while cross compiling
Hi folks, I just updated system, including gcc and mod_php. ( gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice) ) Everything ran fine but the emerge -u mod_php. When testing before configuring, I got the following errormessage: # error: can not run test program while cross compiling I use: CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS='-march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe' When I try to emerge php, I get the same results. Many thanks in advance for every helping reply, yours Henri -- Henri Schomäcker - VIRTUAL HOMES Datendesign für Internet und Intranet henri.schomaecker_at_virtual-homes.de http://www.virtual-homes.de Public Key: /.gnupg/public_key.txt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU throttling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:21:30PM, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: | |>You can manually change the throttling with something like: |> |>echo 5 > /proc/acpi/x/throttle | | | My problem is this: | | #cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling | | | My speedstep capable laptop shows the same. As mentioned in a previous email throttling and speedstep are different. Check out /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance for what you want. Have a read of http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ for more info, http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/processor.html in particular. - -- Andrew Heberle Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1-nr1 (Windows XP) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBPwqdyYpep9njY14lAQLO0AgAwVspKHGJ4u4bwg2T7r9HlJNmNnwul8Ie Hi38yc/Ph6eGCo5pvn3ouTS/9B58W+jBJeYMKinpnO/aR/lVhPeF6pwf/OzJYew+ Ausm21QtIheOkqUgJzkUE9vpZZs5obsB1/nyFZpfNkOpMI22DKSD/dfEAzFOsdF6 SzODHq+AonoiAKJ+IzQ+YzkVCJtMASQZ8G5NcEuUl/mC1521/gXpd4QZneUSFpI6 Dt/aC5y2RQd+YKNUwMY3FCz29/ktOJLToNkulgSwh05NJ7KnGs5S2Rng3lFy86F3 NuZCZW/MGHVyI0+xi4fHAGLnSJlqcMsfTn2zS8tUwMWEE+gY4SrbJg== =bC8j -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:27, Zack Gilburd wrote: > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:21 am, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > > a configuration problem, but I don't know where to check. Obviously I'm > > in desperate need to find and solve this problem, or I'll be forced to > > drop Gentoo for a more standard distribution (it would be a hell). > > What makes you think this is a Gentoo problem? If this is indeed a software > problem (which I doubt) then it's the kernel's fault, not Gentoo's. I think > that the MAC changing is a problem with the card itself, seeing as how the > MAC is not adjustable (unless you have a semi-rare NIC that allows MAC > adjustment). IMHO, you should look into another NIC. Sorry. I wasn't complaining about Gentoo. I meant that I'm almost completely ignorant in network stuff. I only started dhcpcd as stated in installation instructions but I could have made an error without even noticing. The fact is that I'm probably the only one running Gentoo on my network and I'm surely the only one with this problem, so I'm scared of my netadmin thinking 'He runs Gentoo -> He is a power user -> His computer has problems -> He's a script-kiddie playing with my network'. Yes, maybe I misconfigured my kernel, or it's an hardware problem (which didn't occurred before). Maybe my box has been rooted. The fact is that I'm very scared by this thing (I always hated blackhat stuff, and I don't wanna be accused of being a script-kiddie or a cracker). This is an excerpt of lspci: 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Standard NIC, I think. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:21 am, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > a configuration problem, but I don't know where to check. Obviously I'm > in desperate need to find and solve this problem, or I'll be forced to > drop Gentoo for a more standard distribution (it would be a hell). What makes you think this is a Gentoo problem? If this is indeed a software problem (which I doubt) then it's the kernel's fault, not Gentoo's. I think that the MAC changing is a problem with the card itself, seeing as how the MAC is not adjustable (unless you have a semi-rare NIC that allows MAC adjustment). IMHO, you should look into another NIC. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
Hi everybody, I'm in big trouble with my network config. The netadmin at my workplace just said me that it's few days that my PC connects to the network changing MAC address (it changes the MAC addres from the real one to 00:00:00:00:00:00) and then switches back after some minutes. The same thing happened six months ago but since then I never had any complaint from the netadmin until today. It's a serious problem. It's a PC on an internal network configured through DHCP. It's a workstation so I took only standard security measures (the only service allowed is ssh from a selected number of addressess specified in hosts.allow). I regularly update my box but I don't run a firewall, but I think it's a rather secure box (given the number of the unpatched boxes in the same network it's quite unmprobable that the only compromised box on the network it's mine). I still hope in a configuration problem, but I don't know where to check. Obviously I'm in desperate need to find and solve this problem, or I'll be forced to drop Gentoo for a more standard distribution (it would be a hell). Did anyone else out there had the same problem? Can someone suggest me something to try? Thanks, Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
Hi all I have taken the time to put gentoo on a 486 (no X) with the goal of turning it into an mp3 player (using mp3blaster) I used my athlon to build the system using a chrooted enviroment. when it came to booting the 486 the init system would not start ( note the kernel mount the HD fine, just no init scripts are executed and no prompt is given are there any isses with gentoo and running it on a 486? the gcc on 1.4_rc4 and 486 chips? or the compiled code on a 486. I know there are a few bugs with compiling gentoo on a 486 with gcc in 1.4_rc4 (courtesy of the bugtracking system) so I used the chrooted enviroment. some assistance or pointers? should I rebuild with i386 ? or withing -fomit-frame-pointer or remove -03 any hints or tips suggestions thanx in advance Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
