Re: [gentoo-user] timesheet - to keep track of employee time etc
Does anybody know of any timesheet program in portage that would allow track employee time etc? I use app-office/gnotime to keep track of my own hours. It can generate some basic reports. It depends on what your needs are, it doesn't talk to a DB with hours for all employees if you where looking for something like that. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xmms problem playing streaming mp3
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? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gallery upgrade breaks
Did anyone do the upgrade from gallery-1.4.4_p4 to gallery-1.4.4_p5 and have their gallery stop working? The first page that lists galleries works fine, but when I click on one I get a bad link. Instead of going to bareflix.com/albums/albumname it tries to go to bareflix.com/gallery/albumname I also can't get it to go into configure mode. I run configure.sh, but the web site still comes up as if it's secure. Any suggestions? I started this before all the webapp stuff was added, so maybe the problem is in that area. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Eclass 'multilib' does not exist for 'kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r1'
Last night I tried to upgrade to kde 3.3.2 and I got the following error: strip: usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkdeinit_kate.so usr/kde/3.3/lib/kconf_update_bin/kwin_update_window_settings usr/kde/3.3/lib/kconf_update_bin/khotkeys_update usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkdeinit_extensionproxy.so usr/kde/3.3/lib/libkdeinit_kprinter.so QA Notice: /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdesud is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge kdebase QA Notice: /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kcheckpass is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge kdebase Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r1/image/ Merging kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r1 to / Eclass 'multilib' does not exist for 'kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r1' Any idea what that means or how to fix it? I didn't see anything in bugzilla about it. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] are emerge messages logged?
I know about /var/log/emerge.log, but what I am looking for are the helpfull/informative messages that often come out at the end of emerging a package. I just updated 88 packages in a world update, so naturally I didn't see most of the output. This is the type of message I was hoping to go back and read: Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.4.2/image/ Merging gnome-base/gnome-2.4.2 to / * note that to change windowmanager to metacity do: * export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/metacity * of course this works for all other window managers as well * Caching service dependencies... * [ ok ] gnome-base/gnome-2.4.2 merged. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE 3.2 - what else to rebuild?
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) -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner and Linux
I'm confused about which one of the umpteen different types of DVD recordable/rewritable media/drives are the most compatible with existing drives and DVD players. I think its something like DVD-++--+--+R++-W+ ;) The last report I saw (probably a year ago) said that DVD-R played in more of the set top dvd players than any of the other formats. It depends heavily on how old the players are. The newer they are, the more formats they support. The RW formats are less likely to be supported in a consumer player than the R formats. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Time planner?
Just wondered if anyone could recommend a good 'time planner' in portage? By which I mean something I can log what I've worked on for specific periods of time[*] ... if that makes any sense. I haven't used it, but this looks like what you describe: http://gttr.sourceforge.net/ That's GnoTime. It'll do just what you want. I use it all the time to track hours. It's very stable. I've only got 2 gripes. I haven't found a way to remove tasks, except to cut them and not paste them anywhere. I don't think there's a way to manually add time to a task (like say you go on a business trip and want to add the hours for the days you were away. I've resorted to hacking the xml-based data file in that case) It'll even pause the timer when your screen saver comes on if you want it to. emerge gnotime and give it a try. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What package has pdfxmltex?
I'm trying to get a docbook XML file turned into a pdf. I had this working on a Mandrake system after I installed tons of packages, but I can't seem to find the right combination of packages for gentoo. I'm missing the pdfxmltex command. I have installed the following docbook related packages: jadetex dev-perl/XML-XSLT passivetex saxon dev-java/fop-bin in addition to all the docbook DTD, stylesheets, etc. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] named fails to start
I've been having a problem with named for a while, so I just unmerged and emerged it again, but that didn't solve it. If I try to start it from init.d/named, it says it is already running, though it is not. If I start it directly, I get this error in the log file: Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29528]: starting BIND 9.2.2 Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29528]: using 1 CPU Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf' Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: none:0: open: /etc/bind/rndc.key: permission denied Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: permission denied Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied Jan 31 12:55:11 oberon named[29530]: exiting (due to early fatal error) If I change the named.conf file so the pid file is in /tmp, then it starts. I have not done anything to set up named to run chrooted, and ps shows all named processes to be running as root. I've tried to trace through the init script, but can't find the implementation of the service_started function. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I'd appreciate them. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] what package is pdfxmltex in?
Does anyone know what package I need to install to get pdfxmltex? It's part of the dockbook toolchain that xmlto uses, but I don't have it installed, and haven't figured out what package it's in. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switching harddrives
I bought a new hard drive (80GB) and right now I'm using a 40GB one. My question is: Can I transfer gentoo / files into the partitions of that harddrive and will it work? How would I go about at doing this? The procedure I have used successfully was: install both drives boot from install CD fdisk new drive and partition as desired format new partitions mount old and new partitions use rsync to copy files from old to new partitions follow install instructions for putting a boot loader on the new drive remove old drive and boot from new one -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] font availability in gvim
Whenever I start gvim, I have only one font available. Any thoughts? I had a problem when I built gvim with gtk2. Gtk2 uses the new anti-aliased font stuff and I was never able to configure it to use the good old-fashoned font that matches my xterm which I have been staring at every day for at least 10 years. My solution was to set USE=-gtk2 and rebuild gvim. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's
Me too, but i'm using postfix to reject alle *.exe attachments. Oh, that sounds great. Could you post how you cofigured it to do that? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grabbing video firewire/Radeon 9200
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:30:37 -0500 (EST), Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try kino for DV capture. It works pretty well for me and even does very basic editing operations and some transcoding (with the help of external tools) Which drvier works for video capturing on ATI cards? I have a Radeon 9800XT with Video In/Out, but as I understood the driver doesn't support capturing. Or does it? Sorry, I don't have a Radeon card and don't know about the drivers. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grabbing video firewire/Radeon 9200
I would like to grab video/audio from my camera(firewire) and VHS(s-video or composite on ATI-Radeon 9200 VIVO). For now I can see that the camera is recognized on the firewire port. Which editing/grabbing/encoding software would you propose? Try kino for DV capture. It works pretty well for me and even does very basic editing operations and some transcoding (with the help of external tools) There's also cinelerra which is supposed to capture and have a lot of editing capabilities, but I found it pretty unstable. I haven't tried composite capture, but if you emerge -s tv I see several tool to check out. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.4.22 kernel and masq problem
I just built the 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 kernel and am now having a problem with IP masquerading. It worked fine under 2.4.20-gentoo-r9, so I copied the .config from that version, ran make oldconfig, then make menuconfig and checked things. Now, when I'm running the 2.4.22 kernel I get an error on the following iptables command: # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -s 10.0.0.0/8 -j MASQUERADE iptables: Invalid argument If I leave off the -j MASQUERADE, I don't get the error. I show the following modules loaded (others deleted for brevity): ipt_MASQUERADE 1560 0 (autoclean) iptable_nat19832 5 [ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_irc ip_nat_amanda ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_ftp] ip_tables 12832 8 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_multiport ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_nat] ip_conntrack 22216 6 [ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_irc ip_nat_amanda ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_amanda ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_ftp ip Has anyone else had a problem with masquerading and 2.4.22? Any suggestions of what to look for? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP interface?
restart it manually do: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start That will cause it to go out and get it's new settings via dhcp. Ahhh Thank you. When I do this, (the commands your referring to above) does this tell it to look in ect/conf.d/net then..? And from there it knows whether its a static ip or to run dhcp?? Thanks, JBanks exactly. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Planning for a future crash
IIRC the LiveCD does support ssh. You might have to start the ssh daemon with /etc/init.d/sshd start. Long ago I used it to get the stage 1 tarball from one of my machines to the box that was to be a Gentoo box. Backups: /home/* /etc/* /usr/local/anything you've added here. I'd add /var/cache/edb/world, so you know what packages you had emerged before. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP interface?
Just change it in /etc/conf.d/net like you mentioned. That is all that is needed. 2) Having added eth1 to the default run-level via rc-update, will switching the interface to dhcp (versus it being statically addressed now) have an effect or not? If so, what (if simple) do I need to do? Correct. If you make the change in /etc/conf.d/net it will work as you expect. The file /etc/conf.d/net is nothing more then a place holder for numeric ip values. Adding it via 'rc-update add net.eth1 default' only told gentoo to start that device at boot time, the config is where the acual values come from. It will only work as you expect if you reboot or restart eth1 manually. To restart it manually do: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start That will cause it to go out and get it's new settings via dhcp. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild installing old package
You may have multiple versions of galeon installed, check etcat versions '^galeon$' Remove your old galeon versions and revdep-rebuild again. * net-www/galeon : [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.10a (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.11 (0) [ ] net-www/galeon-1.2.12 (0) [ I] net-www/galeon-1.3.10 (0) If I'm reading that correctly, I only have 1.3.10 installed, currently, but I did have 1.2.11 installed and locked to that version for a while. If I remember well, you can look at revdep-rebuild temporary files in $HOME/.revdep-rebuild.* I see them, but I don't know what to make of them. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild installing old package
I just tried to run revdep-rebuild but cancelled out of it when I saw it starting to do this: emerge --oneshot --nodeps =net-www/galeon-1.2.11 At one time, I had put =net-www/galeon-1.2.11 in my /var/cache/edb/world file to keep galeon from being upgraded, but I've since removed that. I don't know where revdep is finding this. Any suggestions on where to look? Could this be caused by the fact that galeon 1.3 (which I now have installed) is masked? I tried : ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 revdep-rebuild But it tries to build 1.2.11 also. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] genkernel and bootsplash
I've spent an hour reading forum stuff about bootsplash, but I don't see any answers to the issue of using genkernel and bootsplash together. The problem is that they both create their own initrd file, and I don't know how to combine them. Does anyone have bootsplash working with a genkernel system? How do you combine the initrd files? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xchat user list missing
With xchat closed, edit ~/.xchat2/xchat.conf and change gui_ulist_hide = 1 to gui_ulist_hide = 0. Or you could click the arrow to the right of the topic bar. Chris I All the buttons to the right of the topic bar are also missing now, but I never used them, so I didn't mention it. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Home Improvement Software?
Yea, I've got cycas, qcad and lignumcad installed but haven't had the opp. to sit down and learn any of them. Plus, I don't have the blueprints to my house so it would take time to actually recreate the house accurately in a CAD package. I was thinking of just using gimp as it would be simpler but then I would have to find images of plants, fencing and such. another possibility might be dia. It is a diagramming tool, but it would be better than gimp for your purpose. You can make libraries of special symbols. In fact, I think a collection of common architectural symbols would be a nice addition to dia. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why are ac-sources masked? (solved)
and I don't have an /etc/portage/packages.mask file, so I don't know why it's masked. Any ideas? Found it. ac-sources are masked in: /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask how many different ways are there to mask a file? Anyway, the comment says: # unmaintained upstream, I'll add pac instead So since I've been using ac-sources, does anyone have a recommendation for what kernel would be best to use on a laptop now? I picked ac-sources because it was newer than gentoo-source (still is) and supposedly had acpi fixes. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] twinview with geforce2 mx 400
Hi all, I am trying to get twinview work under linux but I cannot find any tools to do it properly (yanc seems not to work though it changes the XF86config file) and I can't find any valuable tutorials. I am about to go crazy about this because it works perfectly under windows. I have to get it running under linux since it disgusts me to reboot to windows to watch Divx Files with the output redireceted to my TV and then reboot to linux again to do all other stuff! can anyone come up with a solution or provide me with some linux to guides, tutorials etc. I would appreciate it! thanx in advance, momesana I've had it working for several years. I just followed Nvidia's directions and edited the XF86Config file by hand. Here's my device section: Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver nvidia #VideoRam65536 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! #Option sw_cursor Option DPMS # sample twinview setup Option TwinView # be sure to replace the HorizSync and VertRefresh with correct values # for your monitor! Option SecondMonitorHorizSync 31-94 Option SecondMonitorVertRefresh 50-160 Option TwinViewOrientation LeftOf Option MetaModes1152x864,1152x864 Option ConnectedMonitor crt,crt EndSection If you are trying to output to TV, you'll have to check the nvida docs and see what you should set ConnectedMonitor to. hope this helps. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] open office font weirdness
I just tried open office 1.1.0, and the font used in the menus and dialogs looks like it has at least 3 spaces between each character. in other words, the menu bar looks like this: F i l eE d i tT o o l s I ran oosetup after manually deleting ~/.sversionrc ~/.openoffice but that didn't help. I have the floowing font packages installed: oberon: 21% qpkg -I font media-fonts/freefonts * media-fonts/sharefonts * media-fonts/urw-fonts * Do I need to install other fonts, or is there something I need to do to configure these? All other apps I've tried seem fine, though I do occasionally see some placeholder glyph that looks like a box with 4 little letters or numbers. This mostly shows up in galeon. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xchat user list missing
I pull it toward the left, only a grey area is revealed. What am I missing? With xchat closed, edit ~/.xchat2/xchat.conf and change gui_ulist_hide = 1 to gui_ulist_hide = 0. Thanks a lot, that fixed it. I wonder why it defaults to hidden now? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge update results
I also can't figure out who has a dependency on lesstif. I tried emerge -puUD package on each of the other packages listed above, one at a time, and none of them showed up with lesstif when I did it that way. Any ideas? I'm always cautious when running updates that are not as expected. try qpkg -q -I lesstif then, ought to be more informative. That returned nothing, I think because lesstif is not installed. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] odd emerge update results
oberon root # emerge -puUD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.8 [0.9.2] [ebuild N] media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.8 [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.8 [0.9.2] [ebuild N] x11-libs/lesstif-0.93.40 [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.8 [0.9.1] [ebuild N] media-libs/speex-1.0 [ebuild U ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc2 [1_beta12] I don't understand why alsa driver is listed as N when I definately have it installed: oberon root # qpkg -i alsa-driver media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2 * I also can't figure out who has a dependency on lesstif. I tried emerge -puUD package on each of the other packages listed above, one at a time, and none of them showed up with lesstif when I did it that way. Any ideas? I'm always cautious when running updates that are not as expected. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] galeon problems
I think it is masked because the galeon developers still label it unstable and in development. That also means that build problems are unsupported... However, I did the above without problems: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031031 Galeon/1.3.10 can you be more specific on the problem you are getting? I went ahead and emerged the masked version which is working fine. It seems that if the 1.2 (unmasked) version of galeon does not work with the 1.5 (unmasked) mozilla, that either galeon 1.3 should be unmasked or 1.2 should be masked since it's definately not going to work. I see there are already several bugs on galeon in bugzilla. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] fwbuilder question
Is anyone using fwbuilder to set up their firewall? I've got it install, gui runs, my rules compile, and I can run the script by hand, but I have no idea where the right place is to put the script so it runs at startup and at the appropriate time so there's no window where I'm not protected. Is there an init'd wrapper I haven't found? Or should it be called from net.eth0? What are other people doing? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] galeon problems
I just updated and got Mozilla 1.5 After the update the old version of galeon would not run. I tried to emerge it again, but it also won't build. Does anyone know why the 1.2 versions are masked? Mandrake has been shipping with 1.3 for over a year, so I think it's pretty stable. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge problem with elfutils and libelf
Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-libs/elfutils (from pkg dev-libs/libelf-0.8.2) [ebuild N] dev-libs/libelf-0.8.2 +nls I saw some people mentioning problems libelf on the forums, but not this one specifically. Has elfutils been replaced by libelf? Can I safely remove dev-libs/elfutils? Is that the right thing to do? I still have trouble reading the blocks message. I'm interpreting the above as: elfutils blocks libelf from being installed Is that correct? if so, the from pkg part is just confusing to me. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] qt3.2.2 upgrade issues?
I just did an emerge -up world and see: qt-3.2.2-r1 [qt-3.1.2-r4] I was just curious if this requires any extra steps or if anyone has had any problems with this. I'm always cautious before merging an update that many things rely upon. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no fullscreen with mplayer
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:33 -0500 Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Any ideas on what might be | wrong? mplayer fullscreen has issues with fluxbox. Upgrading to mplayer pre1+ and fluxbox 0.95+ fixed these for me. Other window managers may well have similar issues... yes, I've seen problems with mwm too. When it goes full screen, the top left of the video is offset by about 20 pixels in X and Y. If this is such a common problem, I'm suprised there's isn't an option to just ignore the window manager and go full screen according to what the X server reports. What they are doing is actually harder and obviously error-prone. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many of you are 100% Linux?
I'm really wondering how many folks out there are so fully converted to Linux in both work and play that they would literally be unfamiliar with XP, for instance, having never used it. There was a slashdot article a few weeks back that probably planted the seed for this question. It was a review of Windows XP by someone who claimed they hadn't used Windows even once in six years. I've never used windows XP. I've *seen* it on other people's systems, and couldn't get past the bubblegum colors. I have never used windows for work. Since 1989 I've worked for companies that do Unix (and later linux) software development. My first workstation was an NCD X terminal attached to an IBM RS6000. Later, my desktop machine was always a PC running only some flavor of unix or linux. At home I do have a win98 box to run video editing software (adobe premiere) on. As someone else mentioned about music, the Linux video editing software is way behind the windows stuff, but I'm surprised at how much progress it has made in the past couple of years. Also at home I have 1 mandrake box I use as my main desktop, and a gentoo system I will eventually migrate to. I also have a gentoo laptop. My girlfriend runs mandrake with VMware for word. Other than word. she uses only Linux programs for mail, web etc. Unfortunately the reports she writes for work do not work right under openwriter, abiwriter etc. So I have used windows, but generally find it incredibly confusing to try to administer. Linux is a snap. The whole easier to use think is BS. What you already know is easier to use. I think Linux has a different learning curve than windows. Initially it's tough, but once you get some basic concepts (editing a file, find, grep) the curve flattens out. I think with windows the curve is constant because everything has config windows hidden in different places that work slightly differently. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Typematic rate
Hello, how to change the typematic rate / delay of a keyboard ? Actually i have a repetition rate of about 1/sec. And there is no setting in the BIOS (Phoenix). Try the kbdrate command. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start
You can put -t 5 in the dhcp options in /etc/conf.d/net. This sets the timeout for dhcp to 5 seconds (you can adjust accordingly). However, I would love to see the gentoo network start scripts to be able to detect link, and skip an interface if no link is found. I think they may be working on that... Take a look at ifplugd. There's an ebuild for it, but I think there's a newer version here: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/ifplugd/ -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] galeon 1.3
Now that I've upgraded to gnome 2.4, galeon 1.2 won't run unless I start gconfd-1 manually first. So I thought I'd try galeon 1.3 since other distros like Mandrake have been shipping 1.3 for quite a while. I set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 and did emerge -p galeon. I was surprised to see that it wanted to upgrade gcc to 3.3.1. Other than the obvious reason that *everything* depends on gcc, why does galeon have a specific dependency on 3.3.1? I tested other ~x86 packages, like openoffice 1.1 and they did not want to upgrade gcc. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to enable usb event interface
I'm running the ac4 kernel and I have built with the following USB options: CONFIG_INPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HID=m CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y I have a usb touchscreen in my laptop, and it is recognized and the /dev/input/mouse0 device is created, but the generic /dev/input/event0 is not created. Does anyone know what I have to do to get event0? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless configuration howto?
Chris: humm... if you send us a %lsmod it's going to help a lot! I've made a lot of progress. I can get the wireless connection to work as long a I do everything manually. So far I have not been able to find any config files in gentoo to set things like the ESSID, WEP, etc. If I use the net.eth1 script to bring up the wireless, it does something that screws it up, but if I just do: ifconfig eth1 up dhcpcd eth1 it works fine. So my question now is how to correctly automate the startup and be able to deal with different WAP's, as well as easily switching from wired to wireless. From what I've been able to determine, I think I'll have to write my own scripts for this, but any pointers would be appreciated. I've read about netenv, but it is a boot time change. What I want is to be able to use the 100baseT wire when I'm sitting at my desk, but be able to pull the wire and walk away with it switching to wireless without missing a beat. I thought this would be something everyone would want to do, but so far haven't been able to find any info on this type of setup. BTW, here's the lsmod: Module Size Used byTainted: GF thermal 6624 0 (unused) fan 1696 0 (unused) button 2636 0 (unused) ac 1888 0 (unused) processor 8600 0 [thermal] battery 5952 0 (unused) ds 7016 0 yenta_socket 10816 1 pcmcia_core44192 0 [ds yenta_socket] orinoco_pci 3364 0 orinoco36012 0 [orinoco_pci] hermes 6340 0 [orinoco_pci orinoco] snd-ali545113132 0 snd-ac97-codec 37664 0 [snd-ali5451] snd-pcm62240 0 [snd-ali5451] snd-timer 14728 0 [snd-pcm] snd31204 0 [snd-ali5451 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 3940 0 [snd] snd-page-alloc 5324 0 [snd-pcm] hid15380 0 (unused) usb-ohci 19104 0 (unused) usbcore63904 1 [hid usb-ohci] -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless configuration howto?
It seems that you didnt emerged pcmcia-cs, so.. emerge it.. but first disable PCMCIA support No, I didn't because the wireless is a built-in pci device. Should I still use the pcmcia stuff? I thought it wouldn't work since there would be no hotplug events to trigger it. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] error building alsa-drivers with linux-2.4.22-ac4
I just upgraded to the linux-2.4.22-ac4 kernel sources. When I emerged the alsa-drivers again (they worked with -ac1) I got the following error: serialmidi.c: In function `open_tty': serialmidi.c:158: invalid operands to binary distcc[26921] ERROR: compile on localhost failed with exit code 1 make[1]: *** [serialmidi.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-0.9.2/work/alsa-driver-0.9.2/drivers' make: *** [compile] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 59, Exitcode 2 !!! Parallel Make Failed I looked at the offending code and could not see anything wrong, but if I commented out that section, the build continued. Does anyone know if this has already been reported as a bug, or if there's a work around? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless configuration howto?
Is there anything written up on how to configure wireless network adapters under gentoo? My laptop has built-in PCI 802.11b so the pcmcia stuff doesn't apply. It was automatically detected and comes up when I start eth1, but I don't know where to set the ESSID and any other wireless parameters I might need. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless configuration howto?
i believe you will want to emerge wireless-tools then do a man iwconfig or= =20 something similar... i think there is even a /etc/conf.d/net.wireless conf= ig=20 file and a /etc/init.d/net.wireless script Thanks for the pointer, I've got wireless-tools and am studying iwconfig, but the only wireless files I have under etc are: /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts /etc/pcmcia/wireless I was expecting something like /etc/init.d/net.wireless, is there another package it could be in? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] do I need linux-wlan-ng
Can anyone help me decide if I need to install linux-wlan-ng? I am using sys-kernel/ac-sources and it seems to have drivers for my laptop's builtin wireless card: orinoco_pci 3364 0 (unused) orinoco36012 0 [orinoco_pci] hermes 6340 0 [orinoco_pci orinoco] do the linux-wlan-ng drivers do something that the default drivers don't? do you have to do anything other than re-emerge linux-wlan-ng after you rebuild the kernel? Any comments or pointers appreciated, I've never messed with wireless before. At this point I'm still trying to figure out the difference between all the WAP models out there. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What is the CHOST/CFLAGS suggestion utility?
Sorry, but my brain has failed. I cannot remember the name of the utility that examines your cpu etc and suggests CFLAGS and CHOST settings. I've googled in vain as well. Can someone please remind me of the name? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] best kernel source for laptops
I've just ordered my first laptop, so I'm trying to learn all about this suspend/hibernate apm/acpi stuff. I wondering which kernel sources are best to use on a laptop to get the suspend stuff working. do any of them have the swsusp patches already applied? Any gentoo specific pointers would be apprciated. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new gentoo-sources
I just noticed that I now have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7. This is the second time I've been surprised to find a new kernel so I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I always examine the emerge -up output before I run it. Am I just not catching the new kernels or are they not being listed? Regardless, it would be helpful if emerge mentioned that you should go build the new kernel the same way it reminds you of etc config file changes. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Crusoe CHOST and CFLAGS settings
I'm getting a laptop with a Crusoe cpu and am looking for the right settings for CHOST and CFLAGS for a stage 1 install. I found the following recommendations for CFLAGS at http://www.geocities.com/robm351/lifebook/: gcc 2.95.x -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -malign-functions=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-loops=0 gcc 3.x -O3 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0 does anyone have any other suggestions? I have not found any info on what I should set CHOST to, should I leave it as CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo-source 2.4.20-r6
I just did an emerge -u --deep world. It did not list the gentoo-source as a package it would upgrade, but I happened to look at the messages streaming by and saw that it was installing 2.4.20-r6. I was kind-of surprised that I'd get a new kernel version so stealthily. qpkg shows I have r5 and r6 installed: # qpkg -I -v gentoo-source sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 * I have 2 questions. How would I have even known this got installed if I hadn't happened to see it scroll by? How do I find out what's in r6 to decide if I want to build/install/run it? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge error with PyQt
Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I just did a fairly big emerge -u and it ended with: g++ -c -pipe -w -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DSIP_MAKE_MODULE_DLL -DQEXTSCINTILLA_DLL -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I/usr/qt/3/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I. -I/usr/include/python2.2 -I/usr/qt/3/include -o qtexthuge0.o qtexthuge0.cpp sipqtextQPtrList.cpp: In member function `int sipQextScintilla::sipEmit_SCN_MODIFYATTEMPTRO(PyObject*)': sipqtextQPtrList.cpp:4878: `SCN_MODIFYATTEMPTRO' undeclared (first use this function) sipqtextQPtrList.cpp:4878: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) sipqtextQPtrList.cpp: In member function `int sipQextScintilla::sipEmit_modificationAttempted(PyObject*)': sipqtextQPtrList.cpp:5255: `modificationAttempted' undeclared (first use this function) make[1]: *** [qtexthuge0.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/PyQt-3.7/work/PyQt-x11-gpl-3.7/qtext' make: *** [sub-qtext] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-python/PyQt-3.7 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Any suggestions? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d floor plans
Is there an open source (or free) program available that will let you create a floor plan and then do a 3d walk-through? take a look at http://www.cycas.de It's a 2D/3D drafting program that can output to POV-Ray. The interface is different (maybe it's normal for drafting programs) but can do a lot when you get used to it. I haven't figured out the 3d part yet. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3d floor plans
Chris Bare wrote: Is there an open source (or free) program available that will let you create a floor plan and then do a 3d walk-through? take a look at http://www.cycas.de It's a 2D/3D drafting program that can output to POV-Ray. The interface is different (maybe it's normal for drafting programs) but can do a lot when you get used to it. I haven't figured out the 3d part yet. I don't want anything that complex. I've seen Windows programs that are specifically designed to do floor plans and then let you do a 3d walk-through. Good luck. Let me know if you find anything. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] what to do about blocked packages?
emerge -up --deep world gives me the following: [blocks B] media-libs/quicktime4linux (from pkg media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.2_pre1) [blocks B] media-libs/libquicktime (from pkg media-libs/quicktime4linux-1.5.5-r1) Even when I set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 I get the same 2 packages blocked. Is this a problem? If so what should I do to correct it? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Copying existing installation to new harddrive
I set up a GENTOO box for a friend of mine (it's his first Linux experience and he is really happy with it) recently. The box in question has a rather old, small and slow harddrive that he wants to exchange in the near future. Is it possible, and if so, how, to copy the existing GENTOO installation to the new harddrive? TIA, Sebastian I did this not long ago and it worked great. The procedure I followed was to connect both hard drives, then boot off the install cd. I fdisked the new drive. I then mounted each of the old partitions under /old and each of the new partitions under /new. Then I ran this command to copy the files: rsync -a --progress /old/ /new Then I switched cables so the old drive was now hda, booted from the CD and ran grub on hd0. It booted right up from the new drive after that. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: reiserfs prevents harddrive suspend of my notebook
Meanwhile I found out, that the suspend time is just extended without WLAN: around 30 seconds instead of 5. Sometimes more, sometimes less. So this seems to be a very complex problem to me. I am not sure if it is even possible what I want. I wonder if there is anyone out there that successfully suspends his drive for more than 5 five minutes on a linux desktop (notebook) system. Could it have something to do with your system logging? check the log and see if something is getting written frequently. Some of the newer loggers will buffer their output, so that may help. You can also turn down what gets logged unless you are trying to debug something. Apologies if you already though of this. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/dnsdomainname question
I was looking at the newly re-written install docs (well, done by the way) and I noticed that the hostname looks to be being broken up as Sorry, if I missed it, this is the first mention I've seen of re-written install docs. When did the re-written ones go up and where are they? What's different in the new version? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge --deep world misses possible upgrade
I happened to check to see if I had libgd installed and noticed that I do, but it is not the latest version: gentoo root # emerge -p libgd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] media-libs/libgd-1.8.4-r2 [1.8.3-r6] Yet when I run emerge -up --deep world I don't see that: gentoo root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildUD] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r4 [0.00-r5] [ebuildUD] media-video/cinelerra-1.0.0 [1.1.5] I thought emerge -up --deep world would find everything that could possibly be upgraded. Was I mistaken? Is there another command to get *everything*? Or is this a bug somewhere? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Wine to work
i never had any intention of trying to figure out how to configure wine and had avoided it at all costs until a buddy told me about winesetuptk # emerge winesetuptk it's the shiz-nit ;-) do you need a windows partition to use this? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vim colours
i'm rather fond of vim, but there's one thing that just kills me, and that's the colour scheme used when i'm running konsole in kde. since i use the semi-transparent background, the dark blue used in comments is virtually unreadable and i'd like very much to be able to change the scheme used by vim to determine this colour... but try as i may, i can't find where this is coming from. can someone help me out here? You can override the default colors in your .vimrc file. You'd have to dig through the docs or the default files, but here are some overrides I've used for years that should give you a place to start: Set nice colors highlight Normal guibg=wheat highlight Visual gui=reverse guifg=NONE guibg=wheat highlight Cursor guibg=red guifg=NONE highlight NonText guibg=wheat highlight Constant guifg=DarkSlateBlue highlight Search guifg=red gui=bold guibg=NONE highlight Comment guifg=grey30 highlight PreProc guifg=brown highlight Special guifg=sienna gui=bold highlight PreProc guifg=brown highlight Statement guifg=sienna highlight type guifg=#227b10 gui=bold highlight cIdentifier gui=bold guifg=DarkSlateBlue My normal background is wheat, so you'll obviously have to adjust the colors, but at least this give you the syntax. I'm sure there are other types (the word after highlight) but these where the main ones that bothered me. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 30 to 60GB hard drive migration
Heh You're lucky, just -a won't preserve file permissions. :P From the rsync man page it looks like it does: -a, --archive archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD -p, --perms preserve permissions -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Success with 1394 DV capture using kino
I know there's been some discussion of 1394 and DV cameras lately, so I thought I'd share my success. I emerged kino 0.6.4 and it's various dependencies. I built all the 1394 kernel modules and added the following to my /etc/modules.autoload: ohci1394 raw1394 dv1394 Then I ran kino (as root because I haven't figure out the file permissions stuff yet) Under preferences on teh 1394 tab I set the following: DV Capture Driver: Raw1394 Device: /dev/video1394/0 DV Export Driver: dv1394 Device: /dev/video1394/0 In the main window, hit the capture tab, click AV/C. This connects the play/pause etc buttons to your camera. Hit play, then hit capture when you get to the part you want to capture. I found several other combinations of driver and device settings that locked up my system completely the instant I hit the play button, so try this with caution as other hardware my respond differently. I was also able to generate an mpeg2 via kino, but there is apparently a problem in the divx generator, see: http://kino.schirmacher.de/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topicforum=101topic_id=1760mesg_id=1760page= -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] can't emerge cinelerra 1.1.6
Does anyone know why emerge won't use the ebuild for cinelerra 1.1.6? At first I was getting 1.0.0, then I set: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 And it decided to give me 1.1.5. I glanced at the ebuild for 1.1.5 and 1.1.6 and they are both set for ~x86. Is there something else I should do to get 1.1.6? Is there some reason I should avoid it and stick with 1.1.5? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 30 to 60GB hard drive migration
I have a gentoo install running fine on a 30GB drive. I just got a 60GB drive that I would like to switch to. I know how to add the 60GB as a second drive, but what I really want is the current install from the 30GB installed on the 60GB. I know I could dd the old partitions, but I'd like to change the size of the partitions. I was wondering if I can copy the old files to a new partition and have everything work. the /dev files are the main thing I'd be concerned about. And also the best command to do the copy and preserve all the right permissions etc. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 30 to 60GB hard drive migration
`rsync -rlopg --progress --exclude=3D/dev --exclude=3D/mnt/newdrve /=20 /mnt/newdrive` would be how I would do it. That command will preserve=20 permissions. Thanks for the suggestion. Someone else suggested I boot from the install CD, so I combined your suggestions and was pleasantly surprised at the ease with which this worked. I booted from the CD, partitioned and mounted the new drive as I wanted, mounted the old drive, then did: rsync -a --progress /old/ /new Then I switched cables so the old drive was now hda, booted from the CD and ran grub on hd0. It booted right up from the new drive after that. The thing I like about gentoo is I really feel like I understand what is going on, so I'm able to do things like this which I would never dream of with Red Hat or Mandrake. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB and Firewire user guides
Make sure you check out the web site www.linux1394.org for more setup info. Specifically the Getting Started pages. Also check out http://kino.schirmacher.de/ There is an ebuild for kino, it's a simple video capture/editing program that comes with some useful command line tools too. If you can send out the list of modules you have loaded (lsmod output) we can see if you are missing anything. I also had to download and build the sg3_utils to get usb storage to work. There's a program called sg_map that's part of sg3_utils which maps a /dev/usb/something to a dev/hd?? entry which you can then mount. I found some details about this by searching for Linux Compact Flash, I think. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused
Is there any particular version that you would recommend I am using rc4 do you think that rc2 or rc3 would be better? I don't know what to suggest, but I used rc4 on a similar setup. I have an asus a7v mobo which also has the kt333 chipset. Have you turned up the optimization yet? That could cause seg faults in things you have built if the compiler optimization is buggy. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger, gnome :-/
Do I *really* need all this just for ymessenger? Is there any other IM app= =20 that can handle Yahoo IM protocol? I've read that gaim can, but I couldn't see how in the version I looked at. It probably has similar requirements. I've also used one called gyach. I don't know if it has an ebuild. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB pen drives?
When I plug in my USB pen drive, it shows up like so: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5dc/0x80) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: LEXAR Model: DIGITAL FILM Rev: /W1. Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. ...however there is no /dev/sdaX. How do I mount it? try running sg_map. I haven't found an emerge for it, so let me know if you find one. It is part of the sg3_utils package. Google for it and build from source. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Remote X session
Thanks for all answers. I found where the problem was. I did as follows: X :1 DISPLAY=:1 xhost +B This does not keep the authorization for B! Doing X :1 xterm -display :1 and then typing xhost +B on the xterm works fine. I can explain that one. Whenever the last client disconnects from the X server, it automatically resets to it's startup state. In the case without the xterm, xhost is both the first and last client, so it sets the permission, but as soon as it exits, the server resets it. By running the xterm, it acts as the anchor for your session and the permission setting stays in effect. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X question - where should apps display?
In this case Evolution started a second copy, but it sent the graphics to the desktop at my work machine and displayed nothing here at home. When I arrived back at work I saw the two copies one my desktop. I closed them. Everything was fine. Is this the way X apps should work? Or is this some sort of bug? (XFree, Evolution or possibly sshd or something...) Generally, it goes to where ever $DISPLAY is set to. It is commonly set to :0 for the local display. I can also be localhost:0, but that uses a slower connection. You can also set it to hostname:0 to tell it to go to a remote host. ssh sets this for you on the remote side to something like localhost:10.0. It forwards connections to that back to whatever $DISPLAY was set to on the local side. So echo $DISPLAY at home and see what it says. Evolution may have something else going on to detect a running instance and just open a new window of that instance, rather than starting up a whole new copy. That could explain what you saw. I don't use Evolution, so I don't know if that's how it works, but I have seen other programs that work that way. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up i855gm with xfree -- color depth
Try adding a Modes line to the Display subsections. For example: Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 note: the first mode in the list is the default, and you can switch to one of the others from the list -- but I don't remember exactly how, as I never use this ability. ctrl alt + and ctrl alt - cycle back and forth through the list. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB CF reader hotplug mounting
This problem occurs in case you're using more than one usb mass storage device (USBMSD) or more than one type of memory media in your reader. Is'nt it your case ? (Sure yes :-) ). I have only one USB device, but it has a compact flash and some other media slot. sg map always tells me the same thing: gentoo usb # sg_map # Note: the devfs pseudo file system is present /dev/sg0 /dev/sda /dev/sg1 /dev/sdb sda is the CF slot. For every plugged USBMSD system reserves new device, although they are disconected later ... so you should remember what was where, or use monte carlo method to find it :-) Any way, you have to improve your sg_map/rg_map script. Are you saying it's getting assigned a different sg number? I don't think that's the problem, becuase I can do mount twice in a row and the first fails but the second successes. I don't change anything between the 2 tries. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting hotplug to work?
Hi!
I'm having some troubles getting hotplug to work correctly with usb-storage.
It apparently notices that device is plugged as /proc/scsi/usb-storage/1
exists:
Host scsi1: usb-storage
Vendor: Creative Tech
Product: NOMAD MuVo
Serial Number:
Protocol: Transparent SCSI
Transport: Bulk
Quirks:
But there's no /dev/sda*, so that I could mount the device. I'm using
2.5.70-mm9 with usb-storage, usbcore, uhci-hcd, scsi-disk and scsi-generic
compiled as modules. Running dmesg shows this:
I've just been trying to understand this too. As far as I know, you have
to use sg_map to create the /dev/sda entry. sg_map is part of sg3_utils.
I can't find an ebuild for it, but it builds from source with no
problem.
After emerging hotplug, I added the following file:
/etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage
#!/bin/bash
exec /tmp/hotplug 21
# this fails for some mysterious reason, so we keep trying
# until it works
for ((c=10; c != 0; c--))
do
/bin/umount /mnt/photo
/usr/local/bin/sg_map
/bin/mount /mnt/photo
if [ $? == 0 ]
then
break;
else
sleep 10;
echo looping $c
fi
done
echo mount successful
find /mnt/photo -name *.jpg -exec cp {} /tmp \;
/bin/umount /mnt/photo
For some reason the mount doesn't always work. I'm strill trying to
figure that part out. Once it mounts, this script just copies all jpg's
to /tmp, but obviously you could do whatever you want.
I'm still trying to figure out how to know when the script is done. It
would be nice if the lights on teh CF reader would go out when it
unmounts, but that doesn't happen.
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[gentoo-user] ebuild for sg3_utils?
Is there an ebuild for the sg3_utils (scsi generic) package? I searched for all the combinations I could think of, but didn't see one. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config
Is there a way to save to a readable format the current kernel and its settings so it can be viewed for future builds? If the kernel is built with the right option, you can do: cat /proc/config to get the .config file the running kernel was built with. If you still have the build tree, you can copy /usr/src/linux/.config -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB CF reader hotplug mounting
I've got a USB sandisk Compact Flash reader. I can get it to work by loading the following modules: usb-storage64380 1 ehci-hcd 16328 0 (unused) usb-uhci 25324 0 (unused) usbcore67168 1 [usb-storage ehci-hcd usb-uhci] I have scsi generic built into the kernel. In order to mount it I have to run: gentoo usb # /usr/local/bin/sg_map # Note: the devfs pseudo file system is present /dev/sg0 /dev/sda /dev/sg1 /dev/sdb I don't see that in most of the instructions I've found on the web, but I've mostly found stuff written for red hat. After running rg_map, I can mount the CF, but most of the time it fails on the first try with: gentoo usb # /bin/mount /mnt/photo mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems gentoo usb # /bin/mount /mnt/photo mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems gentoo usb # /bin/mount /mnt/photo on the third time it worked. The failures generate the following kernel messages: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sdb: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun1: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2097144 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2097144 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device 08:01 not ready. I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sector I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sector SCSI device sda: 15680 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB) sda: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:09.0-2 address 14 hub.c: new USB device 00:09.0-2, assigned address 15 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 15 Device 08:01 not ready. I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sector Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a solution, or is this what you get for a $20 gadget? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cannot open root device
I've installed gentoo successfully several times before, but this time I'm getting the following when I try to boot the first time: VFS: Cannot open root device hda3 or 03:03 I have the following in my grub.conf: title=Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 /dev/hda3 is fine becuase I can mount it when I boot from the CD. I've rebuilt the kernel 3 times, double checking that I have the IDE driver and reiserfs support built in, not as a module. What else could I be missing? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
Did you have /boot mounted when you copied bzImage to it? yes. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
I think that if you double-check things, you will find that you do not have /dev/hd1, /dev/hd2 nor /dev/hd3. You probably have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3. Not that there is an a added between the numeral and the letter d. Hope it helps. thanks for spotting that. I've fixed it, but I had it right in grub. The problem is before it even managed to get to fstab. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
I looked back at your original e-mail, and I'll be durned if I can see what might be wrong. Sorry I can't help. I have a feeling I've left something out of the kernel that should be built in statically, but I haven't spotted the problem yet. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
diff with a working kernel? ;) The only working one I have at the moment is the liveCD. What's weird is I've installed gentoo at least 2 other times on this exact same hardware and never had this problem. Maybe I got a newer kernel source this time. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
Rats! This reminded me that I had the same problem at some point because of multiple controllers. I changed /dev/hda? to /dev/hde? and things went just fine. I think that it was loading the controller card before the on-board controller. Could this be a possibility? -rex I don't think it could be in my case, I don't have any extra controllers. I do have USB and 1394, but no devices plugged in. I wonder if they could cause a problem? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
IIRC the /proc/config exist on the livecd Thanks for all the suggestions, I finally got it to work. I took your advice and did: cat /proc/config /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash source /etc/profile cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig make dep make clean bzImage modules modules_install cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot It seems like the config you booted off with is likely to be a better one than the default, so this is probably a safe step for any install. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device
Look back at his fstab. He has his partitions listed as hd1, hd3 etc. shouldn't it read hda1,hda3 etc? Yes, someone caught that earlier, but the kernel wasn't even getting that far. I'd left out something that needed to be linked in statically. I started over with /proc/config from the liveCD and that fixed it, so I never figured out exactly what I'd missed. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
Hi, I've got a number of 1394 hard drives. I'd like to set up some sort of a regular backup of my Gentoo box in the studio. Can someone recommend a tool that has an ebuild and will support backing up to a hard drive? I prefer a GUI based tool, or something very easy to remember how to use if it's command line based. Is your goal to back up the built-in drive to several 1394 drives? if the 1394 drives are as big or bigger than the built-in, you could just mount the 1394 and use rsync to mirror the built-in to the 1394. After the first time, rsync would be able to bring it up to date very quickly. I haven't messed with the hotplug stuff, but in theory, you could set up a script that did the mount and rsync when you plugged the drive in and sent you an email (or whatever) when it was done. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc4 install portage update
Did you untar the stagex tarball before chrooting? This is the message you get when the initial directories have not been created. The make.conf is no big deal as it will create that when it emerges. Yes, I untarred stage 1. now I have tried: emerge sync (get message about updating) emerge -p portage (list of packages) emerge portage runs for a while, then I get this error: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Is this a bug in the ebuild? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rc4 install portage update
I just started an install with 1.4 rc4 and after the emerge sync step it says: * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated. * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files. I tried: emerge portage but after a long while I got a build error from that. What does that message mean I should do? I suggest that the message be changed to include the command to execute if it is something simple. Even if my system was up and running I wouldn't be sure what I should do. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc4 install portage update
I'm getting the same message and have been for a while. I built this machine a month ago but have been hesitant to do that step. On a machine I built last week, I believe I did the portage emerge. I Actually sent the same question to this list. Check the archives for people's answers. -Mark I've been trying to find something in the archive (I'm using http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user BTW, is there a better place to look?) It's hard to search for install and emerge without hitting everything. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc4 install portage update
It didn't say much. I believe that I did: emerge -p portage emerge portage emerge sync and then went on, but this is just memory. I was at the same point as you are right now I think... Do you think you did an emerge sync first? I tried emerge -p portage as the first step after chroot and got: cdimage / # emerge -p portage Note: /etc/make.profile/make.defaults isn't available. an 'emerge sync' will probably fix this. !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
