Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla 1.5 issues
Tom Wesley wrote: With 1.5 could you try going to www.livejournal.com and using some of the links at the top... My Mozilla dies instantly. No problem here. Checked a few links. But I didn't emerge Mozilla-1.5. Didn't want to update all the packages of the dependencies, well not yet. I downloaded the binary-zip-file from www.mozilla.org, which works btw. quite fast so far. It seems faster to me than my Mozilla-1.4 that I emerged some time ago. Strange that the optimized compiled version is slower than the precompiled binaries. Maybe they made 1.5 a lot faster? Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging nvidia-kernel fails
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Enable it in the kernel options when you run make menuconfig and then build the kernel. Seems my friend didn't really boot the new kernel :-/ Thx anymay. Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] question to linux-headers
Spider wrote: The update to -r1 is a very small one, that just adds a virtual to tell your system that it has the OS headers, something which was not necessary when we first packaged linux-headers, but that had to be added now that we have more versions here. Well... I'll update then. Shouldn't I have installed sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21, which is also available in portage-tree? Nope. Still a little strange to me... confusion with the version numbers. But ok, I'll just update the 2.4.19. Thx 4 help. Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] question to linux-headers
Hello. I wonder what's going on with those version numbers. I currently use a gentoo-stable kernel (sys-kernel/gs-sources-2.4.21_rc8). But for some time now when trying to update a package it tells me to update sys-kernel/linux-headers as well - from 2.4.19 to 2.4.19-r1. Why 2.4._19_, although I use 2.4.21? How's that meant? Shouldn't I have installed sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21, which is also available in portage-tree? Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, did that help, or not? it's unclear to me from your post. Sorry, I didn't get you in the first place. Now I've tried what you said - it took some time because I didn't have time for further testing - and it didn't help :-( I commented out the Modes-lines as you said and the the complete Modes-section with all the modelines. I managed to get the 1400x1050 resolution. But working with xvidtune was not successful. The more I tuned to reach higher refresh rates (wider) the more the whole screen went to the left hand side of the monitor. It more and more disappeared there. Even moving the screen to the right (right) stopped helping at around 68 Hz refresh rate. I wonder why, because I already generated good modelines for 81 Hz and even 75 Hz using SuSE and Sax2. It worked then quite well. But Gentoo dislikes those modelines. I tried to use them (removed the #'s) and tried again the way you told me - it wouldn't use 1400x1050. It jumps from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024 directly. I just don't understand that. The 1400x... modelines worked with the very same graphics card and the very same monitor. No hardware has changed, only software. But can that explain that behaviour? So, thank you for your help. Nevertheless I learned something 'bout configuring. Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerging nvidia-kernel fails
Hello. A friend of mine has a problem emerging nvidia-kernel (emerge nvidia-glx works fine). The error messages says something about MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support disabled - should be enabled by reconfiguring and recompiling kernel. It's a gentoo-stable 2.4.22_pre2 and my friend has MTRR enabled. All the configuration in the menu Processor type and features is the same like I have on my machine. Some weeks ago I configured his kernel the way I had done with mine (gentoo-stable soure 2.4.21_rc8). I think I got a similar error message when I tried to use nvidia-modules recently. That was when I exchanged my Voodoo3 3000 with a GeForce2 Ti. But now I just don't remember whether and why I got that message then. Worse I can't remember how I fixed it. Is this problem known to you? Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. Regards, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] maybe Gentoo-specific X-server problem
Hello. I have a problem using my 20inch monitor with a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. It's a Sony GDM-4011P which is a little old but in Windows I got it up to 1400x1050 at 85Hz using a tool named Powerstrip. Now I want to use this monitor on my Gentoo machine. For I don't know any other tuning tool like Sax2 from the SuSE-distribution, I installed that distribution on another harddrive and was _successful_ in generating a XF86Config-file with Sax2 that contains modelines for 1400x1050-resolution at 81Hz (higher values produce some distortion on the left hand side of the screen). So I copied the nessessary lines from that Sax2-XF86Config-file to my XF86Config-file I had built in Gentoo, such as the modelines, the device section, and the screen section. But in the end I can only run at maximum a 1280x1024 resolution, which is not even 4:3 format. Well, it runs at 85Hz, but I want the bigger resolution I had so much trouble with in configuring. I tried many combinations of commenting out lines in XF86Config. Even if I only allow one resolution (1400x...) in the screen section the server runs at 1280x1024! Other attempts I made were to configure a virtual resolution, but it never runs at 1400x...! Why is that so? What kind of behaviour is that? Using Sax2 I can test it all and even the installed windowmaker of that SuSE8.1-distribution runs at 1400x1050. What is missing in my modified XF86Config? Do the loaded font modules have anything to do with that (thats the only remarkable difference between the two XF86Config-files)? Oh and btw.: I use a GeForce2 Ti, which should be able to produce frequencies high enough. I recently installed this card because my Voodoo3 3000 did go at maximum 1400x1050 at 70Hz using Sax2. My GeForce2 Ti only has a problem with 3D-functionality - it crashes when running for example glxgears. I noticed that behaviour long before when I used that card on my Windows machine. But 2D-stuff was never a problem. And since I don't intend to play games on my Gentoo machine I'm fine with that. Big thanks for help, Frank. PS: Is there any other configuration tool like Sax2, which is available for Gentoo? (I don't mean such things like xvidtune.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kernel panic with detection of IRQ-Router
Hello. For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old computer. I already tried in alt.os.linux.gentoo, but the answer(s) didn't help. The problem is this: Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset Distribution: Gentoo 1.4 The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When checking for PCI-bus the correct chipset is detected and the PIIX-driver is loaded. But when building the kernel (PIIX-chipset-driver compiled into kernel) the (very same) chipset-detection ends in a kernel panic! My friend tried following options for PCI Access Mode: BIOS and ANY - but neither works. Instead the error message is: PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress printing eip: : : 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Even the option Direct fails, but produces a different error message: PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00) general protection fault ac00 CPU: 0: : 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! The used kernel sources are gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r6 and vanilla-sources 2.4.22. Further parameter that might be of interest: Processor-Type: Pentium-Classic (kernel appropriately configured) gcc options: -O3 -march=pentium Has anyone any idea on that problem. Particularly since the install-CD-kernel works fine at that point. Messages then: PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI : Using configuration type 1 PCI : probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI : probing hardware (bus00) PCI : Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/122e] at 00:07.0 THX4help, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
