[gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
To eliminate bugs, I'm using this as xorg.conf.new: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules FontPath ... # ... FontPath ... EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load dri2 Load extmod Load glx Load record EndSection Section Device Identifier Radeon HD 4200 Driver radeonhd EndSection #end of xorg.conf.new I get the following error lines in the console: FATAL: Module radeon not found. (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen(radeon, pci::05:05.0) failed. [ 1256.744546] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x34f, err=0). Trying again with default timings. Radeon DRI is compiled into the kernel. What do I do now? (It's been quite a long while since I've installed X. My knowledge has all but vanished.) -- Andrey Vul msn, home: andrey dot vul at gmail dot com u of t: andrey dot vul at utoronto dot ca
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:11:41 Dale wrote: Dale, whatever you wanted to say did not reach the list ... just an html message with an empty body. You may want to resend? PS. Hopefully not in html. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server
On Saturday 20 February 2010 06:29:03 Iain Buchanan wrote: so it looks like there's some problems with hdc. Are there any disk hardware testing tools on the gentoo minimal live cd? If you want to check the disk use sys-apps/smartmontools, but this problem may be a fs corruption - which could of course have been caused by the hardware failing. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
I get the following error lines in the console: FATAL: Module radeon not found. (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen(radeon, pci::05:05.0) failed. [ 1256.744546] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x34f, err=0). Trying again with default timings. Radeon DRI is compiled into the kernel. What do I do now? Probably emerge xf86-video-radeonhd?
[gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1
I tried 10.1 but just got a blank screen. The log file shows that xorg couldnt load libdri.so, and the file is missing under /usr/lib64/xorg. (its at /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so in 9.9-r2) So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report?
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome
On Saturday 20 of February 2010 03:56:32 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: If I understand you correctly, then you only set useflags when you invoke emerge? As in USE=foo emerge foobar. Is this how you're doing it or am I just misunderstanding? Yes and no. Yes, because I add a given flag to USE in /etc/make.conf. If emerge want it, when I do the following command: # emerge kde-meta After this command, emerge tell me that I must to use e.g. X, so I add a given flag to USE=X jpeg png -debug etc. to file /etc/make.conf. No, because I put it to /etc/make.conf, not as you show all in one line: # USE=X jpeg png -debug emerge kde-meta I do not do as above line. If it is how you're doing it, then I would suggest that you start using your /etc/portage/package.use file instead (it doesn't exist by default, you have to make the directory and the file) and add the use flags you want for the package you're about to install. This way it'll be a permanent useflag that isn't overwritten next time that specific package needs an update. Thank you for this hint :-) Zeerak Andrzej
[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server
Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ... md: hde5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024 md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024 XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100) Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100) The partitions look like: 9 100 546112 md100 9 101 273024 md101 It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it? I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be managed via its drivers. Software RAID tools aren't suitable to mount correctly this setup, I would mount random partition for testing purposes only, on a spare machine. The wiser thing to do is find an old livecd supporting PERC SAS (or whatever raid card is in that Snap) RAID cards and assemble the array in degraded mode for data recovery. Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other server's array. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r5, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 20:30:02 CET 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 19 Februar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated (with no boot up), but I recall seeing things during boot like `populating /dev' (I think). So should I copy it over to new disk or not? no. You just create /dev/null, /dev/console and /dev/zero. in my experience, only the /dev/null and /dev/console are required. what does the /dev/zero for? Everything else is optional and not needed. man mknod will tell you everything you need to know. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1
=== On Sat, 02/20, Adam wrote: === So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report? === Yes, use the open source drivers: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati ;-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =
[gentoo-user] Resizing ntfs creates a hidden partition
Hi All, I am resizing a Windows partition to get some space for Gentoo. I noticed that when gparted finished and I rebooted the machine there is a blank unallocated space in front of the Windows 7 partition, shown below as 6.33MB: === cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1) Disk Drive: /dev/sda Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Dell Utility41.13 sda2BootPrimary NTFS [] 15728.64* Pri/Log Free Space 6.33* sda3Primary NTFS [] 52426.47* Pri/Log Free Space 431902.70* === Also, when I used gparted to create a new extended partition over the 431G free space at the end of the disk I ended up with a similar small unallocated space in front of it. This is something I have observed happening recently on 3 laptops that I have worked on, i.e. resizing or creating a new partition inevitably creates a small blank partition in front of it. Looking at the sectors table I see this: === Partition Table for /dev/sda First Last # Type Sector Sector OffsetLength Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- --- --- --- -- --- 1 Primary 0 80324 63 80325 Dell Utility (DE)None 2 Primary 8032530800324* 03072*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot Pri/Log30800325* 30812669 0 12345*Free Space None 3 Primary30812670 133208104* 0 102395435*HPFS/NTFS (07) None Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None === I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the second and third partitions. Could this empty space jump be related to gparted somehow shifting the start of a partition to make it align with a particular sector as per previous thread on the 4k sector topic? Should I do anything about it, or just run with it and let gparted align what it wants to align as part of the partitioning process? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] no libdri.so with ati-drivers-10.1
On Samstag 20 Februar 2010, Adam wrote: I tried 10.1 but just got a blank screen. The log file shows that xorg couldnt load libdri.so, and the file is missing under /usr/lib64/xorg. (its at /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so in 9.9-r2) So, any ideas or should i issue a bug report? afaik that file is not needed anymore.
Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I give it another try, but I don't really get on with it and always go back to conf-update. There's nothing specific wrong with it, I just prefer (or am used to) conf-update. I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I would welcome it with open arms though. You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update that bad then? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screen sharing software or similar
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Renat Golubchyk ragermany at gmx.net writes: too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with keyboard and mouse. If my old (weak) memory serves me correctly, some time back several folks where discussing getting writing tablets to work with Gentoo. Tha tablet part of this ought to be straightforward. I have a Wacom Graphire USB tablet working with several machines including PPC, Core2duo x86. I have the tablet configured in xorg.conf (have not tried with hal). There is info on the wiki: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wacom_Tablet Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
On Samstag 20 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I give it another try, but I don't really get on with it and always go back to conf-update. There's nothing specific wrong with it, I just prefer (or am used to) conf-update. I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I would welcome it with open arms though. You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update that bad then? Not bad - not good enough.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:11:41 Dale wrote: Dale, whatever you wanted to say did not reach the list ... just an html message with an empty body. You may want to resend? PS. Hopefully not in html. ;-) Thanks for letting me know this. I think Seamonkey 2 is far from ready. The web browser works but the email part stinks. Sort of thinking about Thunderbird at the moment. Maybe I can actually SEND a freaking message with it. ;-) This should be plain text. It is supposed to send plain text only to both Gentoo and KDE. I see that doesn't work either huh. Now to go type all this mess in again. I'll resend in a bit. Thanks again for letting me know I was speechless. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 of February 2010 03:56:32 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: If I understand you correctly, then you only set useflags when you invoke emerge? As in USE=foo emerge foobar. Is this how you're doing it or am I just misunderstanding? Yes and no. Yes, because I add a given flag to USE in /etc/make.conf. If emerge want it, when I do the following command: # emerge kde-meta After this command, emerge tell me that I must to use e.g. X, so I add a given flag to USE=X jpeg png -debug etc. to file /etc/make.conf. No, because I put it to /etc/make.conf, not as you show all in one line: # USE=X jpeg png -debug emerge kde-meta I do not do as above line. If it is how you're doing it, then I would suggest that you start using your /etc/portage/package.use file instead (it doesn't exist by default, you have to make the directory and the file) and add the use flags you want for the package you're about to install. This way it'll be a permanent useflag that isn't overwritten next time that specific package needs an update. Thank you for this hint :-) Zeerak Andrzej Something that may help in the future, when you change the USE line in make.conf, you may want to add the -N option to your next emerge. That tells portage to evaluate what, if anything, needs to be recompiled with the new USE flags. Depending on the version of portage you are using, this could cause future builds to fail because of missing parts of other packages. For me, when I sync and do my updates, I run emerge -uvDNa world. It will at times compile a few extra packages but it does make for a more sane system. It's almost as good as running emerge -e world. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server
On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? If this is unsafe I will have ketchup mustard on my baseball cap. er... could you translate that? How about dead horse on my baggy green? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+eat+my+hat I just don't see how you can break anything *as long as* you don't let the system write anything to the disks. How can read-only be unsafe? One might be paranoid enough to clone images of the drive before proceeding, however. My one concern is over how you know this system uses software RAID. You know that EIDE hardware RAID was available, right? I'm sure this would rarely be available built-in to the motherboard. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ... md: hde5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024 md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024 XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100) Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100) The partitions look like: 9 100 546112 md100 9 101 273024 md101 It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it? This is with the server recovery console, which is basically just a web page. No shell access. There's not much I can do to get at md100 and md101 (is this what software RAID devices usually appear as?) I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be managed via its drivers. I think it's software RAID. There is no RAID controller AFAICT. All 4 drives are visible to the BIOS as Primary and Secondary Master and Slaves. Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other server's array. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and far between, so I'd have to find someone willing to send their drive to me (or vice versa) or send me the OS, which overlandstorage doesn't like! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Come quickly, I am tasting stars! -- Dom Perignon, upon discovering champagne.
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ntfs creates a hidden partition
On 20 Feb 2010, at 11:23, Mick wrote: ... === cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1) ... Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None === I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the second and third partitions. I read the manpage for you: ... It can also display the size in sec- tors and cylinders (see the change units command below). If an aster- isk (*) appears after the size, this means that the partition is not aligned on cylinder boundaries. On most pagers you can search for asterisk by pressing the forward- slash (/) key and typing asterisk. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +, Stroller wrote: On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? If this is unsafe I will have ketchup mustard on my baseball cap. er... could you translate that? How about dead horse on my baggy green? http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+eat+my+hat yeah, I got that, I was just picking on your use of ketchup baseball. Over here it's tomatoe sauce (dead horse) and cricket (baggy greens) :) Most of my jokes need explaining %-) I just don't see how you can break anything *as long as* you don't let the system write anything to the disks. How can read-only be unsafe? Perhaps something to do with the superblock or last mount time or something? I don't know! I know that mounting a drive while a system is hibernated, even ro, will kill kittens. One might be paranoid enough to clone images of the drive before proceeding, however. I don't have enough spare... My one concern is over how you know this system uses software RAID. You know that EIDE hardware RAID was available, right? I'm sure this would rarely be available built-in to the motherboard. well there appears to be no RAID controller, unless it's onboard, but as I mentioned to Francessco the BIOS can see all drives, so can gentoo minimal... I've since found that the OS is in flash RAM, and only the help files are on disk, so maybe I have bigger problems if I can't boot :( I hope to get a copy of Guardian OS somehow... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Go ahead, bake my quiche -- Magrat instructs the castle cook (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ntfs creates a hidden partition
Hi Mick, AFAIK the asterisk behind the partition just indicates, that it is not aligned to a cylinder boundary. I think this doesnt have any effect (or maybe some old OS like DOS depend on it). If you use cfdisk for partitioning you can avoid that by given the space in c(ylinders). e.g. New Partition with a size of '100c'. I guess your hidden partition has something to do with Windows behaviour, because if you install Windows and create partitions during the installation process, it also creates an extra 8MB partition. Maybe gparted adopted that behaviour. But I can't tell you the reason why. Some people say it's for temp data (which I doubt) and others say it's used to store metadatas if the user decides to use flexible disks or software RAIDs. I just can say that windows is running fine without it on my computer, because i decided to partition with cfdisk before running the installation. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:23:27AM +, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am resizing a Windows partition to get some space for Gentoo. I noticed that when gparted finished and I rebooted the machine there is a blank unallocated space in front of the Windows 7 partition, shown below as 6.33MB: === cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.16.1) Disk Drive: /dev/sda Size: 500107862016 bytes, 500.1 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 60801 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Dell Utility 41.13 sda2BootPrimary NTFS [] 15728.64* Pri/Log Free Space 6.33* sda3Primary NTFS [] 52426.47* Pri/Log Free Space 431902.70* === Also, when I used gparted to create a new extended partition over the 431G free space at the end of the disk I ended up with a similar small unallocated space in front of it. This is something I have observed happening recently on 3 laptops that I have worked on, i.e. resizing or creating a new partition inevitably creates a small blank partition in front of it. Looking at the sectors table I see this: === Partition Table for /dev/sda First Last # Type Sector Sector OffsetLength Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- --- --- --- -- --- 1 Primary 0 80324 63 80325 Dell Utility (DE) None 2 Primary 8032530800324* 03072*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot Pri/Log30800325* 30812669 0 12345*Free Space None 3 Primary30812670 133208104* 0 102395435*HPFS/NTFS (07) None Pri/Log 133208105* 976768064 0 843559960*Free Space None === I am not sure what the asterisks are for after the last sector on the second and third partitions. Could this empty space jump be related to gparted somehow shifting the start of a partition to make it align with a particular sector as per previous thread on the 4k sector topic? Should I do anything about it, or just run with it and let gparted align what it wants to align as part of the partitioning process? -- Regards, Mick pgpyIm3oRAjEu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:11:41 Dale wrote: Dale, whatever you wanted to say did not reach the list ... just an html message with an empty body. You may want to resend? PS. Hopefully not in html. ;-) I synced last night and did a update. After that I was informed that there was some preserved libs that needed to be rebuilt. So I attempt to do this and this is what I get: r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy sci-calculators/kconvert:0. * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. r...@smoker / # eix kconvert No matches found. r...@smoker / # layman -l * kde-sunset[Git ] (git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/kde-sunset.git ) r...@smoker / # So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale P. S. Is this being sent plain text? Me and Seaonkey 2 are having a bit of a discussion here.
[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ... md: hde5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024 md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024 XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100) Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100) The partitions look like: 9 100 546112 md100 9 101 273024 md101 It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it? This is with the server recovery console, which is basically just a web page. No shell access. There's not much I can do to get at md100 and md101 (is this what software RAID devices usually appear as?) I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be managed via its drivers. I think it's software RAID. There is no RAID controller AFAICT. All 4 drives are visible to the BIOS as Primary and Secondary Master and Slaves. This isn't a proof: most hardware RAID are proprietary software solutions pretending to be hardware. Linux without the driver can't see the logical volume and shows all the physical drives. You should do some research about that server hardware... Aren't snap equipped with PERC controller?. Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other server's array. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and far between, so I'd have to find someone willing to send their drive to me (or vice versa) or send me the OS, which overlandstorage doesn't like! What happens if you physically remove the drive marked as bad? You may image it for backup, then format it at low level, then put it back in place as if it was brand new. Or add a similar disk to be considered spare by the controller (given that it is looking for a spare disk in first instance). Most controller have automated procedures to manage failures, disk swaps and so on. For this reason you can't be sure that the inspection operations you are doing are read only. Unless the drives are attached to another machine with a trusted OS doing nothing on its own. The ideas given above may let you to waste all of your data, be very careful and patient. Good luck. Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r5, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 20:30:02 CET 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server
md: bindhdg2,1 md: bindhde2,2 md: bindhda2,3 raid1: raid set md100 active with 3 out of 4 mirrors md: bindhdg5,1 md: bindhde5,2 md: bindhda5,3 raid1: raid set md101 active with 3 out of 4 mirrors AFAICT this is all you need to know -- you definitely have two software (mdraid) RAID 1 volumes: md100 with hda2, hde2 and hdg2 as members md101 with hda5, hde5 and hdg5 as members Both arrays seem to have lost a member (I guess hdc2 and hdc5 respectively). Honestly I don't know what is the point of running RAID1 volumes with four mirrors, but that seems to be the way it was configured. I would suggest that you take a *single* disk (let's say hdg) out of the thing and hook it up to a fully functional Gentoo system with mdraid (and of course XFS) compiled in the kernel and sys-fs/mdadm installed. Then you can bring up each RAID volume in degraded state from the single mirror: #mdadm -A /dev/md100 -R /dev/hdX2 #mdadm -A /dev/md101 -R /dev/hdX5 (substiture hdX with the actual device name of the transplanted disk; in any case mdadm has a very useful man page) At this point you should be able to mount md100 and md101 *read-only* and salvage any data you need. Andrea
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:07:40 Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:11:41 Dale wrote: Dale, whatever you wanted to say did not reach the list ... just an html message with an empty body. You may want to resend? PS. Hopefully not in html. ;-) I synced last night and did a update. After that I was informed that there was some preserved libs that needed to be rebuilt. So I attempt to do this and this is what I get: r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy sci-calculators/kconvert:0. * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. r...@smoker / # eix kconvert No matches found. r...@smoker / # layman -l * kde-sunset[Git ] (git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/kde-sunset.git ) r...@smoker / # So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale P. S. Is this being sent plain text? Me and Seaonkey 2 are having a bit of a discussion here. According to the headers in your message, yes: Content-Type: text/plain; I'm afraid I can't help with kconvert other than confirm that it does not seem to be in portage anymore. I do not use any overlays to be able to offer help here. -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore
After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok will not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message Too many errors encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped. I have tried to delete ~/.xine as suggested after a google search on the error string. If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output: --8- amarok: [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this URL. Error: 17:24:15: input_file: File not found: file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%20hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3 --8- The file is there: $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\ Teddys\ rum.mp3 -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul 2 2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3 The only thing I can see that was upgraded during the update wit relation to sound is media-sound:phonon (4.3.50_pre20090520 - 4.3.80-r1) Any suggestions? -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:43, Adam a...@jaftan.com.au wrote: I get the following error lines in the console: FATAL: Module radeon not found. (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: drmOpen(radeon, pci::05:05.0) failed. [ 1256.744546] uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x34f, err=0). Trying again with default timings. Radeon DRI is compiled into the kernel. What do I do now? Probably emerge xf86-video-radeonhd? It was emerged with no errors. Build.log: Script started on Sat Feb 20 09:42:53 2010 robot9000 ~ # emerge --color n -1 xf86-video-radeonhd Calculating dependencies ... done! Verifying ebuild manifests Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0 * xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * CPV: x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0 * REPO: gentoo * USE: elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86 Unpacking source... Unpacking xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0/work * Running elibtoolize in: xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0 * Applying portage-2.2.patch ... * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... * Applying as-needed-2.2.6.patch ... Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0/work Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0/work/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0 ... * econf: updating xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating xf86-video-radeonhd-1.3.0/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether /bin/sed can substitute tabs and newlines for text... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands +=... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility
XP on a USB stick It sounds like a Windows machine is necessary to build it, but once it's built it would be really handy. I have found my attempts at building this or a CD-based PE very frustrating indeed. It seems like an awful lot of aggro when you could just download exactly the same thing that someone else has already built, if only the license permitted it. Perhaps it's just seemed like a lot of work because it's never been a goal of mine to make a bootable Windows CD or USB stick - I've always been trying to build them in order to help me achieve some other goal, and it's been far more faffing about that I've been prepared to tolerate. There used to be plenty of PE builds available by the usual pirate sites, but I have no idea whether that's still the case. I seem to be getting more efficient at not needing them. Stroller. Has anyone tried winbuilder: http://winbuilder.net/ It's supposed to be great. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 February 2010 14:07:40 Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Saturday 20 February 2010 03:11:41 Dale wrote: Dale, whatever you wanted to say did not reach the list ... just an html message with an empty body. You may want to resend? PS. Hopefully not in html. ;-) I synced last night and did a update. After that I was informed that there was some preserved libs that needed to be rebuilt. So I attempt to do this and this is what I get: r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy sci-calculators/kconvert:0. * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. r...@smoker / # eix kconvert No matches found. r...@smoker / # layman -l * kde-sunset[Git ] (git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/kde-sunset.git ) r...@smoker / # So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale P. S. Is this being sent plain text? Me and Seaonkey 2 are having a bit of a discussion here. According to the headers in your message, yes: Content-Type: text/plain; I'm afraid I can't help with kconvert other than confirm that it does not seem to be in portage anymore. I do not use any overlays to be able to offer help here. I have a sneaky suspicion that I will have to unmerge the thing. I do wish KDE 4 would get to working for me so I could switch. At least it was in plain text. It's funny that Seamonkey can reply just fine but the initial message goes out blank. sigh Dale :-) :-)
RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...
-Original Message- From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 9:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... The first thing that jumps to my mind is you have an older initrd that has your HD drivers in it (such as ATA), but the newer kernel you've probably just built (is that what you mean by a bit of an update?) doesn't. Check for an initrd, and tell us what a bit of an update means :) You could also compare config files between your rescue CD and your system, if you can find it! HTH, You could see your HDD because the boot CD have enabled all drivers. Could you double check if you have configured the kernel for your HDD correctly? The kernel was not updated or changed since the laptop's last fully successful boot. And, at that time, it was configured to acknowledge my HDD.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore
On 20 Feb 2010, at 16:45, Dan Johansson wrote: ... If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output: --8 - amarok: [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this URL. Error: 17:24:15: input_file: File not found: file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%20hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3 --8 - The file is there: $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/ 06\ -\ Teddys\ rum.mp3 -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul 2 2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/ Den bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3 Have you even tried copying this file to the current working directory and naming it with no non-English characters? Try a foo.mp3 file with no tags. Does it work? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
I've set Radeon DRI from module to built-in and now this is the result: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. I'm using 2.6.31.12 with -rt and -tuxonice patchsets.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that’s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that’s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dan Johansson: After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok will not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message Too many errors encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped. I have tried to delete ~/.xine as suggested after a google search on the error string. If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output: --8--- -- amarok: [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this URL. Error: 17:24:15: input_file: File not found: file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%2 0hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3 --8--- -- The file is there: $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\ Teddys\ rum.mp3 -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul 2 2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3 The only thing I can see that was upgraded during the update wit relation to sound is media-sound:phonon (4.3.50_pre20090520 - 4.3.80-r1) Any suggestions? In recent upgrades (though I switched to the GIT version a while ago), it helped to rescan the collection. You could try this. Or perhaps it is an enconding issue. There are two ?? in your ll output, and the encoded version shows four characters for your å, which should only be two in utf-8. So it is encoding the two unicode octets again in iso. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that’s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that’s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. I may end up doing that. I thought the KDE 3 stuff was supposed to move over to kde-sunset. Did they just miss this one package maybe? I may just do a quickpkg of the thing, unmerge it, let it do the other updates and then put it back. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:20:02PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that?s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that?s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. I may end up doing that. I thought the KDE 3 stuff was supposed to move over to kde-sunset. Did they just miss this one package maybe? I may just do a quickpkg of the thing, unmerge it, let it do the other updates and then put it back. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Dale, you sly, sly man. Hats off ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
Andrey Vul wrote: I've set Radeon DRI from module to built-in and now this is the result: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. I'm using 2.6.31.12 with -rt and -tuxonice patchsets. Maybe stupid questions but is the firmware installed and is it located in a place where the kernel can find it? I've seen a few mails on Xorgs list about this and it's usually remedied by installing the firmware (IIRC). Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo
On Friday 19 February 2010, daid kahl wrote: Hello, I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh interaction with sudo. I'm noticing some strange behavior with the PATH and also the interpretation of '='. d...@flux log % sudo which useradd which: no useradd in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.3 :/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2 .17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin) d...@flux log % sudo echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.3: /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2. 17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/home/daid/scri pts:/sbin:/home/daid/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/bin:/usr/sbin:/u sr/local/warlock2:/usr/local/sbin:/home/daid/physics/transport_for_crib/tra nsport1.6/bin d...@flux log % which useradd /usr/sbin/useradd So sudo has the PATH set correctly, but it doesn't actually use the correct path. Fishy! Nope. If you do sudo echo $PATH $PATH is replaced by the calling shell before sudo even sees it, so no wonder you see the right one (btw, this should also answer your other question on why doing the same on a second instance of the shell seems to work). To test what path is seen when sudoing, do sudo zsh -c 'echo $PATH' that should be more accurate. But you already had an indication of what $PATH is in your first command above. This might be a good read about where to define PATH: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/zshfaq03.html#l19 As for interpretation of '=' I really don't understand what's happening. It seems indiscriminate of the case in terms of mucking about, but the exact result it not always the same. Consider the monstrous output in the following simple case of making a new environment variable: d...@flux log % sudo TEST=testing LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/share:/usr/share GLADE_CATALOG_PATH=: GTK_PATH=:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4 .4.3:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1 .4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin GDK_USE_XFT=1 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-mCuWxp2532/agent.2532 USER=root [snip] SUDO_COMMAND=/bin/env [snip] TEST=testing This looks strange, and would indeed require more investigation. For some reason, sudo is running /bin/env instead of erroring out (as no command to run has been specified). However, I doubt that has anything to do with zsh. Or if I want to emerge a specific package, instead I get: d...@flux log % sudo emerge =sudo-1.7.2_p2-r2 zsh: sudo-1.7.2_p2-r2 not found This is expected. See http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#SEC78 unsetopt EQUALS should cure it. Unless, of course, you DO want to take advantage of zsh's special handling of =, in which case read the documentation. Zsh is a wonderfull shell, but it does have a steep learning curve, due to its many features. Yes, you will bang your head on the wall many and many times if you don't read the documentation and continue to think in bash terms. Reading the manual (or the user friendly documentation) is a must. Zsh is an example of an open source project with a massive and excellent documentation, so no excuses for not reading it! :)
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 17:52, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Andrey Vul wrote: I've set Radeon DRI from module to built-in and now this is the result: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. I'm using 2.6.31.12 with -rt and -tuxonice patchsets. Maybe stupid questions but is the firmware installed and is it located in a place where the kernel can find it? I've seen a few mails on Xorgs list about this and it's usually remedied by installing the firmware (IIRC). I.e. emerge x11-drivers/radeon-ucode ? Also, the messages during emerge of radeon-ucode helped solve the KMS printk() messages. The real question here is why isn't radeon-ucode a dependency of xf86-video-radeonhd ?
Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:22:51 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: md: bindhdg5,1 md: bindhde5,2 md: bindhda5,3 raid1: raid set md101 active with 3 out of 4 mirrors AFAICT this is all you need to know -- you definitely have two software (mdraid) RAID 1 volumes: Agreed, however Iain also said that he tried to mount individual partitions and this failed. This should work with RAID1, so I wonder if something else is at work here; either some sort of logical volumes or a weird filesystem in use. -- Neil Bothwick Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location of all objects cannot be known simultaneously. Corollary: If a lost thing is found, something else will disappear. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:20:02PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that?s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that?s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. I may end up doing that. I thought the KDE 3 stuff was supposed to move over to kde-sunset. Did they just miss this one package maybe? I may just do a quickpkg of the thing, unmerge it, let it do the other updates and then put it back. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Dale, you sly, sly man. Hats off ;-) Keep your hat on. I don't have those thoughts very often. I do have my hal moments tho. lol I'm starting to have some KDE moments to tho. o_O Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
Firmware installed, I still get this: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed.
Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:08:05 +, Mick wrote: I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I would welcome it with open arms though. You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update that bad then? They're not bad in that they do the basic job. It's just that the alternatives can be so much better. -- Neil Bothwick Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
Andrey Vul wrote: The real question here is why isn't radeon-ucode a dependency of xf86-video-radeonhd ? Well, the radeon-ucode is only for r6xx/7xx chips so pulling it in for r5xx would be pointless... I just noticed that you have a radeon hd4200 which is a RS880 chip. Not sure if this is supported yet. Does acceleration (2D/3D) work for you? Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 19:35, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Andrey Vul wrote: The real question here is why isn't radeon-ucode a dependency of xf86-video-radeonhd ? Well, the radeon-ucode is only for r6xx/7xx chips so pulling it in for r5xx would be pointless... I just noticed that you have a radeon hd4200 which is a RS880 chip. Not sure if this is supported yet. Does acceleration (2D/3D) work for you? According to git, all the r7xx except for rs880 are on the working/testing list. Which sucks, tbh: why did I bother to get integrated when I could've gotten a better motherboard (with 1394 support) and a $50 graphics card? What's the point of getting acceleration to work if the kernel can't modeset correctly? Is it worth compiling radeon_drm + r700 fw into the kernel?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:43:11PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:20:02PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. Thanks. Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that?s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that?s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. I may end up doing that. I thought the KDE 3 stuff was supposed to move over to kde-sunset. Did they just miss this one package maybe? I may just do a quickpkg of the thing, unmerge it, let it do the other updates and then put it back. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Dale, you sly, sly man. Hats off ;-) Keep your hat on. I don't have those thoughts very often. I do have my hal moments tho. lol I'm starting to have some KDE moments to tho. o_O Dale :-) :-) In a future not far from now, Dale has moments about every scrap of software save the kernel... ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)
Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 16:51:00 you wrote: On 18 February 2010 14:21, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 22:26:11 schrieb ubiquitous1980: Using KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet for amd64. I know BBC broke this. Anyone got a fix? update to kde 4.4 bbc works again (at least for berlin) You can use cwp (customisable weather plasmoid) from kde-look. Requires hand installation. Hope that helps. Or you can copy the URL from the BBC RSS feed and it should work. Let me know which location you want and I can copy it over for you to try. Open your ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and add this line for your source of the weather applet: source=bbcukmet|weather|Perth, Australia| http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/92/ObservationsRSS.xml all on one line. Or if you prefer Perth International, then add this: source=bbcukmet|weather|Perth International, Australia| http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/1954/ObservationsRSS.xml I can confirm that this solution works as long as you have first selected another source, then changed the source to the BBC one while you are not logged in to KDE4. You need the surrounding configuration information similar as follows: [Containments][1][Applets][15][Configuration] pressureUnit=hPa source=bbcukmet|weather|Perth, Australia|http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/92/ObservationsRSS.xml speedUnit=ms temperatureUnit=C updateInterval=30 visibilityUnit=km Though I do not think this should be simply typed in!? Be aware that if you are logged in, the source is saved as the last one selected in the menu. If you close the applet, the source in the above config file is blanked, along with the other specification data. Which unless you edit the file whilst not logged into KDE4, creates a catch 22. You try to select BBC in menu, then edit the file, then when you try to select the entry again in the plasmoid, it will not find the locality. So you try then by shutting the plasmoid, but the settings are gone. Therefore, use a working selection in the menu, log out of KDE, settings are saved, then edit the source line in your editor such as nano or vim. On next log in to KDE4, select BBC, and it now works. Sorry if this is a long-winded explanation.
Re: [gentoo-user] [X11] radeonhd not working
And from my experiences, fglrx is far less tolerant of fancy kernel patches than the nvidia blobs.
Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 12:08 +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the majority, won't be flaged at all. so does cfg-update Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I give it another try, but I don't really get on with it and always go back to conf-update. There's nothing specific wrong with it, I just prefer (or am used to) conf-update. I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I would welcome it with open arms though. You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update that bad then? out of touch would be rolling your own config update tool, like me ;) It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 12:44 -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 9:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... You could see your HDD because the boot CD have enabled all drivers. Could you double check if you have configured the kernel for your HDD correctly? The kernel was not updated or changed since the laptop's last fully successful boot. And, at that time, it was configured to acknowledge my HDD. thanks for bottom posting, but I'm having a hard time differentiating between your post and the one your responding to, because they're on the same level. I guess you're using Outlook because you can't boot properly? In Outlook you can tell it to prepend the standard before the original message in the menu somewhere. So back to your problem - you can boot but just how far? Can you log into X? What were the updates you applied? (Please list them all). What boot messages do you see? How do you log in? Type `fdisk -l` and post the output. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Look, this is a man. He's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but he invented the calculator. George W. Bush October 3, 2000 First Presidential Debate. Boston, Massachusetts.
