Re: [gentoo-user] Perl IDE and good tutorials?
Just use vim man seriously and use `perldoc` for help. That's all I used when I was learning perl. Oh and also the O'Reilly books - Learning Perl and Objects, References and Modules both by the same authors. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:12:30 +, Joel Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, can anyone recommend a good one that's in Portage.. or will the answer be gVim? :D I'm trying to learn Perl so any other good resources people have would be appreciated! Joel -- Joel Merrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtual Machine (UML) Question
Hi, Recently I'd been looking for hosting that provided Gentoo Linux and root access. I found it in two places. http://www.linode.com/ http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ I went with the first one, linode.com, because it was cheaper. Now a linode is basically like a virtual machine running through user mode linux on a parent machine which runs roughly 25-30 or so VMs. The parent machine has a Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon architecture. The question is what should the Gentoo user mode linux virtual machine set for its CFLAGS? Have any of you signed up with this kind of setup? If so, what CFLAGS did you set? Many thanks. Dhruba. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!
- Original Message - From: Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC! | * On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: | | It seems odd that a few people are having problems with the 232r9 glibc. I | just rolled it out on three machines, 1 amdXP, 1 amdMobile an old k6-2 and a | k6-3 systems and no errors. All running 2.6.1 kernels, NPTL and the latest | gcc... | | After the DEPEND/DEPEND problem[1] with glibc-2.3.2r9 and NPTL I emerged | gcc-3.3.2-r5, trying to solve that problem (which it didn't). | | Now I see NPTL support has been removed from glibc-2.3.2r9, solving | the DEPEND/DEPEND problem. | | My question is this: Will upgrading a NPTLed glibc to a non NPTLed | glibc cause known problems (i. e. with applications that have been | compiled with the NPTLed glibc)? Are there any more users who broke | their system upgrading this way? Is there someone who can tell us a | bit more about it? I had the nptl use flag enabled from the installation days but disabled it yesterday just before I updated glibc since portage was giving depend mismatch errors. Then I updated glibc which is the reason I have to reinstall the entire OS now. Whether the toggling of the use flag is the cause or not I'm not sure but logistically it could be. | Reading the reports from Eric and Dhruba at bugzilla[2] and on this | mailinglist, I'm a bit scared of upgrading to glibc-2.3.2-r9 using | a system set up as mine. | | I'd be very happy for some clarifications. ;) | | Thank you for your warnings in here, Dhruba! I wouldn't have | recognized that issue and probably ran into the same problems. My pleasure. I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a routine package update on the stable tree. As soon as I realised I mailed the list. Strangely, AMD systems seem to be unaffected judging from other messages on this thread. Anyway, I'm stuck on XP until I can find the time to reinstall. Life sucks. Dhruba. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!
Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38619 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] About emerge sync...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It takes so much time to sync the tree here... because i have a slow (modem) connection. can i use portage-2003xxyy.tar.bz2 files downloaded in another place? how can i do this? just extract the file to /usr/portage...? could i overwrite a old one with a new one? thanks.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Yes. You can download portage snapshots from gentoo.org and extract them to overwrite the existing /usr/portage. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] No italics for Impact font
Hello I cannot get italics to appear for the Impact font in mozilla or firebird. Any ideas on how to get it? It works in Opera and IE. To test whether your browser or OS supports italics in Impact try the demo page below. http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/italics.html Regards Dhruba -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] merging Apache 1.3.xx?
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I know this is an FAQ, but what's the best way to emerge the 1.3.xx series of Apache without it trying to upgrade me to 2.0.xx? emerge =apache-1* -vp emerge -i net-www/apache-2.0.48-r1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel modules
Reno Romanin wrote: I am using 2.4.20-gaming-r3, and every time i reboot my machine, the nvidia.o module gets deleted somehow. I'm using the drivers directly from the nvidia site, not installed by portage. How do i stop this file from getting deleted? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list set /usr/src/linux symlink to kernel emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx opengl-update nvidia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto apply patches
Jimmie Houchin wrote: If I were to do it manually, do I need to unzip the sources to its own directory? /usr/src/my_patched_sources/2.6.0t9bk26? -- tar -xvzf kernel-sources -- bunzip2 patch-file -- put patch in kernel directory -- make mrproper (in kernel dir) -- optional -- patch -p1 patch_file -- make mrproper (in kernel dir) -- optional If you want you can move kernel sources to /usr/src/. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 question
Jerry McBride wrote: During kernel config, under processor type and features I'm offfered a selection called generic x86 support. The help/info for that selection is awful vague to me. Can anyone clarify it's purpose and when should it be ticked off during kernel configuration? No need unless you are going to use that kernel on several different x86 machines. If only one machine then select processor and leave that one. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X locking up
Aaron Walker wrote: I got home from work this morning (I work nights), to find my machine locked up. This also happened the day before last. I could not switch to any of the terminals (via ctrl-alt-F1, etc). I was able to login via ssh from another pc, however. After running top, I noticed X was using 99% cpu. Sending X the SIGKILL signal was the only way I could get back into the box w/o rebooting. I'm kind of awestruck because I've used linux for 6 or 7 years now and this is literally the first incident I've had with anything locking up on me. It's happened twice so far, both during the night while I was at work. I would think if it was an overheating problem it would happen during the day while I am sleeping, but it hasn't so far. Any ideas on what might be causing this? Thanks, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I had complete irrecoverable freezes everytime when logging out of X into xdm. That was on ~x86 a few weeks ago. Now, I'm back on x86 and the problem is gone so I can only attribute it to the testing xfree ebuilds. Nasty problem to have. My machine suffered filesystem and therefore data corruption and portage stopped working so I had to reinstall. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I've just emerged sync and then I did: euler root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy sys-apps/bzip2. !!! Problem with ebuild dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4 !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem. !!! Depgraph creation failed. What's happening? Best regards, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33556 The application sys-apps/bzip2 has had its location moved and so portage can't find it but mod_php wants it as a dep. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Devfsd database invalid entry
Jan M. Dziewulski wrote: Hello, When I try to do an emerge command, The line or two before the end is: !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Now I suspect that one reason why I got this is because my computer crashed previously, and even though I am running a journalled fs, some things may become corrupted, as I presume is the case here. When I boot, it complains about not being able to use netmount, and as a result the network card isn't being used. That isn't a problem because it is a simple insmod natsemi ifconfig blah blah route add default gw blah set of commands. The problem is more relating to the warning message displayed above. If necessary, I can even try finding the database entry for the devfs daemon, but I can't manage to locate it. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31881 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo binary packages
adixor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me and some of my colleagues were thinking on making an archive of precompiled gentoo packages, used for easy installing/reinstalling/ duplicating gentoo systems. It would contain precompiled gentoo packages that we use, with different optimizations (architecture etc...). It would be easier to install a new system, having the packages already compiled and ready for merging.. Have any of you any idea on how we could do this ? Any docs/scripts available ? Thank you, guys - -- adixor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p+KOHMw8JJ+r9ucRAsZoAJ9iN9BenVOT+huKXhjqeM1NH3GlGwCg1RBG Vq9woXZKIibfyd3w7HN2BzM= =Adim -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list This concept is a large scale project in itself. A very quick implementation has resulted in the following since I read your email. http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/binaries/athlon_tbird/ http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/binaries/pentium4/ Go easy on the server please. These are dynamically generated listings of the contents of those directories. It's done by a php script which you can chuck into any random directory and it produces file listings according to what you would like. Here it is modified to only list *.tbz2 files in that directory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8
Collins Richey wrote: I have finally gotten alsa to work for my SoundBlaster PCI 64 (ens1371), but it's still a bit hokey. I've seen a few reports but no real answers on forum. Maybe someone knows the answer. Bugzilla is down, so I can't search there at present. 1. You should be able to compile the 2.6 alsa modules as built in, but this does not work. The kernel reports that the soundcard is not working. 2. Alsa compiled as modules does work with a little tinkering. a. If I add alsasound to the boot level scripts as recommended, sound does not work. Devfsd does not build the /dev/dsp ... entries. b. If I add alsasound to the default level scripts as recommended, same results as for a. A few extra dependancy complaints, since alsasound is design for executing at boot time. c. After either of these approaches, if I issue /etc/init.d/alsasound stop and then /etc/init.d/alsasound start, sound works. So, what I do for now is to add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start Do not do this. Only do: $ rc-update add alsasound boot /etc/init.d/alsasound start /etc/init.d/alsasound stop /etc/init.d/alsasound start Messy (lots of dependancy errors) , but it works. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this POS? Steps to get ALSA to work in 2.6 kernel. (1) Enable all ALSA related options in kernel. (2) Boot off newly compiled kernel. (3) Unmute channels (I use gkrellm-volume plugin to do this) Look here for screenshot of gkrellm-volume control if you like. http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/images/gkv.png (left-centre) There is no compelling need to emerge anything alsa-related at all. The only problem is saving your volume levels on shutdown and restoring them on startup and that can be done using: $ alsactl store (put this in /etc/conf.d/local.stop) $ alsactl restore (put this in /etc/conf.d/local.start) Then you are sorted. I myself prefer not to emerge anything alsa related as there is no need and that way your system does not get the dreaded libasound.la library against which many packages begin to compile and depend upon. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc
Michel Bellemare wrote: Hi, everytime i boot my system, i got this error message modprobe: cant load module /dev/rtc modprobe: cant load module /dev/misc/rtc i've done some research and founded that this is the real time clock (wow, the name says it all :) ). So I gone thru my kernel and didnt found it. So my questions are, where can i found the module and can i safely remove it? thanks M.B - Courriel expédié via https://courriel.uqtr.ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Enable this option in kernel. Character Devices Enhanced Real Time Clock Support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues
Mojo B. Nichols wrote: !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 1ecd31d17b51f16332b1fcc7da36b312 your file's digest: 6c3f032ddf401ca522900291de03fee5 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 I just removed this file from SCR_URI in the ebuild. You can always re-emerge when problem is fixed in ebuild. configure: error: You need GL or MesaGL libraries !!! ERROR: x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.99.0 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed $ opengl-update xfree $ emerge nvidia-glx (if using nvidia) $ opengl-update nvidia (if you are using nvidia) $ env-update source /etc/profile For ATi cards look on gentoo documentation. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)
that stable kernels will have patchsets the current dev-sources violates it. My requests: 1) Create gentoo patchsets only for finished releases and separate into different sources 2) Provide vanilla kernels as unaltered, unpatched and uncustomised sources just as they would be if done manually 3) Agree on prerequisites that must be fulfilled prior to adding new kernels-sources or in fact any new packages onto portage. - Scenario 5: Ebuild speech - On completion of merging the portage ebuild sleeps for ~15 seconds, the baselayout ebuild for ~10 seconds and even dev-sources sleeps for ~5 seconds whilst all these packages display messages. In my opinion, this is downright pointless. On a source distribution like this one especially where claims about speed are made not only of portage but also the packages themselves what is the point in gaining ~10 seconds load time when you lose ~15 seconds compile time? What is the net gain? To make matters worse, ebuilds beep out loud through pc speaker on important sys-apps merges whilst sleeping in between which can make one very uncomfortable in office or quiet environments. I understand it is important to get messages to the user but this is not the way. There should be other means whereby all messages are accumulated and logged and displayed at the end of all merges (bugs are open). I currently this as follows. $ emerge -Du world | tee updates.log $ grep '01m' updates.log ( -- this gives all messages in log file without use of sleep) My requests: 1) Eliminate all use of sleep in ebuilds 2) Eliminate all use of beeps via echo -ne \a 3) Write eclasses or modifications to portage which control logging and display - I have even written a bash wrapper (unfinished) around emerge which does log all output and displays all messages at end of every emerge separated according to package names. 4) If there absolutely has to be sound it must be done through FEATURES=sound. FEATURES=notify can be used for message waits if absolutely necessary. It's a shame that finally EULA's have made ebuilds interactive and sound and message waits are further increasing merge time Overall, I would say vanilla behaviour should always be exhibited by default in all aspects of the operating system in favour of user preference or dev preference. Focus should be on instructing the user on how to make a change rather than making the change and expecting the user to reverse it. Exceptions are where the change is vanilla in itself like providing stock kernel configs to newbie users as genkernel does. Please discuss as you wish. I would be grateful if these issues were paid some attention and I look forward to receiving feedback whether you share the same experience or have opposing views. If any of them should be filed as bugs with sincere regards Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfree dependancy - why?
quote who=Doug Weimer On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:27, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I get this too on a server machine. $ emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse -mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype -nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -gatos [ebuild N] dev-perl/perl-tk-800.024-r2 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Tk-TableMatrix-1.01 perl-tk depends on virtual/x11. I'm not sure why Tk-TableMatrix is being pulled in, but that's why your getting the xfree dependency. Maybe add '-tcltk' to your USE flags and see if that helps. Doug Interesting. I do not have tcltk in my use flags. Any other suggestions? Syncing hasn't got rid of xfree either. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfree dependancy - why?
quote who=Dennis Freise Hello. Today, as I did an emerge -uDp world, xfree suddenly was a dependancy needed to be installed. I get this too on a server machine. $ emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 [5.3-r1] -debug [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 [2.0.49-r13] -build *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge. [ebuild U ] dev-db/mysql-4.0.14-r2 [4.0.13-r4] -static +readline +innodb +berkdb +tcpd +ssl +perl -debug [ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.11.1 [2.9] -gnome -gtk -selinux [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7-r5 [4.1.7-r4] -nls -build -afs -selinux [ebuild N] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.3-r3 +apache2 -X +crypt +curl -firebird -flash -freetds +gd +gd-external -gdbm +imap -informix -ipv6 +java +jpeg -ldap -mcal -memlimit +mysql -nls -oci8 -odbc +pam +pdflib +png -postgres -qt -snmp +spell +ssl +tiff +truetype +xml2 +berkdb [ebuild U ] dev-util/dialog-0.9_beta20031002 [0.9_beta20030308-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.5.3-r1 [2.5.2_p1] [ebuild U ] dev-util/ccache-2.3 [2.2] [ebuild U ] app-misc/gallery-1.4_p2 [1.4_p1] [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcp-3.0_p2-r2 [3.0_p2] -static [ebuild N] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild U ] app-arch/unzip-5.50-r2 [5.50-r1] [ebuild N] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse -mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype -nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 -debug -static +pam -sdk -gatos [ebuild N] dev-perl/perl-tk-800.024-r2 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Tk-TableMatrix-1.01 $ qpkg -I -q -v xfree $ blank Strange isn't it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Recovering with reiserfs
Hello I think my filesystem/data is corrupted due to hangs and hard reset. I did a `reiserfsck --help` and tried a few options but it didn't work saying that the partition was mounted read/write so cannot perform option. My question is how can I recover with reiser without (1) reinstalling (2) formatting the partition? Much appreciated. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba.AT.codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 | MSN: bdhruba.AT.msn.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem of crashing (2.6.x)
Jason Stubbs wrote: I'm too am using ~x86 with gcc331r5 and glibc232r6 and development-sources260t7r3. I haven't had any problems with locking up (except during initial kernel initialisation on the USB). From what you've described, the problem seems to be related to the video. What card/drivers are you using? Nvidia GeForceFX 5200 with nvidia-1.0.4496. XDM resets the video driver between logins. If you do a Ctrl-Backspace from the XDM login screen, does it lock? How about several times? Try using vga=0 to the kernel to disable vesafb. Still get the problem? Try an alternative video driver - even vga! Still get the problem? If you do still get the problem, then I would think it is more than likely (but still not definate) that the video card/driver is not the problem. Thanks a lot for your help Jason. Due to hangs and hard resets however I've now got corrupted data and as such must reinstall. If problem persists after the new install I will try the things you mentioned above. Many thanks Dhruba -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world update blocked by postfix
Dennis Robertson wrote: My attempt to carry out a world update has stalled with postfix-2.0.16-r1 Generating self-signed test certificate for the past 2 hours or so. Can anyone suggest how to get past this blockage, please. TIA That should not happen. Do Ctrl-C and emerge again. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI
quote who=Ian Truelsen On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:53:36 +0100 (BST) Done and done. I am using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ian $ glxgears 3856 frames in 5.0 seconds = 771.200 FPS 4194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 838.800 FPS 4094 frames in 5.0 seconds = 818.800 FPS 4107 frames in 5.0 seconds = 821.400 FPS 4153 frames in 5.0 seconds = 830.600 FPS I don't know how those match up to others, but it certainly is faster than my old Voodoo. Here's what I get. $ glxgears 6789 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1357.800 FPS 7051 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1410.200 FPS 6977 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1395.400 FPS 6962 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1392.400 FPS 6963 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1392.600 FPS Same card. Quite odd eh? :-\ One thing though: I think that I used to have AA fonts in X, or at least they weren't this jagged before. Does the nvidia driver deal with fonts differently? Thanks to all. I'm off to try America's Army :) Nvidia makes no changes to fonts AFAIK. You know, I've always been put off american army because of the extensive preparation of registering your soldier etc. I'm a strong addict of ET though and play with [Gentoo] prefix so this community can tell I'm one of them. ;-) Would you say AA is good enough to go through registration? If so, I might give it a try. Take care. Dhruba. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Odd problem of crashing (2.6.x)
Hello Recently, my computer has been hanging irrecoverably and I don't know why. I've been 2.6 series kernels for some time and they worked perfectly until I migrated to test7. Here's what I happens. I log into enlightenment using XDM. I do my work. I log out enlightenment back into XDM. However, somewhere in between starting to log out and getting to the XDM login screen the computer freezes completely with garbled colours on screen. Nothing works (Ctrl-Backspace, Alt-F1, etc) and I have to hard reset. (I should mention that I'm using framebuffer with vesafb enabled). Admittedly, problems do occur when on ~x86 using latest snapshots of gcc 3.3.1-r5 and glibc 2.3.2-r6 together with 2.6 kernels but all this has been working fine for some time. I can't pinpoint what may be causing it. How do I even begin to debug this problem? It happens virtually every time I log out of E. Some minor configuration is corrupted every time this happens and I'm afraid of more severe data loss. Any help would be much appreciated. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba.AT.codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 | MSN: bdhruba.AT.msn.com P.S. Reply-To not set. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?
- Original Message - From: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ? | | It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried In that case, this distro would be an exception :-) It is purported that Gentoo is ultimately about providing maximum choice to the user and you'll find that amongst the users there is a split between the two large desktop environments along with fluxbox which also has quite a large share. (I use none of these.) | 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 To get latest gnome stuff do: (1) edit /etc/make.conf to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 (2) emerge sync (3) emerge gnome Gnome 2.4 is marked stable atm which means you'll get it regardless of which tree you are on. My view? Stay with enlightenment ;-) | afraid of running unstable, which I believe is the -x86 flagged stuff. The most cutting edge branch of applications is referred to as the 'testing tree' and not 'unstable tree' simply because that is what it is intended to convey to the user. The correct variable value is actually ~x86 and not -x86. | | Also, how would I purge all KDE stuff ?? I do like Konqueror and KMail. Are | static-linked packages available for those ?? There is no official method of removing a package and all its unused dependencies as yet. This is still being worked upon and has been pushed back a little bit. So, you'll have to do it manually. `emerge -C kde` will remove the package itself and then there are all sorts of tricks to get rid of dependencies some of which are mentioned below. -- remove all kde references from /var/cache/edb/world and do `emerge --depclean -p` and remove those (OR) -- `emerge gentoolkit dep-clean -UNR` (OR) -- `emerge -Dep world | grep kde` (and then remove those) I'd also recommend familiarising yourself with the various wonders of etcat and qpkg from gentoolkit. HTH. | | Regards | Hall | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Python missing libraries - Portage b0rked
Hello After a couple more of the hangs and hard resets that I described in a previous message I'm afraid I've finally had data loss or filesystem corruption. X and XDM won't load since they claim to be missing libraries and since python is also missing libraries portage won't work either. Here's the error. /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've heard about this problem on irc and seen the solution once or twice but cannot recall it. Anyone know how to get python working again? After portage is working I shall re-emerge xfree as revdep-rebuild says I should. I urgently need assistance and would be grateful for it. With regards. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash
quote who=Nicholas Potter I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4 kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has experience or can help that would be great. Thanks Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=511472#511472 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI
quote who=Ian Truelsen I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff and for DRI. Given the choice between the two, which would you choose for Linux? When I bought my card recently, that was exactly my question. What is (1) the most powerful card that (2) makes no noise and (3) works perfectly in linux? The answer I concluded upon was the Asus V9520 Magic/T GeForce FX 5200 128MB (GX-013-AS). That's the sixth card down on the link below. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Asus_137.html Good value for money and supports side band addressing and fast writes perfectly. Let us know how things go. Take care. Dhruba. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia strikes again
Meka[ni] wrote: Just to be sure, I'll tel you the exact commands I've executed. emerge nvidia-kernel emerge nvidia-glx opengl-update nvidia modprobe nvidia change the section in XF86Config from nv to nvidia. Should I do something else? I still get messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that it can not open /dev/nvidia0 for reading although the file is present and has rw-rw-rw- for flags. Please save me this mess! :o) Meka[ni] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The only other thing is to set /usr/src/linux symlink to kernel of your choice and add nvidia to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-X.Y where X.Y is your kernel version e.g. (2.6). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changelogs for emerge -up
Matt Neimeyer wrote: Hey all, Is there any easy way to get a changelog for the various packages presented by emerge -up? For example: emerge -up --with-change-log world It would be nice... Thanks! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If you mean incremental changes from older versions of packages to newer versions: emerge -Duvlp world If you mean how to get all the messages after updating world: emerge -Duv world | tee /tmp/update.log grep '01m' /tmp/update.log | sed '/Caching service dependencies/d' If you mean anything else please explain yourself better. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php apache2
Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:39:36 +0200 mathieu perrenoud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:27, Collins Richey wrote: I have apache2, php, and mod_php installed. /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d includes instructions to load php and enable the apropriate MIME types. apache2 starts with no errors, except for a missing favicon. I'm using urls like http://localhost/temp.html (has embedded php language). I get nothing but html displays; the php stuff does not run. I get similar results with http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ (this directory has index.php); nothing but the text of the index.php appears. What am I missing? Did you add -D PHP4 to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache2? APACHE2_OPTS=-D SSL -D PHP4 Yes. But SSL starts and PHP4 does not (no indication in logs). What next? Hello. File a bug if you please. The php dev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) may want to know about it. Kind regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No 2.6.0-test7 ebuild yet?
James Hanna Jr wrote: Hmmm No need for one. Just unpack it manually. If you must have an official ebuild file a bug and knowing the dev who deals with it he'll be only too happy to bump the version. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question
Ernie Schroder wrote: Thanks Andrew. Let's just suppose that down the line I want to resume using a package I have injected. Will simply emerging the package = to or the version I injected return the package to normal status? Or, is there other magic that must be performed? Unmerge injected packages. Emerge desired packages normally. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why new packages for emerge -Duvp world?
Hello the following were my updates but why suddenly so many new packages? wolf updates: [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1 [2.57a] [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r2 [2.2.3-r1] +readline -tcltk +berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r10 [2.0.49-r9] -build *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge. [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r6 [2.14.90.0.6-r5] -nls -bootstrap -build [ebuild U ] media-libs/tiff-3.6.0 [3.6.0_beta2] [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre2 [1.0_pre1-r1] -dga +oss +xmms +jpeg -3dfx +sse -matrox +sdl +X +svga -ggi +oggvorbis -3dnow +aalib -gnome +xv +opengl +truetype +dvd +gtk +gif -esd +fbcon +encode +alsa +directfb -arts -dvb +gtk2 -samba [ebuild U ] media-libs/libao-0.8.4 [0.8.3-r1] -esd [ebuild N] dev-python/pyxml-0.8.3 [ebuild N] dev-libs/libxml2-2.5.11 +python +readline -ipv6 [ebuild N] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.62.0 [ebuild N] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.2 [ebuild N] gnome-base/libglade-2.0.1 -doc -nls [ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.11.1 [2.11-r2] -gnome +gtk No. of updates = 13 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mailing list software?
Hello After my troubles with mailman I wanted to ask what other mailing list software I can use. It does not matter whether it has a web interface or not but it must be compatible with courier-imap and postfix which is what the server runs. Any suggestions and your experiences with various mailing list software would be appreciated. Thanks. Dhruba. P.S. I take it I can't use ezmlm since it is for qmail which I don't use? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge error
- Original Message - From: David Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Emerge error | Can anyone tell me what I have done and how I fix this error: | | checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc | checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler | cannot create executables | | !!! ERROR: media-sound/juk-2.0_beta1-r1 failed. | !!! Function econf, Line 324, Exitcode 77 | !!! econf failed | | | I get it every time the ./configure process starts with any program that | I try to emerge Check that there isn't a typo in your CFLAGS variable in /etc/make.conf like a new line where there isn't supposed to be one. Also run env-update and source /etc/profile. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cs46xx sound driver missing in 2.6.0-test6?
Hello, I just moved to 2.6.0-test6 and was horrified to find that the cs46xx driver was not available in the options. There are some other variations but they don't work. Anyone else using a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz suggest a solution? With regards. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba[AT]codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge system - obsolete packages?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I run 'emerge system' and had no problems with this. But, somewhere in the middle of this I noticed a message that I for different reasons failed to capture. The message said something like: With the installaiton of this new version of coreutils [was that it?] you can delete the following packages from your system: And there's where I messed it up. I *believe* it said to remove: - textutils - fileutils - sh-utils I'm not 100% sure. Can someone confirm? Biker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You can read any missed message again by doing: ebuild /path/to/ebuild postinst -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba[AT]codewordt.co.uk | ICQ: 31628525 Dev-sources-test4-bk6 | XFree-4.3.0-r3 | Nvidia-1.0.4496 | E-0.16.6-pre7 | ~x86 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge system - obsolete packages?
Joshua Banks wrote: Hello Dhruba, Can you give a specific example please, from the command line? Actually, I'm just talking about the command syntax that I would use if I were to use your suggestion of: ebuild /path/to/ebuild postinst Can you give me a real world example of the above please so that I know for sure what your talking about. Thanks, Joshua Banks Sure no problem. For example, to read the messages that appear after merging mozilla do: $ ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.4-r3.ebuild postinst * Please unmerge old versions of mozilla, as the header * layout in /usr/lib/mozilla/include have changed and will * result in compile errors when compiling programs that need * mozilla headers and libs (galeon, nautilus, ...) This has the drawback that if there are any actions in postinst() other than comments then those will also be executed when you run the above command. The clever way is to merely read the ebuild. HTH. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gpm dependency?
Owen Gunden wrote: Why is emerge -DUpv world trying to install gpm? Good question. It's annoying when that happens. The only explanation is that it is a dependency. Inject it if you really don't want it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Stats
Jay Carson wrote: Anyone know whats going on with gentoo-stats. I just finished building my system and everything seems to work, but when I type: gentoo-stats --new I receive the following error Obtaining new system ID... There was an error when obtaining a new system ID (proxy?). Please try again later. This has been happening for a while now... and there is no proxy. Unmerge gentoo-stats. That project has died and has seen no activity for long. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] at command
John wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Canek [iso-8859-1] Peláez Valdés wrote: emerge sys-apps/at Thanks...I am not sure how I missed that... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list emerge -s ^at$ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?
Joshua Banks wrote: You can use one of the tools in the Gentootoolkit to query Gentoo for a list of packages. qpkg -q This will list everything I believe. Not sure if this helps since your referencing a difference between Bash and Python That doesn't make sense. qpkg -q gives packages depending upon installed package and without any parameters displays hundreds of things. I am looking for the total number of packages in the category 'system' as given at the end of 'emerge depclean -p' :- Packages installed: 384 Packages in world:299 Packages in system: 68 -- Note this line Unique package names: 380 Required packages:395 Number to remove: 4 I can't use this 'emerge depclean -p' command however in my script since it takes too much time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using emerge -B question
Jeff Greene wrote: I just built mozilla-1.4-r3 (whatever the latest one is) lat night using the emerge -B option. I woke up this morning to find out that everything went ok, but now what do I do? Basically, I want to save what I just built in a safe place so I can emerge it when I see fit, preferably write it to a CD. My question first of all, is how do I know what to write to the CD, and then second of all, how do I go about telling Portage to emerge the binaries on my CD? By the way, this is a cool feature. First thing you should do is 'emerge --help' and read the output. Specifically look at the -o and -k options. You will find your binary package for mozilla in /usr/portage/packages/All/. That is where all the binary packages are stored after being built. To emerge it do 'emerge -k mozilla' after making sure that all dependencies have been met. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?
keanu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This gives 402 packages. Surely that can't be right for number of packages in the category 'system'. i don't know what file it is in but you can do emerge -pve --nodeps system | grep ebuild | wc -l which gives 68 for me Thanks. I simplified that to: emerge -Oevp system | grep -c ebuild It seems it cannot be done any faster e.g. from a file. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Georgia Tech (ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu) KDE mirror is corrupted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I just was trying to emerge kde 3.1.3 and every time it wants to download a package from the Georgia Tech's mirror emerge stops due to bad md5. After some investigating I found out that many (or all) bz2 files in ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.1.3/src/ are corrupt. In fact, they only contain about 60 KB on data (kdeutils has 0x6FFF bytes of data, kdeadmin 0xBFFF, etc.) while the rest is filled with zeros. I tried at least three other mirrors, they were ok. In order to emerge kde without interruption I deleted all appearances of the gatech mirror from /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors (there were two I think). I don't know how many actually experienced this, I only found one short thread in the forums and no mails in the archives or my inbox. So in order to be sure of the issue I'd like to ask you to verify this if you have some spare bandwidth and time. Here is the kde ftp mirror page: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.3/src/ Cheers, Renat This should either be on bugs.gentoo.org or on gentoo-dev ML. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?
Hello How can I count the number of packages in 'system' rather than 'world' using, say, bash? Where is this information stored? I've found where this is determined in emerge using python but I need to do this in bash. Much appreciated. With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgraded from 2.4.20r5 to r6 ???'s...
Hello Joshua Banks wrote: I show a kernel-2.4 and a kenrel-2.5 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/ This is what you should have. $ ls /etc/modules.autoload.d/ kernel-2.4 kernel-2.5 kernel-2.6 If I do a uname -a, it shows that I'm still running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. Did I do the right thing after upgradeing or do I need to reboot as well? A portage upgrade will only place the newer kernel sources on your system. You will need to:- (1) Configure it (2) Compile it (3) Copy it to /boot (4) Reboot Is there some type of Standard Operating Proceedure after doing an emerge sync ,emerge -u world and/or right after downloading anytype of application..I.E. ethereal, Gaim, ect..ect.. that I should be following for best practices? Standard operating procedure? (1) emerge sync (2) emerge -Duvp world or emerge -uvp world (to check use flags and packages) (3) emerge -Du world OR emerge -u world (4) etc-update Can I download other applications (tar.gz's) that aren't included in the portage tree without effecting Gentoo in anyway? Absolutely. It's a free world. However, if there are packages that you want that are not on the portage tree it would be nice for other users if you could file a bug request for it to be added to the tree as we can all benefit from it. With regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman 2.1.2-r1 error
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- What $MAILGID is mailman supposed to have? The ebuild sets it to 280 but postfix is 207 and apache is 81. Any help would be much appreciated. Mailman has been a source of considerable grief for me. Did you try to change the GID in the ebuild itself? Don't know if this is the solution, but IIRC that did it for me... HTH! Greetings, Matthias What did you change the GID to in the ebuild? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Opengl-update on server machine?
Hello Having done a `qpkg -I -nc` recently out of curiosity I found this entry. x11-base/opengl-update What is opengl-update doing on a server machine that does not even have X or nvidia packages? $ etcat -d `which opengl-update` [ Results for search key : /usr/sbin/opengl-update ] $ qpkg -q opengl-update x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 * DEPENDED ON BY: x11-base/opengl-update-1.4 DEPENDED ON BY: x11-base/opengl-update-1.3 DEPENDED ON BY: x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 DEPENDED ON BY: The above give no dependencies. So my question is what resulted in this package slipping through the net and has this happened to any other packages? With regards. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world and portahe out of sync again
William Kenworthy wrote: My portage has corrupted itself again: rattus root # wc /var/cache/edb/world 616 616 11632 /var/cache/edb/world rattus root # emerge -vp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies *** Package in world file is not installed: dev-util/pccts *** Package in world file is not installed: dev-perl/XML-DOM *** Package in world file is not installed: media-fonts/lfpfonts-var rattus root # emerge -vp world|grep Package|wc 3072763 19248 rattus root # So Ive got over 300 packages including openoffice to re-emerge, or is there an easier way? And why is this happening? and yes, the packages are installed ... Try this trick. wc -l /var/cache/edb/world mv /var/cache/edb/world ~ regenworld wc -l /var/cache/edb/world And post back results. Also note that any injected packages get added to the world file by regenworld even though they are not really installed. This is filed on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27702. So to get an absolute true count of installed world packages you must remove all injected stubs, remove world file and then run regenworld. HTH. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Editing world file
Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi! Can I safely edit the world file to, for example, remove packages from there? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Yes. You can also add packages and use operators like =, , and package versions like net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile of gentoo-sources 2.4.20 r6
Rick Sivernell wrote: question is do I need to send this to the gentoo developers or what? The person in charge of this issue is [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK. Assign a bug to him or email him I guess. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mailman 2.1.2-r1 error
Hello When I post an email to my mailman list I get the error below. Command died with status 2: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman. Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group mailman, but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group nobody. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group mailman, or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'. What $MAILGID is mailman supposed to have? The ebuild sets it to 280 but postfix is 207 and apache is 81. Any help would be much appreciated. Mailman has been a source of considerable grief for me. With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?
Ben Anderson wrote: Hi, I am(actually was) running apache, php, and mysql. Recently I updated my system and now I can't start apache. I was instructed to use revdep-rebuild. I emerged gentoolkit and ran revdep-rebuild. It eventually freezes after an hour or so of compiling. I've retried it about 5 times with the same result. Are there any alternatives to revdep-rebuild. If I emerge -C apache, php, mysql and then reemerge, will everything work again? TIF, Ben _ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /usr/portage/dev-db/mysql/files/rebuilder.sh Also, always state errors you are getting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Postfix solution to Sobig viruses (*.pif) etc
Hello If you want an inclusive solution for rejecting Sobig attached emails. Follow the link below. I found it very useful and thought I would share it. Apparently, this takes the load off anti-virus etc. http://sbserv.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/postfix_sobigf.shtml HTH. Dhruba. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge option for dependencies?
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking through man emerge but not finding an option to let me determine which packages on my system would be effected by removing a package that is currently installed. emerge -Cp gnupg says it would just uninstall that package. Can I be sure that no other packages will break if I do this? It would be nice in this case to see some sort of tree display of what uses what, but I think that's not too practical. (If it is, please tell me how!) Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list $ etcat depends gnupg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world
Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I am just trying to figure out how you guys just do emerge world's all the time without breaking anything. Steps to a safe system. Do allow a script to: (1) Sync (2) Do pretend updates (3) Fetch updates (4) Email root with pretend updates (5) Log emerge activity Do NOT allow script to: (1) Perform updates (2) Sort configuration files (etc-update) Also, stay on stable trees if you are worried about breaking things. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache 1.3.28
Greg Donald wrote: If I have USE=-apache2 apache in make.conf, shouldn't that allow me to install Apache 1.3.28? I found that on the Gentoo forum, and tried it but.. emerge =apache-1.3.28 -vp emerge --inject net-www/apache-2.0.47 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update script
blade- wrote:
Has anyone made a script that will, emerge sync, emerge -UDp world
outputs the results to email?
I am not to good at shell scripting, I have been trying to base it off a
script I have that updates the root hints and email the results but I am
not getting any where. I want it to be a daily cronjob so I dont have to
do it manually everyday.
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It performs sync, does pretend update and logs it, emails the list of
updates with date and fetches all updates and logs it. Use it as it is
or provide feedback as you like.
sync.sh
#!/bin/bash
DATE=$(date +%a %d %b %Y %H:%M)
DIR=/tmp/portage
LOG_UPDATES=$DIR/updates_world.log
LOG_FETCH=$DIR/updates_fetch.log
HOST=$(hostname | awk -F. '{print $1}')
EMAIL=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
emerge sync
emerge -Duvp world | tee $LOG_UPDATES
NUMBER=$(grep ebuild $LOG_UPDATES | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }')
SUB1=$HOST - $NUMBER world updates ($DATE)
echo -e '\nNo. of world updates = '$NUMBER $LOG_UPDATES
mail -s $SUB1 $EMAIL $LOG_UPDATES
emerge -Duf world | tee $LOG_FETCH
END
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
Ulrich Plate wrote: True. But even though I've added metalog to my boot runlevel, it still doesn't get a chance to record the earlier errors (like st, ide_tape, ide_probe_mod and I don't know what else). My biggest problem is to separate the real errors from the ones triggered by that stupid devfs/baselayout/module-init-tools/modules.conf bug that's been loitering on my systems for weeks now. Don't even know if it's a bug or not, but it sure is bugging me... Cheers Ulrich Plate Please add your vote to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26452 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen
Larry Augschöll wrote: Yeah, I have seen the splash screens on the game CDs before. The new live cd is the same thing, but with a (in my opinion) better image. It looks really slick! I want it now ;-)! This sounds like a workaround: http://www.aichler.net/gentoo/bootsplash/ The work found on that website is what has been submitted on the bug report to which I linked earlier in the thread. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?
Simon Mushi wrote: Hi Dhruba, Thanks for the responseumm the output of emerge info was as follows Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) There was an update to portage today to Portage 2.0.49_pre18. Try that update and do an emerge sync after the update. And just to remind you ...the problem I was having a whole bunch of errors starting with teh word aux_get() referring to some ebuils Usually, this either means that on the developer end there have been some accidental typing errors or that the rsync process has corrupted the content of the ebuilds. Either way, your choices are either to wait for someone to find these errors and fix them or to file bugs and notify them that these errors exist. The second is usually faster. HTH. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen
Jon Ellis wrote: Thank you for the replies! I have followed the instructions here, but I haven't had any luck. I do have the frame buffer images working, but it won't work in silent mode. Silent mode does not work at the moment. It isn't supported by the Gentoo init scripts yet but they are working on incorporating it. Look at [1] and add yourself as CC. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21019 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-source 2.4.20-r6
Chris Bare wrote: 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. That is very odd. Run 'regenworld' and 'emerge regen'. Read below. I was kind-of surprised that I'd get a new kernel version so stealthily. qpkg shows I have r5 and r6 installed: Perhaps emerge -Pp gentoo-sources would also be appropriate. # qpkg -I -v gentoo-source sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 * It isn't done by stealth. It *should* specify it in the list of updates. Perhaps it was the manner in which you listed the updates. I usually do a 'emerge -Duvp world'. I have 2 questions. How would I have even known this got installed if I hadn't happened to see it scroll by? Log the list of updates and log the entire update process. Examples are given below. emerge -Duvlp world /tmp/portage/list.log emerge -Du world | tee /tmp/portage/update.log How do I find out what's in r6 to decide if I want to build/install/run it? Take a look at the daily cvs changelog for all packages (on gentoo website and on mailing list) or individual version changelogs for packages by doing [1] or [2]. [1] emerge -l packagename (to list changelog entry for one package - do this before the update) [2] emerge -Duvlp world (to list changelog entries for all package updates automatically - again do after emerge sync and before updating) The -l flag only works on pending updates and not after the updates have been performed. HTH. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen
Jon Ellis wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:55, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Silent mode does not work at the moment. It isn't supported by the Gentoo init scripts yet but they are working on incorporating it. Look at [1] and add yourself as CC. Thanks for the response. It's too bad that this isn't supported yet. It looks really good on the new live CD's. Well I will be looking forward to when it's supported! I have not tried the new installation cds but there were excellent demonstrations on silent bootsplash screens with progress bar on Gentoo Live Game CDs. So far, there's enemy territory, american army and unreal tournament 2003. Try them out if you like although the iso's may be difficult to find. Last I saw they were on the link below. http://www.gentoogames.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 Basic-Installation CD really buggy (20030806)
Thorsten Kampe wrote: Sorry, what happened? RC4 was perfect... It's difficult to say what happened exactly but each live cd release version is different and every installation experience is different. If you are having problems file bugs and you will get official feedback on your problems. Alternatively, due to the nature of the distribution you may use any cd version to install it as all of them give the same end product. It may however be a fact that Gentoo requires a few more version releases before it begins to provide a streamlined and matured product that can be representative of its merits. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results
Mark Knecht wrote: Votes Percent Reason 47 82% Install from stage 1 1 2% Install from stage 2 916% Install from stage 3 Wow! I'm totally surprised! Do most people really do a stage 1 install? I still haven't done one yet. (Chicken) Can someone fill me in on what would be the end-user advantage of doing a stage 1 install? Is the machine fast? More stable? Why do all the work? Sorry to butt in late. IMO, Stage 1 installations are what Gentoo is all about. It provides what the installation guide calls very rightly uber-optimisation! It allows you to specify your own custom cflags and your own custom use flags whereas a precompiled GRP package will have these settings determined by a second party. I am a control freak and like to specify my own settings and configure the installation every step of the way despite the extra time it may take. And look at it this way, if you're going to recompile with emerge -e world why not do it in the first place with a stage 1 install? Correct? Bootstrapping is a lot quicker than it used to be since it doesn't recompile gcc etc twice anymore. So that's a big speed up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?
Simon Mushi wrote: Hi once again, I am having a problem wit the portage system ..after I do an emerge rsync Nasty errors. Paste the output of 'emerge info'. Also, update portage if you are not running the latest version and if you are you could try re-emerging it after a sync. Just some thoughts. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( More information: This is now filed as bug [1]. Basically, the problem is that ACPI is dependent upon Local APIC being turned on. To me, this seems like a bad idea as my machine has no local APIC but requires ACPI. Judge for yourselves. [1] http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1117 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Jason Stubbs wrote: Recompiled, rebooted and running fine. I'm about to add a comment to your bug report as soon as my password arrives. I can't imagine ACPI being bad on machines without HT or APIC since it's been in the 2.5 series for a long time and even backported to the 2.4 series. I'd say it's just a small bug by whomever did the bk3 patches. The HT ACPI bit wasn't in the previous one - seems like that was integrated incorrectly. Thanks for testing and reporting back. Yes - please add useful feedback such as your messages on this thread to the bug report that I filed. I'm a little concerned that the kernel.org bugs are progressing so slowly but hopefully it will get looked at sometime. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages
William Kenworthy wrote: What gives? rattus# emerge -e --deep world -p|wc 135 5345612 rattus# wc /var/cache/edb/world 608 608 11445 /var/cache/edb/world rattus# Ran regenworld, which added one package to the world file, but none to the emerge -e I want to make a major change to my system, and recompile all the packages, but it looks like emerge can only see less than a quarter of them. At one time, there was a script that did a good job of running a system wide rebuild, but it stopped working - is there a current one that does a good job? BillK FWIW, I too have sometimes run 'emerge -e world' and found many packages have not recompiled. I suppose carpaski on the portage team would be in the know. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but at one point ACPI once again gets locked. Doing make oldconfig on the old config gets rid of all ACPI options too. Anyone else experience this? With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but at one point ACPI once again gets locked. Doing make oldconfig on the old config gets rid of all ACPI options too. Anyone else experience this? To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages
Matt Broughton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did this just to see what it reported on my system: Well to continue on this note:- $ regenworld $ emerge -Duep world | grep ebuild | wc -l 405 $ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world 327 So this is accurately disproportionate. Correct? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall?
Mark Knecht wrote: Can anyone suggest what's possibly gone wrong and what to do about it? Sometimes this happens with dormant mozilla processes residing in the background that have failed to die after a crash or hang of some sort. Try with different milestones for reasons of differing stability and see if you can reproduce it. It also happens if you have mozilla already running and then try to open a new instance of mozilla and try to load a new page in the new instance. Don't open new instances and use a new tab in the existing instance. HTH. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoolkit oddity!
According to my machine a new package called gentoolkit is being installed when another one of same name is *already* installed. A search reveals there are two packages by the same name! Anyone else have this? # emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-java/java-config-0.2.8-r1 [0.2.8] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/memcached-api-php-1.0.10 [1.0.9] [ebuild N] app-admin/gentoolkit-0.1.30 # emerge -s gentoolkit Searching... [ Results for search key : gentoolkit ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * app-admin/gentoolkit Latest version available: 0.1.30 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Collection of unofficial administration scripts for Gentoo * app-portage/gentoolkit Latest version available: 0.1.30 Latest version installed: 0.1.30 Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Collection of unofficial administration scripts for Gentoo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoolkit oddity!
Spider wrote: it means gentoolkit is being moved into a new category called app-portage . //Spider Well, I did an emerge sync and afterwards true enough there was only one gentoolkit. However, this is what I got at the end of the emerge sync. Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2003 (Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/gentoolkit-0.1.30 - app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/mirrorselect-0.7-r1 - app-portage/mirrorselect-0.7-r1 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/mirrorselect-0.6 - app-portage/mirrorselect-0.6 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/mirrorselect-0.7 - app-portage/mirrorselect-0.7 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/mirrorselect-0.8 - app-portage/mirrorselect-0.8 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/mirrorselect-0.81 - app-portage/mirrorselect-0.81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! sys-apps/epm-0.8.4 - app-portage/epm-0.8.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/splat-0.06 - app-portage/splat-0.06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/ufed-0.32 - app-portage/ufed-0.32 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/ufed-0.33 - app-portage/ufed-0.33 !!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! app-admin/ufed-0.34 - app-portage/ufed-0.34 ... ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time. At this point, the shell hung and would not return control to the prompt so I had to ^C. Do I have to delete these packages manually or run fixpackages? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel - Cannot open Eterm
Hello I'm running 2.6.0_beta2 kernel. In enlightenment I can open Xterms but not Eterms. If I type Eterm in Xterm I get the following error message. bash-2.05b$ Eterm Eterm: Error: Can't open pseudo-tty -- No such file or directory Eterm: Error: Unable to run sub-command. I've addded Unix 98 and /dev/pts to kernel, added my normal user to tty group and also tried adding the following to /etc/fstab. /dev/pts /dev/ptsdevpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/ptsdevptsgid=5,mode=620 0 0 However, none of these solutions work. Any help would be much appreciated as life without Eterm is a bleak one. Many thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge xalan fails
Hello Emerge xalan fails with the following error. Any suggestions? $ emerge xalan Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/xalan-2.5.1 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xalan-j_2_5_1-src.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xalan-j_2_5_1-src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.5.1/work Source unpacked. Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tools/ant/Main !!! ERROR: dev-java/xalan-2.5.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 21, Exitcode 1 !!! build failed $ emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) = System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/; CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/env.d PORTDIR=/usr/portage DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR_OVERLAY= USE=x86 oss 3dnow avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg mad mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb berkdb slang readline aalib bonobo svga java mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl cdr acpi acpi4linux apache2 dvd faad fax fbcon imap kerberos maildir md5sum nptl offensive pcmcia php pnp sse tiff usb xml -apm -arts -cups -kde -libg++ -mikmod-nls -qt -spell -gtkhtml -gdbm -tcltk -guile -esd -gnome -mozilla COMPILER=gcc3 CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ~x86 MAKEOPTS=-j3 AUTOCLEAN=yes SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage FEATURES=sandbox ccache buildpkg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update all installed packages - emerge -uDpv world(don't work)
CrPy wrote: Hi, there are a concern, I like to have cleared and dicussed. 1. Why does emerge -upv $(qpkg -I -nc) != emerge -uDpv world? The first try to update all packages. All installed package are updated. The second try to update all packages in world 'deep'. But the irst and the second are not the same. World 'deep' is less than $(qpkg -I -nc). Where is my mistake, or is it a bug? BTW regenworld don't change anything Yes. Good point. I was wondering about this myself for quite some time. emerge -Duvp world is different from emerge -Duvp `qpkg -I -nc`. This IMHO should not be the case. Updating all packages should be a portage option. Otherwise, version bumps are missed on systems. Perhaps something like 'emerge -A world'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2003 04:27 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Tom Hosiawa wrote: How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to emerge gpm. Then configure it and start it. Applications like links should use it automatically. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Dhruba, I didn't compile anything here with the gpm flag and mouse works in consoles and lynx. (I suppose that it works in lynx because it works in console?) The question is, I guess, what needs to be recompiled to take advantage of gpm? Yes. Console mousing can work in mysterious ways it seems. To find out what to recompile do the following. emerge -evp world | grep gpm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Linux kernel 2.6.* benchmarking/testing
Hello Recently, I began using linux-2.6.0-test3 and experienced the following problems. (1) Touchpad did not work - filed as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1072 (2) Could not open shell window (Eterm) - fixed problem myself and did not file Other than that it's been mostly fine. My question is how can I put the 2.6 development series of kernel through more aggressive testing or benchmarking that will manifest more bugs if any? The more bugs that are reported the more stable and featureful the final release may become. However, under normal usage there is little evidence of those elusive bugs rearing their ugly heads which may become evident under prolonged or heavy use. How can I turn the heat up? And what problems have you faced with 2.6 series? It may of course be that the test3 is in extremely good shape and is nearing a final release :-) With regards. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4
Fred Van Andel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the fourth gentoo poll. The question is: What is your favorite way of installing gentoo? a) From stage1 b) From stage2 c) From stage3 Select only 1 option only. a) From stage1 everytime Uberoptimisation is the only way of life. And as a seperate question Do you use binary (GRP) packages? (Y/N) God no! Those are horrible horrible things. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] .bashrc
Steven Elling wrote: Here is a nice trick. Want to know which package the executables tic, tack and toe belong to? Just do the following (those a backtick not single quotes): ~ $ epm -qf `type -p tic` ncurses-5.3-r1 ~ $ epm -qf `type -p tac` textutils-2.1 ~ $ epm -qf `type -p toe` ncurses-5.3-r1 This can also be done as: etcat -b `which tic` Or, qpkg -f `which tic` For completeness. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages
Hello Given that this issue arises quite frequently I have filed a bug about it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26540 Please read it and provide feedback either on the bug or on this list. Basically, the issue at hand is the difference between [1] and [2] and how portage should handle this difference. [1] emerge -Duvp world [2] emerge -Duvp `qpkg -I -nc` Look forward to receiving feedback. With regards Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages
Erik Ordway wrote: I think that there is a significant difference between Updating all installed packages and ... all packages and all dependencies that need to be updated.. I may be wrong but the first says update and rebuild any thing on the system that can be updated and the second says update anything in the world file and anything they depend on no matter how remotely. The first catches everything on the system and the second 'may' not. That's absolutely right and is the precise distinction I'm making here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?
Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be rid of this blurred text and GUI once and for all. How can I turn off anti-aliasing in Evolution 1.4.4 and disable xft if applicable and should this be done before building or afterwards? This is the interesting variable : echo $GDK_USE_XFT 1 Set that to 0, and AA text is disabled. Its set in the /etc/env.d/50gtk2 variable for all users, or simply wrap evolution in a script, or alter your personal login sessions to disable AA Hello I've changed the variable globally and as a result both Evolution fonts and GUI looks so much clearer and crisper! Thanks everybody. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages = CLOSED
Heschi Kreinick wrote: I would appreciate it if you went back and reread what I wrote, because I thought I addressed the problem fairly completely. -Heschi After a discussion on #gentoo with a developer I've asked for this bug to be closed which has been done. It was decided, as you may have mentioned, that the correct course of action for these packages was either to add them to world file if desired or to remove them. My understanding of portage was incomplete and as such I'd overlooked some facts - my humble apologies on this account. Thanks for your feedback. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages
William Hubbs wrote: The packages were installed (they appeared as upgrades). The way I see it, an installed package can have 4 possible relationships to other packages on the system: 1) It is in the world file. (this is caught by your first command) 2) It is part of the system profile. (this is also caught by your first command) 3) It is a direct or indirect dependency of something in the world file or system profile. (also caught by your first command) 4) It isn't in the world file, system profile, and also it isn't a direct or indirect dependency of anything in either file. (your second command catches this). Do you agree? If that is the case, shouldn't packages that are caught by your second command and not the first be candidates for unmerging? What do you think? Yes. That's right. Read my other post in this thread suffixed CLOSED. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] status of portage on os X?
Owen Gunden wrote: A couple of months back this was announced on the gentoo website (and slashdot, etc.), but I haven't heard anything about it since. Is there a project page yet? Where can I go to learn about the status of this project? Cheers, Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://iportage.sourceforge.net/ Another excellent source of information on this topic is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance
Michael Gruetzner wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:05:39PM +0200, Arne Halenza wrote: Hi Michael, maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it using the hdparm command (check the man-page about the command, I don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar problem in the past. The chipset I used was supported, but not in DMA mode. So I had the slowest PIO mode. No, I already enabled DMA Mode. I just found out that dmesg tells me that an ICH4 chipset was detected but the driver was not compiled in, so I guess that could be the reason. Do you know, where in the kernel config I can enable the ICH4 Support? Greetings Michael I'm not sure about ICH4 but ICH is here. Main menu Sound Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x Also, check this one maybe. Main menu ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support Intel PIIXn chipsets support This is based on 2.4 kernels. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources
quote who=Gwendolyn van der Linden I have the same problem with 2.5 / 2.6-test kernels with my 7500 mobility. In my case the framebuffer does not autodetect correctly (I get a very distorted display), and only lower resolutions work properly if I hand-pick them. The 2.4 series framebuffer works like a charm without any kernel arguments! I did try to follow the differences in the radeon framebuffer code, but a whole bunch of settings and defaults have changed, and I lost my way. Anybody know more about this? I feel I didn't get enough concrete debug info to report it to the appropriate list. Did you try the vesa driver? Enable vesa driver in kernel and add the following for boot parameters where you can change vga= to whatever resolution you'd like. video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 If you do enable vesa make sure you disable all radeon specific options in kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?
Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be rid of this blurred text and GUI once and for all. How can I turn off anti-aliasing in Evolution 1.4.4 and disable xft if applicable and should this be done before building or afterwards? With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources
Chris I wrote: -1400x1050 lcd (seems we all have the same res) I havent tried lower modes yet. I don't suppose anyone knows anything about the vga= mode for 1400x1050 with vesa using an nvidia card? Chris. Many thanks on your input regarding the touchpad. Mine is now working perfectly. I'm told the synaptics driver is now in the xfree ebuild so a re-emerge will acquire and apply it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: From: Christoph Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Just add --- alsactl restore --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.start and --- alsactl store --- to your /etc/conf.d/local.stop This works fine for me! alsactl does not come with the kernel, unless it somehow comes with 2.6 (but I doubt it). So, you still need to build alsa-tools for this. The problem I see with that is that it will require alsa-drivers as a dependency, which you don't need for the 2.6 kernel. Tom Veldhouse -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list From 'emerge --help' :) --nodeps (-O short option) Merge specified packages, but don't merge any dependencies. Note that the build may fail if deps aren't satisfied. So I will do: $ emerge alsa-tools alsa-utils -Ovp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-sound/alsa-tools-0.9.6 [ebuild N] media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.6-r1 But do I need alsa-lib? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MD5SUM missmatch in LiveCDs can any body check it?
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: I downloaded both (Athlon) LiveCD's twice and i have the same error. I downloaded x86, pentium3, base and of course athlon-xp. The first 3 (4 isos, i'm still downloading the 2nd CD of x86) LiveCD's are ok, and have correct md5checksum's. But with Athlon-XP i'm having this problem. Who made the isos? Can any body check it? This should be posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] They can check MD5 sums server side whereas us feeble users would have to download the entire ISOs before being able to check their stamps. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages
William Hubbs wrote: Here is an addition to this. I just ran your commands, and the only packages that were omitted by --deep were net-ftp/ftp and sys-apps/netkit-base. As I recall, these were part of the system profile at one time, but they have been removed. Is it possible that the qpkg -I -nc command is catching orphaned packages which are not in the world file, system profile, and are not a dependency of anything in either place? If that is the case, why would you need a package that is in that category? Or should a package in that category be added to the world file? That's interesting. Did they appear as updates (U) or new packages (N)? If they appeared as updates then you must have them installed. Otherwise, they would appear as new packages. My inclusion criterion is simple. If it is installed include it in updates list when using this new switch regardless of how they relate to other packages. If not installed exclude it. I don't know how those two packages have been included if they are not even on the system. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?
Spider wrote: This is the interesting variable : echo $GDK_USE_XFT 1 Set that to 0, and AA text is disabled. Its set in the /etc/env.d/50gtk2 variable for all users, or simply wrap evolution in a script, or alter your personal login sessions to disable AA //Spider One more gnome and evolution related question. How do I change the font that is used in the GUI of evolution? The size is quite large and I'd like to make it smaller. Many thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
