Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: if libexpat.so.0 was there before the update and now isn't, there's an major bug in expat (either the ebuild or the source). There's no bug in expat, the OP is doing an *expat*upgrade*, which means that libexpat.so.0 was there before and libexpat.so.1 is there now. Thus any app that links explicitly to libexpat.so.0 is now broken. A source based distro like Gentoo runs this risk with every library upgrade and sometimes it hits a low level lib with deep dependencies like expat. There are only two possible solutions to this: 1. Track the links between every app and every lib, and as soon as one is detected with a lib upgrade then fire an event to trigger a recompile of the linking app. This solution is so ugly, so error-prone that I cannot suffer it to live. 2. Something like revdep-rebuild that scans the system looking for errors and is triggered manually by the user. Getting through these upgrades is a serious PITA. But at least on Gentoo we can fix it. Imagine using a binary distro where the packager didn't pick this up and you are left stranded with no easy way to fix it... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:20:39 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to somewhere else. You could set $CCACHE_DIR, which seems less kludgy to me. Right. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? Because you have built your kernel with CONFIG_KITCHENSINK=m? % du -h /lib/modules/$(uname -r) 9.9M/lib/modules/2.6.24-tuxonice-r3 Hmmm, it's 22MB on my desktop, time to start pruning .config. Well, I think I did that. I copied the kubuntu config, but went through most options with menuconfig and deactivated a lot. I kept bluetooth, USB and DVB stuff, and some more, though, because I do not know yet which devices might be needed later. So, the original kubuntu .config has even much more stuff in it. Squashfs compression must be very good, or the whole CD would be filled with modules only. % df -h / FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 reiserfs385M 189M 196M 50% / That includes /boot with two kernels. Looks like what I had expected. But that's okay, I created another, bigger root partition. I just think that the documentation could mention this. Remember, if you are going to get your .config fram a CD like knoppix, your /lib directory will neeed at about 500 M, so be sure aour root partition is big enough or something like that would have helped. Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine might be workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use konqueror. The video driver problem seems to be sort of solved. Looks like a permission problem, the X user has direct rendering. I guess a Section DRI with Mode 0666 will solve that. Still, I wonder how to get a new xorg.conf. X -configure also fails on other machines with a similar error. Yet another probem we just saw is display of videos. Xine works fine, but with mplayer or vlc it seems like the frames are not all in correct order, the output skips back a little about once a second. Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless problem
Please help me in solving this issue.
So
iwlist scan
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
loInterface doesn't support scanning.
sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:11:FB:9D:00
ESSID:dlink
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=83/100 Signal level=-51 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=001e7286c097
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1D:7E:E3:8C:DD
ESSID:baladei-wifi
Mode:Master
Channel:10
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality=96/100 Signal level=-32 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=c2357a43
and my wireless is connecting to dlink since it is free. Mine is baladei-wifi.
Here are the /etc/conf.d/net
modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant)
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
and the wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid=baladei-wifi
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=a077c1a5543504137b2a0d42ad045741c6173cb2bb9770a1818e6d661b968d32
}
How can I make it to authenticate to my baladei-wifi?
Please help because I didn't find anything on the web to solve my issue.
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Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:42:06 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: and my wireless is connecting to dlink since it is free. Mine is baladei-wifi. Here are the /etc/conf.d/net modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant) wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf config_wlan0=(dhcp) [snip] How can I make it to authenticate to my baladei-wifi? Please help because I didn't find anything on the web to solve my issue. Look closer to home, specifically /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. More specifically, the preferred_aps setting. -- Neil Bothwick Sussh. Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting tagwines. hahahahah. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Dani Crisan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant) wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf config_wlan0=(dhcp) (...) How can I make it to authenticate to my baladei-wifi? preferred_aps='baladei-wifi' 'dlink' associate_order=forcepreferred That way it will first try baladei-wifi, and only if that doesn't work, dlink. Notice that 'baladei-wifi' and 'dlink' are in single quotes. See /etc/conf.d/net.example for more details. ~Henry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
Thank you for the quick reply. I made what you said and now it still connects to dlink but I'll read the wireless.example. Have a nice day. - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:50:35 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:42:06 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: and my wireless is connecting to dlink since it is free. Mine is baladei-wifi. Here are the /etc/conf.d/net modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant) wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf config_wlan0=(dhcp) [snip] How can I make it to authenticate to my baladei-wifi? Please help because I didn't find anything on the web to solve my issue. Look closer to home, specifically /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. More specifically, the preferred_aps setting. -- Neil Bothwick Sussh. Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting tagwines. hahahahah. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:06:59 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: I made what you said and now it still connects to dlink but I'll read the wireless.example. Please don't top-post, it makes conversations difficult to follow and impossible to quote meaningfully. preferred_aps means that it will try that aps first, but if it fails, it will then try dlink. You can force it to only use a specific aps with essid_wlan0=baladei-wifi but I susopect your problem is that the connection to your preferred aps is failing and dlink being used as a fallback. The system log should show details of the connection process, try tail -f /var/log/messages before you do /etc/init.d/wlan0 start. -- Neil Bothwick When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
Hy again,
Here is the new /etc/conf.d/net:
pre-up(){
ifconfig wlan0 up
}
modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant)
essid_wlan0=any
mode_wlan0=managed
preferred_aps_wlan0='baladei-wifi' 'dlink'
assciate_order_wlan0=forcepreferedonly
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
When I issue /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart it still connects to dlink and from
the log file it seems that it ignores baladei-wifi:
Mar 19 14:50:17 dani-laptop dhcpcd[8535]: wlan0: received SIGTERM, stopping
Mar 19 14:50:17 dani-laptop dhcpcd[8535]: wlan0: removing default route via
192.168.0.1 metric 2000
Mar 19 14:50:17 dani-laptop dhcpcd[8535]: wlan0: deleting IP address
192.168.0.101/24
Mar 19 14:50:17 dani-laptop dhcpcd[8535]: wlan0: exiting
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :0c:00.0 disabled
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop ACPI: PCI Interrupt :0c:00.0[A] - GSI 17
(level, low) - IRQ 17
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop PM: Writing back config space on device
:0c:00.0 at offset 1 (was 100102, writing 100106)
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticated
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authentication frame received from
00:1b:11:fb:9d:00, but not in authenticate state - ignored
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(capab=0x421 status=0 aid=2)
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: associated
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticated
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: authentication frame received from
00:1b:11:fb:9d:00, but not in authenticate state - ignored
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(capab=0x421 status=0 aid=1)
Mar 19 14:50:18 dani-laptop wlan0: associated
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: RX authentication from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: authenticated
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: associate with AP 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1b:11:fb:9d:00
(capab=0x421 status=0 aid=2)
Mar 19 14:50:19 dani-laptop wlan0: associated
Any ideeas?
- Original Message
From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:22:11 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:06:59 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote:
I made what you said and now it still connects to dlink but I'll read
the wireless.example.
Please don't top-post, it makes conversations difficult to follow and
impossible to quote meaningfully.
preferred_aps means that it will try that aps first, but if it fails, it
will then try dlink. You can force it to only use a specific aps with
essid_wlan0=baladei-wifi but I susopect your problem is that the
connection to your preferred aps is failing and dlink being used as a
fallback.
The system log should show details of the connection process, try tail
-f /var/log/messages before you do /etc/init.d/wlan0 start.
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Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:54:10 -0700 (PDT), Dani Crisan wrote: PLEASE DO NOT TOP-POST modules_wlan0=( dhcp iwconfig wpa_supplicant) essid_wlan0=any Try setting this to baladei-wifi mode_wlan0=managed preferred_aps_wlan0='baladei-wifi' 'dlink' I'm not sure how the init script will react to the nested quotes instead of parentheses here. The syntax in the examples is preferred_aps_wlan0=( baladei-wifi dlink ) assciate_order_wlan0=forcepreferedonly wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf config_wlan0=(dhcp) When I issue /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart it still connects to dlink and from the log file it seems that it ignores baladei-wifi: If the fixed net config doesn't help, try disabling WPA on the access point and see if it then connects. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 48: freewill offering signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless problem
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal With regard to? There are a lot of commands in Gentoo. Emerge is a huge one. eix, equery is a couple of others. The most common commands for me are emerge --sync, I actually use eix-sync but same thing and emerge -uvDN world. The first syncs the tree to the latest and the second updates whatever is new. Your mileage may vary on this. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
Dale wrote: Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Thanks and Regards Kaushal With regard to? There are a lot of commands in Gentoo. Emerge is a huge one. eix, equery is a couple of others. The most common commands for me are emerge --sync, I actually use eix-sync but same thing and emerge -uvDN world. The first syncs the tree to the latest and the second updates whatever is new. Your mileage may vary on this. Dale :-) :-) Oh, man is a good one too. man emerge, man equery, man eix etc etc. Sort of tells you how to use them, if you speak, Greek. That rhyme? LOL Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On 3/19/08, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, man is a good one too. man emerge, man equery, man eix etc etc. Sort of tells you how to use them, if you speak, Greek. That rhyme? LOL Always a nice thing to remember to new people using Linux, whatever distro it is: man man Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
[gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On 3/19/08, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Have you tried to reset your BIOS? I would certainly try that before changing my MOBO. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/08, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, man is a good one too. man emerge, man equery, man eix etc etc. Sort of tells you how to use them, if you speak, Greek. That rhyme? LOL Always a nice thing to remember to new people using Linux, whatever distro it is: man man Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com Hi How can i create .tbz2 file Thanks Kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Basic commands for what? If Linux in general, google for bash. Read any of the introductions. If Gentoo-specific stuff, read the manual. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi How can i create .tbz2 file man tar -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file touch .tbz2 *SCNR* Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Have you tried to reset your BIOS? I would certainly try that before changing my MOBO. Do you mean battery out and back in? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net I mean using quickpg command kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net hi I mean using quickpkg command kaushal
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
3/19/08, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean battery out and back in? Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the raw way to do that, hahaha. The idea is for you to change the jumper located the closest to the battery, press power, change it back to it's original place and then power up again. Just a classic BIOS reset. Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On 3/19/08, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3/19/08, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean battery out and back in? Or that. http://www.trap17.com/index.php/how-reset-bios-guide_t39291.html -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: I mean using quickpkg command How would I know what you mean when you didn't write it? man quickpkg Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?
* Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: if libexpat.so.0 was there before the update and now isn't, there's an major bug in expat (either the ebuild or the source). There's no bug in expat, the OP is doing an *expat*upgrade*, which means that libexpat.so.0 was there before and libexpat.so.1 is there now. Thus any app that links explicitly to libexpat.so.0 is now broken. If an upgrade breaks primary things, it's simply broken. You can now choose, whether the bug is expat or the ebuild/portage. 2. Something like revdep-rebuild that scans the system looking for errors and is triggered manually by the user. This is also ugly and error-prone. After every slightest upgrade you have to fear nothing's running anymore and everything has to be rebuilt first. If downtimes don't matter, fine. But for critical systems, this is very dangerous. Why not modeling/storing the *runtime* dependencies and doing an *clean* MVCC ? Isn't this what slotting was meant for ? ;-P Imagine using a binary distro where the packager didn't pick this up and you are left stranded with no easy way to fix it... Then the package manager's obviously broken ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ - -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: 2008/3/19 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: How can i create .tbz2 file Now the real thing: man tar HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net I mean using quickpg command kaushal man quickpkg Really dude, it's now time to get a grip and start reading the very man pages that are put there to deal with this kind of thing -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:28:37 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I mean using quickpg command As long as what you mean and what you ask differ, you will never get the answers you want. Try asking specific questions with enough detail for people to understand what you want. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 8: Tight slacks signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:41:52 -0700, Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Try the power supplies in a different computer. -- Neil Bothwick Windows, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it 15 or 16 times myself. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On Mittwoch, 19. März 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: 3/19/08, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean battery out and back in? Battery out, short-circuit it's contacts on the mobo while pressing the power button and then put it back and try to turn it on. But that is the raw way to do that, hahaha. this is a very certain way to destroy the mobo. The idea is for you to change the jumper located the closest to the battery, press power, change it back to it's original place and then power up again. Just a classic BIOS reset. no. Don't press power. Don't even get close to power. Just set the jumper, wait some seconds, set it back to 'work state' and boot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 8:41:52 am Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? - Grant Quite possibly your cpu and/or cooling fan. To test this...pull your current units out, hook-up a known good fan (without any cpu) and apply power. If the fan spins, you've isolated your problem. -jm -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On 3/19/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is a very certain way to destroy the mobo. I don't know how this is in newer mobos, but I have certainly seen ppl doing that without any problem. no. Don't press power. Don't even get close to power. Just set the jumper, wait some seconds, set it back to 'work state' and boot. Well I'm not here to get into silly discussions. Even because I haven't done that in a while. If you say so, I strongly advice Grant to do as you say. Sorry for any bad info. Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the jumper and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On 3/19/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: every mobo manual I ever read (and I read a lot) said the same: set the jumper and don't turn on the box. Never turn on the box with the jumper set, or mainboard might be destroyed/rendered unbootable. Nice. Thanks for the update. Sorry again. Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:16 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine might be workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use konqueror. Most flash works with Konqueror here, using nspluginwraper, even YouTube works fine nowadays. Occasionally one of my CPUs goes to 100% and top shows nspluginwrapper doing this, killing the process fixes it. -- Neil Bothwick Memory Map - A sheet of paper showing location of computer store. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 16:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:20:16 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Flash would be nice now. For some people it does work fine, but for others this still is not the case it seems. Using firefox-bin or wine might be workarounds, but I would not like that much - I like to use konqueror. Most flash works with Konqueror here, using nspluginwraper, even YouTube works fine nowadays. Occasionally one of my CPUs goes to 100% and top shows nspluginwrapper doing this, killing the process fixes it. To add to the discussion, on amd64 I use swfdec-mozilla without major problems. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
* Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite possibly your cpu and/or cooling fan. To test this...pull your current units out, hook-up a known good fan (without any cpu) and apply power. If the fan spins, you've isolated your problem. Depends on the board type. I've already seen boards which didn't even turn on the fan if there's no CPU present. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ - -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?
Ok, you all can stop ranting about ebuilds etc. being broken. :) I found the culprit, it seems something wrong in the kdelibs building. Basically, when kdelibs builds dcopidl, it happily *says* oh, this would need libXft, that in turn has a broken link to libexpat.so.0. But who cares, let's go along with it! instead of stopping and telling me that libXft is broken. I have no more the relevant compilation output snippet, but that's the meaning. So, I just emerged libXft, fixing the expat link, and everything went pretty smooth. Now I have the problem that Thunderbird starts, but no window comes out, but it's a different stuff... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
Am Mittwoch, 19. März 2008 14:41:52 schrieb Grant: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? - Grant -- Hi A friend of mine had the same problem some time ago. I also tried a lot of stuff and changed almost all the hardware, except the cpu and mb. I didn't know what to do else, and then at last I changed the battery on the Mainboard, and everything worked fine again. Günter -- Luxus ist die teuerste Form von Primitivität. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
hi i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent in 32 bits i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem any try to use more fail in db2 somebody have an clue for me? thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote: hi i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent in 32 bits i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem any try to use more fail in db2 Did you enable CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G when building the kernel? One of them if not both surely is needed to see all your memory. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fusion-icon
hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly unmerged python and borked my system...i managed to get my system back to work but since then fusion-icon doesn't work...here is what i get when running it from konsole jrn23@ ~ fusion-icon * Detected Session: kde * Searching for installed applications... * NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING * Using the GTK Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt4 Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sip.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsWideChar ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt3 Interface * Interface not installed *** Error: All interfaces failed, aborting! could someone tell me how to solve this?? after the crash and after i recovered python in order to get 'emerge' to work i did 'emerge -vNuD world' and then 'revdep-rebuild' and re-emerged fusion-icon...what else should i do??
[gentoo-user] Re: OF Usage of memory in 32bits mode
yeah i m sure i see 4g but only 800m (lowmem) is used i really dont know why i wondering if for use himem programs need to do somethink On 3/19/08, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008, 21:47, Strong Cypher wrote: hi i want to know if the usage of lomem and himem are totally transparent in 32 bits i use ibm db2 and apache with old xeon in a 32 bits mode with 4g of mem it seam that usage of mem are limited to lomem only free give me cache not more that 800m used that correspond to lomem any try to use more fail in db2 Did you enable CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G when building the kernel? One of them if not both surely is needed to see all your memory. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon
Re-emerge dev-python/sip and probably all the python modules you have installed (?). There must be a script for this though i don't recall it :| Στις Τετ 19 Μαρ 2008, ο/η Danis Petkakis έγραψε: hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly unmerged python and borked my system...i managed to get my system back to work but since then fusion-icon doesn't work...here is what i get when running it from konsole jrn23@ ~ fusion-icon * Detected Session: kde * Searching for installed applications... * NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING * Using the GTK Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt4 Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sip.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsWideChar ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt3 Interface * Interface not installed *** Error: All interfaces failed, aborting! could someone tell me how to solve this?? after the crash and after i recovered python in order to get 'emerge' to work i did 'emerge -vNuD world' and then 'revdep-rebuild' and re-emerged fusion-icon...what else should i do?? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:13:09 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Mark Shields wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP laptop. It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 These lines: public = yes guest ok = yes Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. You will also want to configure cups.conf to listen not only to localhost, but to also listen to the IP address of the XP box. -- Regards, Mick Thank you for the advice. cups.conf and smb.conf were already configured as per the guides. So that wasn't the problem. Setting security = share appears to have resolved the login issues. Guest access for printing in security = user seems to have the unfortunate side effect of Windows deciding it is already logged in to samba, making impossible to connect to the homes share without logging out to clear the cache of connections. I can't tell whether my initial issues with not being able to print as guest were related to the default guest linux account (nobody) not being in the lp group, but that's probably a different topic. David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:00:49 -0400 Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Blamire-Brown wrote: Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the printer. I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP laptop. Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. I would think Samba would be more an option for when you already have a Windows/Samba domain running for the network that everyone authenticates through. Granted, as another poster provided, you can enable public/guest access, which would make it like a Win9x/Me printer share though XP should do fine with it. However, I think CUPS/IPP would be a better option. It's very easy to configure (I just followed the Gentoo guide for it). And it makes it very easy to install on any Windows system. If you have CUPS configured properly, you can even have it provide the drivers automatically to the Windows systems - I haven't tried that yet. It really impressed me how quick and easy it was to install CUPS - both on other Linux systems and on Windows. There is a Samba/CUPS guide, so I think you can even mix the two a bit. There is also one other issue to consider - AFAIK, the SMB protocol does not do spooling - so you could get job conflicts, while IPP makes the printer a true network printer running via a print server (e.g. CUPS) so it has spooling inherent to it. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong on this.) So you'll be safer using IPP. I have worked in environments where printers were shared similarly - no print server - and it causes problems when two people try to print something at near the same time; the printer will ignore one job, or switch jobs in the middle - never predictable what it would do, though I think ignoring jobs was what primarily happened. It's a pain - and that's even with printers that had built in network interfaces. Just something to consider. Ben -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list As far as I can tell from reading the various bits of documentation, using Samba to share a printer relies on the local printing subsystem as well (eg CUPS as you mentioned), so it has no effect on the spooling capabilities of CUPS. CUPS is still providing the print service and spooling capabilities. Samba in and of itself doesn't provide any printing services. It merely moves a file from a SMB client to a spooling area and invokes the local printing subsystem [http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html] IPP appears to be a more elegant solution, in that it is far simpler. I can't see any specific advantages of using Samba over IPP. I did seem to get most of the set-up for using IPP and CUPS working. The only issue came when I tried to complete the process of adding the printer in XP. At this point, the XP laptop seemed to hang and I could see no evidence of any activity on the Gentoo machine to suggest why it was hanging. I suspect I have missed something in the network settings on either the XP laptop or on the Gentoo box that led to something not being able to get through to respond to a request from the XP laptop for drivers or similar. In any case, as posted elsewhere, I seem to have got sharing via Samba working. Regards, David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fusion-icon
root@ ~ equery l python [ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r9 (2.4) [I--] [ ~] dev-python/compizconfig-python-0.6.0.1 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.80.2 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-python/python-docs-2.4.4 (2.4) [I--] [ ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.1 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0-r1 (2.6) should i emerge all of this again?? how can i tell if i have other python modules installed?? On 19/03/2008, birbilis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-emerge dev-python/sip and probably all the python modules you have installed (?). There must be a script for this though i don't recall it :| Στις Τετ 19 Μαρ 2008, ο/η Danis Petkakis έγραψε: hello there...yesterday i did a major stupidity of mine...i accidentaly unmerged python and borked my system...i managed to get my system back to work but since then fusion-icon doesn't work...here is what i get when running it from konsole jrn23@ ~ fusion-icon * Detected Session: kde * Searching for installed applications... * NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING * Using the GTK Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject/_gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_FromObject ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt4 Interface * /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sip.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsWideChar ... Trying another interface * Using the Qt3 Interface * Interface not installed *** Error: All interfaces failed, aborting! could someone tell me how to solve this?? after the crash and after i recovered python in order to get 'emerge' to work i did 'emerge -vNuD world' and then 'revdep-rebuild' and re-emerged fusion-icon...what else should i do?? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 06:41 -0700, Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Well, it could be the cpu too. Or a PCI card - I've had them render computers useless until they're removed. In fact, I recommend removing everything (PCI cards, etc) but cpu, cpu fan, and one hd (disconnect the ide cable) and then try to turn it on again. Of course you also need to test the outlet - plug a light into it to make sure your outlet works! If it still doesn't work, you know it's either cpu, mb or ps. If it's an old style AT power supply with a hard on/off switch you can just plug in a couple of fans and turn it on. If you have one of those new ATX power supplies that young-uns seem to be using nowadays then its a bit more complicated! Firstly you need some load. If you're not sure about your mb, you can't use that. So you'll need at least a hard drive or two (I like using cdroms, cause there's nothing much to damage, however they spin down after a while) and probably a fan so you can see something spin. Unplug all connections to the mb (IDE cables, power supply, fans etc) so you've just got the load connected directly to the PS. Here comes the hard part: you need to find pins 14 and 15 and short them out! I recommend you unplug the PS from the wall (a switch is ideal), short the pins, turn on the switch, see what happens for a few seconds at most, then turn the switch back off. Try not to use the plug itself to turn the power on. This is RISKY! Make sure you get the right pins! I've used this test a number of times. Many thanks to http://www.duxcw.com/faq/ps/ps4.htm for the ideas. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery installed and working, you could use qlist or equery to generate a list of files to copy. Alternatively, as you are using VMs, begin a basic stage 3 install in a new VM, as far as being able to quickpkg portage, then unpack the tarball in the root of the broken VM. Thanks so much Neil, option #1 worked just fine, followed by a emerge -auvDN world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild I think what I did wrong in following the instuctions for repairing portage as described at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml was that I blindly just copied and pasted, thereby bringing in a way old version. I'm not sure, though (probably more because of too much Patron). But it didn't work. Thanks so much for your help! festus pgpSEYNqH01Qz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?
On 19 Mar 2008, at 13:41, Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Hi there, I work on PCs for a living, mostly peoples' home computers, and in the case of a dead pc the cause is nearly as often something else as it is a dead PSU. Causes such as a duff CD-ROM drive or a damaged USB connector are surprising but not uncommon, so reset the BIOS (using the method described by Volker) and if that doesn't work unplug as much as possible from the motherboard - you'll surely need the CPU RAM for it to post, but you may wish to swap out the RAM at some point in your diagnostics - and unplug most everything else. That means drives, PCI cards, USB devices, stuff connected to the USB serial headers, graphics card if possible. Also don't connect the power supply to any of the drives, or anything else that you're not currently using. I've seen cheap power supplies take out the motherboard when they go. Sorry if you find that to be the case. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird xorg/nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 behaviour
in your xorg.conf In the module section, try adding the following line load dbe Then try to run conky from your terminal-emulator, does it say something that double framebuffer enabled? Also,i found the conky in ~x86 portage a little of weird, 1. it displays my uptime very strange, a very very very very long digit, something like 343434, oh, my computer never run so much time without powering down 2. mpd is not working with conky, maybe this is a problem with mpd, but i am not sure hope this would help On 3/20/08, José Pedro Saraiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been using nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 without problems but I wish to upgrade to latest stable version, in a hope to reduce random suspend crashes I've been having with latest tuxonice-sources. The thing is... once I'm up and running with nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 xorg and conky have this strange behaviour with conky window overlapping each time it refreshes. First screenshot is my desktop in it's normal state, 2nd one is the behaviour I'm talking about... The only window that always overlaps is the network section, and the conkyrc options are the same as for other conky instances. Anyone have a clue what may be causing this? Best regards! -- Easy things should be easy, hard things should at least be possilbe. Powered by Gentoo Linux
Re: [gentoo-user] weird xorg/nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 behaviour
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:02 AM, 李刚 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in your xorg.conf In the module section, try adding the following line load dbe Then try to run conky from your terminal-emulator, does it say something that double framebuffer enabled? Yup, i have dbe enabled and I'm running conky with double buffer support. I have no problems whatsoever with older versions of nvidia-drivers Also,i found the conky in ~x86 portage a little of weird, conky 1.4.9-r1* *is marked as stable for x86 1. it displays my uptime very strange, a very very very very long digit, something like 343434, oh, my computer never run so much time without powering down 2. mpd is not working with conky, maybe this is a problem with mpd, but i am not sure I use audacious with conky and works like a charm for me hope this would help On 3/20/08, José Pedro Saraiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been using nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 without problems but I wish to upgrade to latest stable version, in a hope to reduce random suspend crashes I've been having with latest tuxonice-sources. The thing is... once I'm up and running with nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1xorg and conky have this strange behaviour with conky window overlapping each time it refreshes. First screenshot is my desktop in it's normal state, 2nd one is the behaviour I'm talking about... The only window that always overlaps is the network section, and the conkyrc options are the same as for other conky instances. Anyone have a clue what may be causing this? Best regards! -- Easy things should be easy, hard things should at least be possilbe. Powered by Gentoo Linux
