Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:00 am, Brock Campbell wrote: I haven't spent a lot of time on these things, but they have been flaky for me. It's on a Dell Insp.4150. APM, ACPI. lost the ability to suspend. screen blanking doesn't work. Winmodem. I bought the Linuxant drivers, now when I install them, Hotplug fails to insert them on startup, worked fine with 2.4 You could try editing /etc/modules.d/hcfpci and removing the final line, the one that reads probeall hcfpciserial hcfpcihw That worked for me when modprobe and kppp couldn't load the commercial Linuxant modules into 2.6. YMMV of course. Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?
On Sunday 11 January 2004 8:33 pm, Stephen Clowater wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a PIII with 256K of chace, your best bet is CFLAGS=-march=pentiumIII -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -mmmx -msse - -m3dnow -fgcse-lm -funroll-all-loops -maccumulate-outgoing-args - -minline-all-stringops Richard Leonard wrote: | On Friday 09 January 2004 12:11 pm, Spider wrote: |CFLAGS=-march=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe | |(-march implies -mcpu, so stating cpu would be redundant) |i wouldn't suggest -O3 for this system as you are low on CPU cache, |which means that you'd be far better off with the smaller, tighter, |binaries of -O2 . | | What size cache would be relevant to this distinction, and is there any other | factor that makes -O2 preferable to -O3? I have a 600MHz PIII (Coppermine) | with 256kB cache, and am using CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe | -fomit-frame-pointer. Would I be better off with -O2? | | Thanks for any information. | Regards | Richard | Thanks to all for their replies, I'm very grateful. As usual... Regards Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?
On Friday 09 January 2004 12:11 pm, Spider wrote: CFLAGS=-march=athlon -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe (-march implies -mcpu, so stating cpu would be redundant) i wouldn't suggest -O3 for this system as you are low on CPU cache, which means that you'd be far better off with the smaller, tighter, binaries of -O2 . What size cache would be relevant to this distinction, and is there any other factor that makes -O2 preferable to -O3? I have a 600MHz PIII (Coppermine) with 256kB cache, and am using CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer. Would I be better off with -O2? Thanks for any information. Regards Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A few minor questions
On Monday 05 January 2004 7:40 am, Chris wrote: 3. For 3 years I have used the same modem (creative modem blaster with hcfpci conexant chipset). I got it working in linux just before I switched to redhat 7.3 in mandrake. But for some reason gentoo keeps forgetting where it puts the drivers at least once a month and I have to reinstall them. What could be causing these things to happen? The only times I've had to do that are when I've changed to a new kernel source, and of course then the modules need to be built in that tree. Could that be what's causing it on your system? Regards Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my disc space
On Monday 27 October 2003 12:12 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote: You can also try the command: df -h to get the size of all mounted filesystems in human readable format. Not easy for me to read. Any other commands to check the hard drive I'm presuming it's also OK to blow away /usr/portage/packages having done a GRP installation a couple of months back. In any case I have the CDs, and I can't see why it should affect the system if I do. Am I right? TIA Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] no virtual terminals other than X
Hi since I recompiled xfree with the flag TDFX_RISKY=yes I've noticed that I can't drop to a virtual terminal using Ctrl-Alt-Fn whatever. If I try, the display blanks briefly, then shows the X display but frozen. Returning to the vt that X is on (which by the way has changed to vt8 for some reason) sets everything in X back in working order. Running kde. /etc/X11/XF86Config has not changed. Logs just confirm X is running on vt8. Google has not been my friend. Any help? Thanks in advance Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFree, dri and tdfx
On Thursday 09 October 2003 6:39 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:02, Ian Truelsen wrote:
I am trying to get xfree and dri to work with the tdfx driver for my
Voodoo3 3000. In the logs I see that it will only work at 1024x768 or
lower resolutions. I seem to remember that there was a work around for
this, but I can't seem to locate it using google. Does anyone know
whether there is sush a beast?
If you examine the ebuild itself, you will see that you need to set a
variable.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] donnie $ grep -A 2 -i risky
/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild
# TDFX_RISKY for feedback (put in -r3 if no problems)
if [ `use 3dfx` -a ${TDFX_RISKY} = yes ]
then
mv -f ${PATCH_DIR}/5850* ${PATCH_DIR}/excluded
Therefore, TDFX_RISKY=yes emerge xfree will solve your problem.
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been trying to get this exact same thing
going for weeks. Yer a diamond geezer guvnor and no mistake, as Hollywood now
apparently believes I should say.
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Re: [gentoo-user] enabling iptables
On Friday 22 August 2003 3:25 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: I'm using iptables and have no problems. I have everything I need compiled into the kernel, though. My config is below (but is from a 2.6 kernel so some options might not be availble). If this doesn't help, can you post the networking section of your /usr/src/linux/.config? However, modprobe ip_tables gives the errors unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt and unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt. This has been brought up many times - though a definate solution has never been found. Search the mailing list and forums for modules unresolved symbol. I'd say to try using the -F option with depmod and if it still doesn't work, try insmod'ing individual seeminly relevant modules from /lib/modules until it does work. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list On Friday 22 August 2003 3:48 am, James A. Cox wrote: I won't claim to be an expert user, but I have iptables working on my server. I don't think the default genkernel confiigures the kernel complile for the iptables modules. If you want to use genkernel, you have to do genkernel --config and then enable the modules manually when you get to the makemenuconfig stage. Incidentally, I use the xfs-sources kernel, but I would assume this is true of the gentoo-sources kernel also. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Jason, James thanks very much indeed for the help. I'll try your suggestions tonight and see how it turns out. Regards Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] enabling iptables
Hi all I keep making a mess of recompiling my kernel to use iptables. Apologies in advance for the basic nature of my ignorance. First installation of gentoo, used cd's 1 2, stage 3 tarball plus the GRP. Gentoo-sources and genkernel to build the initial kernel. Iptables weren't in the kernel. iptables package emerged OK. I've now tried multiple times to enable iptables, using configurations from my debian and mandrake set-ups which work fine on the same box. I cannot get the exact same options - can't find CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED anywhere during make menuconfig on gentoo. That aside, the networking options are identical, the kernel builds fine (make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install) and boots without any obvious problem. However, modprobe ip_tables gives the errors unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt and unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt. I've googled around but found nothing useful, perhaps because several servers time out. 3 questions: 1. Is there some obvious option I need to build in here, perhaps the NF_NAT_NEEDED thing I can't find? 2. Am I missing out some crucial stage in getting the modules inserted? 3. Or what? Many thanks for any assistance. Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
