Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Ryan,

 > $ sudo emerge -av bind-tools

I have dig installed.  Tks

B.R.
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Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thomas,

> $ equery belongs `which dig`
> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ]
> net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig)

Noted with tks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

[Thomas Kear]

On Monday 25 September 2006 4:40 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Please advise which package shall I installed?

$ equery belongs `which dig`
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dig in *... ]
net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.2-r3 (/usr/bin/dig)

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Re: [gentoo-user] About dig command and others

[Ryan Tandy]

Stephen Liu wrote:

[...]


$ sudo emerge -av bind-tools
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[gentoo-user] About dig command and others

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

Gentoo_amd64

My ISP tried to block their unwellcome sites on the proxy server, I suppose, 
disallowing their subscribers visiting them.  The blocked sites can be visited 
locally or abroad without problem via other ISPs OR via www.proxydom.com by me. 
 I tried to verify my suspicion with;

# dig "blocked site IP add" "ISP IP add"
bash: dig: command not found

# emerge --search dig
Searching...
[ Results for search key : dig ]
[ Applications found : 21 ]

*  app-misc/digitemp [ Masked ]
  Latest version available: 3.3.2
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 131 kB
  Homepage:  http://www.digitemp.com http://www.ibutton.com
  Description:   Temperature logging and reporting using Dallas 
Semiconductor's iButtons and 1-Wire protocol
  License:   GPL-2

*  dev-java/commons-digester
  Latest version available: 1.6-r1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 245 kB
  Homepage:  http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/
  Description:   Reads XML configuration files to provide initialization of 
various Java objects within the system.
  License:   Apache-2.0

*  dev-perl/Authen-DigestMD5
  Latest version available: 0.04
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 4 kB
  Homepage:  http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Authen-DigestMD5-0.04/
  Description:   SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication (RFC2831)
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/Digest-HMAC
  Latest version available: 1.01-r1
  Latest version installed: 1.01-r1
  Size of files: 13 kB
  Homepage:  http://search.cpan.org/doc/GAAS/Digest-HMAC-1.01/README
  Description:   Keyed Hashing for Message Authentication
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/Digest-MD4
  Latest version available: 1.5
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 28 kB
  Homepage:  
http://search.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIKEM/DigestMD4/Digest-MD4-1.5.readme
  Description:   MD4 message digest algorithm
  License:   Artistic

*  dev-perl/Digest-Nilsimsa
  Latest version available: 0.06-r1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 77 kB
  Homepage:  
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-Nilsimsa-0.06.readme
  Description:   Digest::Nilsimsa - Perl version of Nilsimsa code
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/Digest-SHA
  Latest version available: 5.41
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 71 kB
  Homepage:  http://search.cpan.org/~mshelor/Digest-SHA-5.41
  Description:   Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/Digest-SHA1
  Latest version available: 2.11
  Latest version installed: 2.11
  Size of files: 37 kB
  Homepage:  
http://cpan.pair.com/modules/by-category/14_Security_and_Encryption/Digest/Digest-SHA1-2.11.readme
  Description:   NIST SHA message digest algorithm
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/IO-Digest
  Latest version available: 0.10
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 15 kB
  Homepage:  
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-Digest-0.10.readme
  Description:   IO::Digest - Calculate digests while reading or writing
  License:   Artistic

*  dev-perl/digest-bubblebabble
  Latest version available: 0.01
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 2 kB
  Homepage:  
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BT/BTROTT/Digest-BubbleBabble-0.01.readme
  Description:   Create bubble-babble fingerprints
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  dev-perl/digest-md2
  Latest version available: 2.03
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 16 kB
  Homepage:  
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD2-2.03.readme
  Description:   Perl interface to the MD2 Algorithm
  License:   || ( Artistic GPL-2 )

*  games-arcade/digger [ Masked ]
  Latest version available: 20020314
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 96 kB
  Homepage:  http://www.digger.org/
  Description:   Digger Remastered
  License:   as-is

*  media-gfx/digikam
  Latest version available: 0.7.4-r1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 24,706 kB
  Homepage:  http://www.digikam.org/
  Description:   A digital photo management application for KDE.
  License:   GPL-2

*  media-plugins/digikamimageplugins
  Latest version available: 0.7.4-r1
  Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
  Size of files: 27,105 kB
  Homepage:  http://www.digikam.org/
  Description:   DigikamImagePlugins are a collection of plugins for 
digiKa

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 25 September 2006 04:49, Christopher Granade wrote:
> I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there
> are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the
> following during compiling:
>
> WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/Module.symvers
>is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
>
>   CC [M]
> /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-ng-0.9.2/work/madwifi-0.9.2/ath/ah_osdep.o
> /bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory
>
> The compile bombs and blocks the entire portage --update --deep world
> process. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You already did send this ones. Did you not receive it the first time or why 
are you creating duplicate thread?

Anyhow, you really should provide more information than the above. Saying that 
the compile bombs out is just vague and useless. Show us the errors 
instead...

Nonetheless, what is the output of: 

# equery check sys-apps/module-init-tools

?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 25 September 2006 02:50, Nick Rout wrote:
> the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the "e" in resolv !)

Good catch, I missed that :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

[Philip Webb]

060924 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
>> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns,
>> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session,
>> so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key.

-- lots of interesting details snipped --

I have simpler needs & use TTY2 only in emergency,
if something has jammed up on TTY1 : I can't remember the last time.
I'll save your description among my "nnotes".

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[gentoo-user] modular X : all's well + a suggestion

[Philip Webb]

Resuming Nvidia with modular X proved to be easy using the Guide,
which anyway agrees to my home-made help file from previous occasions.

The ~x86 driver pkg 8774 offered no difficulties with kernel 2.6.18 ,
except that I had to add a line to  xorg.conf :

  Section "Monitor"
  ...
  DisplaySize 280 210

to avoid having some fonts appear tiny (in KDE 3.5.4):
it was calculating DPI as 75 (wrong), not 92 (correct).
Possibly, this sb added to the trouble-shooting section of the Guide,
as others seem to have run into it (I found the solution on the Forum).

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[gentoo-user] Problem updating madwifi-ng.

[Christopher Granade]

I have madwifi-ng installed and working, but portage tells me that there
are updates available. Upon trying to emerge these updates, I get the
following during compiling:

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/Module.symvers
   is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  CC [M]
/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-ng-0.9.2/work/madwifi-0.9.2/ath/ah_osdep.o
/bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory

The compile bombs and blocks the entire portage --update --deep world
process. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] modular X : Ctl-Alt-F7 fails

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote

> I've never quite understood why it's Ctl-Alt-F7 which returns,
> when the TTY's involved seem to be 1 & 2 .  In fact,
> I've suppressed higher-numbered TTY 3-6 in  /etc/inittab .
> Another test reveals that Ctl-Alt-F3 returns to the X session,
> so perhaps the command to return uses the next free F key.
> Can anyone confirm that ?  Anyway the problem is solved.

  My own setup is somewhat non-standard.  I have...

# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
c7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty7 linux
c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty8 linux
c9:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty9 linux

  I have a regular user account.  I launch X, which takes tty10.  I have
a second "scratch" account for certain tasks, and viewing Google and
other video sites in 400x300 mode or lower.  I tell it to use display :1,
which is tty11.  tty12 is used by kernel log messages.

  A hint for tweaking xorg.conf files.  I have several files in /etc/X11
i.e. /etc/X11/1024xorg.conf /etc/X11/2048xorg.conf /etc/X11/320xorg.conf
/etc/X11/360xorg.conf /etc/X11/400xorg.conf /etc/X11/800xorg.conf and
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.  My regular account has a script ~/bin/x

#! /bin/bash
startx -- -nolisten tcp -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf &

and the scratch account has ~/bin/x1

#! /bin/bash
startx -- :1 -nolisten tcp -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf &

  The regular account launches X with the command "x" to give me a
1280x1024 screen.  When I'm editing large digital photos, I use the
command "x 2048".  This launches X with the file 2048xorg.conf, which
I've set to give me 2048x1536.  When I want to run at 400x300 for
viewing videos, I launch with "x1 400", which invokes X with the config
file 400xorg.conf. I generally run with the following textmode ttys...
tty1 regular user, mutt (email)
tty2 regular user, slrn (usenet)
tty3 regular user, general purpose console
tty4 scratch account
tty5 scratch account
tty7 console when ssh'ing into the other machine (I have a 1999 Dell
 450 mhz PIII that is my emergency backup machine).
tty8 root (occasional use only) when doing admin stuff that requires
 root (emerge sync, etc).
tty9 regular user, used for launching X.  I find that X spits out a lot
 of logging garbage to the tty that launched it.

tty10 used by X session :0
tty11 used by X session :1
tty12 used by kernel logger for message output

  I run textmode at 80x48 (YES, forty-eight rows with 10-pixel-high
font, which is much easier on the eyes than 8x8 font).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 17:47 -0700, Robert Persson wrote:
> I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root
> partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but
> now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware,
> written any files to it since the unfortunate accident.

did you actually _format_ it, or just repartition it?

I see three possible options:
1. repartition it, hoping the filesystem has not been touched
2. run an undelete tool on it (don't know if they exist for reiser,
certainly not for ext3
3. give up!

If you "formatted" it, ie wrote "zero's" all over the place (or whatever
a format does), then good luck, you'll need an "undelete", if there is
such a beast for reiser.

If you just repartitioned it (ie. wrote to the partition table that it
was now an xfs instead of reiserfs) and you've done nothing else, not
even mounted it since, then you _should_ just be able to use fdisk to
redo the partition table.

Use caution! I'd back up the drive with dd or something first, just in
case you screw it up.

repartitioning doesn't necessarily screw with the actual data on the
drive - just the partition table.  I once blew away my partition table
by mistake, and rebuilt it by trial and error by guessing how big the
partition where from memory, and then mounting them to see if I got it
right.

Of course, if you've run anything like mkfs over the partition then
you're probably screwed.

> The tool I used to create the xfs partition was a non-standard, and
> quite possibly inferior one with non-standard behaviour.

so long as it created the partition without mkfs-ing it!

> P.S. In case you are wondering how I managed to do this, it was like
> this:
[snip]
>  Honestly. How could I pass up such a splendid opportunity?

*lol* you can't let an opportunity like that pass by...

HTH.
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[gentoo-user] rsync "locks up" and doesn't continue

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi all,

I have a script that downloads my distfiles from machines on our LAN
before going over the internet.  It uses rsync over ssh to get files
locally, then defaults to wget for internet downloads.

The command line is basically this:
/usr/bin/rsync -avzP --password-file= rsync://@ 
"

which works fine most of the time, so I know the syntax, password and
permissions are correct.  However, sometimes rsync "dies" (the download
process just stops) and I get this sort of message:


Password: *password sent*

receiving file list ...
rsync: link_stat "/usr/portage/distfiles/Net-DNS-0.59.tar.gz" failed: No
such file or directory (2)
0 files to consider

sent 8 bytes  received 21 bytes  58.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1298) [receiver=2.6.8]


And the download won't continue - nor do I get the prompt back because
rsync seems to lock the script up at this point by not returning.  This
is really annoying when it stops at 3 of 50!  I don't mind killing it,
but sometimes this is supposed to run unattended...

Now fair enough, if the file doesn't exist, I can't rsync it, but most
of the time, this makes rsync just exit, and the script continues.

All I can get from google and docs is that code 23 is a "general" error,
meaning some read / write / delete failed.  I'm not out of disk space.

can anyone shed light on this issue?  thanks!
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[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

[Nick Rout]

the file is /etc/resolv.conf (without the "e" in resolv !)



On 9/25/2006, "Harm Geerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



>On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote:

>> I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this

>> exactly...

>>

>> Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated?

>

>yes

>

>> I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the

>> DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some

>> replacement ones.  I think that by setting the DNS servers in

>> the /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info file might change that, however,

>> the file looks machine-generated to me.

>

>It doesn't, that file only shows what the dhcp server told dhcpcd to use.

>It is not used by your system for dns information.

>

>/etc/resolv.conf lists the dns servers your system uses. (nameserver)

>

>> I looked through the wiki to fix this problem but I didn't find anything

>> that looked like it'd help.  Some assistance here would be great.

>>

>> The two DNS servers I need are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.

>

>Configure dhcpcd to run with -R so resolve.conf is not replaced with the

>resolve directives recieved from the dhcp server.

>

>In /etc/conf.d/net:

>config_eth0=("dhcp")

>dhcpcd_eth0="-R"

>

>Now you can add/replace your own dns servers in /etc/resolve.conf

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[gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

[Robert Persson]

I have, much to my intense surprise, managed to reformat my root
partition unintentionally. It was an EVMS native reiserfs volume, but
now it is a normal xfs partition. I haven't, as far as I am aware,
written any files to it since the unfortunate accident.

The tool I used to create the xfs partition was a non-standard, and
quite possibly inferior one with non-standard behaviour. It is also
likely that the xfs partition ends at the 128gb (i.e. 137gb) point on
the disk due to the circumstances in which it was created, whereas the
original reiserfs partition extended beyond the 128gb point.

Is there any possibility of recovering some of the data (there are some
family photos and a few other things I would very much like to retrieve)
or should I just put it down to experience?

Many thanks in advance
Robert

P.S. In case you are wondering how I managed to do this, it was like
this: I need to run a video editing application and one or two other
things in windows 2000. The crossmeta virtual file system drivers
sounded like a good way of sharing the work areas between windows and
linux, especially given the unreliability of ntfs even in windows.
Unfortunately the crossmeta stuff is very poorly documented. Quite apart
from anything else, there is no indication that the drivers just don't
actually work at all, hence lots of pointless troubleshooting and a
boundless potential to create much bigger problems. Add to this the
unfamiliar device naming scheme of crossmeta, and the fact that windows
2000 doesn't, by default, support large drives, even though the disk
manager behaves as if it does, and you have a recipe for a very big 
up. Honestly. How could I pass up such a splendid opportunity?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 25 September 2006 02:05, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this
> exactly...
>
> Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated?

yes

> I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the
> DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some
> replacement ones.  I think that by setting the DNS servers in
> the /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info file might change that, however,
> the file looks machine-generated to me.

It doesn't, that file only shows what the dhcp server told dhcpcd to use.
It is not used by your system for dns information.

/etc/resolv.conf lists the dns servers your system uses. (nameserver)

> I looked through the wiki to fix this problem but I didn't find anything
> that looked like it'd help.  Some assistance here would be great.
>
> The two DNS servers I need are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.

Configure dhcpcd to run with -R so resolve.conf is not replaced with the 
resolve directives recieved from the dhcp server.

In /etc/conf.d/net:
config_eth0=("dhcp")
dhcpcd_eth0="-R"

Now you can add/replace your own dns servers in /etc/resolve.conf
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Robert Persson]

On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 14:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> some forms I might want to keep. 

There's a firefox extension for doing just that - saving half-edited
forms and whatnot. Can't remember what it's called off the top of my
head.

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[gentoo-user] Custom DNS Servers for DHCPCD

[Lord Sauron]

I'm sure this is an easy fix, however, I'm not sure how to do this 
exactly...

Is /var/lib/dhcpc machine generated?

I want to set my own custom DNS servers for my server (the ones that the 
DHCP host gives are wrong and are very slow!) and I have some 
replacement ones.  I think that by setting the DNS servers in 
the /var/lib/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info file might change that, however, 
the file looks machine-generated to me.

I looked through the wiki to fix this problem but I didn't find anything 
that looked like it'd help.  Some assistance here would be great.

The two DNS servers I need are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 25 September 2006 01:34, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that
> > > Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things
> > > have changed sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help...
> > > documentation.
> > >
> > > Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that
> > > explains the new hook framework layout?
> >
> > I'm not sure such documentation exists... What do you want to do?
>
> I had a bash script that would simply delete the archives downloaded to
> distfiles,  after the emerge completed. Really a  handy thing to have,
> managed my distfiles automaticly. It doesn't work anymore since the upgrade
> to portage 2.1.x.
>
> I could fix it, but the hooks have either moved or have been eliminated in
> favor of some other mechanism. Hence my need for documentation or tips...

I'm not really sure I get this right. Did you want to keep your distdir empty 
after each merge or did you want to get rid of sources when they are no 
longer needed? If the latter why don't you use eclean from 
app-portage/gentoolkit? If you wanted something completely different then 
please elaborate...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:16, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that
> > Portage 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have
> > changed sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation.
> >
> > Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that explains
> > the new hook framework layout?
>
> I'm not sure such documentation exists... What do you want to do?

I had a bash script that would simply delete the archives downloaded to 
distfiles,  after the emerge completed. Really a  handy thing to have, 
managed my distfiles automaticly. It doesn't work anymore since the upgrade 
to portage 2.1.x. 

I could fix it, but the hooks have either moved or have been eliminated in 
favor of some other mechanism. Hence my need for documentation or tips...

Jerry

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Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

[Jerry McBride]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:33, Sergio Polini wrote:
> I need your help ;-)
> I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-(
>

--snip--

>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks
> Sergio

Which kernel? Here, running 2.6.18, I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and 
ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm. In /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I add; 
agpgart, ati-agp, drm then radeon. In that specific order. Also, run eselect 
opengl and be sure xorg-x11 is selected. 

Now, I found it necessary to reboot the machine to reload everything in 
correct order, before dri would work. It works pretty well too.

Cheers.  Jerry
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Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 23:05, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage
> 2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed
> sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation.
>
> Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that explains
> the new hook framework layout?

I'm not sure such documentation exists... What do you want to do?

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[gentoo-user] qmail and spamassassin

[henkg]

Hello,

I am trying to install spamassassin in my qmail system. 
I followed the instructions in the gentoo docs, so installed 
spamassassin followed by qmail-scanner.
I added an export line to conf-common and checked qmail-scanner-queue.pl 
and restarted svscan.

Simple messages are processed correctly and simulated spam messages are 
discarded correctly, however messages from this list cause an error in 
qmail-smtpd. I get log entries like this:

clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or 
memory/resource/perms
problem - exit status 512/2

I have tried all references to clam, trijd to reinstall clamav and 
qmail-scanner, but I can't get rid of these messages. qmail-smtpd fails 
after this, so the sender thinks there is a problem with my email, which 
is true

I went back to regular qmail for now, but am still interrested in a 
solution or indication of what might be the problem.

Kind regards, 

Henk.

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Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

[Richard Fish]

On 9/24/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  # CONFIG_DRM is not set


If you want DRI, you have two choices:

1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver.  For
this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in your
kernel configuration.  This doesn't work for all chips yet AFAIK.

2. the proprietary ATI drivers.  For this you don't change the kernel
configuration, but add "fglrx" to VIDEO_CARDS, and change your
xorg.conf driver from "radeon" to "fglrx".

HTH,
-Richard
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[gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1

[Sergio Polini]

I need your help ;-)
I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-(
My configuration:

HP dv5078EA (laptop)
Gentoo AMD64
Kernel 2.6.12-r10

in /usr/src/linux/.config:
  CONFIG_MTRR=y
  CONFIG_AGP=y
  CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
  CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
  # CONFIG_DRM is not set

output of lspci | grep VGA:
  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon 
XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)

output of lspci | grep AGP:
  

sys-apps/portage 2.1.1
media-libs/mesa 6.4.2-r2
x11-base/xorg-x11 7.0-r1
x11-base/x11--drm 20060608

in /etc/make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS="vga radeon"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
  Section "Module"
Load  "dri"
Load  "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load  "type1"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "synaptics"
Load  "glx"
  EndSection
  Section "Device"
Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Driver  "radeon"
Option  "AGPFastWrite" "1"
  EndSection

output of eselect opengl show:
  xorg-x11

output of glxinfo | grep direct:
  direct rendering: No 
  OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
  (II) LoadModule: "dri"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
  ...
  (II) Loading sub module "drm"
  (II) LoadModule: "drm"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libdrm.so
  ...
  (II) Loading sub module "radeon"
  (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
  (II) Reloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
  ...
  (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" ChipID 
= 0x5955)
  (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xc000
  (II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected 
  drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address)
  drmOpenDevice: Open failed
  drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0
  drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: Open failed
  drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023
  drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: Open failed
  ...
  drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
  drmOpenDevice: Open failed
  (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
  [dri] Disabling DRI.

output of lsmod, first three lines;
  Module  Size  Used by
  radeon123808  0
  drm   101544  1 radeon

output of ls -al /dev/dri:
  total 0

Docs checked:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers

Any hints?

Thanks
Sergio
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[gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

[Jerry McBride]

Well... it's time I revisited my /etc/portage/bashrc file, now that Portage 
2.1 is vogue. My old bashrc doesn't work anymore and things have changed 
sufficiently with 2.1 that I need some help... documentation.

Would anyone happen to know where the API for Portage 2.1, that explains the 
new hook framework layout?

Thanks.

Jerry

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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Pawel Kraszewski]

Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 11:51, Stephen Liu napisał:

> I'm suffering poweroff problem, on exiting "System halted" but not
> poweroff.

First of all - you may try the installation CD of Gentoo - boot it and 
give 'halt -p' at command prompt. If it switches off, that means error in 
your config. If it doesn't, this might be the hardware fault.

Put some light and describe your hardware. Especially - which motherboard 
model, drop your 'lspci' output. Contents of '/var/log/dmesg' might also be 
helpful. The latter might be too big for this mailing list, so don't hesitate 
to drop it gzipped directly to my address. 

By the way - did you inspect your BIOS settings for ACPI/power management 
misconfiguration? 

If you want, I may drop you my kernel configuration (AMD64, Nforce3 based 
mainboard) - due to my work it covers all usable filesystems and most IPv4 
toys. It does switch off without problem - you may use it as a starting point 
for experiments.

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[gentoo-user] Re: sabayon

[Thufir]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:47:11 +0100, Mick wrote:

> On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote:
>> > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire
>> > > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using
>> > > pre-compiled binary packages."
>> > >
>> > > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install?
>> >
>> > I presume that the statement may refer to a stage 3 Vs a stage 1
>> > install?
>>
>> A Stage 3 is the standard Gentoo install, which seems remarkably similar
>> to what Sabayon is offering and nothing like what they claim Gentoo does.
> 
> Indeed.  I don't know when they started, or when that statement was penned, 
> but it may have been back in the day when we were all bootstrapping our 
> systems.

in all fairness, that quote is from wikipedia, not sabayon directly.


-Thufir

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Remy Blank wrote:


Jorge Almeida wrote:

Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
some forms I might want to keep.


You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete".

Thanks.

Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.

Not bad, as non-CLI tricks go.




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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Remy Blank]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since
> some forms I might want to keep.

You can remove an entry by highlighting it and pressing "Shfit-Delete".
Not user-friendly, but still quite useful.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Cannot delete symlinks which point to folders on a different filesystem

[Mick]

On Saturday 23 September 2006 14:26, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm having a problem with Nautilus from Gnome 2.16 (I also had this
> with 2.14.x).
>
> On my Desktop folder, I've got a symlink:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop $ ls -la `pwd`/Bilder
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexander alexander 20 23. Sep 16:07
> /home/alexander/Desktop/Bilder -> /mnt/HD/share/Bilder
>
> When I now try to move this link into the trash (by selecting it and
> pressing  or by selecting the appropriate action from the context
> menu), I get an error message:
>
> Fehler: »Nicht auf demselben Dateisystem«
> beim Löschen von »/home/alexa...top/Bilder«.
>
> Wollen Sie fortfahren?
>
> [ Abbrechen ] [ Wiederholen ]
>
>
> Error "Not on the same file system"
> while deleting "/home/alex...top/Bilder".
>
> Would you like to continue?
>
> [ Cancel ] [ Retry ]
>
> (With a different user, I don't get any message at all - ie. there's
> no message and just nothing happens when I hit  - but that's
> a different issue...)
>
> Well, the message is correct - the symlink points to a different
> filesystem. To a NFS mounted directory, to be exact.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? How can I delete symlinks to a
> different filesystem with Nautilus?

I'm afraid I am not familiar with Nautilus, but here are some thoughts which 
might help.  Could this be something related to having a following "/" when 
running the rm command?  What I mean is that the following two commands are 
not the same:

rm /home/alexander/Desktop/Bilder

and 

rm /home/alexander/Desktop/Bilder/

the latter will try to descend into the directory Bilder.  The former will 
only remove the symlink Bilder from the desktop directory.  Not sure how 
Nautilus runs it, although the error shows that it does not descent?

Of course all of the above may become further complicated when the command 
transcends fs mounted with restrictive access rights (as far as the shell 
executing the command is concerned).  Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable 
than I can help here.
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[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 2.6.18 : 2 questions : 1 answered

[Philip Webb]

060923 Philip Webb wrote:
> I've successfully installed Kernel 2.6.18
> -- is it imagination or is it a bit faster on this desktop ? -- ,
> but there are a couple of simple questions I'm not sure how to answer.
> (1) I used 'make xconfig' & it didn't show me the 'PPP' option:
> when I used "find" from the "edit" menu, it showed up
> & I was able to add it, but it's not under the tree-menu.
> Is this a glitch in the 'xconfig' interface or did I miss something ?

Anyone have any thoughts about this one ?

> (2) I compiled the sensor items into the kernel, not as modules,
> but I'm now left with  2  orphan module lines when Init runs:
> "loading lm_sensors modules ... [!!] ".

It appears that Lm_sensors doesn't need to be run as an init script,
as Gkrellm is showing temperatures & fan speed regardless.
Today's little lesson ... (smile)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:


This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page.

You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to:

Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms


OK, thank you. 
Still, it would be nice to be able to edit the saved contents, since

some forms I might want to keep. Do you know where the information is
kept? I would think it should be the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/crlyhjhn.default/formhistory.dat
but I searched for some words appearing in the Wikipedia search field
and I didn't find them in the file...
A low-level editing would be enough, even if Firefox doesn't provide an
interface to history editing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:30, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which
> displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing
> appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such
> information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with
> Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no
> Wikipedia cookies in Firefox...
>
> --
> Jorge Almeida

This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page.

You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to:

Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms

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[gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox

[Jorge Almeida]

When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which
displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing
appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such
information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with
Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no
Wikipedia cookies in Firefox...

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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Mick]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:35, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Mick
>
> > Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On.
>
> Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo.  Would it be better?   Tks
>
> Remarks:
> This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change it back to its
> previous version.
>
> Tks

Yes, this fixed it nicely.  It's in plain text now.

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Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

[Mick]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 11:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire
> > > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using
> > > pre-compiled binary packages."
> > >
> > > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install?
> >
> > I presume that the statement may refer to a stage 3 Vs a stage 1
> > install?
>
> A Stage 3 is the standard Gentoo install, which seems remarkably similar
> to what Sabayon is offering and nothing like what they claim Gentoo does.

Indeed.  I don't know when they started, or when that statement was penned, 
but it may have been back in the day when we were all bootstrapping our 
systems.
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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Mick 

> Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On.   

Now I checked the option again and reload yahoo.  Would it be better?   Tks

Remarks:
This is a beta version of Yahoo. I don't know how to change it back to its 
previous version.

Tks

B.R.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?

[Mick]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:51, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net?
>
> I have tried this and it does NOT work.
>
> >> I'm afraid it gives nothing!
> >
> > It sounds like dns_domain is not set.
>
> Considering that I have tried it ... I know it not to work, so I have
> little doubt that he tried it himself.  This isn't hard to reproduce
> guys 

Wey, hey!  I fixed it. :)

The problem was the order of entries in the /etc/hosts file; localhost should 
be *last* in the order of names entered.  This works:

127.0.0.1locahost

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Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:04:40 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire
> > operating system from source code, the initial install is made using
> > pre-compiled binary packages."
> >
> > How is this different from a standard Gentoo install?  
> 
> I presume that the statement may refer to a stage 3 Vs a stage 1
> install?

A Stage 3 is the standard Gentoo install, which seems remarkably similar
to what Sabayon is offering and nothing like what they claim Gentoo does.


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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Mick]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:51, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> > Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users...
>
> Oh, sorry.  I did not recognise that after changing to "yahoo mail beta". 
> Now I enabled "Compose messages as plain text".  Please advise me if still
> on html posting.  Tks.

Unfortunately, both HTML posting and 'top posting' are still switched On.  ;-)

http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

I am not familiar with Yahoo, but is it perhaps a matter of switching HTML off 
on a per message basis as well as a global setting?  Bear in mind that some 
people filter out HMTL messages all together - resulting in a smaller 
audience for you problem . . .
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Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

[Mick]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 08:55, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> "Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire
> operating system from source code, the initial install is made using
> pre-compiled binary packages."
>
> How is this different from a standard Gentoo install?

I presume that the statement may refer to a stage 3 Vs a stage 1 install?
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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Pawel,Tks for your advice.> Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users...Oh, sorry.  I did not recognise that after changing to "yahoo mail beta".  Now I enabled "Compose messages as plain text".  Please advise me if still on html posting.  Tks.I'm suffering poweroff problem, on exiting "System halted" but not poweroff.  Before reading your positng I did following steps.# cd /usr/src/linux# make menuconfigchecked "Legacy Power Management API"cheched "Video" on "ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support" # make# make install.GRUB is installed. To automatically switch to new kernels, point yourdefault entry in
 menu.lst to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r7* end *# make modules_installEdited /boot/grub/grub.confkernel  (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 noapic...* end *Rebooted PC and then ShutdownERROR : Cannot stop localmount as net.eth0 is still up...Shutdown : hdaSystem halted* end *But still not poweroffRemark: the only difference from your advice is running;# make# make install# make modules_installthe other way round.# cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/.config | grep APICONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=yCONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=yCONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=yCONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support# CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXPORT_FULL_API is not set# CONFIG_E1000_NAPI is not set# CONFIG_S2IO_NAPI is not set* end *# cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7/.config | grep ACPICONFIG_X86_64_ACPI_NUMA=y# ACPI
 (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) SupportCONFIG_ACPI=yCONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=yCONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=yCONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_SLEEP=yCONFIG_ACPI_AC=yCONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=yCONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=yCONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y# CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is not setCONFIG_ACPI_FAN=yCONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=yCONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU=yCONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=yCONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y# CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set# CONFIG_ACPI_IBM is not setCONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA=yCONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not setCONFIG_ACPI_EC=yCONFIG_ACPI_POWER=yCONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=yCONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=yCONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY=yCONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI=yCONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=yCONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF=y* end *B.R.SLCorrect sequence for kernel generation/update is:Go to
 your new kernel directory and first get your running kernel config (if you enabled this in previous kernel):# zcat /proc/config.gz > .configNow fix the config (observing which options have "NEW" at the end and consulting online help what do they mean)# make menuconfigor# make xconfigNow compile the kernel# makeAnd install it# make modules_install# make installAfterwards you do nothing (if you have GRUB) or run lilo (guess, if you have LILO :)Take note, that some software doesn't work in monolithic kernel (meaning with modules disabled) - especially third-party binary drivers (nvidia, ATI, probably ndiswrapper)--  Pawel Kraszewski www.kraszewscy.net-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] kernel config for laptop

[Rumen Yotov]

Hi,
Used my desktop kernel-config as a base for a laptop config.
Quite all is OK, except console/text-mode scrolling.
The text scrolls till the end of screen then scrolls only on the last
line. No such problems under X.
Any hints will be appreciated. Haven't looked very much in
kernel-config, just changed mobo-chipset, CPU, eth0 etc.
PS: Don't post whole config as it's quite big, even zipped, maybe only a
section of it as needed.
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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Pawel Kraszewski]

Dnia niedziela, 24 września 2006 01:46, Stephen Liu napisał:

Please, switch off HTML posting as it annoys plenty of users...

Correct sequence for kernel generation/update is:

Go to your new kernel directory and first get your running kernel config (if 
you enabled this in previous kernel):

# zcat /proc/config.gz > .config

Now fix the config (observing which options have "NEW" at the end and 
consulting online help what do they mean)

# make menuconfig
or
# make xconfig

Now compile the kernel

# make

And install it

# make modules_install
# make install

Afterwards you do nothing (if you have GRUB) or run lilo (guess, if you have 
LILO :)

Take note, that some software doesn't work in monolithic kernel (meaning with 
modules disabled) - especially third-party binary drivers (nvidia, ATI, 
probably ndiswrapper)

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Re: [gentoo-user] recompiing kernel quesiton

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:46:38 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Liu wrote:

> cp arch/x86-64/boot/bzImage /boot ??

No
 
> OR
> 
> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot ??

No
 
> Afterwards shall I run;
> # make install

Yes. This will install the correct kernel to the correct location.

> # make modules_install
> 
> I haven't enable "module"

If you haven't enabled modules., there are no modules to install.
However, the command will do no harm, it will just install nothing and
exit.


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Re: [gentoo-user] sabayon

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:21:01 +0100, Thufir wrote:

> I was just perusing , which
> seems interesting, as it uses anaconda,
> , during the install.

"Sabayon differs from Gentoo in that instead of installing the entire
operating system from source code, the initial install is made using
pre-compiled binary packages."

How is this different from a standard Gentoo install?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.


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