Re: [gentoo-user] CPU Overload? IN KDE-3.2.0?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Is anybody getting the CPU overload warning strange audio problems > with KDE 3.2.0? Yep. Moi. It's become quite irritating: artsd gets woken up by some minor event (even a beep upon tab-autocompletion in a shell is enough), races up to >95% CPU load and eventually times out after 60 seconds. Or kills itself with the error message you put in the subject line. Or I'm faster and type "killall artsd"... I have no idea why this happens, and would be very grateful for a fix. > mm-sources 2.6.3-rc1 kernel (also with ALSA). My setup exactly. Is this a kernel problem, something to do with my hardware (i810), or aRts? Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy wrote: > e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning > option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) I've got 2.6.0-test9 on a Compaq Deskpro with a 350 MHz Pentium II, and it looks perfectly happy with it. The fact that it freezes everytime I try to recompile glibc is purely because its harddisk is dying... :) > XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems No XFS-related problems on the only desktop I'm using it on. What kind of issues should I be experiencing? The only problems I do have on that machine (2.6.2 mm kernel with udev 015, no devfs) are lacking device nodes for my USB scanner and a parallel printer that has ceased to work, both undoubtedly because I can't get my brain around udev... Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] what is wrong with head and tail?
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' > Try `head --help' for more information. > > and tail seems to do the same thing... > this is very annoying since it breaks a lot of scripts, including > configure scripts to build packages... ...like the Zetagrid client. Glad someone else finds this worth talking about, too. I've been shaking my head in disbelief ever since I first saw the error message. > why is this obsoleted? Because SCO owns a trademark on `-[0-9]`? Some GNU kid on the block wants to try making all traces of Unix heritage disappear from Linux? Sudden attack of braindeadness? Valid question, I'd love to know the answer. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Citrix terminal
FX wrote: > I am just a little curious, what is your Terminal Server ( windows > or Linux) base? Don't know about him, but much to my chagrin (I've got a bucketful of WinCE-based Compaq thin clients in a broom closet) Citrix doesn't have Linux versions of their ICA server products. Only Unix - AIX >= 4.3.3, Solaris and HP/UX - is supported. Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo portage updates
Stephen Turner wrote: > hey currious, how does portage update the apps? does it dl the whole > program source for the new or does it get a update patch and patch it > like suse? and if it doesnt dl the patch why not go that route? just > currious(secretly conspiring to start a flame war) emerge deltup Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Triple boot sys
Chris wrote: > Is there anything you think I should know about puting together a > Triple Boot Sys Using Win XP, Gentoo and FreeBSD befor I get started? You may find the page about my triple-boot Vaio helpful in that respect: http://www2.gol.com/users/plate/pcgr505rgk.html Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird dependencies...
Mike Bellemare wrote: > so the first block is because dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 can > be installed with pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 but MozillaFirebird need > perl-5.8.0-r12 to be installed wich can not because of a dependencie > problem. Unmerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker, and Perl will be happy to upgrade. You'll have to decide whether you want to install MozillaFirebird from the sources or keep MozillaFirebird-bin, since you can't have both in the same system. And xft needs to go, because of interference with XFree's own virtual xft (says the ebuild). Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style
martin wrote: > if there will be a similar behaviour (compiling from the latest > sources) available for debian this would be really really great! *Ahem* Why concoct something with a similar behaviour if you can simply port the real thing? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28559 Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] First Gentoo Install - Z505 Laptop
Nicholas Pappas wrote: > But this has given me a chance to pause and see if anyone has > installed Gentoo on a Sony Z505RX laptop before. H, historical hardware! :) The forums have plenty of these and other Z models on record, the first one dates from May *last* year... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2069 In general, if you get that PCMCIA-CD-drive of yours to spin at all you're ready to go. People have used the time-honoured "ide2=0x180,0x386" boot prompt command to make this work. If that doesn't help, you'll find the alternative installation guide or the floppy boot routine of much value. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690 Don't try the 2.6 kernel (or a pre-emptible 2.4.x) if you want your Rockwell modem to work with the Conexant drivers. Everything else will just fall into place as soon as you get your kernel configuration right. I suggest the e100 module for the built-in NIC (don't know if it's on the LiveCD, you can temporarily use the eepro driver instead). When in doubt, *always* ask at the linux-sony mailing list: http://returntonature.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-sony Linux-on-laptops is a good source for links to additional information, but there are so many broken ones on the Sony page that I've more or less given up on it. http://tuxmobil.org/sony.html looks significantly more up to date to me. Have fun Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Please add your vote to: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26452 I know. There are "me,too" posts all over the place, including the forums, ever since this first happened a few weeks ago. If I was any better at this, I'd submit patches to make it go away... Can I switch off devfs? Please? *grin* Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?
Loic Domaigne wrote: > Ok, I'm a newbie in Gentoo. Right. I don't know how work the > ebuild process, and AFAIK there is no document explaining how it > works in all extend. That's what I'm missing. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534 These three should get you started. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
Jason Stubbs wrote: > The best I've found is grepping /var/log/everything/current for > modprobe. Of course, that only includes info of what modules errors > happened after the kernel logger starts. It's not too informative > either, but maybe a starting point. True. But even though I've added metalog to my boot runlevel, it still doesn't get a chance to record the earlier errors (like st, ide_tape, ide_probe_mod and I don't know what else). My biggest problem is to separate the "real" errors from the ones triggered by that stupid devfs/baselayout/module-init-tools/modules.conf bug that's been loitering on my systems for weeks now. Don't even know if it's a bug or not, but it sure is bugging me... Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice - slower than death
rh wrote: > Unmerged openoffice and emerged openoffice-bin. Same thing. Slow, > slow, slow. Running any distributed computing stuff by any chance? Zetagrid? That's what makes my Openoffice grind almost to a halt. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
Jason Stubbs wrote: > > * The console lost the | character, no matter how hard I hammer on > > that key on my Japanese 106 keyboard. Works fine in X, though. > > Exactly the same deal here. It's frustrating, isn't it? Well, yes it is. And I don't have the foggiest what could be causing this. I'll try to fiddle with keymap settings for the console, but rc.conf already knows about jp106... > I get several errors about modules, including some from cardmgr. > However, as with you, everything is working fine so I haven't taken > the time to find the source yet. Is there a log for all these error messages, by the way? dmesg doesn't record any of this, all I see is output to stout, but it's scrolling past the screen at a tremendous pace, and I don't really feel like booting a few dozen times and trying to take notes. > > * My jogdial (really a wheel in the touchpad) has finally started to > > ackknowledge it's a middle mouse button! I can now paste > > highlighted text by pressing on that wheel - but of course > > sjogdial comes up, too... > > That's a good thing, right? Of course. It's just that in order to keep my sanity I'll have to disable sjogdial now... *grin* Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
Chris I wrote: > > I've seen the same when switching from a 2.4 to 2.5 kernel. I guess > > something in the new mouse input system made things more sensitive. > > I had to turn sensitivity and acceleration all the way down in the > > gnome config. Maybe some playing with xset(1) will help? > > Try using one of those new logitech mice in 800dpi mode. It seems like > a good idea, but i dont even _see_ the mouse as it flies across the > screen ;) I actually like it the way it is now, and the same is true for my PS/2 mouse on the desktop since I converted to 2.6. Much smoother than before, not too fast at all. :) I was merely curious what was causing this. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities
I'm trying to go with the flow and do some 2.6 testing on my Vaio PCG-R505R/GK, and I'm experiencing a number of things I don't know what to make of. In no particular order: * The console lost the | character, no matter how hard I hammer on that key on my Japanese 106 keyboard. Works fine in X, though. * cardmgr moans about being unable to get dependency info for eth1 (my WLAN card) and suggests running depscan.sh, but this apparently doesn't have any influence on the card - it's running perfectly. * The mouse pointer in X all of a sudden whirls around the screen like it's on amphetamines, MUCH faster than before (pretty much the same behaviour as in W2K on the same machine) * My jogdial (really a wheel in the touchpad) has finally started to ackknowledge it's a middle mouse button! I can now paste highlighted text by pressing on that wheel - but of course sjogdial comes up, too... * KWifimanager crashes with SIGFPE (never had a problem with that in 2.4.20) * Plugging in (and mounting) a USB flash memory stick works fine, unplugging it, even after umounting, well: I've attached the dmesg output... Hope I'm not annoying anyone with this not very systematic approach to debugging... :) Any comments warmly welcome. Cheers Ulrich Plate hub 1-0:0: debounce: port 1: delay 100ms stable 4 status 0x101 hub 1-0:0: new USB device on port 1, assigned address 2 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Generic Model: Flash DiskRev: 7.77 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Device class '2:0:0:0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in class_dev_release at drivers/base/class.c:201 Call Trace: [] kobject_cleanup+0x88/0x90 [] class_device_unregister+0x13/0x30 [] scsi_device_unregister+0x1f/0x30 [] scsi_remove_device+0xf/0x20 [] scsi_forget_host+0x28/0x40 [] scsi_remove_host+0x43/0x50 [] storage_disconnect+0x71/0x8b [] usb_unbind_interface+0x76/0x80 [] device_release_driver+0x66/0x70 [] bus_remove_device+0x5e/0xb0 [] device_del+0x5d/0xa0 [] device_unregister+0x13/0x30 [] usb_disconnect+0xd5/0x100 [] hub_port_connect_change+0x33f/0x350 [] hub_port_status+0x3d/0xb0 [] hub_events+0x31c/0x360 [] hub_thread+0x35/0xf0 [] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x30 [] hub_thread+0x0/0xf0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc kobject 'class_obj' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in kobject_cleanup at lib/kobject.c:402 Call Trace: [] kobject_cleanup+0x5f/0x90 [] scsi_device_unregister+0x1f/0x30 [] scsi_remove_device+0xf/0x20 [] scsi_forget_host+0x28/0x40 [] scsi_remove_host+0x43/0x50 [] storage_disconnect+0x71/0x8b [] usb_unbind_interface+0x76/0x80 [] device_release_driver+0x66/0x70 [] bus_remove_device+0x5e/0xb0 [] device_del+0x5d/0xa0 [] device_unregister+0x13/0x30 [] usb_disconnect+0xd5/0x100 [] hub_port_connect_change+0x33f/0x350 [] hub_port_status+0x3d/0xb0 [] hub_events+0x31c/0x360 [] hub_thread+0x35/0xf0 [] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x30 [] hub_thread+0x0/0xf0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc kobject 'sdb1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in kobject_cleanup at lib/kobject.c:402 Call Trace: [] kobject_cleanup+0x5f/0x90 [] delete_partition+0x8c/0xc0 [] del_gendisk+0x39/0xe0 [] sd_remove+0x20/0x60 [] device_release_driver+0x66/0x70 [] bus_remove_device+0x5e/0xb0 [] device_del+0x5d/0xa0 [] device_unregister+0x13/0x30 [] scsi_remove_device+0xf/0x20 [] scsi_forget_host+0x28/0x40 [] scsi_remove_host+0x43/0x50 [] storage_disconnect+0x71/0x8b [] usb_unbind_interface+0x76/0x80 [] device_release_driver+0x66/0x70 [] bus_remove_device+0x5e/0xb0 [] device_del+0x5d/0xa0 [] device_unregister+0x13/0x30 [] usb_disconnect+0xd5/0x100 [] hub_port_connect_change+0x33f/0x350 [] hub_port_status+0x3d/0xb0 [] hub_events+0x31c/0x360 [] hub_thread+0x35/0xf0 [] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x30 [] hub_thread+0x0/0xf0 [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc kobject 'iosched' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in kobject_cleanup at lib/kobject.c:402 Call Trace: [] kobject_cleanup+0x5f/0x90 [] elv_unregister_queue+0x1a/0x40 [] blk_unregister_queue+0x1e/0x50 [] unlink_gendisk+0x21/0x90 [] del_gendisk+0x66/0xe0 [] sd_remove+0x20/0x60 [] dev
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh demon
Alberto Bert wrote: > Hi all, > > my gentoo doesn't allow ssh from outside, does anyone know how to > activate it? cd /etc/init.d ./sshd start To start it automatically at boot time: rc-update add sshd default Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] converting ms outlook to kmail
daniel wrote: > i've got about 120mb of email that i have to convert from microsoft > outlook (not express) in pst format to kmail... any ideas? Two words: imap! :) Did the same thing a few weeks ago, for 600 MB worth of mails, in one smooth go. Copy all your Outlook folders to an imap mail server, and move everything back into kmail afterwards. There are converter routines out there, but to my knowledge they only work for heavily outdated versions of Outlook, if at all. Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Xfree86-DRM
Coming back to a problem you discussed a few days ago, you know, the old: -- !!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 114, Exitcode 0 !!! Please set at least one video card in VIDEO_CARDS. USE is deprecated. -- thing. Here's what I get when I do as suggested by spyderous: -- daimyo root # VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" emerge --update xfree-drm * Building DRM... make -f Makefile.linux DRM_MODULES=radeon.o modules make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm' make -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r1/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` DRMSRCDIR=`pwd` modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1' make -C /var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1/include/linux/modversions.h" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm' gcc -I/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1/include/linux/modversions.h -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=radeon_drv -c -o radeon_drv.o radeon_drv.c In file included from radeon_drv.c:47: drm_drv.h: In function `drm_init': drm_drv.h:622: warning: implicit declaration of function `mtrr_add_Rsmp_56179c5f' drm_drv.h:624: `MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB' undeclared (first use in this function) drm_drv.h:624: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drm_drv.h:624: for each function it appears in.) make[3]: *** [radeon_drv.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm' make[2]: *** [_mod_/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1' make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/work/drm' make: *** [radeon.o] Error 2 gcc -O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -g -ansi -pedantic -DPOSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -I. -I../../.. dristat.c -o dristat nostrip >>> Install xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4 into /var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/image/ >>> category x11-base * installing DRM... install -d -m 0755 /var/tmp/portage/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4/image//lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/char/drm install: cannot stat `radeon.o': No such file or directory make: *** [install] Error 1 !!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-drm-4.3.0-r4 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 143, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) - After this happened I manually emerged xfree-drm-4.3.0-r5 instead, no problem there. For some reason 'emerge world' falls back to -r4 (labeled [ebuild U ] in pretend mode, regardless of -r5 now installed), which I still can't get to compile. Forums and Bugzilla are both down, can't check if that's a known problem or not. Ideas, anyone? Cheers Ulrich Plate .mimetmp Description: PGP signature pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xargs
Kees Bergwerf wrote: > when booting my machine, it shows: > .. > *Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... > XARGS: environment is too large for exec > *Cleaning /tmp directory > .. > > What is going wrong here? That's a bug hanging around since a month or so: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21438 (fix inside) Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge info and make.conf
Martin Larsson wrote: > where are all the USE flags in emerge info coming from? for example > cups >From /etc/make.globals and /etc/make.profile/make.defaults. No need to touch any of those, if you want to get rid of cups, just put "-cups" in /etc/make.conf, that overrides the other two. Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop vendors officially supports linux?
Short addendum to the links in my previous post: http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm Ok, ok, think whatever you want. It's Debian inside after all... :) One fervent Gentooist (goes by the name of oniq in the Gentoo forums) has set up a Linux notebook compatibility website here: http://www.linuxonthego.com Linux on Laptops is back in shape since Kenneth Harker started updating much more frequently than before: http://www.linux-laptop.net And last but not least, TuxMobil (formerly known as Mobilix) has an excellent list of supported laptops across all distributions, a page about Centrinos, and an entire collection of installation reports about Gentoo on mobile computers, right here: http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html http://tuxmobil.org/gentoo_mobile.html Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which laptop vendors officially supports linux?
MIKE MacMartin wrote: > > I was wondering if there was any laptop vendors that officially > > supports > > linux? > > Eurocom. I suppose you're referring to this: http://www.eurocom.com/support/linux/comchart.htm... Err - that's not my idea of official support... All I can see are a few lame installation notes (they even dropped testing with Mandrake, it's now RH 9.0 only) and unsolved problems I suspect would simply go away if they tried hard enough and/or used different components. SuSE has a list of "certified hardware" that includes notebooks from Fujitsu-Siemens, Dell and others, but even those certifications contain a few caveats (mostly unsupported winmodems). Even IBM, no matter how busily deploying Linux on servers, didn't continue their former Linux notebook line. They were putting OpenLinux on ThinkPads at a time, and maybe SCO wouldn't have set their legal chihuahuas on their heels if those A and T models had actually sold well... *grin* So if you can't get official support, all that's left is the assumption that just about every piece of hardware out there should be supported by the right kernel configuration. The only way to be absolutely certain of a given laptop's compatibility with Linux seems to be buying one with Linux preinstalled. Here's a list of vendors shipping those, from the top of my head (or my bookmark file, more precisely): http://xtops.de http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2000.html http://www.aslab.com/products/laptops/laptops.html http://www.emperorlinux.com http://qlilinuxpc.com/products/laptops/index.html http://www.kachinatech,com/US/portare.html And my personal favourite, the yummy Apple PowerBooks with dual-boot Mac OS X and Gentoo preinstalled: http://qlilinuxpc.com/products/apple/index.html Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop + Gentoo
Johnny Andersson wrote: > My theory is that as Gentoo is very customizable, and as you _have_ to > compile your own kernel, the odds that you're gonna get your hardware > working is good. You'll find http://www2.gol.com/users/plate/pcgr505rgk.html in full agreement of that assumption. :) Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Yes, but I don't use webmin. I installed cups and forgot to do the > rest - rc-update ..., /etc/init.d/startdaemon routine! *grin* That one had me scratching my head a few months ago, too. Funny it goes to Australia to look for your localhost, innit. Does anyone know why it picks localhost.au out of all possible domain names? Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] which kernel is that?
Stroller wrote: > This FAQ http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24634 dated November > last year says that "lolo-sources: [is] the testbed for > Gentoo-sources". I would be inclined to the view, as you suggest, that > someone by the name of Pfeifer has taken on the task of developing > them in the last few months. This reminds me that we should perhaps add timestamps to the FAQ documents in the forum. I've edited that document at least 10 times over the past two weeks... Incidentally, the current version looks kinda different to what you quote. :) > The FAQ I gave a link to above appears to be a month or two out of > date, but perhaps this http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=37557 That's the "official" discussion thread for the same document you quote above, any new information (or rants about outdated items) you add there are going to be reflected in the FAQ as soon as humanly possibly. Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Timezone
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > if have tried both setting in /etc/rc.conf but they gives me te same > result. Stabbing in the dark here, but do check if the symlink from /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Brussels to /etc/localtime is still there. Something I did in the past 24 hours got rid of it (I'm suspecting devfsd...), and in my case the clock jumped 9 hours (Japan)... Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] configuration tool like linuxconf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone knows about a net configuration tool like linuxconf on Gentoo? > I explain: i'm a laptop user and when i switch from home to university > i need to change ip address, dns and gateway and i wish to change them > without reboot. emerge -s quickswitch * app-admin/quickswitch Latest version available: 1.0_pre1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 19 kB Homepage:http://edgesolutions.ca/ Description: Utility to switch network profiles on the fly Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xine-lib compile problems
Olson, Isaac wrote: > I'm having some issues trying to get xine-lib compiledit was > working, then i tried to upgrade to the latest beta of xine-lib...that > gave me this same error(listed below). Back to 0.9-13-r2 and still > getting this error. Everything xine'ish was removed...yet i still get > this error...my flags are default except changed to -march=pentium4 if > that could be a issue, but shouldn't since that was what i used when it > worked. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16841 might help. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NetHack?
MIKE MacMartin wrote: > On March 5, 2003 09:46 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote: > > I've attempted multiple times to get nethack-3.4.1 to build - it always > > fails. According to emerge -vp nethack, the only USE flags it uses are +X > > +qt +gtk. > > err +gnome... sorry. > > > Anyone have a fix? Sad story. Read it here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16402 and here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16472 and here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=38422 Qt and tty versions work with the ebuild at Bug 16472, Gnome is currently dead. Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux as a print server for macs
Netatalk works perfectly fine, I'm running it to print from my Mac OS 9.1 beige desktop G3 since many moons, without so much as a hickup. Netatalk documentation is the worst you'll ever find for any Linux application, but let the thought that it will eventually work well serve as a reassuring hug before you attack the installation. ;) There's a mailing list for Netatalk development that has many useful hints, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netatalk-devel has a complete archive of the past two years or so. Two things before you start: You have to enable Appletalk support in your kernel, and you need to convert the PPD driver files for your CUPS printer on the Linux host into a Mac-readable format (basically, replace the EOLs with CR/LF) and install them as Postscript drivers on the Mac. If you need help with the config files, PM me. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] installing linux on sony vaio pcg-r505
Lars Geiger wrote: > On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 07:31:21 [GMT -0600], nandrats wrote: > > > I just bought the vaio pcg-r505 and tried to install linux. > > Unfortunately, the kernel doesn't not recognize the i.LINK CDROM > > drive in the docking station. Has anyone an idea of how to install > > it anyway or to make the CDROM drive available for linux. > > For my old notebook, I was forced to use Knoppix as a boot CD for my > Gentoo installation. Knoppix has an excellent hardware detection, you > could try to use it as a basis for your installation (but of course, > YMMV). Forget it. Knoppix has no better chance to run on that IEEE1394 CD drive than any other Linux boot CD. You'll end up with a floppy based install, and Slackware 8.1 seems to be the flavour of the month. Check this thread in the forums for details: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27951 (and make sure you read to the end of it, there's a reason why we don't use tomsrtbt anymore). I haven't finished my own installation guide for the R505 yet, sorry, but I can send you my kernel .config and XF86Config files if you want. Meanwhile, here are the existing howtos for your model (or at least very similar models): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/samr7/upl/ http://www.james.rcpt.to/2001/vaio505ct.html http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~ames/r505gl/ http://www.geocities.com/torus2000/linux_on_PCG-R505GL.html http://returntonature.com/linux/phpwiki/index.php/PCG-R505TS And this is the mother of all Linux-Sony resources: http://returntonature.com/pipermail/linux-sony, the mailing list archive for Vaio owners with a predilection for open source operating systems... > > The next problem is that Windows XP doesn't let me install Partition > > Magic 5. Has anyone experienced a similar problem. Is XP not > > linux-friendly? > > Your XP is merely protecting itself. :-) Partition Magic 5 might > really screw up your system. Try using the current version 8, it works > perfectly on XP (IIRC, version 7 and everything before will *not* > work). PM v7 was the first version that could safely modify NTFS partitions, so it's safe to use that (well, I did...), but if you have to upgrade from your version 5 anyway, you might as well go for 8. Good luck Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01983/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] wdm as login manager
Collins wrote: > OK, I tried it, and it does indeed "just work," except that I had to > tinker with the ebuild. The line truetype? (x11-libs/xft) would not > compute, so I cahnged it to truetype ? =x11-libs/xft-2.0.1 just to get > the ebuild to complete. > > Now most everything is goodness. > > Thanks again. Don't mention it. :) The typo in the ebuild is mentioned in the bug, too (the solution is different, adding spaces between the brackets and x11-libs/xft seems to work, too). I guess the author hasn't come around to changing it, but the final version in portage will probably take care of this. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01814/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin
Ulrich Plate wrote: > jim wrote: > > > Is there a way I can purchase Win4Lin that will benefit Gentoo? > > > > The URL www.netravers.com/gentoo.htm no longer works. > > Well, if you had spelt it right, it would: > http://www.netravese.com/gentoo.htm > > Cheers > Ulrich Plate NEVER type in a hurry... :) http://www.netraverse.com/gentoo.htm Phew. Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01812/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin
jim wrote: > Is there a way I can purchase Win4Lin that will benefit Gentoo? > > The URL www.netravers.com/gentoo.htm no longer works. Well, if you had spelt it right, it would: http://www.netravese.com/gentoo.htm Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01811/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] wdm as login manager
Collins wrote: > A user on another group suggested wdm as a better version of xdm. It > has session choices and reboot/shutdown built into the gui login menu. And it includes PAM, for example, meaning you can authorize access with a smartcard if you feel so inclined. :) I can't help all that much with your problem, but I wanted to point out that there's an ebuild now that apparently "just works", too. It's been admitted to Portage, but as long as that's frozen it's not being handed down, so you'd have to get it from bugs.gentoo.org, right here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15660 Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01803/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Forum Administrator - who is it???
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Anyone know what the email address is of the forum administrator? The bottom line on each forum page shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka Kyle Manna. Actually, there are three admins, nitro, klieber and rac, all @gentoo.org. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01795/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 1.2 -> 1.4 upgrade guide?
gabriel wrote: > can someone out there give me an upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4 how-to link? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/upgrade-to-gentoo-1.4.xml Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg01595/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] K3b
Ernie Schroder wrote: > Does anyone have experience with k3b? Well, unfortunately, my k3b has ceased functioning since I upgraded to KDE 3.1. I used to have fully operational CD burning capabilities, but those have vanished, and my error description now sounds exactly like yours. I'd be glad if someone could think of a solution to this. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg00392/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Icons
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I saw the icons in the newsletter. Is there a site that I can > download a file with them in it? I did not see a link in the forum > pages I checked. There's no link because there's no such site yet. The first post in the forum thread is being constantly updated and supposed to contain all available icons, but you'll have to save the images individually. Cheers Ulrich Plate -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key CF7D6206 Fingerprint CDD6 3225 3489 1305 D4D6 1CCF 50E8 6505 CF7D 6206 msg00297/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
