[gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]
So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows down... should I be worried of this? : PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81 java 17022 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 26.9 16.3 0:03.06 java 17015 jgonzale 18 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m R 17.0 16.3 0:02.90 java 17017 jgonzale 16 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 3.3 16.3 0:00.23 java It seems Java takes 1,5Gb of memory!!! Am I right? I have tested doing the same actions in the computer of a fellow developer, and it only gets around 300Mb. I've tried changing the parameters of the Java VM in Maven using the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable with no success. Anyway this seems to be a system wide problem, as Eclipse takes the same amount of memory. Is there any way I can change this? Is this a problem related to AMD64? Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)
Hi there,
I've been experiencing performance problems in my laptop (Acer Aspire
1522WLMi). I have the feeling that the problem is related to hard
drive performance, as whenever I do some I/O intensive task (mainly
tested compiling Java code) my system performance goes down, and
switching to any other application takes a lot (hard drive performance
problem while doing swapping?). I hasn't been able to solve it,
although I've read doco and tried tweaking the hd peformance with
hdparm.
Here is the info for my system, notice the unknown devices in lspci
output (any missing driver in kernel?) and the BuffType=unknown,
BuffSize=0kB in hdparm output (is my hard drive using its 8Mb
internal buffer???):
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.2,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64)
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
packet root # lspci
:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0204
:00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 1204
:00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 2204
:00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800
:00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4204
:00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800
:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South]
:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems
[AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
:00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
:00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
:00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20
1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 80)
:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36
[GeForce FX Go5700] (rev a1)
packet root # grep VIA /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=m
CONFIG_VIA_RHINE=m
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE_MMIO is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_VIA is not set
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_VIA686A=m
packet root # hdparm -vid /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 256 (on)
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 80026361856, start = 0
Model=TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, FwRev=KA023A, SerialNo=74631490S
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=48
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version:
* signifies the current active mode
packet root # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 2216 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1107.06 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.03 seconds = 25.06 MB/sec
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, best regards
Jose
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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)
On Apr 4, 2005 5:49 PM, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:55:24 +0200 Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been experiencing performance problems in my laptop (Acer Aspire 1522WLMi). I have the feeling that the problem is related to hard drive performance, as whenever I do some I/O intensive task (mainly tested compiling Java code) my system performance goes down, and switching to any other application takes a lot (hard drive performance problem while doing swapping?). I hasn't been able to solve it, although I've read doco and tried tweaking the hd peformance with hdparm. Do you have - preemption enabled for that kernel (should allow to switch apps faster when swapping is in progress) No, I'll try to enable it... - some logical layers between the hard disk and the swap device (DM, other block dev abstractions, file system...)? No that I'm aware off, just followed the handbook, so I have a dedicated swap partition. - enabled a _reasonable_ io scheduler for the kernel? Where can I check that? Any kernel option? - some memory eaters running (UML, VMware...)? Do you consider several Java virtual machines a memory eater? ;o) If yes then I guess so... I have a JBoss server running, Eclipse, and I use Maven to compile and deploy my Java (J2EE) application - checked if thermal throttling may cause that? Umm... no, but I didn't think of that as I always noticed disk activity whenever my system slowed down... HWH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
Hi there, I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, certificates with private key, maybe some file with bank users and passwords). It's evident that losing that stick could cause me a lot of troubles, so is there any way I can protect the information in it (maybe using a master password), and be able to access it from Linux and Windows? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:55:10 -0500, Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so I can take it with me (ssh private keys, Use GPG and encrypt the files. I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it before) and it seems to use the same public key encryption concept as the certificates used in S/MIME or SSL/TLS. The only difference between them seem to be that GPG trust is based on a decentralized web of trust while digital certificates are based on a root certification authority. Am I right? I guess in this case I should include the private key as a unencrypted file in my USB stick and protect it with a good password, as it will be used whenever I need to decrypt any file. Am I right? Thanks, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] GnuPG - Some more questions
Ok, now I'm the proud owner of a new GnuPG key, and I'm able to encrypt files using it, but I guess it has a lot of other uses, like signing/encrypting mail. I guess I should now export my public key to a key server, shouldn't I? By the way, I have several mail addresses. I have added several UIDs, one for each mail address. I guess I can sign mail I send from any of those email addresses. Am I right? I did some quick tests using KMail and Thunderbird sending a mail from one of my addresses to the other, and I had the mail signed, but KMail always showed that the mail was signed by the defalt UID, while Thunderbird showed the correct UID. Is this KMail's failure or mine? Best regards, thanks in advance Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] System is too big
Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4896 bytes. System is 7985 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 This is on AMD64, trying to install the kernel after an stage3 installation (I'm still installing the machine). I have tried to put everything as a module with no success. Has anybody else experienced the same? Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4896 bytes. System is 7985 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 This is on AMD64, trying to install the kernel after an stage3 installation (I'm still installing the machine). I have tried to put everything as a module with no success. Has anybody else experienced the same? Best regards Jose rather strange, my (manually built) kernel is below 2 MB 1902845 Feb 5 16:04 vmlinuz-2.6.11-rc3-mm1 what happen if you remove the --gensplash=gentoo option ? It works (even if I add --udev)... anyway, I would bet I have another computer with its kernel generated using the same command line and I didn't get that error... Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System is too big
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:25:08 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:46:17 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez ha scritto: Hi there, I'm getting the following when trying to do a genkernel --udev --gensplash=gentoo all: Root device is (3, 4) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4896 bytes. System is 7985 kB System is too big. Try using modules. make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 This is on AMD64, trying to install the kernel after an stage3 installation (I'm still installing the machine). I have tried to put everything as a module with no success. Has anybody else experienced the same? Best regards Jose rather strange, my (manually built) kernel is below 2 MB 1902845 Feb 5 16:04 vmlinuz-2.6.11-rc3-mm1 what happen if you remove the --gensplash=gentoo option ? It works (even if I add --udev)... anyway, I would bet I have another computer with its kernel generated using the same command line and I didn't get that error... Best regards Jose if you post what kernel you have installed I'll try exactly the same here (don't ask me a reboot anyway ;) Sure... I have tried with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r14 and 2.6.10-r6 Thanks a lot, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Very slow USB printing
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:22:35 +, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got printing to my laser Samsung ML-1210 working via USB, but it takes a long time for it to start printing after telling it to. It's very fast in Windows. Now it takes 1-3 minutes depending on what is printing and that's when it's warm and ready to go. I've checked my kernel's USB settings but I'm not sure what the problem is. Does anyone know where I should look? Make sure you have EHCI activated in the kernel and take a look at the output of dmesg: if you have any USB related problem you should have some warning here telling you you have plugged a high speed device to a 1.1 port or something similar. Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos error w/evolution
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:56:31 -0600, Patrick Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, this may be the wrong place to ask this question, and if so, please direct me to the correct forum. i have asked this question on an evolution list, but i'm not sure how their advice translates into gentoo. so...here's my problem: if i run evolution-exchange-storage and evolution from the command line, then try to login to the exchange server using evolution, i get the following error: ** (evolution-exchange-storage:11780): WARNING **: Unexpected kerberos error -1765328164 #emerge -pv evolution shows: [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.0.3-r1 +crypt -debug -doc +ipv6 -kerberos* +ldap +mozilla -nntp -pda* +spell +ssl 0 kB this is the unstable branch, which i changed to after having this problem w/a stable branch. i don't know what the asterisks after kerberos and pda mean. i tried the following: #USE=kerberos pda emerge --update evolution but that doesn't change the use status of kerberos or pda for evolution the folks on the evo list said i need to compile with --with-krb5- includes=... --with-krb5-libs=... tags. emerging w/USE=kerberos should do the same thing right? thanks, patrick tisdale As far as I know they do the same thing... some time ago I had Evolution emerged with kerberos support for testing purposes and it worked flawlessly accessing our mail server in a single sign on fashion. Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sharing evolution calendars, kinda
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:35:10 -0500, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i finally got evolution to where i could add an exchange meeting request into my calendar, but i use evolution in multipul places, work and home, and there are two seperate calendars, ie, what is at home is not at work and visa versa. is there a way to link the two? i accomplied my task by forwarding the job from my boss that he puts in my outlook calendar to my email in evolution and can add it to that calendar. once in evolution i noticed that i can 'forward as icalendar'. is icalendar something that can do this for me? aka link all my calendars together? or is there another solution? also has anyone got open-xchange working in gentoo? the one currently masked in portage? the wiki is incomplete as well, and i dont want to start something where the install doc isnt finished. i do have a fully functional mail server now, postfix/courier-imap its just suppose to sit on top of it right? like a nice front end for the rest of it? what about phpgroupware? does it work? thanks for the replies nick iCalendar is an standard for sharing calendar information. I don't use evolution, but I think there are some products that let you share calendar information using it. You should look for one of them: (from the top of my mind) opengroupware, egroupware... Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't kill KsCD - can't eject CD
Hi there, Since my last update (udev, KDE 3.3.2) I'm having problems with KsCD. On a clean reboot KsCD starts without any problem, I put a music CD, start KsCD and play it without any problem. Once the CD finishes playing I'm able to change it using the eject button twice (first time opens the tray, second closes it with a new CD). But once I reach this point KsCD hangs and I cannot eject the cd nor manually neither using the command line. It's also impossible to kill KsCD (tried kill -9 pidOfKsCD, closing and reopening user session on KDE, restarting X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE) or start a new KsCD. I must reboot to be able to use again the DVD drive. I found the same problem in the forums, but the thread was dated a year ago and no solution provided. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Postfix problems
More strange problems... I'm using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav/spamassassin for my mail server. This came up in the Postfix log after a massive update of my office server: Feb 10 19:41:21 commserver amavis[23600]: (23600-02) TROUBLE in check_mail: mime_decode-1 FAILED: Unix utility file(1) not available, but is needed at (eval 56) lin e 97, GEN10 line 129. Feb 10 19:41:21 commserver amavis[23600]: (23600-02) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20050210T194121-23600 I've found some info in the Internet, but they all make reference to a missing file executable in the chrooted environment... that would be great if I had anything chrooted, but this is not the case. Of course, file is present and in good shape (as far as I can tell): Version used: sys-apps/file-4.12 -build -debug +python commserver root # which file /usr/bin/file commserver root # file heimdal-0.6.3.tbz2 heimdal-0.6.3.tbz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k commserver root # file screenlog.0 screenlog.0: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators, with escape sequences Versions and use flags: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 +berkdb +doc -qmail +ssl app-antivirus/clamav-0.81 +crypt -debug -milter (-selinux) mail-filter/amavisd-new-0.20040701 +ldap -milter +mysql +postgres mail-mta/postfix-2.1.5-r2 -ipv6 +ldap -mailwrapper -mbox +mysql +pam +postgres +sasl (-selinux) +ssl -vda Anybody has ever faced this? Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Postfix problems
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:55:21 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More strange problems... I'm using postfix/amavisd-new/clamav/spamassassin for my mail server. This came up in the Postfix log after a massive update of my office server: Feb 10 19:41:21 commserver amavis[23600]: (23600-02) TROUBLE in check_mail: mime_decode-1 FAILED: Unix utility file(1) not available, but is needed at (eval 56) lin e 97, GEN10 line 129. Feb 10 19:41:21 commserver amavis[23600]: (23600-02) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20050210T194121-23600 I've found some info in the Internet, but they all make reference to a missing file executable in the chrooted environment... that would be great if I had anything chrooted, but this is not the case. Of course, file is present and in good shape (as far as I can tell): Version used: sys-apps/file-4.12 -build -debug +python commserver root # which file /usr/bin/file commserver root # file heimdal-0.6.3.tbz2 heimdal-0.6.3.tbz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k commserver root # file screenlog.0 screenlog.0: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators, with escape sequences Versions and use flags: mail-filter/spamassassin-3.0.2-r1 +berkdb +doc -qmail +ssl app-antivirus/clamav-0.81 +crypt -debug -milter (-selinux) mail-filter/amavisd-new-0.20040701 +ldap -milter +mysql +postgres mail-mta/postfix-2.1.5-r2 -ipv6 +ldap -mailwrapper -mbox +mysql +pam +postgres +sasl (-selinux) +ssl -vda Anybody has ever faced this? Any ideas? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose Mistery solved... somehow I got only half /etc/amavisd.conf file, maybe a half made dispatch-conf merge?? I don't know... anyway, I had only half of the file, so the part of the file defining external programs just wasn't there, causing amavisd-new to fail when trying to find them. Thanks everybody, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with Asus A7V333 and USB2.0 working?
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:44:01 +0100, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I recently posted about some problems I was having with my USB ports and an ACER memory stick. After doing some tests, I discovered that the stick works perfectly when plugged in a USB 1.1 port (this mobo has both USB1.1 and USB2.0 ports), but fails miserably when plugged in a USB 2.0 port. Before going any further I would like to know if there is anybody out there with this mobo and USB2.0 working, as I have found some threads at VIA Arena forums that seemed to imply that USB2.0 was broken in this mobo. Thanks in advance, best regards Jose This sequence of events would seem to suggest that 1) the stick itself is a USB 1.1 stick, and 2) the USB 2.0 ports are not 1.1 backwards-compatible (perhaps this functionality was disabled in some way, since you do already have 1.1 ports on the board). The stick does seem to be 2.0 (it's an Acer with a USB2.0 label on it). I have attached at the end of this message the initial output of dmesg just after a reboot. Notice the line containing ehci_hcd :00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 : it seems the kernel is properly detecting my USB2.0 ports. I have attached also the output of dmesg when plugging the stick in a 1.1 port. Now notice the line telling usb 4-1: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that this is the typical message you get when you connect a USB2.0 capable device in a 1.1 port. I'm just curious (since I don't have this mobo and can't actually help you); why do you think that the USB 2.0 ports themselves don't work (if the case is, as it appears, that you have not tested them with a 2.0 device)? So supposing from the previous statements that I have an USB2.0 port and an USB2.0 device, I now study the output of dmesg in another cases. First of all, I plug a 1.1 device on a 2.0 port. I have attached the output of dmesg. We have the following two lines: ehci_hcd :00:09.2: GetStatus port 3 status 001803 POWER sig=j CSC CONNECT hub 1-0:1.0: port 3, status 0501, change 0001, 480 Mb/s They come from ehci (USB2.0) telling us that we have detected a new connection on a USB2.0 port (480Mb/s). But then you have the folloswing: uhci_hcd :00:09.1: port 1 portsc 0093,00 hub 3-0:1.0: port 1, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s hub 3-0:1.0: debounce: port 1: total 100ms stable 100ms status 0x101 usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 So here it seems that uhci (USB1.1) comes into play to handle the USB1.1 device (12Mb/s). Also the device is working properly, so it doesn't seem to be a case of backward incompatibility. Now I plug the memory stick in *exactly* the same port, so we don't have surprises here. The connection is detected, but some errors prevent the stick to be correctly detected and mounted as /dev/sda, as happened before. Notice the line telling: usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 This seems to be the key, but googling about this I just have been able to find a post with a solution that didn't seem to work in my case. So taking into account all of this, what would you think? and more important... what would you do? I don't have another 2.0 device, so I cannot tell if this is a problem of the stick, the port or the combination of both... Finally, in an installation of WindowsXP with no SP (no USB2.0 driver, just USB1.1) the stick works in any port, and I get a message telling me that a high speed device has been connected to a non high speed bus. Best regards Jose Holly Output of dmesg (USB) === usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ehci_hcd: block sizes: qh 128 qtd 96 itd 192 sitd 96 PCI: Enabling device :00:09.2 (0014 - 0016) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.2[C] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: reset hcs_params 0x2204 dbg=0 cc=2 pcc=2 ordered !ppc ports=4 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: reset hcc_params 0002 thresh 0 uframes 256/512/1024 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: irq 10, pci mem 0xd480 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: reset command 080002 (park)=0 ithresh=8 period=1024 Reset HALT ehci_hcd :00:09.2: init command 010009 (park)=0 ithresh=1 period=256 RUN ehci_hcd :00:09.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 0.95, driver 26 Oct 2004 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: supports USB remote wakeup usb usb1: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 usb usb1: default language 0x0409 usb usb1: Product: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ehci_hcd usb usb1: SerialNumber: :00:09.2 usb usb1: hotplug usb usb1: adding 1-0:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) usb 1-0:1.0: hotplug hub 1-0:1.0
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with Asus A7V333 and USB2.0 working?
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:06:35 -0800, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, in an installation of WindowsXP with no SP (no USB2.0 driver, just USB1.1) the stick works in any port, and I get a message telling me that a high speed device has been connected to a non high speed bus. Just because WinXX tells you something doesn't mean it's true. WinXX may or may not be telling you the truth. Without measuring the transfer speed in each port you won't know. That said, the USB implementation in Linux has gone through numerous implementations. And some devices need certain config options turned on to function properly. You might want to try - # # Miscellaneous USB options # CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH=y CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS=y making sure enforce bandwidth allocation and dynamic USB minor allocation Also, if you have 2.6.10, additionally select fill speed ISO transactions and root hub translators under USB 2.0 support. Mobo BIOS updated, latest SP in WindowsXP, latest 2.6 stable kernel in linux, everything you mention activated, still no luck... I think I'm giving up... while googling I have found many people with similar problems, and there never were a clear solution. I've tried to make it work with both Linux and Windows (I had to try, just in case) with no luck, so I'm assuming this is a mobo issue... after all the USB2.0 stuff seems to have been included in this mobo as a late add on, as the USB2.0 functionality is provided by a separate VIA VT6202 chipset that may be individually deactivated with a jumper. There seem to be other problems, as Windows detects up to 12 USB ports while I haven't been able to count more than 8. This seems to happen also in Linux. So it seems I'll have to live without USB2.0 until I change my mobo. Thanks, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with Asus A7V333 and USB2.0 working?
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:49:09 +0100, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 7. Februar 2005 15:32 schrieb Comatose Jones: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:03:32 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I recently posted about some problems I was having with my USB ports and an ACER memory stick. After doing some tests, I discovered that the stick works perfectly when plugged in a USB 1.1 port (this mobo has both USB1.1 and USB2.0 ports), but fails miserably when plugged in a USB 2.0 port. Before going any further I would like to know if there is anybody out there with this mobo and USB2.0 working, as I have found some threads at VIA Arena forums that seemed to imply that USB2.0 was broken in this mobo. Works here. What steps did you take? I have the same MoBo, and the port that should be a 2.0 Port is acutally a 1.1 port (The uhci-driver grabs all four double-slots, the ehci loads and tells it has two ports, but they are physically not present). Is there anything going wrong with the configuration? Greetings Alex Don't know if this is what you're asking for, but... there's a jumper on the mobo (labeled USB_EN) that's supposed to activate the VT6202 chipset with its corresponding USB2.0 ports. There are four (supposed) USB2.0 ports. Two of them are located in the rear panel below the parallel and serial ports (the other two ports at the top are the 1.1 ports) and you may access the other two using the connectors provided with the mobo, connecting them to a header that is available at the mobo between two PCI slots (I think the header is labeled USB20_34 in the mobo). If you make them work please post your results, as I've tried everything I can think of (I was so desperate I even tried in Windows) with no success. Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone with Asus A7V333 and USB2.0 working?
Hi there, I recently posted about some problems I was having with my USB ports and an ACER memory stick. After doing some tests, I discovered that the stick works perfectly when plugged in a USB 1.1 port (this mobo has both USB1.1 and USB2.0 ports), but fails miserably when plugged in a USB 2.0 port. Before going any further I would like to know if there is anybody out there with this mobo and USB2.0 working, as I have found some threads at VIA Arena forums that seemed to imply that USB2.0 was broken in this mobo. Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 05:47:01 +0100, Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jose, try this: Basically, I cannot make my USB stick to work. emerge hotplug sg3_utils Ok My /etc/fstab: none/proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto noauto,user 0 0 Remove the line: none/proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 rc-update add hotplug default (You allready have CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y) Ok I use these Kernel options: [*] /proc file system support [*] /proc/kcore support [*] /dev file system support (OBSOLETE) [*] Automatically mount at boot [*] /dev/pts Extended Attributes [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs) (From the Gentoo documentation) I'm not using the same options, as I migrated to udev The command sg_map -i from sg3_utils will show you something like this: # Note: the devfs pseudo file system is present /dev/sg0 /dev/sda Generic USB Reader-SMC 2002 /dev/sg1 /dev/sdb Generic USB Reader-CF 2002 /dev/sg2 /dev/sdc Generic USB Reader-SD 2002 /dev/sg3 /dev/sdd Generic USB Reader-MS 2002 /dev/sg4 /dev/sde QDI USBDisk 1.00 ws00 linux # sg_map -i Stopping because no sg devices found Thanks, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:24:12 +, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:05:35 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: ws00 linux # sg_map -i Stopping because no sg devices found Do you have USB_STORAGE and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD enabled in your kernel? If you compile them as modules, make sure sd_mod and usb-storage are loaded. I have USB Mass Storage compiled as module and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD compiled into kernel... I'm recompiling kernel with both as modules, so I don't have one of those module/compiled into kernel issues. Will post with my results. Best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB problems
Hi there, Basically, I cannot make my USB stick to work. I get an error telling me device descriptor read/64, error -71 and the kernel doesn't seem to detect the device whenever I plug/unplug it. Useful (?) information: Using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r6. My USB related kernel configuration: CONFIG_USB=m CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_RW_DETECT=y CONFIG_USB_HID=m CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y ws00 root # lsmod | grep usb usb_storage27904 0 usbhid 29632 0 usbcore 101752 6 ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd I get the following while booting in /var/log/messages: Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: irq 10, pci mem 0xd480 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 0.95, driver 26 Oct 2004 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 USB Mass Storage support registered. Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Enabling device :00:09.0 (0014 - 0015) Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.0[A] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:09.0, from 255 to 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: irq 11, io base 0xd800 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Enabling device :00:09.1 (0014 - 0015) Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.1[B] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:09.1, from 255 to 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2) Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: irq 11, io base 0xd400 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:11.2[D] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3) Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: irq 11, io base 0xa800 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:11.3[D] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:11.3, from 9 to 11 Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#4) Feb 6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Acer Aspire 1522WLMi - ndiswrapper on AMD64
Hi there, I'm about to buy an Acer Aspire 1522WLMi and I would like to put Gentoo on it... anybody with this laptop willing to share her experience? From what I've been able to find googling it seems I may encounter problems with the wireless card... it seems to be an Acer Invilink or Inprocomm card, and there seems to be no driver for linux, so I should be forced to use ndiswrapper, and it seems ndiswrapper only works in 32bit mode... am I right? Any comments on this? Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Java API or protocol specification for Heimdal / Kerberos admin
Hi there, I'm searching for a Java API, or at least some kind of protocol specification so I can write my own, to manage a (Heimdal) Kerberos server. I would like to be able to create, update and delete principals, including their passwords, programatically, so I'm able to create an administration tool. Thanks in advance, best regards Jose -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd dependencies for emerge -UD world
Gard, The -D options implies a deep update, so in this case, emerge searches not only for updates of the packages you have installed, but for updates for all the packages the installed packages depend on. About the packages you mention, I don't know, but if you do an emerge --emptytree -vp packageName you will find the whole list of dependencies for packageName, so maybe this way you can identify which packages need the packages you mention. Regards Jose Gard Spreemann escribió: Hi. Can somebody explain to me why emerge -pU world lists a sane set of packages to be merged, while emerge -pUD world wants to install a new package called sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21? I'm running kernel 2.6.2, so I'm thinking I don't want that package in my system. It also lists things like freetype, gpm and pdflib, which emerge -pU world does not (this is on a server system, and I do not need freetype). In case it is relevant, I always compile and install kernels manually, without using portage. -- Gard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org not working?
Hi there, Is there any known problem with the rsync gentoo servers? I keep getting the following message: starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... rsync: failed to connect to rsync.gentoo.org: Connection timed out rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83) Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Toshiba 300CDS
Hi there, I would like to install Gentoo on an old Toshiba 300CDS with a Pentium, 40Mb RAM and 2GB hard disk. The handbook mentions a minimum of 64Mb of memory in order to install Gentoo. Has anybody been successful installing Gentoo in such or a similar system? Another issue... after booting with the Gentoo LiveCD and loading the gentoo kernel, I only can see a portion of the entire screen, and the bottom (including the current command line) gets hidden below the bottom of the physical screen. Is there any kernel option to avoid this? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed
Paulo, This is caused when emerge needs a certain package to create the dependency graph for all packages in your world and that package is masked for whatever reason. The package may be masked for the version you need to build mod_php_4.3.4 (check /usr/portage/sys-apps/bzip2) or the version or package may be masked globally (/etc/profiles/package.mask??) Hope this helps Jose 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, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gaim/MSN problem
I've been unable to connect to MSN using gaim (v0.71 and 0.72) during the past two days. Has anybody experienced this? I've been able to connect using amsn, so I guess this is a gaim problem. Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?
Kev, Yes, I guess I can do it, but I thought there would be a cleaner way to do it. Thanks, regards Kev wrote: Ah...sorry good point. I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home dir? Kev Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: This works in the case the user uses password authentication, but what about public key authentication? I've tried and in this case the user can still login after disabling it with usermod -L. Thanks, regards Jose Kev wrote: Or use usermod (man usermod) It can disable the account for you instantly (usermod -L username) or after a certain time frame (usermod -e) But Franks suggestion will work equally well...just in case you don't fancy editing the shadow file manually :) Kev Frank Schäfer wrote: Hi, put a trailing '*' to the password field in /etc/shadow. Regards Frank On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:26, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I'd like to expire an user, so he is no longer able to login to a machine using ssh. How can you acomplish this? I would like to keep the user, and all its information (including password, public/private keys...) so I can reactivate it later. Regards, Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to expire ssh user?
This works in both cases, thanks a lot Regards Jose mathieu wrote: Maybe changing her shell to /bin/false ? I'm not 100% up to speed on how key auth works, been a while since I played with it...can't you just remove / rename the key files from their home dir? Kev Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: This works in the case the user uses password authentication, but what about public key authentication? I've tried and in this case the user can still login after disabling it with usermod -L.
Re: [gentoo-user] ant says different implementation versions of core and optional
Jeff, I haven't heard of this problem before, anyway... Ant has a set of optional tasks that are packaged in a separate jar file. Maybe the gentoo ebuild got the incorrect version of them. As a workaround, you may remove the optional jar, or try to emerge a prior version of the ebuild. Hoipe this helps, Jose Jeff Greene wrote: I'm trying to set up ant. I've emerged it and got it installed (1.5.4-r1), but when I try to execute it, I get this: Invalid implementation version between Ant core and Ant optional tasks. core: 1.5.1 optional: 1.5.4 I've googled and I'm not able to come up with anything. I'm hoping one of my fellow Gentoo-ers might have heard of this problem. __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of files created by Apache (2.0.48)
Setting UMASK in the apache user environment? Stefano Marinelli wrote: Hi there. Apache by default creates files with permissions rw-r--r-- apache dirgroup. I would like to give the write permission to the group, but I'd like apache to do it automatically when creating files. How could I set it? Thank you Stefano -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups and windows clients
CUPS uses IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) so if you want to use the printer from another system, that system should have support for this protocol. I think win98 didn't have support for this, but it was available as an addon. I have a dual boot with WinXP (that has support for IPP) and I can use the printer served by CUPS natively without Samba (not needed if using IPP). Regards Jose Stephen Boulet wrote: I have a printer attached to my parallel port that I would like to make available to a win98 client on the same subnet. I've added cupsd to the default runlevel. I've set up dhcpd/ip masquerading for the windows client. It can browse the net and gets assigned an ip. When going to the add a printer program in the control panel for a network printer, I see a Network path or queue name. Entering the IP of the computer with the printer or the printer name results in a message telling me the printer is offline (which it's not). What could I be missing? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds
Take a look at PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the directions resulted in errors complaining about paths and the ebuild not being found under /usr/portage. What's the correct procedure for installing a standalone ebuild file and incorporating it into the build tree? Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are packages for other distributions for open source work not already available through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above question would, of course, apply to any 3rd party ebuilds one might download. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Screem problem
Is anybody out there using Screem with success? Every time I try to create a new site using the wizard I get a segmentation fault. I've tried with versions 0.6.2 and 0.8.1. Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 3Com HomeConnect camera
Is there anybody out there with this webcam working? I have tried to activate the module in the kernel configuration with no success. It seems that every application that tries to access the camera hangs, and even worse, there's no way to kill them (I've tried kill -KILL with no success) so every time I want to test any application I must reboot the computer. I've even tried vigrab with no success. Any ideas? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome 2.4 problem with drawers - bug?
I'm unable to launch any application from my drawers. When I create a new drawer and add a launcher to it, I can use it without any problem, but as soon as I restart X, the drawer stops working. I can expand it, see its contents and add new launchers, but I cannot click on any of the launchers included in the drawer nor remove them. I'm getting this behavior since the update to Gnome 2.4. Has anybody experience this? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find jar program?
Martin, You need a java package and java-config installed, and you need to execute java-config to set the system java virtual machine. Regards, Jose PS: By the way, I've seen this question a dozen times, shouldn't this be included in a FAQ or something? martin wrote: hi! i tried to update the system, but doing a emerge -u system stops at the package sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 with an error... it says it needs a jar program, but does not find it in $PATH... so where do i find this program? how do i find out which package i should merge to get this? qpkg -f works only for installed packages. is there a tool that can search also in NOT installed packages? why isn`t jar automatically merged as it seems that db depends on it? is this a bug? can someone help me? here is the output of the error: -- checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking SOSUFFIX from libtool... so checking for javac... no checking for gcj... gcj -C checking if gcj -C works... yes checking for jar... no configure: error: no acceptable jar program found in $PATH !!! ERROR: sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 73, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) -- thanks, martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] small network
Jean, Remember that you HAVE to use a crossover cable, as someone mentioned previuosly. If you make a direct connection from network card to network card without a hub, a normal network cable won't do the trick. Regards Jose Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 09/17/03 Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit notamment: 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 OK I will be more specific: I just want to transfer files from my pc to my laptop, or make backups of one on the other. I have tried to do that with a cable (rj45 as it's called in France) connecting them, but then I could figure out what to do. There is some utility in KDE but I could not make it work This is why I believe I need a howto; I am currently reading the NET-HOWTO but any other advice will be welcome Thx all,
Re: [gentoo-user] where to find jar program?
Martin, The problem is that you don't only need to have java and java-config installed, the problem is that you need to have a java virtual machine selected with java-config. If you make an emerge with --emptytree you can see that java and java-config is listed in the packages to be installed, so you must have java and java-config installed, that's why they don't appear in your list of updates. And please, don't take my previous PS as a personal attack (your response seems to imply you thought I was attacking you and you are defending from my attack), is was meant to be just a suggestion for the doc mantainers, as I've seen this question a lot of times in the mailing list. I've been working with java for a long time, so I know what jar is, but I think a common linux user doesn't have to know about it, so this error may be confusing, as it was in your case. Regards Jose martin wrote: Zitat von Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin, You need a java package and java-config installed, and you need to execute java-config to set the system java virtual machine. Regards, Jose PS: By the way, I've seen this question a dozen times, shouldn't this be included in a FAQ or something? thanks for your help... but why isn't that mentioned while i tried to emerge the 'db' package! couldn't emerge 'say' anything about that this package depends on java?! ok, the "jar" program looks like something to to with java, but how do i know this for sure? if it does not say it needs java, i have to post such a questions... martin martin wrote: hi! i tried to update the system, but doing a "emerge -u system" stops at the package "sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2" with an error... it says it needs a "jar" program, but does not find it in $PATH... so where do i find this program? how do i find out which package i should merge to get this? "qpkg -f" works only for installed packages. is there a tool that can search also in NOT installed packages? why isn`t "jar" automatically merged as it seems that "db" depends on it? is this a bug? can someone help me? here is the output of the error: -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups Quandry
Ernie, I had some problems with cups and several related packaged some time ago and I finally opted for reemerging an old version. My problems were related to printing (maybe something broken in drivers) so I'm sorry I cannot offer any help to you. Anyway if you cannot afford to lose more time you may go to an prior version. Regards Ernie Schroder wrote: HMMM, 18 replies to my original thread and all with a different subject. Kevin, PLEASE start a new thread for new subjects. I'm still at a loss to get my printer working. Since my previous post, I've re-emerged foomatic as well. A reboot gave the same child error as before (see below) but now, zapping cupsd and then starting it and restarting it run without error. Trying to access cups at MRK:631 now gives me: Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. This seems as though it might hold the key but I have no idea where to look. I also get the same errors as before if I try the kde rout to configure a printer. On Monday 15 September 2003 07:31 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: I have re-emerged cups, ghostscript, hpijs and gimp-print but still cannot get my printer working again. I believe that the problem started at the last cups update. (somewhere around 8/4/03) It is a USB HP deskjet 932 and worked fine until then. After re-emerging the above apps, I attempted to restart cups and got the !! next to "stopping cupsd" So, I rebooted. during the boot sequence, I saw the following message: starting cupsd [OK] cupsd: Child exited with status 99! # cupsdconf[returns] Unable to retrieve configuration file from the CUPS server. You probably don't have the access permissions to perform this operation. opening the printer section of the KDE Control Center gives the following error in a pop up window: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused. I can't get into the web based cups page either. typing MRK:631 in a browser takes me to some arbitrary web page on the outside, though Ernie:631 on the other box works. It looks like I have something messed up somewhere but I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea?
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups Quandry
Have you tried a netstat to see if the port is really in use? Regards Jose Ernie Schroder wrote: Jose, I tried the cups-1.1.18-r5 version that did work in the past and that is no help. Interestingly, the Child exited error has changed from ststus 99 to status 98. I googled the error and found at http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-faq.html#q_4_2 Section 4: CUPS Errors 4.2 cupsd: Child exited with status 98!? Another process is using the port that cupsd listens to (default 631). It might be the rpc.rquotad deamon. Either disable this deamon or make sure cupsd starts before nfs. There is no rpc.rquotad deamon running or even in /etc/init.d and nfs-utils is not emerged. I tried emerge -C cups and emerging the 1.1.18-r5 version that worked in the past. I'm confused. Thanks On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:49 am, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Ernie, I had some problems with cups and several related packaged some time ago and I finally opted for reemerging an old version. My problems were related to printing (maybe something broken in drivers) so I'm sorry I cannot offer any help to you. Anyway if you cannot afford to lose more time you may go to an prior version. Regards Ernie Schroder wrote: HMMM, 18 replies to my original thread and all with a different subject. Kevin, PLEASE start a new thread for new subjects. I'm still at a loss to get my printer working. Since my previous post, I've re-emerged foomatic as well. A reboot gave the same child error as before (see below) but now, zapping cupsd and then starting it and restarting it run without error. Trying to access cups at MRK:631 now gives me: Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server. This seems as though it might hold the key but I have no idea where to look. I also get the same errors as before if I try the kde rout to configure a printer. On Monday 15 September 2003 07:31 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: I have re-emerged cups, ghostscript, hpijs and gimp-print but still cannot get my printer working again. I believe that the problem started at the last cups update. (somewhere around 8/4/03) It is a USB HP deskjet 932 and worked fine until then. After re-emerging the above apps, I attempted to restart cups and got the !! next to "stopping cupsd" So, I rebooted. during the boot sequence, I saw the following message: starting cupsd [OK] cupsd: Child exited with status 99! # cupsdconf[returns] Unable to retrieve configuration file from the CUPS server. You probably don't have the access permissions to perform this operation. opening the printer section of the KDE Control Center gives the following error in a pop up window: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused. I can't get into the web based cups page either. typing MRK:631 in a browser takes me to some arbitrary web page on the outside, though Ernie:631 on the other box works. It looks like I have something messed up somewhere but I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea?
Re: [gentoo-user] db compile error
Robert, Try to select the Blackdown JDK as your Java VM. jar is a java executable used to work with compressed jar files, and I think you can only find this in the JDK, not in the JRE. Hope this helps, Jose Robert Cole wrote: I've searched the forums for this and I must have missed it somewhere but can someone please tell me how to fix this: configure: error: no acceptable jar program found in $PATH !!! ERROR: sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 58, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) I've played around with java-config but can't seem to fix this problem. root # java-config --list-available-vms [blackdown-jre-1.4.1] Blackdown JRE 1.4.1 (/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jre-1.4.1) (selected) [blackdown-jdk-1.4.1] Blackdown JDK 1.4.1 (/etc/env.d/java/20blackdown-jdk-1.4.1) () Any suggestions? Thanks, Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts missing from GIMP, OpenOffice
I think this is caused by OpenOffice not reading the fonts served by X. In openoffice-bin you can use spadmin to add fonts so you can use them from any OpenOffice application. I seem to remember that with the compiled from the sources version you can see all the fonts served by X, but I'm not sure. Regards Jose Doug Gorley wrote: G'day list, I'm having trouble with some of the fonts on my Gentoo system. Here's what's happening; when I look at the list of fonts I can use in Mozilla Firebird, I see everything that's installed -- Luxi Sans, Roostheavy, Dragonwick, etc. When I look at the fonts available in OpenOffice, I see less; Luxi Sans is there, Roosheavy and Dragonwick are not. In GIMP, where I actually want a large selection of fonts, I see neither; only a short list is available. Can anyone suggest a way to make these apps see the full list of available fonts? Thanks, Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cups not showing printer models...
Don't know anything about hpijs, but the latest gimp-print drivers no longer generate ppd files. You must USE=ppds to generate these files, or use foomatic to generate the ppd file for your printer. You can see it if you emerge -vp hpijs: [ebuild N] net-print/hpijs-1.4.1 +cups +foomaticdb -ppds regards Jose Mark Johanson wrote: Have installed cups, hpijs, foomatic. Problem is when i go to add a printer everything goes great until its time to choose the model of printer. There is nothing listed but the default cups driver. While this works for a couple of printers (ie black and white no frills), the problem comes when I need to set up for a laserjet 5500, 8000, 4000,4150, etc... There are no listings for them. Only thing listed there is CUPS v1.1 for the deskjet, laser jet, and new deskjet series Where are the drivers installed by hpijs? How do I make them show up in cups? All the printers are network printers with internal jetdirect cards. So setting them up isn't a issue beyond the drivers and associated configuration allowed by them... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cups/gimp-print not working
Hi there, I'm unable to print using gimp-print drivers. This seems to happen from the upgrade to cups 1.1.19, as this was working before without any problem. I have been able to print using the driver bundled with cups, but only with one of them (EPSON Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1). If I try the EPSON New Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 driver, the printer stops working. Here's my configuration: Printer - Epson Stylus Color 850, attached to parallel port net-print/cups 1.1.19-r1 media-gfx/gimp-print 4.3.18 app-text/ghostscript 7.05.6-r3 I've unmerged and emerged a lot of times using different USE variables. Right now I don't use foomatic, as I emerge gimp-print with +ppds. I also have emerged again ghostscript with +cups, so I don't know what's the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated, regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups/gimp-print not working
Bill, Should I downgrade ghostscript too? Regards Jose Bill Kenworthy wrote: Try moving gimp-print down to 4.2.5-r2 BillK On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:36, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, I'm unable to print using gimp-print drivers. This seems to happen from the upgrade to cups 1.1.19, as this was working before without any problem. I have been able to print using the driver bundled with cups, but only with one of them (EPSON Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1). If I try the EPSON New Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 driver, the printer stops working. Here's my configuration: Printer - Epson Stylus Color 850, attached to parallel port net-print/cups 1.1.19-r1 media-gfx/gimp-print 4.3.18 app-text/ghostscript 7.05.6-r3 I've unmerged and emerged a lot of times using different USE variables. Right now I don't use foomatic, as I emerge gimp-print with +ppds. I also have emerged again ghostscript with +cups, so I don't know what's the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated, regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] which java?
Just to clarify about ee... ee stands for enterprise edition. Java comes in three editions: micro edition (intended for use in mobile devices), standard edition (intended for running standalone applications, this is the one you will likely be using) and enterprise edition (intended for running enterprise applications in a server environment). J2EE is just the definition of a standard platform for running enterprise applications in a server environment. This definition includes, among other things, a list of APIs and services a server should provide in order to become J2EE certified (JSPs, Servlets, EJBs,...). sun-j2ee is the reference implementation of the J2EE platform from sun. You have available other commercial implementations of the platform (Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Sun ONE...) as well some open source implementations (like JBoss, that you have available in another ebuild). Regards Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:21, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Can anyone give a comparsion as to which java to use? Also, sun has 3 versions; what is what? blackdown-jdk/blackdown-jre/ ibm-jdk/ ibm-jre/ sun-j2ee/ sun-j2sdk/ sun-jdk/ -- ^^^ Kurt There is no good nor evil; there is only power. what are you going to use it for? sdk is development jre is just the run librarys, ee I'm not sure about maybe the striped version. I use sun-j2sdk-1.4.2 since I use it for development. # no working ebuilt for it yet :( The different from blackdown/sun and ibm is small I think more a taste. - -- gnuPG key: ID 915B0745 at http://pgp.mit.edu/ http://www.fribyte.uib.no/~svein/PublicKey.asc Key fingerprint = 0123 B179 0994 F5C7 12D3 F253 E0AA 6A67 915B 0745 Registered Linux User #319622 'The maths is easy,' said Chaos. 'AH? WELL, MATHS', said Death, dismissively. 'GENERALLY I NEVER GET MUCH FURTHER THAN SUBTRACTION.' Svein Harald Soleim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ii3S4KpqZ5FbB0URAhR7AJ41t4SVFQL5oDppD9S8SnTIQZvX5wCfcNeo FQnxGHyF1I7bVKYOW+WeGy8= =mhou -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT?] Weird CVSUMASK problem
I'm trying to setup a CVS server with ssh access and I'm facing a strange problem. I want to have several projects in my repository and control the access to those projects using group permissions (as explained in CVS documentation). I want to deny access to any user that doesn't belong to the group that owns the files of a certain project inside the repository, so I want to give no permissions for others. The problem comes when trying to do this. I put CVSUMASK=007 in a file in /etc/env.d/, run env-update, and add a directory to the repository. The new directory is created with rwxrwsr-x permissions (I guess taken from umask and the permissions from parent directory, that is rwxrws---) ignoring the CVSUMASK variable. If I put the definition of the variable in .bashrc with export CVSUMASK=007, then the directory is created with the right permissions (rwxrws---). In the tow cases, if I login (through ssh) with the user I'm creating the directory, and execute echo $CVSUMASK, I obtain the same result: 007. I'm really puzzled about this, and would really appreciate if somebody could explain me why this is happening, as I don't want to have to include the export CVSUMASK=007 in every .bashrc of every user with CVS access. Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java error
Andrew,
byte[] yourDigest = ...;
String yourDigestAsString = new String( yourDigest );
Anyway, discussing about the power of a language based on this
question is a nonsense and really off track.
Regards
Jose
Andrew Kirilenko wrote:
Hello!
On 14:37 Wed 28 May, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
From the java.security.MessageDigest javadoc:
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
try {
md.update(toChapter1);
MessageDigest tc1 = md.clone();
byte[] toChapter1Digest = tc1.digest();
md.update(toChapter2);
...etc.
} catch (CloneNotSupportedException cnse) {
throw new DigestException("couldn't make digest of partial content");
}
I think you'd be very surprised about all the thing Java can do.
Regards
Jose
Ha ha. I requested not byte array, but STRING! Try to convert this array
to string and you will see that this is not so easy :)
Best regards,
Andrew.
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge won't update (to newest version of nvidiadriver)
Thilo, See inline Thilo Schwidurski wrote: Whenever I try an emerge -p nvidia-kernel or emerge -p nvidia-glx it will show me a R (not an expected U) for the installed 3xxx version (I dont have the exact number here on my W2K box). R stands for replace. You are trying to emerge the same pacakge you have installed, so emerge recompiles and replaces the package. But there is this newer 4xxx ebuild package in the ...portage/.../media-video/... path (or tree). How can I instruct portage to update to this newer version? This new package is masked. You can emerge it using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 or using the following: emerge /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4349-r1.ebuild I also tried: emerge -up nvidia-glx.somemorestuffIcantrecallrightnow.ebuild You must use the whole path as shown above Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
Several people in this thread seem to associate graphical installers with precompiled packages, why? When I talked about a graphical installer in a previous post I wasn't thinking about taking away the current portage system, nor using precompiled packages, and absolutely nor taking away the current system of installation. I see this graphical installer as an add on. This is how I see it (I really don't know if this can be done): * For power users installation could remain as it is currently, a command line compilation from the beginning of the system. * For idiot users (sorry, but I wasn't the one that first mention idiot-proof things :o) ) there could be a graphical installer that could start from stage 1, 2 or 3, whatever she chooses, and *hide* all the process with graphical dialogs. So the installer would take care of all the compiling, partitioning, hardware detection, boot manager installation,... *always* using portage and compiling from sources behind the scenes. Once a graphical environmet is set up, this same idiot user (sorry again) would use a graphical emerge, kind of kportage, that again would do all the job using emerge behind the scenes. So what's the problem with this? Power users could still do things the way they like it, and Gentoo could gain mass adoption from people (ok, idiot people, sorry again) that doesn't want to mess up with compilers, boot managers and modprobing. I don't see this as making Gentoo a clone of RedHat. I see this as imporving Gentoo and making it something much better than RedHat. And don't forget that I love Gentoo the way it is right now, just I think that a graphical installer would be a great thing for Gentoo to gain mass adoption, that's all. Regards Jose Mark Saunders wrote: I manage development at a small software firm in Australia. We began running Gentoo on our development systems about 8 months ago, and now have 5 systems in our office running Gentoo. Before this we were using a mixture of windows, redhat and mandrake linux. The primary reason we run Gentoo is because portage is far more user friendly and powerful - far more useable - than any other linux package management system. In my opinion Gentoo is also easier to configure than any other distribution. The Gentoo documentation is great too. Whenever we get a new programmer on i have them install their own Gentoo system from stage 1 - it's a great learning experience (especially for developers who are not very familiar with linux to start with). I have often wondered what difference an idiot-proof installer and binary packages stored on the mirrors for portage would make to Gentoo.. I think it would completely alter the make up of the userbase. It would take away from the advantages Gentoo has over other distributions. It would change the focus of the distribution. If there are people out there that want gentoo with a graphical installer or portage with precompiled binaries - let them build their own distribution based on Gentoo. Would that make everyone happy? On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:15, William Kenworthy wrote: Not really: you would be putting a lot of effort in trying to make gentoo into a mandrake/redhat lookalike. Gentoo's advantages are its easy update and software management, both of which you are saying are not needed in the scenario you paint. As far as better installer and hardware detection, gentoo has come a *long* way, but still needs to go further! BillK On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:23, Josh McCormack wrote: ... hs with the stable, tested Gentoo of that moment, easily updated each 6 months, and offer training ( a book) and certification. I'd personally lean toward making the CD have a nice installer with hardware detection, possibly built off of Knoppix. Anyone else find this interesting? Josh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
I would be interested on that, as probably I will have to do it in a future Regards Jose DE SMET Bram (BDSR) wrote: Well, I got used to setting Oracle on Sun boxes on my previous job and indeed there is a trick to it. I don't know what problems we might have on Gentoo. I guess if all env variables are set and the shared memory is ok it might work smooth. Filip and I will keep the list posted on how we did it if you would like that. Regards, Bram -Original Message- From: Andrew Cowie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 4 april 2003 7:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage? On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:55, DE SMET Bram (BDSR) wrote: Yet another example is that we are going to set up a Oracle cluster on Linux. Also using Gentoo. Oracle under Linux tends to be horribly sensitive to variations in libraries. (Heck, it's that way under Solaris too). I'm not going to say be very careful because that doesn't mean anything... but I will say do tell us how it goes as the underlying Gentoo system and it's shared libraries upgrade over time AfC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
Agree with you, but... (there's always a but :o) ) First of all, maybe I should mind my own business instead of talking about how things could be better or putting pressure on some developers that do things for free, so please take this as just an oppinion and kind chatting, as I don't intend at all to criticize your work (what the [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think you are doing a great work) So back to the point, I think all of this you have talked about could be solved in the following way: * About the optimization flags, don't give the idiot users the chance to change sensitive compile flags. Maybe they could only change the processor they are compiling for with --march- and nothing else, I don't know. Or even detect the processor (I think this can be done easily) and automatically compile for it without any further optimization. Ok, they won't have a fully optimized system, but at least they will have a system optimized for their processors, and this is more than they will ever have with another distros. This way the number of bugs caused by agressive optimization flags could be drastically reduced for idiot users. * About the bug reporting, maybe it could be created some automated reporting tool. Gnome has one, I don't know if works well, but it's an idea. By the way, I have curiosity about this... do you all the developers work for free in Gentoo?. Again, I should mind my own business, but I think you have a great product here, and you could start promoting it and selling it to companies, basing the marketing in the improved performance obtained in Gentoo. Gentoo still could be free, but you could make some good money for selling services associated with Gentoo. Have you ever thought about that? Regards Jose Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:17:36 +0200 Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'll take the bait... here Several people in this thread seem to associate graphical installers with precompiled packages, why? SNIP And don't forget that I love Gentoo the way it is right now, just I think that a graphical installer would be a great thing for Gentoo to gain mass adoption, that's all. Regards Jose Okay, I might keep a fairly low profile theese days, several reasons, most private, but I have to come in with a point here. please, dont take this as an official Gentoo opinion, its not discussed in the devteam, its not politically correct and its inflammatory and prejudiced and put some good people in a fairly bad light. One thing that scares me with the ease-of-install and simplicity, the lowering of the threshold for users to install Gentoo, is this. Bugs. Most of you folks are horrid at bugreporting. this doesnt work here is very common, the disrespectance between Gentoo bug and User bug is very much odd. People go ages and call a problem obvious without filing a bug. people who claim their bugs are blocking the distribution completely. People file bugs without rebuilding with lower optimizations, common issue, still is : Oh YES! Gentoo, I can use CFLAGS=-ffast-math -force-dropping-coredumps -O99-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -mmmx -m3dnow -megafast -DBREAKTHINGS so of course its your problem that you haven't documented that -megafast would break! Yes, all this could be fixed by hiring folks or getting more users... Or perhaps writing off all such bugs as WONTFIX: USERERROR, but it isn't nice, polite or pleasant thing to do. We try not to, as most of us (if not everyone) want to keep a friendly attitude. Even worse, people who dont file bugs and then claim its broken . Yeyy, how are we to know? No, I dont use all the same packages in the same ways as the users do. Sorry, no can do. Of course, we could get more devs to fix stupid user bugs but that doesn't feel like the right way. unfortunately :/ Another problem with lowering the bar, is that the current installation indoctrinates people on Read the wellwritten manual carefully before you continue .. Graphical /userfriendly installers dont give the same breaktrhough.. Thats why they exists, so users dont have to read manuals. (Joel on Software had this down good, users dont read manuals. In fact, assume users can't read. ) Making the bugreporting harder to get to is another solution. Yey, make it even more difficult to file a bugreport? unfortunately that is rather unpleasant thing to do when you want to file bugs. :-/ How do other distributions come through with this? Debian devs are for all that I've noticed distanced and hard to reach with support and bugs, and a lot of them have the reputation of being flamemongers that do nothing but bicker. *cough* Slackware, I'm not sure, I haven't tried to get support there so I dont know. Somone involved might be able to help there? BSD: see Slackware. Mandrake + Redhat + SuSE .. : Sell the support. Hire folks. all very
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
I didn't know that this elitest attitude had been around for so many years in the Linux community. Hmm...interesting. I have only recently plunged into Linux and that is one of the first impressions I have been left with when discussing Linux quirks with those more experienced than me. Well, I think this is not a linux problem only, I've seen this often in the java world, around the J2EE platform (there are real holy wars between J2EE and .NET) and around some popular open source projects. I think this is negative for the platform/project/whatever that gets this feeling around it. One other thing if I might comment on it. The term idiot when referring to users. I know it's in quotations and all that but all of us are idiots in I started using the term idiot as a joke, sorry if anyone fetl insulted, was not my intention. Anyway, I consider myself in this group, as I have little experience with linux. I managed to put this system to work thanks mainly to the excellent documentation in the web, so I don't feel superior to anyone else. And I admit it, my mixer still doesn't work well, I have no image from my 3Com web cam, and today I tried to record sound from my micro and I couldn't, so I am possibly the greatest idiot in the mail list :o) HELP :oD About the main point of the thread, all of this started because we were talking about corporate use, and convincing IT managers that Gentoo is a good option for using it in a corporate environment. The graphical installer issue, unexperienced users and all of that came out when talking about branding Gentoo. So let's sum up... I think Gentoo could be a good option for corporate use, using some of the suggestions that have been mentioned in this thread for improving stability and administration of corporate networks. The question is: do Gentoo developers want Gentoo to be adopted by the masses? Do Gentoo developers want Gentoo in the corporate environment? I see a possible money income from this scenarios, I don't have the knowledge to make a Gentoo based distribution for corporate environments, but I think that someone with such a knowledge could make some good money from such a distribution. Regards and peace !!! Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] survey: gentoo corporate usage?
I completely agree with you, Mitchell, but we must take into account two things: branding and IT managers. Let's face it, although we all love it, Gentoo has a long way until it becomes a popular linux distribution. Here in Spain, when you talk about linux, people thinks about RedHat, Debian, Suse... that's branding, they managed to make their distributions popular. This doesn't mean their distributions are better than Gentoo, that only means that they have better marketing, maybe they are more user friendly when installing for totally novice users, ... So when we talk about corporate usage we must think also about IT managers. They are the one who are going to approve your crazy idea of putting in production that Gentoo distribution that they haven't ever heard of. He is the one that is gonna be kicked ass if the damn thing doesn't work. So if the RedHat stuff doesn't work, they always may blame RedHat and their certification program and move to another distro, so they feel backed in some sense. If the Gentoo stuff doesn't work, they will be probably fired, as there is no one else to blame. Do you know that phrase no one ever got fired for buying IBM? Perhaps we could apply the same here. So what should Gentoo do or provide for becoming a first order distribution (always in my humble opinion)? First of all, I think it should provide a graphical installer and updater for silly users in order to gain popularity in the desktop area. I mean, if a newbie with no linux experience has to decide between the linux from scracth approach of Gentoo and the graphical installer from RedHat, I bet he will pick RedHat (what the hell, I did it before I knew Gentoo). The graphical updater could use emerge behind the scenes, and always work in the stable branch, so this user doesn't break anything by accident (yes, I know about kportage, but I think it provides access to dangerous functionalities of emerge for a newbie). And second, I don't think this certification stuff is bad at all for Gentoo. This could provide a money income for Gentoo developers, as they could manage this certification stuff, and I think Gentoo would be better considered in the corporate environment. Add to this some scripts to the distribution or standardize the procedures described by some of the people that posted here for improving stability, and add a little marketing about speed and ease of maintenance and I think Gentoo could be soon the leading one in the IT boxes. Regards Jose gabriel wrote: On April 2, 2003 07:00 pm, Mitchell James wrote: Gentoo must have a CD distribution with certified training classes before it has a chance at my company. I also have had problems acheiving a stable configuration and wouldn't recommend your standard desktop user be exposed to that much pain. i have to say that this sort of response is VERY surprising to me. while i only have a small network here @home, i've had very few problems when it comes to stability (mostly the linux learning curve). and what's this about certified training classes? why would you need that? just pick up a book and go nuts. i've always felt that certification is just the windows world thinking being imposed on linux. ...i mean, how is having some piece of paper mean you can do your job? this, like everything else i post is not meant to be a match in a gas-filled room, but i find this thinking very odd and would like to hear if there are others who swing this way. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds gone???
What the hell !!! Here in Spain fool jokes are in december 28th. I believed it and was already typying rm -R * at my prompt when I saw this :o) Brett I. Holcomb wrote: It's a April Fool Joke - got some of us! Xfree part of the base? RPM's this sounds like a bunch of BS to me. Lack of USE features? This really sucks. I say to hell with LSB if it means getting rid of USE and making xfree part of the base. Sounds like were headed to dependancy hell. Robert On Monday 31 March 2003 05:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to the idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. 1. Is Gentoo essentially going to become another RPM distro where we are condemmed to using RPM to manage packages and fight all the dependencies? 2. Does this mean the neat database, etc. will be gone and we will have the same problem in Gentoo we have in RH, Caldera, etc. - Play the game of find the dependencies. 3. Will any of the ability to know what's installed and track it remain? If this is true this is a big minus for Gentoo. One reason for adopting Gentoo was to get away from RPM nonsense and the mess trying to maintain a system. Maybe back to RH or one of the other distros. I guess I could always run apt-get!
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I mask certain ebuilds as accepted?
If you want to get any masked package, Matthias' solution is fine. If you just want to keep those masked packages, I think you may "pin" them in /var/cache/edb/world, indicating the version you want. HTH, regards Jose Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Christian Aust -- I'm pretty happy with gaim 0.6 and grip 3.0.6, both of them are marked as unstable. How can I permanently accept those ebuilds, without getting emerge -up world proposing me to downgrade those two every time? Best regards, 1) shell $ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge unstable-package 2) uncomment the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" line in /etc/make.conf HTH, Matthias
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to downgrade?
I've done it and it worked great... not with 89 packages, but xfree and mozilla were in the list of involved packages. Regards Jose Christian Aust wrote: Hello fellow coders, OK, I did it. I've set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~x86 in make.conf, and during the next emerge -u world it stuffed my box with 89 packages marked as unstable, which includes xfree 4.3.0 (I've lost OpenGL acceleration, too) and mozilla 1.3, which I do not want (now). I'm wondering if I could just switch back that setting in make.conf, and emerge -u world again which would give me all the latest stable versions - right? Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Best regards, - Christian p.s.: Could you please cc: me directly? -- Christian Aust mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 84500990 - Yahoo!: datenimperator - MSN: datenimperator PGP: A073 F9CD 2F23 25D2 EB95 E7A3 B9B4 2AF3 E103 DB5A -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 vs 3.1.1
Are you sure you have 3.1.1 installed? I think the version you have installed is the version between brackets, in this case 3.1-r1. I think they are moving a lot of packages to the stable branch, so I guess what you are seeing is a result of this. In my case an emerge -up world tries to update gnome, among other things Regards Jose Joshua J. Berry wrote: Why is it that portage wants to upgrade from kde 3.1.1 to kde 3.1? I have 3.1.1 stuff installed, and when I do an emerge -up world, here's what I get: [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdebase-3.1.1-r1 [3.1-r1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.1.1 [3.1-r1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdegames-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.1 [3.1-r1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdepim-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.1.1 [3.1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kde-3.1.1 [3.1] Any help would be appreciated. -- Josh - Joshua J. Berry I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. -- /usr/games/fortune PGP Key: http://deneb.condordes.net/node/16/view NOTE: Please do not submit this email address to any mailing lists or websites without prior permission. Thank you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Newbie questions about winex
Hi there, I have installed winex, and have some questions: I understand that if you install winex, there's no need to install wine, am I right? Anyway, I was surprised that wine is not a dependency for winex. Why? I'm trying to install microsoft explorer (don't flame me for this, I use mozilla for my everyday work), and after accepting the license agreement I get an error telling me that the setup is unable to download the required components. Do I have to do anything special for winex to access the network? Is there a central configuration file or does every user has its own configuration file under ~/.winex/config? regards Jose
[gentoo-user] [Fwd: Newbie questions about winex]
It seems the first one got lost in the dark side of the web... Original Message Subject:Newbie questions about winex Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:01:22 +0200 From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gentoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, I have installed winex, and have some questions: 1. I understand that if you install winex, there's no need to install wine, am I right? Anyway, I was surprised that wine is not a dependency for winex. Why? 2. I'm trying to install microsoft explorer (don't flame me for this, I use mozilla for my everyday work), and after accepting the license agreement I get an error telling me that the setup is unable to download the required components. Do I have to do anything special for winex to access the network? 3. Is there a central configuration file or does every user has its own configuration file under ~/.winex/config? regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No accents in OpenOffice
And more... I'm able to open old documents containing accented
vowels with no problem, they are visualized correctly. OpenOffice simply
ignores my key strikes whenever I try to write one of this vowels, or
when I try to paste text containing accented vowels... HELP
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
More on this...
If I copy any accented character from gedit or the character map, I
get the escaped unicode code in OpenOffice like this:
In gedit - Análisis
In OpenOffice - An\x{00E1}lisis
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
Hi there,
Whenever I try to write an accented vowel (áéíóú) in OpenOffice I
get no output. I thought it could be a problem of linux itself, but
I'm able to write this kind of characters in gedit. I have changed
the locale information also in OpenOffice to Spain, but it doesn't
work. Any ideas?
Regards
Jose
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[gentoo-user] XCDRoast and DVD
Hi all, I installed XCDRoast and have successfully written a CD with my CD burner. Anyway, I would like to be able to copy CDs from my DVD, but XCDRoast only lists my CD burner and not my DVD. Is this normal or should I do anything special so XCDRoast can see my DVD? Here is a copy of my fstab in case it's useful: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 noneswap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner0 0 proc/proc proc defaults0 0 Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XCDRoast and DVD
Maybe should I activate scsi emulation for my DVD also? I have this in grub.conf: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi should I add hdb=ide-scsi for XCDRoast to be able to access my DVD? Regards Jose Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi all, I installed XCDRoast and have successfully written a CD with my CD burner. Anyway, I would like to be able to copy CDs from my DVD, but XCDRoast only lists my CD burner and not my DVD. Is this normal or should I do anything special so XCDRoast can see my DVD? Here is a copy of my fstab in case it's useful: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 noneswap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner0 0 proc/proc proc defaults0 0 Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] To ~x86 or not to ~x86
Hi all, Ok, I'm using Gentoo for less than a week, and I think I'm falling in love with it :o) I tried to emerge mozilla 1.3 yesterday, but in its dependencies included XFree 4.3.0. I thought I'd give it a try, and I emerged it accepting ~x86, but once I did it, Gnome didn't work. I thought about recompiling Gnome using an ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u world, but after pretending, and having in mind that this is my main work box, and I cannot have it down for a lot of time, I decided to reemerge -u world to downgrade the installed things. So I put the computer at work before going to bed, and this morning, after a short etc-update, my system was working like a charm again. Man, this is really great, keep up the good work at Gentoo. Aside from that, the question is, do you find the unstable platform reasonably stable? Any experiences from the ~side? And a few question about the use of ~x86. Is (not) recommended to emerge some packages with x86 ans some others with ~x86? (I did it and Gnome stopped working because of (I guess) the new version of XFree, I guess if less delicate packages are involved, the results shouldn't be so dramatic). And what about the use of different USE settings? I think changing this and making certain things (like depclean) could wipe out needed packages. So is there any best practices standard? Regards Jose (A very happy Gentoo user) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world
Just emerge unmerge package, to remove the undesired package, or edit /var/cache/edb/world, and delete the line containing the package you don't want to be updated when updating world. Regards Jose Eugene Van Dam wrote: How does emerge -up world decide which packages it wants to install? What if there is a package (ex. [ebuildU ] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p3-r3 ) that i do not want to install? How can I remove or change what emerge -u world would do? Thanks for the time Eugene -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java revisited
Ok, I've followed the instructions posted on the list to make Mozilla work with the Java plugin with no success. I've even tried to register manually the plugin, using the ControlPanel utility from sun-jdk: /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02/bin/ControlPanel -r ns610 -c /usr/lib/mozilla -j /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02/jre And I have java and mozilla in my USE settings, so there must be anything else that is failing... any ideas? The guys who were able to make it work, could you post your settings here? Any advice from Gentoo developers? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To ~x86 or not to ~x86
Now you tell it, I guess that updating to XFree 4.3.0 was caused by this =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r11 in the dependencies of mozilla, and emerging it using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge mozilla. Maybe I should have done this: emerge /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.3.ebuild This way I would only emerge the mozilla package itself... well, inexperience, I promise I will do better next time :o) Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 20 March 2003 13:19, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I tried to emerge mozilla 1.3 yesterday, but in its dependencies included XFree 4.3.0. I thought I'd give it a try, and I emerged it accepting ~x86, but once I did it, Gnome didn't work. I thought about recompiling Gnome using an ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -u world, but after pretending, and having in mind that this is my main work box, and I cannot have it down for a lot of time, I decided to reemerge -u world to downgrade the installed things. So I put the computer at work before going to bed, and this morning, after a short etc-update, my system was working like a charm again. Man, this is really great, keep up the good work at Gentoo. Moz 1.3 works for me without xfree-4.3 Aside from that, the question is, do you find the unstable platform reasonably stable? Any experiences from the ~side? And a few question about the use of ~x86. Is (not) recommended to emerge some packages with x86 ans some others with ~x86? (I did it and Gnome stopped working because of (I guess) the new version of XFree, I guess if less delicate packages are involved, the results shouldn't be so dramatic). And what about the use of different USE settings? I think changing this and making certain things (like depclean) could wipe out needed packages. So is there any best practices standard? The USE flags determine optional dependencies in packages. You can use the ufed utility to set them, or do it manually. For me the unstable branch is too unstable with certain packages. I believe a hybrid approach is better. This is especially valid for packages that are depended upon by many others. This includes things like X, glibc, gcc, and portage. The stability of those packages can differ dramatically. Most packages are promoted to stable fairly fast. For me the best approach is to use testing packages for end packages. Things like wine, mplayer and games don't break much if they are broken. For those I use testing packages if they offer enough improvement. For core packages I allways go for stability. Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp/iptables always in emerge world
Maybe you have something installed that needs them? Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Why does an 'emerge world -Up' always show ftp and iptables? This is even after a 'regenworld'. I did a rsync last night... I need/require neither of these... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r2 [ebuild N ] net-firewall/iptables-1.2.7a-r3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network Time Server
Remeber to edit /etc/conf.d/ntpd and /etc/ntp.conf (you can create this from /usr/share/ntp/ntp.conf) and execute the following: rc-update add ntpd default if you want the daemon up and running whenever you boot your machine. Kim Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:47, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, What do i need to install to syncronise my clock with the internet? net-misc/ntp /Kim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network Time Server
Patrick, In my case, ntpd (or maybe ntpdate, I don't remember) complaint about this file missing. I've taken a look at my configuration files, and I have in /etc/conf.d/ntpd a line with the following: NTPDATE_CMD=ntpdate This line was initially commented. According to the comments in the file, this is the command to set the clock initially, so maybe the /etc/ntp.conf is only used by ntpdate, and you don't need it if you don't use it. Regards Jose Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Thanks all it works, i have not changed the file /etc/ntp.conf, is this really nessesary? Patrick On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:05:18 +0100 Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remeber to edit /etc/conf.d/ntpd and /etc/ntp.conf (you can create this from /usr/share/ntp/ntp.conf) and execute the following: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice and fonts
I had OpenOffice installed in RedHat and I just needed to add the path containing the fonts to the path list of the X font server. Is this a behaviour provided only by RedHat, or are we missing anything here? OpenOffice documentation (http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#5) suggest this approach (adding fonts through spadmin) only in the case you want to use the fonts only in OpenOffice. It clearly states that it would suffice to add the fonts to a directory controlled by the X font server for OpenOffice to be able to access them: Most home user will run their XServer locally. They only need to add the fonts to the local fontpath. Maybe something broken with installation in Gentoo? By the way, I've copied chkfontpath from my old RedHat box, it works perfectly, but OpenOffice still doesn't show the fonts. Thank you, regards Jose P.M. Wright wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 15:11, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hello, I installed OpenOffice (the bin package, after waiting for the whole evening to get it compiled and not finishing) but it seems I can't use the system fonts in it. I have xfs running, and a modified configuration file, with some added fonts. I'm able to access this fonts in my desktop preferences, but they don't show in OpenOffice. Anybody has experienced this? use the printer administration program to install fonts (you can choose to actually copy the fonts to the openoffice font directory, or just create a symbolic link to them) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice and fonts
I have just taken a look to my old RedHat8 box. Now I have no doubt that there's something broken regarding OpenOffice. In RedHat8 al the ui fits perfectly, but in my Gentoo box, the font used by the interface is rather ugly, greater than the one in RedHat, the buttons, menus, rulers, etc are extremely big (I guess this is bacause of the font used in the ui), and I *cannot* see system fonts Could you please give me the bug ID? Maybe if a add some comments they will speed up things. By the way, the font used by mozilla when composing messeges here in Gentoo is also different (nad uglier) than the one used in RedHat, so maybe the problem is related with X, the font server, or anything else like that... Regards Jose William Kenworthy wrote: I suspect something between gentoo and OO fontwise is very broken. Some wondows fonts I have been using with OO for around a year (inc mandrake and OO) do not work right with 1.02, but are fine with 1.01 (added with the spadmin utility) I get presentations with no text in some views, tabs with no text etc, very poor menu appearance, some settings in the OO options lose the menu text (micro sized when anti-alias is deselected) There is a font guide on the OO website, but it does not fix these problems. deselecting all my fonts has given me a partial OO back, but without good fonts its a lame duck! In the meantime, I am recompiling the older version (as a package this time!), but have two systems with this problem to fix, a third I was just getting around to upgrading has 1.01 and works fine. I filed a bug with OO, but they are very slow on the bug side. BillK On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:11, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hello, I installed OpenOffice (the bin package, after waiting for the whole evening to get it compiled and not finishing) but it seems I can't use the system fonts in it. I have xfs running, and a modified configuration file, with some added fonts. I'm able to access this fonts in my desktop preferences, but they don't show in OpenOffice. Anybody has experienced this? From the OpenOffice web: To install fonts for all OpenOffice.org applications it is sufficient that they can be found in the filesystem. OpenOffice.org searches the following directories for fonts: Solaris Linux 1 The directories /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 2 Locale dependend directories found in the file /usr/openwin/lib/locale/your_locale/OWfontpath The output of the command /usr/sbin/chkfontpath or chkfontpath 3 The fontpath as returned by XGetFontPath() Same as Solaris 4 Directories given by the environment variable SAL_FONTPATH_PRIVATE, usually this variable is set by the soffice script to openoffice_dir/share/fonts/truetype Same as Solaris There's no chkfontpath command in gentoo, so I think OpenOffice should get the fon list from XGetFontPath(). Anybody knows of any bug related to this? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advice on CD recording and viewing movies
Hi there, Ok, I finally have moved from RH8 to Gentoo (right now I like a lot what I'm seeing), and would like to wipe out Windows too, so a few questions: * Can you give me some recomendations in CD recording software? * I have a Leadtek WinFast A250 with GeForce Ti4400 (or 4600 I don't remember) chipset. I'd like to be able to watch movies using my svideo ouput, so is there anyway to activate this output using linux? (I've successfully installed nvidia drivers) can you recomend some programs for viewing DVDs and DivX movies? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MUSIC CD's wont play
Ralph F. De Witt wrote: If you get something working better than what I've managed, please drop me a line! Evans: I added the audio cable, but still no go with playing cd's. KsCD complians about permissions. They look good to me. Can you help? Ralph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I had similar problems. I don't know if this is your case, but... I have a SBLive! and I'm using ALSA, so I installed ALSA mixer and played a bit with controls. Don't ask me what the hell is this, but after pushing up the IEC958 T control I was able to hear my CDs reproduced with gnome cd player. Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4 final? Thanks, regards Jose Matthew Kennedy wrote: Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot I'm in a similar situation to yours (almost same tool set too). What I do is build my next gentoo install on whatever box (rh, gentoo etc.) in a chroot. This way I'm not wasting any time waiting for things to emerge. Than I tar up my chroot, keep it some place safe, boot, partition and unpack the tarballs across the network (NFS, FTP, netcat -- whatever is handy). This way I have exactly the system I want on first boot (GNOME, Emacs, Java etc.) with about 20 minutes (tops) down-time. You hit the ground running so to speak. Matt
[gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8
Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo distribution and thought I'd give it a try. I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, Netbeans, and the usual stuff like Mozilla, OpenOffice,...). I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my machines down for a long period of time, so I was thinking about the way of migrating from RH8 to Gentoo. I have thought of buying another hard disk, install Gentoo on it, pass all my files from the old system to the new system, and use the old disk to repeat the same process in the new machine... what do you think of this? Any other solution? Please, notice I don't want to have several distributions lying around, so I think that making another partition and adding a new system to GRUB is not a solution. About installation time... my machines are AMD (1Ghz and 1,66 Ghz) with 256 and 512Mb of RAM. I have an ADSL connection that gives me 25Kbytes/s. How much time do you think I may spend installing these systems? Is there any way to leverage the downloaded sources, so I don't have to download the same twice? May I install Gentoo in several short steps shuting down the machine between them? Another question... is it possible to rollback an installation in Gentoo? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
