[gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question
have to start some where... coming form Mac OSX, and downloaded the ppc 32 bit installation and packages iso. of Gentoo 2006, burn two cd-r however, have a snag in the install, is there a how to install on Mac G4 , running a quicksilver with 512mb and a 60gb hard drive, and nvida 32mb video card. all standard equipment. Do I need to wipe the Mac Hard clean first? or can Gentoo install do that? Looking for some doc's on the 1,2,3 steps.. to do a install on Mac G4 ppc 32bit Thanks ++ Richard -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie question
The suggested method of using the OS X installer to partition the hard drive would wipe out your files. You may want to back up your user directory first. On Saturday 29 April 2006 2:17 am, Richard wrote: have to start some where... coming form Mac OSX, and downloaded the ppc 32 bit installation and packages iso. of Gentoo 2006, burn two cd-r however, have a snag in the install, is there a how to install on Mac G4 , running a quicksilver with 512mb and a 60gb hard drive, and nvida 32mb video card. all standard equipment. Do I need to wipe the Mac Hard clean first? or can Gentoo install do that? Looking for some doc's on the 1,2,3 steps.. to do a install on Mac G4 ppc 32bit Thanks ++ Richard -- Kmail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: On 4/28/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. The modules are loaded when /lib/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh runs udevtrigger, which goes through /sys looking for unhandled 'uevents'. As part of this handling, it tries to load modules for any hardware that is attached. AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading them. But if I understand this correctly, isn't modules.alias generated by depmod? And isn't module dependencies calculated during boot? So would the file not be regenerated on the next reboot? W -- He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arms out wide. `I will go mad!' he announced. - Arthur discovering a way of coping with life on Prehistoric Earth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 167 days, 23:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: Dear all, I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started observing the following behaviour on boot. A message would pop-up saying to the effect that udev is processing kernel events and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules which I didn't specify for loading in /etc/modules.autoload.d In autoload, I only specified 'bcm570x' for my NIC, but after the updates, the computer would automatically load the 'ipw2200' module for wireless and 'radeon_fb' (which I was playing with for a while but have decided not to use). Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there -- Look, just gimme some inner peace, or I'll mop the floor with ya! -- Homer Simpson El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer pgpRrNai1uEhq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
On 4/28/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's happening about locales/languages? I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it creates too long primary keys for MySQL. So I remerged MySQL and replaced utf8 with latin1 in /etc/mysql/my.conf. I've emerged Mediawiki (thanks Ric!) with the math USE flag, but when I try to save a page containing a formula I get the error message: 1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost) Yes! My wikidb database was created with latin1_swedish_ci collation!!! And phpmyadmin says to me that MySQL charset is utf8!!! Who has set those collation values??? I didn't... Sergio That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production environment. The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. We might be switching to postgres, at least it supports views, triggers and handles encoding properly. The only thing preventing us from doing so is that we use Mantisbt, which only works with mysql. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On 29/04/06, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: Dear all, [snip] Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules selected) but in menuconfig untick: Loadable module support --- Automatic kernel module loading -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no net modules will load
On 29/04/06, Maurice E Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that you failed to configure the necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list. Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the kernel and you must use udev. without it you will never get your devices to be recognised. I do hope you kept your old kernel around so that you can boot to it. Or use a LiveCD to boot into it. modprobe -v module_name will show you if the modules boot or if something is amiss with what you have selected in your kernel for your hardware. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PC freeze with ati-drivers and gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:00 +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: I don't say you have to but if I were you I would: - - update the xorg to 7.X - - build agpgart for your chipset into the kernel - - build the DRM for the ATI Radeon into the kernel can you specify what kernel version you're using, and what the config file names are for these two kernel options? I'm using 2.6.16-beyond-git12 here. The agpgart is called CONFIG_AGP. You have to select the correct MB-chipset here, which is an SIS for me (CONFIG_AGP_SIS). Next, you need the DRM (CONFIG_DRM) and the Radeon-support for it (CONFIG_DRM_RADEON). - - configure xorg to use the radeon-driver (This is not just changing one line, you will have to reconfigure the whole section because the different drivers use different parameters) I thought I'd try your suggestion, since I already have modular xorg, and I'm getting fed-up with constantly-locking-up-ati-drivers. Also, what options do you have set in your xorg.conf file? Maybe even post your whole radeon Device section, if its small :) that would help me out a bit, I think. so far, I don't have dri (the Load dri command in xorg.conf locks up my laptop) Here is my device-section: Section Device Identifier device0 Driver radeon Option AGPMode 4 Option backingstore true Option VideoRam 128 BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option hw cursor off # This is for Xorg 7.0 to work correctly: Option ColorTiling off Option AccelMethod EXA EndSection Be sure to add this section (you might have it already): Section DRI Group video Mode 0666 EndSection Good Luck, Jannis Achstetter -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEU0qqsnofy59UleQRAuvaAJ4uoPlLhtZZC2bepO4ldc2iYyDADgCfXW0R OSJzFZAXSmfRBBxvBfkanjU= =h5+5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds
Hi, I've just noticed that one of the environment variables I (have to) have set causes troubles with an ebuild. In my case I have set the environment variable PLATFORM (for my user). If I now just su to root and then emerge mono the emerge will fail because mono also seems to make use of $PLATFORM but does not seem to overwrite it if it is already set. - Is this a bug in the mono ebuild or is this just a fsckup on my part? I do think that all environment variables besides the stuff in the profile and the things in make.conf / make.globals should be dropped by emerge. So, should I submit a bug for the mono ebuild or is this breakage (in my case) expected behaviour? (I know that I could just use su - or something else which would get rid of my users environment variables, but this does not fix the problem and also I sometimes simply forget about it) kind regards Philip -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
Qian Qiao: That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production environment. The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. Thanks. I've unmerged mysql 4.1.14, and emerged 4.0.25. Now I'm revdep-rebuilding. This is why I love Gentoo ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ati-drivers:fatal error...
Hi, I just installed ati-drivers for ATI mobility X700 on my laptop (only stable packages, no ~x86), and then I tried: # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r3/video/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) # dmesg fglrx: Unknown symbol inter_module_unregister fglrx: Unknown symbol inter_module_get_request fglrx: Unknown symbol inter_module_put fglrx: Unknown symbol inter_module_register What does it mean, and how can I fix it??? Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent
Hi!I don't konw why you need two soundcard! I just think that maybe one is enough.Once before I had two sound cards too,and at that time my gentoo can not have any sound(maybe not because i had two soundcards but the init script).Anyway, I just reset my bios,and mask my first soundcard which is in my board,and then the problem gone!Now everything is good! Maybe you can have a try if you don't need two soundcards!2006/4/19, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear gentoo-users,yesterday I recognized a strange problem with my soundcards. I have twosoundcards in my system. A Soundblaster, ens1371 based, and a TerratecDMX6Fire, which uses an ice1712 chip. The Soundblaster is used as the primary soundcard, recording from tape or vinyl and stereo playback, the ice1712 oneis used for 5.1 playback of dvds.So, the normal situation is as follows:~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xc000, irq 16 1 [DMX6Fire ]: ICE1712 - TerraTec DMX6FireTerraTec DMX6Fire at 0xc400, irq 19Now, after boot, I _sometimes_ get this one: ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [DMX6Fire ]: ICE1712 - TerraTec DMX6FireTerraTec DMX6Fire at 0xc400, irq 19 1 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCIEnsoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xc000, irq 16 which I don't want, because I always have to adjust my applications ;)After executing /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, things are as expected.Some more info:~ $ uname -aLinux pc 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 #2 Mon Feb 27 22:36:46 CET 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ GNU/Linux ~ $ cat /proc/asound/versionAdvanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.11rc5.Compiled on Apr 12 2006 for kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r3.~ $ eix ^udev$* sys-fs/udev Available versions:068-r1 069 070-r1 071 072 073 077 077-r1 077-r2077-r3 077-r4 077-r5 078 079 079-r1 081 081-r1 084 085 086 087 089 089-r1089-r2 090 Installed: 090 Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html Description: Linux dynamic and persistent device naming support (aka userspace devfs)Found 1 matches~ $ cat /etc/modules.d/alsa# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.#$Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc ,v1.1 2003/08/05 21:07:55 johnm Exp $# ALSA portionalias char-major-116 snd# OSS/Free portionalias char-major-14 soundcore IMPORTANT:## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command.## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.ALSA portionalias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371alias snd-card-1 snd-ice1712##OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1### OSS/Free portion - card #1alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-ossalias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-ossalias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-ossalias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss##OSS/Free portion - card #2alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-ossalias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-ossalias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-ossalias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-ossalias /dev/midi snd-seq-ossoptions snd-card-1 model=dmx6fire# Set this to the correct number of cards.options snd cards_limit=2 I searched bugzilla for sound, alsa and udev, but found nothing useful. Wellhttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128601 sounds similar, but it's about cdroms and an older version of udev.Any idea, what's the problem here?Thanks in advance,Michael--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- wcw
[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't work out. I know all the major devices work with Linux because I put in Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake and my Intel wireless ipw2200 and sound worked OTB. The sound didn't work with the Gentoo install CD which is no biggie since I can fix that after install. However, the killer was that there was no support for ipw2200! I looked in /lib/firmware and there were the firmware binaries for the 2100, but not the 2200. I couldn't download the firmware since Gentoo didn't have support for my wireless card. I tried to do an install without network but it failed. Looking at the log, emerge tried to get to the net. I also noticed that there was no stage-3 on the x86 liveCD installer so I picked to make the packages from the CD itself. I put in a pcmcia D-Link card and dmesg showed it, however iwconfig didn't list it and Gentoo didn't do anything with it. The docs on the CD weren't much help for wireless. I am going on vacation tomorrow and would really like to have Gentoo, though I will deal with Ubuntu 6.06 if need be. Has anyone gotten an Intel pro wireless 2200 (ipw2200) working with Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Thanks, Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:18 +0100, Qian Qiao wrote: That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production environment. The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. We might be switching to postgres, at least it supports views, triggers and handles encoding properly. The only thing preventing us from doing so is that we use Mantisbt, which only works with mysql. Are you sure it is not an Gentoo thing? I noticed this as well. Gentoo has utf8 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. I personally don't need/want utf8. Some things I noticed with the Gentoo mysql install. MySQL sucks up a bunch of memory just sitting there. Looking in my.cnf the Gentoo defaults are pretty big. Lowering all the values got mysql down from 100+ MB to about 30MB. Why is it using utf8? Does mysql 5.x require that? Couldn't the Gentoo ebuild make it an option? When I tried to replace the Gentoo my.cnf with the example my-small.cnf, things wouldn't work. Maybe have the ebuild configure the three example files so that they all work and then a user can just symlink to the one they want? I am not running a production MySQL at home, just a development MySQL so I want it to have the smallest memory footprint possible. I would like to stay with MySQL 5.x for the new features. Switching to PostgreSQL doesn't really seem like an option (yet). A lot of the open source apps out there only target MySQL. This is especially true with PHP 4.x apps since PHP Data Objects (PDO) was not available and PHP 4.x required a slow DB wrapper class/script to target multiple databases and a lot of code duplications with mysql_*(), PGSQL_*(), etc. Once/If all those great PHP-based apps get ported to PHP 5.x and PDO, then PostgreSQL would be a true option. Have you tried to just download the MySQL binary and install it in /opt and see how that works? I might give that a go. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On 4/28/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading them. But if I understand this correctly, isn't modules.alias generated by depmod? And isn't module dependencies calculated during boot? The file will be regenerated by depmod, which _may_ be run at boot when /etc/init.d/modules is run by /sbin/rc. The init script runs modules-update, which will run depmod if /etc/modprobe.conf is newer than /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On 4/29/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules selected) but in menuconfig untick: Loadable module support --- Automatic kernel module loading I don't believe this will work. This is specifically for when the kernel recognizes that it needs some module, for example a compression or net filter module. It doesn't affect user space. The problem in this case is that udevtrigger is determining which module to load and is loading it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] soundcards inconsistent
2006/4/19, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP Add the following two lines. Set the order which ever way you want. 0 will be your default card: options snd-ens1371 index=0 options snd-ice1712 index=1 options snd cards_limit=2 Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no net modules will load
--- Maurice E Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would seem that you failed to configure the necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list. Also, as of kernel 2.6.13, devfs is no longer in the kernel and you must use udev. without it you will never get your devices to be recognised. Huh? Any of the modules? Only the _net_ modules fail to load. The others all do. The loading, un-loading options near the start of the config process(if that's what you mean by necessary modules for loading any of the modules you list) were set =yes. I've always set them to yes. I've done this sort of thing before. Sound works. USB works. Video works... I'm thinking suddenly /etc/conf.d/net(.example)? Something there? On way to find out! *only* modules having to do with net stuff, ie, ppp, eth0, serial devices etc failed to load. Sound, video, timers etc all loaded OK. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds
Philip Lawatsch wrote: In my case I have set the environment variable PLATFORM (for my user). If I now just su to root and then emerge mono the emerge will fail because mono also seems to make use of $PLATFORM but does not seem to overwrite it if it is already set. - Is this a bug in the mono ebuild or is this just a fsckup on my part? It's a bug. Try unsetting PLATFORM in the ebuild. When that works, file a bug with a patch. I do think that all environment variables besides the stuff in the profile and the things in make.conf / make.globals should be dropped by emerge. There's a bug somewhere on this, maybe this one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56407 Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:34:38AM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there Or, you could recompile your kernel (leaving all these modules selected) but in menuconfig untick: Loadable module support --- Automatic kernel module loading Both good suggestions. But: 1) I do need the modules in some cases (I would like to use wireless sometimes...) 2) This behaviour wasn't there before. The kernel was not something that I updated recently. I was wondering what was changed in udev/baselayout/etc. that is making this behaviour. Thanks, Willie -- To err is human, to moo bovine. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 168 days, 9:35 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked:
AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading
them.
Just tried that, and doesn't work. The modules are still loaded.
I tried commenting out the line in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
which looks like it might have something to do with autoloading.
'SYSFS{modlaias}==?*, ACTION==add, RUN+=/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}'
and it doesn't help either.
Any other thoughts?
W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:39:02PM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: A message would pop-up saying to the effect that udev is processing kernel events and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules which I didn't specify for loading in /etc/modules.autoload.d Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. I downgraded to the stable udev-087 as a work around. I compared the files provided by udev-090 and udev-087, in particular, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules For the 090 version, there's an extra section dealing with Modules autoloading compared to the 087 version, which I suspect it is what was causing me the trouble. Thanks again W -- M: Hey, do that again! Make the computer beep... W: As you wish! M: ah~~ ah~~... hum, that beep was a G. W: how can you tell? (turn around) oh... no fair... a tuner Sortir en Pantoufles: up 168 days, 10:46 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems translating a web page using gettext and UTF-8
I'm translating a web page from English to Spanish using gettext, but I'm having problems with UTF-8. The problem: All my web pages translated with gettext declare themselves as UTF-8 encoding but it is actually iso-8859-1 (latin-1). I reach that conclusion using Firefox to enforce the encoding the page is viewed in. Firefox detects page encoding as UTF-8 but displays boxes instead of regular characters. If I force Firefox to use iso-8859-1 the characters are displayed correctly. Text from web pages wich have not been translated with gettext is displayed correctly with UTF-8 encoding, so I'm sure it's a gettext problem. Te question: Why msgfmt generates de .mo file in iso-8859-1 and not in UTF-8? How can I solve it? If it helps: -All my source files (*.php) are in UTF-8. -APACHE is set to use UTF-8 by default UTF-8 (AddDefaultCharset UTF-8) -My .po file is in UTF-8: # file locale/es_ES/messages.po locale/es_ES/messages.po: UTF-8 Unicode PO (gettext message catalogue) text -I've set charset to UTF-8 in the .po header: # grep charset locale/es_ES/messages.po Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n And the commands I've used to generate the .pot,.po and .mo files are: # mkdir -p locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/ # xgettext --indent --no-wrap --sort-by-file --from-code=UTF-8 --output locale/messages.pot *.php # cp locale/messages.pot locale/es_ES/messages.po # msgfmt --verbose --output-file locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo locale/es_ES/messages.po T.I.A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
Okay, sorry for the noise. But this would be my last post on this issue. Armed with my new bits of knowledge (udev-087 works but udev-090 doesn't), b.g.o turns up a nice collection of bugs. Of particular interest: 119989 130766 Basically there is a change in behaviour when 089 is introduced so that it has the functionality of automatically probing for modules when it senses a device. The modules loading can be individually disabled through /etc/hotplug/blacklist When 090 is introduced it breaks some interaction with hotplug and now ignores even that blacklist. So for now... downgrade and wait I guess. Thanks, W -- `You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?' `Really?' said Arthur. `No I didn't. For what offence?' Trillian frowned. `What do you mean, offence?' `I see.' - Evidence that there will be some justice in the Universe eventually. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 168 days, 10:54 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?
Hi, I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to start up Wine via cxoffice to manage plugin requirements? Very strange! Possibly this is some search path issue? Not sure. I did recently reinstall CXOffice. MAybe that caused it? mark 8874 0.0 0.1 7152 1532 ?S11:47 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher mark 8883 18.1 4.4 231712 45620 ?Sl 11:47 0:02 /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin mark 8889 0.6 0.1 2626576 1936 ?S11:47 0:00 /home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-preloader /home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-pthread winewrapper.exe cxoffice --run -- pluginserver.exe --timeout 300 mark 8892 1.4 0.4 6320 4184 ?Ss 11:47 0:00 /home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wineserver mark 8893 9.7 1.2 2124616 12356 ? Sl 11:47 0:00 /home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-preloader /home/mark/cxoffice/bin/wine-pthread pluginserver.exe --timeout 300 lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox netscape-flash These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint 37 kB [ebuild R ] net-www/netscape-flash-7.0.63 0 kB Total size of downloads: 37 kB lightning ~ # Where might I look for how this is happening? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten an Intel pro wireless 2200 (ipw2200) working with Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Yup, ipw2200 works fine with Gentoo. I have never tried installing with wireless though. Have you tried networkless install to get it working and then once gentoo is running update the system? Or perhaps install on a wired connection (I'm sure you would try this if you have the ability to =) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 (includes instructions for networkless install) Sry, I can't help on the installer issue, I haven't ever used the LiveCD to install, only console. -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD - Success
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Yup, ipw2200 works fine with Gentoo. I have never tried installing with wireless though. Have you tried networkless install to get it working and then once gentoo is running update the system? Or perhaps install on a wired connection (I'm sure you would try this if you have the ability to =) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 (includes instructions for networkless install) Sry, I can't help on the installer issue, I haven't ever used the LiveCD to install, only console. -Jeremy Thanks for the tips Jeremy. I did get it to work. I will file a bug with Gentoo about the install CD missing the ipw2200 firmware. For those interested here is what I needed to do. My laptop is a new Toshiba and has an Intel Pro ipw2200 based wireless along with a wired eth0. However the wired nic is a Marvell Tech. piece of junk and does not work. So the only two options I had were to get my ipw2200 working, which I knew worked under Ubuntu or try my D-Link pc card. The PC card did not work. What I did was boot with the latest Ubuntu install CD. It is very nice and is a full working Gnome system. That CD did have the needed ipw2200 firmware binaries so I could get to the net. However, it did not have a compile tool chain so I could not build Gentoo chroot with it. I used the Ubuntu CD to cfdisk my partitions just like I would with Gentoo. I then downloaded the firmware (I grabbed every version to be safe) to the new partitions and booted with the Gentoo install CD. I then modprob -r ipw220, turned off the hardware switch for my wireless card and extracted all the firmware tarballs. Flipped the wireless switch on, modprobe ipw2200 and net-setup eth1. I then had to manually us iwconfig and then I was able to ping my gateway and get to the net. I get to have Gentoo on my vacation! Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] heads-up: udev-090 and eth devices naming - WAS: Modules autoloading?
First of all: thanks to Willie W. for spotting this issue. I was banging
my head against the wall since yesterday!
-- Warning: ---
Upgrading udev to 090, don't accept the lines:
quote
# Module autoloading
# Autoload modules that lack aliases but have them defined in autoload
modules
SYSFS{modalias}==?*, ACTION==add, RUN+=/sbin/modprobe
$env{MODALIAS}
# /etc/modprobe.conf.
SUBSYSTEM==pnp, ENV{MODALIAS}!=?*, RUN+=/bin/sh -c 'while read id;
do /sbin/modprobe pnp:d$$id; done /sys$devpath/id'
# If you have problems with some pnp modules being loaded, please enter
the
# following aliases into the modprobe configuration files. These are
needed by
# udev to autoload some modules
# alias pnp:dPNP0510 irtty-sir
# alias pnp:dPNP0511 irtty-sir
# alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy
# alias pnp:dPNP0800 pcspkr
# alias pnp:dPNP0b00 rtc
# alias pnp:dPNP0303 atkbd
# alias pnp:dPNP0f13 psmouse
# alias pnp:dPNPb02f analog
# Load firmware (not quite yet...)
# SUBSYSTEM==firmware, ACTION==add, RUN+=/lib/udev/firmware_helper
/quote
from the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules of udev-090
They will cause any sort of crappy behaviour!
If you accept them (as I did, alas!), the drivers of the network cards
are loaded in order of appearance during BIOS checkup routine
irrespective of any user settings, namely:
1) modules order in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x
2) alias entry in /etc/modules.d/net (hence in /etc/modules.conf after
due modules-update).
In consequence of this snafu if you have more than one NIC (I had 4 last
night!) you are more or less sure no net services will start correctly
at following boot. I suspected an hardware failure (there was a storm
here, last night) and had any sort of doubts trying to swap back eth0
and eth1 to their original names without compiling one of the modules
into the kernel.
rant
All this stupid waste of time started when I decided to get rid of the
warning at bootup about '%e' being deprecated.
I wouldn't have upgraded udev!
Ok, %e will be set apart, but which is the new and right syntax, then?
Why a warning (a deprecation advice isn't an error) is showing up in
console as an error?
I'm really a bit disappointed about this udev issue.
IMHO silly choice, about the way of managing deprecation and about
default settings for modules automation.
/rant
Hoping this will save someone else a bunch of nightmares...
Ciao
Francesco
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Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:59, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD': Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Same as modifying any install CD. Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't work out. Hrm, lets see if we can't fix that. I know all the major devices work with Linux because I put in Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake and my Intel wireless ipw2200 and sound worked OTB. The sound didn't work with the Gentoo install CD which is no biggie since I can fix that after install. However, the killer was that there was no support for ipw2200! I looked in /lib/firmware and there were the firmware binaries for the 2100, but not the 2200. I couldn't download the firmware since Gentoo didn't have support for my wireless card. Gentoo does have support for the ipw2200, but evidently it was not included on the install CD you were booting from. Of course, it doesn't much matter if you boot from a Gentoo CD to install Gentoo. Some of the CDs contain stage files, portage snapshots, distfiles, and/or binary packages but you don't have to have these on the CD you boot from -- they are all downloadable. Also, once you get the system bootable on it's own you can reboot into it and still use packages from the package CD. I tried to do an install without network but it failed. Looking at the log, emerge tried to get to the net. I also noticed that there was no stage-3 on the x86 liveCD installer so I picked to make the packages from the CD itself. You must not have the correct CD. A stage (among other things) is a requirement for networkless install. There's been a stage on the full (not minimal) install CDs of gentoo in the 2004.3, 2005.0, 2005.1 and 2006.0 releases. I don't know about that crazy CD with the new graphical installer, from what I've seen on the list it's added confusion and fails to install in a number of situations. Maybe it doesn't have a stage3, but if it doesn't it's not going to be able to install Gentoo w/o network support. I put in a pcmcia D-Link card and dmesg showed it, however iwconfig didn't list it and Gentoo didn't do anything with it. The docs on the CD weren't much help for wireless. Probably just need to poke around a little bit more, but I've not had much experience setting wireless when booting from a Gentoo installation CD. I am going on vacation tomorrow and would really like to have Gentoo, though I will deal with Ubuntu 6.06 if need be. Do you already have Dapper installed? If so, you can install Gentoo in a chroot from your existing installation. Almost nothing changes about the install process, you just have to download everything that would normally ship on CD, not damage your DD installation before making it possible to boot Gentoo, and remove your DD installation afterwards. If not, you could either do a minimalistic install of DD that supports your ipw2200 and then use it to install Gentoo OR, if the DD installation CD brings up your ipw2200, exit the DD installer after it brings up the ipw2200 and use that environment for a Gentoo install. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ::/64 is similar, just larger. :) -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpU8BxzJIpKq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to start up Wine via cxoffice to manage plugin requirements? Very strange! Possibly this is some search path issue? Not sure. I did recently reinstall CXOffice. MAybe that caused it? There is no native shockwave player for Linux. It's possible that cxoffice has installed something that makes the Yahoo! homepage think that shockwave is available and therefore use it. Put about:plugins in the address bar and see what you have laying around. -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp9zwYgE3gEj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On 4/29/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:05:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading them. Just tried that, and doesn't work. The modules are still loaded. Oops, sorry, I forgot that you need to remove the entries from modules.pcimap as well. But it sounds like you found a workaround... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox now starting cxoffice/Wine for multimedia plugins?
On 4/29/06, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:04:01 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think this has possibly been going on for a few weeks but I just noticed it and I'm not sure what caused it. Yahoo is my homepage. Apparently there is enough multimedia stuff - Flash or whatever - on that page that Firefox needs to run so something, so it appears to start up Wine via cxoffice to manage plugin requirements? Very strange! Possibly this is some search path issue? Not sure. I did recently reinstall CXOffice. MAybe that caused it? There is no native shockwave player for Linux. It's possible that cxoffice has installed something that makes the Yahoo! homepage think that shockwave is available and therefore use it. Put about:plugins in the address bar and see what you have laying around. -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Tom, Thanks. Good call about how to look at it. Wrong technology. It seems that Firefox thinks it's supposed to run a Crossover plugin for Quicktime stuff. I also have mplayerplug-in installed and Firefox sees it, but it's also running one or more of the many Quicktime plugins when Firefox is open. QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin2.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin3.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin4.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin5.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin6.dll) QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1 (CrossOver - npqtplugin7.dll) It seems each of these handles many file types. I know nothing about how Firefox uses plugins. Where are they stored? How do you configure Firefox to use the right plugin if two or more say they can handle the same data type? It seems I have lots of copies of the first one hanging around: lightning ~ # slocate npqtplugin.dll /home/mark/.mozilla/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux.npqtplugin.dll.so /home/mark/.mozilla/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux64.npqtplugin.dll.so /home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/Netscape/Communicator/Program/Plugins/npqtplugin.dll /home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/QuickTime/Plugins/npqtplugin.dll /home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/desktopdata/cxnsplugin/linux/npqtplugin.dll.so /home/mark/.cxoffice/win2000/desktopdata/cxnsplugin/linux64/npqtplugin.dll.so /home/mark/.netscape/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux.npqtplugin.dll.so /home/mark/.netscape/plugins/npcxoffice-2342cc1f-8879-4315-ae68-87d5a37a9daf.linux64.npqtplugin.dll.so lightning ~ # Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: You must not have the correct CD. A stage (among other things) is a requirement for networkless install. There's been a stage on the full (not minimal) install CDs of gentoo in the 2004.3, 2005.0, 2005.1 and 2006.0 releases. I don't know about that crazy CD with the new graphical installer, from what I've seen on the list it's added confusion and fails to install in a number of situations. Maybe it doesn't have a stage3, but if it doesn't it's not going to be able to install Gentoo w/o network support. I did grab the graphical CD. The graphical CD is nice for systems that it fully supports like my desktop. Using the graphical CD I was able to have a gnome desktop with FF to browse while I waited for Gentoo to get installed. I guess because of space constraints, there is not room for a stage. That is normally not a problem if you have a fast connection. The regular install CD seems to be the best bet though, especially for non-network installs. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too..On 4/29/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut?I am looking for basic home user stuff formy wife such as:Automount/play a music CD, DVDAutomout a USB cameraLittle basic things like that.I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble: )Jim--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=There's no place like 127.0.0.1=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimDCentral FL, USA, Earth, Sol--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- -Se dueño de tu silencio y no esclavo de tus palabras.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Jorge Martín wrote: Are you running Gnome? HAL can help you automounting, you can make some udev rulez too.. On 4/29/06, *JimD* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- -Se dueño de tu silencio y no esclavo de tus palabras. Funny, mine already does that. I stick in a CD and up pops a window, which bugs me sometimes by the way. It even tries to mount my camera but mine requires software to get the pics so it can't, it tries though. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming you're using Gnome) I'm sure that Gnome has support for hal/dbus/pmount for easily mounting and using removeable media. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Broken install?
OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: root (hd0,0) Filesytem type is reiserfs... kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. Did I break something or forget something? I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?
JimD wrote: OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: root (hd0,0) Filesytem type is reiserfs... kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. Did I break something or forget something? I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in? Jim A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST /dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has, and it works fine. HTH. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
JimD wrote: Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for my wife such as: Automount/play a music CD, DVD Automout a USB camera Little basic things like that. I personally just mount /mnt/cdrom, but trying to get my wife to do that or anything manual gets me in trouble : ) Jim Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed
John Jolet wrote: that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll encounter other problems down the road is udev enabled in the kernel? I thought udev was just userland? What option would I need in the kernel? I followed the guide in the gentoo install handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=7 I don't see anythign for 2.6 kernels that says udev. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?
Ryan Tandy wrote: JimD wrote: OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: root (hd0,0) Filesytem type is reiserfs... kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. Did I break something or forget something? I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in? Jim A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST /dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has, and it works fine. HTH. Hmm, my kernel would not boot when I created just /dev/null, /dev/console and /dev/sda* in the empty /dev. Once I did the steps I listed previously, the system booted fine. Did I miss some step with setting up udev? I have sys-fs/udev installed. What kernel options are required? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
Ryan Tandy wrote: Make sure your GNOME packages (esp. gnome-volume-manager and related) are compiled with USE=hal, and make sure the hal and dbus services are started. With those in place, it should Just Work(tm). Ah, OK. I will give those a try. I hope I don't have too much recompiling : ) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Exim and Spamassassin
Hi, I have installed exim-4.60-r1 and spamassassin-3.1.0. Both are started in daemon mode at boot. I can connect to port 783 via telnet: Spamassassin is listening. In the exim.conf file I found this line # For spam scanning, there is a similar option that defines the interface to # SpamAssassin. You do not need to set this if you are using the default, which # is shown in this commented example. As for virus scanning, you must also # modify the acl_check_data access control list to enable spam scanning. # spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783 I understand this passage as Exim will interface to Spamassassin automagically if port 783 is opened by it and I have nothing additionally to do. Nevertheless I uncommented the last line. But I get no mails scanned Something went wrong and I cannot figure out, what it is... Any help is very appreciated !!! :O) Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?
I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel system. Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work.-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?
On Sunday, April 30 2006 14:21, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm momentarily glad I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel system. Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work. Perhaps you might want to have a look at the vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3 ebuild? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=vmware-workstation -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm
momentarily glad
I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style
runlevel system.
Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo?
At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management
features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
It looks like there is an ebuild.
However, I use VMWare workstation 4.x. All it really needs is
/etc/rc.[0-6] directories and a symlink.
Try the ebuild or just do what I did:
cd /etc
mkdir rc.d
for i in $(seq 0 6); do echo mkdir rc${i}.d; done
ln -sf ../init.d
After that you should be able to run the installer. The installer will
place a file named vmware in /etc/init.d/. I just run that file before
I want to start VMWare. All the startup script does is bring up the
virtual network that vmware uses.
Jim
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[gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?
Hello list, I've tried to move my built-in ide (via) and rootfs (reiser) modules outside of the kernel, but when I try to boot the new kernel and its corresponding initramfs, it fails miserably with one of the following messages. If I use root=/dev/hda7 (my root): Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (3,7) If I use root=/dev/ram (that's the device in the initramfs made with mkinitrd): Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,0) I do this every day using Debian boxes, so why it is so hard on Gentoo? What's the correct way to make _and_ use an initramfs on Gentoo? Many thanks in advance, Norberto -- Norberto Bensa Cel: 5654-9539 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgphTUshuabKn.pgp Description: PGP signature
