Re: [gentoo-user] xmms problem playing streaming mp3
On 23:40 Sun 03 Apr , Chris Bare wrote: I don't know when this stopped working, because I don't use the feature that often, but I'm no longer able to play mp3 streams over the net with xmms. When I try to play a location absolutely nothing happens. It doesn't say connecting, I don't see any packets on ethereal. I know xmms was recently split into more packages, but I looked through the packages and didn't see anything that I thought I needed to add. I can still play local mp3s for whatever that's worth. Anyone have any ideas? Try emerging media-plugins/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1. That fixed it for me. Bill Roberts pgpKuy8DJzLSL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
On 12:26 Wed 30 Mar , A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into the commercial, i.e., scsi, market, and are, by all reports, rugged and reliable. Hmmm... doesn't RAID 0 stripe across the disks? If so, then doesn't that mean if one drive fails the whole RAID array is hosed? So maybe you're using this purely performance reasons? Exactly. It took me a while to figure out that what I need is speed, not redundancy. I am not running websites that require five nines (99.999%) of uptime. I do need to protect my data, which I do by backups, but on a day to day basis, what I want is speed. Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of read/write. Show me any other way you can easily get the following numbers from hdparm: /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec Bill Roberts pgpa9odot49Pq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
On 11:52 Wed 30 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts pgpdifM03FL6i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
On 06:30 Thu 31 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts Why would something like that happen? It seems like Gentoo has a logical system for keeping everything sane. Last time I nearly whacked my machine, 'emerge --depclean'said I could get rid of of attr and acl. I figured I was using neither attr nor acl, I would 'merge -C' them. If you do a 'equery depends attr', you'll find coreutils depends on it, as well at acl. Without coreutils, you can forget emerging and a many basic functions of the machine. Long story short, I had a copy of the missing libraries in an another install directory, managed to copy them to the right directory, and saved dozens and dozens of hours it would have taken my to reconstitute my machine. You do get a warning, and heed it well. Bill Roberts pgpLSQyyDLM7p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
On 15:56 Thu 31 Mar , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:32:39 -0500 Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of | read/write. Which is why you make /var/tmp/portage a tmpfs mount. Or at least we do for sparc and mips stage and GRP builds... But then our build boxes have eight or more gigs of RAM in them :) | Show me any other way you can easily get the following | numbers from hdparm: | | /dev/md0: | Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec | Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec You can quite easily beat that with a straight fibrechannel setup. I've done the tmpfs thing before, but not on my current machine. Thanks for reminding me. I got the WD raptors for free (well, I did a couple of builds for a friend). I never would have bought Western Digital, but I have been happily suprised. Anyone wants to donate a couple of those 15K rpm Seagates, I'll be glad to take them, but I can't really justify the expense. Point is, I think the premium paid for scsi is too high. In some 15 years of computing, I've only had one HD fail, that was an IBM Deskstar, aka DeathStar. I have hard drives that have been running essentially continuously since 1998 without problems. As is always the case, your mileage may vary. Must be those Scotch genes I inherited ;). Bill Roberts pgpFPKBag3Qtv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
I am using software raid. For RAID0, there isn't much advantage in using hardware RAID. Bill Roberts On 14:27 Thu 31 Mar , Mike Turcotte wrote: Are you using hardware or software RAID0? I am using 2x Seagate 7200.7 120GB NCQ drives on my Sil 1334 onboard hardware assisted controller (using dmraid in linux) and I get 90MB/s sustained. I'd say that's pretty good for 7200RPM drives, but I would like to get some of those Raptors. I feel that the storage is bottle necking my system big time. Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay, Ontario P1B 8H8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca -Original Message- From: Bill Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer On 12:26 Wed 30 Mar , A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into the commercial, i.e., scsi, market, and are, by all reports, rugged and reliable. Hmmm... doesn't RAID 0 stripe across the disks? If so, then doesn't that mean if one drive fails the whole RAID array is hosed? So maybe you're using this purely performance reasons? Exactly. It took me a while to figure out that what I need is speed, not redundancy. I am not running websites that require five nines (99.999%) of uptime. I do need to protect my data, which I do by backups, but on a day to day basis, what I want is speed. Compiling is not only cpu intensive, but involves a great deal of read/write. Show me any other way you can easily get the following numbers from hdparm: /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 2868 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1432.78 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.01 seconds = 136.05 MB/sec Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list pgp8wf19vwZw5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
On 17:34 Tue 29 Mar , daniel wrote: I buy a new computer every 5 years or so. My current machine is an Athlon800 and it continues to perform well because I was careful about my purchasing back in 2000 and I'd like to repeat that this time around. To that end, I'm looking for suggestions from the lot of you with regard to what kind of hardware I can/should get for my new shiny desktop machine. Some good suggestions in this thread. You'll find a nicely organized set of suggestions for systems of various price levels at: http://hardwareguys.com/picks/picks.html I've built based on their suggestions, with no prior experience at it, and had great success. The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into the commercial, i.e., scsi, market, and are, by all reports, rugged and reliable. The only real problems with scsi are that they tend to be LOUD, and they are priced for the commercial market, i.e., expensive. Bill Roberts pgpY8nJEPdCWK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server
On 19:21 Mon 28 Mar , Grant wrote: Where do you guys go when you want a barebones server for the closet? I've built machines before but it seems like it might make more sense to buy one these days. Take a look at: http://hardwareguys.com/ They give you good, non-fanatic advice on building your own. See also: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/15/Perfect_BudgetPC.html and http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/23/Build_Perfect_BudgetPC.html by the same folks. I've built four PC's using their info. Superb. Bill Roberts pgpR6IBcXj7NQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE variables gone
On 08:16 Tue 29 Mar , Jorge Almeida wrote: Quoting /etc/make.conf: # Example: #USE=X gtk gnome -alsa USE=-* gtk2 Now, these (this) are *not* my USE variables. Other customizations are still there, so I didn't just say replace it when I meant don't do it. Please, someone, what did I do wrong? Or what did I fail to guess? I had that problem when I upgraded to the 2005.0 profile, then opened ufed to change a USE flag. Twenty-five or so flags, gone. I reconstructed them by using emerge avDt --newuse world and NOT executing, but looking for the changes in USE flags marked by an *. I edited /etc/make.conf by hand. There may be an easier way, but this worked. Bill Roberts pgpipY5AVc0bm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: There's at least one interested person... Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by doing ctrl-alt F2, login as a second user, and type startx -- :1 or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on ctrl-alt F7 and one on ctrl-alt F8. Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Root cannot open display
On 10:02 Tue 01 Mar , Christopher Fisk wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error. E233: cannot open display This is an X security thing. Instead of launching Firefox from a su'd session, why not install sudo and run sudo firefox? I've tried it with sudo, and get the same error. The other option is to look into xhosts and figure out how to set the magic key. I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any secure way of using it? Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Root cannot open display
On 17:01 Tue 01 Mar , Ulrich Anhalt wrote: normally it should work with sudo. Please comment out the line Defaults env_reset in your /etc/sudoers (if it isn't) and try again Ulli Your suggestion for /etc/sudoers solved the problem for gvim, but firefox was very unhappy, root needs to own the firefox profile in the users home directory. I think sux might be a possibility, but I need to look at the implications of it. Lastly, if I can figure out the MIT-magic-cookie thing, I might try that as well. Thanks to everyone for pointing the way(s). Bill Roberts On 10:02 Tue 01 Mar , Christopher Fisk wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote: When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error. E233: cannot open display This is an X security thing. Instead of launching Firefox from a su'd session, why not install sudo and run sudo firefox? I've tried it with sudo, and get the same error. The other option is to look into xhosts and figure out how to set the magic key. I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any secure way of using it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive
On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote: I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago (3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up simple programs takes some waiting while the HD is accessed. During large operations (say another box rsyncing to this one) it's much much slower thanit should be. I've checked top and my CPU is 90+% waiting for IO. This is certainly not right. There is plenty of unused RAM, no active swapping is being done AFAIK. I formatted my main partition with ReiserFS 3.6. It's worked fine up until now (and my new Gentoo box seems wiht with ReiserFS). This feels like a disk fragmentation issue, although I have no way to back that up. Does anyone have any tips for me? What does df -h say? If you hard disk is 90% full or better, it will be dog slow. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Running multiple X logins
On 16:09 Sat 26 Feb , Ric de France wrote: Brett, On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:44:44 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I start up using xdm and get an login window on vt7 from which I can login. However, if I got to another console (say vt5) and run startx I am told that display 0 is in use - well of course it is! I have /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers setup as this: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X I've checked the bug about pam_env.conf messing up things so I commented out the display and Xauth lines but still does not work. What is the proper way to stop and restart X when running in this mode? I tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart and that simply gives me a grey X screen with a cursor instead of a login box. I don't know if this will help, but from the new virtual terminal line, try: $ startx -- :1 The is optional. That should start up another X display. You can then swap between them using Ctrl+Alt+Fx buttons... I tried: startxfce4 -- :1 and it works as well. Cool! Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to su anymore
On 00:15 Mon 28 Feb , lolox wrote: After updating system and world, I can't su anymore. when I try su, I get : su: Permission denied Sorry. any idea ? Did you check you wheel group to make sure that your user is still a member? Only members of the wheel group can su. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Distro for SBC's
On 23:49 Sun 20 Feb , Rui Silva wrote: I ppl, I'm looking for a good distribuition of linux for SBC's (small/single Board Computer). Does anyone know a good one??? I've found uClinux, but the documentation was kinda confusing to me thanks in advance for your help sorry for the reply to my own post, but i need some more advice... i'll need a http server and a db in my SBC, something small but powerfull. what do you recommend ??? thttpd looks good for the web server. Berkeley DB might work as your database. Look at the link below for a list of mini-Linux distributions. http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/ don't forget SBC don't have harddrives, they tend to hava flash disks instead, and the distro and tools that i need have to be the smallest possible (mysql is very big no??). thanks in advance for your help -- Rui Silva Powered by Gentoo Linux under CELERON 1000 - Stage1 install with nptl http://rukinhas.no-ip.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When 2005.0 release
On 03:05 Sat 12 Feb , Andrew Gaffney wrote: -- Zhang Yong -- wrote: According to the weekly letter, 2005.0 should release in January, but now it is not out yet. Who know when, i am waiting it for my office computer. The 2005.0 release has been temporarily delayed due to a shortage of manpower. It will be released when it is finished. Is there any reason you can't install using a 2004.3 LiveCD and stages? I saw something in the dev list about February 21st. No promises Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hardened-dev-sources does not support SATA drives
On 13:20 Tue 08 Feb , Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Everyone, Along with your help I have been fighting with a software RAID1 issue on my Dell PowerEdge server. All along I believe I have been doing everything right except that the kernel did not support SATA. I have been working with hardened-dev-source which yields into a 2.6.7-hardened-r9 kernel. I did check all options to do with SATA and nothing stillw orked. I have also tried a normal (without RAID) install of Gentoo with the same kernel and failed to boot from my SATA drive. Can someone confirm if I have to use 2.6.9 kernels to get SATA support? I can confirm that SATA and RAID0 works very well with gentoo-dev-sources, following the forums. I am using latest stable. I'm sure RAID1 works just as well. I would recommend getting your machine up and running with a non-hardened kernel, then try the hardened, which tends to break some things. Is gentoo-sources good enough for servers? gentoo-sources has been the 2.4 kernel, though that will be changing to 2.6 when 2005.0 comes out. I would recommend using the 2.6.10 kernel (latest stable), unless you have some overwhelming reason to use a 2.4 kernel. There were some driver issues/changes regarding SATA in some of the 2.4, early 2.6, kernels. Some of the 2.6.9 kernels reportedly has some other issues, though I never saw any. If not can the patches from hardened-dev-sources (for 2.6.7) be applied to the 2.6.9 sources? Again, take it one step at a time. First, get SATA and RAID1 working, then worry about moving it to hardened. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CLI appointment/todo list reminder program?
On 09:35 Mon 17 Jan , Jason Cooper wrote: Okay, googled around, no luck. Has anyone found a command-line program for maintaining an appointment calendar and todo lists? Most important, it needs to have email notification and work from within screen. Yes, basically a wrapper for at/cron. I use a combination of pal and devtodo, and I'm quite happy, but I don't need email notification. pal's calendar function is quite nice for appointments, but a little clunky for a todo list, so I combine it with devtodo, which is slick for todo's. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Smallest Linux Install for :-
On 00:23 Thu 27 Jan , Leif B. Kristensen wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:17, Douglas James Dunn wrote: anymore I find 1 gig of memory is necessary anything less is not enough... 640K ought to be enough for everybody! -- I still have my 256K original Mac sitting in the garage. Still booted the last time I tried. Ran $2400 on a steep student discount in 1984. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XORG keybord konfiguration
On 11:11 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! After moving from xfree86 to xorg-x11 I have a serious problem with my keyboard. The problem is, that my notebook doesn't seem to have a keyboard that is 100% compatible with a normal german one. Inparticular, the less/greater key is on a different position and has a different keycode (106 instead of 94 in the standard one). Under xfree, it was sufficient to change /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and redefine LSGT to 106, but this doesn't seem to work under xorg (I copied the xkb/keycodes/xfree86 file from the old version) What do I have to do to fix this? Alex xorg-x11 requires a new keyboard driver kbd in xorg.conf, as below: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Could that be the problem? Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XORG keybord konfiguration
On 13:26 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:35 schrieb Bill Roberts: On 11:11 Thu 06 Jan , Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! After moving from xfree86 to xorg-x11 I have a serious problem with my keyboard. The problem is, that my notebook doesn't seem to have a keyboard that is 100% compatible with a normal german one. Inparticular, the less/greater key is on a different position and has a different keycode (106 instead of 94 in the standard one). Under xfree, it was sufficient to change /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and redefine LSGT to 106, but this doesn't seem to work under xorg (I copied the xkb/keycodes/xfree86 file from the old version) What do I have to do to fix this? Alex xorg-x11 requires a new keyboard driver kbd in xorg.conf, as below: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Could that be the problem? MY xorg.conf looks like this Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys Option XkbRules xfree86 EndSection Alex You have the right driver. Do you find anything interesting when you grep WW or grep EE the log /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] INBOX variable is wrong
I have been running an email system with postfix, procmail, mutt, etc. for some time. It has worked well. Some time ago, I setup courier-imap and cyrus-sasl to prepare for using squirrelmail. I tested imap with mutt, and after some stumbling around, it worked, though I haven't had any occasion to use imap since. I'm now trying to run squirrelmail, and I'm into a dead end. Hope someone can help. My logs tell me I am able to log in, but when squirrelmail tries to access INBOX, it fails, apparently because it INBOX is pointing to my my home directory (~billbalt) rather than to my maildir (~billbalt/.maildir). The logs on the server show the following type of errors: Jan 6 14:11:39 antec imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for INBOX.elinks: No such file or directory I think it will probably work if I can change INBOX to point to ~billbalt/.maildir, but I haven't found anywhere I can do that. I've spent hours going through the forums and the web. Any help is much appreciated. . . I'm leaving for Equador tomorrow, and I'd like to be able to keep up with my email. Thanks Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What version of linux headers??
I having difficulties updating cdrdao, and I think the problem is related to linux headers. How do I determine what version of linux headers I have?? I understand they are kept in two places, /usr/src/linux/include (that should be easy enough) and /usr/include. Which ones are used when?? -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux PCAnywhere client
On 12:28 Sat 07 Feb , Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is there a Linux PCAnywhere client? Don't really know. If you can find what you want, try vnc (or better tightvnc). Much better than PCAnywhere, quick and easy to install, and, if run over ssh, much more secure. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to emerge gxmms
On 11:14 Wed 04 Feb , Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, What am i missing here? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # emerge gxmms Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy gxmms have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. ## The package is still in testing. Try etcat -v gxmms to check for status. To emerge, try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gxmms -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.1/2 and Alsa Question
On 16:08 Wed 04 Feb , Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, If I emerge a 2.6.1 kernel, but then compile it with sound support but do NOT enable any Alsa options, will emerge believe I have Alsa installed? I NEED to upgrade Alsa and run with 2.6.1. I caught a post on a different list where someone said they did this on a non-Gentoo system. It would seem to me that portage/emerge doesn't keep track of what options I enable in the kernel, so as long as I build Alsa on the side using the newest CVS and run it with my non-Alsa Gentoo 2.6.1 kernel it should work. Does anyone see any problems? Do I need to emerge anything else to make this work? You can either compile ALSA into the kernel or as a module with 2.6.1. I compiled it into the kernel and it works fine. According to tappas at #alsa, compiling it as a module gives more flexibility and makes it easier to troubleshoot. I believe you will need to emerge alsa-utils to get the /etc/modules.d/alsa file which you will need to config. You need to load the module, of course. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.1/2 and Alsa Question
On 16:45 Wed 04 Feb , Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 16:27, Bill Roberts wrote: You can either compile ALSA into the kernel or as a module with 2.6.1. I compiled it into the kernel and it works fine. According to tappas at #alsa, compiling it as a module gives more flexibility and makes it easier to troubleshoot. I believe you will need to emerge alsa-utils to get the /etc/modules.d/alsa file which you will need to config. You need to load the module, of course. Bill, I think you've hit on the problem, at least with my limited knowledge of portage. I need to run the complete CVS set from the Alsa site. I really cannot mix the emerge for alsa-oss with the HDSP driver from CVS. It will just end up causing more problems than it's worth. Is there some way that I can effect the portage database though? Like: emerge -i alsa-driver alsa-oss to make portage think everything has been installed via emerge when I've really done it by hand? The man page would suggest this is the use. If so, do I attach some sort of version number to the inject, like emerge -i =media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.5 to trick it into leaving things alone? Just not clear... QUESTION - When will the Alsa emerges understand that we need to update Alsa INTO the kernel source code tree so that we can match a new Alsa with the version of the kernel we are running? The ALSA drivers seem to be changing rapidly right now, so running a module rather than compiling in the kernel can help if you are looking for a particular version of a driver. I haven't looked in the last week or so, but Portage has been keeping very up-to-date on the drivers, at least if you look in the ~x86 builds. I don't know how much you'll gain by going with the CVS. You can inject packages using emerge, but I'm not sure I understand the point. You can download, compile and install as you would conventionally, and you don't have to inject or register with Portage. But you may run into issues, because Gentoo may do things a little differently. Good Luck!! -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6
On 10:07 Sun 01 Feb , LJN wrote: Ok I want to switch for sure! Anyone who have tried 2.6 on an Asus p3b-f with Matrox G400 and 3com905 NIC? Any problems at all? The 3c905c works fine here. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automount SCSI emulation
On 11:01 Thu 29 Jan , Sensei wrote: Collins Richey wrote: I have gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1. Both cdrecord and cdrdao work fine without scsi emulation. Cool. [...] So, no IDE burning is enabled yet... I'll switch to ide-scsi again... No, IDE burning works. This is how I do it: Kernel sources : sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 (2.6.1-gentoo) Menuconfig settings: Note: SCSI support is off, no SCSI emulation. * ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support * Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support * Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support [*] Use multi-mode by default * Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support [*] IDE Taskfile IO (EXPERIMENTAL) [*] PCI IDE chipset support [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support [*] Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA support [*] Use PCI DMA by default when available grub.conf: title antgen /boot-hdb6 /-hdb7 2.6.1 1024x768 root (hd1,5) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hdb7 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 hdc=ide-cd initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 Tools that I use: app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.7-r3 and: app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha25 Note: You have to precede your emerge command for these packages with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 . These packages are still in testing but work well. cdrdao commands: cdrdao copy --device /dev/hdc cdrecord commands: # Locate ATAPI device number cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI # Create an iso from a cd dd if=/dev/hdc of=~billbalt/sysresccd.iso # Burn an iso cdrecord -v speed=40 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao\ /home/billbalt/sysresccd.iso driveropts=burnfree Note that cdrecord still uses the the old scsi emulation notation for the device. cdrdao uses the /dev/hdc type of notation. Try it. You'll like it. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Automount SCSI emulation
On 15:22 Wed 28 Jan , Sensei wrote: Hi. I have two questions about automount. I enabled the new automount module in the vanilla kernel, and now I have no /dev/cdroms directory. Why? Second. What's the best way to configure gentoo with automount (I'm trying to set everything in a standard way). Third. Without using scsi emulation, gentoo provides cd-burning facilities? I mean, cdrecord uses ide burning? (in all previous systems I had to use scsi emulation...) Thank you! -- Sensei senseiwa:tin.it icq:241572242 msn:Sensei_Sen:hotmail.com f u cn rd ths u r usng unx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I have gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1. Both cdrecord and cdrdao work fine without scsi emulation. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage gone crazy? It wants 30+ packages to update SpamAssassin
On 15:48 Wed 28 Jan , Malte S. Stretz wrote: Hi folks, I just wanted to try the SpamAssassin-2.63 ebuild (again, I already had it installed before but accidently downgraded with the last 'emerge -u world'). So I went and typed in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -upv dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin to see what it needs. And I couldn't believe my eyes when it told me it wants to upgrade the whole system. The dependencies for SpamAssassin haven't changed (do a diff between the 2.60-r1 and 2.63 ebuilds), but I have upgraded portage yesterday. So, is portage gone crazy or am I doing something wrong? Cheers, Malte Just elimate the u from you command. U or u will apply in a global fashion. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine (audio) and jack
On 01:47 Sun 25 Jan , Krikket wrote: emerge -pv means emerge pretend verbose, which should be run before doing ANY emerge, so you will know in advance what will be emerged, and with what USE flags. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine (audio) and jack
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 before emerge means use the latest, in-testing, package. You should avoid this unless there is some feature in the testing package that you need, or if you are interested in testing. In my experience, most ~x86 packages work well, but not always. That's true, though, of the stable packages as well. As far as I know, there is no ~x386. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts, Region settings, and CD/DVD questions
To get qpkg, emerge gentoolkit. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot get boot splash work (initrd fail to load)
On 21:56 Wed 21 Jan , Tianran Chen wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Petro Verkhogliad wrote: the strange thing is that have the bootplash and background working. however, i am still getting the message about the RAM disk being invalid. for me, the key to the whole configuration was getting the kernel settings right. at the same time, i am running 2.6.1-love5 which is prepatched for bootsplash. it makes the configurations issuses less troublesome. good luck it is really strange. i thought the kernel as to load images from the initrd. if it is invalid, how can the kernel load anything? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I had the same dmesg. I had been following the instructions in the bootsplash howto, they worked fine on one machine, not on this one. I did some sleuthing and found that the command to create the images given in the howto seems out-of-date. The path has changed. I has to use: /sbin/splash -s -f \ /etc/bootsplash/gentoo/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg \ /boot/initrd-1024x768 to get mine to work. Of course, change the resolution to suit your taste. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a CD?
On 06:51 Wed 21 Jan , Rumen Yotov wrote: On ??, 2004-01-20 at 20:39, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: On 01/20/04 13:34:31, Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea? This is a great idea - there are a few solutions available that you should look at first before you go reinventing the wheel. Gibraltar[1] - Debian based, web-gui in the pay version, freeware version ClosedBSD[2] - FreeBSD based, ncurses GUI, free, floppy or CD Sentry Firewall[3] - Linux based, Firewall, IDS, CLI tools webmin You can probably find a bunch more on distrowatch.com [1] - http://www.gibraltar.at [2] - http://www.closedbsd.org [3] - http://www.sentryfirewall.com Hi, Could also check Devil-Linux on devil-linux.org it comes with PaX GRSecurity for the kernel and propolice for almost all binaries. Also have a text menu for config. It's less than 100 M. -- Sysresccd is a rescue cd based on Gentoo. At their site, http://www.sysresccd.org, are instructions for modifying it. It might give you a start. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rpm
On 01:35 Thu 22 Jan , Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Hi, just for the fun of it a tried emerge -sv rpm and it really did offer me the possiblity to install rpm... Now i just wonder if i can really (hypothetically) install rpm and use rpm packages? And another question: has anyone here tried this? p.s. and please don't go on telling me that using rpm would be stupid - I KNOW, that's why i switched to Gentoo... Yes, you can install and use rpm's. No, I haven't tried it. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and kernel 2.6 question
On 12:43 Mon 19 Jan , Ian Truelsen wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:56:00 + Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 January 2004 19:37, Ian Truelsen wrote: With the alsa modules now built into 2.6, should I load the snd_* modules with the alsasound init script or via the modules.autoload? The init script. - From a module perspective nothing has changed. The modules are still named the same, and end up in roughly the same place (depmod sorts out the actual location) Okay. However, when I load the alsasound script I get a series of errors of which this one is representative: * Loading snd_emu10k1 FATAL: Module snd_emu10k1 already in kernel. I know they are built as modules. What is causing these errors? -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org Signature key (742B740D) available at pgp.mit.edu Don't listen to my advice, I have never actually gotten alsa to work, but... In 2.6, there are two ways of setting up ALSA. First, compile it in the kernel, in which case you don't need to load a module. Second, don't compile it in the kernel but as a module (use M instead of *), then load the module. There seems to be differing opinions on which method is less likely to fail. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] modem keeps hanging up
On 00:26 Tue 20 Jan , Norbert Kamenicky wrote: david stevenson wrote: On Monday 19 January 2004 10:45 pm, Linux Gentoo wrote: I had this sort of problem and fixed it by changing ISP. And now use ADSL. But I have seen long discussions on other mailing lists (suse) for them it was posible to fix by changing modem init strings. yes, by init string u can adjust a LOT of things, e.g. what will modem do if carrier disapeares for a while (on crappy lines it happens very often) It should not be very difficult to investigate modem init string from $hit nearly OS (in registers or so ;-), since it starts with AT, most probably ATF, but can be in lower case too) Another possibility is to ggle for some windblowz utility, which will log everything that goes to the modem. noro -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list What kind of modem do you have? Many winmodems will not work under Linux, and give the appearance of trying to connect and then disconnecting. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittant poweroff failure
On 10:34 Sat 17 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:53, Bill Roberts wrote: On 22:07 Fri 16 Jan , Tom Eastman wrote: Ever since I installed gentoo on my new computer in October I've been frustrated when I try to shut it down. Have you tried the poweroff command. Works for me. As I understand it, 'poweroff' is equivalent to calling 'halt -p' which the shutdown process already does. The problem is that the computer only actually turns itself off about half the time. I have both ACPI and APM enabled in the kernel. Although because my cpu is hyperthreading I get this warning in the kernel messages: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. I have also tried using CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF in the kernel config, but just ended up getting the same results. It's frustrating, because it works about half the time. So I know that it *can* turn my computer off. I just don't know what's preventing it! Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Tom I had never been able to get Gentoo to poweroff for me as other distros did, until I found the poweroff command. Just wasn't a big deal, so I never really researched it. But I was delighted when I used poweroff and it shut down, completely. I am using the 2.6 kernel, ACPI is on, APM is off. Everything seems to work great without the APM, so... -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list archives
Can anyone tell me how to get messages in the archives? I've sent mail to gentoo-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it doesn't seem to be working. Try gmane.org. They have a full, searchable archive. Haven't heard about [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap xev and wheel mouse
Are there searchable archives of this mailing list? ://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40gentoo.org/ -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about kernel and /etc/issue
You need to add domainname to the default runlevel. rc-update add domainname default. This handles both the DNS and NIS domainnames. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sshd
On 23:11 Fri 09 Jan , Kurt Guenther wrote: What's the procedure for starting sshd with the rc script? I see it in my '/usr/sbin/sshd', but it doesn't have a script in the '/etc/init.d'. I could cobble a script, but there must be a gentooism here. You should have sshd in /etc/init.d. Try emerging openssh. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] huge (wrong) list in emerge -upvD world
On 12:55 Sat 10 Jan , Mike Arrison wrote: Recently, my emerge world has been getting really out of hand. A week or two ago it wanted to install apache2 for no particular reason. Now, among other things, it wants apache2, postgresql, php, metacity, and development-sources. None of these are in /var/cache/edb/world or virtuals. Below is the output of emerge -upvD world. I frankly don't want any of the packages marked as 'N' (new). I've tried a regenworld to no avail. Where else should I be looking for these packages? I've seen similar problems when using emerge -D. Eliminating that seemed to solve the problem. Why?? Don't know. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?
On 13:24 Sat 10 Jan , Sean Johnson wrote: What size cache would be relevant to this distinction, and is there any other factor that makes -O2 preferable to -O3? I have a 600MHz PIII (Coppermine) with 256kB cache, and am using CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer. Would I be better off with -O2? I read some good stuff on optimization in the GMANE archives, and came to the conclusion that -O2 is best in most situations. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache
On 09:57 Fri 09 Jan , David Gethings wrote: I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages like the following: prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' Obviously the problem here is that the lib libxpcom.so could not be found by the prelinker. A quick locate shows that it is in: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/ which iirc is not in the LDPATH so won't be in the cache. My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? More over shouldn't the ebuild do this for me? If so I'll raise a bug for Firebird. MozillaFirebird and certain libraries will not prelink. Don't really know the issues involved. There is some info in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!
On 23:39 Fri 09 Jan , Roger wrote: I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Did your add your user to the wheel group? Only member of the wheel group can su. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer issue in 2.6.1
On 23:27 Fri 09 Jan , Jernej Zidar wrote: In 2.4.22 I used a framebuffer (I hope this is the right term) console (no X Co.) the size 1024*768 with 32 bpp colors. In 2.6.1 I'm not able to get it. I use this setting in lilo: vga=792. If I boot 2.6.1 with this options nothing shows on the screen, although the system boots normally. If I set the line to vga=normal the new kernel boots normally. The system log shows that there's a difference in mapping the memory. The old kernel maps it to address 0xf880b000, while the new one maps it to 0xf880. Framebuffer works nicely for me in 2.6.1. The key is using getting the kernel settings right in menuconfig, in particular, use the vesa setting, not the specialized ones. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036highlight=framebuffer+howto+2+6 for complete details. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Resize root partition
On 19:56 Thu 08 Jan , Elton Algera wrote: I tested gentoo for a while now and decided to make it my primary os on my machine. Therefor I want to resize the root partition (reiserfs), since it's now only 5gb. Which is the savest way to perform this? I don't think Partitionmagic is a good idea. Mybe Knoppx with qtpart? Any suggestions are very welcome. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I tried using parted to resize a reiserfs partition, with disasterous results, so I would avoid that. I think using the reiserfsprogs is the safest bet. The procedure is described earlier in this list. Try a search at www.gmane.org or http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8group=linux.gentoo.user -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tinydns config
On 18:30 Mon 05 Jan , Steve B. wrote: Ok, since I can't seem to find an answer to this question myself. I'll ask :-) Can you bind a name to a specefic port? For example say I want to setup login.mydomain.com to be bound to SSH port 22 (so the only way to reach ssh is thru login.mydomain.com, and so login.mydomain.com doesn't end up at apache if browsed through the web.) .. is that possible? Names on the Internet are generally resolved using DNS, which doesn't have any facility for providing port numbers. So I think you're out of luck. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to 2.6 ?
On 13:42 Tue 06 Jan , Daz-Manu wrote: Hi folks, I use Linux for 6 monthes now, and I've never switched from one kernel to another . Kernel 2.6 is out now and I'd like to use it instead of my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 . I tryed to use it as soon as the first 2.6 was out (unstable) but it needed lot of configuration and I gave up . ( I could boot up but no GUI, FB, ...) 1/ Is it possible to export my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 config to a 2.6 config ? (I agree , the options are differents but at least main options .) Don't use your config from 2.4 for 2.6. Been there, done that. It will work, but you will find subtle and not so subtle problems occuring. Take the hour or two to go through menuconfig, read the forum on 2.4 to 2.6, and you should be fine. 2/ What is the difference between 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and 2.6 (or others) from kernel.org ? 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 is a 2.4.20 patched ? Best document outling the differences is the Post-Hallween document. The site is down right now, but you can find a copy at http://lwn.net/Articles/56146/ If yes , where can I read differences ? Sorry for those questions, I learned commands and others stuff about Linux but not yet the dark side of the kernel ;) Thanks in advance. Manu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switch from kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to 2.6 ?
On 15:57 Tue 06 Jan , Daz-Manu wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:33:20 -0500 Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13:42 Tue 06 Jan , Daz-Manu wrote: Hi folks, I use Linux for 6 monthes now, and I've never switched from one kernel to another . Kernel 2.6 is out now and I'd like to use it instead of my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 . I tryed to use it as soon as the first 2.6 was out (unstable) but it needed lot of configuration and I gave up . ( I could boot up but no GUI, FB, ...) 1/ Is it possible to export my 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 config to a 2.6 config ? (I agree , the options are differents but at least main options .) Don't use your config from 2.4 for 2.6. Been there, done that. It will work, but you will find subtle and not so subtle problems occuring. Take the hour or two to go through menuconfig, read the forum on 2.4 to 2.6, and you should be fine. 2/ What is the difference between 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 and 2.6 (or others) from kernel.org ? 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 is a 2.4.20 patched ? Best document outling the differences is the Post-Hallween document. The site is down right now, but you can find a copy at http://lwn.net/Articles/56146/ Thanks a lot , I read the document . But what is the difference between a 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 provided with gentoo and a 2.4.20 kernel provided by kernel.org ? Take a look at the kernel guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml. It says it all. If yes , where can I read differences ? Sorry for those questions, I learned commands and others stuff about Linux but not yet the dark side of the kernel ;) Thanks in advance. Manu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd emerge activity
On 01:15 Sat 03 Jan , Tom Richards wrote: Since I was so attacked in my previous post...hopefully this one goes better(and no, my machine is correctly clocked while this is happening...) This has only happened with a couple packages that I have installed, but this one is the most recent. On all the ones it has happened, the programs have run perfectly and there doesnt seem to be a problem, it just doesnt seem like a good thing to see at the end of my emerge. The code is: Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... net-p2p/pysoulseek-1.2.4b merged. Recording net-p2p/pysoulseek in world favorites file... !!! Couldn't find match for net-p2p/pysoulseek clean: No packages selected for removal. Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd !!! Couldn't find match for dev-python/pyogg No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. The !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd has happened before, on a few packages from media-xxx(I dont remember which ones exactly). On the other packages it also said !!! Couldn't find match for xxx/x. Anyone have an idea? Thank you. Tom Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The second one !!! Couldn't find match for xxx/x. is easy. Emerge is trying to remove files from an earlier install, couldn't find any because there wasn't one, hence the message. The first one is related to kernel 2.6, which includes /sys in the standard baselayout. Don't know the exact origing, but it isn't a problem. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bootmenu for selecting a GUI to start
On 03:23 Sun 04 Jan , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I'm looking for a solution to hook somekind of a boot menu into the boot process. Something like 'Do you want to start the GUI (kdm)? [Y]es [N]o' If I select Yes within five seconds /etc/init.d/xdm start is executed - otherwise not. What's the best way to do this without changing or hacking baselayout (?) to much? Is there an API/hook that allows that? You can do this by creating a file in /etc/init.d/ following the standard runscript format, and which uses the Bash `read' built-in to prompt the user. Then just use rc-update to make it be run at boot. Implementing a 5-second timeout in bash is probably not going to be pretty -- but I believe it can be done. You might want to use C or python to do it instead though. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Write the script as above, then execute it via /etc/runlevels/default/local. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard
If you are looking for stability, I think it is awfully difficult to beat the Intel motherboards. Definitely NOT for overclockers. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DirectFB and screen
On 22:08 Sat 03 Jan , Bill Roberts wrote: Is there anyway of using DirectFB with screen? I use DirectFB with links -g to get a graphical browser from the command line. Works great, except when I try to use it with screen. My workaround is to open a second virtual terminal, but that is a kludge. Any suggestions. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Looks like screen cannot be used with DirectFB. Needs linux-fusion to handle instances. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] browsers gtk1.4 themes
I think mozilla-firebird is hot. It will do a lot of what you want out of the box. And you can configure it to your taste. P.S. Extremely stable. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] DirectFB and screen
Is there anyway of using DirectFB with screen? I use DirectFB with links -g to get a graphical browser from the command line. Works great, except when I try to use it with screen. My workaround is to open a second virtual terminal, but that is a kludge. Any suggestions. -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
