[gentoo-user] Error compiling jpeg for kde

[Mike Diehl]

Hi all.

I'm trying to emerge kde and I'm getting an error when the system tries to 
emerge media-libs/jpeg.

So, where do I get crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o?

TIA,


i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/crtbeginS.o: No 
such file or directory
i386-pc-linux-gnu-g++: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/crtendS.o: No such 
file or directory
make: *** [libjpeg.la] Error 1

!!! ERROR: media-libs/jpeg-6b-r8 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1615:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 972:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
  jpeg-6b-r8.ebuild, line 36:   Called die

!!! make failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/jpeg-6b-r8/temp/build.log'.


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[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers text corruption problem.

[grante]

In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts
>> contents of some scrolling text windows.  It looks like this:
>> 
>>   http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png
>
> wow, never seen that and I've used most versions of ati-drivers up to
> x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1

The only program it reliably happens with is aterm.  Other
terminal programs don't seem to trigger the bug.  I suspect
that rxvt will also trigger it since they share a lot of code.
I'm not sure when it started to happen.  I think it worked OK
back in the 8.2x series, but you can't run those drivers with
newer kernels and new versions of xorg.

> maybe provide your card specs?

It's an IBM Thinkpad with an M22 X300 chipset w/ 64MB of
RAM.  I can look up the chipset rev tomorrow.

>> The Xorg "radeon" driver doesn't have this problem, but DRI
>> support in that driver doesn't work for some of the programs I
>> run.
>
> unfortunately, neither the xorg radeon driver nor the ati radeon driver
> give me very good performance... on a RV350 "Mobility Radeon 9600 M10".

Yea, I've noticed that.  The radeon driver DRI support only
works for some programs and at about a 20% reduced frame rate.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts
> contents of some scrolling text windows.  It looks like this:
> 
>   http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png

wow, never seen that and I've used most versions of ati-drivers up to
x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1

maybe provide your card specs?


> The Xorg "radeon" driver doesn't have this problem, but DRI
> support in that driver doesn't work for some of the programs I
> run.

unfortunately, neither the xorg radeon driver nor the ati radeon driver
give me very good performance... on a RV350 "Mobility Radeon 9600 M10".

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Philip Webb]

070615 Andrea Bona wrote:
> 070614 Philip Webb wrote:
>> what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
> I think that [I] means that the package is already installed.

Yes, that seems intuitive & matches experience;
it's part of Eix (not Portage) & doesn't seem actually to be documented.

> Maybe here you will find something related:
>  
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output

Thanks: that's very useful.  I tend to forget the wiki (smile).

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Andrea Bona]

I think that [I] means that the package is already installed.
Maybe here you will find something related:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output

Bye
Andrea

On 6/15/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

070614 Arnau Bria wrote:
> what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output?
> I did not find it in eix man page..

Someone else has answered this, but I have a couple of related questions:
what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
Does anyone know ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Philip Webb]

070614 Arnau Bria wrote:
> what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix output?
> I did not find it in eix man page..

Someone else has answered this, but I have a couple of related questions:
what does [I] mean ?  and where are these letters documented ?
Does anyone know ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

[Peter Alfredsen]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote:

> Thanks for the info but I build everything in the kernel.  I never liked
> modules.  I suspect that something did change about the kernel though.
> I may just stick with the older kernel for now and try another version
> later.
>
> Still open to ideas though.

If you post the output of this command:
lspci -s 01:0a.0 -n
We will have the PCI id to search for. Might make it easier to find bug 
reports.

The output of this command:
dmesg|egrep -i -A3 "(alsa|sound)"
Should give us an idea of whether your kernel actually detects your sound 
card.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on Dell Servers

[kashani]

Mick wrote:

Guys, has anyone installed a gentoo LAMP on:

Dell Server:
==
If yes, what are the gotchas, in terms of kernel config, hardware, etc?  I 
have never installed a 64bit system yet, so I guess that'll be another thing 
to read on.


When building a server is it worth considering some GNAP type of set up, or 
should one build a complete Gentoo system with /usr/portage and all?


I've installed Gentoo on pretty much every Dell server that has come out 
in the past five years and used 64bit on all the newer stuff from the 
past year or so. Never had an issue even with the wonky 6650. I never 
bothered with anything special other than local rsync and 
http-replicator and just used portage locally on each box.


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[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on Dell Servers

[Mick]

Guys, has anyone installed a gentoo LAMP on:

Dell Server:
==
Base Unit: Dual Core Xeon Processor 5050,2x2MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 667MHz FSB, PE 
1950 (222-2398)
Processor: Information,No Second Processor (311-1193)
Memory: 4GB 667MHz (4X1GB), Dual Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs (311-6154)
Video Card: Broadcom Dual Port TCP/IP Offload Engine Key Not Enabled 
(430-1748)
Video Memory: Riser with 2 PCIe Slots for PowerEdge 1950 (320-4648)
Hard Drive: 160GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive (341-3036)
Hard Drive Controller: PERC 5/i, Integrated Controller Card (341-3094)
Operating System: No Operating System (420-6320)
Mouse: Mouse Option None (310-0024)
NIC: Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC (430-1762)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive: 24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive for PowerEdge Servers, 
All OS (313-3918)
Sound Card: Bezel for PE 1950 (313-3937)
Speakers: 1x2 Backplane for 3.5-inch Hard Drives (311-5755)
Documentation Diskette: Electronic Documentation and OpenManage CD Kit, PE1950 
(310-7962)
Additional Storage Products: 160GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive 
(341-3036)
Feature Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1 PERC 5/i Integrated (341-3084)
Feature Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universal 
(341-3090)
Misc: Redundant Power Supply with Y-Cord for PowerEdge 1950 (310-7461)
==

Or perhaps this one:
==
Base Unit: 925, 2x2MB Cache, 3.0GHz Pentium D, 800MHz Front Side Bus for 
PowerEdge 860 (222-7177)
Memory: 3GB DDR2, 667MHz, 2x512MB/ Single Ranked DIMMs 2x1GB, Single Ranked 
DIMMs (311-6324)
Video Card: Broadcom TCP/IP Offload EngineNot Enabled (430-1765)
Video Memory: Riser with 2 Slots: 1 PCI Exprx8 slot and 1 PCI Express x4 slot 
(320-4959)
Hard Drive: 160GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (341-4204)
Hard Drive Controller: SAS5iR SAS RAID Controller, Internal, PCIe (341-3874)
Operating System: No Operating System (420-6320)
NIC: On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter, No TOE (430-2008)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive: 24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive for PowerEdge Servers, 
All OS (313-4711)
Sound Card: Bezel (313-4428)
Documentation Diskette: No Hard Copy Documentation E-Docs Only and OpenManage 
CD Kit (310-8180)
Additional Storage Products: 160GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPM Hard Drive 
(341-4204)
Feature Add-in SAS5iR RAID Controller (SATA/SAS Controller) which supports 2 
Hard Drives - RAID 1 (341-3870)
Feature Rack Chassis w/Rapid Rails forDell, HPQ or other Square HoleRacks, 
PE1750 (310-3955)
==

If yes, what are the gotchas, in terms of kernel config, hardware, etc?  I 
have never installed a 64bit system yet, so I guess that'll be another thing 
to read on.

When building a server is it worth considering some GNAP type of set up, or 
should one build a complete Gentoo system with /usr/portage and all?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

[Roy Wright]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable
> packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a
> personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so
> this doesn't happen to me again.  So I'm interested in
> recommendations.  What did you switch to?
>

I just switched to shorewall.  I configured it to only allow in SSH,
but have one weirdy when I try to test using nmap -v -A -P0 in that
sometimes nmap reports only port 22 open and 113 closed as expected,
but other times it also reports ports 80, 554, and 1755 open, which
has me really confused and concerned.

One word of advice on using shorewall, compile the netfilter options
in your kernel as modules, not directly linked in...  That one lead
me on a merry chase until I punted and switched to using modules...


HTH,
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[gentoo-user] ati-drivers text corruption problem.

[Grant Edwards]

All of the recent ati-drivers seem to have a bug that corrupts
contents of some scrolling text windows.  It looks like this:

  http://www.visi.com/~grante/fglrxbug.png

Has anybody else seen this issue or know what to do about it?

  
Older versions of the driver that didn't have that bug won't
build for recent kernels and/or run under xorg 7.2.

The Xorg "radeon" driver doesn't have this problem, but DRI
support in that driver doesn't work for some of the programs I
run.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real Time kernel patch

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/14/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Mark Knecht  gmail.com> writes:



> 1) Install layman
> 2) Hook yourself up to the pro-audio overlay
> 3) Emerge rt-sources
> 4) Enjoy


> If you need info on how to set up the configuration either write back
> here or contact me directly off line.

Hello Mark,

I'm building up a system now I can devote to
exploring rt kernels. My application needs
are quite similar to audio requirements. Audio
will be a good application to initially set
up  and run some tests/benchmarks.


My interests is
massive IO across
a variety of hardware ports, simultaneously.

Research on SCADA systems with 3D graphics to be specific.


Thanks for the info,

James


James



Sounds quite interesting. Good luck in your studies.

As I'm sure you know audio by itself is not a large drain on
processing power. With that in mind you may find that adding in some
audio processors, such as Jamin, will add another stress to your
system when you're looking at how well your IO subsystem is really
performing.

Anyway, it's all in the pro-audio overlay. There is a good Wiki on
setting it up but it's so simple and well run that I'm sure you won't
have any troubles.

Cheers,
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[gentoo-user] Re: Real Time kernel patch

[James]

Mark Knecht  gmail.com> writes:



> 1) Install layman
> 2) Hook yourself up to the pro-audio overlay
> 3) Emerge rt-sources
> 4) Enjoy


> If you need info on how to set up the configuration either write back
> here or contact me directly off line.

Hello Mark,

I'm building up a system now I can devote to 
exploring rt kernels. My application needs
are quite similar to audio requirements. Audio
will be a good application to initially set 
up  and run some tests/benchmarks.


My interests is 
massive IO across
a variety of hardware ports, simultaneously.

Research on SCADA systems with 3D graphics to be specific.


Thanks for the info,

James


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Re: [gentoo-user] Real Time kernel patch

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/14/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,

Here is a fairly detailed article about RT on the 2.6 kernel
series:

http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903277

My question to those using any of the low-latency options
in a 2.6 based kernel are:

1. Which sources do you start off with.

2. Any patches you apply

3 Options you configure, why and any results you want to talk about.

4. Any wiki or setup guides out there that are useful?


James


Very simple:

1) Install layman
2) Hook yourself up to the pro-audio overlay
3) Emerge rt-sources
4) Enjoy

Note that the pro-audio guys are *very* proactive about supporting
Ingo's kernels so you may get something very leading edge if you just
emerge. I'm currently at the bleading edge as of two days ago:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a
Linux lightning 2.6.21.4-rt12-cfs-v17 #1 PREEMPT RT Tue Jun 12
09:11:05 PDT 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

If you need info on how to set up the configuration either write back
here or contact me directly off line.

Hope this helps,
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
> hi,
>
> could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> output? I did not find it in eix man page..
>
> $ eix -c claws-mail
> [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is
> an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+

D means downgrade. According to your output, portage will downgrade 
claws-mail from v2.9.1 to v2.6.1

I'm not sure why it wants to do that as both versions are marked stable 
for all arches except x86-freebsd (~ for 2.9.1)

Perhaps you haven't synced in a while, or you put an entry in 
packages.mask recently?

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Arnau Bria]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:58:23 +0200
Alex Schuster wrote:

> Arnau Bria writes:
> 
> > could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> > output? I did not find it in eix man page..
> >
> > $ eix -c claws-mail
> > [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is
> > an email client (and news reader) based on GTK+
> 
> It is installed, but would be downgraded with the next emerge.
Thanks! 
>   Alex
Arnau

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[gentoo-user] Real Time kernel patch

[James]

Hello,

Here is a fairly detailed article about RT on the 2.6 kernel 
series:

http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903277

My question to those using any of the low-latency options
in a 2.6 based kernel are:

1. Which sources do you start off with.

2. Any patches you apply

3 Options you configure, why and any results you want to talk about.

4. Any wiki or setup guides out there that are useful?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Jean-Baptiste Mestelan]

On 6/14/07, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Can you mv the dep directory to another name, and re-create it with
emerge --metadata?


Hey, this worked !!!
I could not touch the files in /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/
but I could mv at an above level :
mv /var/cache/edb/dep /var/cache/edb/dep_hopelessly_broken worked all right.
I had not thought of this ; thanks for suggesting :-)

And emerge --metadata worked now ! very happy !
I will try to fsck -f the offending filesys, now.

Thank you, Alex.
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Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

[Alex Schuster]

Arnau Bria writes:

> could someone explain me what's the meaning of the [D] in this eix
> output? I did not find it in eix man page..
>
> $ eix -c claws-mail
> [D] mail-client/claws-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/05/07 -> 2.6.1): Claws-Mail is 
> an
> email client (and news reader) based on GTK+

It is installed, but would be downgraded with the next emerge.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Rudmer van Dijk]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed...
> >
> > what filesystem are you using?
> > and have you tried to do a fsck on it?
>
> It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on it, which reported no
> errors. It looks like the fs is out of sync with itself : some files are
> listed, which do not really exist.
>
> Better backup that data, and prepare for re-installing the system
> soon, I suppose.

well, re-installation is not necessary: you can tar the contents of the 
affected partition, umount partition, re-create the filesystem and then untar 
the backup (do not forget to use --preserve-permissions).

if it is your root partition you need a live-cd or installation-cd to 
accomplish this.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products

[Daniel Iliev]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:25:29 +1200
"Kent Fredric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 6/14/07, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, guys
> >
> > I hope some of you won't find this message too much spam-alike.
> > Today I accidentally found there is a petition on-line [1]. It
> > represents a request to Blizzard to include Linux installers in
> > their products. I thought the gamers from the list might be
> > interested in signing that petition. Even I'm not a gamer (anymore)
> > I signed it, because I hate it when big companies ignore the Linux
> > community.
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/
> >
> 
> +Voted
> 
> I argued I don't game any more _because_ of the lack of linux games
> that were not already bored with. HIstorically, game  dev's argument
> has been along the lines of 'if they want to game,  they'll just use
> windows, or get a console'.
> 
> What they don't realize, is its possible many of us have simply lost
> interest in the gaming community simply because 'just use windows'
> isn't really viable for most of us :P
> 
> And emulation sucks ass, good ol starcraft is only /just/ playable in
> all the emulators i've tried :(   (Wine-family)
> 
> 


There is recent news on Id Software's site that the new technology
they are working on is based on Mac. More info:

http://www.idsoftware.com/

I lost my interest in games mostly because I have changed. There was a
time I wouldn't miss a new game for any reason. Now I haven't seen yet
even how does WOW look like. As I said it has nothing to do with Linux,
Licenses, policy etc. I just lost the thrill as the years passed by.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Alex Schuster]

Jean-Baptiste Mestelan writes:

> I have manually deleted a lot of files from  /var/cache/edb/dep, but
> the offending ones can  neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all
> right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the
> remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling, indeed.

How did you try to remove them? You might need to use the inode mumber to 
remove them, althouh I think a rm -r should work, too. See 
.

Did you force the fsck with -f?

Can you mv the dep directory to another name, and re-create it with 
emerge --metadata?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Jean-Baptiste Mestelan]

On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed...

what filesystem are you using?
and have you tried to do a fsck on it?


It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on it, which reported no errors.
It looks like the fs is out of sync with itself : some files are
listed, which do not really exist.

Better backup that data, and prepare for re-installing the system
soon, I suppose.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I upgraded my kernel the other day and now I have no sound at all.  I
>> have checked Alsamixer and Kmix to make sure it is not muted and it
>>
>> appears to be turned up there.  This is lspci:
>> 
>>> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
>>> (rev 0a)
>>>   
>> I have this built into my kernel:
>> 
>>> <*> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS)
>>>   
>> I copied my old .config over and did a make oldconfig but it has the
>> same setup as before.  I just don't have any sound at all.  I did
>> make sure my speakers are powered on, plugged into the puter and
>> everything I checked says it is unmuted.  Maybe I missed one though.
>>
>> The kernel version that works is gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6, the one
>> that does _not_ work is gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 if that will help.
>>
>> I did boot my old kernel, the 18 version, and the sound works fine. 
>> If I boot the new 20 version, nothing.  Kernel problem or am I
>> missing something?
>> 
>
> I had a similar thing, no sound with any kernel after .18
>
> My card is not the same as yours so my exact solution won't work for 
> you. What I did was note which modules were loaded, then run alsaconf 
> and let it do it's thing. Note which new modules it loaded and put 
> those in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
>
> It appeared to be that the modules dependency information changed with 
> my driver around .18 and the earlier config just didn't cut it anymore. 
> Of course, I could also be completely wrong :-)
>
> alan
>
>   

Thanks for the info but I build everything in the kernel.  I never liked
modules.  I suspect that something did change about the kernel though. 
I may just stick with the older kernel for now and try another version
later.

Still open to ideas though.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in the workplace

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Sartorelli, Jason wrote:
> Hi there,
> This is possibly already answered elsewhere, however I've trolled
> through google to no avail. I've upgraded my work machine from a
> Windows 2000 machine to Gentoo (running on a Dell GX520) with VMware
> running XP, Vista, 2000.
>
> Most things run fine, but unfortunately I've had a few problems with
> things such as Active X pages (i.e. Cisco Call Manager, Infra, etc).
>
> I've tried using wine (version 0.9.29) and installing IE however I
> couldn't find the full installer and we use a proxy here (the
> installer craps out when trying to set it up within the installer) So
> I installed ieslinux and tried that - it seems to work and lets me
> load some pages however they don't all load correctly... infect the
> majority don't... So I unmasked wine with the x86 keyword and tried
> both options again with the same results for the first option and
> ieslinux getting to the same place and stopping (but with text
> visibility bugs) and so I've now reverted back to wine 0.9.29 and am
> officially stuck. Firefox doesn't seem to support Active X at all,
> however there was a plugin for v1.5 which I tried and didn't have any
> luck with.

0.9.29 is 9 months old now, you want something more recent
0.9.38 is the most recent but it has font problems, so unmask wine, but 
do mask out the specific version 0.9.38
To get IE working and be installable, use ies4linux
To get lots of other stuff working, use winetricks by Dan Kegel (google 
will find the script for you)

Warning: if you use either of these hack solutions, don't ask for 
support on the wine lists. You'll probably get better help here

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IE will never work in wine.
>
> That's total crap. Every version of IE (even IE 7 to some extent)
> works with wine. ies4linux is a fine example, showing that you're
> totally wrong.

Agreed. It's more correct to say that projects like ies4linux and 
winetricks will get IE working correctly, but to do it they heavily 
rely on native windows dlls. This is fine for the user to get stuff 
working, but the wine devs would rather folk didn't, as the wine code 
then doesn't get used/tested/fixed.

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade, no sound.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded my kernel the other day and now I have no sound at all.  I
> have checked Alsamixer and Kmix to make sure it is not muted and it
>
> appears to be turned up there.  This is lspci:
> > 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
> > (rev 0a)
>
> I have this built into my kernel:
> > <*> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS)
>
> I copied my old .config over and did a make oldconfig but it has the
> same setup as before.  I just don't have any sound at all.  I did
> make sure my speakers are powered on, plugged into the puter and
> everything I checked says it is unmuted.  Maybe I missed one though.
>
> The kernel version that works is gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6, the one
> that does _not_ work is gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 if that will help.
>
> I did boot my old kernel, the 18 version, and the sound works fine. 
> If I boot the new 20 version, nothing.  Kernel problem or am I
> missing something?

I had a similar thing, no sound with any kernel after .18

My card is not the same as yours so my exact solution won't work for 
you. What I did was note which modules were loaded, then run alsaconf 
and let it do it's thing. Note which new modules it loaded and put 
those in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

It appeared to be that the modules dependency information changed with 
my driver around .18 and the earlier config just didn't cut it anymore. 
Of course, I could also be completely wrong :-)

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Rudmer van Dijk]

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> Many thanks for your kind answers.
>
> I have tried to emerge --metadata, too, and the result is just the same.
>
> localhost ~ # emerge --metadata
>
> >>> Updating Portage cache:  Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5530, in ?
> retval = emerge_main()
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5489, in emerge_main
> action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts)
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4300, in action_metadata
> eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 22, in mirror_cache
> dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys())
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py", line 95, in keys
> return tuple(self.iterkeys())
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 122, in iterkeys
> st = os.lstat(p)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12'
> 
> I have manually deleted a lot of files from  /var/cache/edb/dep, but
> the offending ones can  neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all
> right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the
> remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling, indeed.
> 
> I thought some wise list member might correct me in the way I use
> portage, but I am getting to think that the problem is with the file
> system, more than with portage ?

hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed...

what filesystem are you using?
and have you tried to do a fsck on it?


> I'll report a bug (Gentoo bug ?) , if this is more appropriate.

I don't think it is useful, the problem is clearly not in portage but on your 
filesystem. on the other hand if your filesystem is damaged through use of 
portage...


> Here is my emerge --info, anyhow :

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hmm, this is not suppost to be there...


you really should be backing up your valuable data and checking your 
haddrive/filesystem for errors.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Jean-Baptiste Mestelan]

Many thanks for your kind answers.

I have tried to emerge --metadata, too, and the result is just the same.

localhost ~ # emerge --metadata


Updating Portage cache:  Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5530, in ?
   retval = emerge_main()
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5489, in emerge_main
   action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts)
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4300, in action_metadata
   eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 22, in mirror_cache
   dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys())
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py", line 95, in keys
   return tuple(self.iterkeys())
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 122, in iterkeys
   st = os.lstat(p)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12'


I have manually deleted a lot of files from  /var/cache/edb/dep, but
the offending ones can  neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all
right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the
remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling, indeed.


I thought some wise list member might correct me in the way I use
portage, but I am getting to think that the problem is with the file
system, more than with portage ?
I'll report a bug (Gentoo bug ?) , if this is more appropriate.
Here is my emerge --info, anyhow :

localhost ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-3.4.6,
glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.17-rt5 i686)
=
System uname: 2.6.17-rt5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:20:01 +
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ "
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
--timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local
--exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio
/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli
cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dssi dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode
evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
guile hal howl iconv ipv6 isdnlog jack jackmidi java jpeg kde kerberos
lash ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mozbranding mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses
nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png
pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl
session sndfile soundtouch spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis vst win32codecs x86
xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem
bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix
dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat
linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb
ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS





On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> I cannot emerge --sync my system anymore, as this brings out the

try running `emerge --metadata` it will restore the portage cache
in /var/cache/edb/dep

Rudmer


> following error :
> >>> Updating Portage cache:  Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5530, in ?
> retval = emerge_main()
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5489, in emerge_main
> action_metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter

[Sabyasachi Ghosh]

Not sure about command line, but how about web based converters? (like
docs.google.com ). It can open and save both MS office and OpenOffice
formats.

On 6/13/07, Aleksey Kunitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

Is there any command line converters from M$ Excel to any *nix readable
format(i.e. for reading in KSpread)? Excel document contains only text and
pictures - no formulas

thanks

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[gentoo-user] RE: Gentoo in the workplace

[Alexander Skwar]

Sartorelli, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks Ken,
> So what do other people do when they need to use ActiveX?

Use Windows.

> Is there any work arounds etc?

Nope.


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[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo in the workplace

[Alexander Skwar]

Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> IE will never work in wine. 

That's total crap. Every version of IE (even IE 7 to some extent)
works with wine. ies4linux is a fine example, showing that you're
totally wrong.

> I don't believe the devs plan to support it
> either.

Even more crap.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Kent Fredric]

On 6/14/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

070614 Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
> I cannot emerge --sync , as this brings out the following error :
>   Updating Portage cache:  Traceback (most recent call last):
-- snip --
>   OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>   '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12'
> it looks like the problem is with the content of the directory
>  /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/
>   localhost net-misc # cd /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/
>   localhost net-misc # ls ./ (TAB PRESSED)
>   asterisk-chan_capi-0.4.^P_pre1netprofiles)ims-0.1.0134
>   stuNnel-4.15
>   htbinit^I0.8.5netstat)nat-1.4.7
>   suite3230-3.3.2_p1
>   icaclient-9^N0-r1 networkianager-0.6.4_pre20061028
>   tightvnc-1.^R.9-r4
>   iputils)20060512  sipsak-0.9.^Q
>   vmpsd-1.3-r^R
>   linUx-identd-1.3-r1   stoje-2.2e
>   vnc-4.1^N2-r1
>   lksctp-Pools-1.0.4stone-2^N2c
>   memcached-1^N1.13-r1  streamtuner-0.9^Y.99



emerge --info

then re-open this bug... oh wait..ML: ..

( just to make sure its not some eschoteric kernel / gcc combination
,.. I had a mate who had something really go south  on ext3 where he
could write to a  folder as if it were  a file  ... and needless to
say, it broke things bad, ... it broke things and made him lose stuff
)

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