Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

[Ian Lee]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Helmut Jarausch wrote:

On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

Helmut Jarausch wrote:

Hi,

I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine.

/etc/make.conf  contains
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

my profile is
default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop

Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage
fetches the 32-bit variant of the package.
The SRC_URI depends on use flags x86 and amd86.
This package is fetch restricted.  It shouldn't actually fetch 
anything.   You have to download the correct tarball and place it in 
/usr/portage/distfiles.




OK, my wording was wrong. I did fetch the 64-bit version but emerge
didn't use it, but told me to fetch the 32-bit version.


Hmm.  Get that one too then and see which one is picked when the actual 
emerge starts.  It could be that it needs both.  If it ends up building 
the 32-bit one only, then I guess it's time for a bug report :)





Its definitely a 64/32 bit problem and nothing to do with the int64 use 
flag?

Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[Ian Lee]

Mike Kazantsev wrote:

On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 +
Ian Lee  wrote:


but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??


You can try putting

XTerm*background:   #001800
XTerm*foreground:   #A8A8A8

to ~/.Xresources
WFM




Thanks that worked.


I got finally got a system config rather than user config working
(not that i needed a system config)

/etc/X11/Xresources:
add

*customization: -color


/etc/env.d/10xpaths:
change
XFILESEARCHPATH=/etc/X11/%T/%N:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N
to
XFILESEARCHPATH=/etc/X11/%T/%N%C:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N%C

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color now works.

[gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

[Ian Lee]

I use to have a white text on black xterm, but since my last reinstall I 
have not been able to change the colours.


I have copied the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color to 
/etc/X11/app-defaults and changed the options to


*VT100*foreground: gray90
*VT100*background: black

I have XFILESEARCHPATH = /etc/X11/%T/%N:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N

but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing??

thanks Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Dale wrote:

Harry Putnam wrote:

Ian Lee  writes:

  

Ian Lee wrote:


Neil Bothwick wrote:
  

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote:



Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf



That's in /etc/conf.d/rc on mine.  Has it moved?
  

It moved in the switch from baselayout1 to baselayout2/openrc.




This could be what four looking for

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206518



Ian

  

try putting rc_coldplug="no" in conf.d/udev or /etc/rc.conf  i would
assume the udev init script checks both places


I can tell you from trying that just now... that is not a good
solution.

First setting rc_coldplug="no" has some very bad effects:
1) caused my KVM switch setup to be ignored completely, where as with
   with the default "yes"  the kvm is recognized soon as I get past
   grub

2) Very strange behavior with the `screen' tool.  I call screen and
   get started but if I do `C-a c' (which should start another screen)
   Instead it prompts me to login and then takes the original screen
   so I can only get one screen, completely defeating the purpose of
   `screen'. 



I'm also wondering about the wisdom introduciing some esoteric places
to control services.  If someone needs sophisticated controls they can
set that up, but for the rest of us  /etc/conf.d and rc-update should
be THE central tools to have basic services started at boot.

There should be nothing scrolling thru the network softlinks
attempting to start anything it finds.



  


If you check mine and Neils post, one of ours will do just what you want
and still allow you to have hotplug set to yes.  It just tells hotplug
not to start networks itself and leave it to your own settings with
rc-update.  There may also be other things that you can set in there as
well. 


Dale

:-)  :-)



According to the comments hotplugging of services is not allowed by 
default, so why do the net.* services get started?

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Ian Lee wrote:

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote:


Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf




That's in /etc/conf.d/rc on mine.  Has it moved?


It moved in the switch from baselayout1 to baselayout2/openrc.



This could be what four looking for

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206518



Ian

try putting rc_coldplug="no" in conf.d/udev or /etc/rc.conf  i would 
assume the udev init script checks both places

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote:


Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf




That's in /etc/conf.d/rc on mine.  Has it moved?


It moved in the switch from baselayout1 to baselayout2/openrc.



This could be what four looking for

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206518



Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Harry Putnam wrote:

Ian Lee  writes:


1) net.eth1 problem

There is a udev hook for starting net.* init scripts,
/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules to be precise


The script is very brief 
There is no mention of net.eth1 in that script


  SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",RUN+="net.sh %k start"
  SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="net.sh %k stop"

Further it says not edit this script since it gets overwritten on
update.

Apparently this is not the place to alter what happens at runlevels.



2) Openrc problem
I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you
have done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are
not done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runlevels
these are needed for openrc to work copy any that don't exist in
/etc/runlevels most important are sysinit and shutdown, boot and
default are likey to be fine


They are all present in /etc/runlevels.

And again I see no reference to net.eth1 or hwclock




that udev rule starts any found network devices on your system net.sh is 
just a  wrapper to the net.* scripts in init.d, if you never use eth1 
then remove net.eth1 from /etc/init.d.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:50:41 schrieb Ian Lee:


2) Openrc problem
I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have
done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not
done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runlevels these are
needed for openrc to work copy any that don't exist in /etc/runlevels
most important are sysinit and shutdown, boot and default are likey to
be fine


Hmm, I have the same problem here, but I do have all the directories from 
/usr/share/openrc/runlevels in /etc/runlevels.


Bye...

Dirk

I just found this it might help

http://bugs.gentoo.org/252380

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

[Ian Lee]

Harry Putnam wrote:

I don't have an entry for net.eth1 in rc-update show

I don't have any mention of eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net
(only eth0)

Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot.
What else controls that?  If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net
it shouldn't happen.

I have a few other boot problems...I'm not sure where they arise from.

hwclock is meddling about during shutdown.
Again, it isn't shown in rc-update 
and /etc/conf.d/hwclock has this in it:


  # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
  # during shutdown, then say "YES" here.  You normally don't need to
  # do this if you run a ntp daemon.
  clock_systohc="NO"

Still, on a shutdown I can't get past this output:
 
 hwclock waiting for localmount

 (Over and over)

I have to hit a manual reset on the computer to get past 
  hwclock waiting for localmount


Also klogd cannot be stopped by reboot or shutdown.  But at least,
unlike hwclock, after a pause the shutdown proceeds anyway.

 eix -Ic openrc
  sys-apps/openrc (0@12/25/08): OpenRC manages the services, startup
  and shutdown of a host

 eix -Ic udev
  [I] sys-fs/udev (135...@12/24/08): Linux dynamic and persistent device
  naming support (aka userspace devfs)




1) net.eth1 problem

There is a udev hook for starting net.* init scripts, 
/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules to be precise



2) Openrc problem
I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have 
done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not 
done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc/runlevels these are 
needed for openrc to work copy any that don't exist in /etc/runlevels 
most important are sysinit and shutdown, boot and default are likey to 
be fine

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[jaeyoung lee]

look this
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html?sid=e44c9527cf38ebd470151d1452478d82

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
> On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:
>
> In my latest update I have received the following message:
>> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
>> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>>
>> media-libs/win32codecs:0
>>
>>  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
>>  pulled in by
>>   ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
>>   @world
>>
>>  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
>>  pulled in by
>>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
>>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
>>   @world
>>
>>
>> ...
>> Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
>> this?
>>
>
> I believe so:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
>
> I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe above.
> You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the referenced
> forums post for those that require Real, but you might just try unmerging
> win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.
>
> I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed mplayer
> updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
> [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753-r1]
> USE="...  -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
> Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the issue
> this morning.
>
> It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs are
> actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists & audio
> files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement "Chances are, you
> don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used anymore, and most people
> will be fine without them."
>
> I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /
> Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their shows
> to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a consequence later
> tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to handle
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without these
> packages installed.
>
> Stroller.
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

[jaeyoung lee]

rsync is nice way

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
> memory!)
>
> What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line?
> --
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> Mick
>



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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

[jaeyoung lee]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can
>> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check
>> should cover you for the updates
>>
>> I would assume that in most cases source tarballs will be smaller than
>> binaries to download too :)
>>
>
> If you can download the runtime image
> + portage beforehand onto a thumb drive
> or DVD's the Gentoo install isn't even
> all that net hungry.
>
> You might find that Damn Small Linux is,
> well, damn small and doesn't take that
> much bandwidth to download.
>
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>

you can use ArchLinux it's also good:)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice,
> > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to
> > run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which
> > was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it.
>
> This should fix it:
>
>revdep-rebuild -X -i --ask
>
> the problem seems to be a link problem with the ALSA lib.  When you hear
> "link problem", revdep-rebuild is the solution most of the time.  It
> will rebuild packages that use the ALSA lib.

I ran revdep-rebuild last night after the big reemerge it didn't pick anything 
up. Just to be sure I re-ran it when I got your email. I doesn't want to 
rebuild anything.
Thanks
Matt

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[gentoo-user] sound hosed after running python-updater

[Matthew R. Lee]

Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice, because 
of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to run 
python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which was 
alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it. All the emerges 
finished without errors, but now the sound doesn't work. I've tried 
reemerging all the alsa stuff but no joy. I have the alsa drivers in the 
kernel and I'm using alsa-libs-1.0.16
When I try running madplay -v Music/Megamix/19.mp3
I get the following error:
MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et 
al.
ALSA lib dlmisc.c:118:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol 
_snd_pcm_plug_open
ALSA lib pcm.c:2108:(snd_pcm_open_conf) symbol _snd_pcm_plug_open is not 
defined inside [builtin]
audio: No such device or address

I found a thread on the gentoo forums discussing this problem. It seems some 
pcm plugins need to be specified. So I specified all of them! reemerged 
alsa-libs and tools, utils, etc.
Still the same error message!
I've run out of ideas, anybody know what the problem is?
Thanks
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] googleearth

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 11 August 2008 19:46:22 Dale wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > Google earth upgraded over the weekend to version 4.2.205.5730. It
> > installed fine but it runs like shit. The rendering is so slow as to be
> > completely unusable. The previous version worked fine so I tried to go
> > back to it but it's gone, at least according to eix.
> > Anybody else having the same problem? Nobody's mentioned it on this list
> > or on the forums sofar.
> > Where do I start to find a solution?
> > Hardware: Compaq Presario V5000 laptop
> > Precessor: Celeron M 1.46GHz
> > RAM: 2GB
> > Graphics: Intel 945GM/GMS Express Integrated Graphics Controller
> >
> > Saludos
> > Matt
>
> Well, I'm not going to lock myself into a agreement but you can try
> starting here:  http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html  I would
> start close to the bottom where it says this:  "Download the previous
> version".  That may help.  It may go back a little farther or you may
> want to try moving to a even newer version where your "issue" may be fixed.
>
> Hope that helps.  Just wish I could get off this stinking dial-up so I
> can play with it too.  :-(
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Just a follow up to this short thread. Sorry it's been a couple of weeks but 
I've been away doing field work. The problem with the new version of google 
earth is the atmosphere. Rendering thin air appears to be a resource hog. To 
restore normal function, deselect Atmosphere in the view menu.
Saludos
Matt

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[gentoo-user] googleearth

[Matthew R. Lee]

Google earth upgraded over the weekend to version 4.2.205.5730. It installed 
fine but it runs like shit. The rendering is so slow as to be completely 
unusable. The previous version worked fine so I tried to go back to it but 
it's gone, at least according to eix.
Anybody else having the same problem? Nobody's mentioned it on this list or on 
the forums sofar.
Where do I start to find a solution?
Hardware: Compaq Presario V5000 laptop
Precessor: Celeron M 1.46GHz
RAM: 2GB
Graphics: Intel 945GM/GMS Express Integrated Graphics Controller

Saludos
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] what qt package?

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 03 August 2008 18:51:43 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee schrieb am 04.08.2008 00:28:
> > I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some
> > time ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development
> > package which provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want
> > to unmerge them but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're
> > from. I've tried variations on the names, I've looked at the
> > gentoo-portage web page and 'searched' the database, I've been to the
> > trolltech pages. But I can't work it out! I think they all came in one
> > package together. Does anyone know what it's called. It will be obvious
> > when you tell me :-)
> > Cheers
> > Matt
>
> Linguist, Designer and Assistant are part of x11-libs/qt and I don't
> think you can get rid of them by use flag. You have to unmerge qt but
> this is surely not what you want or can. Only if no package from your
> system depends on qt anymore.

Is that true? I could of sworn I didn't always have them, and I've always used 
kde. But then again it might explain why I can't find specific packages for 
them.
Thanks
Matt

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[gentoo-user] what qt package?

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm doing a clean up of my system, getting rid of stuff I never use. Some time 
ago, for reasons I can't remember, I installed a qt development package which 
provided Qt linguist, Qt designer and Qt assistant. I want to unmerge them 
but I can't remember, or figure out which package they're from. I've tried 
variations on the names, I've looked at the gentoo-portage web page 
and 'searched' the database, I've been to the trolltech pages. But I can't 
work it out! I think they all came in one package together. Does anyone know 
what it's called. It will be obvious when you tell me :-)
Cheers
Matt
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[gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The 
university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, 
has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it?  I sure it will 
work, I'm just wondering if there are any tweaks that dell have made to the 
Ubuntu install to make certain components work, that may be more difficult to 
replicate with the gentoo install.  I'm going for the default set-up plus 
extra memory, that's a Pentium dual-core processor E2180 1MB 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 
250GB SATA, 20" widescreen, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100, 
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Any comments would be appreciated
Saludos
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 20:13:20 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:47:10 Matt Harrison wrote:
> > Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote:
> > >> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load
> > >>> the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is
> > >>> there. Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was
> > >>> mounted when I copied the new kernel across and changed the
> > >>> grub.conf. What's really confusing me is there's no syntax error in
> > >>> the grub.conf that I can see, and the first kernel on the list boots
> > >>> fine.  Anyone got any cluse as to why grub can't see the second
> > >>> kernel?
> > >>>
> > >>> [grub.conf]
> > >>> default 0
> > >>>
> > >>> timeout 30
> > >>>
> > >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > >>>
> > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2
> > >>>
> > >>> root (hd0,0)
> > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>>
> > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8
> > >>>
> > >>> root (hd0,0)
> > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3
> > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>
> > >> Could you please show us:
> > >>
> > >> $ mount
> > >>
> > >> and
> > >>
> > >> # ls -la /boot
> > >
> > > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> > > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
> > > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
> > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
> > > shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs
> > > (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2
> > > (rw)
> > >
> > > total 17256
> > > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root1024 Jul  5 18:28 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29  2007 ..
> > > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root1024 Aug 16  2007 boot
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   37395 Dec 25  2006 config-2.6.18-r5
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   35286 Dec 28  2006 config-2.6.18-r6
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29907 Jul 19  2007 config-2.6.21-r4
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   39449 Aug  4  2007 config-2.6.22-r2
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44583 Jul  5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5
> > > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  486761 Oct  7  2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1637016 Dec 25  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1606118 Dec 28  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1916280 Jul 19  2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1740624 Aug  4  2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1847000 Jul  5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5
> > > drwx--  2 root root   12288 Dec 27  2007 lost+found
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  738926 Dec 25  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  712206 Dec 28  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  813409 Jul 19  2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  810321 Aug  4  2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  870491 Jul  5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5
> > >
> > > I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem?
> >
> > According to your grub.conf your default is the top entry, but the
> > kernel image for that doesn't exist in your boot partition.
> >
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> >
> > should probably be
> >
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2 root=/dev/sda3
> >
> > Thats if 2.6.22-r2 is the kernel your trying to boot.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Matt
>
> This is wierd, I hadn't noticed that, but that's not causing the problem.
> I'm running the 2.6.22-r2 kernel now, that's the one that boots, the
> 2.6.24-r8 is the one grub can't find.
> Matt
Ok,
I figured out the problem, but no why it's happened. If you look at the output 
of ls -la /boot there is another folder /boot and within this a symlink /boot 
(./) By copying the kernel to this folder and modifiying the grub.conf in the 
associated /grub folder the the new kernel boots.
Question is how did I come to have a cascade of boot folders and how do I get 
things back the way they should be?

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:47:10 Matt Harrison wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote:
> >> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> >>> I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load
> >>> the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there.
> >>> Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted
> >>> when I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's
> >>> really confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I
> >>> can see, and the first kernel on the list boots fine.  Anyone got any
> >>> cluse as to why grub can't see the second kernel?
> >>>
> >>> [grub.conf]
> >>> default 0
> >>>
> >>> timeout 30
> >>>
> >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >>>
> >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2
> >>>
> >>> root (hd0,0)
> >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>
> >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8
> >>>
> >>> root (hd0,0)
> >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3
> >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> Could you please show us:
> >>
> >> $ mount
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> # ls -la /boot
> >
> > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
> > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
> > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
> > shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs
> > (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2
> > (rw)
> >
> > total 17256
> > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root1024 Jul  5 18:28 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29  2007 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root1024 Aug 16  2007 boot
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   37395 Dec 25  2006 config-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   35286 Dec 28  2006 config-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29907 Jul 19  2007 config-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   39449 Aug  4  2007 config-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44583 Jul  5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  486761 Oct  7  2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1637016 Dec 25  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1606118 Dec 28  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1916280 Jul 19  2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1740624 Aug  4  2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1847000 Jul  5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5
> > drwx--  2 root root   12288 Dec 27  2007 lost+found
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  738926 Dec 25  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  712206 Dec 28  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  813409 Jul 19  2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  810321 Aug  4  2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  870491 Jul  5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5
> >
> > I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem?
>
> According to your grub.conf your default is the top entry, but the
> kernel image for that doesn't exist in your boot partition.
>
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
>
> should probably be
>
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2 root=/dev/sda3
>
> Thats if 2.6.22-r2 is the kernel your trying to boot.
>
> HTH
>
> Matt

This is wierd, I hadn't noticed that, but that's not causing the problem.
I'm running the 2.6.22-r2 kernel now, that's the one that boots, the 2.6.24-r8 
is the one grub can't find. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load the
> > new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there.
> > Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted when
> > I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's really
> > confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I can see,
> > and the first kernel on the list boots fine.  Anyone got any cluse as to
> > why grub can't see the second kernel?
> >
> > [grub.conf]
> > default 0
> >
> > timeout 30
> >
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >
> > title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3
> > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Could you please show us:
>
> $ mount
>
> and
>
> # ls -la /boot

/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)

total 17256
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root1024 Jul  5 18:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root4096 Dec 29  2007 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root1024 Aug 16  2007 boot
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   37395 Dec 25  2006 config-2.6.18-r5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   35286 Dec 28  2006 config-2.6.18-r6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   29907 Jul 19  2007 config-2.6.21-r4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   39449 Aug  4  2007 config-2.6.22-r2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   44583 Jul  5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  486761 Oct  7  2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1637016 Dec 25  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1606118 Dec 28  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1916280 Jul 19  2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1740624 Aug  4  2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1847000 Jul  5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5
drwx--  2 root root   12288 Dec 27  2007 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  738926 Dec 25  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  712206 Dec 28  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  813409 Jul 19  2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  810321 Aug  4  2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  870491 Jul  5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5

I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem?

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[gentoo-user] grub boot problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load the new 
kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there.
Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted when I 
copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's really 
confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I can see, and 
the first kernel on the list boots fine.  Anyone got any cluse as to why grub 
can't see the second kernel?

[grub.conf]
default 0

timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 23 June 2008 18:11:09 Neil Walker wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > So I should comment out the
> > line "splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
> >
> > The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though
>
> Maybe it does - but the path you have entered in grub.conf doesn't. ;)
> There should not be a space after "(hd0,0)".
>
>
> Be lucky,
>
> Neil
>
>
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Thanks that sorted it
However, looking at old, backup, versions of grub.conf that I have; they all 
have the same space and before the grub-install the splash appeared when 
booting.

Saludos
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 23 June 2008 17:41:30 Miika Linnapuomi wrote:
> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:31 -0400
>
> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem.
> > When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select
> > which kernel to boot.  If I press return the the first kernel in the
> > list is loaded. After a screen full of gibberish the normal list of
> > processes etc intitating fill the screen until X starts.
> > I've included my grub.conf below.
> > Anybody know what the problem is?
> > Thanks
> > Matt
> >
> > default 0
> >
> > timeout 30
> >
> > splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >
> > title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3
> > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Loading a non-existent splash can do that. You could try without the
> splash, or with
>
> splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> Thanks
>
> Miika

So I should comment out the 
line "splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz"

The file splash.xpm.gz does exist though

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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 23 June 2008 16:55:08 Miika Linnapuomi wrote:
> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:00:41 -0400
>
> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote:
> > > Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote:
> > > >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400
> > > >>
> > > >> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot
> > > >>> partition, copied the new bzimage across, along with .config
> > > >>> and system.map. I then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot
> > > >>> it offers me the same options as in the old grub.conf not the
> > > >>> new one. I must have missed a step somewhere, but I can't think
> > > >>> where. Can anyone point me in the right direction Thanks
> > > >>> Matt
> > > >>
> > > >> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old
> > > >> grub.conf? Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is
> > > >> there a symlink menu.lst on grub.conf?
> > > >> Do you really boot from that partition?
> > > >
> > > > the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config.
> > > > menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf
> > > > /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition
> > > > the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel
> > > > with the newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want
> > > > the default to be my current working kernel. I want to test the
> > > > new kernel before I make it the default. Point is that this setup
> > > > was working previously and has done so since I started using
> > > > gentoo.  I have checked to make sure that /dev/sda1 was really
> > > > mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, and it was. So
> > > > I don't know what has gone wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Matt
> > >
> > > Did you run grub-install?
> >
> > No, and before I do, given the warnings in the manual, I want to make
> > sure I don't screw up
> > I have a standard partition layout with three partitions sda1 (boot)
> > sda2 (swap) sda3 (the rest). sda1 is the bootable partition
> >
> > So I issue the command grub-instal /dev/sda
> > Correct??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Matt
>
> Yes, grub-install /dev/sda should do it. Just make sure /boot is mounted
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Miika
Well I ran grub-install, but I've run into a problem.
When I reboot the splash and menu do not appear, so I can't select which 
kernel to boot.  If I press return the the first kernel in the list is 
loaded. After a screen full of gibberish the normal list of processes etc 
intitating fill the screen until X starts.
I've included my grub.conf below.
Anybody know what the problem is?
Thanks
Matt

default 0

timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400
> >>
> >> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition,
> >>> copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I
> >>> then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same
> >>> options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a
> >>> step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the
> >>> right direction Thanks
> >>> Matt
> >>
> >> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old grub.conf?
> >> Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is there a symlink
> >> menu.lst on grub.conf?
> >> Do you really boot from that partition?
> >
> > the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config.
> > menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf
> > /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition
> > the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel with the
> > newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want the default to be
> > my current working kernel. I want to test the new kernel before I make it
> > the default. Point is that this setup was working previously and has done
> > so since I started using gentoo.  I have checked to make sure that
> > /dev/sda1 was really mounted at /boot when I copied everything across,
> > and it was. So I don't know what has gone wrong.
> >
> > Matt
>
> Did you run grub-install?

No, and before I do, given the warnings in the manual, I want to make sure I 
don't screw up
I have a standard partition layout with three partitions sda1 (boot) sda2 
(swap) sda3 (the rest). sda1 is the bootable partition

So I issue the command grub-instal /dev/sda
Correct??

Thanks
Matt 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: digital camera - Longshot!

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 20 June 2008 11:02:28 James wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee  matthewlee.org> writes:
> > Dear All,
> > I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging
> > system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam.  As usual out of the box there is
> > no Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't
> > mention linux support except in the context of the firewire models.
>
> http://www.qimaging.com/products/cameras/documentation/
>
> Says:
> "The Go Series use superior CMOS sensors which take advantage of USB 2.0
> plug-n-play interfaces under Windows supported operating systems. The
> MicroPublisher cameras use CCD technology combined with the sustained data
> performance of FireWire to offer superior color imaging and performance for
> Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems. Both the Go and
> MicroPublisher series cameras come with QCapture Suite and QCapture Pro
> software designed for high speed performance preview and capture functions.
> A Software Development Kit is available for easy interfacing with custom
> software. QImaging cameras are compatible with a large selection of life
> science and industrial software for microscope, machine vision and video
> streaming applications. "
>
>
> Oh by the way, in my previous post I mentioned "classes of usb
> drivers". Take a look here:
>
> http://www.usb.org/developers/defined_class
>
> A generic class driver under linux just might work for your device,
> since it is bascially a "web cam". Vendors most often try to get
> their products to use the generic class drivers, so they work
> out of the box with the various operating systems.
>
> Surely there is a way to make one of their microscopes work with linux?
>
>
> I'd be interested in this, if they do not cost too much.
>
>
> James

Thanks for the info, I haven't got time to do anything about this until the 
weekend. Hopefully it will just work.  As for the cost, it is excessivly 
spendy. The cost was around 2.3 million chilean pesos, that's about £2300 or 
$4600 US. Yeah! seemed exhorbitant to me, but I'm not paying for it.
Saludos
Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400
>
> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition,
> > copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I
> > then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same
> > options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a
> > step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the
> > right direction Thanks
> > Matt
>
> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old grub.conf?
> Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is there a symlink
> menu.lst on grub.conf?
> Do you really boot from that partition?

the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config.
menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf
/boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition
the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel with the newest. 
The order shouldn't make any difference, I want the default to be my current 
working kernel. I want to test the new kernel before I make it the default.
Point is that this setup was working previously and has done so since I 
started using gentoo.  I have checked to make sure that /dev/sda1 was really 
mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, and it was. So I don't know 
what has gone wrong.

Matt

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[gentoo-user] GRUB question

[Matthew R. Lee]

I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, copied the 
new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I then edited the 
grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same options as in the old 
grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a step somewhere, but I can't 
think where. Can anyone point me in the right direction
Thanks
Matt

New grub.conf:
default 0

timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

title=Gentoo 2.6.25-r5

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25-r5 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Old grub.conf:
default 0

timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0) /boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 
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[gentoo-user] digital camera - Longshot!

[Matthew R. Lee]

Dear All,
I've just taken delivery of a shiny new microscope with a digital imaging 
system. Essentially a fancy usb webcam.  As usual out of the box there is no 
Linux support. The model is a Q Imaging Go-3. Their website doesn't mention 
linux support except in the context of the firewire models.
I've done a lsusb and got the following info:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 5354:80e3 [no model or manufacturer info]

I've looked through various webcam, gentoo-wiki, and V4L sites to see if those 
IDs mean anything, but no luck sofar. I even tried googling them. Truth is 
I'm not sure what they actually refer to.

Longshot, has anybody got this camera and got it working.
The alternative I suppose is to run it through XP which I'm going to install 
in a virtual machine later. I've got other software I need to use which I 
can't persuade Wine to run.
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Re: [gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:42:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove
> > gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently
> > using. Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is
> > the kernel image in /boot sufficient.  Do I need to build myself a
> > new working kernel before I reboot again?  I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2
> > becuase it's no longer available. Thanks
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> The answer to why this happens is in a thread from earlier today when
> this happened to mark Knecht. Summary:
>
> This is a new thing that --depclean does. Just remerge the sources you
> want, put them in world if you want to guarantee that --depclean won't
> be overly helpful in future.
>
> As for the sources themselves, they are only needed to build a kernel or
> out-of-tree modules (ati drivers, ndiswrapper, vmware-modules, etc
> etc). You already have a working kernel, so you are safe. Gentoo does
> not require anything in /usr/src - unlike most binary distros it
> doesn't keep kernel headers there, they are somewhere else and
> completely unaffected by the presence or absence of full sources.
>
> If you do need to remerge the original sources, you can grab the
> original ebuild from the gentoo attic. Google will find it for you
>
>
>
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Thanks for the info.  I'm really not in the mood for building a new kernel.  
And I'll pay more attention in future, to --depclean and the list. Too much 
work at the moment
Saludos
Matt

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[gentoo-user] possible gentoo-sources stuff-up

[Matthew R. Lee]

I just ran emerge --depclean and missed that it was going to remove 
gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, the sources for the kernel I'm currently using.  
Now what I'm not sure about is, do I need the sources, or is the kernel image 
in /boot sufficient.  Do I need to build myself a new working kernel before I 
reboot again?  I can't reemerge 2.6.22-r2 becuase it's no longer available.
Thanks
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:00:13 Johann Schmitz wrote:
> This should work (untested!):
>
> for x in $(find  -name "*.htm*"); do
> ~  tmp=$(mktemp);
>
> ~  sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x > $tmp && mv $tmp $x;
>
> ~  rm $tmp;
> done
>
> Matthew R. Lee schrieb:
> | I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace
> | in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do
> | this using the following from the command line:
> | sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html
> | file.html
> | Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files.  I assume it could be
> | done with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts.  I've
> | looked through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand
> | sofar.  I want to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done
> | yesterday as the associated paper has just been published.
> | Cheers
> | Matt
>
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Thanks, job done.  All the variations suggested worked, I tried them all :-)
I love the command line, I really need to learn how to make the most of it.
Saludos from Chile
Matt

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[gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

[Matthew R. Lee]

I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in 
each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this 
using the following from the command line:
sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html 
file.html
Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files.  I assume it could be done 
with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts.  I've looked 
through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand sofar.  I want 
to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done yesterday as the 
associated paper has just been published.
Cheers
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Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

[Ian Lee]

Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Meinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Try to determine possible resolutions by typing "hwinfo
--framebuffer". Use the
hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf.


Okay, *that* I didn't know. :-)
I do know 1440x900 is a supported resolution on my machines since it's 
the native resolution of their screen's.
 


For 1400x1050 with kernel 2.6.24-r3 I am using the following lines:
title Gentoo GNU/Linux (gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3 root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x344


So after the change from the vesafb-tng to the actual uvesafb on the 
kernel, it actually IS necessary to use the "vga=something" trick on the 
boot line, then?

I'll do it and tell the results.

Thanks a lot, Alexander!

Best regards,

Saffi

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i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver
i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32
i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how??
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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 10 February 2008 16:28:12 Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote:
> > > Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > > > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using
> > > > gentoo?
> > > >
> > > > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view
> > > > videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > >
> > > It's a flash based player mplayer wont work
> >
> > I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to
> > launch an embeded version of kmplayer.
> > Saludos
> > Matt
>
> That makes sense as it's the "kde frontend" for mplayer.  I had some real
> problems with kmplayer and mplayer not playing nice. Kmplayer was sending
> commandline parameters that the latest versions of mplayer didn't
> understand. Try the realplayer plugin ans see if it works.
>
> --
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>
> From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride

I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works 
better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends 
to skip a bit

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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote:
> Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?
> >
> > I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view
> > videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> It's a flash based player mplayer wont work

I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to 
launch an embeded version of kmplayer.
Saludos
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

[Ian Lee]

Ian Lee wrote:
> Jeff Cranmer wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?
>>
>> I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, 
>> either with the embedded player or the standalone.
>>
>> Jeff
>>   
>> 
> It's a flash based player mplayer wont work
>   
If you're using 64 bit firefox net-www/nspluginwrapper is a good way to
get flash working or theres firefox-bin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

[Ian Lee]

Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?
>
> I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, 
> either with the embedded player or the standalone.
>
> Jeff
>   
It's a flash based player mplayer wont work
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Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

[Ian Lee]

dell core2duo wrote:
> Hi all,
>I was using kernel 2.6.23 till now and everything was working
> pretty well.
>  My wireless card is ---0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom
> Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01).
> It was working fine with kernel 2.6.23 with ndiswrapper. Yesterday i
> upgraded to kernel 2.4.26. And my wireless card
> stopped working.  It says that eth1 does not exist.
> Some important out are below
> ---
> flukebox # ndiswrapper -l
> bcmwl5 : driver installed
> device (14E4:4311) present
> flukebox # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
>  * Starting eth1
>  * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated
>  * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net
>  * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated
>  * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net
>  *   Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming DHCP
>  *   Bringing up eth1
>  * dhcp
>  *   network interface eth1 does not exist
>  *   Please verify hardware or kernel module
> (driver)  
> 
> [ !! ]
> flukebox #
> 
>
> I didn't have any kernel built-in module for bcmxx .
> Can somebody help me here. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> flukebox
>
>
>
>
>
Have u rebuilt the ndiswprapper kernel module for the new kernel?
try reinstalling ndiswrapper
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[gentoo-user] problem printing photos

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm having a real problem getting photos to print.  I'm using HP Deskjet 3845, 
with the hpijs driver set to (600dpi, photo, full bleed, photo + color 
cartridge, photo paper) and CUPS 1.2.12.  I've been trying to print from 
digikam, but I've had the same problem from other software.
The problem is that the printer starts printing the photo but gives up at some 
point during the printing, never the same point twice!  No error messages 
that I can see, it just stops and the light on the front of the printer 
starts flashing.  I've tried leaving it to see if it was just a case of it 
taking its time to process the image but it never starts again.
I've tried various mailing lists, googling etc, but I can't find the answer
Any one out there no what the problem is?
Saludos
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Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion

[Lee Davis]

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Anyone using compiz-fusion on this list? I'm putting together a system
> I'll be using to demo linux. compiz-fusion appears to be the "eye-candy"
>  that would make a demo shine. I see that its in portage (masked) any
> gotchas I should be aware of before proceeding?

I've been using it (and vanilla compiz before it) for several months
with nvidia drivers.  No problems.

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Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Matthew R. Lee]

Dear All,
Thanks for the advice.  I just successfully completed the transfer of my 
gentoo installation to the new hard drive.  I was able to install grub on the 
external drive successfully, obviating the need to boot with the live cd 
after swaping the drives.
I did however have one problem with the dev/ being a little messed up, but I 
followed the instructions in the /etc/issue file and that fix the problem, as 
far as I can tell :-)

Cheers
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Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 24 December 2007 19:36:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:28:37 +, Stroller wrote:
> > It might be as simple as completing the `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb`
> > and then using `fdisk` to delete the last partition, then recreate it
> > with the same start point (and a later end point). The filesystem
> > would then need to be resized. But I don't know if this will work,
>
> It will, I've done it myself. The main disadvantages are that you can
> only resize the last partition,and it is very slow (because dd copies
> every byte of the source drive, not jut the ones in use). Although I have
> used this method, I wouldn't do it again, I'd set up the partitions,
> copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive.

Right I'm going to do it this way, in the morning, so if I'm wrong please feel 
free to shout at me over night:
1. make the new partitions and file systems on the new drive /dev/sdb
2. mount sdb1 (boot) and sdb3 (root)
3. copy sda1 to sdb1 and sda3 to sdb3 using rsync (I use rsync all the time to 
do backups so I'll stick with what I know)
4. swap the drives
5. boot with Live CD
6. (not sure about this bit) mount the boot partition (will this be sda1 or 
sdb1?) and root partition
7. chroot to the new disk
8. do env-update and source /etc/profile 
9. install grub (I'm assuming I wont have to change my grub.conf as everything 
is in the same place as before, relatively speaking)
10. reboot and get on with the rest of my day

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Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > cp- a should work fine.  I have used that several times and no problems
> > yet.  You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by.
> >
> > If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your
> > grub.conf and fstab should be fine.
> >
> > You will need to install grub on the new drive tho.  I usually do that
> > from the Gentoo CD myself.
> >
> > Hope it all goes well.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> Me and my sucky typing.  Make that cp -a instead.  That may work better.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap 
the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from 
the install handbook:

Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install
 To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, 
grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted 
environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. 
Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy 
over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't 
created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both 
cases: 
Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab
  # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

   Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: 
Code Listing 6: Running grub-install
  # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda

   If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or 
the GRUB Manual. 
 Continue with Rebooting the System. 

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[gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Matthew R. Lee]

Dear All,
I'm running out of space on my laptop  (Compaq Presario V5000) so I've decided 
to intall a bigger hard disk.  Currently I have an 80GB SATA drive, I'm also 
going to add more RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) as RAM is so cheap at the moment.  
I've been through various howto's online, including the one in the 
gentoo-wiki, but I'm not completely clear on a couple of things.  I need this 
to go quickly and smoothly, I'm about to move house and job and I don't have 
too much time for messing around.

My current partition table looks like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks Id  System
/dev/sda1   *   1   5 40131   83  Linux
/dev/sda2   6  68506047+  82  Linux swap / 
Solaris
/dev/sda3  699729 77601982+  83  Linux

I intend to keep the same partition layout on the new disk, but with /sda3 
being a lot bigger.

So here's how I think I'll do this, please feel free to correct me if I'm 
wrong.
1. place the new 160GB SATA drive in an external housing and create the 
partitions using fdisk, make the file systems, etc.

Question 1: Should I keep the swap partition the same size or increase it?

2. Copy all the partitions from the old disk to the new disk using cp

Question 2: (This is the main one!) The MBR?  As the new disk is a direct 
replacement for the old one, with the same partitions etc, do I need to 
change anything in my grub.conf?  or should it just work without 
modification?

Here's my current grub.conf:

default 0

timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash2.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r6 root=/dev/sda3 
video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

3. Shutdown, replace the old drive with the new drive, reboot and cross my 
fingers :-)  Will it work?

Any comments, as always, greatly appreciated
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

[Lee Davis]

Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> 
>>> swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ...
>>
>> I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I
>> saw nothing but praise for XFS.  Maybe they're all just lucky.
> 
> I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time, but I do recall
> similar threads in the past year in which opinions dissenting from this
> were aired. I believe JFS may also be suitable for larger files?

I use JFS on my MythTV's video partition, ReiserFS on the others.  Works
great for me, knock wood.

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[gentoo-user] korganiser problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm having trouble with the To-do-List in Kontact.  When I try to mark a to-do 
complete a message pops up saying "Unable to edit item: it is locked by 
another process."  I've tried shutting down kontact and killing all processes 
associated with kontact/korganiser and then relaunching kontact, but it makes 
no difference.  Anybody got any ideas, I don't want to have to redo my 
calender and to-do list again from the start.  I've pasted the output from ps 
x below
Thanks
Matt
  PID TTY  STAT   TIME COMMAND
 4957 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde
 5026 ?S  0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
 5033 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 
4 --print-address 6 --session
 5050 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 
4 --print-address 6 --session
 5051 ?S  
0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
 5517 ?Ss 0:00 kdeinit Running...   
   
 6010 ?S  0:01 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid 
   
 6125 ?S  0:00 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
   
 6315 ?S  0:05 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup 
   
 6583 ?S  0:00 kwrapper ksmserver
 6585 ?S  0:00 ksmserver [kdeinit]  
   
 6586 ?S  0:02 kwin [kdeinit] -session 
106d65696f0001160297791008988_1197248206_483363
 6588 ?S  0:01 kdesktop [kdeinit]   
   
 6590 ?S  0:03 kicker [kdeinit] 
   
 6595 ?S  0:01 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -a alsa -d -s 
60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f
 6597 ?S  0:00 kaccess [kdeinit]
   
 6599 ?S  0:00 knetstats -session 
1014cd7d2d400011751109460058650054_1197248206_457883
 6601 ?S  0:01 kget -session 
1014cd7d2d400011797792560058820042_1197248206_458044
 6603 ?S  0:00 kmix [kdeinit] -session 
1014cd7d2d400011890235880065390012_1197248206_458121
 6604 ?R  0:00 klamav -session 
1014cd7d2d400011952153240066220014_1197248206_458744
 6611 ?S  0:39 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload
   
 6614 ?S  0:00 /home/matt/.kde/Autostart/xbindlink
 6616 ?S  0:00 knotify [kdeinit]
   
 6618 ?S  0:00 klipper [kdeinit]
   
 6621 ?R  0:05 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload
   
 6680 ?Ss 0:05 clamd -c /home/matt/klammailfZTiql
 6795 ?R  0:01 konsole
 6796 pts/1Ss 0:00 /bin/bash
 8533 ?SLl1:46 amarokapp
 8546 ?S  0:00 
ruby /usr/share/apps/amarok/scripts/score_default/score_default.rb
 8547 ?S  0:00 
ruby 
/home/matt/.kde3.5/share/apps/amarok/scripts/wiki_lyrics/amarok/pluginsmanager.rb
 8586 ?S  0:00 konqueror [kdeinit] --preload
   
 8587 ?S  0:52 tellico -caption Tellico -icon tellico -miniicon 
tellico
31094 ?S  0:00 ispell -a -S -C -d british
31100 ?S  0:00 kio_uiserver [kdeinit]   
   
31213 ?S  0:00 kio_file [kdeinit] 
file /tmp/ksocket-matt/klauncher8pUWpc.slave-socket 
/tmp/ksocket-matt/amarok0hLNVa.slave-socket
31567 pts/1S+ 0:00 mplayer -dumpstream 
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/2200_sun.ra
31743 ?SN 0:00 kio_thumbnail [kdeinit] 
thumbnail /tmp/ksocket-matt/klauncher8pUWpc.slave-socket 
/tmp/ksocket-matt/konquerorQgTO9b.slave-socket
31782 pts/2Ss 0:00 /bin/bash
31797 pts/2R+ 0:00 ps x

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Re: [gentoo-user] Make errors with new kernel-gentoo-2.6.23-r3

[Ian Lee]

Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've installed the new kernel and I can't compile the various driver modules 
> for it.  So far both net-wireless/rt2570-20070209 and 
> media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25 failed.  This is the error message of the latter:
> 
>   CC 
> [M]  
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/i810.o
>   CC 
> [M]  
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/interrupt.o
> In file included 
> from 
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/interrupt.c:5:
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:74:
>  
> warning: 'struct file_operations' declared inside parameter list
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:74:
>  
> warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably 
> not what you want
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:
>  
> In function 'devfs_register_chrdev':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:76:
>  
> error: implicit declaration of function 'register_chrdev'
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:
>  
> In function 'devfs_unregister_chrdev':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:80:
>  
> error: implicit declaration of function 'unregister_chrdev'
> make[2]: *** 
> [/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/interrupt.o]
>  
> Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
> In file included 
> from 
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:48:
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:
>  
> In function 'devfs_unregister_chrdev':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/kernel26compat.h:80:
>  
> error: void value not ignored as it ought to be
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:
>  
> In function 'svgalib_helper_ioctl':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:363:
>  
> warning: 'deprecated_irq_flag' is deprecated (declared at 
> include/linux/interrupt.h:64)
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:363:
>  
> warning: passing argument 2 of 'request_irq' from incompatible pointer type
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:
>  
> In function 'svgalib_helper_open':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:451:
>  
> warning: 'deprecated_irq_flag' is deprecated (declared at 
> include/linux/interrupt.h:64)
> /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.c:451:
>  
> warning: passing argument 2 of 'request_irq' from incompatible pointer type
> make[2]: *** 
> [/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper/main.o]
>  
> Error 1
> make[1]: *** 
> [_module_/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25/work/svgalib-1.9.25/kernel/svgalib_helper]
>  
> Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r3'
> make: *** [default] Error 2
>  * 
>  * ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.25 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *   ebuild.sh, line 1701:  Called dyn_compile
>  *   ebuild.sh, line 1039:  Called qa_call 'src_compile'
>  *   ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called src_compile
>  *   svgalib-1.9.25.ebuild, line   78:  Called linux-mod_src_compile
>  *linux-mod.eclass, line  518:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *  emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" 
> CC="$(get-KERNEL_CC)" 
> LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" \
>  *${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} 
> ${BUILD_TARGETS} \
>  *  || die "Unable to make ${BUILD_FIXES} 
> ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}."
>  *  The die message:
>  *   Unable to make  KDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.23-gentoo-r3/build default.
>  * 
> 
>
> Can you make sense of this?
>   
there is a bug report for svgalib on kernel 2.6.23 here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195632

There is a patch for the bug, but when it'll be in portage you'll have
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Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel broken nvidia-drivers

[Ian Lee]

Randy Barlow wrote:
> I updated from 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 to 2.6.23-gentoo-r3, and now
> nvidia-drivers-1.0-7185 won't build.  I use the older drivers because I
> have a Riva TNT2.  When I change the /usr/src/linux link to the old
> kernel source, the package builds just fine, so I'm thinking that
> something is broken with my new config.  I attached the build log.  It
> complains about some things not being defined, like nv_pte_t_cache.  Is
> this a kernel config problem?  I didn't find it in bugs.gentoo, but
> google found a few others having the same issue with some other versions
> of nvidia-drivers.
>
>   
according to the nvidia site version 71.86.01 is the lastest TNT2
drivers have tried these they are in the portage tree
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Re: [gentoo-user] apache wont start when there is no network available

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 09:46:25 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:17:40 -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > Question, why does apache2 need net.eth1 to be running? How can I get
> > apache2 going without a network connection? Surely everything it needs
> > is on the laptop (localhost)
>
> Set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" in /etc/conf.d/rc
That did the trick, thanks.  Sorry I didn't respond sooner but I was in a 
workshop all day yesterday
Matt


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[gentoo-user] apache wont start when there is no network available

[Matthew R. Lee]

Yesterday I installed Apache2 Mysql 5 and php 5 along with tikiwiki 1.9.8 on 
my laptop (localhost).  The idea is to play with and learn how to use 
tikiwiki before I install it on my webhost and revamp my website.
Everything was working fine and is working fine here in the office where I 
have online access.  But when I got home last night with the intention of 
playing with tikiwiki I couldn't because apache wouldn't start.  I wouldn't 
start because net.eth1 couldn't connect to anything.  net.eth1 is my wireless 
connection, net.eth0 is my wired connection.  Neither will start at home 
because I don't have internet at home.
Question, why does apache2 need net.eth1 to be running? How can I get apache2 
going without a network connection? Surely everything it needs is on the 
laptop (localhost)
I've looked at the httpd.conf but I can't see anything relevant 
I'm clearly new to this apache stuff, any help would be appreciated
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation

[Lee Davis]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on
> the new laptop.  This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel.  So
> *that* is not the issue.  And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a
> previous mistake.  I truly thing something is screwed up in the
> kernel-sources for 6.22-gentoo-r5 cause  not matter what I select in the
> Sata section of the kernel config, nothing works.
> 
That matches my experience of 2.6.22-gentoo with my M1710.  I ended up
rolling back to 2.6.18-gentoo-r7 out of frustration; I'm happy to
provide my .config if that helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard layout

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 10 September 2007 15:24:06 Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use x11-base/xorg-server [1.1.1-r3]. In my xorg.conf, I have the
> following:
>
> Driver  "keyboard"
> ..and..
> Option  "XkbLayout" "gb,fr,ru,ro"
>
> Try to change "uk" to "gb".
>
> Regards,
> Liviu
>
> On 9/10/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I had a few problems with an update of Xorg over the weekend which I have
> > sorted out, however I've been left with one niggle.  The keyboard layout
> > isn't being recognized.
> > I have a laptop with a British keyboard layout
> > The xorg.conf has the following:
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> > Driver  "kbd"
> > Option  "XkbLayout" "uk"
> > EndSection
> >
> > This used to work fine, but now it's not working
> > I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0
> >
> > Any suggestions as to why it's ignoring the .conf?
> >
> > Matt
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Already tried changing it to "gb" but it didn't change anything

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[gentoo-user] keyboard layout

[Matthew R. Lee]

I had a few problems with an update of Xorg over the weekend which I have 
sorted out, however I've been left with one niggle.  The keyboard layout 
isn't being recognized.
I have a laptop with a British keyboard layout
The xorg.conf has the following:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
Option  "XkbLayout" "uk"
EndSection

This used to work fine, but now it's not working
I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0

Any suggestions as to why it's ignoring the .conf?

Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 14:27:33 Garry Smith wrote:
> Hi James
>
> > Also, I have a series of files as a result of starting and
> > stopping a sony video camera at football games:
> >
> >
> > At the very least, I need to be be able to combine them:
> > M2U1.MPG . M2U00043.MPG into a single image
>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ cat m2u00068.mpg >> new.mpg
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>
> You could script this for a large number of files of course.
>
> regards
> Garry

You can also use media-video/mpgtx which works from the command line
Use mpgjoin to join mpg files, very easy

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Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Tuesday 28 August 2007 08:00:17 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Stroller wrote:
> > On 28 Aug 2007, at 08:11, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun.
> > >
> > > What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I
> > > do not know of such a thing...
> >
> > It's like locate, except it indexes the contents of files (rather
> > than just the names) and it does so immediately the file is saved,
> > rather than as a cron job.
>
> Seems like a lot of folks are being very helpful and want to assist me
> in understanding what these Beagle-esque apps do :-)
>
> I do know what they are, I just never use them - I prefer grep find
> locate etc. I was being slightly sarcastic with my comment, with my
> tongue very firmly planted in both cheeks :-)
>
> But hey, maybe some other user who would use such things now know more
> about them and maybe emerge them
A place for everything and everything in its place.  If you are as anally 
retentive about it as me you don't need a desktop search engine.  I had 
beagle for a while but I never used it so I decided to take the space back.
Also for specific types of files there are specific types of database 
programs.  So all my music is in amarok, all my research papers (pdfs) are in 
tellico, as are all my videos/dvds, all my photos are in digikam.  That's the 
majority of my files.  The rest is mostly work which is in a folder 
called "work" with a sub-folder for each experiment/project.  It's not hard.  
It's only a big job if you've got thousands of files with random file names 
scattered across your file system.
Saludos
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs wont compile

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 08:50:26 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 18 August 2007, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > NO! don't mask expat!
> >
> > There is some reason why it got stable. expats current form is out for
> > ages.
> >
> > emerge latest expat, emerge fontconfig, emerge qt and everything else
> > broken.
>
> Do as Volker says.  After you run revdep-rebuild you will eventually come
> up to the XML error as you described.  There's a whole thread about it in
> this ML (search for it in Gmane).  The solution is to emerge -C XML-Parser
> && emerge -uaDv XML-Parser before you continue.  If I recall you may have
> to do the same with gettext.
>
> HTH.
I did as I was told and all is fine now, it was a marathon compile weekend, 
180 packages.  I didn't run into the XML error stuff, am I storing up 
problems for the future?

Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Thursday 16 August 2007 06:11, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

>
> Please give us the output of
> "grep NLS /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source/.config" in order to verify
> that you really have cp437 support compiled into your kernel.
>
ok the grep indicated that cp 437 support isn't there.  So I'm recompiling the 
kernel so it is.  I maybe missed it because it has the (USA Canada) label 
next to it and I've everything set up for europe.  I assume if everybody 
needs it, it is set as default?  I don't remember unclicking it.  Anyway, 
hopefully the recompile will sort it out.
Thanks for the help.
Matt

Add:  The recompile worked.  Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for looking
Thanks again for all the help
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:38, Xav' wrote:
>
> You can see here that codepage cp437, which is needed by FAT to mount your
> key, is not found.
> So you have to compile it in your kernel as module or builtin, as you wish,
> by activating the option under
> File Systems --> Native Language Support -->  Codepage 437 (United
> States, Canada)
> After recompile your kernel,reboot and enjoy mounting your key ;)
>
As I stated in earlier posts, the NIS support is compiled into my current 
kernel, atleast that's what the .config states

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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:09, Mick wrote:

> Can you still mount it with WinXP/Vista?  What do they report as a fs
> (under admin tools/Computer Management/Disk manager)?
Don't know.  I don't have a windows machine and it's a public holiday here, 
there's no one else in the lab
> You may want to try pmount /dev/sda and, or /dev/sda1.
Didn't work. Same problem
> Also give ntfs-3g a try (especially if you need to write to this device).
>
> Finally, I have had two boxen with hald problems after recent updates (it
> would not start).  Check that dbus and hald are actually running.
dbus and hald are both running
> HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:32, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

> Since I got no idea how to debug the KDE part, all I can suggest is
> issuing the following as root: "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt" and see
> if it gets mounted beneath /mnt. That way, you can exclude media and
> kernel issues. If errors show up, post them and the new lines in the
> kernel log.
>
> -hwh
trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the output from 
dmesg

usb 1-4.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
usb 1-4.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-4.4:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-4.4:1.0: 1 port detected
usb 1-4.4.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
usb 1-4.4.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 11
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Corsair  Flash Voyager1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 
CCS
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1015808 512-byte hardware sectors (520 MB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1015808 512-byte hardware sectors (520 MB)
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 26 00 00
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Unable to load NLS charset cp437
FAT: codepage cp437 not found
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector 
checksum.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is 
invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option 
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1.

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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

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On Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:53, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400
>
> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm using udev-104-r13
>
> Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be
> interested whether there is a fstab entry (and what it is) and what
> mount command you use, if any. Some software actually must be
> responsible for the mount, right?
>
fstab doesn't mention /dev/sdb1
normally I just plug the pendrive in, the icon pops up in media:/ in 
konqueror, I click on it and do what I need to do

> The output you have cited was from the kernel log and it looks as if
>
> > > Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop
> > > I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same
> > > support for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception
> > > that I compiled in support for ntfs.
>
> So I guess the stick, or at least the card, is not NTFS but FAT (since
> it worked before), right?
Correct it is, was, FAT
>
> What would be interesting is the output of "file -s /dev/sdb1". It
> should print some details about the partition (you need to run it as
> root).
>
/dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID "MSDOS5.0", 
sectors/cluster 16, root entries 512, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 248, 
heads 255, hidden sectors 32, sectors 1015776 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial 
number 0xb465569d, unlabeled, FAT (16 bit)

> > I've just checked the kernel config and all the NLS support is compiled
> > in
>
> Do you have automatic module loading enabled? Otherwise you might need
> to probe the NLS module for cp437 manually before mounting (I really
> think it is just a warning in the kernel log, but I'm not sure --
> especially, if you have autofs in the action, which it also looks like,
> since the probing of all the file systems). Try "modprobe nls_cp437".
>
I do have automatic module loading enabled
All the file system stuff including NLS is compiled into the kernel, not as 
modules.

modprobe mls_cp437 returns
FATAL: Module nls cp437 not found
> -hwh

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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

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On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee"
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows
> > > vista.  When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount.  I got
> > > the following output from dmesg:
> > > [...]
> >
> > How is it mounted? fstab entry? CLI? please provide the options you're
> > using. BTW, it's not all that common that those media types are NTFS.
> > In most cases, VFAT is in use (is that compiled into your kernel? NLS
> > support is currently missing from your kernel -- or not loaded
> > automatically if compiled as a module).
> >
> > -hwh
>
> I'm using udev-104-r13
> Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop
> I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same support
> for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception that I compiled
> in support for ntfs.
I've just checked the kernel config and all the NLS support is compiled in

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Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee"
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows
> > vista.  When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount.  I got
> > the following output from dmesg:
> > [...]
>
> How is it mounted? fstab entry? CLI? please provide the options you're
> using. BTW, it's not all that common that those media types are NTFS.
> In most cases, VFAT is in use (is that compiled into your kernel? NLS
> support is currently missing from your kernel -- or not loaded
> automatically if compiled as a module).
>
> -hwh
I'm using udev-104-r13
Said pendrive worked fine prior to being inserted into the vista laptop
I recently compiled a new kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 with all the same support 
for file systems as the previous kernel, with the exception that I compiled 
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[gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

[Matthew R. Lee]

A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows vista.  When 
I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount.  I got the following output 
from dmesg:

sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte hardware sectors (1016 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte hardware sectors (1016 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Unable to load NLS charset cp437
FAT: codepage cp437 not found
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is 
invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option 
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb1.

Now when I put an SD card into the external card reader I get exacly the same 
problem even though the SD card has been nowhere near vista
Any clues as to what is going on?

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Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311

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On Saturday 04 August 2007 12:59, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work.
> > The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea
> > The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1)
> > I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page:
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx
> >
> > The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel
> > linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4)
> >
> > Under
> > Device Drivers -->
> >Network device support -->
> >  Wireless LAN drivers
> >  "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support" does not appear.
> > Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason?  Do I need to enable
> > some other option in order to make this option available?  I have enabled
> > the PCI express support.
> >
> > Any clues would be most welcome
>
> Try:
>
> Location:
>  -> Device Drivers
>-> Network device support
>  -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
>-> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
>  -> Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extension
>-> Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (BCM43XX [=m])
It's not there, it's not on the list
I have Network device support and Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & 
Wireless Extension checked
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[gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work.
The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea
The wifi card is a Broadcom 4311 (rev 1)
I've been looking at the Gentoo Wiki page: 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx

The problem I've run into is with the kernel setup (kernel 
linux-2.6.21-gentoo-r4)

Under 
Device Drivers --> 
   Network device support --> 
 Wireless LAN drivers 
 "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support" does not appear.  
Has it been removed from the kernel for some reason?  Do I need to enable some 
other option in order to make this option available?  I have enabled the PCI 
express support.  

Any clues would be most welcome
Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

[C Lee Davis]

Daevid Vincent wrote:
> Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of
> warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or
> whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go
> (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be possible,
> and even the XP CPU is a generic x86 compatible, not like it's optimized
> AFAIK). Then one could just plop in their key to activate it for reals
> to get "WGA certifed".
> 
Because, as far as I can tell (and IANAL), that would be illegal.  I don't have
a license to distribute Windows XP.

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Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 24 June 2007 23:11, Urs Schuetz wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote:
> > > > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem:
> > > >
> > > > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl
> > > > emerge ghostscript-esp
> > > >
> > > > That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you too.
> > >
> > > It seems that soon they will be merged:
> > >
> > > http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L463
> > >
> > > > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 22:28 schrieb Matthew R. Lee:
> > > > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system
> > > > > and cups-pdf.  The fonts are a right mess, see attached example.
> > > > > Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a
> > > > > ps2ps followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution,
> > > > > though the only one I've come across so far.
> > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it?
> > > > > Comments greatly received
> > > > > Matt
> >
> > Swaping ghostscript-gpl for ghostscript-esp improved the situation, at
> > least now the pdf is readable.  However the fonts are still a little ugly
> > and I can't see any option in the cups interface under set printer
> > options for embeding the fonts.  I'm offered pdf-general, pdf-banners,
> > pdf-policies
>
> Try to use the ghostpdf.ppd printer description with your
> cups-pdf printer to get the options to embed the fonts. You
> should have this file already on your system, on mine it is
> /usr/share/ghostscript/8.15/lib/ghostpdf.ppd.
>
> The steps are:
> Webbrowser http://localhost:631
> Printers tab, search for the cups-pdf printer
> Modify Printer
> Continue
> Continue
> paste the location of your ghostpdf.ppd in the field "Or Provide a PPD
> File:", press "Modify Printer"
> Now you can set the printer options.
>
> urs
Excelente, that fixed it.  Thanks alot
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Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Sunday 24 June 2007 04:36, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:13, Christian wrote:
> > Ok, I have found the solution of my problem:
> >
> > emerge --unmerge ghostscript-gpl
> > emerge ghostscript-esp
> >
> > That solves my problem. Maybe it helps you too.
>
> It seems that soon they will be merged:
>
> http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L463
>
> > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 22:28 schrieb Matthew R. Lee:
> > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and
> > > cups-pdf.  The fonts are a right mess, see attached example.
> > > Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps
> > > followed by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though
> > > the only one I've come across so far.
> > > Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it?
> > > Comments greatly received
> > > Matt
Swaping ghostscript-gpl for ghostscript-esp improved the situation, at least 
now the pdf is readable.  However the fonts are still a little ugly and I 
can't see any option in the cups interface under set printer options for 
embeding the fonts.  I'm offered pdf-general, pdf-banners, pdf-policies
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] print to pdf

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 22 June 2007 19:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Samstag, 23. Juni 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 070622 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > I'm having problems with printing to pdf,
> > > both with kprint system and cups-pdf.
> >
> > Why don't you use Open Office ?  Create a .pdf , then print from Kpdf.
> > There's a .bin , if you don't want to compile OO ( 5 hr  here).
>
> or koffice which is able to print to pdf just fine. And in 5h you can
> install most of KDE+koffice.

I have open-office and I know it works fine for producing pdfs.  I normally 
write my manuscripts in Latex and likewise I have no problem producing pdfs 
from Kile.  This problem has arisen because I wanted to make pdfs of web 
pages.  I've just submitted a research proposal and I needed to include a few 
webpages in lieu of proper quotes for some of the equipment I wanted. The 
online submission process required all documents to be uploaded in pdf 
format.
This is just an issue of something that is supposed to work and doesn't and 
I'd like to figure out why and fix it.  At the moment though it 
isn't "mission critical"
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[gentoo-user] print to pdf

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm having problems with printing to pdf, both with kprint system and 
cups-pdf.  The fonts are a right mess, see attached example.
Now I know one work-around is to print to postscript than do a ps2ps followed 
by ps2pdf, but this is a less than perfect solution, though the only one I've 
come across so far.
Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, how did you solve it?
Comments greatly received
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Re: [gentoo-user] skype again [solved]

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 15:04, Abhay Kedia wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 8:07:45 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated
>
> Close all Skype instances (killall skype?) and then rename .Skype directory
> to something else. This database error sometimes occur when Skype does not
> shutdown cleanly.

Thanks that fixed it 

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[gentoo-user] skype again

[Matthew R. Lee]

Right I've got skype installed and working, sort of.
If I launch it from the start menu it asks me for my password, which I enter, 
It then say "database error" and refuses to logon.
I've contacted skype, they suggested the following:
We suggest you delete ~/.Skype/shared.xml and ~/.Skype/skypename/config.xml 
directories.  You have to kill the process with Skype and restart your 
computer as well.
It didn't work.
I can launch and use skype from the command line as root, which suggests it 
might be a permissions issue.  But the question is where, I've looked at the 
group file and I cant see any obvious groups which my user needs to be a 
member of.
Any suggestions, as always, greatly appreciated
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[gentoo-user] skype

[Matthew R. Lee]

Well skype upgraded this morning to version 1.4.0.74 and it aint working.
When I tried running it from the command line I get the following:
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
revdep-rebuild doesn't pick any thing up
Do I have to rebuild Qt? or another package?  which one provides that library.
I've tried down-grading to the previous version but that's now been 
package.masked
This is a real pain in the buttocks.  How can I phone home now? I can't afford 
the rip-off international phone charges at the moment!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-2.16.3 - problems with the desktop not painting - no icons or wallpaper

[C Lee Davis]

Mark Knecht wrote:
>   I don't see anything very strange in top while the splash panel is
> up. Somewhere along the way the panel finishes waiting for whatever
> it's waiting for, I see a flashing dialog window that cannot be read,
> and then I have the desktop with nothing on it. Just the panel at the
> bottom.
> 
I got behavior like this recently when I updated libexif and failed to do a
revdep-rebuild... is that possible?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell Inspiron M1710

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Colleen Beamer wrote:
> I use genkernel and there is a screen resolution of something that says
> 1024x768 and I can't edit it.  I also don't know what my horizontal and
> vertical sync are because it's not in my documentation and when I used
> ddxcinfo-knoppix -hsync, it returns 0 0 and ddcxinfo-knoppix -modlines
> doesn't have a corresponding mode for my monitor - the resolution is
> 1920x1200.
> 
Coleen, I've had no luck getting the framebuffer console to recognize 16:9
aspect ratios.  My XPS M1710 boots up to a 1600x1200 console and then starts X
to go to full 1920x1200 resolution.

The relevant lines from my my kernel's .config:

CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

[C Lee Davis]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Does anyone have a Dell Inspiron M1710 and will let me take a look at
> their xorg.conf file?
> 
This is from my XPS M1710; I'm not sure how similar they are, but I hope it 
helps.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "glx"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "xtrap"
Load  "record"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option  "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor1"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "nvidia"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "Unknown Board"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
Option  "NoLogo" "True"
Option  "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Screen  0
Option  "TwinView"
Option  "MetaModes" "1920x1200 1280x1024,1920x1200"
Option  "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
Option  "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "UseEdidFreqs"
Option  "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
Option  "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
Option  "NvAGP" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
Option  "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection


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[gentoo-user] font problem after xorg-server upgrade

[Matthew R. Lee]

Yesterday after a normal emerge -uND world and reboot the fonts in X went 
haywire.  They all jumped in size to, I'm guessing, 100pt or more making KDE 
completely unusable.  After rebooting into the console and some investigation 
I discovered that if I downgraded to xorg-server 1.2.0-r3 (from 1.3.0.0) and 
xf86-video-i810 1.7.4 (from 2.0.0) the problem went away.  No config was 
changed during the emerge (except hdparm).
Has anyone else had this problem?  Do I need to file a bug?  I'm snowed under 
with work this week so I don't have time to experiment.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 13 April 2007 10:18, Pongracz Istvan wrote:
> Thank you for you all guys!
>
> I try to find out, how to separate modem and sound card.
> Googling :)
>
> IStván

If you find anything new post it to the list.  I think there are plenty of 
people with similar problems

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Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 13 April 2007 06:52, Pongracz Istvan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem,
> called
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
>
> I have some problems with it:
> no master volume, skype cannot use its microphone, even I can adjust the
> volume of the mic and I can hear my voice when I speak with echo123, but
> skype records no sound.
>
> I would like to know, does anybody have this kind of audio system and
> how to solve this kind of issue?
>
> I googled for a day, but there is no solution to my problem.
>
> Thank you,
> István
>
>
> Technical Details:
>
> gentoo-sources 2.6.20-r5, skype 1.3.0.53-r1, alsa-driver 1.0.14-rc3
>

I have kernel 2.6.18-r6, skype 1.3.0.53, alsa-driver 1.0.14-rc3

My audio works fine, it's not perfect, a bit quiet but good enough to listen 
to music or movies.  I've never managed to get my microphone to work with 
this sound card either, even though the microphone bars are there in 
alsamixer.  I solved the problem by buying a cheap little external usb sound 
card which I use exclusively for skype, it works fine.  You just have to set 
up a second sound card using usb-audio.  There's a page on the gentoo-forums 
on how to do it (it's for an actual skype phone, but the sound setup is much 
the same) 
http://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-t-390911-highlight-usb+phone.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 06 April 2007 12:15, ds wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > Does the camera generate a "normal" TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)?
> > > If so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work.
> >
> > I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just
> > connect it to a video recorder or tv and "away you go"
> > A quick google and check of my usual computer suppliers here in Chile
> > doesn't bring up that card.  Does it belong to a generic type?  Will the
> > average TVtuner type card work along with video4linux ( I guess)?
>
> My experience is that most video capture devices are used for Home
> Theater PC's, I've found the most information on the MythTV website.
> You can check out the documentation on hardware at this link:
>  http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
>
> I use the Plextor ConvertX, you will find it mentioned under the "USB
> Capture Devices" heading on the webpage above, with a link to the
> website that has the open source linux driver.  This unit is nice
> because all of the video encoding happens on the device, so I am able
> to capture video with my ConvertX connected to a 400MHz Pentium 2
> gentoo box.  Now the driver is available through portage.
>
> See if you can get either the PX-M402U or the PX-TV402U in Chile.  I
> do not think the PX-AV100U or the PX-TV100U will work with the open
> source linux driver.

Right, after a lot more googling etc I might have found my solution.  The 
number of capture cards available here in Chile is limited.  I can't find any 
of the cards mentioned sofar,  Hauppauge for example is no where to be found 
in Chile.  The most widely available cards seem to be from Pinnacle.  The 
Pinnacle Dazzle DVC-90, according to the documentation with the kernel works 
with the video4linux em28xx driver.
I thought I should ask before I go buy it if anybody has experience with the 
card, or have I just volunteered to be the guinea pig :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:37, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On 05 April 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm
> > still confused ( a regular condition!)
> > Here's my problem.  I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series)
> > which I can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analog
> > signal.  I want to capture this signal on my laptop and edit the video.
> > What I need is a basic external video capture card that will work with
> > linux. Any suggestions.  Sound and colour are irrelevant as the 'stars'
> > of the videos are both dead and transparent
>
> Does the camera generate a "normal" TV signal (PAL, SECAM, NTSC,...)? If
> so, the WinTV-PVR150 will work.
>
> Uwe
I assume so, the manual doesn't explicitly say so, but it says just connect it 
to a video recorder or tv and "away you go"
A quick google and check of my usual computer suppliers here in Chile doesn't 
bring up that card.  Does it belong to a generic type?  Will the average 
TVtuner type card work along with video4linux ( I guess)?

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[gentoo-user] video capture

[Matthew R. Lee]

I've been rumaging around on the internet for the last few hours, but I'm 
still confused ( a regular condition!)
Here's my problem.  I have a video camera (ken-a-vision, 7000 series) which I 
can attached to my microscope which outputs a standard analog signal.  I want 
to capture this signal on my laptop and edit the video.  
What I need is a basic external video capture card that will work with linux.  
Any suggestions.  Sound and colour are irrelevant as the 'stars' of the 
videos are both dead and transparent
Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is the TIMEZONE variable?

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 12 March 2007 10:01, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I feel really stupid having to ask this here, but in what file is the
> TIMEZONE variable set?  My PC clock is set by ntp and it's not being
> updated for DST.  Wherever the variable is, it's not set.  I never
> updated it becuase I heard it wasn't actually being used yet, but I
> think if I set it my machine's time might get updated for DST.  I can't
> find the stupid variable though.  The one that replaces /etc/localtime.
> Can anyone help me out?
/etc/conf.d/clock
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Re: [gentoo-user] Compiz keeps putting titlebars under gnome-panel

[C Lee Davis]

Mark David Dumlao wrote:

I have a button on my desktop that runs compiz-start if compiz is off and
metacity --replace if compiz is off.  I'm having fun playing wtih this 
thing

except one annoying feature is when I switch from metacity to compiz all
existing windows are bumped up by one titlebar's worth.  this means that 
all

windows that are maximized or at the top will have their titlebars undder
the gnome-panel.

I had this problem as well.  I ended up fixing it by removing 
/home//.gconf/apps/compiz, restarting X without compiz, and making sure 
decoration was in my active_plugins before starting compiz again.  I'm not sure 
what part fixed it, but it hasn't reappeared.


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[gentoo-user] Intel_HDA Sound, Microphone and Skype [SOLVED] (sort of)

[Matthew R. Lee]

A while back I was looking for a solution to getting the external microphone 
to work with the Intel_HDA soundcard on my laptop (Compaq Presario V5000)
I thought I should say I've found a solution of sorts ( or workaround) in the 
form of a cheap generic usb soundcard.  It's cheap, it's small, it works and 
I use it just for skype.
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[gentoo-user] quick kmail question

[Matthew R. Lee]

When I click on a URL in an email it opens a new Konqueror window.  However I 
have it set in my Konqueror configuration to "Open as tab in existing 
Konqueror when URL is called externally"  I've looked through the KMail 
configuration settings but I can't find anywhere to change this.  Is there a 
way?
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Re: [gentoo-user] java vm, GENTOO_VM value

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Monday 05 March 2007 14:27, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007 14:43:38 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working.
> > However I've run into a problem I
> > I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working.
> > However I've run into a problem I don't understand.
> > When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that: 
don't understand.
> > When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that:
> > "* Home for VM 'blackdown-jdk-1.4.2' does not
> > exist: /usr/lib/jvm/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2/
> > * Invalid value for GENTOO_VM: blackdown: blackdown-jdk-1.4.2"
> > Where is the GENTOO_VM value set?
> > I don't have blackdown on my system anymore, I switched to sun abut six
> > months ago.  I've checked with java-config --list-available-vms
> > "The following VMs are available for generation-2:
> > *)  Sun JDK 1.5.0.10 [sun-jdk-1.5]"
> > and with eselect java-vm show
> > " sun-jdk-1.5"
> >
> > So the question is why is the GENTOO_VM set to blackdown, and how do I
> > change it?
>
> I suggest you run `java-check-environment`. Post the output if that doesn't
> help you. Also post the output of `java-config-1 -L`..
Thanks, I was missing a generation-1 vm, sorted that out.
The packages that had the problems previously have now built.
I'm reemerging openoffice with the java flag, so far so good
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[gentoo-user] java vm, GENTOO_VM value

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm trying to recompile openoffice with java to get the help working.  However 
I've run into a problem I don't understand.
When I try to emerge dev-java/bsf-2.3.0-r2 it fails and complains that:
"* Home for VM 'blackdown-jdk-1.4.2' does not 
exist: /usr/lib/jvm/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2/
* Invalid value for GENTOO_VM: blackdown: blackdown-jdk-1.4.2"
Where is the GENTOO_VM value set?
I don't have blackdown on my system anymore, I switched to sun abut six months 
ago.  I've checked with java-config --list-available-vms
"The following VMs are available for generation-2:
*)  Sun JDK 1.5.0.10 [sun-jdk-1.5]"
and with eselect java-vm show
" sun-jdk-1.5"

So the question is why is the GENTOO_VM set to blackdown, and how do I change 
it?

Thanks 
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[gentoo-user] clamav-0.90.1 and config file

[Matthew R. Lee]

When I upgrade to clamav-0.90.1 from 0.88.7, which klamav-0.38 tells me to do, 
I  can't update the database.  I just get an error message "conf file error" 
which doesn't help me much.  I've looked at the clamav conf file, but I can't 
tell if it has a problem or not.  The same thing happens with 0.90.0.  I 
followed the instructions in the emerge output to i. revdep-rebuild --library 
libclamav.so.1 (which rebuilt klamav) and to ii. /etc/init.d/clamd restart.
When restarting clamd it complained about being unable to write to the log 
file (/var/log/clamav/clamd.log) because of the permissions.  But even after 
changing the permissions to get rid of that problem I still get the "config 
file error" when I try to update the database with klamav   
Somebody on the forums has posted the same problem, but there's been no reply 
yet.
I've downgraded back to 0.88.7 for the moment
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 02 March 2007 11:25, Philip Webb wrote:
> 070302 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > I want to change the openoffice splash screen.
> > I have to overwrite  intro.bmp  with the new one, but I can't find it.
>
> Answer :  /usr/lib/openoffice/program/intro.bmp
>
> Method : 'equery files openoffice > outputfile';
>  'less outputfile'; search for 'bmp'.
>
Thanks, more than one way to skin a cat!
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Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice help

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Friday 02 March 2007 11:18, Mike Markowski wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > ...I want to change the openoffice splash screen.  I know I have to
> > overwrite the intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it...
>
> Here you go:
>
> kryten mm $ find /usr/lib/openoffice/ -name intro.bmp -print
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/intro.bmp
>
> Mike
Thanks for that, simple when you know how :-)
Anyone got an answer to the bigger problem of the missing help?
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[gentoo-user] openoffice help

[Matthew R. Lee]

I decided a change is as good as a rest and have changed the 'look' of my 
desktop.  I want to change the openoffice splash screen.  I know I have to 
overwrite the intro.bmp with the new one, but I can't find it.  Does anyone 
know which folder it's in?  I have openoffice, not openoffice-bin, installed.  
Trying to find the information highlighted a more significant problem, my 
openoffice help (F1) isn't installed or working.  Has anyone else had this 
problem, and if so how do you fix it.  I'd rather not just re-emerge a 
package the size of openoffice in the hope it just fixes it.
Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

[C Lee Davis]

Aggelos wrote:

www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

www.petitiononline.com/golfinho


It's messages like this that remind me my mailer has rules.  Consider yourself 
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:31, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:50, "Matthew R. Lee"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > wrote about '[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage':
> > > My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a
> > > package to package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked
> > > packages that xorg-x11-7.2 required.
> > > So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the
> > > masked dependencies required all at once?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > An alternative package manager, paludis, does have this feature.
>
> Might as well include a couple of links.. :)
>
> http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=75
> http://paludis.org/
Thanks for the info I'll check it out at the weekend
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[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage

[Matthew R. Lee]

I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to 
update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine.  To do this I needed to add some packages to 
the packages.keywords file, again fine.
My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a package to 
package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked packages that 
xorg-x11-7.2 required.
So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the masked 
dependencies required all at once?  (i.e. when I run emerge -pvu world the 
first time). I've looked at the man page but didn't see an obvious solution.
Thanks 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:33, Carl Adams wrote:
> I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to
> CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a "best" printer,
> but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found
> easy to connect and use?
>
> Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
>
> Thanks
> Carl Adams
I use a HP deskjet 3845, works fine with no obvious problems
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee
CASEB & ECIM
Departamento de Ecologia,
P. Universidad Catolica de Chile,
Alameda 340, Santiago.
CP 6513677
CHILE

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URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org
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