Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400
-- quoting Chris Bare -- [ snip ] Option ConnectedMonitor crt,crt I use a CRT and TV out and had luck with this line: Option ConnectedMonitor AUTO,AUTO HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- Homer: I keep hearing this horrible irregular thumping noise. Pump Jockey: It's your heart. And I think it's on its last thump. Homer: Whew, I was afraid it was my transmission. Homer's Triple Bypass -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get twinview work under linux but I cannot find any tools to do it properly (yanc seems not to work though it changes the XF86config file) and I can't find any valuable tutorials. I am about to go crazy about this because it works perfectly under windows. I have to get it running under linux since it disgusts me to reboot to windows to watch Divx Files with the output redireceted to my TV and then reboot to linux again to do all other stuff! can anyone come up with a solution or provide me with some linux to guides, tutorials etc. I would appreciate it! thanx in advance, momesana p.s. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I've had the GF2MX400 on Linux for some time, and I've always used nvtv for TVoutput/twinview purposes. It's a bit buggy, but might be useful to you. Why nVIDIA hasn't come up with a simple linux command line control program for such things yet(bundled with their drivers) is a question I keep asking myself. -- Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics http://www.stegard.net/ 0x2B | ~0x2B - Hamlet -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling progress
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:59, brett holcomb wrote: Not with a tool that I know of. Until you get some history just ask on the list. Which tool are you talking about?? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zuBzbDc1RiYuWJgRAh+TAJ4tGDpgnv+z/zf+Y7mdYZt0s2xOKACfd6Th 3EBL46SOJTz/xesasouC8cE= =PeFw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)
Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xbeee0): In function `splash_getraw': : undefined reference to `vesafb_ops' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux # Has anyone encountered this? What have I done wrongI had just previously run make menuconfig...and then make clean bzImage modules modules_install. Any ideas? Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 2.3
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:25, RoT wrote: just do what I did and emerge python 2.3 but keep the 'python' symlink in /usr/lib pointing to 2.2. It just means that when you want to invoke 2.3 you will need to specifically type 'python2.3' but portage and the like will still use 2.2. Sounds like a good plan to me. :-) I guess the main worry is that I don't want it to automatically *unmerge* python 2.2 and thus break portage. The two packages are in different SLOTs at least, so hopefully that won't happen. However... any idea what happens to all the third party modules in the site-packages/ directory? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
Wes Gray said, No doubt this is only a problem for certain people, but there are others. Maybe things work if you use genkernel. I did everything manually using vanilla-sources. Did you create an initrd file? Genkernel creates one for 2.4.22 whereas it didn't for 2.4.20 and this may contain data needed to mount / with reiserfs. That's certainly how it works in at least one other distro. Cheers Neil -- In the begining, there was nothing. And God said Let there be light and there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it better. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted? And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops. Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy
hi, when I did a kernel 2.6 installation my wget failed. Think is a bug because of the IPv6 stuff, so i did USE=-ipv6 emerge wget and worked wget working. but now even if i set http_proxy wget wont use the proxy :-S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?
-- quoting Oliver Lange -- Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? you can update your portage tree (list of installable packages) with $ emerge sync and you can upgrade the program rsync with $ emerge net-misc/rsync HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- I wore my extra loose pants for nothing. Nothing! -- Homer Simpson New Kid on the Block -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 05:57, Oliver Lange wrote: Hi everyone, How can i upgrade rsync ? 'emerge -up rsync' gave the following error: emerge: the sync action does not support --pretend. Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? emerge net-misc/rsync signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy
hi, I reported similar problem few days ago, but I didn't upgrade kernel, just upgrade wget. Next update wasn't succesful because of wget. Next I try USE=-ipv6 emerge wget as someone helped me (thanks!), but wget still fails, wrote only --some time-- http://some.url/some.page = index.html Aborted Please, help! Martin - PVODN ZPRVA - Od: Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Komu: Gentoo User Mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pedmt: [gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy Datum: 4.12.2003 - 11:29:43 hi, when I did a kernel 2.6 installation my wget failed. Think is a bug because of the IPv6 stuff, so i did USE=-ipv6 emerge wget and worked wget working. but now even if i set http_proxy wget wont use the proxy :-S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Eurotel Data Nonstop - Neomezen pstup na internet ji od 799 K msn! http://www.eurotel.cz/site/cz/servicesAndTariffs/specialOffer.html?list=34995 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
When i enter 'emerge -up world', emerge currently doesn't show me any update. Fine, but if i enter e.g. 'emerge -up epiphany', i get this: [ebuild U ] net-www/epiphany-1.0.4 [1.0] So i must assume that 'emerge -u world' would not update all and everything (deps). So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] error updating lcms
On Wed 3 December 2003 19:58, Ciortea Cristian wrote: snip !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918 your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz I have deleted the dist file and downloaded it again but with the same error. snip I used ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org as a mirror Your mirror probably has a broken archive. Get the file from this one, it should be ok :-) Thanks that worked paul -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python 2.3
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:25, Tom Eastman wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:25, RoT wrote: just do what I did and emerge python 2.3 but keep the 'python' symlink in /usr/lib pointing to 2.2. It just means that when you want to invoke 2.3 you will need to specifically type 'python2.3' but portage and the like will still use 2.2. Sounds like a good plan to me. :-) I guess the main worry is that I don't want it to automatically *unmerge* python 2.2 and thus break portage. The two packages are in different SLOTs at least, so hopefully that won't happen. However... any idea what happens to all the third party modules in the site-packages/ directory? Each version gets different sets (in /usr/lib/python2.2/ and /usr/lib/python2.3/ ) You will also have to re-install all third-party modules. Before you do that, change the python symlink to point to python2.3, then change it back when you are done. HTH, -- -- - Keith Dart mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kdart.com/ Public key ID: B08B9D2C Public key: http://www.kdart.com/~kdart/public.key signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Patrick Börjesson wrote: So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p option, now my world file contains all these packages... now i got to sort them out by hand, piece-by-piece... any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:58:51AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote: I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem. I think you need to enable reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either. The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine, 21, 22, and 23 don't. And yes, I have CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y in my config file. I used make oldconfig to upgrade. The error is that I get something like failed to mount root partition on bootup. It then mounts readonly OK, but lots of other stuff fails after that. No doubt this is only a problem for certain people, but there are others. Maybe things work if you use genkernel. I did everything manually using vanilla-sources. Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel. Christian. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge rsync ?
Hi everyone, How can i upgrade rsync ? 'emerge -up rsync' gave the following error: emerge: the sync action does not support --pretend. Seems that emerge misunderstands 'rsync' as 'sync' ?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Oliver Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb am 04.12.2003 12:53 Uhr: emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p option, now my world file contains all these packages... now i got to sort them out by hand, piece-by-piece... any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? What's wrong with adding those packages to world? After all, they are already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will be updated next time you issue emerge -u world. Isn't this what you planned to do by entering emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp in the first place? Best regards, - Christian -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator PGP: A94E 0181 664D 27E3 F05A A751 6A7E 90D1 A0A3 DEC7 Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind. -Terry Pratchett, Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and sensors
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 01:27, Robert Crawford wrote: That's the ticket! Getting sensor readouts with 2.6 kernels is so much easier than 2.4.xx, that it's not even comparable. Basically, just compile i2c stuff as modules (including your hardware's modules), and load your specific modules at boot, and Gkrellm2 will pick it up. It usually is set correctly with the bios, but it might take a bit of adjustment. Just reboot and check the bios, and then set Gkrellm (if necessary, to match those readings). I'm glad you're as happy as I am about this! One problem I can see, however, is that there doesn't seem to be anything like sensors-detect that works. If you know what modules you need you're OK. One way is to select everything i2c as modules when you build the kernel, reboot, load all those modules then remerge gkrellm2 and see what it detects. After that you could rebuild your kernel, removing the modules you don't need. BTW I really do like the Qt xconfig setup with this kernel. Peter -- == Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-test11-gentoo-r1-win4lin) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted? And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops. Rudmer Do an info coreutils and read the section about standards conformance. In short, export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your profile will enable traditional behavior with head, tail sort. -jrh I'll save you a few keystrokes. Here's the relevant piece: Standards conformance = In a few cases, the GNU utilities' default behavior is incompatible with the POSIX standard. To suppress these incompatibilities, define the `POSIXLY_CORRECT' environment variable. Unless you are checking for POSIX conformance, you probably do not need to define `POSIXLY_CORRECT'. Newer versions of POSIX are occasionally incompatible with older versions. For example, older versions of POSIX required the command `sort +1' to sort based on the second and succeeding fields in each input line, but starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001 the same command is required to sort the file named `+1', and you must instead use the command `sort -k 2' to get the field-based sort. The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is standard for your system. To cause them to conform to a different version of POSIX, define the `_POSIX2_VERSION' environment variable to a value of the form MM specifying the year and month the standard was adopted. Two values are currently supported for `_POSIX2_VERSION': `199209' stands for POSIX 1003.2-1992, and `200112' stands for POSIX 1003.1-2001. For example, if you are running older software that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses `sort +1', `head -1', or `tail +1', you can work around the compatibility problems by setting `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209' in your environment. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:26 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:54:00 -0600 Jeff Smelser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: My problem is that updatedb is including the all the contents of my mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`, for example looking for the media-sound/mpg123 ebuild, I get very many entries like /home/stroller/.Maildir/.Some Folder/cur/1233445437574657345476 scrolling right off the screen. Clearly this is undesirable, as I am never going to try locate an email by its unique ID, and I have also noticed that the midnight updatedb is becoming very slow. This isn't possible. Slocate has privs in mind when you use locate. I'm not quite sure what you mean? I run updatedb (slocate) as root. There are never any problems with locate from a normal user. Ok, What he is trying to do, isn't possible. He would have to write some sort of script and inject into into prune path of all the maildir's he may have.. The second part is a goof, I thought he wouldn't want other users being able to search for his mail. (for ex). But slocate takes privileges into account... My mistake on that. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zyeLld4MRA3gEwYRArcwAKCIGxTYOaKXH+RzvQtlR6mZHBRhbQCffb18 0uJlln5gfDb+qM6fqHKV4Aw= =fMDa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird-cvs problem
Kent, do an updatedb then slocate -i thunderbird | more and see what you get. Somewhere in there is the Thunderbird executable. They may not have linked it to /bin but it's got to be there somewhere. If not add to the bug report. On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:02:47 -0700 Kent Jantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:03:14 -0700 Kent Jantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:10:14 -0700 Kent Jantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just emerged thunderbird-cvs but I am having problems figuring out how to start it. Back to square 1. Where did you get a thunderbird-cvs ebuild to emerge?. I'm sync'd as of a few minutes ago, and I find no such ebuild in portage. I was going to suggest looking at the ebuild to determined where the executables are built, but I can't even find it. I found it on the forums: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=17183action=view Ok, it's a strange ebuild, but it looks like your MozillaThunderbird executable should be either in /usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/ or in the files directory of /wherever/you/put/the/ebuild. Were there any instructions with this ebuild? None that I saw but I got the ebuild from this posting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=81429highlight=thunderbird+cvs+ebuild Thanks, Kent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Christian Aust wrote: What's wrong with adding those packages to world? After all, they are already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will be updated next time you issue emerge -u world. Isn't this what you planned to do by entering emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp in the first place? Well that's easy: if i unmerge some package that is member of my 'world' list, an additional 'emerge depclean' will remove everything no longer needed (former dependencies of unmerged world favorites), but if everything is listed in the world file, nothing will ever be cleaned up, so i got all these packages installed but never used... I want absolutely nothing installed which i don't need anyway !! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Patrick Börjesson wrote: So how can i emerge updates for everything installed on my box ? emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp ^ Should show all updates that are available for the packages that you currently have installed. *** WARNING *** Argh... i've accidently used this without the -p option, now my world file contains all these packages... now i got to sort them out by hand, piece-by-piece... any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? emerge --oneshot Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for later updating. -jrh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you delete messages as you read them, it might be easier to not thread the messages and sort by subject and then by date. Otherwise, you'll have to read the entire thread and then delete - of course, that doesn't help when you receive a new message in the thread but the previous messages are gone. From what I hear this behaviour should be fixed in Kmail from KDE3.2. It should then be the way as it is in Mozilla now. Thank god, a thread delete would do it some good too.. ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zygjld4MRA3gEwYRAp2qAJwNLSopCscE1gN+/7uFs0lqqx8BVwCgtGPZ RYASFEDsJsaaL942yjS1gF8= =kg/x -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 07:01 am, Oliver Lange wrote: That's the missing puzzle piece. If i only used this option... now i guess it'll cost me a day of work to fix my world file back to normal... i've reduced my world file to about 60 entries that i can remember of, now 'emerge depclean' reports about 25 packages to be uninstalled. I've used 'emerge depclean' regularly in the past and it was always clean as a whistle... however thank you. Next time, try emerge -Dupvl world.. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zzGsld4MRA3gEwYRAgAJAJ9Rglx/s/AD/OWzUMu/eqb5kVzoYACg3URP JVuW/8O8XWY78MdSKq/B0BA= =JLth -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
begin quote On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:18:09 +0100 Oliver Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Aust wrote: What's wrong with adding those packages to world? After all, they are already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will be updated next time you issue emerge -u world. Isn't this what you planned to do by entering emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp in the first place? Well that's easy: if i unmerge some package that is member of my 'world' list, an additional 'emerge depclean' will remove everything no longer needed (former dependencies of unmerged world favorites), but if everything is listed in the world file, nothing will ever be cleaned up, so i got all these packages installed but never used... I want absolutely nothing installed which i don't need anyway !! perhaps you should've used --deep as an option to emerge, or in the qpkg magic case, --oneshot ? //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] emerge -up world
Le Jeudi, 4 Décembre 2003 12.53, Oliver Lange a écrit : any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? I think you might want to try this: emerge -Dup world from man emerge: --deep (-D) When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces emerge to consider the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of checking only the immediate dependencies of the packages. As an example, this catches updates in libraries that are not directly listed in the dependencies of a pack- age. -- mathieu perrenoud -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/modules.autoload.d options?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 13:43, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is it possible to define /etc/modules.autoload.d lists for specific kernels? I have two different kernels installed: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 and 2.4.23. The latter has some feature that autoloads its own autodetected modules, and causes problems when I try to load them again through modules.autoload.d. Is it possible to do something like: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4.20 /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4.23 Thanks in advance. Already does that. If you have an /etc/modules.autoload delete it, the init scripts will pick the correct kernel-x.x.x for you. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zzvtInuLMrk7bIwRAthlAJ95QHQ4TpDlsAmee1Wyzr7bzbtUdQCgl6xF WagH/AAVJN9yHoaleyiDVfc= =lwmG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead ) There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download! Not that helpful actually, as I'm also asking for the emulator/VM setup necessary to make it work. (had you told me that freedos disk under xdosemu with theese settings work, I would have been immensly helped, but as it is I don't really have the time to mess about with it to relive old memories, so I'm afraid I'm not very helped of it.BTW, I dont own a machine that runs DOS anymore. : ) You could also download the original Amiga version and play it with UAE. It has better graphics than the DOS version. there is a WinUAE config at the same place, which I think can be used with the Linux version of the UAE. At least I have used some WinUAE configs with UAE in Linux. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:30, Helder Rossa wrote: hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso and the try to restore that iso in one partition it replaces with an exact copy of the original partition. Can I do a backup of the data only and not the partition info?? You could use tar. tar up the dir(s) then move the tar file to a different partition. Resize that partition and then untar the files into that partition. There maybe some 'special' things you will need to do if you do this to /. Try a google for 'restore from tar'. Hope that helps. Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo.org IP address change?
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:29:08 -0500 Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did this happen? It seems that the gentoo ezmlm was rejected by smtp at comcast.net as in invalid IP address. Did anyone else get this? No, and as you can see, I'm on comcast as well. -- 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
[gentoo-user] /etc/modules.autoload.d options?
Is it possible to define /etc/modules.autoload.d lists for specific kernels? I have two different kernels installed: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 and 2.4.23. The latter has some feature that autoloads its own autodetected modules, and causes problems when I try to load them again through modules.autoload.d. Is it possible to do something like: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4.20 /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4.23 Thanks in advance. -- Joel Konkle-Parker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge + wget fails with proxy
its a bug. so just use the dnsname and not the ip http_proxy=http://dnsname:3128 wget ... working for me I reported similar problem few days ago, but I didn't upgrade kernel, just upgrade wget. Next update wasn't succesful because of wget. Next I try USE=-ipv6 emerge wget as someone helped me (thanks!), but wget still fails, wrote only --some time-- http://some.url/some.page = index.html Aborted Please, help! Martin when I did a kernel 2.6 installation my wget failed. Think is a bug because of the IPv6 stuff, so i did USE=-ipv6 emerge wget and worked wget working. but now even if i set http_proxy wget wont use the proxy :-S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:51:57 +0100 Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... why is this obsoleted? POSIX compliance. And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops. it's been a warning about it for some time, in the documentation afair (deprecated... ). if you go completely whacked on it, I'd suggest reinstalling the older package 's tail/head until you've waited out the rest of the world + pet + old projects to fix this. //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] emerge -up world
This does not give the same results as the mentioned 'magic'... emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -p give me [snip] And emerge -uDp world gives me: [snip] Surely this is a bug? Actually, it not... Say you want to try out a package and when installing it you install a whole bunch of dependencies with it. When you later uninstall the package that you tried out it won't uninstall all the dependencies that where drawn in as dependencies, which means that they're still installed on your system. But since you didn't explicitly installed them by 'emerge dep1; emerge dep2...' they're not in the world-file either, and thus 'emerge -Du world' won't update those packages if they're not depended on by some other package that you've installed later on... Patrick Börjesson P.S. Btw... Sorry for not mentioning the '--oneshot'-option in my first reply D.S. -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Patrick [ISO-8859-1] Börjesson wrote: This does not give the same results as the mentioned 'magic'... emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -p give me [snip] And emerge -uDp world gives me: [snip] Surely this is a bug? Actually, it not... Say you want to try out a package and when installing it you install a whole bunch of dependencies with it. When you later uninstall the package that you tried out it won't uninstall all the dependencies that where drawn in as dependencies, which means that they're still installed on your system. But since you didn't explicitly installed them by 'emerge dep1; emerge dep2...' they're not in the world-file either, and thus 'emerge -Du world' won't update those packages if they're not depended on by some other package that you've installed later on... Patrick Börjesson Ah yes, I see what you mean. Theory goes that the differences between the two packages should at least resemble to output from emerge depclean I guess. I will check when I get home Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thursday 04 December 2003 05:40, Norberto Bensa wrote: Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... Oookey... Thank you. Next!!! Seriously. Which files? Can you host a few samples so we can help you track your problem? I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it sounds twice better. For higher bit rates ogg produces worse quality, but same goes between layer 3 and layer2 mpegs too. One thing in ogg that is better than in mpeg is the 'cleanes' of the sound. Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is not even closely the same level as with my wifes. She is classical musician and playes clarinet. With good encoder the quality difference between mpeg layers started to appear somewhere between 256 and 320 kbps in my tests. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum
I read about that on the forums. The way you said below solved the problem for someone having kernel 2.6.0 but I have 2.4.20. On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:58, Anders Hasselqvist wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. I got the same symptoms too and I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help ? I think you have to modify vmware-config.pl a bit. Change all occurences of /proc/ksyms to /proc/kallsyms It could be that you have to change something more but I don't remember. Regards, --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet automatically scans all messages for viruses using RAV AntiVirus. Nota: RAV AntiVirus poate sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cand deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru nici un prejudiciu cauzat de virusi. Disclaimer: RAV AntiVirus may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by viruses. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;) Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
Peter Eis said, You could use partimage (it's on the gentoo live CD). The only problem is, that the target partition size must be at least the same size as the original partition. If not, you could use resize2fs or resize_reiserfs to shrink the partition before imaging it. Cheers Neil -- We can sympathize with a child who is afraid of the dark, but the tragedy of life is that most people are afraid of the light. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:59, Helder Rossa wrote: hummm... just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! That is certainly the case for non root partitions. I'm not a file system expert. So there might be some magic you will need to fix before being able to boot from the resized / partitiom. Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. and tail seems to do the same thing... this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including configure scripts to build packages... ...like the Zetagrid client. Glad someone else finds this worth talking about, too. I've been shaking my head in disbelief ever since I first saw the error message. why is this obsoleted? Because SCO owns a trademark on `-[0-9]`? Some GNU kid on the block wants to try making all traces of Unix heritage disappear from Linux? Sudden attack of braindeadness? Valid question, I'd love to know the answer. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum (fwd)
That's it ! It works ! Thanks a lot Elton. On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:29, Elton Algera wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum Hi, I had the same problem with a 2.4.20 kernel. For me the solution was removing the /etc/vmware/not_configured file. The name suggests that this file should be removed after successful configuration, but it isn't. Removing the file fixed the problem for me... On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: I read about that on the forums. The way you said below solved the problem for someone having kernel 2.6.0 but I have 2.4.20. On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:58, Anders Hasselqvist wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. I got the same symptoms too and I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help ? I think you have to modify vmware-config.pl a bit. Change all occurences of /proc/ksyms to /proc/kallsyms It could be that you have to change something more but I don't remember. Regards, --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet automatically scans all messages for viruses using RAV AntiVirus. Nota: RAV AntiVirus poate sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cand deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru nici un prejudiciu cauzat de virusi. Disclaimer: RAV AntiVirus may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by viruses. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet automatically scans all messages for viruses using RAV AntiVirus. Nota: RAV AntiVirus poate sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cand deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru nici un prejudiciu cauzat de virusi. Disclaimer: RAV AntiVirus may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by viruses. --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet automatically scans all messages for viruses using RAV AntiVirus. Nota: RAV AntiVirus poate sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cand deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru nici un prejudiciu cauzat de virusi. Disclaimer: RAV AntiVirus may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by viruses. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install
Found my problem. In my kernel config, either by default or my selection I don't remember, in the Kernel Hacking section there was a setting for IOMMU force on... which was selected. I deselect that option for no IOMMU debugging, etc and the new kernel boots without problem. Thanks for all the suggestions. Jimmie Houchin Jimmie Houchin wrote: Hello, I am installing Gentoo on my AMD64 server. I compiled the gentoo-dev-sources kernel (2.6.0test9). On attempting to boot off the hard drive I am getting errors and it is locking up. System: Arima RioWorks HDAMA motherboard, 2 240 Opterons, Promise FT S150 SATA Raid (on board), 4 SATA drives, 4gb ram. /etc/fstab #Leaving out all the comments /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda2 / reiserfs noatime,defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 /home reiserfs noatime0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdromiso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 I have also tried: proc /procprocdefaults 0 0 on the last line as it is in my desktop fstab. But no success with it either. Below is my boot screen. *Mounting proc at /proc ... OK *Mounting sysfs at /sys ... can't create lock file /etc/mtab~83: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override) ...and it continues OK until *Mounting local filesystems ... here it locks up. The first time I tried to boot it off the hard drive it couldn't mount sysfs because of no /sys directory. One of the messages in the forum said to mkdir /sys. I did that and the error message changed but still no successful boot. I've tried to search the forums and have not found anything to help. I have other issues I posted to the forum. But no replies. Is there a better mailing list for specifically Gentoo AMD64 problems? I posted this one here because I don't know it is specifically AMD64. Any help greatly appreciated. Jimmie Houchin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
begin quote On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:19:25 +0100 Redeeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:44, Spider wrote: begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is not even closely thesame level as with my wifes. She is classical musician and playes clarinet. Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). loose less audio compression is interresting, but how much does a average track take? it must take much more than a vorbis or mp3 encoded file Here's a test / sample : flac --best oggenc -q 8 lame -q0 --preset extreme Flac stats : Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.wav: wrote 39895533 bytes, ratio=0.620 Ogg stats : Done encoding file Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.ogg Rate: 11.8746 Average bitrate: 251.2 kb/s Nominal bitrate: 256.006000 kb/s MP3 stats : Encoding as 44.1 kHz VBR(q=2) j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (ca. 7.3x) qval=0 average: 226.4 kbps LR: 7757 (55.58%) MS: 6200 (44.42%) 62M Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.wav 39M Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.flac 11M Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.ogg 9.9M Depeche Mode - Sister of Night.mp3 Okay, this isn't even a fair comparsion as I don't use the same bitrates between the different settings, but just approximate what I figure would be ok. //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] Low memory build (fwd)
Hi, I just finished configuring my old laptop (P1/166 with 54M memory). I built the entire filesystem on my new Athlon 3000+, which is a bit faster. If you have a fast machine with some spare diskspace, you can untar a stage3 for pentium1 in it, and then build all the stuff you need. mkdir /oldcomputer-chroot cd /oldcomputer-chroot tar -xjf stage3-pent-1.tbz2 chroot /oldcomputer If you use a stage3 then you won't get into trouble compiling by compiling for the wrong arch. Watch the CHOST setting in make.conf, should be i586, otherwise the machine will not boot. Set the BUILDPKG feature enabled. If you're finished, boot up the old machine with a live cd. Start NFS on both machines (/etc/init.d/nfs and nfsmount) On the fast machine add /oldcomputer 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) to /etc/exports, before you start NFS. (If your subnet is 192.168.0.0) mount it with: mount -t nfs SERVERIP:/oldcomputer /mnt/built (on the old computer) then copy /mnt/built to /mnt/gentoo and off you go. If you keep the chroot on the new machine, you can use it to build new packages in the future for the old machine, so that you can emerge -K ... Hope this helps... Elton On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, MARTINSON, GREGORY wrote: -=-=-=-=-= Why am I in a handbasket and where am I headed? Gregg Martinson, RAHS Media I am going to be bullheaded and take an old machine Pentium 166 with 48 Megs of memory and make it work as a home server (samba, cups and ftp as well as maybe a music player). I won't be installing tons of software on it, but I do want to eek our every last ounce of performance from an old beast. Do any of you have general tips, hints or things to avoid in developing such a system? For example, if I want every last ounce of performance should I start with bootstrapping or is that not necessary? Anyone know of a simple low-resource window manager? What media players work well with low resources? What compilation make.conf settings should I try? Thanks to any and all responses! -=-=-=-=-= Why am I in a handbasket and where am I headed? Gregg Martinson, RAHS Media -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) From: Elton Algera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum Hi, I had the same problem with a 2.4.20 kernel. For me the solution was removing the /etc/vmware/not_configured file. The name suggests that this file should be removed after successful configuration, but it isn't. Removing the file fixed the problem for me... On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: I read about that on the forums. The way you said below solved the problem for someone having kernel 2.6.0 but I have 2.4.20. On Thursday 04 December 2003 15:58, Anders Hasselqvist wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. I got the same symptoms too and I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help ? I think you have to modify vmware-config.pl a bit. Change all occurences of /proc/ksyms to /proc/kallsyms It could be that you have to change something more but I don't remember. Regards, --- Xnet scaneaza automat toate mesajele impotriva virusilor folosind RAV AntiVirus. Xnet automatically scans all messages for viruses using RAV AntiVirus. Nota: RAV AntiVirus poate sa nu detecteze toti virusii noi sau toate variantele lor. Va rugam sa luati in considerare ca exista un risc de fiecare data cand deschideti fisiere atasate si ca MobiFon nu este responsabila pentru nici un prejudiciu cauzat de virusi. Disclaimer: RAV AntiVirus may not be able to detect all new viruses and variants. Please be aware that there is a risk involved whenever opening e-mail attachments to your computer and that MobiFon is not responsible for any damages caused by viruses. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial
What's UAE? Thanks. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:00:42 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote You could also download the original Amiga version and play it with UAE. It has better graphics than the DOS version. there is a WinUAE config at the same place, which I think can be used with the Linux version of the UAE. At least I have used some WinUAE configs with UAE in Linux. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mingetty on CD isn't mingetty in ebuild
I'm not sure where to look this one up, or if anyone's bothered to mention it. The mingetty that is made with the ebuild is only one shot. After you logout, it won't let you log back in. I've had to download the mingetty source and the autologin behaves the same as the one on the CD, but then I've just trashed the usefulness of 'emerge mingetty'. Could someone please direct me to any Gentoo notes on why the CD's mingetty emerge mingetty? --Romaq -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:25, Christian Herzyk wrote: Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you delete messages as you read them, it might be easier to not thread the messages and sort by subject and then by date. Otherwise, you'll have to read the entire thread and then delete - of course, that doesn't help when you receive a new message in the thread but the previous messages are gone. From what I hear this behaviour should be fixed in Kmail from KDE3.2. It should then be the way as it is in Mozilla now. Thank god, a thread delete would do it some good too.. ;) If I find the time I will check it out tonight when I am home and give a report tomorrow. Apologies for the late reply. I am running kde3.2 at and have not noticed any difference but I have not checked. I'll check and let you know the difference. Again apologies if there is any spelling mistakes but I am a bit drunk... Jason Stubbs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is just the same... on NOT! :-) I will test it in another PC... not the same hardware but if it boots I'm in the right way. just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! That is certainly the case for non root partitions. I'm not a file system expert. So there might be some magic you will need to fix before being able to boot from the resized / partitiom. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] anoying terminal
hi, my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] xx/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)
Simon Mushi, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xbeee0): In function `splash_getraw': : undefined reference to `vesafb_ops' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux # Has anyone encountered this? What have I done wrongI had just previously run make menuconfig...and then make clean bzImage modules modules_install. Any ideas? Yep, you need to add: Device Drivers --- Graphics support --- [*] VESA VGA graphics support or remove: Device Drivers --- Graphics support --- Bootsplash configuration --- [ ] Bootup splash screen Why? undefined reference to `vesafb_ops'/In function `splash_getraw': Regards, -- Better hope the life-inspector doesn't come around while you have your life in such a mess. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SN For higher bit rates ogg produces worse quality, but same goes between Worse than what? Worse than ogg on lower bitrates or worse than mp3 on same bitrate? Robert. -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:43:29 + Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is just the same... on NOT! :-) I will test it in another PC... not the same hardware but if it boots I'm in the right way. just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! That is certainly the case for non root partitions. I'm not a file system expert. So there might be some magic you will need to fix before being able to boot from the resized / partitiom. The only thing magic about root partitions is /etc/fstab. If you restore the image to a different hddn location, you must edit the /etc/fstab to specify the new location of the / partition. And, of course, you must update lilo/grub to insure that the new partition is bootable. HTH, -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile error (2.6.0-test11-r1)
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:12:37 + (DST) Simon Mushi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey people, I just decided to move from 2.4 to 2.6 - beata tonight and towards the end of compiling the 2.6.0.test11-r1 kernel the compilation quit with the following error: AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xbeee0): In function `splash_getraw': : undefined reference to `vesafb_ops' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux # Has anyone encountered this? What have I done wrongI had just previously run make menuconfig...and then make clean bzImage modules modules_install. Can't tell your for sure - I haven't tried test11. I'm still on test8. Only a guess: I never use make ... clean ... on 2.6, just make bzImage modules modules_install. You could try: 1. copy your .config somewhere else 2. make mrproper 3. copy back your .config 4. make bzImage modules modules_install If that doesn't do it, then there is a kernel bug, and you should pursue this with kernel.org. Another question: do you have some unusual choices in the kernel config that most people (like me) never use? Try cutting back on the options selected to see if the problem disappears. One possibility with the indicated errors (undefined reference to `vesafb_ops') would be framebuffer 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
RE: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is not even closely thesame level as with my wifes. She is classical musician and playes clarinet. Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). loose less audio compression is interresting, but how much does a average track take? it must take much more than a vorbis or mp3 encoded file http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html. This is a comparison of various lossless codecs, but does give some idea of the rate of compression. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 12:27, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 02:12 am, Christian Herzyk wrote: With kmail you can either have threading on or threading off. With threading on, it goes by the headers _and_ the time of receipt. If you delete messages as you read them, it might be easier to not thread the messages and sort by subject and then by date. Otherwise, you'll have to read the entire thread and then delete - of course, that doesn't help when you receive a new message in the thread but the previous messages are gone. From what I hear this behaviour should be fixed in Kmail from KDE3.2. It should then be the way as it is in Mozilla now. Thank god, a thread delete would do it some good too.. ;) Welcome to KMail 1.5.93 KMail is the email client for the K Desktop Environment. It is designed to be fully compatible with Internet mailing standards including MIME, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. KMail has many powerful features which are described in the documentation The KMail homepage offers information about new versions of KMail Important changes (compared to KMail 1.5): Operations on the parent of a closed thread are now performed on all messages of that thread. That means it is now possible for example to delete a whole thread or subthread by closing it and deleting the parent. Some of the new features in this release of KMail include (compared to KMail 1.5, which is part of KDE 3.1): KMail can now be embedded in the Kontact container application. Search Folders (a.k.a Virtual Folders) As-you-type spell checking is supported. Panel applet showing unread message totals. Per folder duplicate mail removal Drag and drop support of messages onto the composer Improved threading; threading by subject, sort stable deletion Numerous search dialog improvements SMTP pipelining (faster mail submission). Separate reader window improvements, including new tool bar Configurable startup folder. IMAP messages are loaded progressively. IMAP attachments are loaded on demand. KMail can check your accounts for new mail on startup. Individual IMAP folders can be checked for new mail. Ignore Thread and Watch Thread. Messages can have more than one status. More flexible layout (no message pane or panes side by side) Disconnected IMAP. We hope that you will enjoy KMail. Thank you, The KMail Team - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/z109InuLMrk7bIwRAniYAJj92cNcJoWjZTqaxktDsrtN+3mlAKCTdO7v eOCtKrSaaw0U2tmFH7r+Mg== =G+AD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] genkernel and bootsplash
I've spent an hour reading forum stuff about bootsplash, but I don't see any answers to the issue of using genkernel and bootsplash together. The problem is that they both create their own initrd file, and I don't know how to combine them. Does anyone have bootsplash working with a genkernel system? How do you combine the initrd files? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:40, Norberto Bensa wrote: Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... Oookey... Thank you. Next!!! Seriously. Which files? Can you host a few samples so we can help you track your problem? I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it sounds twice better. i dont believe half size, basically what the 2 formats is, its just cutting stuff off that human ear cant sense, ogg should be almost the same disk size for the same sound, but it is diffrent how vorbis algorithm compresses the sound than the mp3 format. Regards, Norberto -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] glftpd 1.32 and baselayout 1.8.6.12-r2
Hello .. Anyone successful at all getting glftpd to run zipscripts under the gentoo environment? Is there still a need for hacking xinetd? If anyone does have this working, please post your scripts or email them to me .. I only ask this because I still can not get my glftpd to function using zipscripts .. Yes I am aware of the bug posted on the bugs site, but none of this helps .. the forums are also of no help.. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial
brett holcomb wrote: What's UAE? An Amiga emulator. The Amiga version of Prince Of Persia came with better graphics than the DOS version. I can remember playing POP on one of my Amigas.. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] xx/ Try out Z-Shell (zsh) instead of Bourne Again Shell (bash). I too was annoyed as hell by the way bash handled terminal-width, especially when one changed the size of the terminal. I started using zsh a couple of months ago and never looked back. Don't know if it's possible to configure bash so that it breaks lines correctly. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
begin quote On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:56:49 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandly the sound in it self is not what it should be. Ie the sound doesn't represent the sound it should. I have tested these with 'Hells Bells' and there really is clear differences although my hearing is not even closely thesame level as with my wifes. She is classical musician and playes clarinet. Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). //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
[gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup
I was wondering is there a way to cleanup portage cleanly that won't screw with any thing? Such as remove the source for products installed and such? And if this is done will portage still keep track of what's been installed? Thanks, Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
John Ross Hunt wrote: any better solutions for automatically updating all packages on my box without changing my world favorites ??? emerge --oneshot Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world profile for later updating. That's the missing puzzle piece. If i only used this option... now i guess it'll cost me a day of work to fix my world file back to normal... i've reduced my world file to about 60 entries that i can remember of, now 'emerge depclean' reports about 25 packages to be uninstalled. I've used 'emerge depclean' regularly in the past and it was always clean as a whistle... however thank you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
hummm... just tar / untar the partitions?!! - boot from a cd; - tar the parttions; - create / edit parttions; - untar the stuff to the partition i want; - install bootloader. think I'm not forgetting nothing. - and that's it?!! I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso and the try to restore that iso in one partition it replaces with an exact copy of the original partition. Can I do a backup of the data only and not the partition info?? You could use tar. tar up the dir(s) then move the tar file to a different partition. Resize that partition and then untar the files into that partition. There maybe some 'special' things you will need to do if you do this to /. Try a google for 'restore from tar'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup
Al Smith wrote: I was wondering is there a way to cleanup portage cleanly that won't screw with any thing? Such as remove the source for products installed and such? And if this is done will portage still keep track of what's been installed? The sources are only installed temporary until a package has been successfully compiled. For cleaning package tarballs from packages that are no longer installed, there's a python script out there which is named distclean.py (version 0.1), i actually don't remember where i took it from. To cleanup a gentoo box from packages which are no longer needed because no other package depends on it anymore, the command 'emerge depclean' can be used. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare question from the forum
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: blmartin777 wrote: I can't even get it to install. It tells me that it was not configured right and to run vmware-config.pl, and when I do that it says it build everything it needs for the 2.6 kernel. It does that over and over. I got the same symptoms too and I can't get it to work. Can anybody please help ? I think you have to modify vmware-config.pl a bit. Change all occurences of /proc/ksyms to /proc/kallsyms It could be that you have to change something more but I don't remember. Regards, -- Anders Hasselqvist hassel at acc.umu.se http://good-deed.dhs.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Help with install
whitch kernel you use?? if you use 2.4.?? you should get sound suport loded as module, and re emerge alsa-driver, then do a /etc/init.d/alsa restart, I have the same sound card and work great for me , each time that i compile kernel, i will have to re emerge alsa, (in kernels 2.4.??) cheers Nicolas -Mensaje original- De: Alma J Wetzker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miercoles, 03 de diciembre de 2003 17:53 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [gentoo-user] Help with install After running Caldera linux (happily) for several years, I tried to update the kernel of my system. Really bad plan. I now have gentoo running on an athlon XP system. I can get into the X system and most things appear to be running. I need help with a few things; How do I get sound? I have a SB Live! 5.1 and have alsa loaded. I tried loading emu10k1 but get an error (unresolved external) [If I could find more detail I would report it.] How do I get the system to come up in the graphical login? I have Gnome working but I would like to get kde up instead. Can I select that from a graphical login prompt? How do I get drivers for the cups printing system? I have a tektronix 740L color laser printer and none of the drivers packaged with cups give me color. (The HP postscript driver works with the printer in BW only.) I am sure this is just the beginning of a wonderful learning experience. I am now learning just how much my kids would like to use the system so any help would be gratefully received. -- Alma -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] redifining harddrive partitions and restore linux
hi, I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it is possible. basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all the stuff that I have. if i do dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso and the try to restore that iso in one partition it replaces with an exact copy of the original partition. Can I do a backup of the data only and not the partition info?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernels 2.4.20 don't work with reiserfs
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:29:21PM +0100, Christian Anthon wrote:
Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs
during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably
lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel.
My problem does occur in /etc/init.d/checkroot, but the checking
of the filesystem goes fine, it's the remounting that fails. The
output looks like this:
* Checking root file system
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x304 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free) 15526822/2297961 by 4096 bytes
Files system is cleanly unmounted
Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay
Checking internal tree..finished [ok]
* Remounting root files system read/write...
* Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write:( [!!]
The code which does this in /etc/init.d/checkroot comes right after the
check:
# Should we mount root rw ?
if mount -vf -o remount / 2 /dev/null | \
awk '{ if ($6 ~ /rw/) exit 0; else exit 1; }'
then
ebegin Remounting root filesystem read/write
mount / -n -o remount,rw /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
eend 2 Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write:(
/sbin/sulogin ${CONSOLE}
else
eend 0
fi
fi
So that mount / command is failing. Maybe I will learn more by removing
the /dev/null from the end of the mount command.
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Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] xx/ Try out Z-Shell (zsh) instead of Bourne Again Shell (bash). I too was annoyed as hell by the way bash handled terminal-width, especially when one changed the size of the terminal. I started using zsh a couple of months ago and never looked back. Don't know if it's possible to configure bash so that it breaks lines correctly. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
Under bash my terminal wraps to the next line if I type a long line. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:18:53 +0100 Patrick Börjesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . ex: xx/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] but it has to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dir$ cd xxx [wrap] xx/ Try out Z-Shell (zsh) instead of Bourne Again Shell (bash). I too was annoyed as hell by the way bash handled terminal-width, especially when one changed the size of the terminal. I started using zsh a couple of months ago and never looked back. Don't know if it's possible to configure bash so that it breaks lines correctly. Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0BF Public key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ best, d. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling progress
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:21, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:59, brett holcomb wrote: Not with a tool that I know of. Until you get some history just ask on the list. OK, forums are back up, try this link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346highlight=emerge+progress It doesn't give an estimated time, but does have a progress bar, so could be useful. Note: Read the thread, there were problems with it and some emerges last time I checked. -- Tom Wesley signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Hi everyone, I'm just posting this for the case that anybody wants to know about how to update a gentoo box. I created a script because i usually don't like to type all the stuff by hand everytime. Please correct me if my comments are wrong.. Here we go: #!/bin/bash # the following line is only needed if you're running # distcc. It guarantees that make will spawn the correct # number of jobs. It is not enough to follow the gentoo-distcc # manual, because /etc/make.conf is not used by make itself, # as the filename might suggest. Several packages are building # executing sub-makefiles which are not launched by emerge itself, # so /etc/make.conf won't be used with every package, and as a # result, distcc won't always work without the following line. # alias make=make -j5 # the following line is optional and just calls the # distcc monitor for gnome: DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc distccmon-gnome # now for the update command. Please note the uppercase -U # command, which is required instead of -u for the case that # some of the installed packages have been emerged with the # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 setting, which i sometimes use to # get a newer version than the one that is marked as stable, # which is sometimes very old. I guess that many gentoo users # make use of the ~x86 keyword here and there. # However, using -u (lowercase) instead would accidently # downgrade all these packages. # The caveeat is that some of the newer packages that have # been marked as unstable again (after being marked as stable) # won't be downgraded to the latest 'stable' version. # # Never ever forget the --oneshot option, or you can forget # the depclean feature of emerge. The --oneshot option makes # sure that nothing will be added to your 'world' favorites # file. This is important because the following emerge command # will *explicitly* emerge all currently installed packages. # # The $* parameter just enables the opportunity to pass further # options to the script itself, like -p (pretend), so you # can also use the script for upgrade checking without # installing anything. # emerge --oneshot -U `qpkg -nc -I` -v $* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Cleanup
Al Smith wrote: Currently I have 588mg in /usr/portage can this area be cleaned up without damaging anything? I guess that most of these 588 megs are located in /usr/portage/distfiles, which is the directory where all downloaded source tarballs are stored. If you don't need them anymore, it is safe to delete the tarballs; emerge will automatically download them again if required. Personally, i prefer to keep the source tarballs because i've got enough free space on my hd. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
On Thursday 04 December 2003 14:20, Spider wrote: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. why is this obsoleted? POSIX compliance. ok, acceptable And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops. it's been a warning about it for some time, in the documentation afair (deprecated... ). nice, and who reads the documentation for such common utils?? i did when i started using them but not anymore... if you go completely whacked on it, I'd suggest reinstalling the older package 's tail/head until you've waited out the rest of the world + pet + old projects to fix this. nah, we should learn to live with this. better start now Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
Quoting Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . Yeah, mine does that too! It's a real pain... -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files in /home. PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/tmp /home/*/.Maildir does not work, nor does PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/tmp /.Maildir. Can anyone possibly suggest to me how I can exclude from the slocate database users' Maildirs, but NOT their other /home files..? I would think add one statement for each user. /home/user1/.maildir Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want to exclude. Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd have to write a script to read usernames from /etc/passwd enter /home/$USERNAME/.Maildir into PRUNPATHS, which is rather a chore. Any other suggestions much appreciated. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:54 am, Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 December 2003 07:52 pm, Stroller wrote: My problem is that updatedb is including the all the contents of my mail folders, located in ~/.Maildir so that when I run `locate 123`, for example looking for the media-sound/mpg123 ebuild, I get very many entries like /home/stroller/.Maildir/.Some Folder/cur/1233445437574657345476 scrolling right off the screen. Clearly this is undesirable This isn't possible. Slocate has privs in mind when you use locate. Do you think you could possibly clarify, please..? Why do privileges prevent wildcarding of pruned directories..? Since slocate presently reads stores the full path of each file, what's to prevent it from discarding files that match /path/to/*/.Maildir/*..? Thanks for any enlightenment, Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
Quoting Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tips for configuring bash [including text wrap]: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ I copied the env var PS1 of another Linux that works and still not working :-S You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the same problem. Maybe gnome-terminal's to blame. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb
On Dec 4, 2003, at 2:11 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 01:52:42 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is conceivable, however, that I might have several users on the system, each of whom has a large Maildir who yet may desire to be able to locate other files in /home. PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/tmp /home/*/.Maildir does not work, nor does PRUNEPATHS=/tmp /var/tmp /.Maildir. Can anyone possibly suggest to me how I can exclude from the slocate database users' Maildirs, but NOT their other /home files..? I would think add one statement for each user. /home/user1/.maildir Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want to exclude. Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd have to write a script to read usernames from /etc/passwd enter /home/$USERNAME/.Maildir into PRUNPATHS, which is rather a chore. Any other suggestions much appreciated. Changing the code?? Seriously... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)
Hi everyone, I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but noone knew the solution back then. So here's another shot. I have a asus a7n8x motherboard, with integrated ethernet (nvidia chipset...). For Wake on Lan to work, it is required that the network interface is in the proper power condition before the computer is turned off. I use the pci-config tool from scyld.com. This takes care of the right powercondition. Ok, here follow some diagnostics: * If the computer shuts down from windows, Wake on Lan works :-| * If the computer is shut down from Linux with the following commands: pci-config -#12 -S (for bringing the card in sleep condition) sleep 10 /sbin/halt -dfi the machine shuts down and powers up properly with WOL. Now this is not desirable, because halt -dfi shuts down the machine immediately, without killing jobs, or umounting disks :-( * The goal is obviously to run pci-config just before /sbin/shutdown calls halt. (Is done in the shutdown scripts /etc/init.d/halt.sh and /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh) If I put the above commands in /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh, the machine shuts down but won't wake up again. So, why is this sequence of commands working from the prompt (runlevel 3), but not from the shutdown scripts??? Has anyone any clue? Thanks, Elton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Quoting David Gethings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:44, Spider wrote: Well, if that's the case, may I suggest flac ? ( emerge flac ). OMG! Why have I not heard of this codec before! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks Spider! Now I have to re-rip my CD collection. ;) In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make it completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line: $ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav -V verifies the conversion -8 gives maximum (lossless) compression -o names the output file When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something Also, the Rio Karma http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220cat=53 has FLAC and Ogg Vorbis support. I saw this recently and have been lusting after it since then :) I just wish they were actually in the stores around me, as for something like this I really want to hold it in my hand and know that it *feels* right before I drop big $$ on it. Either that or the Cali[1] (for going to the gym). It doesn't have ogg or the huge hd, but is expandable up to 768mb and has an fm tuner, is solid state (not as many worries about dropping it) and is tiny. [1] http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=214cat=54 -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I cannot use rsync unless I temporarily deactivate the firewall. As you know, allowing rsync is necessary to do an 'emerge sync'! I'm wondering if anyone else uses Guarddog and has come up with a solution. If not, I will entertain simple iptable snippets that I can manually enter into the Guarddog generated /etc/rc.firewall. Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wake on lan (Again...)
sorry this is not an answer, but. wake on lan, is that so i can start the computer from the lan? it would be cool On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:08, Elton Algera wrote: Hi everyone, I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but noone knew the solution back then. So here's another shot. I have a asus a7n8x motherboard, with integrated ethernet (nvidia chipset...). For Wake on Lan to work, it is required that the network interface is in the proper power condition before the computer is turned off. I use the pci-config tool from scyld.com. This takes care of the right powercondition. Ok, here follow some diagnostics: * If the computer shuts down from windows, Wake on Lan works :-| * If the computer is shut down from Linux with the following commands: pci-config -#12 -S (for bringing the card in sleep condition) sleep 10 /sbin/halt -dfi the machine shuts down and powers up properly with WOL. Now this is not desirable, because halt -dfi shuts down the machine immediately, without killing jobs, or umounting disks :-( * The goal is obviously to run pci-config just before /sbin/shutdown calls halt. (Is done in the shutdown scripts /etc/init.d/halt.sh and /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh) If I put the above commands in /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh, the machine shuts down but won't wake up again. So, why is this sequence of commands working from the prompt (runlevel 3), but not from the shutdown scripts??? Has anyone any clue? Thanks, Elton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:59, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: You're using gnome-terminal? Me too, and I have the same problem. Maybe gnome-terminal's to blame. maybe not, Konsole behaves the same, but not always, and I can't find what makes it wrap OK or not. -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
On 12/04/03 11:05:43, Helder Rossa wrote: my terminal in gnome when I'm writing a command bigger than the console size it wraps the text to the same line that i was witting on :-S . By default bash doesn't check it's window size after every command. The good thing is that you can make it. Add shopt -s checkwinsize to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile. Works like a charm. To reproduce the error: man bash resize the window quit, and type a long string at the prompt. It will wrap at the window's original width and wrap onto the same line. echo shopt -s checkwinsize ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) source ~/.bashrc try again It works correctly! In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1) that should be added to the default /etc/profile or /etc/skel/.bashrc and the user should never have to set by themselves. -- Thanks, Thomas Achtemichuk --- Speaking of purchasing a dog, never buy a watchdog that's on sale. After all, everyone knows a bargain dog never bites! --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: Le Jeudi 04 Décembre 2003 04:40, Norberto Bensa a écrit : Frédéric COIFFIER wrote: I'm disappointed... I use Ogg to encode my CDs because at half the size of MP3 it sounds twice better. Ok. So, what is the version of your Ogg Vorbis libraries ? When you use oggenc, what are the parameters you use ? 1.0.1 oggenc -q 5 gives files at ~160kbps that sound better than mp3 at 320kbps. Half the size, twice good: Ogg/Vorbis rocks! :-) Regards, Norberto -- 13:55:48 up 46 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.35, 0.36 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
Quoting Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In case you're wondering, you have to specify the --ogg option to make it completely Ogg-compatible. Here's my flac line: $ flac -V --ogg -8 -o something.flac something.wav -V verifies the conversion -8 gives maximum (lossless) compression -o names the output file When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something I'm not really sure, actually. It just sounded like a Good Thing. I hear that with that enabled, you can rename stuff to something.ogg and have it still be FLAC inside. Don't know what the implications are, though. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anoying terminal
On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:49, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: echo shopt -s checkwinsize ~/.bashrc (or /etc/profile) source ~/.bashrc try again It works correctly! In my opinion this is something (along with a decent PS1) that should be added to the default /etc/profile or /etc/skel/.bashrc and the user should never have to set by themselves. thanks, that seems to have fixed it for me :) gotta write this down somewhere... Azhdeen -- I haven't lost my mind. It must be backed up on a disk, somewhere... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ogg Vorbis very bad quality (compared to MP3)
When you say ogg-compatible do you mean that it'll be identified as an ogg file by anything that plays ogg (the docs and FAQ aren't completely clear on this). IE: I can have completely lossless compression and have it appear to be an ogg file? Or am I missing something I'm not really sure, actually. It just sounded like a Good Thing. I hear that with that enabled, you can rename stuff to something.ogg and have it still be FLAC inside. Don't know what the implications are, though. The website seems to indicate that you get extra overhead that's not really needed, but perhaps in the interests of compatibility... I'll have to play with this when I get home. alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: Now I'm in that situation: -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds are actually attached. No standard ATA hds. RedHat 9: 'officially' supported, installs using the driver I downloaded from the Promise website. I'd like to install Gentoo on that PC My questions are: 2) Did anyone succeed in installing Gentoo on it, maybe using kernel 2.6 or the source code version of Promise driver (available 'as is' on their website)? Update: I compiled the source code driver on a running Gentoo box, and now I've got a nice ft3xx.o kernel module. I'll try to boot a Gentoo LiveCD on the new PC and to load the kernel module from a floppy disk. If it succeeds, I'll hope to have access to my RAID array. The problem could then be: once the system is installed, how can I make the kernel load that module at boot time? RH is able to do that. I googled a little and I found that I could load the module through initrd (which, if I'm right is a packed filesystem directly loaded by the bootloader with the kernel). I could check RH initrd and copy it. I'll try it as I'll have some time. Did anyone do something similar in the past to load some SCSI/RAID driver and has some hints for me? Does someone of you know about the existence of any tutorial/howto? I admit I still have to check the kernel-howto, maybe it has the answers I need. Thanks Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:51 am, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: I noticed this about a week ago: head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' Try `head --help' for more information. ... why is this obsoleted? And the most irritating part is that is not phased out, like giving a warning and then continue, but it only gives an error and stops. From http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_mono/ coreutils.html#SEC7: In a few cases, the GNU utilities' default behavior is incompatible with the POSIX standard. To suppress these incompatibilities, define the POSIXLY_CORRECTenvironment variable. Unless you are checking for POSIX conformance, you probably do not need to define POSIXLY_CORRECT. Newer versions of POSIX are occasionally incompatible with older versions. For example, older versions of POSIX required the command `sort +1' to sort based on the second and succeeding fields in each input line, but starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001 the same command is required to sort the file named `+1', and you must instead use the command `sort -k 2' to get the field-based sort. The GNU utilities normally conform to the version of POSIX that is standard for your system. To cause them to conform to a different version of POSIX, define the _POSIX2_VERSION environment variable to a value of the form mm specifying the year and month the standard was adopted. Two values are currently supported for _POSIX2_VERSION: `199209' stands for POSIX 1003.2-1992, and `200112' stands for POSIX 1003.1-2001. For example, if you are running older software that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses `sort +1', you can work around the compatibility problems by setting `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209' in your environment. I seem to recall that this sort of behavior is problematic to the porting of Portage to other Unices (BSD Mac OS X spring to mind) so I took a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos-1.xml: while Portage itself can run on these platforms, some ebuilds and eclasses currently contain Linux-specific conventions, particularly in how auxilliary programs like xargs, find and tar are called. These variations can cause an ebuild to execute correctly in a GNU environment but not in a BSD environment, or vice-versa. drobbins proposes this solution, so hopefully the Gentoo developers will remedy your situation: The general strategy to address these issues should be as follows. First, an emphasis should be placed on writing shell code that is truly cross-platform in nature. Second, when there is no suitable cross-platform code, Portage should provide a general framework to allow ebuilds to easily adapt to situations to where variant calls are needed. Here is how Portage addresses the situation currently. HTH, Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config
Ah boy, now it made the round and people get crazy. Hey you don't have to block traffic from inside to outside, then in general you should block all ports and only open up ports you need for services that want to be accessed from outside. . The rsync problem only affects rsync servers not clients, clients aren't vulnerable, to do emerge sync you only need the client. Guys please do me a favour don't get crazy now because a server got hacked through rsync, rather read some basics about firewalling. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] rsync port - firewall config I've setup a firewall with Guarddog, which I use because it is relatively simple but seems to be comprehensive. However, it does not have rsync in its protocol list. I've tried to make a user-defined protocol for port 873 (which is the rsync port I believe), but it doesn't seem to work. I cannot use rsync unless I temporarily deactivate the firewall. As you know, allowing rsync is necessary to do an 'emerge sync'! I'm wondering if anyone else uses Guarddog and has come up with a solution. If not, I will entertain simple iptable snippets that I can manually enter into the Guarddog generated /etc/rc.firewall. Thanks, Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excluding maildirs from updatedb
Stroller wrote: Personally, I just execute 'updatedb -e dir1,dir2,dir3 where dir1, etc. is the fully qualified path for a directory I want to exclude. Whilst this is practical on my current system, it wouldn't be should I expand to 50... 500... 5000 users. So I guess that in that case I'd have to write a script to read usernames from /etc/passwd enter /home/$USERNAME/.Maildir into PRUNPATHS, which is rather a chore. Any other suggestions much appreciated. Actually, the solution is to use the -e option. In the /etc/cron.daily/slocate script change the line the reads: /usr/bin/updatedb to: /usr/bin/updatedb -e $(echo /home/*/.Maildir | tr ' ' ',') When you execute the command updatedb, it always reads the /etc/updatedb.conf file, so all you are doing here is adding those directories to the exclude list that is defined in the updatedb.conf file. Regards, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] XDirectFB and Gnome problems
Hi, I recently decided to try using the XDirectFB. I got it to work with a bunch of window managers(but not KDE), so I decided to try out gnome. Launching gnome with the XDirectFB has no problems, and usng it is a blast. The only problem is that I can't kill gnome without having a fight with the terminal and killing the process. When I use Crtl+Alt+Backspace it kills it then it starts up again. Anyone know how to stop gnome from keep coming back up? This also happens when I'm not on the XDirectFB also. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
