Re: [gentoo-user] where are network parameters stored?
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 16:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I can't find the configuration file. I do see the script that brings it up in /etc/init.d, but I can't believe the configuration is embedded in the script. Try /etc/conf.d/net Jayson Garrell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:27, Ulrich Plate wrote: My setup exactly. Is this a kernel problem, something to do with my hardware (i810), or aRts? I would say no on the hardware or kernel issue. I am running 2.4.24 w/ sb-live card and I am seeing the same error. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] possiable abcde ebuild bug?
While updating my system I got the folowing error on the 'abcde' (mp3 * ogg encoding) package. /bin/install -c -d -m 755 /var/tmp/portage/abcde-2.1.9/image//usr/bin make: /bin/install: Command not found make: *** [install] Error 127 So I did a 'whereis install' and it came up as /usr/bin/install not /bin/install. All I did was make a symbolic link from /usr/bin/install to /bin/install and it worked fine. Should I post a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.orgn or ??? Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop 3D Graphics
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 10:17, Steven Gill wrote: Will a Laptop with a GeForce4 440MX GO graphics chipset work with the nvidia accelerated drivers (to provide 3D for games)? I want to be able to run a few 3D games (quake3, nwn). I know that the performance even with the accelerated drivers won't be all that great but it'll be better that no 3D acceleration at all! If not what laptop chipsets provide 3D capabilities under Gentoo Linux?(ie. ATI, Intel Extreme Graphics) My Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 w/ GF2go works fine with the binary nvidia drivers. 10641 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2128.200 FPS Hope that helps. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:48, EvgGad wrote: Hello! I've such question, is here anyone using lirc with homemade ir receiver? I have made the reciver, although I have not connected it yet. I am sure it will work though, very simple device. I have a Logitech/AST remote that works with lirc. The homebrew one should work just as a standard serial device for lirc. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using lirc
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:31, EvgGad wrote: I know that mine works, I tried it under offtopic xp :) , but I can't get work it under linux... :( I will set mine up, tonight after work. And post the results, success or failure. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] determining tape size
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:22, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the tape out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my tape drive (and SCSI CD-ROM). scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03g Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 st: Version 20020805, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 The Sony SDT-5200 is a DDS2 tape device. DDS2 is 4G native 8G compressed. I would suggest using the mt-tools to work with the drive. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] determining tape size
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:50, David Gethings wrote: Just a guess: Are you able to mount the st0 device? If so try a df -h once you have. I don't think that you can mount a tape drive, since it has no real filesystem. The tapes are formatted from the factory, you erase, rewind, retention, and so forth. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo offline install?
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:26, Soos Istvan wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 04:49 pm, Soos Istvan wrote: Is it possible to install gentoo without net? (The ethernet card isn't fully supported by linux, but I can download some things in windows, s it's not totally separated from the network). If it is possible, how? I've 15-20 GB storage space, if needed... Is it an nforce 2 based motherboard? If so, try booting the CD with the gentoo --nonet option the nforce net drivers ARE on the cd but you'll have to emerge them before rebooting. the nonet option may work with some other NIC's that don't have GPL drivers YMMV. The problem is more complex (realtek 8169), so the final conclusion is that the kernel does not fully support r8169+sis motherboard (notebook) yet. I cannot uplink any ethernet connection, the only (?) solution is (for now) is to try an offline install. If I can. I would use the GRP install. That would definitely get you going. The iso's a large but you won't have to download anything during the install either. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:03, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:01:26 +0100, Anarconda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled gentoo for my laptop with CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer Can you use pentium4? I was avoiding it, because there was somewhere mentioned in the docs that this doesn' t work. I don' t have the details reight now but it said you should use pentium3 instead. I have had Gentoo on my laptop for almost a year now, and have been using the pentium4 flags. I have not had any problems relating to the use of those flags. gcc -v reports... gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r3, propolice) Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/pts what is it?
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:00, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:43:53 -0800, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure exactly what it is, but if you're using kernel 2.6 you'll need to enable /dev/pts under filesystems. On 2.4 kernels you don't. No it' s 2.4.23 vanilla. When I boot I can see the modprobe tries to load something and tehn I get the errormessage and /dev/pts no such file or directory. Here is a link to a short example of what /dev/pts is. http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2002/debian-testing-200203/msg00103.html I'm surprised that no one dug up this info already ;-) Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation: compile fails
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 14:40, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:17:13 -0800, Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Gentoo on my laptop for almost a year now, and have been using the pentium4 flags. I have not had any problems relating to the use of those flags. gcc -v reports... gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r3, propolice) When I change my flags to use also pentium4 would this work? Or would I have to reinstall everything? I would hate that because it took a lot of time to install it but I would like to take advantage of it also. I would think that only all new software installed would take advantage of the different cflags. An when you finally decide to do a 'emerge -u world' it will use the new cflags also. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a Cd burner..
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 13:14, Primero.Franz wrote: Maybe it's a little bit Off-Topic but this is my best resource of information ... so , i'm sorry :-))) I've a Gentoo desktop that i use as Firewall and File sharer for my little LAN , some desktop and a Laptop i Use for all my Activities. I'm thinking about buyng a DVD burner to put on the firewall/FS server. Everythig is linux. I would need to share the DVD-R from with the others host, how can i do this? I've read something about SAMBA, but i would like to use something else because, since i removed my last windblows system i removed alsao SAMBA using NFS for file sharing. THX primero Webmin has a cd burning module, not sure if it does dvd. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:15, Valmor de Almeida wrote: /dev/hda351 7296 58203495 83 Linux ^ For a LVM partition it's type need to be 8e (LVM) not 83. Change it to 8e save out in fdisk, reboot and do your lvm commands again. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:46, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks a lot. It works. I am impressed with the prompt response/solution; 4 minutes. Glad I could help. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP interface?
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:35, Joshua Banks wrote: Reposting in the hopes that I get a bite. I've researched this but don't seem to find anything significant that helps answer my 2 questions. JBanks --- Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just added another nic card and statically assigned the address and used rc-update add net.eth1 default and added the eth1 interface/address info in /etc/conf.d/net. This works fine right now with a static address. 2 questions: 1) Eth1 will be connected to a cable modem and will need to be using dhcp to get its interface/gateway info. So do I just simply edit the /etc/conf.d/net settings when the time comes to change from static to dhcp and the eth1 interface will automatically revert to using dhcp settings or do I need to do something otherwise? Just change it in /etc/conf.d/net like you mentioned. That is all that is needed. 2) Having added eth1 to the default run-level via rc-update, will switching the interface to dhcp (versus it being statically addressed now) have an effect or not? If so, what (if simple) do I need to do? Correct. If you make the change in /etc/conf.d/net it will work as you expect. The file /etc/conf.d/net is nothing more then a place holder for numeric ip values. Adding it via 'rc-update add net.eth1 default' only told gentoo to start that device at boot time, the config is where the acual values come from. All in all you were on the right path to begin with. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 02:25, Sigurd Stordal wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 22:29, Jayson Garrell wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: athlon-4, athlon-xp, athlon-mp, winchip-c6, winchip2 and c3. Looks like you're in luck... c3 bails out with an error about target not supported. I did some googleing and it appers that i686 or i586 should work. with the new gcc 3.3.x it's there, I'm compiling it happily at home now. Yes I did notice that also. It was in the stage1-x86 tar ball, but it is there now that the system has been installed. After it finishes compiling xfree qt I will rebuild it system with the c3-2 flags. I will post the results. Also if any one is interested I have a 2.4.23 kernel built with all of the cle266 stuff patched in. URL below. http://kyi.sytes.net/downloads/epia/patch-2.4.23-epia1 http://kyi.sytes.net/downloads/epia/epia.config The epia.config is my custom kernel, mostly modular vs. builtin driver support. The patch applies cleanly to the stock 2.4.23 kernel the -bk7 patched kernel. As the system is built I will provide complete configs docs to any one that needs them. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS
My M1N EPIA mobo will be arriving today and I wanted to get a heastart on getting things ready. This board is going to be used as a dedicated mythtv box. What are the best CFLAG opts for this mobo? Is there a C3 option or do I need go with i586 or i686. I don't need any help installing Gentoo or mythtv, I just wanted to make this setup as fast as it can be. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] EPIA CFLAGS
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:32, David Mallwitz wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:58 am, Jayson Garrell wrote: What are the best CFLAG opts for this mobo? Is there a C3 option or do I need go with i586 or i686. I don't need any help installing Gentoo or mythtv, I just wanted to make this setup as fast as it can be. http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=368#Introduction and http://blade5.bvu.edu/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EpiaHowto will be your best resources. What kind of TV card are you going to use? Hauppauge pvr250 Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:57, Christopher Lyon wrote: Can anybody recommend a good PCI internal modem that will work with Gentoo? I have found a couple of links out, idir.net/~. and they all seem to have outdated information. Any help would be appreciated. For the least amount of trouble. I have always found USR externel modems to work every time. I am sure that they make a pci version also. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] decss, legality and all that jazz
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 17:39, FX wrote: If you have the File use it. On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:42, Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote: Fellers, Is DeCSS ok to emerge or what's the deal? Thanks, -Sumeet I'm pretty sure that if all you want to do is watch dvd movies you are ok. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 18:19, Steve Withers wrote: I tried 'emerge decss' and it doesn't exist. Have I got the package name wrong? You should probly have these USE flags added to your make.conf dvd css Then just emerge you favorite dvd player, emerge ogle ogle-gui Note that ogle is not my favorite but it does support dvd menus css, so when you emerge it it will grab the dependices that you are looking for. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dvd on Gentoo?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:39, Steve Withers wrote: I have a system recently installed with Gentoo 1.4. I've added Xfree, KDE 3, Mozilla, X-CDRoast and Xine. The system sees the hard drives - no problems. It sees the CDR/RW.and I have happily burnt some CD-Rs...that was easy. But for playing DVDs, the system can't see the second CD drive.the DVD/CD player. I have loaded the ide-scsi modulebut the KDE Info Centre remains obliviousand I'm assuming it is using proc to get its info. Most of the DVD setup info on the Net is 3 years old or moreand they talk about 2.2 kernels.so I don't want to dig into that and make a mess of things. I was thinking of installing autofs...Good idea? All you need to do, after emergeing what ever dvd player you want, is to create a symbolic link from you dvd drive to /dev/dvd. Example... ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd The above line is asuming that your dvd drive is the first, if it's not replace the '0' with what ever # yours is. You will also need UDF read support in your kernel, as a module or static it doesn't matter. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 08:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Not to knock your choice of Linux dvd player, but what's wrong with ogle? Which is your favorite? Nothing wrong with ogle, it is a good player. I perfer mplayer, but then again I don't care about the dvd menus I just want the movie to play. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo - How to install DeCSS?
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:21, Paul Stear wrote: Hi, Is css a valid USE flag? I thought I saw it on the list, but I am wrong. Sorry. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] auto-login using ssh
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:47, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I've seen a thread or 2 here before about this, but I can't seem to find them. I use ssh to login to a few different hosts on a regular basis. I want to set it up so I don't have to enter my password. How do I do this? On each host, as what ever user you are going to be using, do the following. 1) ssh-keygen -t rsa (hit enter when asked for a password) Now add the content of your ~/.ssh/id_rsa file to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on each host you are logging into. If the authorized_keys file is not there create it. Now when you go to logon to those hosts you will not be asked for a password. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 - Where is bttv?
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 05:57, Steve Withers wrote: I can't get my tv card (Askey-based CPH03x card) going. I've run 'make menuconfig' and looked under multimedia - Video4Linux and there is no bttv reference there as suggested in the discussion forums when I searched. I have already re-compiled the kernel with Video4linux support (it was turned off before)..but still no bttv.anywhere. Where is it? I'm almost to the point where I'm going to go download a tarball. :-) kernel is 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 It's under Multimedia devices --- Video For Linux --- M BT848 Video For Linux (this will build the bttv module) You will need to build the i2c modules as well for it to work. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 400SC lm-sensors
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:49, Ryan Dlugosz wrote: Hall Stevenson said: What motherboard does it have ?? It's likely an Intel, I believe. The Motherboard Monitor page only has (4) Dells listed, but lots more Intel. Thanks for the reply, Hall. I'm not sure specifically what board it is, but I'm fairly certain that it uses the Intel 875P (Canterwood) chipset. Not sure if that would help at all though. Next time I'm near the box I'll see if I can crack it open for a minute to check it out. -Ryan ssh into the box and do a 'lspci -v' it will give you the chipset information. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:34, Mark Knecht wrote: Great thread. I'm doing a new box and have been an ATI user. However, I need an adapter with no fan and do not require leading edge 3D support. The ATI Radeon 9000 model I was using seems to have disappeared, so I didn't know what to do. Is there a reasonably priced ($125) nVidea board with no fan that runs under Linux? What nVidea type GPU would I be looking for? I have a geforce2 mx400 in my old desktop, use it for a mythtv box now, that has no fan. You can still buy them online for under $40 US. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple emerges
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:24, Jon Dye wrote: Hello, Could anyone tell me wether I can run multiple instances of emerge at the same time or not? I guess it depends on how well it loks the portage database? I have done this many time my self with out problems. I would say to do a emerge -p packname first and as long as there are no conflicting packages, a package that both want to install, all should be ok. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where the heck is Bitchx?
This morning I needed to get some info from irc so I decided to fireup bitchx. I cannot find it on my system. Portage thinks it is there... bash-2.05b# emerge search bitchx Searching... [ Results for search key : bitchx ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-irc/bitchx Latest version available: 1.0.19-r6 Latest version installed: 1.0.19-r6 Size of downloaded files: 2,474 kB Homepage:http://www.bitchx.com/ Description: An IRC Client I have looked every where, I even did a 'find / | grep bitchx'. Turned up a bunch of files but no binary. I figured O'well I'll just re-emerge it. I did and it compiled w/out errors but still not binary! Starting to feel a little 'tarted this morning, had to drive to san jose last night and didn't get home until 3am. So am I just missing something here, dain bramage or what? Thanks in advance -Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where the heck is Bitchx?
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:24, Jarrod Alexander Roy wrote: The BitchX executable has a capital B. Try that. I got the same thing when I emerged it the first time. Jarrod Goes to show ya how tired I am today. That was one of the first things I tryed. I acually learned that about bitchx a few years back. bash-2.05b$ whereis BitchX BitchX: -Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where the heck is Bitchx?
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 11:36, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I needed to get some info from irc so I decided to fireup bitchx. I cannot find it on my system. Portage thinks it is there... I've had a similar problem with other ebuilds, but this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter has the solution: qpkg. Among other useful things, qpkg can tell you what files were installed by a particular ebuild with 'qpkg --list name of ebuild'. No more sending the output of emerge to a file! Thank you, GWN! -Eamon Well I have used qpkg in the past, but completly forgot about it this time. It doesn't look good. Seems as though emerge wnet through all of the motions of compiling and installing bitchx but didn't for some reason. bash-2.05b# qpkg --list bitchx net-irc/bitchx-1.0.19-r6 * CONTENTS: As you can see no files. Just for a test I did the same with xchat, mozilla and both came back with a nice list of what was installed. I guess this is a bug? I can file it on the gentoo bugzilla page, but before I do... Is anyone else seeing this issue? Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Where the heck is Bitchx?
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:18, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: snip super long line I suggest a emerge bitchx output.txt.. Something tells me that its erroring out but not realizing it. /snip Ok I went ahead and did that and it still showed no errors. I did want to mention that this is my work laptop, so I have a big habbit of not changeing things to often. There were a few warnings but no errors. bash-2.05b# cat output.txt | grep error checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for strerror... yes I can send the output.txt if you like. Still kinda stumped as to what is causing this to happen. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where the heck is Bitchx?
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:16, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:36:43PM +, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I needed to get some info from irc so I decided to fireup bitchx. I cannot find it on my system. Portage thinks it is there... I've had a similar problem with other ebuilds, but this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter has the solution: qpkg. Among other useful things, qpkg can tell you what files were installed by a particular ebuild with 'qpkg --list name of ebuild'. No more sending the output of emerge to a file! Nothing that can not be resolved by a %qpkg -l and see which packages provide xxx package.. and/or (i'm not sure) with an %apropos bitxh. I though I posted that already. Or did it not get through? Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Root filesystem could not be mounted
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:26, SMS WebMaster wrote: From searching google I think (not sure) the problem because I didn't enable noatime in the new kernel . The problem that I can't find this option in the kernel options !!! I think it goes in your /etc/fstab as an option for that filesystem, example... /dev/hda6/reiserfs noatime0 0 Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:26, HvR wrote: one thing i dislike about gentoo is that the support for creating a proper XF86config file is missing. the equivalent tool from redhat is much smarter. so what i do these days is install redhat have it create the config file then copy it to a save spot, install gentoo and then put the redhat configured file back, works like a charm.but... is there a gentoo port of the redhat configurator maybe? Have you tryed... /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -configure It will probe your hardware and create a good config. you can customize after but it will work with out needing to. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:47, Robert Crawford wrote: I just boot to a knoppix cd, and copy its XF86Config-4 file. Works fine too. I never was able to do the usual XF86Config file the normal way with Gentoo. I tried time and time again, and it appeared to work, but would never start x. It could never properly detect my hardware, but the Knoppix method works perfectly. Some purists on the Gentoo forum considered this almost cheating, but I'm of the opinion that if it works, use it, especially if the other methods fail. Robert Crawford Well in the spirit of Gentoo it is 'cheating'. Although thats the beauty of Linux, choice, and there is always more then one way to skin a cat. I used to do things the same way my self until I slowly learned how to get it right. I will remember to try this just to check it out. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help with usb
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:18, Frank R Callaghan wrote: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Any other suggestions please ;) cdrecord will list the devices in the SCSI chain (even emulated ones). Do a ... cdrecord -scanbus If it doesn't show the device in the list, when all of your modules are loaded, the it's not going to work. What brand of card reader is it? All of the SanDisk ones that I have seen work fine. Jayson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo PVR?
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:44, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Thinking about using gentoo to run a homebrew PVR (with mythtv), anyone with any experiences? Rick Just follow the docs on http://mythtv.org and you will be fine. I have it running on my old dual 500piii with 2 160G maxtor drives. Runs pretty good but it would be better if I had a Hauppauge pvr250, hardware encoder, cause the 500piii's are over worked. I would say if you have a 1Ghz or better pc you will be fine, I would avoid any of the ati tv products and get some thing from the Hauppauge wintv line instead. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gaming-sources - where are the modules put?
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 09:25, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I just built the gaming sources kernel and sort of blindly assumed that things would work. When I rebooted it said it couldn't find the /lib/modules directory. Sure enough, it's not there. I'm rebuilding now, but in case I don't get any messages, does anyone know where these are? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list After building the kernel did you do a make modules make modules_install I ask because I am using the gaming-sources on my laptop w/out problems. So after saving the kernel config do a make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new gentoo-sources
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 09:30, Chris Bare wrote: I just noticed that I now have linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7. This is the second time I've been surprised to find a new kernel so I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I always examine the emerge -up output before I run it. Am I just not catching the new kernels or are they not being listed? Regardless, it would be helpful if emerge mentioned that you should go build the new kernel the same way it reminds you of etc config file changes. Try doing a emerge -up world (or system) | grep linux-2.4 If it is in the list you will see it. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] small network
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:12, Phil Jackson wrote: * Jean Magnan de Bornier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Hello Jean, I want to make a network with two gentoo machines at home, I don't know what is needed.Could someone point me to some HOWTO? As the first person that replied to this message stated it really depends on what you want to do; A cheap and easy solution might just be two Nics with 10BaseT connecability some 10BaseT cable and a simple hub. If there is only ever going to be two boxes on the lan anything more might be overkill. Phil Or forget the overhead of the hub and use a crossover cable. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 16:37, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Brian Doob wrote: I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) What linux do you have on your iPaq, and is that with or without extra ram / microdrive? It would be Familiar Linux, it is installable without a microdirve ram. I have the latest release running on my iPAQ 3765 (stock 64mb ram 32mb flash. http://handhelds.org Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Networking (Linux iPaq to Gentoo)
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:13, Brian Doob wrote: I want to set up USB networking between my Linux-iPaq (an ARM based handheld with 2.4.19 Linux) and my Gentoo desktop box. The gentoo box is connected to a broadband router with an active DHCP server. I want the iPaq to get an address from the router and connect out to the internet. I think the iPaq is already configured correctly (it's running familiar 0.7.1test + Opie 1.0). I compiled usbnet statically into my gentoo kernel (2.4.22-ck1). I don't know which USB driver I should use (Gigabyte GA-7VAX, VIA KT400, VIA VT8235). I also don't know how to set up my config files, or enable the IP forwarding (but not masquerading) to talk to my router. Does anyone know how to set this up? Thanks. -Brian Forget about dhcp on the ipaq connected via usb. I could never get it to get and address from my server. I can tell you how to get it working with static ip though. iPAQ: 1) Make sure that the usb-eth modules is being loaded at boot time. 2) Familiar should already be setup for this, if you are using the latest release. Desktop: You need to have the usbnet.o compiled as a module. 1) modprobe -r usbnet 2) place ipaq in usb cradle 3) modprobe usbnet 4) ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 pointopoint 192.168.0.202 up (usb0 will be the network devicec on you pc) 5) route add -host 192.168.0.202 usb0 6) iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.202/16 iptables -I FORWARD -s 192.168.0.202/16 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -d 192.168.0.202/16 -j ACCEPT echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward If your desktop is already connected to the internet, the ipaq will be able to also now. Jayson Garrell p.s. you should suscribe to the familiar.handhelds.org mailing list for this. ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mask issue: I checked emerge info
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:37, Tom Wesley wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:34, Robert Young wrote: root # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) = System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo snip . . ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ~x86 MAKEOPTS=-j2 AUTOCLEAN=yes SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage FEATURES=sandbox ccache see ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ~x86 Change to ~x86 only My make.conf only has ~x86 not both, and I still get that error. Is there a global setting some where? Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mask issue: I checked emerge info
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:34, Robert Young wrote: # emerge -p net-p2p/xmule These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy net-p2p/xmule have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. Am I missing something? I have gotten that a few time my self lately. The fastest way around it for me was to just 'emerge full_path_to_ebuild/file.ebuild' It would build then. I have noticed that there was a new portage update the other night, while doing an 'emerge sync'. I wonder if that could be the problem? Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] alsa config files
Hello everyone; I'm trying to install alsa on my desktop and I am running into a problem. Following the document @ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml I got some new hard drives and decided that I was just going to reinstall my whole system. I have had alsa installed and working on this system before with the same sound card. I have installed the alsa-driver alsa-lib packages, went to edit the config file in /etc/modules.d/alsa and it's not there!?!? So I unemerged them and re-emerged them and still no config files. I have used alsa for awhile now and on a few other pc's and have never seen this. I am at a loss as to why. I have alsa in my USE settings and got no errors during the compile of the alsa stuff. If anybody konws why or if the config file locations have changed please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config files
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:41, Jayson Garrell wrote: Hello everyone; I'm trying to install alsa on my desktop and I am running into a problem. Following the document @ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml I got some new hard drives and decided that I was just going to reinstall my whole system. I have had alsa installed and working on this system before with the same sound card. I have installed the alsa-driver alsa-lib packages, went to edit the config file in /etc/modules.d/alsa and it's not there!?!? So I unemerged them and re-emerged them and still no config files. I have used alsa for awhile now and on a few other pc's and have never seen this. I am at a loss as to why. I have alsa in my USE settings and got no errors during the compile of the alsa stuff. If anybody konws why or if the config file locations have changed please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help Jayson Garrell DO'H! looks like I forgot the alsa-utils package. Installed that and bammo config files ;-) Sorry for wasting anyones time. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:53, Fiifi Markin wrote: i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present Have you tried emergeing them? emerge lynx Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:11, Alex wrote: Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do X. I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* of a computer can be useful? Would mozilla run well on a Pentium II-266 Mhz? I realize there are other browsers like links lynx, but they don't seem to render most pages correctly. What does X need to run smoothly, say as a dumb terminal? I was also hoping it could last more than 3 hours on battery without weighing a ton (and be able to use a wireless network card). I suppose this is too much... I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro6100 and it weighs in at 6.7+ lbs. It is more then what you were asking about but that might give you some ideas, since this is a fairly new laptop. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ISPs blocking email from my linux box
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:05, William Hubbs wrote: Hi all, I am running gentoo with exim as my mta. I have mutt configured to read either local email or email from my isp (connecting to their pop3 server). I have found that when I try to send mail to a certain isp from my linux box, they bounce it and tell me that they will not receive mail from my ipaddress because it is a dynamic/residential address. I guess they are attempting to block spam. I looked in the mutt manual to see if it is possible to configure mutt to send mail through my isp's smtp server, but I didn't come up with anything. Has anyone else run into this? How are you getting around it? Ya I have seen this also, If I remember correctly AOL is one of the first to do this. I think that the anwser to your problem is to have exim send the mail through your isp Exim calls it satellite email, I think. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] extend a running shell command
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 11:05, CrPy wrote: Hi ng, I'm using linux for many years, but there is a concern I have never solved. Assuming, I have a command running in my nice bash shell and I do not know, how long it will run. Now, I like to append an additional command , which starts running after the first command has finished. How can I do this? Or is it possible to do this at all? - After all it is Open Source ;-) Here us an simplified example of what I want to do: # sleep 100h How long will it run? OK, I know it. But now, I like to halt my maschine after the command has finished. And actually what I really want to have is this: # sleep 100h; halt Can I somehow extend the command line, after sleep is already running? THX /CrPy Use instead of the ; Example first_command command_to_run_after_first_is_finished Notice the double , a single will fork the process into the background and then run the next, the double will run the first command and when it is done, error free, run the second command, Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Setup
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meka's suggestion didn't work (thanks anyway, Meka) and I used lsmod but none of the modules seemed like they were linked to my ethernet card. So, I'm just gonna boot from the cd and chroot to my root partition, then emerge X-Windows. Hopefully I'll be able to clear up the problem when I boot with a GUI. But if anyone has any other ideas, please don't hesitate to suggest them. Please provide the out put of lspci or cat /proc/pci We will be able to tell what card it is from that. After that is should be easy for us to fix things. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:57, MooktaKiNG wrote: How is that dangarous? I usually do update like this: emerge -uf world emerge -u world halt This works nicely. It upadtes the system and does all the gentoo'ing and halts. I usually have CONFIG_PROTECT=-* so all config files get updated. Still sounds bad. What happens, happened to me, if the fstab file get updated with the default values? Fortunally I was booting from a initrd and was still able to boot. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: I was so impressed I got myself a 160GB disk and adapted the script as follows. My complete backup (including Windows 98) is about 12GB so I can get about 9 or 10 full backups on that disk and they only take an hour on a cron job. Although the disk is nominally 160GB, when formatted single partition the partition size is 127GB. Are you using that 160GB drive on a ultra100 controller? If so thats why it's only using 127GB. I had the same thing, 33GB sounded a bit high for partition information, and got a ultra133 controller and it sees the full drive capacity. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good backup tool?
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 16:39, Peter Ruskin wrote. So that explains it. Yes, this is an ultra100. Thanks for the info. Any time ;-) 33G is a lot to lose. BTW the Maxtor IDE cards are just re-branded Promise cards at but at a much cheaper price. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 08:39, Josh Helmer wrote: Be careful with Toshiba laptops. Getting my Toshiba Satellite 5005-507S working under linux was a big pain in the ass. I tried Redhat, Mandrake and finally settled on gentoo before I could get it working reasonably well. Even now, I can't use any of the gentoo kernel-sources ebuilds. Instead I had to download clean kernel sources from kernel.org and the appropriate patches to fix the issues (primarily ACPI, and sound. I still have this wierd thing where I have to re-configure the touchpad for X everytime I boot to a new kernel). Josh Well thats probably true for Toshiba laptops with the funky Phoneix BIOS. But most Toshiba's I have seen with the Toshiba BIOS have had no problems. I am typing this right now on a Toshiba Satellite pro 6100 and everything works, have not used the modem since I have no use for it. I did have to use the noacpi option during the inital boot to install the system. Sound work great, all docs say it's a Yamaha sound chip when it's acualy Intel i810 (discovered with lspci -v). Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] april fools?
Acually I thought it was to far fetched. But thought damn this is going to get a lot of people. ;-) Good joke! -Original Message- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] april fools? On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:19:15PM -0500 or thereabouts, Mike Atamas wrote: Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? Just as a follow up to all this, yes, it's a joke. Yes, we hooked an amazine number of people and yes, I enjoyed every minute of it. :) Quite honestly, I'm surprised that so many people believed it. To me, the notion that Gentoo would dump ebuilds in favor of RPMs is so far from the realm of possibility as to be absurd. Obviously, some folks didn't find it quite so impossible. :) I've received some feedback that perhaps I did too good of a job when writing the piece and made things too believable. Hopefully, no harm was done. Certainly none was intended. --kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
