Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > depend section of /etc/init.d/hwclock, there is a line > > before * > > thus hwclock will start before modules (where I put rtc-cmos > in /etc/conf.d/modules), so it will always fail to ajust hwclock. Build it into the kernel. There's usually not much point in building something as a module if you're going to load it every time you boot, unless you want to pass it options. > Besides, I'm using networkmanager (using gnome nm-applet) , so there > is no /etc/init.d/net.eth* stuff, but ntp-client have a section of > > need net > > but at that time when ntp-client start, there is no network avaliable (I > always get error will unable to reslove hostname XXX, so at least DNS is > not usable at that time, even I put after NetworkManager > in /etc/init.d/ntp-client). Programs lime this and nfsmount should be started by NetworkManager's Dispatcher so they start when a network interface comes up. This is how I do it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% ls -l /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 20-netmount -> default.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 30-nfsmount -> default.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 50-ntp-client -> default.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 70-ntpd -> default.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 256 2008-05-07 12:51 default.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% cat /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/default.sh #!/bin/sh service=$(basename $0 | cut -c4-) [[ -e /etc/init.d/$service ]] || exit 0 if [[ "$2" == "up" ]] ; then /etc/init.d/$service --quiet status || /etc/init.d/$service start else /etc/init.d/$service --quiet status && /etc/init.d/$service stop fi -- Neil Bothwick Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?
在 2008-09-05五的 09:07 +0100,Neil Bothwick写道: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > > > depend section of /etc/init.d/hwclock, there is a line > > > > before * > > > > thus hwclock will start before modules (where I put rtc-cmos > > in /etc/conf.d/modules), so it will always fail to ajust hwclock. > > Build it into the kernel. There's usually not much point in building > something as a module if you're going to load it every time you boot, > unless you want to pass it options. > > > Besides, I'm using networkmanager (using gnome nm-applet) , so there > > is no /etc/init.d/net.eth* stuff, but ntp-client have a section of > > > > need net > > > > but at that time when ntp-client start, there is no network avaliable (I > > always get error will unable to reslove hostname XXX, so at least DNS is > > not usable at that time, even I put after NetworkManager > > in /etc/init.d/ntp-client). > > Programs lime this and nfsmount should be started by NetworkManager's > Dispatcher so they start when a network interface comes up. This is how I > do it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% ls -l /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d > total 4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 20-netmount -> default.sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 30-nfsmount -> default.sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 50-ntp-client -> default.sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-05-07 12:45 70-ntpd -> default.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 256 2008-05-07 12:51 default.sh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0]% cat /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/default.sh > #!/bin/sh > > service=$(basename $0 | cut -c4-) > [[ -e /etc/init.d/$service ]] || exit 0 > > if [[ "$2" == "up" ]] ; then > /etc/init.d/$service --quiet status || /etc/init.d/$service start > else > /etc/init.d/$service --quiet status && /etc/init.d/$service stop > fi > Thanks very much Neil, that's exactly what I need! -- Wang, BaojunLanzhou University Distributed & Embedded System Lab http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn School of Information Science and Engeneering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tianshui South Road 222. Lanzhou 73 .P.R.China Tel: +86-931-8912025 Fax: +86-931-8912022 signature.asc Description: 这是信件的数字签 名部分
Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)
on 2008-09-04 at 10:47 Willie Wong wrote: >Not quite sure what you mean. Please show: sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that the x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available and can not be set. this happens only on my amd64 laptop, not on my oldish x86 desktop. i checked that the same happens with all packages that have a flag for x264: mplayer, ffmpeg and libquicktime duo ~ # emerge -pv mplayer [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27458 USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa cddb cdparanoia dv dvd encode esd gtk iconv jpeg lzo mad mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 musepack opengl png quicktime rar real rtc sdl srt sse sse2 theora truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis xanim xv xvid (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdio -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -dirac -directfb -doc -dts -dvb -dxr2 -dxr3 -enca -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gif -ipv6 -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -live -md5sum -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -samba -schroedinger -speex -ssse3 (-svga) -teletext -tga (-vidix) (-win32codecs) (-x264) -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB similar for ffmpeg and libquicktime.
Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)
On Friday 05 September 2008 13:41:39 luis jure wrote: > on 2008-09-04 at 10:47 Willie Wong wrote: > >Not quite sure what you mean. Please show: > > sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that the > x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available and > can not be set. > > this happens only on my amd64 laptop, not on my oldish x86 desktop. i > checked that the same happens with all packages that have a flag for > x264: mplayer, ffmpeg and libquicktime That's strange as I have it installed here on this amd64 box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ald /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Aug 3 17:49 /etc/make.profile -> /var/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv mplayer Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27458 USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa cdparanoia dga doc dts dv dvb dvd encode ftp gif iconv jpeg libcaca live lzo mad mmx mmxext mp3 musepack openal opengl png quicktime real rtc samba sdl speex srt sse sse2 ssse3 theora truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xanim xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dirac -directfb -dxr2 -dxr3 -enca -esd -fbcon -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -jack -joystick -ladspa -lirc -md5sum -mp2 -nas -nemesi -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar -schroedinger (-svga) -teletext -tga (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xinerama -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa -mga -s3virge -tdfx" 0 kB All I did to get it was copy my portage configs over from the old 32 bit machine. x264 is masked out of the standard amd64 profile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r x264 /var/portage/profiles/* | grep amd64 /var/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask:-x264 /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/use.mask:-x264 /var/portage/profiles/hardened/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/hardened/amd64/use.mask:-x264 But I didnt override this in a profile, just put it in USE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r x264 /etc/portage/* /etc/portage/package.use/package.use:media-video/mplayer 3dnow 3dnowext -bl cdparanoia -gtk libcaca live lzo mmx mmxext musepack real rtc srt -tga x264 xanim xvmc -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot comg
[gentoo-user] gnome: "There was an error launching the application"
Ive just updated some 180 packages on my gnome desktop. I now have a weird problem where if I click on a gnome program, it pops up a dialog "There was an error launching the application." The apps in question work fine if run from a terminal. Icons on the taskbar seem to work ok (i.e., how I started the terminal). You can click on an image on the desktop and gimp starts, but it fails if you try and use its launch icon. So what program or app within gnome launches programs when you click on an icon? revdep-rebuils says everything is fine - but its been lying through its teeth on other systems of late so I dont trust it :) BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome: "There was an error launching the application"
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:17 AM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive just updated some 180 packages on my gnome desktop. I now have a > weird problem where if I click on a gnome program, it pops up a dialog > "There was an error launching the application." > > The apps in question work fine if run from a terminal. Icons on the > taskbar seem to work ok (i.e., how I started the terminal). You can > click on an image on the desktop and gimp starts, but it fails if you > try and use its launch icon. > > So what program or app within gnome launches programs when you click on > an icon? > > revdep-rebuils says everything is fine - but its been lying through its > teeth on other systems of late so I dont trust it :) > > BillK Bill, Just went through the same update here on my wife's machine. I didn't see this problem so at first blush it's not an endemic problem with the code. We have seen problems like this before with Gnome. The only solution I've come up with is to delete the existing .gnome directories. (All of them - 4 or 5 IIRC) Try creating a new user account and testing Gnome in that account. If it doesn't have problems then the existing account is getting hose by some incompatibility with the older Gnome stuff and the (ugly) solution is to get rid of it. Hope this helps, Mark
[gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root
After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working for non-root users. When I run strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin, and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call: connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"}, 110 If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket. I've checked, and the socket does exist: $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL' srwx-- 1 grante grante 0 Sep 3 23:03 OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52 Any ideas on what to do next? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! World War Three can at be averted by adherence visi.comto a strictly enforced dress code!
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root
On Friday 05 September 2008 16:01:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working > for non-root users. When I run > > strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer > > I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a > child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin, > and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call: > > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, > path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"}, > 110 > > If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing > happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket. > > I've checked, and the socket does exist: > > $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL' > srwx-- 1 grante grante 0 Sep 3 23:03 > OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52 > > Any ideas on what to do next? so far everything looks right. Maybe check /tmp - what fs is it, and what are the mount options you use? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: openoffice only works as root
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working > for non-root users. When I run > > strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer > > I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a > child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin, > and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call: > > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, > path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"}, > 110 > > If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing > happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket. > > I've checked, and the socket does exist: > > $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL' > srwx-- 1 grante grante 0 Sep 3 23:03 > OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52 > > Any ideas on what to do next? After re-emerging openoffice and doing a "kill -9" on the hung openoffice processes, it started working again. Dunno what was wrong. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! We have DIFFERENT at amounts of HAIR -- visi.com
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron not sending mail
I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and without -t). I re-emerged vixie-cron with the debug USE flag, but it didn't seem to produce any debug info that I can find anywhere. How do I convince vixie-cron to produce some debug output so that I can figure out why it's not sending e-mails? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are you mentally here at at Pizza Hut?? visi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/hwclock & /etc/init.d/ntp-client failed to start due to service dependency problem?
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:25 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote: > Build it into the kernel. There's usually not much point in building > something as a module if you're going to load it every time you boot, > unless you want to pass it options. Not to sidetrack the thread, but this seems to be a bit of a common misconception - you can pass *all* the same options to a built-in driver via the kernel boot line as you can to the same driver built as a module - you just do a $modulename.$optionname=$value on the boot command line - very easy... -James > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Every time I jump on the bandwagon all its wheels fall off. >
[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron not sending mail
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron > still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to > send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and without -t). > > I re-emerged vixie-cron with the debug USE flag, but it didn't > seem to produce any debug info that I can find anywhere. > > How do I convince vixie-cron to produce some debug output > so that I can figure out why it's not sending e-mails? I've narrowed it down a little. I'm using msmtp as an MTA. I normally don't have a global /etc/msmtprc configuration file -- I have per-user ~/.msmtprc files. I first assumed that cron was sending mail as the owner of the cron file (that owner has a working msmtp config file). That appears not to be true. Next, I tried setting up msmtp config files for users root and cron. Both those configurations work fine. But, cron still can't send mail. If I set up a globally readable msmtp config file in /etc, then cron can send mail. That's not really acceptible, since here is sensitive information in that config file, and I don't want just any random user account to be able to send mail. I'm rather baffled as to what user and home directory cron is running with when it tries to send mail. It's neither the crontab owner, nor root, nor cron. I've been able to find very little documentation on vixie-cron other than a superficial man page. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Did YOU find a at DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box visi.comof VELVEETA?
[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron not sending mail
On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've set the MAILTO env variable in my crontab, but vixie-cron >> still isn't sending e-mails. I've verfied that I'm able to >> send email with /usr/sbin/sendmail (both with and without -t). >> >> I re-emerged vixie-cron with the debug USE flag, but it didn't >> seem to produce any debug info that I can find anywhere. >> >> How do I convince vixie-cron to produce some debug output >> so that I can figure out why it's not sending e-mails? > > I've narrowed it down a little. I'm using msmtp as an MTA. I > normally don't have a global /etc/msmtprc configuration file > -- I have per-user ~/.msmtprc files. I first assumed that > cron was sending mail as the owner of the cron file (that > owner has a working msmtp config file). That appears not to > be true. > > Next, I tried setting up msmtp config files for users root and > cron. Both those configurations work fine. But, cron still > can't send mail. It turns out that cron is attempting to send e-mail with uid/gid of crontab file owner, but it has USER=root and HOME=/root. That breaks /usr/sbin/sendmail (msmtp) since it can't read /root/.msmtprc when it's run as the crontab file owner. I tried setting HOME appropriately in the crontab file, but that didn't do anything -- HOME as seen by /usr/sbin/sendmail is still always /root. [IMO, this is a bug in vixie-cron.] A paritial work-around is to create a new user and group (I called it "msmtp". The msmtp binary is set to run suid as the msmtp user, and the global config file /etc/msmtprc is readable only by user msmtp. /usr/bin/msmtp is then set to be executable only by users in the msmtp group, and users who are allowed to send mail are added to the msmtp group. This isn't really a general solution since when user FOO runs msmtp, it won't be able to read ~FOO/.msmtprc as it should unless ~FOO/.msmtprc is made readible to the msmtp user or group. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Somewhere in Tenafly, at New Jersey, a chiropractor visi.comis viewing "Leave it to Beaver"!
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?
Hey list, I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567LM Gigabit network controller) supported in the newest linux kernel or will I have to wait? If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? Regards, Jan Seeger
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:22:20 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: > If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? Use the most recent live CD you can find. As long as it has rsync, tar and chroot, you can use it to install Gentoo. -- Neil Bothwick "It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it!" -- Bill Gates signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I > now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal > install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. > > Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567LM Gigabit network > controller) supported in the newest linux kernel or will I have to wait? > > If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? If you can find any Linux boot CD (Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc) that can get you attached to your network, then you can use that to install Gentoo. Check "Alternative Installation Method" in the Gentoo installation manual. Alternatively, there should be a linux driver for your ethernet controller on Intel's site. If you can download it on another machine and copy it to your new one, maybe you can compile & load the module during the installation. Good luck! Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work
Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pat wrote: Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org keyboard section but doesn't help. Is it what you have meant? Thanks Pat That may be one but there is also this one: #Option"NoTrapSignals" # Uncomment this to disable the VT switch sequence # (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key # events. I think if it is not there, it will work. Basically, it is disabled by default. I don't have that line at all in my file and it works fine. I have neither NoTrapSignals nor DontVTSwitch, but I've never been able to get any of the keys to work on a couple of my machines. My xorg.conf file is small. I attached a copy. Maybe a side by side or a diff will help. Maybe it is something else that loads up that I have that is missing for yours. Dale :-) :-) Setting "NoTrapSignals" doesn't help :-( Ano other ideas? Thanks a lot Pat
Re: [gentoo-user] x264 flag on mplayer (amd64)
on 2008-09-05 at 14:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: >On Friday 05 September 2008 13:41:39 luis jure wrote: >> sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that >> the x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available >> and can not be set. [..] >That's strange as I have it installed here on this amd64 box: well, i finally found out what's happening: somehow i was using the selinux profile. now, how and why on earth that happened, is beyond me. i never did anything to change profiles. i returned to default amd64 profile and x264 is now available again. weird...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work
pat wrote: Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pat wrote: Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org keyboard section but doesn't help. Is it what you have meant? Thanks Pat That may be one but there is also this one: #Option"NoTrapSignals" # Uncomment this to disable the VT switch sequence # (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key # events. I think if it is not there, it will work. Basically, it is disabled by default. I don't have that line at all in my file and it works fine. I have neither NoTrapSignals nor DontVTSwitch, but I've never been able to get any of the keys to work on a couple of my machines. My xorg.conf file is small. I attached a copy. Maybe a side by side or a diff will help. Maybe it is something else that loads up that I have that is missing for yours. Dale :-) :-) Setting "NoTrapSignals" doesn't help :-( Ano other ideas? Thanks a lot Pat Does your modules list look normal? I'm not really sure what could cause this or what it is that makes it work. Not even sure that the kernel makes a difference really. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ctrl+alt+fx doesn't work [SOLVED]
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:04:14 -0500, Dale wrote > pat wrote: > > Dale wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> On 2008-09-05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > pat wrote: > > > Well, I found "DontVTSwitch" and set it to "off" in the X.org > > keyboard section > > but doesn't help. Is it what you have meant? > > > > Thanks > > > > Pat > > > > > That may be one but there is also this one: > > #Option"NoTrapSignals" > > # Uncomment this to disable the VT switch sequence > # (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key > # events. > > I think if it is not there, it will work. Basically, it is > disabled by default. I don't have that line at all in my file and > it works fine. > > >>> > >>> I have neither NoTrapSignals nor DontVTSwitch, but I've never > >>> been able to get any of the keys to work on a > >>> couple of my machines. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> My xorg.conf file is small. I attached a copy. Maybe a side by side > >> or a diff will help. Maybe it is something else that loads up that I > >> have that is missing for yours. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > > > > > > Setting "NoTrapSignals" doesn't help :-( > > > > Ano other ideas? > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Pat > > > > > > Does your modules list look normal? I'm not really sure what could > cause this or what it is that makes it work. Not even sure that the > kernel makes a difference really. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Problem is this line in the keyboard section: Option "XkbLayout" "us,cz" Simply, enabling another language disable switching to console (I've check it for another languages too). Ugh =8-() If someone is able to explain why that happen and how to solve it for two languages I'll be glad :-) But right now I'm setting up the dualhead display, so I need to switch to console ... after that I'll turn on the language :-D Thanks to Dale and others for help Pat
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?
Jan Seeger wrote: Hey list, I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless cards. Is the network card in this laptop (an Intel 82567LM Gigabit network controller) supported in the newest linux kernel or will I have to wait? If it is supported, how would I go about booting with a newer kernel? FWIW, I use the same "box" on my desktop and notebook. So I'd tweak the desktop kernel to include drivers and support appropriate for the laptop and recompile it; I'd install the necessary laptop stuff (e.g. special drivers, kismet, wpa_supplicant, etc.). Once you have that done, back up your brand new notebook; load up a "live" cd; use parted/gparted/qparted to resize the NTFS partition to an appropriate size; create some partitions for linux use; use NFS to copy your desktop OS to the LT; chroot into the notebook root partition and re-run lilo/grub after tweaking lilo.conf, xorg.conf, fstab, net, and perhaps syslog.conf; create a multi-boot option within the windows boot loader to jump to your linux boot partition. There are some real cons to this approach, but some real advantages as well: 1. you maintain only one OS, and copy it. 2. you have a second box "ready to go" if your primary breaks. 3. Why tear up a little laptop with the machinations necessary to maintain a gentoo box? HTH