[gentoo-user] kernel: built-in vs. module
I've been using linux full time for about 6 months now, but I haven't found anything on the pros and cons of compiling the kernel with features built-in vs built as modules? What are the advantages of either case? curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] random linux help: speeding up ssh?
I have a pretty decent machine at either end, each with *very* good connection. I'm connecting via DSL from home, but everything is running *real* slow over SSH, even CLI-based stuff it seems. X apps, not even happening. Any tips how I might speed up my ssh connection? thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] switching from GCC to ICC
I keep hearing that for intel processors, ICC builds much better overall. Is this true? If I emerge ICC and have "+icc" specified in make.conf, will ICC be the prefered compiler on my system? Does ICC use the same optimizers as GCC (-03 -f*)? thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel compile issue: ide-cd.*
I just modified my kernel to support a usb mouse, tried to recompile, and got the following: <...> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium3 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=ide_cd -c -o ide-cd.o ide-cd.c In file included from ide-cd.c:320: ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used invalidly for `slot_tablelen' make[3]: *** [ide-cd.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/drivers/ide' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/drivers/ide' make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 I've been using the gentoo-sources for a while now with this config, is there anything known under USB Support or Input Core Support that would screw with my IDE/ATAPI settings? clueless, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] synaptics touchpad and kernel 2.5.x
Has anyone gotten a synaptics touchpad working with the 2.5.x kernel? I've been messing with it most of this afternoon with no success. note: synaptics touchpads are shipped on many dell and acer laptops thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] centrino laptops
check out http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html good stuff... -chris On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:38, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.07.08 01:07, Jeff Ames wrote: > > > Specifically, I'm curious about what CFLAGS work (and are stable, > > > obviously) for use with the Pentium-M processor. > > > > I have a Sony Vaio, which has a Pentium III-M, and I've been using > > "-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" from the beginning with great success. > > Yes, I was previously using a coppermine-based celeron laptop, and had > success with -march=pentium3. > > The tricky part is that the pentium-m is not the same as a pentium 3-m, > or a pentium 4-m. It is it's own, new, arch that has capabilities > similar to the pentium 4-m, but with much better power management, and > a greatly reduced clock speed (1.3GHz p-m roughly equals a 2.0GHz p4-m) > > I've further thought about my question, and pose these further > questions: Should I just do an -mcpu=pentium4 (assuming I have gcc > version 3.2.3 or higher to fix the sse2 bugs)? Would I be safe with an > -march=pentium4 (and would there actually be any benifits to this over > -mcpu). The capabilities I believe are the same (sse2, etc), just with > extra power management support built in. > > Also: Please keep replies on-list, as the archives can be indexed by > google and other search engines for others. But feel free to cc me if > you want. > > -Chris I > > Is it 1974? What's for SUPPER? Can I spend my COLLEGE FUND in one > wild afternoon?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance...
sounds like a classic case of dma not enabled... try emerging hdparm, setting dma, and then setting hdparm to run at boot. -chris On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:55, Sean Bossinger wrote: > Good evening: > > I'm a relatively new user to Gentoo, just started using it last week. > > I've noticed that when I'm running in my GNOME desktop, if I'm doing > anything that has to do with the filesystem, reading/writing to/from my > IBM-DTLA7030 drive, I get jitters in the desktop, and rather poor > performance overall. > > I am running my system with an Athlon Tbird 1200 processor, on an Asus > A7M-266 board, which has an ATA100 IDE drive interface to get to the > disk. > > My /boot is an ext3fs file system, while my / (the only other filesystem > that is mounted when this occurs) is ReiserFS. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > M -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance...
The gentoo way would be 'rc-update add hdparm default' and then edit /etc/conf.d/hdparm -chris On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 04:29, Sean Bossinger wrote: > Thank you for your assistance... It is much appreciated. It was a rather duh > moment for me. > > Another question... > > I've enabled this on my machine manually, but I want it enabled every time I start. > I've added the line to my rc.conf; however, I question if this is the right place... > > Are there any guidelines on this? > > Sean > > ---Original Message--- > From: Christopher Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 07/09/03 08:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance... > > > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Graves wrote: > > >sounds like a classic case of dma not enabled... > > > >try emerging hdparm, setting dma, and then setting hdparm to run at > >boot. > > hdparm -d1 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdX > > > Christopher Fisk > -- > "Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill all the humans?" -Bender > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > e -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] location of xfree-source tree?
Where is the xfree source tree located on a gentoo system? need coffee... -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] non-gentoo-specific question: browser modification
Is it possible to setup Mozilla(Firebird) such that websites "think" it is, say, Netscape 4.7x or Netscape6? I came across this problem on a website recently (it wanted me to be running netscape 4.7x or ie); I sent the webmaster a "nice" little email, but as a temporary fix, I would like Mozilla-Firebird to "fake" being a version of Netscape. curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash + Java under Mozilla Firebird
either A) close firebird, delete appreg and plugins.dat, and restart firebird or B) link your firebird directory (.phoenix?) to the mozilla directory and restart firebird Other things you may need for streaming video: mplayer, mplayerplug-in, netscape-plugger... -chris On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 21:07, Trevor Gordon wrote: > I can't get Flash or Java to install for Firebird, the installers dont > seem to recognize it at all. This is a particular problem with Flash > because the installer doesnt give me an option to choose an installation > directory, it just autodetects and asks me if its correct. > > Flash autoinstalls for Mozilla (Which is wierd cuz I dont have Mozilla > on this box) but that doesnt seem to affect Firebird. > > Also, how can I get Firebird to view streaming video? > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > 9 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash + Java under Mozilla Firebird
How are you installing flash? try emerging netscape-flash or gplflash... On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:36, Trevor Gordon wrote: > Ok, I've closed all my browsers, deleted appreg and plugins.dat from > .phoenix and symlinked .mozilla to .phoenix > > still no flash. Flash is installed into .mozilla and refuses to give me > an option to install into .phoenix -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] keyboard goes to sleep?
I've been running gentoo linux on my Dell Inspiron 4000 for several months now; one little problem I've had is that, periodically, when the laptop is left running for varying amounts of time, the keyboard stops working. X/gnome is still working just fine and the mouse works, but nothing from the keyboard gets any response. It seems to only happen when I'm using my pcmcia wireless card... anyone heard of something similar and/or know of a possible solution? XFConfig attached. thanks, -chris Section "Module" Load"type1" Load"speedo" Load"freetype" Load"xtt" Load"dbe" # Double buffer extension Load"glx" Load"GLcore" # Load"pex5" # Load"xie" Load"fbdevhw" Load"dri" Load"record" Load"extmod" Load"synaptics" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" EndSection #Section "ServerFlags" #EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc101" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection # Synaptics Touchpad Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "synaptics" #Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" #Option "Protocol" "event" #Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "Name" "AutoDetected" Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected" #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "UpDownScrolling" "on" Option "edges" "1900 5400 1800 3900" Option "Finger" "25 30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.10" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.80" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0020" Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75" Option "EdgeMotionSpeed" "20" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "50" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection # USB Mouse Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "laptop" HorizSync 30-100 VertRefresh 50-100 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ati m3 rage" Driver "ati" VideoRam8192 #ChipSet"ati" Option "HWCursor" Option "SilkenMouse" Option "shadowfb" Option "AGPMode" "1" Option "UseCCEFor2D" "false" Option "accel" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "ati m3 rage" Monitor "laptop" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1400x1050" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "primary" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo-dev-sources vs development-sources
Is there any notable improvement running the gentoo-dev-sources over the vanilla 2.6.2 (development-sources)? Just checking before I try to find out the hard way. -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] interesting article: optimizing GCC
interesting article about selecting gcc optimizations (found on OSNews.com). http://www.coyotegulch.com/acovea/index.html -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] building openoffice
does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice
I have a request then: Would someone with adequate diskspace (and time, etc) be willing to compile it for me (w/ my make.conf)? My laptop can't handle this ebuild. please, -chris Jeffrey Smelser wrote: yes does the openoffice ebuild really require 4-5G of available diskspace to compile? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice
Please, reply at the bottom of the email, or it leaves no logical place for a reply to be added! emerge a binary vesion, maybe openoffice-bin? As I am seeking help, I'll comply with your wishes, but this whole top-posting vs bottom-posting, vi vs emacs, gui vs cli (...) shit has got to go. It's a matter of preference and perspective. I view a conversation/communication as a FILO structure or a relevance stack, in which you add information to the top and expire information at the bottom when the stack becomes too large (as it has lost it relevance to the immediate conversation). In light of that, I find it logical to add information to the top of an email. Now, I know about the -bin version. But if I wanted unoptimized, precompiled binaries I'd be with a different distro. OK, by now, I've seen another post suggesting mounting extra diskspace to /var/tmp/portage via NFS... that's sounds like a viable solution. regards, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice
P3 (Coppermine)... I run gnome & xfce4, but not kde. -chris Redeeman wrote: what is your system, i have a ahtlon-xp compiled package i made, with the ximian patches, works perfect, and i am going to build a p4 package soon on my laptop On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:13, Chris Graves wrote: Please, reply at the bottom of the email, or it leaves no logical place for a reply to be added! emerge a binary vesion, maybe openoffice-bin? As I am seeking help, I'll comply with your wishes, but this whole top-posting vs bottom-posting, vi vs emacs, gui vs cli (...) shit has got to go. It's a matter of preference and perspective. I view a conversation/communication as a FILO structure or a relevance stack, in which you add information to the top and expire information at the bottom when the stack becomes too large (as it has lost it relevance to the immediate conversation). In light of that, I find it logical to add information to the top of an email. Now, I know about the -bin version. But if I wanted unoptimized, precompiled binaries I'd be with a different distro. OK, by now, I've seen another post suggesting mounting extra diskspace to /var/tmp/portage via NFS... that's sounds like a viable solution. regards, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] building openoffice
no if one were to use the CFLAGS, CHOST, and USE vars from my make.conf, it would be optimized for my machine, same as if I had compiled it locally. -chris Eric Paynter wrote: Chris Graves said: Now, I know about the -bin version. But if I wanted unoptimized, precompiled binaries I'd be with a different distro. But that's exactly what you would have gotten if somebody else had compiled it for you... people were just suggesting an equivalent alternative. -Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A problem with MozillaFirebird
> > > I installed MozillaFirebird and it works fine with English websites. > > > But, when I go to a Hebrew website instead of Hebrew letters I get those > > > funny squares each includes 4 characters. > > This'll happen when you don't have any font installed for the characters > > the web page is using. You'll have to install a Hebrew font toget Hebrew > > characters -- apparently you don't have any installed (or Firebird isn't > > using them properly). > But I do have Hebrew fonts installed. > Konqueror has no problem with Hebrew. MozillaFirebird needs to be built with support for multibyte characters (USE="cjk", I think). -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?
Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular stage1 tarball I need? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] smbfs and portage
I'm trying to conserve diskspace on my laptop by pushing /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage to my wife's computer (running Windows2000, with gobs of empty diskspace, albeit formated as NTFS and FAT), mounted via samba. The directories are mounted without any problems and the portage directory was moved over without any issue. Problems: 'emerge sync' runs but eventually dies with a samba input/output error. Also, any attempt to emerge an app with the remote /var/tmp/portage mounted ends with a filesystem/diskspace error; but using a local /var/tmp/portage, 'emerge XYZ' works just fine. Are there any gotcha's I need to know about? I am running a 2.6 kernel with NTFS read/write support and Samba support built in; Samba 3.0.0 is installed. Other directories on the samba mounted drive can be written and read without problem. thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world question
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:22, Lotas T Smartman wrote: > how do i get > it to build everything? 'emerge world -ep' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE
I emerged the 3.2_beta2 ebuilds, everything went smoothly. Had KDE running for 3 days straight without issue before going back to my natural environment (XFCE4). The beta seemed alot faster than the 3.1.4 release I tried a while back. And memory usage, while high (compared with XFCE4), was pretty constant. It was all compiled with gcc3.3.2 '-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer' -chris On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 12:58, Simon Prosser wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 20:42, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > Anybody having any luck with 3.2 beta? > I use the kde-cvs ebuilds and have no probs at all... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] stage1,2,or 3 install
In terms of performance, at which installation stage is the most gain/optomization obtained? I've done several stage2 installs and I'm just wondering what sort of benefits there will be from a gentoo stage 1 install. thanks, chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] curious: gentoo on gateway laptop?
Has anyone successfully installed gentoo on a fairly recent-model Gateway laptop? I'm specifically interested in the 200 series. My 2-year old Dell Inspiron 4000 is (physically) starting to come apart on me (thank god for duct tape!), and I'm sorta shopping around for a replacement in the thin-n-light category. The new Gateway 200 series looks pretty slick... curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?
gnome2.4 has been rock solid for me a several weeks now (got it as soon as an ebuild showed up). Have you tried backing off on your CFLAGS (and recompiling)? usually fixes my problems with "unstable" programs. -chris William Kenworthy wrote: gnome 2.4 seems to be having "issues on the two systems I have converted over so far: evolution is proving unreliable (multiple lockups), attachment attaching is not working right (both systems) stable, nice galeon 2.11 will not compile with gtk2 because epihany, which is a dependency now requires - reccomend you remove epihany and go with gtk1, see below. Went to galeon 1.3.9 (its in portage) but it seems to be missing a few features as the menus have been reorganised. mozilla/galeon/epihany will no longer work with any of the internet banking sites I use in Oz - have had to fall back to netscape 4.7 and IE Unfortunately I have been too busy to follow up as I need a working system at the moment, and wish I had waited a bit longer to upgrade. BillK On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:37, Hall Stevenson wrote: It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried KDE a year ago with Debian and was pretty impressed. Then again, this may have been because of Debian's very slow updates to Gnome 2.2. I guess I just wanted something different. I'm now using KDE 3.1.4 and am disappointed... My preferred desktop still seems to be Enlightenment, in fact. :-) So, I'm considering getting rid of KDE and going back to Gnome. What do people think ?? I know it's *my* choice, of course. If I decide to switch, how do I do so and get the LATEST gnome stuff available ?? I'm not afraid of running "unstable", which I believe is the "-x86" flagged stuff. Also, how would I "purge" all KDE stuff ?? I do like Konqueror and KMail. Are static-linked packages available for those ?? Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?
Oh yes... that includes "gnome apps" like evolution... haven't emerged epiphany, I'm comfortable with mozilla... Chris Graves wrote: gnome2.4 has been rock solid for me a several weeks now (got it as soon as an ebuild showed up). Have you tried backing off on your CFLAGS (and recompiling)? usually fixes my problems with "unstable" programs. -chris William Kenworthy wrote: gnome 2.4 seems to be having "issues on the two systems I have converted over so far: evolution is proving unreliable (multiple lockups), attachment attaching is not working right (both systems) stable, nice galeon 2.11 will not compile with gtk2 because epihany, which is a dependency now requires - reccomend you remove epihany and go with gtk1, see below. Went to galeon 1.3.9 (its in portage) but it seems to be missing a few features as the menus have been reorganised. mozilla/galeon/epihany will no longer work with any of the internet banking sites I use in Oz - have had to fall back to netscape 4.7 and IE Unfortunately I have been too busy to follow up as I need a working system at the moment, and wish I had waited a bit longer to upgrade. BillK On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:37, Hall Stevenson wrote: It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried KDE a year ago with Debian and was pretty impressed. Then again, this may have been because of Debian's very slow updates to Gnome 2.2. I guess I just wanted something different. I'm now using KDE 3.1.4 and am disappointed... My preferred desktop still seems to be Enlightenment, in fact. :-) So, I'm considering getting rid of KDE and going back to Gnome. What do people think ?? I know it's *my* choice, of course. If I decide to switch, how do I do so and get the LATEST gnome stuff available ?? I'm not afraid of running "unstable", which I believe is the "-x86" flagged stuff. Also, how would I "purge" all KDE stuff ?? I do like Konqueror and KMail. Are static-linked packages available for those ?? Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.4 questions
1. When shutting down, gnome 2.4 always produces a dialog box saying (similar words to these) "these applications (all of mine are listed) won't restart, you will need to restart them manually." But they lie. Most of them restart, but all crammed onto the first desktop! Is there any way to cause gnome not to restart them, as it promissed? If I'm thinking of the same dialog box... it's referring to restarting the programs in the same instance as they are closed in (e.g. a browser opens to the homepage instead of the page last open) Using gnome-session you can specified what programs you would like to start when gnome comes up; as well as whether or not to save the last session. Choose not to save last session and gnome will open with only the programs you specify. 2. When I right click and select properties for a desktop icon, I'm only allowed to select an icon from /usr/share/pixmaps. Any way to get around this and use icons from other locations? For example, OpenOffice has a suitable icon available, but I can't find any way to use it, so I have to be content with the "footprint." Couldn't say, all the icons I've ever obtained I put in that same directory. -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] libquicktime vs quicktime4linux
which quicktime package in portage should I use? Is there even a difference from a user perspective? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libquicktime vs quicktime4linux
my question actually stems from mozilla-firebird. At startup, it apparently checks libquicktime version and intermittently generates an error about the version being >5 and dies. Portage has 3 quicktime related packages: quicktime4linux, libquicktime, and openquicktime. The latter two I know for sure provide libquicktime.so (.a); but neither solves my little problem with mozilla-firebird. The most disturbing issue to me is the intermittency of the problem. I had the same problem a couple months ago, got discouraged, unmerged mozilla-firebird, and then re-emerged a couple weeks ago and have been using it since without a hitch until this morning. any thoughts? -chris Redeeman wrote: just emerge the mplayer package, it gives you a really good working quicktime, it is much faster than quicktime pro under windows :-) On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:31, Chris Graves wrote: which quicktime package in portage should I use? Is there even a difference from a user perspective? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firebird extensions
make the /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/chrome directory writable (su, chmod, ...), install all the extensions you want, then change the permissions on the directory back to the original (755 or something). yeah, effectively same as below. -chris Redeeman wrote: open the browser as root, then install, then close, and change permissions on the plugin folder, really simple, and works for sure, i have done it plenty of time :-) On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 19:36, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: Hello! I'm wondering is it possible to install any extensions for firebird 0.6.1. The first thing I have tried is installing extension simply clicking xpi link in the browser. And it told me that I don't have permissions to do this. I have tried to do this via root (it's really not good) and it installed it correctly and I even can access it, but only while running firebird as root. More, after some experiments I have totally broked firebird (luckely, I have backuped /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird). Best regards, Andrew. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libquicktime vs quicktime4linux
yes, yes... but the plugin is worthless if the browser doesn't even open, saavy? my problem isn't playing quicktime files, it's that MozillaFirebird is seemingly checking the library version and crapping out due to an inappropriate version number. has anyone seen something like this before? thanks, -chris Redeeman wrote: just emerge it, and firebird uses it, just remember to configure it in /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf (if i remember right) :) On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 23:10, Alan wrote: You may want to check out mplayerplug-in. It's a bit odly named, but it will run as the video player for all the mozilla derived browsers, using the mplayer drivers. Not sure if it automagically will work with firebird, you may need to copy the files from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/plugins (check what is loaded with 'about:plugins'). Alan On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:39:39PM -0700, Chris Graves wrote: my question actually stems from mozilla-firebird. At startup, it apparently checks libquicktime version and intermittently generates an error about the version being >5 and dies. Portage has 3 quicktime related packages: quicktime4linux, libquicktime, and openquicktime. The latter two I know for sure provide libquicktime.so (.a); but neither solves my little problem with mozilla-firebird. The most disturbing issue to me is the intermittency of the problem. I had the same problem a couple months ago, got discouraged, unmerged mozilla-firebird, and then re-emerged a couple weeks ago and have been using it since without a hitch until this morning. any thoughts? -chris Redeeman wrote: just emerge the mplayer package, it gives you a really good working quicktime, it is much faster than quicktime pro under windows :-) On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:31, Chris Graves wrote: which quicktime package in portage should I use? Is there even a difference from a user perspective? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] yet another 2.6-test8 post...
I 've been trying to move to the 2.6 kernel, but my system always freezes on boot (see output below). I've messed with my kernel a good bit; but it freezes every time regardless... Any help would be greatly appreciated. <...> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc13e, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0 <...hangs> -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] yet another 2.6-test8 post...
No, I use APM already (for the time being, because I know it works on the laptop with 2.4 kernel). I'm going through my config again now... -chris Paul Fraser wrote: I also have this error. You wouldn't happen to be using ACPI, would you? Try disabling ACPI (use APM instead) and recompile. On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:00:32PM -0700, Chris Graves wrote: I 've been trying to move to the 2.6 kernel, but my system always freezes on boot (see output below). I've messed with my kernel a good bit; but it freezes every time regardless... Any help would be greatly appreciated. <...> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc13e, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 08 [IRQ] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0 <...hangs> -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gdesklets & python
Does anyone else have the problem of python/gdesklets using up a decent chunk of cpu time constantly? Is this normal? I assume constant polling of state sensors is the root cause of this? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gcc optimizations
OK, so some folks swear by "-O3" optimizations, but alot of what I've read suggests "-O2" produces "faster" binaries. I have a Pentium III (coppermine) @ 900MHz with 512M RAM and 1G swap. What CFLAGS do I want? (questionably unstable optimizations that do produce better results are OK) -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mapping script to Fn key?
Is there a way for me to cause a script to run when, say, F11 is pressed? -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Netscape-Navigator - emerge or download
modify the /etc/pluggerrc-5.0 or /etc/mplayerplug-in.conf file, commenting out the file types you don't want the specific plugin to handle. -chris On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Either gxine or mplayer will take care of most audio/video formats. > > Macromedia provides a flash plugin (which you can install with "emerge > > netscape-flash"). That covers 95% of the non-pure-html pages out there. > > > > This is pretty far off topic, I guess, but my Mozilla Help-Plugins page now > shows: > > Java Plug-in Blackdown > mplayerplug-in v0.91 > gxine start plugin > Plugger 5.0 > Default Plugin > Shockwave Plugin > > since it looks like Plugger-5.0 and mplayerplug-in do a lot of the same > thigns, how do I control which of these applications actually gets used? Is > there a configuration file somewhere I don't know about? I've looked in my > .mozilla directory, as well as online at the Mozilla Plugins documentation > site, but it doesn't say much or I Cannot find it. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo videos
Stefan is right. Yahoo! seems to check for a specific browser (which will remain nameless). Modifying user agent doesn't seem to fool it either. So yeah, making it work will be a challenge (not one I'm ready to tackle yet). -chris Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: Well that sounds like a challenge...:) -Original Message- From: SN I don't have to try it :-) I was sitting next to the guy who implemented Yahoo launch, if you know what I mean :-) So I just know it ain't possible can't tell you more. - Original Message - From: "Michele Di Trani" They like to watch the videos that on Yahoo. I have not been able to Wich kind of codec is used for these Yahoo Videos? In Linux you can easily watch divx, xvid, mpg, wmv, asf, realmedia, avi, mov.. (have you tried emerging Xine or Mplayer?) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] install question
during the installation, how can I check what hardware was autodetected? thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] fails to mount /proc???
This is my first install of gentoo. After install, on first boot, startup halts claiming "mount point /proc does not exist". I checked and sure enough /proc does not exist. But the filesystem is readonly at this point in the startup, so what can I do? Any ideas appreciated. thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rRe: resolved [gentoo-user] fails to mount /proc???
Looks like brian's solution is working. Thanks for your help. -c On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:23, Brian Reichholf wrote: > mmh, you could reboot with a gentoo/knopix/any bootable linux distro and > then chroot/chdir to you're mounted harddrive, then you should be able > to create /proc... > > i'm not 100% sure though, but it's well worth a try and sounds pretty > much doable. > > HTH, > bri > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:14, Chris Graves wrote: > > This is my first install of gentoo. After install, on first boot, > > startup halts claiming "mount point /proc does not exist". I checked and > > sure enough /proc does not exist. But the filesystem is readonly at this > > point in the startup, so what can I do? > > > > Any ideas appreciated. > > > > thanks, > > -c > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge gnome problems
I'm having problems emerging gnome. The errors seem to start here: /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink 'libORBitCosNaming-2.la' with the above command before installing it make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services/name' make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services/name' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src/services' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/ORBit2-2.6.1/work/ORBit2-2.6.1/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/ORBit2-2.6.1 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 287, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed Anyone seen this and/or knows a solution? thanks, -c -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gail for gnome
I got the same problem trying to emerge orbit2 two days ago. Never got an explanation... install is at a stand still. Anyone know what causes this? -c On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:24, Gent00 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > When I try to emerge gail (as a dependency for gnome), I get: > > > - -- Installing ./html/book1.html > - -- Installing ./html/gail-libgail-util-gailmisc.html > - -- Installing ./html/gail-libgail-util-gailtextutil.html > - -- Installing ./html/libgail-util-main.html > - -- Installing ./html/index.sgml > /bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or directory > make[4]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/gail-1.2.0/work/gail-1.2.0/docs/reference/libgail-util' > make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/gail-1.2.0/work/gail-1.2.0/docs/reference/libgail-util' > make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/gail-1.2.0/work/gail-1.2.0/docs/reference' > make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gail-1.2.0/work/gail-1.2.0/docs' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gail-1.2.0 failed. > !!! Function einstall, Line 287, Exitcode 2 > !!! einstall failed > > Anybody could tell me what's wrong? And how can I fix it? > > Thanx! > > - -- > ..:: Gent00 :.:. > ...: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .:.. > ::.. Fingerprint: F86A AF36 4B75 6CD0 FFBB A800 8C86 CCA9 ..:. > .::. Powered By Gentoo Linux .:.. > > BOFH Excuse #310: asynchronous inode failure > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+hzZmjIbMqXs4fYIRAmFmAJ9H/6BnAD55EJ2Kz6X+LvPXlHc3RwCfQN2W > hX6Tm3T+1+VDne+Il3viHqk= > =QD9I > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] portage "lost" installed pckg - help?
I don't know exactly what I did, but portage no longer "knows" what packages are installed on my system. Is there a way to recover or regenerate this list? thanks, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage "lost" installed pckg - help?
Dhruba, thanks for the tip... but it doesn't work. For example, I have xmms, gnome, evolution (...) installed, they are not in the world file and still aren't found after running 'emerge regen' and 'regenworld' any ideas? -chris On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:19, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Chris Graves wrote: > > I don't know exactly what I did, but portage no longer "knows" what > > packages are installed on my system. Is there a way to recover or > > regenerate this list? > > > > thanks, > > -chris > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > 'Emerge regen' and run 'regenworld'. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > 1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] portage
I don't suppose there is a way to retrofit, say, a RH linux box with portage? Is this because of the system structure or ??? curious, -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
