Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 starting at level 3
On Saturday January 24 2004 07:04 am, Kurt Guenther wrote: I did an: rc-update del xdm and removed it. How do I add it to runlevel 4? No man page. rc-updateenter seems to indicate that rc-update add runlevel4 might work, but it doesn't. --Kurt You might want to have a read of the rc-scripts guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml Gentoo uses virtual runlevels -- have a look in /etc/runlevels/ What I think you want to do is something like this: bacuhec # mkdir /etc/runlevels/gui bacuhec # cp -P /etc/runlevels/default/* /etc/runlevels/gui/ bacuhec # rc-update add xdm gui * xdm added to runlevel gui * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] * rc-update complete. And then to change to the gui runlevel type: bacuhec # rc gui and back: bacuhec # rc default To make init 4 work, go to /etc/inittab and change the line: 4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default to 4:4:wait:/sbin/rc gui and you can then use `init 4' and such to change runlevel. HTH -Eric -- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Init config files
On Tuesday January 13 2004 11:29 pm, Sensei wrote: Now, who overwrites the configuration files? I had the same problem with modules.conf for alsa, and I had to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa --- and I found no documentation about this kind of init. Anyone can help me? I don't understand who starts who and how! And I have to set up the workstations... I would check the man pages for your DHCP client. For example, to prevent my /etc/ntp.conf from being overwritten every boot I have to change my eth0 settings in the /etc/conf.d/net script to this: iface_eth0=dhcp dhcpcd_eth0=-Y -N HTH -Eric -- There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. -- Calvin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla problems
On Monday January 5 2004 04:03 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Anyone else have trouble with losing the ability to type in Mozilla (and Firebird)? I've found that it fairly consistently locks me out of typing inside of web text fields *and* the address bar. It seems like it happens when I close another gui app... like K apps, mostly (I'm running fluxbox). b This happens to me occasionally with Firebird in KDE. Minimising and maximising the browser window has fixed it so far every time. It's when my mouse goes haywire and starts dragging windows around, opening the K menu in strange places, reorganising my icons and cutting/pasting text randomly for about 10 seconds, it's annoying :) -Eric -- Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology. -- Anonymous Metagenics Dockworker, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition Magic
On Monday September 8 2003 02:26 pm, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a reasonably priced copy of Partition Magic? When I deleted my other partitions in Windows, I inadvertently deleted the Linux partition I created with PM a year ago. Damn Microsoft!!! Got fix that before I can reinstall Gentoo:( Kevin You could try testdisk, a program that scans your hard drive for partitions and recreates them. http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html It's saved me before from bizarre interpretations of user instructions by the Microsoft disk management mmc snap-in. -Eric -- Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati drivers
so after emerge -u world ...trying a lot of mirrors.. !!! Couldn't download fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.4.i586.tar.gz. Aborting. I have tried it for a few days now but I get still the same error. What is going wrong here? I've been having the same problem. I used lynx to examine the location where the file is supposed to be...it's not there. I am assuming there is a typo in the url. I downloaded it from some mirror about a week ago. It seems to have disappeared for some reason. -Eric -- People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they did yesterday. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find masked dependencies.
On Friday July 11 2003 04:33 am, Robert Young wrote: I am trying to follow http://dev.gentoo.org/~liquidx/chinese.html and I am trying to add zh-kcfonts but its dependencies seem to be masked. How do I find masked dependencies. I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to make.conf and then emerge -p zh-kcfonts wanted to upgrade xfree to xfree-4.3.0-r3 Is xfree-4.3.0-r3 a dependency or just now available because I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86. When in doubt, you can look at the ebuild. This one (for me) is located at /usr/portage/media-fonts/zh-kcfonts/zh-kcfonts-1.05.ebuild and you can see the line: DEPEND=x11-base/xfree This means the ebuild just wants any version of xfree. I'm not sure why emerge wants to upgrade xfree for you, because when I run the following command I get: # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge zh-kcfonts -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-fonts/zh-kcfonts-1.05 If you used the -u (--upgrade) flag, then emerge would try to update all the dependencies (and the the dependencies of the dependencies of the dependencies) of the package. Does running: # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge zh-kcfonts -up Return a different list of packages? And you can specify ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 on the command line as shown to emerge masked packages, rather than making the setting global from make.conf. Based on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534 I should edit /etc/portage/package.unmask right? but this file and folder do not exist. Should I create it or is there not a better way. Any help is much appreciated thanks. Yes, you have to create the file, and put a line in like: =app-office/openoffice-bin-1.1_beta2 to emerge packages that are listed in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask but packages are usually put in that file because the developers need to test them, or are known to be unstable, etc. It has nothing to do with zh-kcfonts, that package is masked because it has the line KEYWORDS=~x86 in the ebuild. One thing you can do is: 1. Set the PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage variable in /etc/make.conf 2. Create the directory if necessary 3. Copy /usr/portage/media-fonts/zh-kcfonts/zh-kcfonts-1.05.ebuild to /usr/local/portage/media-fonts/zh-kcfonts/zh-kcfonts-1.05.ebuild 4. Edit the copied-to file and change the KEYWORDS=~x86 line to KEYWORDS=x86 5. emerge zh-kcfonts should stop complaining about being masked. Hope this helps, -Eric -- Wherever you go...There you are. - Buckaroo Banzai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer help
It is. I've got an XP 1800+ myself, and the core speed is about 1530 MHz. I have no idea how this works internally, but, in any case, your clock speed is correct. It goes up 66 MHz per 100 points for Athlon XPs with 256 KB of cache. -Eric -- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. -- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:42 pm, drewbian wrote to gentoo-user: After looking through the huge array of optimizations people have posted on the discussion forum's I'm rather confused as to what the hey to put in there. Particularly as most posters seem to use Pent 4's or Athlon XP's, Also would -march=athlon be the most suitable for a Duron 1.3? I understand that Morgan-core Durons (the 1GHz ones I believe) are just Athlon-XP's with less cache, so you can use -march=athlon-xp which will be (slightly) faster. My CFLAGS for an Athlon XP 1800+ are: CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mcpu=athlon-xp -m3dnow -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -finline-functions -fmerge-all-constants -fthread-jumps -fomit-frame-pointer -fexpensive-optimizations -ffast-math -fforce-addr -falign-functions=64 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4 -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args Which contains some duplications but _seems_ to work perfectly. Note this will probably make people cry Are you crazy and/or stupid!? and developers will likely refuse to do troubleshooting on any problems you may have. -Eric -- I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The age old (CFLAGS) question..
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 07:14 pm, Robin H.Johnson wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For your list of CFLAGS there, I'd advise you to read what the gcc manpage has on them. Some of them are ok, but solely due the following ones, I personally as a developer wouldn't support your bugs until you recompiled without them. -fmerge-all-constants - using this option will result in non-conforming behavior. -fomit-frame-pointer - It also makes debugging impossible on some machines. (this is even in bold in the manpage) -ffast-math - it can result in incorrect output for programs which depend on an exact implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math functions. The most of the rest of your CFLAGS I would consider as fine, and just a waste of your own time in compiling things (but hey, it is _your_ time you are wasting). I know, I've read the info page, but it *feels* faster. And I understand that if I have problems the first thing to do is to re-emerge (with -e if necessary) with saner CFLAGS, but (surprisingly) I haven't found any yet. And according to the emerge logs, compilation time isn't increased by more than ~20% on most packages, so it works for me. -Eric -- We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
