Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm question
Khan wrote: bash-2.05b# hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 3100 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1550.24 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.28 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device bash-2.05b# I think that here is something wrong. What Can I do to Fix it. Upgrade to a newer kernel where those commands are permitted. You are looking for 2.6.12-rc2 or newer. It's nothing to worry about for now though. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm question
Henrik Andersson wrote: does that mean that kernel =2.6.12-rc2 will have better support for SATA? I guess that Khan had a sata-drive. As always, SATA support improves with every kernel release. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army
Cumbers wrote: My question is how do I let someone within gentoo know that this is the case, and get them to upgrade the portage to reflect this change of versions? http://bugs.gentoo.org Be sure to check that the new version isn't already available in the testing tree first. If it is, you should file a bug anyway, to get it moved into the stable tree. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] help! xorg doesn't recognise my pci-express card!
So i finally went out and got a shiny new computer: AMD64 3500+ MSI K8N Neo4 ATI Radeon X800XL (PCIe) ...and while Gentoo installed just fine, X won't start. It keeps failing with: (EE) No devices detected I've tried using the Xorg radeon drivers as well as installing ati-drivers and using fglrx with no joy. I *think* it might have something to do with the output of `cat /proc/pci`: --- Bus 5, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1002:554d (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 0). IRQ 7. Prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xb000 [0xbfff]. Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xfe20 [0xfe20]. I/O at 0x9e00 [0x9eff]. Bus 5, device 0, function 1: Display controller: PCI device 1002:556d (ATI Technologies Inc) (rev 0). Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xfe21 [0xfe21]. I noticed that it doesn't really give the name of the card, so maybe it doesn't know how to use it? There's no option in the kernel config to enable PCI-Express in this case -- not sure why, since there is on my other athlon-tbird machine. Is this because I'm using an athlon64? Help me please. There's nothing quite like bringing home a new shiny toy like this and only being able to use windows with it :-( -- it is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. - leo mckern -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 6629 fail on 2.6.11.5
Stuart Howard wrote: thx for reply I found a few bugs but this one seems to match http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85802 I dont see a workaround at the moment so am falling back to 2.6.10 for a quiet life ;) There is a workaround: Don't use the inbuilt kernel AGPGART. (the nvidia driver will install its own NvAGP driver instead) Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-dev-sources being moved into gentoo-sources has occurred
William Kenworthy wrote: Just did an emerge sync and see the long awaited change of gentoo-dev-sources being moved into gentoo-sources has occurred. However, kernel.org shows 2.6.12-rc1 is out and no ~x86 version of this is evident. Does the next gentoo-sources kernel get worked on in another category (as used to happen in the distant past), or is gentoo-sources where its at? We do not produce -rc releases for gentoo-sources - we only provide patches on top of the stable kernel. If you want a (clean) -rc kernel then you want to look at vanilla-sources. Note that this is no different from how gentoo-dev-sources did it. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
Thanks everyone for all their suggestions so far. I've already purchased an ATI X800XL PCIe card, and I'm trying to decide between these 3 motherboards (unless you have a better suggestion): DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471CATEGORY_TYPE=LPSITE=US ASUS A8V-E Deluxe http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-e-d/overview.htm MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=637 I'm weary of all the mentions of NForce this and NVRaid that -- how well supported is any of this in Linux? Am I going to have to be constantly installing binary drivers just to keep my system stable? Ideally, I don't want to have to use any binary drivers for anything. Last round of suggestions please. Thanks for your help. -- lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the stars; yes, rise as high as the very stars themselves. let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is your brother; he is not your lord. - marcus garvey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
On March 29, 2005 11:03 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: I would recommend buying the best card you can find which uses a Radeon 9200 or Radeon 9250 chip. You should *not* get the SE or LE versions if you can afford it, since those are stripped-down versions of the 9200 and 9250 chips with half the data bandwidth (64-bit vs. 128-bit) and a slower-clocked GPU (200 vs 250 MHz) and/or less video RAM (64 vs. 128 vs. 256 MB). My Radeon 9200 seems to run Composite just fine, for what it's worth. is this to say that chipsets after 9250 will *never* be supported by Free drivers? or that they just aren't supported right now? -- Jubel Early: You're all insane. Simon: My sister's a ship. We had a fairly complicated childhood. - Jubel Early and Simon, Firefly, Objects in Space -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
On March 29, 2005 11:03 pm, Peter Gordon wrote: I would recommend buying the best card you can find which uses a Radeon 9200 or Radeon 9250 chip. You should *not* get the SE or LE versions if you can afford it, since those are stripped-down versions of the 9200 and 9250 chips with half the data bandwidth (64-bit vs. 128-bit) and a slower-clocked GPU (200 vs 250 MHz) and/or less video RAM (64 vs. 128 vs. 256 MB). My Radeon 9200 seems to run Composite just fine, for what it's worth. Just one additional question regarding video cards. I've had a chat with some of the hardware guys at my job and they've reccomended the ATI X800XL or the ATI X800Pro. Does this play nice with Linux? Also, what about PCI-Express? I understand that it's included in 2.6.11, but how stable is that? I want a good video card so I can continue to play good 3d games on my windows partition. -- the more law and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. - lao-tsu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] suggestions: buying a new computer
I buy a new computer every 5 years or so. My current machine is an Athlon800 and it continues to perform well because I was careful about my purchasing back in 2000 and I'd like to repeat that this time around. To that end, I'm looking for suggestions from the lot of you with regard to what kind of hardware I can/should get for my new shiny desktop machine. requirements are: Linux friendly and stable (duh) Slick graphics for WindowsXP games (doom3 is my benchmark right now) TV-in No monitor/dvd/cd/sound since i have that already $2000CDN What i do with it most: Compile stuff (i heart Gentoo) Rip/encode DVD/CDs Write code surf (KDE) Play games I don't like to have to upgrade outside of adding another stick of ram, so the CPU that comes with it is likely to be the CPU that stays with it forever. same goes for the video card. I'd like OpenGL to work, so when Xorg stabilises their transparency code, I'd like to be able to use that without having to worry about support for my card. Your suggestions or opinions are very welcome. Please and thank you. -- love makes you do the wacky - willow, buffy the vampire slayer, some assembly required -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive
On 2005-03-27 16:20:35 -0500, David Corbin wrote: libtool: link:`/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/gcc-lib] gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 * [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednossp Did you change your CHOST? fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 --oldarch i386-pc-linux-gnu -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] reading dvd info
i use mplayer to watch dvds on my machine, but am always running into the problem that the tracks are different from disc to disc. most movies are found at dvd://1, but most tv shows anime can be dvd://6, dvd://13 etc and i've found no way to figure out the setup other than trial and error. is there a better way? ideally, i'd like something like a small commandline tool that'll tell me what's on the dvd: tracks, length, languages available etc. what software is available for me to do this? -- the great only appear great because we are on our knees - james connolly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] minor annoyance with separate kde builds
On March 22, 2005 01:30 pm, Benno Schulenberg wrote: daniel wrote: what's the name of the portion of kcontrol that lets me set the keyboard repeat rate and the numlock? emerge kxkb; then restart KDE. you rock. thank you so much. it might be worth noting though that the description of that package should probably be better :-) -- i know not with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - albert einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Local mail
What is the minimum configuration necessary to receive local mail? I have a small home network. I have a server running qmail which handles all my email. I use Kmail as my email client, connecting to qmail via POP3 and SMTP. The problem is that I do not receive output from local cron jobs. I've emerged procmail and mailutils but if those are sufficient to do the job, they apparently require other than the default configuration. Trying to send an email to a local user via mail -t errors out because sendmail is not installed. Everything I can find on the web talks about configuring an MTA. Is it necessary to install a full fledged MTA (sendmail, qmail, exim, etc) in order to handle local mail delivery? All I'm trying to do is handle local (this box only) mail messages. Anything sent to other than a local account will go through the SMTP server. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail
On Saturday 26 March 2005 01:42 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Daniel D Jones wrote: What is the minimum configuration necessary to receive local mail? I have a small home network. I have a server running qmail which handles all my email. I use Kmail as my email client, connecting to qmail via POP3 and SMTP. The problem is that I do not receive output from local cron jobs. All you need is ssmtp and mailx. Edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and /etc/ssmtp/revaliases. Isn't mailx simply a MUA? Unless I'm missing something, ssmtp is used to send messages off system to another mail server. I don't want local messages sent off system. Among other things, doesn't that mean that the mail has to be sent to a full fledged email address? I simply want to be able to send a message to mylogin (where mylogin is any local user login) and have it dropped into the local mail spool. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail
On Saturday 26 March 2005 05:09 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Daniel D Jones wrote: Edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and /etc/ssmtp/revaliases. Isn't mailx simply a MUA? Yeah but some scripts need it to send out email. I wasn't aware of that. That seems a broken way to do things. Unless I'm missing something, ssmtp is used to send messages off system to another mail server. I don't want local messages sent off system. Among other things, doesn't that mean that the mail has to be sent to a full fledged email address? You can specify that emails are simply forwarded to your mailhub if you want. By mailhub, are you talking about the machine running my mail server? I simply want to be able to send a message to mylogin (where mylogin is any local user login) and have it dropped into the local mail spool. So you have qmail running on the same box??? No. qmail is running on another box. However, what I'm trying to do doesn't (or shouldn't) need qmail. For example, consider a company mainframe running *nix with no external connection. Local users, accessing the mainframe from terminals, should be able to send messages to one another. Messages should just be dropped into /var/spool/mail/username (or ~/.maildir, if so configured.) This was the way *nix was originally set up, so it shouldn't be difficult to do. I surely don't need the full power of sendmail or any other MTA to handle that, not do I need the messages shipped off this box to another box for distribution. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Probmlem with dev-perl/perl-tk
On 2005-03-07 15:05:38 +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: i want to use a tool called glade2perl a glade = perl converter. It aborts with: Can't locate Gtk2/Window.pm. qpkg -l dev-perl/perl-tk shows that only the documentation file, /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i586-linux/Gtk2/Window.pod is installed, but not source (.pm). Gtk2::Window comes from the dev-perl/gtk2-perl package, not dev-perl/perl-tk. qpkg may be exhibiting a bug in saying that Window.pod is part of the perl-tk package. Also, if you've recently upgraded perl (e.g. from 5.8.4 to 5.8.5), you may need to run /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-cleaner. If you're not sure, send the output of the following commands: perl -V equery files dev-perl/gtk2-perl -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] spontaneous reboot?
i was working on a couple other machines just now when my main fileserver just spontaneously reboot itself. i wasn't doing anything to it, it wasn't even activated via the kvm. i just heard a beep, switched to it and *poof* it had rebooted itself. the only thing it was doing at the time was serving a lot of files over nfs to my desktop machine to satisfy amarok, though i don't see how that could be the culprit. i'm afraid it's been hacked, but i see no immediate evidence and rkhunter is telling me everything is ok. help? suggestions? -- o great spirit, who made all races, look kindly upon the whole human family and take away the arrogance and hatred which separates us from our brothers. - cherokee prayer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spontaneous reboot?
On March 7, 2005 11:53 pm, pepone pepone wrote: the beeb can be a heat alarm, same bios are cofigure to reboot system when temperature is dangerous for the hardware good thought, but i'm sure that wasn't it. the beep happened, i switched to the screen and there was grub waiting for for a few seconds before it completed booting. -- the road to hell is paved with good intentions - unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 Forwarding over SSH
On 2005-03-05 17:12:34 -0800, James Colannino wrote: I enabled X11Forward in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the machine I'm connecting to, and I'm using the command ssh -X -C hostname on the computer I'm using to connect to it. I can get in, and I can run simple X apps and have them forwarded just fine (for example, xclock, kcalc, etc.), but a lot of applications fail due to a BadWindow error. ssh -Y -C hostname Using -Y instead of -X tells ssh to use trusted X11 forwarding. In my experience it's almost always necessary, though I don't know whose fault it is. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_jk ebuild?
On 2005-03-03 12:53:36 -0500, Covington, Chris wrote: Is there an ebuild for mod_jk now that mod_jk2 is unsupported? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19094 I've successfully used the 1.2.6 ebuild, but haven't tried 1.2.8 yet. Add it to your overlay and give it a try. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out
Richard Brown wrote: nvidia-kernel won't work with a vanilla 2.6.11, you'll have to wait for an ebuild for ck or gentoo-dev-sources I don't think you are right here. gentoo-dev-sources is not patched with anything that would aid nvidia compatibility. I think you might be right in saying that nvidia's own driver release doesn't compile against 2.6.11 (yet). But in portage, we patch nvidia's driver (nvidia-kernel) with fixes for this. Using the latest testing version of nvidia-kernel should be fine. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting my iPod makes the system freeze
Keith Gable wrote: Gamin, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 Disabling inotify in the kernel, disabling inotify in the gamin config, or reverting back to fam should solve your issue. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting my iPod makes the system freeze
Keith Gable wrote: I have a rather odd problem, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to fix it. Every time I unmount my iPod logged on to GNOME as keith, my system freezes. I can unmount as any user, and as long as keith is logged on to GNOME, it'll freeze. Nothing out of the ordinary is running. And it all works fine any other way. Logged into KDE as keith and umounting as root = OK. Logged out of GNOME but logged into a terminal as keith and umounting as the same user = OK. Which one do you have installed, gamin or fam? Which kernel are you using? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] search emerge
Long time Linux user but new to gentoo and trying to get a good handle on emerge. I recently used emerge to install traceroute. During the install, it noted that it was installing net-analyzer/traceroute. I wanted to see what other packages were available under net-analyzer but doing an emerge --search on net-analyzer came up with nothing. So I tried emerge --searchdesc. That brought me to my first question: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time emerge --searchdesc analyzer Searching... -/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 21: ... real22m48.548s user18m54.880s sys 3m29.307s Hello? Almost 23 minutes to search for a simple word? This is an Athlon 2400+ with a gig of memory. I have a 20 gig hard drive and less than 6 gig is currently being used. It's not exactly state of the art but it's hardly what I'd call slow. In 23 minutes, it should be able to search the entire contents of the Library of Congress. (OK, slight exaggeration but still...) Is this normal or is there something wrong with my install? Second, is this the only way to see all of the packages in a specific folder? (And is folder the correct term to use here?) Is there a tool or utility which will show all packages, perhaps in a tree format? If this is documented somewhere, a pointer to the documentation would be complete. Neither man, Google nor the online Gentoo documentation have been helpful to this point. Which isn't to say the information isn't there, of course, but I haven't been able to find it. Thanks in advance for any assistance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems with gstreamer amarok
first of all, i HEART amarok. very featurefull, very useable and just plain pretty. but while it works just fine @home, my box here @work is not playing nice with the gstreamer engine. the xine engine works, but what i want is gstreamer (crossfade doesn't seem to work with xine). anyway, it seems that gstreamer can't understand what to do with /dev/sound/dsp. i'm using alsa, and since i can use the xine engine, i have to assume it's not my kernel config or permissions. i have to be missing something in gstreamer. here's what's in my world file: $ grep gst /var/lib/portage/world media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa media-libs/gstreamer media-libs/gst-plugins media-plugins/gst-plugins-lame and here's amarok's debug output. any suggestions? amarok: [virtual void BrowserBar::polish()] amarok: [controller] Loading URL: file:/mnt/share/copyleft/media/audio/mp3/t/tori%20amos/little%20earthquakes/tori%20amos. %20%20little%20earthquakes%20%20(04)%20%20precious%20things.mp3 amarok: BEGIN: virtual bool GstEngine::load(const KURL, bool) amarok: [Gst-Engine] Loading url: file:/mnt/share/copyleft/media/audio/mp3/t/tori%20amos/little%20earthquakes/tori%20amos. %20%20little%20earthquakes%20%20(04)%20%20precious%20things.mp3 amarok: BEGIN: bool GstEngine::createPipeline() amarok: [Gst-Engine] Thread scheduling priority: 2 amarok: [Gst-Engine] Sound output method: alsasink amarok: [Gst-Engine] CustomSoundDevice: false amarok: [Gst-Engine] Sound Device: /dev/sound/dsp amarok: [Gst-Engine] CustomOutputParams: false amarok: [Gst-Engine] Output Params: amarok: [void gst_equalizer_init(GstEqualizer*)] amarok: [GstPadLinkReturn gst_equalizer_link(GstPad*, const GstCaps*)] amarok: [Gst-Engine] [ERROR!] Could not set outputThread to state PLAYING! amarok: BEGIN: void GstEngine::destroyPipeline() amarok: END__: void GstEngine::destroyPipeline() - Took 0s amarok: END__: bool GstEngine::createPipeline() - Took 0.11s amarok: END__: virtual bool GstEngine::load(const KURL, bool) - Took 0.11s -- When you can't run no more you crawl. When you can't do that, you find someone to carry you. - Mal, Firefly, The Message -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] evolutions issues
On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:46 pm, Nick Smith wrote: for some reason my evolution is acting up, i have changed nothing with the system at all, when i go to access the gentoo folder i have set up for this list, the folder lists shows i have unread messages, when i click on the folder its empty, nothing shows, but i can access it from my webmail just fine, all message show up there. also i catigorize this list by months and have seperate folders for each month, for this month its only showing 20 messages and january is only showing 2 messages, i know there are several hundered if not thousands of messages in those folders. why would this be happening and what do you think i can do to fix it? i could try re-emerging evolution but was hoping there would be an easier fix. thanks for your input At the top of the screen, it should tell you the number of new messages, the number of visible messages and the total number of messages. If your total number of messages is correct, you can see all of the messages by selecting View - Show Hidden Messages. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't update kde because it needs a file that has been updated
On Saturday 19 February 2005 12:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No s uch file or directory ... I have the missing file, but it is in my 3.3.5 and 3.4.2 dirs. How do i convince my gentoo to look for the file in the right location? Other programs merge without problems so far. fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 MIght need to run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.2 too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial
On 2005-02-18 13:04:53 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: CVS doesn't handle directories very well. Specifically, when you move stuff around you might find yourself having to manually remove old directories. [16:16:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat ~/.cvsrc cvs -q checkout -P update -d -P diff -u -d -p You don't need to manually remove old directories (i.e. those that are empty as a result of you moving files around) if you use the -P option. This is one reason why a lot of people use Subversion instead. Indeed. The handling of directory renaming in CVS is, well, nonexistent. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin 3 does no bayes filtering?
On 2005-02-17 15:21:55 +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: just finished upgrading my spamassassin installation to version 3.0.2 and it seems to work fine, but with one exception: I think it does not use any bayes filtering. IIRC there was some info on bayes filters in every spam mail with spamassassin-2.x, but I can't see them any more in my mails. SpamAssassin still includes Bayesian filtering in 3.0.x, but you may need to follow the upgrade instructions to get back the functionality: http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/UPGRADE Specifically, see the section which starts The Bayesian storage modules have been completely re-written. Hope this helps, -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] alternatives to PermitRootLogin yes
i've disabled PermitRootLogin in sshd_config and now i find that i miss it a great deal when it comes to server administration. i need to copy some files from a directory on the master machine to a directory owned by root on a series of cluster machines. normally, i'd just do this: $ scp file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/root-owned/folder/ but obviously, that fails now. outside of re-enabling PermitRootLogin (not really an option) is there another option for me? suggestions? comments? -- my friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea - tommy Douglas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!
William Kenworthy wrote: In this case, the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong! When I sleep the laptop, on wakeup, the OS is varying times ahead of the (correct) hwclock - ntp soon corrects it and its back in sync again. Is this with 2.6.10? If so, try upgrading to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r7. A fix is included. I know that while this helps some people, it doesn't fix all of the clock racing during sleep problems. They are definately all fixed in 2.6.11-rc3 though. So you might also wish to try that. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unlink in order to upgrade to 2005.0 profile?
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd ask. I want to upgrade to the last possible profile, 2005.0, but not sure how I proceed. Do I have to unlink the 2004.0 profile before I link it to a new 2005.0? Would any one tell me a code how to do it? Or, I follow the same procedure as before without unlinking it first? Thanks. I wouldn't do that just yet. The 2005.0 profiles are still under development. If you were to try this, you'd get some big fat warnings asking you to change. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0
Nicolas Bailey wrote: Are there any documents that cover this migration currently? Are they planned to be released with 2005.0? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MegaRAID
Hello, I have been trying rather unsucessfully to find monitoring tools for the MegaRAID-based RAID cards that will run on Gentoo. Does anyone out there have one of these cards? If so, what are you using to monitor the status of the array. I just want some basic information out of it: Whether or not the drives are on line, rebuilding, failed, etc. Any help is appriciated. Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MegaRAID
Where can I grab a copy of MegaMonitor? The problem is this isn'd a Dell server, this is a Silicon Mechanics server with a MegaRAID card in it. I'm running 2.6 with the new drivers (megaraid_mm and megaraid_mbox) Regards, Daniel On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:24:46 -0800, Matthew Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:07 AM 1/27/2005, Daniel Corbe wrote: Hello, I have been trying rather unsucessfully to find monitoring tools for the MegaRAID-based RAID cards that will run on Gentoo. Does anyone out there have one of these cards? If so, what are you using to monitor the status of the array. The answer here can get complicated If you are running a new style megaraid card on a 2.6 kernel, use MegaMonitor. If you are running on any megaraid on a 2.4 kernel w/ the old megaraid driver, array status is in /proc/megaraid or /proc/scsi. If you are running on any megaraid on a newer 2.4 kernel w/ the new megaraid driver, I'm not sure what you use...probably the array mgr sw. If you are running an old style megaraid on the the 2.6 kernel using old driver, I'm also not sure what you use - hopefully stuff shows up in /proc/megaraid. The MegaMonitor and array manager software can be downloaded from the dell website. Note that if you have a new style megaraid card w/ a new style management card in a recent dell server, the mgmt card will also send out emails whenever a drive fails and the front server lcd should turn orange and display an alert message stating which drive has failed. The lights on the impacted drive should also turn red. Regards, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0
Nick Smith wrote: since devfs is being depreciated, will 2005.0 ship with udev by default? Yes, for supported archs or will we always have to change to that separately? im kinda nervous to try migrating to it, but if its installed by default it would be easier for me to try. You can either follow the migration documents that we will supply, or you can start from a fresh install. I expect the majority will just migrate. Gentoo isnt the sort of thing you need to reinstall to fix things. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CDrecord on kernels 2.6.8
Kurt Guenther wrote: seeker ~ # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J\urg Schilling cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r13 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes. cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs. cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account. cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. You have new mail in /root/ Despite the warnings given by cdrecord when you do this, the best way is to use dev=/dev/cdrom. By best, I mean the way that I prefer, plus the way that seems to cause the least problems when burning as user over IDE directly. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-x11
gentoo-stage root # emerge xorg-x11 Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 3) x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 to / md5 src_uri ;-) ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking ttmkfdir-3.0.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2/work * Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-cpp.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-zlib.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-gcc34.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-encoding.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying ttmkfdir-3.0.9-freetype_new_includes.patch ... [ ok ] Source unpacked. libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -falign-functions=4 -o ttmkfdir.o -c ttmkfdir.cpp libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -falign-functions=4 -o directory.o -c directory.cpp libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' make: *** [ttmkfdir.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' make: *** [directory.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 44, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it advised to wait for 2005.0 for a first installation?
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I've been following this list for a while and been downloading some documentation trying to prepare myself for my very first Gentoo installation. From what I have understood by reading the couple of last gwn:s from last year the 2005.0 release will mean some changes to basic things like the default kernel being 2.6. I've also seen on this list that upgrades of glibc and, in some cases, kernel 2.6 have caused problems. So, now I'm wondering whether it is adviceable to wait for the 2005.0 release with all its updates or whether I can just as well go along with 2004.3 and get the updates through Portage? You can go ahead if you like, or if you don't mind waiting, you will save yourself some work when 2005.0 comes around as you won't have to migrate. Infact you could do an installation now on 2.6/udev and save yourself most of the later hassle, except our docs aren't too good on this style of installation. When 2005.0 comes around we will have full migration documents and the default installation will make installing 2.6/udev painless. In December 2004 I picked up (from the Gentoo-web) that 2005.0 might be released in January 2005. Is there any more resent word on when 2005.0 will be available? If all goes to plan it will be released sometime in the first half of February. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OTSVGALIB_HELPER fixup...
Jerry McBride wrote: After much hair pulling, I remember something I read along time ago... remember the sources... A few moments into the svgalib archive I now have this script that creates the /dev/svga* devices. Alternatively, just emerge sync and update to the latest svgalib revision (1.9.19-r3). This works with both udev and devfs. Shoot me if it doesn't :) Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OTSVGALIB_HELPER fixup...
Jerry McBride wrote: I won't shoot you, but the difference may be that I don't use devfs or udev on any of my gentoo projects. Gentoo defaults to devfs and provides udev as an option. So for 99.9% of users this is automatically done. I guess there are still some who live with a static /dev though... That aside, there's virually no documentaion, anywhere, that tells you how to make the needed devices. Quite odd too. Probably because they expect you to be running a /dev manager, and realistically most people are. If you aren't, then its perfectly expected that you need to make the device nodes for non-standard kernel modules the first time you use them. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.
Peter wrote: Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... It just seems to me that the original post was a stab at gentoo kernel development rather than any hope of starting any constructive discussion... But may be there is a possibility to create ebuild, which will download the patch from http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ , and then patch the kernel? I think this ebuild can be GPL'ed, but then user can decide does he want this bad kernel headers and other code be changed or not. Because the patch isn't GPL it means we can't include it in our tree without changing the licensing of our kernel (I don't think this would go down well). It's licensing is ok on its own, but what you suggest in an ebuild isn't practical, and would create lots of issues due to variation between kernel versions. If the author could recode it as a kernel module then that would be a start. Also, this does not address points 2 and 3 in my last post, which still prevent us from including this. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.
Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? Yes, or their ISP forces them to use it.. So if the OP had such a router (or, alternatively, if and when I get my bf to switch to Linux, making this a one-OS household), such a kernel patch would no longer be necessary, would it (because the router understands VPN perfectly well, so as long as I give it the correct configuration details, it would work fine)? I think that is correct. But I'm probably not the person to ask, I don't really know much about this functionality. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MegaRAID
Hello, I'm currently using the new drivers for RAID cards based around the LSI MegaRAID chip set. I was wondering if there are any monitoring tools available for these drivers/family of cards that will run on linux. Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.
never ? Peter wrote: Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll never understand my problems... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76016 We have issues with the current patch for this, namely: 1. It is not GPL 2. It takes GPL headers out of kernel source files and rewrites them as a different license (this is probably illegal alone without the original authors permission) 3. It has patent issues 4. Partly due to the above issues, it shows no sign of moving into Linus's tree (this is something we require for kernel patches) 1 and 2 can be fixed by the code developer. 3 can be solved, the patent might be proved invalid, dropped, opened up, or Gentoo Linux users might recieve a usage license in the future. 4 would come naturally, I guess. So, you are correct in saying that Gentoo can't include this right now on our supported kernels. But it is not to say that it never will be supported. Also, we provide installation media where networking is not required during installation. After that, as always, you are free to patch your kernels with whatever you feel like, as always. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring Recommendation.
On January 19, 2005 03:56 pm, Mal Herring wrote: Morning/Afternoon/Evening List ! I was hoping for some advice, I need to monitor a Windows Web Server - Up/Down and speed if possible... then if a problem is detected fire a email/sms off to a device Anyone use anything they can recommend ? i've use nagios, and while it's pretty convoluted to setup, it's done this way because it's very powerful. it supports custom plugins, so what you monitor and what to do based on events is limited only by your own scripting skills. -- i know not with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - albert einstein -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring Recommendation.
On January 19, 2005 04:06 pm, Mal Herring wrote: i've use nagios, and while it's pretty convoluted to setup, it's done this way because it's very powerful. it supports custom plugins, so what you monitor and what to do based on events is limited only by your own scripting skills. -- Scripting Skills - where can I buy those then... ;) I am not that great yet @ scripting - are there plenty of examples out there or should I give it a miss if it's going to rely on my so called scripting skills ? o it comes with a slew of standard plugins (check_httpd, check_mysql, check_ssh etc) but i just like it 'cause it's not limited by what it provides you. just remember to read the doc. it's not as easy as emerge and run 'cause it has to be configured. -- i hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - thomas Jefferson, 1816 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rewriting kde menus (WAS: where to look for rss-glx screen savers)
On January 19, 2005 05:23 pm, Nick Smith wrote: thats probably my problem, im not a kde user either, im just messing with it to see what all it has to offer, i normally use flux, but im getting kinda fed up with having to make all my menus, when i install something i want it to show, i dont want to manually have to add it. and when you emerge in bulk like i do its a pain to try and remember what you were working on when you have all kinds of other stuff going on. and yes i know about flux-generate-menu but that rarely picks up anything, and im not emailing the guy to have him add it. and the other option is mmaker and that adds all kinds of crap to the menu, so its a lose lose situation. but anyway enough ranting, thanks for the input, i looked in that dir, and there is nothing fancy in there just ordinary screen savers as far as i could tell, and i dont have that shperemonics you mentioned either. oh well, ill keep tring. you should take a look at the menu updating tool. it's under the k-menu: k settings menu updating tool just click scan and click on the stuff you want in your menu. -- your old road is rapidly aging please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand for the times they are a changing - bob dylan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcdroast problems with kernel 2.6.10
Tamas Sarga wrote: My only workaround is k3b. Just a note, when it comes for first time, it wants to change permissions on cdrecord, it isn't a good idea. Newer versions of k3b do not do this. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xcdroast problems with kernel 2.6.10
Vittorio wrote: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= ATAPI:0,0,0 gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=0 -dao -eject -pad -data /home/victor/tmp/track-01.iso ... Don't use dev=ATAPI, use dev=/dev/hdc (or whatever your cdrom device is) cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot get SCSI I/O buffer. Make sure cdrecord is not setuid root. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Looking for a CMS..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I tried some CMS you say to me, but XOOPS isn't so nice. I think the administration of that is not so good. I wrote a list, where you can see what I exactly want, maybe then you can say me a good CMS. There mustn't be an ebuild, cause i need one CMS for the FreeBSD-machine, where I do not have a root-account and for my gentoo i could write myself an ebuild. Here's the list: Features: ~-Blog or News-system ~-Gallery ~-Link-site ~-avauilable modules ~-shouldn't be so big like mambo ~-themes ~-GPL or any opensource-license Requirements: ~-PHP ~-MySQL ~-FreeBSD ~-GD2 for the gallery Gallery: ~-Upload per FTP (I'm doing that) ~-Automatic thumbnail-creation ~-Comments by NON-users ~-Subfolders e.g. 2002/berlin, 2003/milan ~-Integration in CMS and/or theme ~-description of each gallery, but not for each thumb Blog or News-system: ~-Categories ~-Commentation for NON-users - -nice backend - -easy to work in ( 30min) thanks for reply Daniel - -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB6qyUJo2v1W7snmIRAqv8AJ9DdlQ2pZB/KphYIx3ntcSq9+EQcwCeJTN7 AAAJgL87CCZHKebx8MFWDtY= =rDTz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Its in Dutch (my native language), but its for French people. I can speak French but don't write it, its going to be translated at work. I will post both versions after the translation. Maybe your work would be beneficial to Gentoo as a whole.. If you are interested, and would be happy to release it under gentoo's standard doc license (cc by-sa 2.0), could you please also send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I don't guarantee we'll do anything with it, but I would at least be interested to see it myself. Thanks! Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux friendly PDAs
On January 14, 2005 03:53 pm, Andy Herrman wrote: I'm currently looking to buy a PDA and was wondering if anyone had suggestions. We use Windows with Outlook at work, so I'll need it to sync to that, but I'm also hoping it will be Linux friendly for when I'm home. Which PDAs work well with linux, and which don't? Any general suggestions for usability? Thanks! my old handspring visor works just fine for me under kde (using kpilot) as long as kpilot is running, i just hit the hotsync button and everything is synced up. talks to kaddressbook etc too. -- a man who feels the winds of change should build not a windbreak, but a windmill. - mao tse tung -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...but i need xfree!
On January 10, 2005 02:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so how do i just tell gentoo not to try to upgrade me? is the following my only choice? is it a good one? # emerge --inject x11-base/x11-xorg why is it that xfree had to be removed but other stuff that most people never touch (like kdrive) is still in there? am i the only one that's upset and thinks this is nuts? I don't believe anyone has mentioned it, but license issues that made Gentoo move from xfree86 to xorg don't stop you from using the sources or binaries from the xfree project. I've used these successfully, although not recently and I've never tried it on a Gentoo box. o i have no interest in upgrading, and have no issues with the fact that gentoo wants to move to xorg as the standard. but until xorg has support for things like my videocard (not all that old) i find it hard to swallow that gentoo would drop support for the old (gpl-friendly) version. I'll try all of your other suggestions tonight and see if they work. thanks so much for your input thus far. -- leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - dwight d. eisenhower -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10r4
J. Patrick Campbell wrote: about to install this kernel. any gentoo udev people here noticed any issues yet? Judging from the very low number of bug reports that we've had so far about 2.6.10 in comparison to previous kernels, I'd say this is one of the most stable releases in a long time. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
On 2005-01-09 03:47:04 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Here are the files, Daniel, albeit in an unorthodox way. Your indulgence is appreciated. :-) Those files look okay. Like a few others have suggested, check that your /etc/hostname (e.g. server1) and /etc/dnsdomainname (e.g. example.com) are set correctly and that your FQDN (server1.example.com) and short hostname (server1) are listed in /etc/hosts. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Hi, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment: http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel. It seems to me that fonts aren't rendered very well, especially in web browsers (both Mozilla Firefoz and Konqueror). From another of your posts, it looks like you have the ttf-bitstream-vera fonts installed. Place the following file at /etc/fonts/local.conf : www.gnome.org/fonts/local.conf Add the following line towards the top: dir/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/dir Run: fc-cache -fv Restart X. Hopefully you'll then have nicer looking default fonts for sans/sans-serif/etc. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]: Looking for a CMS..
Hi! I'm looking for a good CMS, that i can run on my Gentoo machine and on the FreeBSD-Server, where i don't have a root-account. It doesn't have to exist in portage, i could write an ebuild. The CMS should have: A _very_ good gallery, with automatic thumbnail-creating A small blog-system my configuration looks like this: safe_mode=off, GD2 installed php4.3, mysql4.0. I can't use gallery.sf.net, it doesn't work on the server. Thanks for advices. Greetings Daniel -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Mark Knecht wrote: In my case I have some fonts on the system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf Vera.ttf VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. Then you need to add the font paths to fontconfig file and update the font cache. See my earlier post in this thread. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox or Xorg font rendering?
Holly Bostick wrote: So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). I don't think it exactly works like this. If a web page specifically uses font family Arial then Arial will be used, if present, no matter what your font settings are. (This is of course assuming that you don't have the Always use my fonts box ticked.) If no font is specified by the website, it uses whatever you have chosen for your Proportional font (which as you point out is a pointer to one of the other choices). I don't think it is used much, but I think using font family sans, sans-serif, etc, is encouraged on websites, and if a website was to specify this, then the font you have chosen in that dialog would be substituted in. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ...but i need xfree!
i can't be the first person to have this problem, but i NEED xfree on this machine. i've upgraded every other box to xorg, but this one can't be. i need xfree because it's the only windowing system that plays nice with the gatos ati drivers for my tv card. ...and i'm not about to boot to windows to watch tv. so how do i just tell gentoo not to try to upgrade me? is the following my only choice? is it a good one? # emerge --inject x11-base/x11-xorg why is it that xfree had to be removed but other stuff that most people never touch (like kdrive) is still in there? am i the only one that's upset and thinks this is nuts? -- I'm lost, I'm angry... and I'm armed - Mal, Firefly, War Stories -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
On 2005-01-09 02:11:40 -0800, John Lowell wrote: No, /etc/conf.d/local.start has no entries, just the commented-out boilerplate. Any other thoughts. Sorry, I see that you mentioned that in your initial email. What I really should have asked is: Do you see the [ ok ] after Starting local..., or does the pause happen before that appears? If the [ ok ] appears quickly, then (stating the obvious) something after /etc/init.d/local is causing the pause. It might be a problem with /sbin/agetty or /bin/login. Can you please send the contents of /etc/inittab and /etc/pam.d/login? -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mondo problem!
John Dangler wrote: The end result is always: Fatal Can't loopmount /tmp/tmp./mindilinux. does your kernel support loopfs? your linux distro is broken. Do you have loopback support built into your kernel? If you do, you should have device nodes such as /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1, etc. If you don't, you need to compile your kernel with loopback device support. It can be found under block devices. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lost /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
Dennis Robertson wrote: Daniel, I would be grateful for any help in getting the parallel printer recognised, though. Thanks again. Regards. OK. Looking at the parallel printing driver, I don't see any SYSFS support. Meaning that udev can't yet create nodes for parallel printers (unfortunately there are still about 150 drivers to convert to SYSFS..). For now you will have to create the node manually. Place the following line into /etc/conf.d/local.start : mknod /dev/lp0 c 6 0 Also run it as root from a terminal now. You should then be able to print, if not, check the permissions on the /dev/lp0 node. Restarting CUPS may also help. Out of interest (and from having not used a parallel printer in ages), are these things hotpluggable - does dmesg print any notices when the printer is turned on and off? I'm just thinking in terms of how future udev/sysfs support for parallel printers might work in the future. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing pure 2.6 udev system
Hi, EvgGad wrote: Hello! Yestarday I decidet to install a pure 2.6 kernel udev system, but I don't know how to do that, when I do bootstrap-2.6.sh instead of bootstrap.sh it merges 2.4 kernel headers and even when I emerge udev before emerge system it all the same offers to install devfsd. Any recomendations/suggestions? Use bootstrap-2.6.sh if you are planning to use NPTL (this is not related to udev/devfs in any way). Use bootstrap.sh if you want things to work :) (although I hear NPTL is almost there now...) Gentoo will install devfsd during the installation. Ignore it. manually emerge udev, hotplug, and a newish 2.6.x kernel. Dont compile devfs support into kernel. On first bootup, gentoo will notice the presence of udev, and won't try any of the devfs stuff. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Greetings from a possible new user!
Hi, Alejandro Escalante Medina wrote: Debian has a great packager but iit is and overly cryptic distribution for me yet, with a very difficult installer. So, is it Gentoo a good distribution for me? The Gentoo installation is long-winded, and quite complicated - there is no interface to help you do things, its all done by commands at the bash prompt. A typical install involves working with tools such as fdisk and chroot, and hand-editing quite a few config files. If you choose to go for compilation (e.g. stage1 or stage2) then you are probably in for quite a wait, depending on system spec. I am a knowledgeable linux user, that's ok, but the problem is that I don't have too much spare time to fiddle with a distribution that's too harsh on the user. I wouldn't really describe gentoo as harsh on the user, but yes, you will probably find that you do need to spend quite a bit of time setting things up. Especially during the installation and the few days that follow. I have a personal web server I need to be up, running and secure. I'm not too much of a graphical user since I'm stuck with you-know-what for several reasons, though, I need an X desktop around to use several applications I like/need (guarddog, for instance). Gentoo has a great package management system, installing things like this is a breeze. Maybe Gentoo is a nice distro to try kernel 2.6 ;) Thats another great thing about gentoo - it is very easy to get up a system running all of the cutting-edge stuff, e.g. kernel 2.6, udev, nptl, ... In most cases, its no different from getting a system up and running with the standard tried and tested stuff. Then... finally, what do you think? Should I change to Gentoo or follow my path to Fedora? Give Gentoo a try. If you have enough hard disk space, you can install both and make a final decision at a later date. I guarantee that you will be impressed by gentoo, but if you are pushed for time, then the lengthy compiles and amount of time required to get things running as you want them may get to you. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up 2.6 system from scratch
Daniel Drake wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I'm in the process of writing a quick tutorial on writing rules for udev. It sure is a nifty tool. Will post here and CC you when its up. Here it is. http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php Hope its of use to someone :) Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using udev - mystery dependancy for devfsd
Collins Richey wrote: 1) What is the best way to prevent world from trying to downgrade my linux-headers? Inject linux-headers-2.4.22? A better way? I am not totally sure of the process, but I believe you can create /etc/portage and manually unmask linux-headers-2.6.x in a file (/etc/portage/packages.mask ??) 2) How do I find what is causing world to want to reintroduce devfsd? I've tried some of the scripts posted in the past to search the IUSE conditions, but I didn't find the answer? I have the same thing here, devfs unmerged but it always wants to put it back. I think its because devfs is a system package. Perhaps if we could get it out of there, it might stop wanting to be merged... Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] experience with udev
Collins Richey wrote: 3) In the article published at www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php, the author claims that external action must be taken to make udev work with nvidia's drivers. That is not the case for me. I have nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx active, and I did not need to tweak udev at all. Interesting. Are you autoloading the 'nvidia' module on bootup or anything? Or is it still unloaded at the point where you run 'startx' or equivalent? As I explained on the page, X tries to load the module if it isn't already loaded. I guess X loads modules slightly differently, as (for me, and another test subject) it just refuses to start without the /dev/nvidia* nodes already in place (or the module completely loaded). Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] experience with udev
Collins Richey wrote: Were you using 2.6 and udev-017? Was using 016, but I just retested with 017. Same problem. Using 2.6.3-rc2-mm1. I have nothing in autoload for this (or any other module), nor have I altered anything in /etc/udev. I assume you used the gentoo ebuilds to install udev. If so, did you comment out the lines of the startup/shutdown initscripts relating to creating and restoring devices.tar.bz2 each time? Here's how it goes, on a setup where devices.tar.bz2 is not being created, and udev is working from scratch on every bootup (as it is intended to do). This is from a fresh bootup, the nvidia module is not loaded. # ls /dev/nvidia* no such file or directory # startx XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.0-test9-mm2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 06 November 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Sun Feb 15 23:08:21 2004 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Using vt 7 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. [Nothing appears in dmesg] # su # modprobe nvidia [Text appears in dmesg to indicate that module is loaded] # exit # ls /dev/nvidia* /dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidiactl # startx [X works, fluxbox loads] cheers Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up 2.6 system from scratch
Collins Richey wrote: Cool. Does it do anything for you that devfs doesn't? I too have it running. devfsd is unmerged, and devfs is not compiled into the kernel. There are a few advantages over devfs - devfs has not been developed for quite a while, udev has had years of planning and months of active development.. For me, udev's most useful feature is the workaround to naming problems. I have one of those USB hard disk (pen drive) things, and I also have a USB digital camera. Both identify themself as usb-storage devices, and they use the scsi disk support part of the kernel. When I plug in the first device, /dev/sda1 is created. I can mount /dev/sda1 to wherever I like and access the files/pictures. The second device becomes /dev/sdb1. Now imagine that you wanted to set up a script to download images from your camera, while the USB flash drive is also plugged in. You don't know if it is sda1 or sdb1, because it depends which device was plugged in first. udev provides a solution here, you can write rules so that as well as sdx1 being created, it creates a second link. You can make your usb drive *always* be /dev/usbdrive and camera /dev/camera - no matter which order they were plugged in. I have used udev rules to create a directory, /dev/user/, of the nodes which I personally use in scripts/mountpoints. I have nodes in there such as: dvd, cdrw, camera, usbdrive, floppy. If you are interested, here's my camera rule. #digicam BUS=usb, SYSFS_product=USB 2.0M DSC, SYSFS_dev=*:1, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=user/camera Often rule writing isnt quite as complex as that, the _dev bit was needed here because the camera created /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. I only wanted the sda1 bit as /dev/user/camera. Rule writing is made easy by a program named udevinfo. Or you can just read the values out of /sys yourself. Its nice :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.x/alsa still troubleshooting sound
Hi, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Still trying to get rid of the sheeking noise... ?? Are you referencing an earlier post? My BIOS says I have a 'via 3058 AC97' chip. I've been using M VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 South Bridge Can you post the output of lspci and lspci -n? lspci is in the pciutils package. Is this correct? I didn't see any other option that looked even close... alsa-project.org doesn't have anything on the 3058. Do you get sound at all? Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up 2.6 system from scratch
Paul Vint wrote: Thanks for the great post, Daniel! I've been using udev for a while now, but never really took advantage of it like that yet. Good info, much appreciated - it's posts like this that I like reading these lists for - it's not something I was looking for information on, but I've learned something new that will improve the Linux Experience. :) Thanks for the feedback. I'm in the process of writing a quick tutorial on writing rules for udev. It sure is a nifty tool. Will post here and CC you when its up. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] busted
Hi Simon, Simon Chappell wrote: However when i try to emerge to xmms or jnust about any media type application i get errors like this ; aclocal: configure.in: 56 : macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library.. and the attached output at the end o the emerge attempt.. I also cannot emerge gnome now for similar reason but am struggling to find out what is busted. I'd suggest re-merging the following packages, and hoping that it makes a difference :) autoconf, automake, m4, glib. Daniel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa fail on ./configure ?
Hi, raptor wrote: ~emerge alsa-driver driver-1.0.2c checking cross compile... checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux checking for kernel version... 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: colortail: invalid option -- ? Try 'colortail --help' for more information. Used compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice) Fatal error: Compiler type does not match Decoded kernel compiler: type= version= Decoded used compiler: type=gcc version=3.2.3 Please, send ./configure output to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.2c failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 66, Exitcode 1 !!! ./configure failed any idea why Looks like colortail is to blame. Make sure you are running the latest version, and if you are, try unmerging it while you install alsa. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alsa cannot find /dev/snd/seq
Hi, Tianran Chen wrote: i recently upgrade to kernel 2.6.1, thus started to use alsa instead of oss. alsa support and all sound device drivers are compile into the kernel. now the sound works find, i can hear good sound without tweak anything. but whenever the 'alsasound' service start, it complains 'snd_ctrl_open fail'. it does not restore the volume for channel. and whenever this service stop, it complains cannot open '/dev/snd/seq'. Sounds familiar. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39345 If, after you have booted up, you do alsactl restore, does it work without error? I found that simply sleeping for a couple of seconds inside the script fixed this module. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RPM equivlents
Hi, You will need to install gentoolkit to use the qpkg command. Radu Filip wrote: Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options: rpm -qi installed_package (show info about an installed package) What kind of info? rpm -qf file (show to what installed package a file belongs to) qpkg -f /path/to/file rpm -ql package (list all files that belongs to an installed package) qpkg -l package-name rpm -qip package (show info about a package that has not been installed) What kind of info? rpm -qpl package (show info about what files an uninstalled package contains) What kind of info? Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lot of stuff not compiling, help!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Which kernel version to select?
Grendel wrote: 1. I want a 2.6 kernel, so should I select the gentoo-dev-sources kernel? Never tried it myself. But yes, it would probably be a good place to start. 2. I plan to use genkernel and hotplug as the livecd detected it fine. You might want to read up about genkernel and 2.6. I've never used genkernel at all, but I think I read about some people with some problems with 2.6. 3. Is the nforce2 ethernet driver (nforce-net) supported for the 2.6 kernels in gentoo? If not it doesnt matter I can manually patch the nvidia source and install it. the nforce-net is supported in the live cd which is based on the 2.4 series. Don't use it. The 2.6 kernels have a reverse-engineered driver, named forcedeth. It performs better than the nvidia drivers, fixes some bugs that nvidia have neglected, and is open source. Device Drivers --- Networking support --- Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --- * Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL) The option name inside the .config file is CONFIG_FORCEDETH. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package...
Kevin wrote: Thanks for the replies, Rob. Problem is, apparently all the rsync mirrors (I've tried 5-10 of them now) think that 1.2.10 is the latest version of OpenAFS. Any idea how to point portage to the source site for a particular package? Your question has been responded too already in another part of this thread (you can't just point portage to the source website, gentoo needs an ebuild to know how to install it), but I thought I should point out that all of gentoo's rsync mirrors frequently sync with each other, so you will find that they all have exactly the same content (if not, there will only be a ~30 minute skew max). So, there's no point trying different rsync mirrors for an ebuild. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] scanner module
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, since I adopted K 2.6 (mm-sources) I have a hard time using my scanner. In make menuconfig, USB Scanner is said obsolete. and: This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb. What does it mean? What is libusb? TIA Hi, If you upgrade kernels, you wont even get that option anymore. It (and the code) has been totally removed from kernel tree. It's been replaced by support from userspace software. Try emerging xsane and libusb and play around with xsane. You might need to go into ~x86 for the newest xsane designed to work without kernel support, i'm not too sure (don't have a scanner!) Good luck Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo - general questions
Grendel wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Mike Williams commented thusly, - Is there some distribution-specific scripts/apps to handle addition and removal of hardware (scanner, printer...)? Not to my knowledge. I too am a user about to install gentoo, I have been postponing it till I get some good old scottish whisky to put me in the mood, I am kind of feeling sentimental about having toi kick mandrake out :) With regard to this aspect of the question, surely gentoo must handle this hardware detection and installation of necessary drivers well? The livecd which I booted into recognised all my hardware and loaded the ethernet card so I had a network connection working, so the base system which we install to the hdd must have some kind of auto detection, otherwise do we have to type the alias eth0 rtl8139too commands manuall to the /etc/modulesxxx files? Thats only the livecd. For your real install, you will need to: - Compile support for your network card into the kernel - Add it to modules.autoload if you compiled it as a module - Configure /etc/conf.d/net for DHCP or static IP. I don't understand what is meant by the original question (scanners/printers). Are you asking if there is an autoconfiguration method? If so, not natively as part of gentoo. However, a well configured system (even default configurations) will handle the addition/removal of devices like this well, e.g.: - If you use hotplug, it will load the printer module when you plug in your printer, and remove it when its disconnected - If you try and print before the printer is connected, CUPS will queue the job and wait until the printer appaers - You can't scan unless your scanner is plugged in Or did I misunderstand the question? Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo - general questions
Hi, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: I meant an autodetect tool to help install new devices with appropriate drivers (coming from Mandrake, I'm looking for a 'harddrake' replacement, which is not crucial but comes in handy from time to time) Ah. Gentoo doesn't have anything like this as standard, but I guess there may be some tools out there. Generally, gentooists go through the configuration manually - it usually isnt too long winded. There is plenty of information on the forums about this kind of thing (CUPS setup etc), but if you don't have the time, then you might consider using some of the wizards that KDE/similar include. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo - general questions
Grendel wrote: I see, so that means that the dhcp client side programs are automatically installed and that I dont have to manually install them right? The package you will need is dhcpcd. On my system, thats part of the system profile, so it should get installed automatically. Even so, if it doesn't, its very simple to install it (like the majority of other gentoo packages): emerge dhcpcd If you give Gentoo a chance, you will grow to love portage :) Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 gentoo windows partition
Hi, Claudinei Matos wrote: Hey guys, Well, I've tried to use a windows partition in DocumentRoot of my apache2.conf like the line below: DocumentRoot /mnt/dados/Jobs/Work/cjmatos.no-ip.com/www But when I try to view the page in the browser I get this error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Check the permissions of your mount. Sounds like the user that apache is running as (typically 'apache' or 'nobody', both of which have very restricted system access) is unable to access that mountpoint. You may also want to look at error_log in apaches section of /var/log Hope this helps Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 gentoo windows partition
Claudinei Matos wrote: That's it... I get a look at the directory and I see that the permissions is just for owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] myers $ ls /mnt/dados -ld drwxr--r-- 27 root fat 16384 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/dados so in my /etc/fstab I'm using gid in mount options. how can I mount this directory with rwx permissions to group? Hi, I have a partition which I mount for access by everyone on the system. To achieve this, I have appended umask=000 onto the options in my fstab. You should try that first (remember to re-mount). If apache then will serve documents, then perhaps you should tweak the 000 value to something a little more restrictive. Daniel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] autoconf version?
Hi,
Arne Vogel wrote:
Ok, so etcat says I have autoconf 2.58 installed, which so far is the
latest unmasked version. However, when I do autoconf --version, it says:
Autoconf version 2.13
which is ancient! Also, the info pages seem to belong to an autoconf
much older than 2.58. qpkg -f `which autoconf` says sys-devel/autoconf.
I now found out that autoconf-2.58 actually installs *two* versions,
namely 2.13 and 2.58, to be invoked by autoconf-(versionno.)
Theres a better way to invoke the autoconf of your choice (see below).
- Why are the two versions not in two separate packages, and accordingly
displayed by etcat?
Don't know. Its just the way it is.
- Why does autoconf by default invoke the older version?
I guess its because more packages are compatible with the older autoconf, as
opposed to the new.
- How can I change the default to autoconf 2.58? Will my system survive
this? ;-} /usr/bin/autoconf is a symlink pointing to
../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl
# autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13
# export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5
# autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.58
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To make this default, add the line : export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5
to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile
Automake runs on a similar system. Check out the script (nano
/usr/bin/auto{conf,make}) to find out more about the variables which are
listened to.
Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa ; System beep
Hi, Ralph Slooten wrote: 1) Problem: I have no terminal bell (system beep) which on the one hand is annoying, yet sometimes handy (ifplugd and my network as an example). Is this a kernel option that you know of, or ...? Any ideas here? You might want to read through this: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt From that page: - Users wanting support for the PC speaker need to enable CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR, or you won't get a single beep. 2) Question: Since a while back I see that OSS in the kernel is depreciated, and ALSA is recommended, but for the life of me I cannot see what the advantage is of ALSA. AFAIK everything I use uses the OSS system (OSS-emulation in ALSA), so why not just use OSS instead of having to emulate it all? For a start, alsa is being actively developed, OSS is not. For many cards (including mine), ALSA works better - volumes go louder, it sounds better, surround sound is more customisable, etc. Other advantages include that ALSA supports SMP (OSS does not), ALSA has a good plugin system (allows for things like dmix), I have not looked for myself, but I believe ALSA also incorporates a good API for applications that support it - e.g. xmms with the alsa-xmms plugin. For applications that do not support the API, you can just rely on the OSS emulation. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] log events
Hi, Mauro Arnoldi wrote: Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons )_ Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (root^Itest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons )_ This is your cron daemon executing some cron tasks. You might want to look at the crontab -l output for some of your users, to see what it is getting up to :) Feb 5 14:21:58 [submit] authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory No idea. Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) MAIL (mailed 41 bytes of output but got status 0x004b_)_ I think this is saying that cron caught some output, and it is trying to mail it to you. When a cron job produces output to stderr or stdout, it is mailed to the user. I'm guessing you dont have a MTA (e.g. postfix/qmail) running, so it is giving an error when trying to mail you this output. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] g77 and g++ compilers
Hi Valmor de Almeida wrote: Also why g++ in /usr/bin/g++ is different from /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2/g++ ? /usr/bin/g++ looks like a wrapper script. Its not actually a script though, its a compiled program. But this is why i make my assumptions: # strings /usr/bin/g++ [...] /gcc-bin/ Could not run/locate %s! /usr/bin/gcc-config --get-bin-path Could not get compiler binary path! Could not run /usr/bin/gcc-config! [...] It looks like this is just a simple program (6kb compiled) to to get the path of the real copy of g++ and then pass all options on. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?
Bear in mind that you cant (or shouldnt) use dual-athlon-XP's in a SMP board. You should use AMD's MP chips. Unfortunately these don't go as fast as the XP chips (as in, XP's go up to 3000 and MP's go upto 2400 or something), and the board support is also a limiting factor. I built 5 dual-AMD-MP systems a while ago. I used dual MP2200+'s in each one, that was the highest the motherboard (Tyan Tiger) would support (and I don't think AMD had any faster ones available either). I installed a stage1 gentoo on one as a hardware test (or something like that) and I was amazed at how fast it compiled. Daniel Brendan Sullivan wrote: I'd go multi-CPU. The Athlon 64 is a good processor, but with the multitude of things you have going on all at once, I would think being able to handle multiple processes at once would be more what you need. the 64 can still only handle one process at a time. I have a 2800 w/ 512Mb of ddr400, and it's a really quick machine...a dual proc 2600 or 2800 would probably be ridiculously fast if set up correctly. Brendan On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 07:56, Brenden Walker wrote: I'm thinking about building a new system, and can't decide if I want to go with AMD64 or dual Athlons (or something else)? Current system is an Athlon 1200+ I think, 512MB RAM, 2gigs of swap, plenty of HD space Current Usage: Apache (hosting 3 PHPNuke sites, running behind cable modem..so bandwidth usage is pretty small, maybe 3mb/day) MySQL (Supporting websites only) IPTABLES NAT/Firewall routing Fetchmail/Procmail filtering external POP accounts through spamassassin into local POP accounts The biggest usage comes from running: -XFree86 -Evolution (personal mail) -KMail (business mail) -Citrix ICA Client (not all the time) -VMWare workstation with Win2K Pro session running a windows app that sucks up perhaps 25% virtual CPU 24x7, no chance of moving it to Linux.. -I also use this as my workstation, GNUCash, OpenOffice and the like.. I prefer keeping all these things on the same box, so I only run one machine 24x7.. My goal is to get better response when working on it, and overall less CPU usage (percent wise). With more horsepower (and more RAM) I could set nice on VMWare to lower priority and get better response to other things without slowing down VMWare. I have a feeling I'm going to get swamped with suggestions ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB problem, Part 3
Hi, Krikket wrote: Now, given the comments about copying the kernel over and not remembering doing that (which seems to be confirmed by the lack of it's presence) I went over the directions in the install manual again for that part of the load. I see it as part of the instructions if you manually configure the kernel, but it is *not* part of the instructions if you use genkernel. (Which I did.) In that case, its likely that genkernel copies the kernel to /boot itself. Do you think something errored out that I didn't notice, or that the isnructions are incomplete for this step? Or something else entirely? Or...? Perhaps /boot wasn't mounted. `umount /dev/hda1` and `ls /mnt/gentoo/boot` - that will show you any files copied to /boot before it was mounted. (Remember to mount /dev/hda1 again after if you need to.) You could re-enter the chroot and run the genkernel stage again, after you are 100% sure /dev/hda1 is mounted as /boot under the chroot. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To ebuild or not to ebuild
Ville Leskinen wrote: Also be sure to submit it to bugzilla so it might be in official portage some day: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml Of course, it would make sense to look in the bugzilla before you even write the ebuild (or install it by hand) - a lot of the time, some other kind person has already done the work for you and posted an ebuild :) Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2004.01 Packages
Hi, I think you mean 2004.0 (2004.1 is expected in March/April I think). Stages are online here: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/ There are no LiveCD's yet, as far as I know. Daniel Jason Calabrese wrote: Hi all, Have packages been built for 2004.01 yet? Is there an iso I can download? I going to be setting a new pc on Monday and I'm planning on using the GRP to save time and then rebuild package from source as there are upgrades. The last GRP image that I can find is 1.4 and has some old packages. I'd like to try out 2004.01 packages even if they aren't completly stable. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] corrupt or incomplete distfile
Hi, LoneStar wrote: !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 53e9acbf1afde9e77c8c044133523036 your file's digest: 1d34348e805715559fcd0d978272f031 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//arts-1.1.5.tar.bz2 Known bug, fixed earlier. emerge sync and try again. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a new NIC
Redeeman wrote: realtek 8139 is talked bad about, by alot ppl, but mine works perfect! On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 19:42, Jaime Diaz wrote: I use realtek's in my PC's, but be warned. Over 2 years, I've had 5 fail (over 3 PC's)! They just die, and then the system wont power on again with them plugged in. The only reason I stick with them is because I can get them for dirt cheap. Performance wise they seem good. Linux support has been flawless too. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] development-sources vs gentoo-dev-sources
development-sources are the raw 2.6 kernel sources from kernel.org gentoo-dev-sources are the 2.6 sources plus some other patches applied my guess is that one day, gentoo-dev-sources will become gentoo-sources, and development-sources will become vanilla-sources. Daniel Aaron Walker wrote: I just recently upgraded from 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 = development-sources-2.6.1_rc1. While browsing the online package database, I saw that there is also a gentoo-dev-sources kernel. What is the difference between development-sources and gentoo-dev-sources? Thanks, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)
Richard Revis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] (So VIA82Cxxx chipset driver?) No, the line you pasted refers to your PCI controller. We are interested in your IDE controller. Please post the entire lspci output. Also, you could post the dmesg output from under the 2.4.20 kernel where DMA worked, plus the dmesg output on a kernel where DMA does not work. More details, are you running these disks straight off the motherboard? Or are you using a PCI IDE card? Are you using 80-conductor or 40-conductor IDE cables? Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs
Alan wrote: Funnily enough, add -X into your list of use flags for this. However, php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font processing. USE=-X -qt *should* be enough here. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
