Re: [gentoo-user] looking for the file with my installed packages

[Jingtao Lv]

qpkg -l foo
man qpkg for details.
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:14:37PM +0100, Manuel Pérez López wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm looking for the installed packages file on my system. 
> Where is it?
> 
> Thanks
> mapelo
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[gentoo-user] Sharing latest installing gentoo experiences

[Markus Klimke]

Hi there,

I'm a little desperate and frustrated installing gentoo with the updated 
portage. I've posted a message recently concerning mit-krb5 with 
pam_krb5 compiled with the latest issue of gcc in portage. It doesn't 
works, because I am sure about this, that there is compatibility of the 
package dependencies in portage. Anyway it seems not to be. So Gentoo 
slides in this case a little back to Linux from Scratch. What I want to 
know is, whether anyone else had problems installing fresh Gentoo's onto 
their boxes (?) I had. Enough for a lifetime. But the alternative is to 
heap back to SuSE what I _really_ don't want. If anyone has some issues 
or hints, tips a/o experiences what to avoid or to do, please tell.

Thanks
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[gentoo-user] looking for the file with my installed packages

[Manuel Pérez López]

Hi!
I'm looking for the installed packages file on my system. 
Where is it?

Thanks
mapelo




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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with kde 3.2 , nsswitch and ldap ..

[Markus Klimke]

Nicolas JEUDY wrote:

I,

I m a new french user.
I don't know how to install kde 3.2 to have one fonction to work:
when I lock my mouse on a file or a directory, a windows show the user and the 
groups of the file.

But, I my station wich use ldap to auth, the users and groups are in ldap 
directory, so nsswitch must do the conversion to show name of user instead of 
number UID .

I have number UID and Number GID but no user name and groupe name, so in kde I 
can't modifie graphicaly the file properties.

Can U help me ?

Nicolas JEUDY

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Hi Nicolas,

I don't know exactly what your problem is, but in my words it is, that 
there is no user- and groupname mapping of your UID's and GID's. I am on 
the way installing 3.2 (if Gentoo, or not Gentoo exactly, I hope: if my 
box allows me to do that), but if the usernames and groupnames are 
displayed while a 'ls -la' on console, you have mapping and it's related 
to KDE indeed. Maybe you have to dig into the KDE configs.

No real help, but my first reply in this list

Markus

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[gentoo-user] Problem with kde 3.2 , nsswitch and ldap ..

[Nicolas JEUDY]

I,

I m a new french user.
I don't know how to install kde 3.2 to have one fonction to work:

when I lock my mouse on a file or a directory, a windows show the user and the 
groups of the file.

But, I my station wich use ldap to auth, the users and groups are in ldap 
directory, so nsswitch must do the conversion to show name of user instead of 
number UID .

I have number UID and Number GID but no user name and groupe name, so in kde I 
can't modifie graphicaly the file properties.

Can U help me ?

Nicolas JEUDY

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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Jingtao Lv]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:39:11PM +0600, Grendel wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Jingtao Lv commented thusly,
> 
> 
> > I have no idea about this:( I am using a desktop:^)
> 
> desktops also support ACPI, its very handy as you can have features like 
> suspend to HDD, ie the entire OS state and memory is written to a swap 
> partition and the machine is put off. Then next time when you boot up, the 
> entire snapshot of your OS at that time is loaded in to ram and run, this 
> means that it will be a very fast start and you will have all your 
> applications running when the OS boots up.
> 
Thank you for the hints. I will try this later.
> This feature is called hibernation in microsoft windows IIRC.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Grendel]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Jingtao Lv commented thusly,


> I have no idea about this:( I am using a desktop:^)

desktops also support ACPI, its very handy as you can have features like 
suspend to HDD, ie the entire OS state and memory is written to a swap 
partition and the machine is put off. Then next time when you boot up, the 
entire snapshot of your OS at that time is loaded in to ram and run, this 
means that it will be a very fast start and you will have all your 
applications running when the OS boots up.

This feature is called hibernation in microsoft windows IIRC.

Grendel

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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Jingtao Lv]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:13:11PM +0600, Grendel wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Jingtao Lv commented thusly,
> 
> 
> > > Hmm I do it by adding the following line to lilo.conf
> > > append="acpi=off"
> > Yes. You got it.
> 
> Its just that I dont know why ACPI tends to slow down my machine a lot,
> for example ripping a dvd to xvid using transcode using 2.6.2 with ACPI
> off gives me ~25 fps, but when I put ACPI on and repeat the test the frame
> processing rate is ~ 16fps :(
> 
> Is it a bug in my bios/chipset or a inherent problem with the linux 2.6 
> kernel or a inherent problem with ACPI itself? Fortunately as I use a 
> desktop ACPI isnt of much use to me but I still wonder why it slows the 
> thing so much :(
> 
I have no idea about this:( I am using a desktop:^)
> Bye,
> grendel
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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Grendel]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Jingtao Lv commented thusly,


> > Hmm I do it by adding the following line to lilo.conf
> > append="acpi=off"
> Yes. You got it.

Its just that I dont know why ACPI tends to slow down my machine a lot,
for example ripping a dvd to xvid using transcode using 2.6.2 with ACPI
off gives me ~25 fps, but when I put ACPI on and repeat the test the frame
processing rate is ~ 16fps :(

Is it a bug in my bios/chipset or a inherent problem with the linux 2.6 
kernel or a inherent problem with ACPI itself? Fortunately as I use a 
desktop ACPI isnt of much use to me but I still wonder why it slows the 
thing so much :(

Bye,
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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Kevin Hanson]

Grendel wrote:

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Matt Garman commented thusly,

 

When you suggest disabling ACPI, do you mean in the Linux kernel or in
the BIOS?
   

Its easy to do it in the kernel, via passing the acpi=off switch at boot 
time. Not many bioses support disabling ACPI. My a7n8x bios doesnt.

Grendel

 

s/bulloney/bologna/ 

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Re: [gentoo-user] kde3.2 , kweather and temp.

[Norberto Bensa]

Al Raq wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since I updated kde to 3.2, kweather can not let me display the temperature
> in degree Celsius. (I do not want it in degree Fahrenheit)

Oh yes, I read something about it on kde mailing lists I think. Take a look at 
your locale configuration in Control Center.

HTH,
Norberto

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[gentoo-user] KDE 3.2 : qt 3.3.0 compile error

[purslow]

i just tried to compile KDE 3.2 following an 'emerge sync'
& got an error during the compile of Qt 3.3.0 :

  ...

  /z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/bin/uic -L 
/z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/plugins listboxeditor.ui -i 
listboxeditor.h -o listboxeditor.cpp
  /z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/bin/uic: relocation error: 
/z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/bin/uic: undefined symbol: 
_ZNK7QString3argExii
  make[3]: *** [listboxeditor.cpp] Error 127
  make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
  make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/tools/designer/designer'
  make[2]: *** [sub-designer] Error 2
  make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/tools/designer'
  make[1]: *** [sub-designer] Error 2
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/z/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.0/work/qt-x11-free-3.3.0/tools'
  make: *** [sub-tools] Error 2

  !!! ERROR: x11-libs/qt-3.3.0 failed.
  !!! Function src_compile, Line 89, Exitcode 2
  !!! (no error message)

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[gentoo-user] kstart and gkrellm2

[Timothy Grant]

Another KDE 3.2 question...

under the 3.[01] series, I was able to do "kstart --alldesktops
--skiptaskbar gkrellm"

To get gkrellm started on all desktops.

I tried to use some of the SuperKaramba themes with 3.2, but have not
enjoyed anything as much as I enjoy gkrellm. However, while kstart still
starts an instance of gkrellm, I cannot get it to appear on all
desktops.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Re: [gentoo-user] pppd with 2.6.1 Kernel

[Clay Culver]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 07:36 pm, Clay Culver wrote:
> Does anyone know what causes this problem or how it can be fixed?
Please disregaurd this message.  For future reference, be sure you click ALL 
of the PPP modules  The 2.6 kernel selection program has this weird bug 
where if you click too fast it skips a step in the MODULE|BUILTIN|NONE 
toggle.

Oh well.

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Re: [gentoo-user] bind 9

[blade-]

I tried tcpdump to see where they where coming from but I couldnt make 
sence of it all, nothing to do with that I.P.
What I ended up doing is setting up a bogus ip ACL and blackholed it, 
that got rid of the messages in the log :-)
Thanks for your help.

Stephen Varga wrote:

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 22:00, blade- wrote:
 

Hi All,

This is OT but I will ask anyway.
Is anyone running bind 9.2 getting anything like this in there logs:
Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: socket.c:: unexpected error:
Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53: 
   

This is a total guess on my part, but maybe something is sending out a
multicast (244.254.254.254 is a multicast address) stream of somesort
and is using udp port 53 which cause your DNS to mis-interpert the
packet as DNS name lookup. Try using tcpdump or ethereal and see if your
are receiving these packets from somewhere, the packet should have the a
valip IP address of the source sending the packets. 

HTH,
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[gentoo-user] kde3.2 , kweather and temp.

[Al Raq]

Hi all,

Since I updated kde to 3.2, kweather can not let me display the temperature
in degree Celsius. (I do not want it in degree Fahrenheit)

Any idea please?
Thanks.
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[gentoo-user] KDE 3.2 - what else to rebuild?

[Chris Bare]

I just upgraded to KDE 3.2, but when I run kword it still says it's built with
KDE 3.1.5. If I emerge koffice again, will it rebuild with 3.2?
How would I know what other packages need to be remerged?
If I follow the instructions on removing 3.1.5, with revdep-rebuild do the
trick? (I tried it now, but it said my system was consistent since the 3.1.5
libs are still there)
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Re: [gentoo-user] bind 9

[Stephen Varga]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 22:00, blade- wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is OT but I will ask anyway.
> Is anyone running bind 9.2 getting anything like this in there logs:
> Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: socket.c:: unexpected error:
> Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53: 

This is a total guess on my part, but maybe something is sending out a
multicast (244.254.254.254 is a multicast address) stream of somesort
and is using udp port 53 which cause your DNS to mis-interpert the
packet as DNS name lookup. Try using tcpdump or ethereal and see if your
are receiving these packets from somewhere, the packet should have the a
valip IP address of the source sending the packets. 

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 and gphoto2

[Mental]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:03:19PM -0500, felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:18 -0500
> Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hey there. I have a Canon Powershot G3 that I'm trying to get working 
> > with 2.6. Everything is fine in 2.4, hotplug does what its supposed to
> > do, gtkam works. In 2.6, hotplug appears to work, but I get errors 
> > communicating with the camera. For instance:
> > 
> I think this problem went away when I upgraded to 2.6.2
> 

Indeed! I upgraded to 2.6.3-rc2 and its working great. Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

[Brian]

As I said before, I don't remember what I did exactly to get mine
working.   I am attaching my gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1.config file to
this reply, I would change only what you absolutely have to for hardware
and test it. if it works to mount your root partition then continue
changing what you need to suit your install untill your done or it
breaks again.  Then you might be able to find out what it is that your
system doesn't like or you are doing wrong.
 

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:28, Kurt Guenther wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this first in the grub file and had 
> a slightly different result.  I tried it in the /etc/fstab as well, but 
> it didn't make any difference.  I currently get:
> 
> VFS:  Cannot open root device "ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" or 
> unknown-block (0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> Looks like I'm stuck.  The 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to like my broadcom 
> nic, and the 2.6.1 just stubbornly refuses to load.
> 
> BTW, I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 8500.  I do have gentoo working 
> perfectly on a Dell Inspiron 3800, so I'm not a complete newbie.
> 
> --Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> Martin Carpella wrote:
> 
> >Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has:
> >>
> >>title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1)
> >>root (hd0,4)
> >>kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7
> >>
> >>and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has
> >>
> >>/dev/hda7 /  ext3noatime   0  1
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I had a similar error once, I ended up using
> >/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on that particular machine to get
> >access to my /dev/hda1. Seemed, the symlink was created after the boot,
> >so it was not there for the kernel to find. But I cannot recall if I was
> >using it on the grub kernel-line or in /etc/fstab...
> >
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[gentoo-user] bind 9

[blade-]

Hi All,

This is OT but I will ask anyway.
Is anyone running bind 9.2 getting anything like this in there logs:
Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: socket.c:: unexpected error:
Feb 12 13:55:35.938 general: error: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53: 
Invalid argument
I started getting this today and have no idea why. Does anyone know what 
would cause this or what to look for because I am stumped. The server 
seems to still be working except having problems with email for 1 client.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Loop device mount locks up devfsd? on 2.6.1-gentoo

[Stephen Lawler]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 06:09:48 +0100
lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I know two ways to mount a loop-device.
> 
> 1.
> losetup /dev/loop0 initrd.img
> mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
> 
> 2.
> mount initrd.img /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0

Well for several years now you've been able to omit directly specifying
the loop device used when passed to mount, and can let mount find a device
for you.  But I guess this magic hangs devfsd in the 2.6 kernels now.
Ah well.

I tried it doing it "manually" and it worked, so I'll just have to remember
to keep track of my /dev/loopX devices myself again, until the switch to
udev or whatever is made...

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

[Kurt Guenther]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this first in the grub file and had 
a slightly different result.  I tried it in the /etc/fstab as well, but 
it didn't make any difference.  I currently get:

VFS:  Cannot open root device "ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7" or 
unknown-block (0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel Panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Looks like I'm stuck.  The 2.4 kernel doesn't seem to like my broadcom 
nic, and the 2.6.1 just stubbornly refuses to load.

BTW, I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 8500.  I do have gentoo working 
perfectly on a Dell Inspiron 3800, so I'm not a complete newbie.

--Kurt



Martin Carpella wrote:

Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 

Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has:

title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1)
   root (hd0,4)
   kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7
and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has

/dev/hda7 /  ext3noatime   0  1
   

I had a similar error once, I ended up using
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on that particular machine to get
access to my /dev/hda1. Seemed, the symlink was created after the boot,
so it was not there for the kernel to find. But I cannot recall if I was
using it on the grub kernel-line or in /etc/fstab...
HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a domain member on a Win NT network

[Tom Hosiawa]

> Hi,
>Are there folks out there using Gentoo as a workstation on a Win NT
> 4.0 domain? What are you experiences? Samba, file sharing, printing,
> etc.? What are you doing about virus protection on files you download
> but store on a Windows server?
> 
>I'd really like to dump XP Pro but don't think I can solve this sort
> of stuff on my own. I'm not an IT guy, but we're a small company and I
> have control of the NT servers, so I can do what I need to do on both
> ends to make it work, short of getting rid of the NT servers.
> 
>Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> - Mark

I used samba as a domain controller in my home network a couple of
months ago. It worked great, but two things kinda seemed odd or stumped
me.

One, how to convert my current local profile on windows to a remote
profile. I ended up having to start with an entirely new profile, hence
losing all my settings and having to manually redo all my preferences. I
googled around for converting local to remote profiles, but not with
much success, as far as I know its not possible.

Second, the file permission confused me. To enable things like read-only
on the windows files, samba needed to use mixtures of permission in
linux. That meant a lot of files had permissions of 777. For my home
network it's not a big deal, but it didn't make sense. Doesn't that mean
any linux user could delete any file.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

[Kurt Guenther]

I gave this a try without success.

 I had the same error and resolved it by:

cd /usr/src/linux
cp .config ~/
make mrproper
cp ~/.config .
make all modules_install install
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Kurt Guenther wrote:

I keep getting this error at boot:

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda7" or hda7
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda7
Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has:

title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1)
   root (hd0,4)
   kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7
and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has

/dev/hda7 /  ext3noatime   0  1

Not sure what's up.  hda7 is definitely my Gentoo root.

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Re: [gentoo-user] WM that can handle dual-head

[Andrew Gaffney]

Andrew Farmer wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:04:40 -0800, Andrew Gaffney muttered:

I have a dual-head setup. The main display is running at 1024x768 and the 
secondary is 800x600. I'm not using the Xinerama extension, so I 
effectively have 2 separate X sessions running. I'm currently using fluxbox 
as my window manager. I want to try something new. I tried Openbox, but it 
doesn't initialize anything on my second display. What window managers are 
recommended that will handle my setup properly?
If you have two separate X sessions running, you'll have to run two
separate window managers - one for each display.
Fluxbox was able to handle this without a problem. It simply started itself twice with the 
same configuration.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 and gphoto2

[felix zaslavskiy]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:48:18 -0500
Mental Patient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey there. I have a Canon Powershot G3 that I'm trying to get working 
> with 2.6. Everything is fine in 2.4, hotplug does what its supposed to
> do, gtkam works. In 2.6, hotplug appears to work, but I get errors 
> communicating with the camera. For instance:
> 
I think this problem went away when I upgraded to 2.6.2

> 
> gphoto2 --auto-detect -L
> Model  Port
> --
> Canon PowerShot G3 (normal mode) usb:
> Detected a 'Canon:PowerShot G3 (normal mode)'.
> 
> *** Error ***
> Initial camera response I/'Unknown (some kind of error))'
> unrecognized)*** Error (-102: 'Corrupted data') ***
> 
> 
> 
> The camera is detected and identified correctly it just wont list 
> photos.
> 
> I can always reboot to 2.4 or windows to get pics off it, but I'm 
> wondering if anyone has this setup working.
> 
> My usb section from 2.4 to 2.6 look pretty much the same.
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Anthony Hoppe]

Ah!  Thanks!!!

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:19, Nickolay Savchenko wrote:
> Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> > that interfaces with CUPS?
> 
> #emerge gnome-cups-manager


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[gentoo-user] 2.6 and gphoto2

[Mental Patient]

Hey there. I have a Canon Powershot G3 that I'm trying to get working 
with 2.6. Everything is fine in 2.4, hotplug does what its supposed to 
do, gtkam works. In 2.6, hotplug appears to work, but I get errors 
communicating with the camera. For instance:

gphoto2 --auto-detect -L
Model  Port
--
Canon PowerShot G3 (normal mode) usb:
Detected a 'Canon:PowerShot G3 (normal mode)'.
*** Error ***
Initial camera response I/'Unknown (some kind of error))' unrecognized)
*** Error (-102: 'Corrupted data') ***


The camera is detected and identified correctly it just wont list 
photos.

I can always reboot to 2.4 or windows to get pics off it, but I'm 
wondering if anyone has this setup working.

My usb section from 2.4 to 2.6 look pretty much the same.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Calvin Walton]

On February 11, 2004 07:53 am, Anthony Hoppe wrote:
> Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> that interfaces with CUPS?

If you are using kde, the printer module in the control panel supports 
managing cups printers.

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[gentoo-user] udev & devfs - possible conflict?

[Jakub Krajcovic]

Hi guys,

i am still using devsf no 2.6.2 vanilla, but the other day i emerge
udev, in order to give it a try, and this is what happened:

after emerging i restarted my computer, but it refused to boot...
the kernel boot was ok, the default init was also ok, but when it came
to autoloading modules, the computer just froze and it stayed frozen for
quite a long time until i did a hard reset. 
I then booted into 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 and everything was a-ok, since there
is no sysfs - udev support in 2.4 kernels.

Then i deleted all of the modules that i was loading at startup, booted
into 2.6.2 again - and it froze again.

Then in unmerged udev in 2.4 and rebooted into 2.6 again and everything
was ok again.

So the question is: is there some conflict between devfs and udev? Can
they not co-exist together? Or, if this is not the case, does anyone
have an idea as to what might be causing this?

And another question: is udev "100 %" able to replace devfs in terms of
application compatibility? To be specific - most of the usb stuff i use
relies on devfs entries - will this be ok with sysfs / udev? 

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[gentoo-user] pppd with 2.6.1 Kernel

[Clay Culver]

Ok, I built a 2.6.1 kernel, but I'm having trouble getting KPPP to dial out.  
I compiled all of the required PPP options into the kernel, and my pppd 
version is 2.4.0 (gentoo docs said I needed pppd 2.4.0 or greater with a 2.6 
kernel).

When I try to connect, kppp just dies, and the following is added to 
my /usr/var/syslog:

---Begin---
Feb 11 09:05:49 [host] pppd[10066]: pppd 2.4.1 started by [user], uid 1000
Feb 11 09:05:49 [host] pppd[10066]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: 
Invalid argument
Feb 11 09:05:49 [host] pppd[10066]: Exit.
End

Does anyone know what causes this problem or how it can be fixed?

Thanks,
Clay


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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

[Dennis Robertson]

- Original Message - 
From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise
you can try:
another PSU
fiddling with the PCI settings in your bios
kill all acpi&apm options from your kernels.

One of this will help.
(For me, changing the PSU from noname/corba to enermax killed all unpleasant
background noises.).

Thanks, I have just installed a thermaltake psu yesterday with no effect.
I'll check your other suggestions (which I think I comply with) next time in
gentoo. Regards.



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[gentoo-user] perl-5.8.2-r1 broken emerge?

[Bob Amen]

	I just did a "emerge sync", followed by "emerge portage" (getting 
portage 2.0.50-r1), followed by "emerge gentoolkit" and during the 
latter, got this error:

>>> Merging dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 to /
--- /usr/
--- /usr/bin/
>>> /usr/bin/a2p
>>> /usr/bin/s2p
>>> /usr/bin/pstruct
>>> /usr/bin/c2ph
>>> /usr/bin/h2ph
>>> /usr/bin/h2xs
>>> /usr/bin/cpan
>>> /usr/bin/perl
>>> /usr/bin/psed
>>> /usr/bin/libnetcfg
>>> /usr/bin/pod2html
>>> /usr/bin/pod2text
>>> /usr/bin/pl2pm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ?
mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1555, in merge
retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2369, in doebuild
return 
merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2491, in merge
return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5919, in merge
return 
self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5549, in treewalk
if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5826, in mergeme
if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5826, in mergeme
if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5830, in mergeme
mymd5=perform_md5(mysrc)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2487, in perform_md5
return perform_checksum(x, calc_prelink)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 376, in perform_checksum
data = f.read(blocksize)
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

	I've tried the previously suggested ldconfig to no avail.

	Has anyone seen this or have suggestions for what I shold try next?

Thanks,
Bob
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Re: [gentoo-user] Creating /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices

[Michael Peppler]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:38, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> Michael Peppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the
> > /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database
> > server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that
> 
> [...]
> 
> IIRC, /dev/raw* are obsolete in favour of opening the device directly with
> O_DIRECT.

That may be the case, although I'm not sure that this is really the case
for a system such as a database engine, which manages its IO completely,
and doesn't want the OS to interfere in any way (and wants to use kernel
async IO if it's available).

In any case I don't have control over the source of the app, so there's
no way for me to tell the program to use the O_DIRECT flag...

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Re: [gentoo-user] broken gcc-config and suspicious linux-headers 2.4.21

[Kent Smith]

Same here. I'm not sure what to do about it either, sorry! (Help?)


On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:29, Wazow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently upgraded to gentoo-sources 2.6.1. Now portage wants to 
> emerge old 2.4 headers for some reason. What is causing it to do that? 
> How can I avoid it? (I do not feel that application compiled with those 
> is very safe to run).
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Brett I. Holcomb]

You're welcome.

Anthony Hoppe wrote:
Thanks.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In a browswer http://localhost:631 and you'll get the cups admin tool.


From: Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 12:53:32 GMT
To: Gentoo-User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?

[Andrew Farmer]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:04:37 -0800, LoneStar muttered:
> Nickolay Savchenko wrote:
> 
> >Hello.
> >
> >I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it
> >works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or to
> >the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows "stealth status"). I've flushed
> >all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services, tried to
> >change  webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80 still isn't 
> >opened.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> > 
> >
> /etc/services
> 
> check that these lines are not commented out ...
> 
> www 80/tcp  http# WorldWideWeb HTTP
> www 80/udp  # HyperText Transfer 

That wouldn't disable the service.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

[Stroller]

On Feb 11, 2004, at 5:38 am, LoneStar wrote:

also, which CD you are using 1.4? 1.4rcX? or whatever?

pentium3-1.4-20030911

It's an Intel PIII 600 MHz, MSI board w/via chipset, Award BIOS w/256  
meg RAM, Liteon DVD/CDROM D-Link TX530 ATI Rage 128 Pro
Maybe you could try this stage3 (&/or LiveCD), which is more recent &  
Works Here (TM).



HTH,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a domain member on a Win NT network

[Stroller]

On Feb 10, 2004, at 10:56 pm, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
I am just courious, if you are "small" company, what for u need
NT or windblowz shit?
Are u running some proprietary SW which can't be replaced
by Open Source SW on (Gentoo) Linux ?
Could you quit the advocacy & evangelism, please, Norberto..?
Everyone on here is on your side, already.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi Nickolay,

* Nickolay Savchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:36:49 PM:

> I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and
> it works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80
> or to the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows "stealth status").
> I've flushed all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network
> services, tried to change  webserver (tried boa and apache), but my
> port 80 still isn't opened.
Is the webserver started and keeps running? run "ps axu" and look for
the webserv process.
There should be a line like
apache2716  0.0  1.6 17656 8508 ?SFeb10   0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k 
start -D PHP4
When it is running, does it listen on any port? check with
"netstat -lnp", that should display a line like
tcp0  0 0.0.0.0:80  0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN  
1192/apache2
If neither shows your webserver running, have a look at your
log-files, /var/log/apache2 when you are running apache.
Post results of that research here.


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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?

[Matt Garman]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:36:49PM +0200, Nickolay Savchenko wrote:
> I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it
> works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or
> to the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows "stealth status"). I've
> flushed all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services,
> tried to change  webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80
> still isn't opened.

Are you using DSL or a cablemodem?  There's a chance that your ISP is
blocking some or all of your inbound ports.

You might try starting other services (sshd, for example) to see if you
can connect to that.

I don't know about mini_httpd, but many applications can be compiled
with tcpd (tcp wrappers), in which case they'll look at
/etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny (I think) to see who can and cannot
connect to that service.

Hope that helps!
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot in X (How?)

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi Ciaran,

* Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:14:06 PM:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:42 +0100 Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |   I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running
> |   X session.

> USE="X" emerge imagemagick
> DISPLAY=":0" import -window root screenie.png

Thats was what I was looking for. THX!


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screenshot in X (How?)

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi Moshe,

* Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wednesday, February 11, 2004, 10:45:53 PM:
> You can use
> xwd -root
> or
> xwd -id
> If you need a specific window (xwd is part of X).

Works as I was hoping. THX!

 Timo


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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Matt Garman]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:23:37AM +0600, Grendel wrote:
> Well one possibility is that if you have ACPI turned on it can
> drastically slow down your linux box. so disable acpi and rerun your
> ...
> disable ACPI the 3d performance under 2.4 was much faster than 2.6. 

I've seen a few references to the ACPI situation now, but haven't
bothered to get the full story.  Does anyone happen to have a good link
discussing the ACPI?

When you suggest disabling ACPI, do you mean in the Linux kernel or in
the BIOS?

Thanks,
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:00:16 -0500
"Ric Messier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sort of. Depending on the driver you are using, the init software
> looks in different places. Need to get home to go digging through /etc
> again. Damn work! :-)
> 

It's only damn work, when you've got it; I felt the same way 6 months
ago. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare and joystick

[Claudinei Matos]

how can you put your joystick to work? I'm trying this a lot of time and
I can't, even in my motherboard gameport :/

tks in advice

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:33, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> I'm running Windows 2000 under VMWare 4.x. I have the joystick working somewhat in 
> Linux 
> (/dev/input/js0 is not created, but the joystick works if I create it manually), but 
> when 
> I try to setup a joystick in Windows, it says that there is no joystick connected. 
> The 
> joystick port I am using is not on my sound card. I have a Creative Enqoniq 1371, 
> but I 
> couldn't get the game port working. Instead, I'm using the game port on the 
> motherboard's 
> built-in sound. How can I get Windows in VMWare to see my joystick?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Ric Messier]

Sort of. Depending on the driver you are using, the init software looks in different 
places. Need to get home to go digging through /etc again. Damn work! :-)

Ric


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Date:  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:16:02 +0100

>
>
>Ric Messier wrote:
>
>> I don't think the problem I have is driver-related either. Clearly
>> the drivers work because I can pass traffic. The problem I have is
>> not knowing where I need to put the configuration information.
>> Different drivers look in different places for their configs. I think
>> the wlan-ng drivers changed to look into /etc/conf.d for their
>> configuration a while back but I could be mistaken.
>
>I might be mistaken, but I do not think that drivers look for config in 
>places like /etc/... . They just expose some interface to set this 
>config. This is the wrapper config software (of pcmcia-cs, wlan-ng, etc) 
>that passes this info from /etc to drivers via some /proc or similar 
>interface. So if you run pcmcia-cs, then my guess is still in 
>/etc/pcmcia. The best thing is to see if any other, less vulnarable 
>parameters work there (like changin Essid).
>
>Andrzej
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[gentoo-user] cursor color

[Chris]

I noticed some time back that X has some dif cursor colors how would I use 
them?
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Re: [gentoo-user] WM that can handle dual-head

[Andrew Cowie]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 07:48, Andrew Farmer wrote:
> > What window managers are 
> > recommended that will handle my setup properly?
> 
> If you have two separate X sessions running, you'll have to run two
> separate window managers - one for each display.

Yeah. You might check out x2x which was the standard solution in this
space until XINERAMA came along.

AfC

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[gentoo-user] Re: Screenshot in X (How?)

[Moshe Kaminsky]

Hi,

You can use

xwd -root

or

xwd -id

If you need a specific window (xwd is part of X).

HTH
Moshe


+ Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11/02/04 23:07]:
> Hi,
> 
>   I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running
>   X session.
> 
>   As this machine has no Mouse/Keyboard attached (its my MythTV
>   VideoBox and I am to hold some presentation about it) it would be
>   fine when I could initiate the screenshot remotely, without using
>   the mouse to select regions, but if there is no other possibility,
>   I would find a mouse/keyboard and use it.
> 
>  Timo
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:31:46 +1100
Andrew Cowie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 04:05, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > ALSA does not build the OSS compat code into it unless OSS is set in
> > the USE variable.  Is this the way we want it?
> 
> Somewhat tangentially,
> 
> If I have 2.4 system, built happily a year ago with USE=-alsa, and I
> want to upgrade to 2.6 and switch to ALSA, then how do I approach
> that?
> 
> Switching the USE variable is obvious, sure :) [as is "configure ALSA
> in 2.6" - thanks] but I'm wondering how to reach through the package
> stack and recompile that which needs recompiling.
> 

Other than 2.6 configuration, the only thing you need any more is
alsa-lib and alsa-tools (set your /usr/src/linux symlink).  The alsa
aliases, etc. are practically (entirely?) identical.

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Re: [gentoo-user] mirroring

[Andrew Cowie]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:12, Erik Petersen wrote:
> We would like to setup a mirror for our
> customers to download gentoo and other Linux updates. 

I presume you've seen:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml

and

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml

which have instructions for people setting up mirrors. In there are a
few references about how to contact the mirror team. You might contact
them directly to learn more specific to your particular situation.

Regards,

AfC

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Alan]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:23:40PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Alan said, 
> 
> > This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde
> > packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc).  I guess portage doesn't do reverse
> > dependancy removals yet huh?
> 
> emerge kde -P
> emerge depclean -p
> emerge depclean
> 

Cool, never even knew about that. Thanks!

alan

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[gentoo-user] How can I open my port 80?

[Nickolay Savchenko]

Hello.

I've just installed mini_httpd web-server on my home computer, and it
works, but there is a problem. It doesn't listen either to the 80 or to
the 8080 port. (Remote portscanner shows "stealth status"). I've flushed
all my firewall rules, stopped unneeded network services, tried to
change  webserver (tried boa and apache), but my port 80 still isn't opened.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

[Andrew Cowie]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 02:47, Grendel wrote:
> > I do have the ext2/ext3 compiled into the kernel.
> 
> If it is not as a module but directly builtin to the kernel then it should 
> work.

You know what the kernel needs? An lsmod equivalent that shows what IS
built in.

If I selected Serial as a module, then "serial.o" will be loadable and
shows up in lsmod. From experience, I know what shows up in dmesg when I
load serial.o, so on another machine with Serial built in to the kernel,
the line or two that goes by at boot about Serial drivers is the same
signature and so I can infer "serial is built in"

But we often ask each other questions like "do you have eepro100.o
loaded"... when asking about support, and run into the 
builtin vs module thing.

lsmod -b for built in would be amazing.

[I will forward this musing to the kernel module people, ]

AfC

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Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

[Andrew Cowie]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 04:05, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> ALSA does not build the OSS compat code into it unless OSS is set in the 
> USE variable.  Is this the way we want it?

Somewhat tangentially,

If I have 2.4 system, built happily a year ago with USE=-alsa, and I
want to upgrade to 2.6 and switch to ALSA, then how do I approach that?

Switching the USE variable is obvious, sure :) [as is "configure ALSA in
2.6" - thanks] but I'm wondering how to reach through the package stack
and recompile that which needs recompiling.

AfC
Sydney

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[gentoo-user] KOffice and fonts

[Leonard, Phil]

I emerged KOffice (1.2) and when I bring up KWord all the characters in the document 
appear as boxes.  What did I do wrong?

Philip

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Neil Bothwick]

Alan said, 

> This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde
> packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc).  I guess portage doesn't do reverse
> dependancy removals yet huh?

emerge kde -P
emerge depclean -p
emerge depclean

>> This was mentioned some time ago...
>> I had exactly the same issue about 2 days ago, and i did # emerge -P kde


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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Wazow]

Ric Messier wrote:

I don't think the problem I have is driver-related either. Clearly
the drivers work because I can pass traffic. The problem I have is
not knowing where I need to put the configuration information.
Different drivers look in different places for their configs. I think
the wlan-ng drivers changed to look into /etc/conf.d for their
configuration a while back but I could be mistaken.
I might be mistaken, but I do not think that drivers look for config in 
places like /etc/... . They just expose some interface to set this 
config. This is the wrapper config software (of pcmcia-cs, wlan-ng, etc) 
that passes this info from /etc to drivers via some /proc or similar 
interface. So if you run pcmcia-cs, then my guess is still in 
/etc/pcmcia. The best thing is to see if any other, less vulnarable 
parameters work there (like changin Essid).

Andrzej

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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Nickolay Savchenko]

Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> that interfaces with CUPS?

#emerge gnome-cups-manager

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Re: [gentoo-user] Screenshot in X (How?)

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:02:42 +0100 Timo Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|   I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running
|   X session.

USE="X" emerge imagemagick

DISPLAY=":0" import -window root screenie.png

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[gentoo-user] mirroring

[Erik Petersen]

Hi,

We are an ISP with a goal in generating interest in Linux with our customers
all the while being in the evil empires backyard in Bellevue, WA (M$ corp <
2 mi from our main office). We would like to setup a mirror for our
customers to download gentoo and other Linux updates. 

We are an outbound heavy ISP and at this time cannot afford to put up a
public mirror, however that may change over the next year. We have found a
couple of public gentoo mirrors that we peer directly with or with the
upstream provider (agsn.ca through shawcable and netnitco.net). 

We have mirrored via wget -m the sources that contains distfiles,
experimental, grp, releases and snapshots. How does the public gentoo mirror
differ from the rsync gentoo mirror if at all? I don't want run rsync
against the mirrors if the contents exist in the sources mirror.

Best regards,
Erik


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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner module

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Le 02/11/04 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> since I adopted K 2.6 (mm-sources) I have a hard time using my
>> scanner. In "make menuconfig", USB Scanner is said "obsolete". and:
>> " This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb."
>> What does it mean? What is libusb?
>> TIA
>
> Hi,
>
> If you upgrade kernels, you wont even get that option anymore. It (and
> the code) has been totally removed from kernel tree.
>
> It's been replaced by support from userspace software. Try emerging
> "xsane" and "libusb" and play around with xsane. You might need to go
> into ~x86 for the newest xsane designed to work without kernel
> support, i'm not too sure (don't have a scanner!)

[...]

Thanks Daniel, I'm just trying that

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Ric Messier]

Wazow wrote:
>
>I do not think the problem you have is driver related, as you write that 
>it works when set up manually (iwconfig?).  Looks like something wrong 
>with hotplug/pcmcia setup. Are you on 2.6.2? I heard some rumours that 
>PCMCIA support in this one does not quite work. I am on 2.6.1 at present.
>

I don't think the problem I have is driver-related either. Clearly the drivers work 
because I can pass traffic. The problem I have is not knowing where I need to put the 
configuration information. Different drivers look in different places for their 
configs. I think the wlan-ng drivers changed to look into /etc/conf.d for their 
configuration a while back but I could be mistaken.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:56:08 -0500
Barry Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:53:32 -0800
> Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config
> > tool that interfaces with CUPS?
> > 
> 

What's wrong with the standard cups http://localhost:631 interface? 
Looks pretty enough for my needs.

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Re: [gentoo-user] cant boot into gentoo

[Chris]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 10:04 am, Kevin Hanson wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> >reiserfsprogs was updated and now cant boot into gentoo it says the fs is
> >read only
> >
> >how do i fix this?
> >Chris
> >
> >
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> Downgrade: emerge  =sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.11
>
> To be able to do that you may have to boot, type in root password when
> prompted (fsck fails) and then remount root filesystem rw (mount / -n -o
> remount,rw).
>
> Then, if you 'touch /fastboot' and then type 'exit' or 'ctrl-d', the
> system will reboot and skip fsck.  Then you can downgrade reiserfsprogs,
> reboot and all should work.
>
> That's what I did.
>
> There is a bug report already on this.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Wazow]

Ric Messier wrote:

Are you using the kernel drivers or the pcmcia-cs drivers?
Honestly I am a bit lost on what I am using :). But seriously I am sure 
that I use kernel drivers, but this is a different card (atmel based, 
different driver atmel_cs AFAIR). At the same time I use the /etc/pcmcia 
for setup and /etc/init.d/pcmcia machinery. Both, I guess, came with 
pcmcia-cs some time before I switched to 2.6 kernels. So I do not fully 
understand how all this works together ;).

I do not think the problem you have is driver related, as you write that 
it works when set up manually (iwconfig?).  Looks like something wrong 
with hotplug/pcmcia setup. Are you on 2.6.2? I heard some rumours that 
PCMCIA support in this one does not quite work. I am on 2.6.1 at present.

Andrzej

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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Anthony Hoppe]

Thanks.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a browswer http://localhost:631 and you'll get the cups admin tool.
> 
> > 
> > From: Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 12:53:32 GMT
> > To: Gentoo-User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend
> > 
> > 
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[Anthony Hoppe]

It works though :-)

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:59, Manuel Perez Lopez wrote:
> El Miércoles, 11 de Febrero de 2004 13:53, Anthony Hoppe escribió:
> > Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> > that interfaces with CUPS?
> 
> 
> Don't you like this: http://localhost:631?
> 
> 
> 
> mapelo
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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Anthony Hoppe]

It's okay, but it's kinda slow.

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:59, Manuel Perez Lopez wrote:
> El Miércoles, 11 de Febrero de 2004 13:53, Anthony Hoppe escribió:
> > Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> > that interfaces with CUPS?
> 
> 
> Don't you like this: http://localhost:631?
> 
> 
> 
> mapelo
> 
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[gentoo-user] Screenshot in X (How?)

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi,

  I am looking for a possibility to create a screenshot of a running
  X session.

  As this machine has no Mouse/Keyboard attached (its my MythTV
  VideoBox and I am to hold some presentation about it) it would be
  fine when I could initiate the screenshot remotely, without using
  the mouse to select regions, but if there is no other possibility,
  I would find a mouse/keyboard and use it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[brettholcomb]

In a browswer http://localhost:631 and you'll get the cups admin tool.

> 
> From: Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 12:53:32 GMT
> To: Gentoo-User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend
> 
> 
Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Manuel Perez Lopez]

El Miércoles, 11 de Febrero de 2004 13:53, Anthony Hoppe escribió:
> Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool
> that interfaces with CUPS?


Don't you like this: http://localhost:631?



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Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend

[Barry Marler]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:53:32 -0800
Anthony Hoppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config
> tool that interfaces with CUPS?
> 

Have you tried the web frontend?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Ric Messier]

Wazow wrote:
>
>This seems to work for me. I set  KEY="..." in 
>/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts/. Perhaps you forgot to comment out the first 
>entry which matches anything, end prevents the case from proceeding in 
>further branches? Does your card work in non-encrypted mode? Is that 
>only the keys which do not work? Does anything else you set in this 
>section of wireless.opts has an effect?
>

Nope. Didn't forget to comment out that section. In fact, I set my key there and it 
doesn't take. It's always worked for me there before but on this recent re-build of my 
laptop, suddenly it stopped working. Of course, this is my first successful shot at 
the kernel drivers (had always used the pcmcia-cs drivers before). Friend of mine said 
it should be set in /etc/wlan or /etc/conf.d/wlan or something like that with the 
kernel drivers.

Are you using the kernel drivers or the pcmcia-cs drivers?

Ric
 

 

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Re: [gentoo-user] WM that can handle dual-head

[Andrew Farmer]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:04:40 -0800, Andrew Gaffney muttered:
> I have a dual-head setup. The main display is running at 1024x768 and the 
> secondary is 800x600. I'm not using the Xinerama extension, so I 
> effectively have 2 separate X sessions running. I'm currently using fluxbox 
> as my window manager. I want to try something new. I tried Openbox, but it 
> doesn't initialize anything on my second display. What window managers are 
> recommended that will handle my setup properly?

If you have two separate X sessions running, you'll have to run two
separate window managers - one for each display.

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

[Joel Metelius]

I had the same error and resolved it by:

cd /usr/src/linux
cp .config ~/
make mrproper
cp ~/.config .
make all modules_install install

/joel

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:52, Kurt Guenther wrote:
> I do have the ext2/ext3 compiled into the kernel.
> 
> Where can I read up more on the initrd?  The gentoo install docs have 
> the manual kernel build w/o an initrd.  
> 
> --Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Sjolshagen wrote:
> 
> >You sure you've got either the ext3 modules included in an initrd image,
> >or (the simplest approach) compiled into the 2.6 kernel?
> >
> >Another possibility is that the initrd image contains something it
> >shouldn't, and that you'll be able to boot if you delete the initrd boot
> >entry.
> > 
> > // Thomas
> >
> >On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:53, Kurt Guenther wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I keep getting this error at boot:
> >>
> >>VFS: Cannot open root device "hda7" or hda7
> >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> >>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda7
> >>
> >>Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has:
> >>
> >>title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1)
> >>root (hd0,4)
> >>kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7
> >>
> >>and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has
> >>
> >>/dev/hda7 /  ext3noatime   0  1
> >>
> >>Not sure what's up.  hda7 is definitely my Gentoo root.
> >>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Wazow]

Ric Messier wrote:
Hey,
What would be the location for wireless settings with a Prism2 pcmcia card and the kernel drivers? Setting them in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts hasn't gotten me anywhere. I still need to set them by hand. 
This seems to work for me. I set  KEY="..." in 
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts/. Perhaps you forgot to comment out the first 
entry which matches anything, end prevents the case from proceeding in 
further branches? Does your card work in non-encrypted mode? Is that 
only the keys which do not work? Does anything else you set in this 
section of wireless.opts has an effect?

Andrzej

PS. Running on completely different card, but this seems to be a 
pcmcia-cs related problem more than card related.

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[gentoo-user] Wireless keys

[Ric Messier]

Hey,
What would be the location for wireless settings with a Prism2 pcmcia card and the 
kernel drivers? Setting them in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts hasn't gotten me anywhere. I 
still need to set them by hand. 

Thanks,
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[gentoo-user] broken gcc-config and suspicious linux-headers 2.4.21

[Wazow]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded to gentoo-sources 2.6.1. Now portage wants to 
emerge old 2.4 headers for some reason. What is causing it to do that? 
How can I avoid it? (I do not feel that application compiled with those 
is very safe to run).

Finally see the gcc-config line. Why does it show  "[empty/missing/bad 
digest]" ? Is the portage broken or something's gone wrong in my tree?

I have recently upgraded to Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, 
gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1-gentoo). This had some errors on emerge 
-upv, but emerge sync helped to eliminate all except the gcc-config thing.

I attach my emerge -upv system output. Eager to hear you comments and 
hints. This is a system I would like to keep stable and not run any 
risky business on it. Can I proceed with emerge -uDv system ?

Andrzej

I'va indicated the interesting lines with !!!

klimt root # emerge -uDpv system

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating system dependencies ...done!
   [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bison-1.875 [1.35] +nls -static  795 kB
   [ebuild  N] app-crypt/hashalot-0.1.0   72 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r8 [2.7-r7]  0 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-0.77 [0.75-r11] +berkdb -pwdb 
-(selinux)  3,551 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 [3.11] +nls -(selinux)  137 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12-r4 [2.11z-r8] +crypt +nls 
+pam -(selinux) -static  1,819 kB
   [ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r4 [4.3.0-r3] -3dfx -3dnow -cjk 
-debug -doc -ipv6 -mmx +nls +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype +xml2 
17,514 kB
   [ebuild U ] dev-java/java-config-1.2.5 [1.1.7]  12 kB
   [ebuild  N] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r3  -doc +java +tcltk  3,008 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.2 [5.8.0] +berkdb +gdbm 
11,617 kB
   [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1 [5.8.0-r12] +berkdb -doc 
+gdbm -threads  11,617 kB
!!![ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.4 [1.3.3-r1] 
[empty/missing/bad digest]
   [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 [3.2.3-r3] +X -bootstrap 
-build +java -multilib +nls -static  23,451 kB
!!![ebuild  N] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21  -build  27,864 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.13 [1.8.6.10-r1] 
-bootstrap -build -livecd -(selinux) -static  101 kB
   [ebuild U ] app-shells/sash-3.6 [3.4-r5] +readline  49 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r1 [4.1.7-r5] -afs -build 
+nls -(selinux)  759 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/procps-3.1.15 [3.1.12-r1]  260 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/psmisc-21.2-r4 [21.2-r3] +nls -(selinux)  0 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 [0.61-r4] -(selinux)  130 kB
   [ebuild U ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8 [7.6-r6] -ipv6 -static 
 18 kB

Total size of downloads: 102,783 kB

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:27, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:24, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > I'm hanging on to 3.1.5 - 3.2.0 is pretty buggy.  I've filed one
> > bug at kde on knotify and commented on an existing bug with
> > ksysguard. 
>
> Sorry, the one above should read:
> 
>
> > 
>
I'm a real prat!  Correct URLs:




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Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[Grendel]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared TriKster Abacus commented thusly,

> I don't understand this..
> 
> Everyone that has used the 2.6.X kernels have said that they fly 
> compared to the 2.4.X kernels..

Well one possibility is that if you have ACPI turned on it can drastically 
slow down your linux box. so disable acpi and rerun your benchmarks. THe 
other option would be to disable preemption in the kernel config and 
recompile a non preemptible kernel and see if it improves your benchmarks.
 
Actually the 2.6 kernels main feature was that that it responds faster to 
events, that is why it appears faster than 2.4, and also why people prefer 
2.6 for a desktop system.

> Please do not post false benchmarks, because you feel like attacking me.

No, I not flame you because I know you speaking the truth. Even when I 
disable ACPI the 3d performance under 2.4 was much faster than 2.6. 
 
> I really want to figure out why this is happening, and what to do, to 
> fix it. As I am sure it will help and benefit other people as well.

The two suggestions, ie disabling acpi and turning pre emption off are the 
things I can think of at the moment.

Grendel. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 20:24, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> I'm hanging on to 3.1.5 - 3.2.0 is pretty buggy.  I've filed one bug
> at kde on knotify and commented on an existing bug with ksysguard.
> 

Sorry, the one above should read:


> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 11 Feb 2004 19:07, Persson wrote:
> I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff
> is still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory).
>
> Is it safe to do an
>
> emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5
>
> or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause
> 3.2 to stop working?
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> Thanks

I'm hanging on to 3.1.5 - 3.2.0 is pretty buggy.  I've filed one bug at 
kde on knotify and commented on an existing bug with ksysguard.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Alan]

This removes the kde dependancy package, but leaves all the other kde
packages (kdelibs, kdeutils, etc).  I guess portage doesn't do reverse
dependancy removals yet huh?

alan

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:22:48PM +0100, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> This was mentioned some time ago...
> I had exactly the same issue about 2 days ago, and i did # emerge -P kde
> 
> -P = prune -> it removes all but the latest version of the specified
> package
> 
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:07:28 +0100
> Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is
> > still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory).
> > 
> > Is it safe to do an
> > 
> > emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5
> > 
> > or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2
> > to stop working?
> > Has anyone tried this?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > P
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Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird

[brettholcomb]

There are bugs, but that's not really the issue for me. You have to remember that this 
is alpha software.  It lacks a lot of the features others do.  It now does open links 
- if you make some changes to the userprefs.  You can't set the display settings for 
each mailbox or newsgroup - that is you can't set your mailbox to show all and a 
newsgroup to show unread - it's all or none.  There are other issues but it does work 
well and only occasionally closes for no reason all.  I switched to TBird from Kmail 
when I dumped KDE and like it.  Hopefully they will add some of the features as time 
goes on.

> 
> From: Gard Spreemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 07:13:40 GMT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird
> 
> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:05, D.Wilkening wrote:
> > What bugs are still unresolved?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird

[D.Wilkening]

I'vs read all of these bugs and they are all minor|solved|pointing to old
versions|feature requests.

Nothing really dangerous nor severe problems...
as i said, i use it for a long time now, differen os'es, different mashines.
There is a lot of software out there marked as stable with more bugs in it
(look at outlook ;)



Zitat von Gard Spreemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:05, D.Wilkening wrote:
> > What bugs are still unresolved?
> 
> Well, there's at least these 10: 
>
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=thunderbird&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=thunderbird&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=thunderbird&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=thunderbird
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[gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks

[TriKster Abacus]

Hello,

This is probably gonna start a huge flame war.. but I dont care.. I want 
to get this out in the open and find some answers.

ATM, I am on a Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop (for full specs see this: 
http://www.trikster.homelinux.org/computer.html )

Anyhow.. I upgraded from kernel 2.4.23, first to 2.6.2 (love-sources), 
then today, I emerged kernel mm-sources-2.6.3_rc1-r1.

In my kernel I have these options enabled under "Processor type and 
features"

[*] Preemptible Kernel   x x

dmesg | grep scheduler returns:

Using cfq io scheduler

My hdparm output is:

1516 MB in  2.00 seconds = 756.60 MB/sec

Even though that is a whole 56.60 MB/sec faster than my 2.4.23 kernel, 
it is not that fast, as to show my box has improved since installing 
these new 2.6.X kernels.

glxgears is still a slow 3000fps no matter what nvidia-kernel driver or 
nvidia-glx driver I use, it averages about the same.. ( I have seen well 
above 6000fps) and yes my /etc/X11/XF86Config is totally tweaked as per 
the /usr/doc/nvidia-glx-1.0.5336/README file.

My other programs, I.E. firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.4 start at the 
same speed as they started before... I only have an average of 50 
processes running when I fully boot and enter X as root, and I average 
about 250mb of ram usage out of 512mb total. My cpu idles along just fine.

Here is a quick and dirty example of the way I benchmark my programs 
opening speeds; in a terminal (xterm, Eterm.. whatever) say.. type:

time mozilla

then kill it off after it has fully started and you will see the times 
that it took to start. Below is my time for starting mozilla 1.6b

real0m11.865s
user0m1.661s
sys 0m0.159s
I use fluxbox, so memory usage / running processes are of course not as 
much as they would be say running kde.

My /etc/make.conf settings for this Intel laptop are:

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
&
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"

I know this is not an "Intel" problem as I get the same performance or 
worse on the 7 other gentoo boxes also running a 2.6.X vanilla kernel or 
a 2.6.X love-sources kernel. (But running an AMD processor/s from a 
266Mhz up to a 2500Mhz processor)

I don't understand this..

Everyone that has used the 2.6.X kernels have said that they fly 
compared to the 2.4.X kernels..

But I have seen that the 2.4.X (23 and up) run much faster if not the 
same as these highly over-rated 2.6.X kernels.. (As I have gotten well 
above 3000fps in glxgears), and a Quake 3 benchmark is way faster 
also... and my hdparm was @ 700MB/sec (compared to now, with it being @ 
756MB/sec)< not a big "woopidy doo!" there..

Could someone, anyone please post their benchmarks or a solution to this 
 problem? I mean, I could.. (yes it is possible) have left something 
out of the kernel.. but after all the googling, and reading the gentoo 
forums.. I have pretty much set my kernel up correctly as per other 
people's suggestions.

Please do not post false benchmarks, because you feel like attacking me.

I really want to figure out why this is happening, and what to do, to 
fix it. As I am sure it will help and benefit other people as well.

Thank you

Sincerely,

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[gentoo-user] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1

[Mauro Arnoldi]

Hi! When I try to emerge this package I obtain this error:

/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre17/src/p80211/p80211netdev.c:1038:
 
warning: `dev_get' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/netdevice.h:512)
  LD 
[M]  
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre17/src/p80211/p80211.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-rc1/.__modpost.cmd
/bin/sh: line 1: ./.__modpost.cmd: Permission denied
make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-rc1'
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre17/src/p80211'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre17/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 93, Exitcode 2
!!! failed compiling

--- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY 
---
LOG FILE = 
"/tmp/sandbox-net-wireless_-_linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre17-r1-10098.log"

open_wr:   /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-rc1/.__modpost.cmd



Can you understand the reason?

Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Jakub Krajcovic]

This was mentioned some time ago...
I had exactly the same issue about 2 days ago, and i did # emerge -P kde

-P = prune -> it removes all but the latest version of the specified
package

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:07:28 +0100
Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is
> still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory).
> 
> Is it safe to do an
> 
> emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5
> 
> or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2
> to stop working?
> Has anyone tried this?
> 
> Thanks
> P
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Re: [gentoo-user] scanner module

[Daniel Drake]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
since I adopted K 2.6 (mm-sources) I have a hard time using my scanner. 
In "make menuconfig", USB Scanner is said "obsolete". and:
" This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb."
What does it mean? What is libusb?
TIA
Hi,

If you upgrade kernels, you wont even get that option anymore. It (and the 
code) has been totally removed from kernel tree.

It's been replaced by support from userspace software. Try emerging "xsane" 
and "libusb" and play around with xsane. You might need to go into ~x86 for 
the newest xsane designed to work without kernel support, i'm not too sure 
(don't have a scanner!)

Good luck

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Gard Spreemann]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:05, D.Wilkening wrote:
> What bugs are still unresolved?

Well, there's at least these 10: 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=thunderbird&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=thunderbird&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=thunderbird&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=thunderbird


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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start gnome as normal user

[Rumen Yotov]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 01:21, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:35:26 +0200
> Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I've some strange problem.  Can't start gnome as normal user but as
> > root everything is OK.
> > It must be something with the file/dir permissions or missing
> > files/dirs don't know.
> > Nothing unusual in the logs, just NVidia splash screen shows and the
> > system goes back to text mode.
> > I'm using starts from text console/not gdm,xdm etc./.
> > Somebody having any hints.
> 
> 
> sounds weird yes. can you look inside ~/.gnomerc-errors ?  I'd actually
> guess its a broken library somewhere.
> 
> //Spider
> 
Hi,
The problem was in .ICEauthority file - it belonged to root only, so
other users couldn't read it to start gnome-session. Many thanks to
Spider, the info about this file was it ~/.gnomerc-errors file.
Don't know where this came from.
For a week everything worked ok then crash.
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:58:41 -0700
Jared Thirsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On February 10, 2004 15:42, phil wrote:
> > Are you running reiserfs or have had any lockups? when i first
> > installed gentoo i was using rfs and locked it a few times (badly
> > configured kernel ,acpi-nforce2 issue) which badly messed up some
> > files and forced me to reinstall with ext3,which seems to be a bit
> > more forgiving.
> 
> Yes I'm running reiserfs, and have gotten a few times, although I'm 
> not sure what from.  Maybe I'll try ext3 next time.
> 

Jeez, I must be doing something right.   Of course, I was immediately
beaten about the head and shoulders for suggesting this!

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Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:25:34 +0600 (LKT)
Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

point in it.
> 
> Alsa setup is also a bit of a PITA.
> 

No, its a major PITA.

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[gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird

[D.Wilkening]

Hi,

does anybody know, why Mozilla Thunderbird is still masked?
I use it since 0.2 on 4 Locations with gnome, xfce4, xp, w2k and like it very
much. What bugs are still unresolved?

any hints?

bye, dieter


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[gentoo-user] Two questions about "emerge -UD world"

[Gard Spreemann]

Hi. I have two questions about "emerge -UD world".
1) This question is something of a bump. For that I am sorry, I hope it's ok.
"emerge -pUD world" seems to list some odd things, like:
[ebuild  N] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21
Why is this? I am running kernel 2.6.2, which installed manually without the 
use of portage (if that is of relevance).

2) What I describe above is what USED to happen. After upgrading portage today 
to 2.0.50-r1, I'm all of a sudden getting this instead:
---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# emerge -pUD world
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies /
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre2" have been 
masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre2 (masked by: ~keyword)
- media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre3 (masked by: ~keyword)
!!!(dependency required by "net-www/mplayerplug-in-1.0" [ebuild])

!!! Problem with ebuild net-www/mplayerplug-in-1.0
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.
---
Have I messed something up? What could be wrong? I have tried resyncing the 
portage tree.


I appreciate any help, and again: Sorry for the fact that question 1 is a 
bump.

Thanks.
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[gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

[Persson]

I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is still 
there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory).

Is it safe to do an

emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5

or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2 to stop 
working?
Has anyone tried this?

Thanks
P

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