Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 coming up
I think u are using DHCP for eht1. If you give it a static IP address you wouldn't see that problem. Prabhat Kurt Bechstein wrote: I have an hp laptop with a National Semiconductor ethernet controller in it which works perfectly. I'm also running the latest version of mm-sources. Sometimes when I boot up and do not actually have the laptop plugged into the network it gets to the point of bringing up the network interface and just goes right through it and moves on. Then other times it sits there like it is trying to bring the interface up. So I guess I'm not sure why it has different behavior between boots. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc optimizations
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ Chris Graves wrote: OK, so some folks swear by -O3 optimizations, but alot of what I've read suggests -O2 produces faster binaries. I have a Pentium III (coppermine) @ 900MHz with 512M RAM and 1G swap. What CFLAGS do I want? (questionably unstable optimizations that do produce better results are OK) -chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reading emails from both Gentoo Linux and MS Win
I guess, you will need to create a fat32 partition for data exchange and use Mozilla email client. Keep your emails on the fat32 partition. I am assuming that LINUX and windows both can write on that partition. let me know, if it works. Prabhat Sami Salonen wrote: I have a dual setup with Gentoo Linux and MS Win XP. My wife uses Win XP and sometimes while she's working I would like to be able to check my emails without having to reboot to Gentoo. In Gentoo I fetch my mails from my remote server with KMail POP. I have a shared disk with Win and now I would like to know what kind of setup I need to have to be able to fetch my mails either from a) Gentoo b) MS Win and have the same local mailbox available in both systems? Can this be done with KMail and do I need to tell it to store mailbox in some specific format? What software should I use in MS Win? Have anyone else tried this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Converting video files
try transcode emerge transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/index.html Good luck Prabhat Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I have some mpeg2 files that I want to include into my DV film at the editing stage. Is this possible? The mpegs are 720x576 pal format Any advice will be welcome regards Paul -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Typematic rate
as root: kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, how to change the typematic rate / delay of a keyboard ? Actually i have a repetition rate of about 1/sec. And there is no setting in the BIOS (Phoenix). regards Petric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] connection sharing question.
It is possible. I was doing same thing for 3-4 months. except I had a Cable Modem :) U have to use netfilter/IPtables. Your gentoo box will act as a firewall. You can use shorewall to setup the router and also a firewall. compile netfilter into kernel then emerge iptables emerge shorewall read the setup files in /etc/shorewall/ for shorewall setup Prabhat Richard J. wrote: Hi I have a question, and I am learning that getting an answer, and then finding someone to explain the answer is a bit difficult, lol. My current set up is I have two computers running the most awful operating system, Windows XP. My internet connection is an external modem, sad, but this far in the middle of nowhere 56k is the best i can do. Anyway, both computers are connected with a single Ethernet cross over cable, no switch or hub. And put together as a home network to share my internet connection with the business computer. What I want to do is change my computer to Gentoo. And I am wondering, if I do that, is it still possible to share my connection to the other computer which has to stay on XP? If it is possible is there anyone who can't help me do it. Thanks Richard -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate annoyance
Thanks Brian I am sorry about the thread :( Prabhat Brian Richardson wrote: On October 6, 2003 01:49 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I have following in my local.start kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 still, I have to give the same command (as root) everytime I boot into KDE ( I don't have GNOME). What can I do to fix this. You can add that line before startkde in /etc/X11/Session/kde-3.1.4 (or whatever version you are running). Also, please don't begin a new thread by replying to an existing message. It won't show up correctly in a threaded mail agent. Regards, Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how can i add iptables to my gentoo-soruces kernel?
emerge iptables HvR wrote: i wanted to set up shorewall firewall but noticed that i dont have the iptables module compiled in my gentoo-sources kernel, what do i turn on in the kernel config to make it compile it? i have tried a bunch of stuff but either it still doesnt compile or the compile breaks. my current kernel is 2.4.2-gentoo-r7 i have run genkernel --config and set the iptable (replaces ipchains) compile option but that doesnt seem to be enough. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how can i add iptables to my gentoo-soruces kernel?
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/net-firewall/iptables.xml Prabhat Gupta wrote: emerge iptables HvR wrote: i wanted to set up shorewall firewall but noticed that i dont have the iptables module compiled in my gentoo-sources kernel, what do i turn on in the kernel config to make it compile it? i have tried a bunch of stuff but either it still doesnt compile or the compile breaks. my current kernel is 2.4.2-gentoo-r7 i have run genkernel --config and set the iptable (replaces ipchains) compile option but that doesnt seem to be enough. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate annoyance
Hi, I have following in my local.start kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 still, I have to give the same command (as root) everytime I boot into KDE ( I don't have GNOME). What can I do to fix this. Thanks in advance! Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why does gentoo insist on emerging ck-sources ?
I think, open file /var/cache/./virtual and edit sys-kernel line ot only include installed kernels. oom wrote: greets to all who are wise and curious! something strange is going on, I can't see why gentoo wants to emerge the ck-sources, I am not using them (at least not now and ummerged them) but still: # emerge world -up | grep source [ebuild N] sys-kernel/ck-sources-2.4.22-r2 # grep source /var/cache/edb/world sys-kernel/gentoo-sources # etcat -d ck-sources [ Results for search key : ck-sources ] I don't get why it wants to install them ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] printing multiple pages per sheet
try using enscript program. Brian Richardson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to print some text documents with multiple pages per sheet. However, these options on the printer's property sheet. Could anybody suggest what may be missing? My printer, a Lexmark Optra E+ supports PostScript. Thanks, Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] deleeting files in /usr/portage/distfiles
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Re: [gentoo-user] SuSE Kernel Sources
Great job! I will try that sometime. Prabhat Paul Varner wrote: All: Being a big fan of SuSE before coming to Gentoo, I was interested to note that gentoo had RedHat kernel sources, but not SuSE sources. Since I have always preferred the stability of the SuSE kernel over RedHat's [I know it's a subjective opinion, so no comments please :) ] I decided to rectify the situation and create an ebuild for the SuSE kernel sources. I have installed the kernel on my desktops at work and at home and they have been running solid with the SuSE kernel for about two weeks now, with no issues arising concerning the kernel. Some features of the SuSE kernel that are not present in the gentoo-2.4.20-r7 sources are ALSA support built in, and more extensive support for Video for Linux support to include support for the Hauppauge WinTV cards. The gotcha's that I have noticed with using the SuSE kernel are: 1. The kernel sources are distributed by SuSE as an RPM. The RPM data is compressed with bzip instead of gzip. I discovered that rpm2targz doesn't understand bzipped RPM files and would not correctly process the rpm. Because of this, an explicit dependency for the kernel is the rpm ebuild. The only thing that is used from rpm is the rpm2cpio command to unpack the sources into the ebuild sandbox. I don't use rpm in any other way. The second dependency is cpio. This one really isn't an issue since it is part of the system, but to be safe, I included it anyway. 2. SuSE comes with ALSA ported into the kernel. The ALSA version used by SuSE is 0.9.0, while the Gentoo stable release is 0.9.2. I have configured the kernel to both use and not use the ALSA drivers bundled with the kernel and have not noticed a problem using either configuration. The following are the steps I took to install the kernel using genkernel. For those of you who completely roll your own kernel, I'm making the assumption, that you can figure it out from these instructions. I am also assuming that you already have your system up and running with another kernel, and that you have some familarity with the kernel compiling process. 1. Get the ebuild from: http://varnerfamily.org/pvarner/gentoo/suse-sources-2.4.20.100.ebuild.tar.bz2 2. mkdir /usr/local/portage 3. cd /usr/local/portage 4. tar xvjf suse-sources-2.4.20.100.ebuild.tar.bz2 5. Edit /etc/make.conf and uncomment the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable and set it to PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage 6. emerge suse-sources 7.cd /usr/src 8. rm linux 9. ln -s linux-2.4.20-SuSE-100 linux 10. cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/.config /etc/kernels/config-2.4.20-SuSE-100 11. genkernel --config 12. In the kernel configuration, Processor Type and Features, ensure that Local APIC Support on uniprocessors and IO-APIC support on uniprocessors is turned on or ACPI support will not compile. 13. In the file systems section, ensure that /dev file system support and Automatically mount at boot is turned on. Turn off /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs 14. Peruse through the rest of the configuration and set everything to match your hardware and desires. 15. Exit and save the config 16. Let genkernel do it's thing. 17. Modify the boot loader and add the entry for the new kernel and initrd Prior to rebooting, If I used built in ALSA support. 1. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop 2. emerge unmerge alsa-driver 3. emerge -i alsa-driver (inject the stub, so emerge -u won't try to reinstall alsa-driver) 4. reboot 5. login or su to root after the reboot and use lsmod to insure the sound modules loaded, use the alsamixer to make sure that the volume levels are set correctly. If I did not use the built in ALSA support. 1. /etc/init.d/alsasound stop 2. emerge alsa-driver 3. reboot 4. login or su to root after the reboot and use lsmod to insure the sound modules loaded, use the alsamixer to make sure that the volume levels are set correctly. Rebuild the other drivers that depend upon the kernel. For me, I have an nvidia card and use vmware, so I also execute the following. emerge nvidia-kernel vmware-config.pl If I get enough interest in the ebuild, I will submit it to gentoo for possible inclusion in the portage tree. At this point, besides determining possible interest, I'm also looking for problems with the ebuild as well as enhancements. One of the things that I would like to see, is an ebuild for creating only rpm2cpio. I have figured out how to build and install only rpm2cpio manually from the rpm sources. But I haven't decided the better method for creating and using such an ebuild. Should it block the install of rpm, or should the rpm ebuild be modified to unmerge the rpm2cpio ebuild if it is installed. Secondly, I'm not sure how I would specify in the suse-sources ebuild, the either the rpm or rpm2cpio ebuild would satisfy the dependency. Finally, as the SuSE /etc/motd would say Have a Lot of Fun! Regards, Paul Varner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about ATA RAID controllers...
If you do a RAID 0 setup you will get a performance boost. It's a good idea.
Walther The Writer wrote:
I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo
doataraid kernel option
the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear. When I
do modprobe pdcriad or hptraid.
modules can't be loaded with a bunch of errors, so I assume that I have ataraid. Now,
if I do Kernel configuration,
what options have to be selected? How can I collect more information about my ata raid
controller from Windows machine?
( I do not have Linux installed yet, struggling) 1)Do I need to select HPT336/337C
chipset support? 2)Do I need to sellect
IDE Raid support? ( I think I do ).3) Highpoint? No, right, since mu modprobe failes.
Or do I have to select them all?
Do I have to create /mnt/gentoo/dev directory before mount it?
Do installing the system on ATA RAid have some advantages? ( I have install Slackware
even without knowing that
Raid exists).
Thanks,
Walther.
Code listing .1: Loading RAID modules
# modprobe ataraid
For Promise Raid Controllers:
# modprobe pdcraid
For Highpoint Raid Controllers:
# modprobe hptraid
Some ATA RAID Controllers require you to reboot after partitioning; formatting will
otherwise fail.
Before chrooting, mount the devicetree into the new environment:
Code listing .2: Mounting /dev into /mnt/gentoo/dev
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
During kernel configuration, select the required RAID options:
Code listing .3: RAID in the Linux Kernel Configuration
For Highpoint RAID controllers:
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
[*] HPT36X/37X chipset support
[*] Support for IDE Raid controllers
[*] Highpoint 370 software RAID
For Promise RAID controllers:
ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---
[*] PROMISE PDC202{46|62|65|67} support
and/or
[*] PROMISE PDC202{68|69|70|71|75|76|77} support
[*] Support for IDE Raid controllers
[*] Support Promise software RAID (Fasttrak(tm))
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Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-dev] Migrating to a commercial PHP-based forums package for forums.gentoo.org
I agree Bjorn Sodergren wrote: Open Source/GPL , free meaning no $$ needed, or gotta-pay for it, it doesn't matter as long as the tool you're using is the right tool for the job. If you insist on using the wrong tools ONLY because you think it is un-ethical to use non-free software, you should reconsider your priorities. After all, if you had to rent a specific tool (i.e. ball-joint splitter) to work on your car, or use what common tools (i.e. a hammer) you have laying around your house, what would you do ? Another option is to migrate to an alternate forums package. Specifically, vBulletin, which has proven to be quite scalable and effective with larger sites. The main drawback to this is the fact that it is a commercial software package, which tends to raise the ire of some of the more zealous GNU folks out there. So, my question to you is, how would you feel if we were to do this? Horribly offended? Saddened because there isn't a GPL'd program to meet our needs, but pragmatic about the need to do *something*? Or C, none of the above? Basically, the choice comes down to one of two things: 1) Lose some older posts and stay on a GPL-compatible package 2) Move to a commercial solution and keep all the posts. Note that vBulletin *is* open source in that you have access to the source code and can modify it. It's just not Free. Finally, to keep this process somewhat manageably, I ask that you make your responses on the forums. I've also set up a poll there so we can vote on what should be done. I will likely limit my responses to that discussion. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=554174 --kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Happy am i
Jason Cooper wrote: Senectus - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: LOL.. sounds like a challenge.. :-) I know its OT.. But I couldn't help it.. after your like epilogue.. I remembered this : (Not written by me) Gospel of Tux unearthed (long) [Helluva snip] Now may you code in the power of the Source; may the Kernel, the Libraries and the Utilities be with you, throughout all Distributions, until the end of the Epoch. Amen. Posted on Sat 06 Feb 15:50:24 1999 GMT Written by Lennier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Damn, the sad thing is, I actually sat down and read the whole thing... Beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye. Cooper. ME TOO!!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] SUPER-FREESWAN binary packages
Hi, I recently upgraded the system: emerge -u system(~x86) Now I am getting touble, compiling super-freeswan with the newly upgraded gcc-3.3.1 Can some make a binay package for it and post it on the web? I have pentium 4 laptop. Can I downgrade the system using following: env USE='x86' emerge -u system Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Digital camera recommendations?
www.dpreview.com is also good for information. Prabhat Anthony Floyd wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:13:46 -0400 gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] a good place to look for quality comparisions is google. i found a site through there that compared any camera out there to any other camera based on pretty much anything you can think of. sorry, i don't have It was probably http://www.steves-digicams.com/. Do yourself a favour and go there. Run, don't walk. Read about whatever camera you are considering purchasing. You'll come away enlightened. A -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/spool/mqueue permissions/ownership
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001 anacron drwx--3 daemon daemon 4096 Aug 24 2001 at drwx--2 root root 4096 Mar 8 2001 cron drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 30 2000 fax drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Aug 24 2001 lpd drwxrwxr-x2 root mail 4096 Sep 21 04:22 mail drwxr-xr-x4 root root 4096 Mar 14 2003 MailScanner drwxr-xr-x2 root mail 4096 Sep 22 13:59 mqueue drwx--2 root root 4096 Mar 1 2003 mqueue.in drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Feb 13 2001 rwho drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Apr 5 2001 samba drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Apr 7 2001 up2date drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Feb 12 2001 vbox Owen Ford wrote: I'm trying to get sendmail running but it can't write to the mqueue. I have tried several permissions and ownership settings with no success. Could someone with sendmail working post 'ls -l /var/spool/', please. -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Freeswan installation and setup
Hi All, I am trying to install a VNP for last 3 night with no luck :) I am using latest gentoo-sources (~x86). I enabled the IPSec in kernel and emerged super-freeswan. I am getting alot of errors while starting the ipsec. I noticed that the freeswan version in the gentoo-sources is 1.97. Also when I try to emerge freeswan or super-freeswan, it emerges the ck-sources too, I don't know why? I emerged freeswan-1.99 ebuild and the compilation went well but now ipsec is giving error about pluto not running. I am little confused now and want to start fresh. Can someone help me about, which kernel to choose, how to patch the kernel for IPsec, which version of freeswan or super-freeswan to emerge etc. I will highly appreciate that, I am getting crazy :( Best regards, Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wireless connection.
Hi, I installed a netgear 802.11g card on my laptop for wireless access. With latest vanilla-source (~x86) everything was working fine. Then, I changed the kernel to latest gentoo-sources (~x86). Now the wireless connection doesn't connect automatically after boot. I have added it to the default runlevel. Now everytime, I have to start it explcitly by: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start I have to stop first, cause it say it is already started. What could be the problem. I will appreciate any help. Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection. [CORRECTION]
I upgraded to GS-SOURCES Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I installed a netgear 802.11g card on my laptop for wireless access. With latest vanilla-source (~x86) everything was working fine. Then, I changed the kernel to latest gentoo-sources (~x86). Now the wireless connection doesn't connect automatically after boot. I have added it to the default runlevel. Now everytime, I have to start it explcitly by: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start I have to stop first, cause it say it is already started. What could be the problem. I will appreciate any help. Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.
I am using: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/ dirver for that PCMCIA card. There is a dependency in the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 for PCMCIA. I don't know what else to add there :( Prabhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:38:09PM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I installed a netgear 802.11g card on my laptop for wireless access. With latest vanilla-source (~x86) everything was working fine. Then, I changed the kernel to latest gentoo-sources (~x86). Now the wireless connection doesn't connect automatically after boot. I have added it to the default runlevel. Now everytime, I have to start it explcitly by: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start I have to stop first, cause it say it is already started. What could be the problem. I will appreciate any help. If this were a Prism-based card using the linux-wlan-ng ebuild, I'd say that you need to be sure to start up the wireless LAN (/etc/init.d/wlan) before you start up the network device. This could be accomplished by adding a dependency in /etc/init.d/net.eth1. Since you're not using that particular software... the best I can do is an educated guess: you might have a similar dependency for that software. That is, there might be some other system that has to start up first for eth1 to come up properly. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection.
Dave, I did repatch the kernel and also build the driver. I didn't do make mrproper though. The wireless connection works but I have to stop it and then start again. /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start Prabhat David Mallwitz wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am using: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/802.11g/ dirver for that PCMCIA card. There is a dependency in the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 for PCMCIA. I don't know what else to add there :( Prabhat Repatch the kernel and rebuild the driver. Every time you upgrade your kernel you will have to do this. Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] IBM Thinkpad R40e
Trying hitting key board during boot up. This happens on my laptop, hp ze5158. The keyboard stops working when the kernel loads some USB modules. But if I keep pressing the key duing that module load, the keyboard works file. Prabhat Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hihi, Spent most of today attempting to get Gentoo onto my new work laptop, the forementioned stinkpad r40e. Decided to not use my age old v1.0 boot cd, and download a set of shiny new 1.4 livecds. Kinda had too really, the only apparent working module for the network card are from Broadcom, and with no floppy drive net access ain't happening during install. At first I used genkernel, and removed loads of stuff I didn't need, then fell back to just letting it do its stuff. The major problem I'm having is that the keyboard doesn't work, *at all* once booted. Obviously it works fine from the livecd, and windows, and knoppix too. I've tried loading the modules which the livecd loads, via modules.autoload, but no joy. Can anyone help? Cheers - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cKxnInuLMrk7bIwRAn2qAJ9R5poaIrBYC+yaVt6n1yO8/bu+xQCgn8l7 3978P9Uebw1zpFKPVmDAZlQ= =Tl80 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Hi Vano, Can you give me little more detail on the procedure. Here is my understanding: 1. Untar the stagex in /xxx/slow/ on fast machine 2. chroot /xxx/slow /bin/bash 3. make changes to make.conf 4. bootstrap 5. emerge kernel sources 6. compile kernel 7. emerge XFree 8. emerge kde-base 9. Go to slow machine 10. WHAT NEXT ?? The slow machine has a swap parition and a ROOT parition. I have not used rsync. How to boot the slow machine? Thanks for your help Prabhat Vano D wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:01, Prabhat Gupta wrote: You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those old machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems. Puggy :(( ~ ~ ~ What is wrong with compiling your system under chroot in a fast box and then rsync -a it to your slower machine? I have also tarred whole system and transferred them to slower machines.. all ok You basically untar the stagex file to a dir on the fast machine, set the compile flags in /etc/make.conf so it is a pentium, bootstrap it, emerge whatever you want and even configure the whole thing, then chroot out of the dir, either use rsync -a to copy the system dir to the / of the slow machine, or use tar to create a tarball or tar it over the network. Cheers, -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
What if I CAN'T boot from CD :( Regards Prabhat Pat Kerwan wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:58:21AM -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi Vano, Can you give me little more detail on the procedure. Here is my understanding: 1. Untar the stagex in /xxx/slow/ on fast machine 2. chroot /xxx/slow /bin/bash 3. make changes to make.conf 4. bootstrap 5. emerge kernel sources 6. compile kernel 7. emerge XFree 8. emerge kde-base 9. Tar up /xxx/slow From here, you have a few options: 10. Take the HD from slow machine to fast machine 11. mount the root partition to /mnt/gentoo 12. mount the boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot 13. copy the tarball to /mnt/gentoo 14. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it 15. chroot to /mnt/gentoo 16. Install grub/lilo Alternately, you could take the fast machine's HD to slow machine. Lastly, if you have NFS set up on your fast machine, you could: 10. Export /xxx/slow with NFS 11. Boot slow machine with the Live CD 12. Set up the /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/boot mount points as usual 13. mount the NFS share to /mnt/slow 14. copy tarball from /mnt/slow to /mnt/gentoo 15. cd to /mnt/gentoo and untar it 16. chroot to /mnt/gentoo 17. Install grub/lilo - PK 9. Go to slow machine 10. WHAT NEXT ?? The slow machine has a swap parition and a ROOT parition. I have not used rsync. How to boot the slow machine? Thanks for your help Prabhat Vano D wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 18:01, Prabhat Gupta wrote: You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those old machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems. Puggy :(( ~ ~ ~ What is wrong with compiling your system under chroot in a fast box and then rsync -a it to your slower machine? I have also tarred whole system and transferred them to slower machines.. all ok You basically untar the stagex file to a dir on the fast machine, set the compile flags in /etc/make.conf so it is a pentium, bootstrap it, emerge whatever you want and even configure the whole thing, then chroot out of the dir, either use rsync -a to copy the system dir to the / of the slow machine, or use tar to create a tarball or tar it over the network. Cheers, -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best regards, Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? -Thanks for your help -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Håvard Wall wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? and installing a kernel and the other things in the installation guide? emerge -uv kde and I belive you should have everything you asked for. KDE takes a lot of space though, you would probably have to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles and maybe /var/tmp/portage from time to time. Thanks, I will look at the emerge option -v. When should I clean the /usr/portage/distfiles and how? I plan to use gentoo-sources for kernel. Can I clean source files for the kernel after kernel installation? Also before emerge -uv kde, I have to emerge xfree too, right? Is there a way to reduce the space requirement for xfree? I know the graphics chip of the thinkpad 760XL, it is Trident CYBER9385. Regards -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? Since Gentoo comes up with multiple consoles using the F1-F6 keys why do you need KDE? If you really want a minimal system this would seem superfluous. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Hi Tom, Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb. Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute farms and he need some graphics. I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:39, Håvard Wall wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? and installing a kernel and the other things in the installation guide? emerge -uv kde and I belive you should have everything you asked for. KDE takes a lot of space though, you would probably have to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles and maybe /var/tmp/portage from time to time. emerge kde will install all kde components. If you just want a minimal kde installation, emerge kdebase and that's what you will get. kdebase depends on kdelibs so only those two packages will be installed. Check under /usr/portage/kde-base/ for further information. Jason Thanks Jason, I will look into that. -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( Consider using distcc to speed up compile time. I've never used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. Better yet, do the compiling on an insanely overspecced server and cp the filesystem onto your laptop afterwards :) Condiser NFS/iSCSI/whatever for /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage . You should only need those when installing things, so it might be okay to put them on a different box... Don't emerge kde. Emerge kde-base and whatever else you need. HTH, Thanks, Any ideas, how to use distcc? I am currently doing bootstrapping. Also I do have a fast machine with gentoo installed but I don't know how to setup NFS and use it for installation? Any pointers? -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Douglas Russell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 July 2003 4:48 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? Since Gentoo comes up with multiple consoles using the F1-F6 keys why do you need KDE? If you really want a minimal system this would seem superfluous. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Hi Tom, Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb. Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute farms and he need some graphics. I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( You'll be lucky to get XFree and KDE compiled and configured on those old machines within 24 hours even if you have no problems. Puggy :(( ~ ~ ~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:48, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install a minimal gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad 760XL. The laptop has 1.6G free space on ROOT partition. Currently I am bootstrapping the system. I want a minimal system to do some C++ development. I need GCC, make, CVS, shells. I also need minimal KDE. What should be my next steps after BOOTSTRAPPING? Since Gentoo comes up with multiple consoles using the F1-F6 keys why do you need KDE? If you really want a minimal system this would seem superfluous. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Hi Tom, Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb. Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute farms and he need some graphics. I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( 24 hours? What were those laptops again? KDE normally takes about 24 hours to compile everything on my AthlonXP. If you can network the laptops then I suggest using CFLAGS for the lowest common denominator and also use distcc. Perform the Gentoo install (as per instructions) using stage2 on the laptops using stage2. After that set FEATURES in /etc/make.conf to include buildpkg. After that, build distcc on one laptop and mount /usr/portage on all the others via nfs. Then emerge distcc on all the other laptops using the -k flag (install from a precompiled package where possible). Set up distcc and make sure to include it in FEATURES on all laptops - I've never done it so I can't help you there. Then emerge kdebase and whatever other kde components you need on one laptop and use the -k flag again on the other laptops. That should get it all running within maybe 12 hours? Jason WOW, seems great!!! I am definetely going to try it when I get other laptops. Currently I have only one to install. The laptop is P166 with 80MB RAM :(( -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Prabhat, Sometime it feels good to debug using DDD rather using plain gdb. I can see that. I'm running full SuSE 8.0 on a Thinkpad 770 at home, with the usual KDE, so the 760 should be able to handle it, too. I've got to admit, though, that I do most of my debugging manually. I learned before they had these fancy tools. Anyway my boss needs 4-5 of those junk laptops to demostrate compute farms and he need some graphics. I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( Whoosh. With only 24 hours left I'd choose a distro that would install without the compilation. Have you considered Knoppix running straight off the CD? It comes up in KDE. I love Gentoo, but it won't build on old slow machines in 24 hours, especially if you are doing KDE. Someone mentioned KDE-base to give you a minimal KDE. I'd second that. You can find smaller window managers, too. But building X will still take more time than you have. I've just completed a Gentoo install on a Sony Vaio (Celleron 333MHz) and it took days. Full KDE (emerge kde) from the stage 1 install was 120 packages, some of which took more than a day. You might remind your boss of the old triangle rule of thumb: Draw a triangle, label the corners good, fast and cheap. Select any one line and you can have those characteristics at its ends. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thanks guys for all your help. I really love gentoo and the user community. I think I will try to emerge xfree and then teach my boss how to install KDE-BASE. He is my remote boss. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Hi Rob, Thanks. So after bootstrapping can I emerge distcc and compile the kernel , X and kde-base with distcc? Is it going to make a lot of difference in compile time? Jason indicated that It will not make a lot difference. Bootstrapping is still going far last 12 hours. It is a P166, 80M. 1.6G for for gentoo (excluding swap). Regards Prabhat Rob Snow wrote: DISTCC: http://distcc.samba.org It's quite simple to use and I would recommend building all your portage that way, it takes all of 1min to setup and the payoff is large. (about 75-85% performance increase for each host added) Basically for portage you just emerge distcc and add distcc in your FEATURES line. The downside is that not all of portage does not support make -j(n) so some packages will not take advantage of it. Another option is to compile on a different box, you can set your DISTCC_HOSTS to not include the local machine, which will cause most actual compiling to take place somewhere else. ie. DISTCC_HOSTS=thisbox fastbox will split the compiles across thisbox and fastbox, however, DISTCC_HOSTS=fastbox will make all the compiles take place on fastbox...handy for that 166 when fastbox is a 2.0GHz. Additionally, you can use DISTCC with the Cygwin cross-compiler to use a XP (or set of XP) box as a compile host. This is what I do, do a minimal install of Cygwin (~5min?) and then follow the excellent HOWTO at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66930 or grab my cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 at: ftp://ftp.dympna.com/cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 (23.3MB) and untar into /usr/local and do /usr/local/bin/distccd.sh (~5min?) and add that xp box into your DISTCC_HOSTS line: DISTCC_HOSTS=thisbox fastbox xpbox I've even included a script to make DISTCC run as an NT service (/usr/local/bin/mkservice) so it has no visible effect on XP/NT...just runs in the background. Downside is that it's a 23.3MB download, but you only need it once per toolchain change. (currently it's at gcc-3.2.3 / glibc-2.3.2 / binuntils-2.14.(forgot) / distcc-2.8) which is the current stable build environment. -Rob On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:11:29 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:00, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( Consider using distcc to speed up compile time. I've never used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. Better yet, do the compiling on an insanely overspecced server and cp the filesystem onto your laptop afterwards :) Condiser NFS/iSCSI/whatever for /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage . You should only need those when installing things, so it might be okay to put them on a different box... Don't emerge kde. Emerge kde-base and whatever else you need. HTH, Thanks, Any ideas, how to use distcc? I am currently doing bootstrapping. Also I do have a fast machine with gentoo installed but I don't know how to setup NFS and use it for installation? Any pointers? As I said before I haven't used distcc before, but I suggest not using in conjuction with your slow laptops. You will end up having the fast machine wait for the laptops to finish compiling something it could have done quicker by itself. If you can use the fast machine to do the compiling, do like I said before but use the -B flag to emerge rather than adding buildpkg to FEATURES; that will build the packages without installing them. NFS I believe to be fairly easy to set up. Do a man mount and if that doesn't help just search for nfs howto with google and you should be right. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
wow!! Looks like I will get some improvement. I have a 2.4G HP laptop with gentoo installed. So what I will do now it to omit the localhost form DISTCC_HOSTS What should be my -j value for this senario? 2?? Where will I set -j option? Is it in make.conf? Thanks Rob Snow wrote: Well, from what I'm seeing..it's close to linear speed up minus about 10-15% overhead. So if you have 2x boxes you should see around 1.6-1.8 speedup. I'm using a 3 box compile 'farm' of 2 gentoo boxes (AthlonXP) and a XP (P4) and I'm seeing 2.5min kernel compiles from a make clean - time make -j[5 or 6] bzImage. I'd consider that pretty substantial. Remeber that some packages don't handle the -j[n] option well and even though you put the FEATURE=distcc in they won't use it...xfree comes to mind, it uses distcc, but only at -j2. Again, you can set your DISTCC_HOSTS to actually do the compiles 'off-site' by leaving your slow machine out of the list of hosts. That way even with a linear build you will be doing the grunt work 'off-site' and just linking, etc. onsite. This is the way I'm going to build my new firewall/router. I'll leverage all my fast boxes to build the system and leave it completely out of the DISTCC_HOSTS line...it's only a 200MHz and I've got 2.0, 2.4, 1.8, 1.6GHz to throw at the real work. -Rob On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:35:11 -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote Hi Rob, Thanks. So after bootstrapping can I emerge distcc and compile the kernel , X and kde-base with distcc? Is it going to make a lot of difference in compile time? Jason indicated that It will not make a lot difference. Bootstrapping is still going far last 12 hours. It is a P166, 80M. 1.6G for for gentoo (excluding swap). Regards Prabhat Rob Snow wrote: DISTCC: http://distcc.samba.org It's quite simple to use and I would recommend building all your portage that way, it takes all of 1min to setup and the payoff is large. (about 75-85% performance increase for each host added) Basically for portage you just emerge distcc and add distcc in your FEATURES line. The downside is that not all of portage does not support make -j(n) so some packages will not take advantage of it. Another option is to compile on a different box, you can set your DISTCC_HOSTS to not include the local machine, which will cause most actual compiling to take place somewhere else. ie. DISTCC_HOSTS=thisbox fastbox will split the compiles across thisbox and fastbox, however, DISTCC_HOSTS=fastbox will make all the compiles take place on fastbox...handy for that 166 when fastbox is a 2.0GHz. Additionally, you can use DISTCC with the Cygwin cross-compiler to use a XP (or set of XP) box as a compile host. This is what I do, do a minimal install of Cygwin (~5min?) and then follow the excellent HOWTO at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66930 or grab my cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 at: ftp://ftp.dympna.com/cross-linux-3.2.3.tar.bz2 (23.3MB) and untar into /usr/local and do /usr/local/bin/distccd.sh (~5min?) and add that xp box into your DISTCC_HOSTS line: DISTCC_HOSTS=thisbox fastbox xpbox I've even included a script to make DISTCC run as an NT service (/usr/local/bin/mkservice) so it has no visible effect on XP/NT...just runs in the background. Downside is that it's a 23.3MB download, but you only need it once per toolchain change. (currently it's at gcc-3.2.3 / glibc-2.3.2 / binuntils-2.14.(forgot) / distcc-2.8) which is the current stable build environment. -Rob On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:11:29 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:00, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am looking for ideas to reduce the space requirment and also compile time. I have only 24 hrs left for this :( Consider using distcc to speed up compile time. I've never used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. Better yet, do the compiling on an insanely overspecced server and cp the filesystem onto your laptop afterwards :) Condiser NFS/iSCSI/whatever for /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage . You should only need those when installing things, so it might be okay to put them on a different box... Don't emerge kde. Emerge kde-base and whatever else you need. HTH, Thanks, Any ideas, how to use distcc? I am currently doing bootstrapping. Also I do have a fast machine with gentoo installed but I don't know how to setup NFS and use it for installation
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: wow!! Looks like I will get some improvement. I have a 2.4G HP laptop with gentoo installed. So what I will do now it to omit the localhost form DISTCC_HOSTS What should be my -j value for this senario? 2?? Typically its CPUs + 1, so you've got host computer + distcc laptop = 2 CPUs, so set -j3 I want all my compilation on the fast machine. Should I set it -j2 ? Regards PRabhat Where will I set -j option? Is it in make.conf? the MAKEOPTS= line -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
[/SINP] You should set: MAKEOPTS=-j2 DISTCC_HOSTS=fastmachine/2 FEATURES=ccache distcc where fastmachine is the hostname or ip of the fastermachine. The '/2' means it can accept 2 jobs at once. Should I install ccache also? Which one should I install first ccache or distcc? What set will be required to use ccache? Best regards PRabhat -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo install
Thanks Andrew. Regards PRabhat Andrew Gaffney wrote: Prabhat Gupta wrote: You should set: MAKEOPTS=-j2 DISTCC_HOSTS=fastmachine/2 FEATURES=ccache distcc where fastmachine is the hostname or ip of the fastermachine. The '/2' means it can accept 2 jobs at once. Should I install ccache also? Which one should I install first ccache or distcc? It shouldn't really matter which order you install them in. What set will be required to use ccache? Nothing more should be required that what is already above. -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good code editor (with colors) for X (no GTK orQT)
Essien Ita Essien wrote: Ok i've tried to keep quiet but i cant anymore!! Why dont you want to use vim? You cant type? That's the only reason i can think of. Other than that... its power editing all the way. sory... i couldn't help myself :D Essien I AM WITH YOU ! Prabhat -Original Message- From: Nathaniel McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Good code editor (with colors) for X (no GTK or QT) Anyone know of a good code editor for X that doesn't use GTK or QT? I would like something that displays colors (like for variables, etc). I also don't want to use vi or any deritive or any console based editor. Any thoughts? nathaniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login to webmin
type username root and hit ENTER Mike Diehl (Encrypted email prefer red) wrote: Hi all. I just installed Gentoo on a machine and emerge'd webmin. I only have one username on the machine, root, but I can't seem to get logged in. I've tried the password many times, so I know I'm typing it in right. Any ideas? Mike Diehl. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keyborad refresh rate RESET by KDE
Hi All, I set the keyboard rate in local.start by following command kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 But the rate is reset by KDE and I have to give the command after I login. How can I solve this? Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?
Hi All, It looks like my root partition is almost used. Is it possible to move the portage tree to some other location? Thanks Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Ebuild for CINEPAINT ..............
Hi All, Did anyone make an ebuild for cinepaint http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to move the whole PORTAGE TREE?
That's cool :) Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:02:51 -0400 Prabhat Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, It looks like my root partition is almost used. Is it possible to move the portage tree to some other location? Yep, there is: mv /usr/portage /mnt/bigdisk/portage ln -s /mnt/bigdisk/portage /usr/portage (Long live symbolic links ;) //Spider -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables trouble
I had the same problem. Did you emerged iptables?? Sebastian Bergmann wrote: I'm using the Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 kernel and iptables 1.2.8-r1. When I use iptables -L I get bash-2.05b# iptables -L /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r5/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed iptables v1.2.8: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. Any idea what's wrong? -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Problems - Reboot on Load
put vga=ask in grub configuration. Loopingz wrote: I'm a newbie on Gentoo, i've made the installation from stage 1, compile everything and when i reboot the system, i see Grub then when i choose to load the linux, it seems to load the kernel, but the screen go black and after 2 seconds the system is rebooting. I think it's a kernel compilation problem but i don't know the solution. Thanks for helping Loopingz -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] transcode - divx problem
rebuild the dependencies for transcode Bryce wrote: Hey all, trying to use transcodw with DVD::RIP, and having an issue: Copied by hand cause dvd::rip doesn't deal with the clipboard :( : transcode v.0.6.8 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Ostreich libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.7 for DVD access libdvdread: Couldn't find device name. libdvdread: Can't open file VIEDO_TS.IFO. [import_vob.so] v0.5.8 (2003-06-11) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle) [export_ogg.so] v0.0.3 (2003-03-06) (video) null | (audio) ogg [export_divx5.so] v0.1.7 (2003-06-12) (video) Divx5.xx | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM [export_divx5.so] libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory SO, has anyone else had this problem?? And should this be forwarded on to bugs.gentoo.org? thanks, bryce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance...
put that command into /etc/conf.d/local.start i guess BTW what is -k1 option for? Sean Bossinger wrote: Thank you for your assistance... It is much appreciated. It was a rather duh moment for me. Another question... I've enabled this on my machine manually, but I want it enabled every time I start. I've added the line to my rc.conf; however, I question if this is the right place... Are there any guidelines on this? Sean ---Original Message--- From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07/09/03 08:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slow performance... On Wed, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Graves wrote: sounds like a classic case of dma not enabled... try emerging hdparm, setting dma, and then setting hdparm to run at boot. hdparm -d1 -c1 -k1 /dev/hdX Christopher Fisk -- "Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill all the humans?" -Bender -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall: ip_table.o some unresolved symbolswhile starting shorewall
Hi Anupam, I recompiled the kernel and now I am not able to see the boot messages and mouse is not working in KDE :( I will get back to you after fixning that. Thanks for response. Prabhat Anupam Kapoor wrote: what are the unresolved symbols that you see ? anupam "Prabhat" == Prabhat Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prabhat Hi All, I spend almost 2 weeks now compiling and recompiling Prabhat gentoo. It'w working now but when I try to start Shorewall I Prabhat get some unresolved symbols in ip_table.o Prabhat I have compiled the ip_table as module in kernel and also Prabhat enabled support for netfilter (replaces ipchains) Prabhat Thanks Prabhat -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
[gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE with NO mouse !!!!
Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. In the kernel settings, input devices HID keyboard enabled HID mouse disabled USB Mouse enabled I am on HP ze5185 laptop. It has ATI radeon graphics chip. I am using an external keyborad and an USB wheel mouse. The KDE was working before with both mouse and keborad. But earlier I have to hit keyboard many times to get it detected while booting. Can someone tell me the correct kernel configuration for keyborad and USB mouse. Also what about the blank screen while booting. Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!
I think I have the first two in my kernel config. Also in have vga=791 in my lilo.config Do I need to put 0x791 in place of 791? Also I remember that this time I enabled MTRR. I don't know about MTRR but I have seen this on some forum. Thanks Prabhat Rob Snow wrote: I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is probably due to missing: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:50:49 -0400, Prabhat Gupta wrote Hi All, I am trying to to install gentoo for last 2 weeks. Here is my latest problem. Last night I did a make mrproper. Now I get a blank screen while booting but I do get KDE up and running with NO mouse. I use a USB wheel mouse. In the kernel settings, input devices HID keyboard enabled HID mouse disabled USB Mouse enabled I am on HP ze5185 laptop. It has ATI radeon graphics chip. I am using an external keyborad and an USB wheel mouse. The KDE was working before with both mouse and keborad. But earlier I have to hit keyboard many times to get it detected while booting. Can someone tell me the correct kernel configuration for keyborad and USB mouse. Also what about the blank screen while booting. Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* Senior Software Engineer Alternative System Concepts, Inc. www.ascinc.com 22 Haverhill Road Windham, NH 03087 Phone: (603) 437-2234 (o)
Re: [gentoo-user] BLANK screen while BOOTING but KDE works FINE withNO mouse !!!!
I will try vga=ask if my wife gives me some time today on the laptop. She is really angry on me for spending 24 hrs on computer :(( downtime null wrote: i have all 3 of those in my .config and i still get a black screen when i pass 'vga=791' to the kernel. i can use 'vga=ask' and pick one and that works fine (but no little tux :( ). i know that these are really to different modes, but i can't understand why one works and the other doesn't. i didn't have any problem with mode 791 (0x317) with my old kernel, but 2.5.73 doesn't seem to like it. On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:00:49PM -0600, Rob Snow wrote: I can't help you with the mouse problem, however, the blank screen while booting is probably due to missing: CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y in your kernel config while having a vga=791 (or some such) in your lilo.conf. You might not need all those, but it shouldn't hurt to put them all in. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Shorewall: ip_table.o some unresolved symbols while starting shorewall
Hi All, I spend almost 2 weeks now compiling and recompiling gentoo. It'w working now but when I try to start Shorewall I get some unresolved symbols in ip_table.o I have compiled the ip_table as module in kernel and also enabled support for netfilter (replaces ipchains) Thanks -- P r a b h a t G u p t a /\/\* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
