Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more Ubuntu like
On Sunday, April 30 2006 10:17, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any good link on making Gentoo a little more > user-friendly like Ubunut? I am looking for basic home user stuff for > my wife such as: > > Automount/play a music CD, DVD > Automout a USB camera Although I'm not a Gnome user (assuming you're using Gnome) I'm sure that Gnome has support for hal/dbus/pmount for easily mounting and using removeable media. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?
On Sunday, April 30 2006 14:21, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare Workstation 5.5, and I'm > momentarily glad > I didn't pay for this thing. It seems to expect a RedHat style runlevel > system. > Has anybody successfully fooled with this thing to make it work on Gentoo? > > At the moment, its problems seem to be related to the daemon management > features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work. Perhaps you might want to have a look at the vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3 ebuild? http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=vmware-workstation -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?
On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: > I am sorry,i forget the link: > http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread in an English mailing list. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] umounted CD Writer medium instead of audio CD
On Friday, 5 January 2007 9:03, Dale wrote: > James Lockie wrote: > > I insert an audio CD in my CD writer and KDE displays a popup that it > > is umounted CD Writer medium. > > Shouldn't it say it is audio CD medium? > > I think that will depend on your USE flags. You may want to post that. > It may be some sort of plugin too. > > On mine, it pops up like yours does then when I click on 'open in a new > window', it pops up the contents. I can then copy them to the hard > drive or whatever. This is done in Konqueror by the way. I'm not sure > what you are trying to use. > > Hope that helps or helps you get help. I don't think it has anything to do with USE flags. It can be difficult to detect the type of a CD as not all of them follow the red book audio standard. Some may be 'enhanced' CDs that include videos and images on a data track, they will show up as a plain data cd. I think some copy protection methods can make a CD deviate enough from the standard to make it look like something else. Although regardless of what KDE thinks, the CD should still work perfectly fine when played. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mouse configuration instructions for xorg?
On Friday, 5 January 2007 13:15, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi all, >My son bought a fancy mouse for playing games in windows. It works > in Windows but so far not in Linux. > >It is visible to the system in usbview: > > > Razer Copperhead Laser Mouse > Manufacturer: Razer > Speed: 12Mb/s (full) > USB Version: 2.00 > Device Class: 00(>ifc ) > Device Subclass: 00 > Device Protocol: 00 > Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8 > Number of Configurations: 1 > Vendor Id: 1532 > Product Id: 0101 > Revision Number: 21.00 > > >Unfortunately X isn't seeing it so far. Also the red optical > generator on the bottom is not turned on so I'm not sure it will > actually work yet anyway. > >Is there possibly a protocol change in xorg.conf for USB mice? I'm > looking around but somehow not seeing it. The Gentoo Xorg config guide > just sets it up for a PS/2 mouse I think. X.org shouldn't care what sort of mouse it is, it'll just receive mouse events from a /dev/input/* device, usually /dev/input/mice and only the kernel needs to know whether it's ps/2 or usb. > >Any other ideas warmly welcomed. Do any additional /dev/input/* devices appear when plugging in the mouse? If so try to 'cat' them and move the mouse around and see if anything happens. However you say the laser doesn't turn on, that might indicate a problem elsewhere, probably in your kernel configuration. Do you have any other USB mice that you can try? > > Thanks, > Mark -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU compile problem
On Friday, 5 January 2007 10:50, Adam Carter wrote: > gcc -g -Wl,-shared -o qemu-i386 elfload.o main.o syscall.o mmap.o > signal.o path.o osdep.o thunk.o vm86.o libqemu.a gdbstub.o -lm > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l > d: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches > non-TLS reference in libqemu.a(helper2.o) > /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [qemu-i386] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/qemu-user-0.8.0/work/qemu-0.8.0/i386-user' > make: *** [all] Error 1 > > !!! ERROR: app-emulation/qemu-user-0.8.0 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile > qemu-user-0.8.0.ebuild, line 73: Called die > > !!! make failed > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call > stack if relevant. > > > I tried rebuilding glibc, as /lib/libc.so.6 was mentioned, but it didnt > help. > > Any ideas? Are there any other sparc emulators? > > Cheers, > Adam You need to compile QEMU with gcc 3.x, it will NOT work with gcc 4.x, the ebuild should tell you this. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU compile problem
On Friday, 5 January 2007 15:18, Adam Carter wrote: > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux > > -gnu/bin/l > > > > > d: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches > > > non-TLS reference in libqemu.a(helper2.o) > > > /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > make[1]: *** [qemu-i386] Error 1 > > > make[1]: Leaving directory > > > `/var/tmp/portage/qemu-user-0.8.0/work/qemu-0.8.0/i386-user' > > > make: *** [all] Error 1 > > > > > > Any ideas? Are there any other sparc emulators? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Adam > > > > You need to compile QEMU with gcc 3.x, it will NOT work with > > gcc 4.x, the ebuild should tell you this. > > I tried 3.4.6 and got the same error; > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l > d: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches > non-TLS reference in libqemu.a(helper2.o) > /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [qemu-i386] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/qemu-user-0.8.0/work/qemu-0.8.0/i386-user' > make: *** [all] Error 1 > > Rgs, > Adam Try qemu 0.8.2, it recently hit stable so you'll get it if you sync. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freedesktop server alternative
On Friday, 5 January 2007 19:34, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi all, Happy new year and so on... > > Freedesktop's servers are not up yet. > Gentoo really needs to find alternate sources of tarballs for freedestop > related stuff... > Would you try it from your ISP please? May be it's my ISP problem... freedesktop.org and ftp.freedesktop.org are running fine here. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User no edit crontab
On Monday, 5 February 2007 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I recall, if admin leaves a blank /etc/cron.deny and no > /etc/cron.allow then all users will have access to cron. > > That isn't working for me in one isolated case (a gentoo install > inside a windows vm). > > What else can cause this behavior? > I've looked at permissions on /var/spool/cron, subdir, and files. > They match my other installations where users can access cron. > > I use the tried and true vixie-cron. Are your users in the 'cron' group? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button
On Saturday, 17 February 2007 5:31, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > A few weeks ago I updated acpi and hibernate and their relevant > configuration files. Since then when I press the power button on my laptop > nothing happens. > > Clearly something was changed, intentionally or otherwise, and this feature > is no longer available to me. Would you care to point me in the right > direction - how do I set my power button to run the hibernate script? I assume you're using acpid. Look in /etc/acpi/ there is a default script that is run for acpi events, it handles the power button by calling /sbin/init 0. Replace the command it runs with hibernate or similar. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button
On Saturday, 17 February 2007 6:08, Mick wrote: > On Friday 16 February 2007 19:13, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > > On Saturday, 17 February 2007 5:31, Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > A few weeks ago I updated acpi and hibernate and their relevant > > > configuration files. Since then when I press the power button on my > > > laptop nothing happens. > > > > > > Clearly something was changed, intentionally or otherwise, and this > > > feature is no longer available to me. Would you care to point me in > > > the right direction - how do I set my power button to run the hibernate > > > script? > > > > I assume you're using acpid. Look in /etc/acpi/ there is a default script > > that is run for acpi events, it handles the power button by calling > > /sbin/init 0. Replace the command it runs with hibernate or similar. > > Thanks Raymond, I have this in my /etc/acpi/events/default: > [snip] > > Can you spot anything out of place? Your configs seem to all be in order. Are you sure that the acpid init script has been started? Also try checking your logs while pressing the hibernate button and acpid should output what it is doing and what acpi events it is receiving, you can view this on vt12. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button
On Saturday, 17 February 2007 7:06, Mick wrote: > On Friday 16 February 2007 19:49, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > > On Saturday, 17 February 2007 6:08, Mick wrote: > > > Can you spot anything out of place? > > > > Your configs seem to all be in order. > > > > Are you sure that the acpid init script has been started? > > I am sure it is running alright: > == > # rc-update -s -v | grep -i acpid >acpid | default > == > > > Also try checking your logs while pressing the hibernate button and acpid > > should output what it is doing and what acpi events it is receiving, you > > can view this on vt12. > > Thanks. It seems that my syslog-ng is configured different to yours (I > guess some more awful hacking to get xconsole to work is to blame for this) > and nothing relevant to acpid is shown on vt12. However, tail -f > /var/log/acpid showed a couple of errors which I fixed - bar the last one > which says: > > [Fri Feb 16 20:30:55 2007] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES > /etc/acpi/default.sh: line 57: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > The last few of lines of my /etc/acpi/default.sh show this much: > == > ac_adapter) > case "$value" in > # Add code here to handle when the system is > unplugged # (maybe change cpu scaling to powersave mode) #*0) > # ;; > > # Add code here to handle when the system is > plugged in > # (maybe change cpu scaling to performance mode) > #*1) > # ;; > > > *) log_unhandled $* ;; > esac > ========== > > What's your's like? I use the default default.sh that comes with acpid. I've only added a couple of files to respond to sleep and lid events. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), > when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that > causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome. > > -- > ~adj~ It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names. You should double check that all your required drivers have been configured. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030 > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new > > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome. > > > > > > -- > > > ~adj~ > > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names. > > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been > > configured. > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+. I think the names of these device nodes > might have changed? I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have > used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine. > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully. The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to the correct /dev/sd* device. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:19, John covici wrote: > on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030 > > > > > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. > > > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding > > > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new > > > > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > ~adj~ > > > > > > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI > > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names. > > > > > > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been > > > > configured. > > > > > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to > > > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not > > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+. I think the names of these device nodes > > > might have changed? I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would > > > have used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine. > > > > > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully. > > > > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms > > under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either > > reconfigure your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all > > mention of /dev/hd* to the correct /dev/sd* device. > > Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide > drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions? Which > configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained? I've never heard of any 15 partition limit. The old ide drivers are the CONFIG_IDE drivers that you'd have been using previously. They are likely to be maintained for the forseeable future. The libata PATA drivers are considered experimental and do not yet implement all the functionality and device support of the existing ide drivers. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?
On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:29, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 6:19, John covici wrote: > > on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030 > > > > > > > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. > > > > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding > > > > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's > > > > > > new in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help > > > > > > welcome. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ~adj~ > > > > > > > > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI > > > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names. > > > > > > > > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been > > > > > configured. > > > > > > > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed > > > > to work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not > > > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+. I think the names of these device nodes > > > > might have changed? I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would > > > > have used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been > > > > fine. > > > > > > > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully. > > > > > > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your > > > cdroms under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either > > > reconfigure your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all > > > mention of /dev/hd* to the correct /dev/sd* device. > > > > Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide > > drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions? Which > > configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained? > > I've never heard of any 15 partition limit. The old ide drivers are the > CONFIG_IDE drivers that you'd have been using previously. They are likely > to be maintained for the forseeable future. The libata PATA drivers are > considered experimental and do not yet implement all the functionality and > device support of the existing ide drivers. I shouldn't have replied so quickly. A quick google does seem to indicate that the libata pata drivers suffer from a 15 partition limit imposed by the scsi subsystem it uses. A possible solution is using LVM or similar. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem
On Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:23, Richard Watson wrote: > Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC. > I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot). > > # lspci reports > :01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 > > net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to > /etc/portage/package.keywords > > So I > # emerge ralink-rt61 > # slocate rt61.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/net/rt61.ko > # modprobe rt61 > FATAL: Module rt61 not found > > What should I do next? Do I need to recompile my kernel and if so are there > any options I need to ensure are selected (or not)? > > Many thanks, Richard Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Some miscellanous questions about hack attacks and dealing with them
On Friday, 23 February 2007 3:15, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have logsentry installed on my system which sends me hourly reports > about possible hack attempts on my three boxes. I use ipkungfu for my > firewall. I've stuck with the default configuration for ipkungfu, > except for listing each of my machines in my LAN in the > accepted_hosts.conf file. I also set ipkungfu to drop all offensive > packets (not sure if that's the default or not.) Whenever I see someone > trying the break in in the logsentry reports, I add their IP to the > deny_hosts.conf file and restart ipkungfu so that the changes will take > effect. I'm wondering why if these offending IPs in deny_hosts.conf are > being stopped at the firewall I'm still seeing them fail to authenticate > to my FTP and ssh servers? If you think you've setup your firewall to block these IPs and yet they are still able to access your machines, then it sounds like your firewall is misconfigured and isn't blocking the IPs. > Also, I've always heard that you shouldn't > have any ports open on your machine unless you have some server bound to > that port because hackers can get in through unbound open ports. Is > this true? I've never heard of this. All ports that you don't want accessible from the internet should be completely blocked by your firewall if you have it correctly configured. > If so, how does it work? What do they connect to if > nothing's running on the port they're trying? I know the concept of a > backdoor in a running program, but if no program is running on said port > for them to connect to, how do they get in??? They connect to nothing, they shouldn't be able to establish a connection. > -Michael Sullivan- -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Delete or bksp?
On Saturday, 24 February 2007 3:08, Jamie Harr wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello > > I've been using redhat forever Switch to > GenToo a week or so ago WOW!! I'm really impressed! The > only problem I have is the delete key doesn't work like it did with > redhat. I hit delete and it acts like back space. > I've google'd and searched mailing lists but the solution eludes me > still. So how might I make the delete key act like it did in > redhat? > > Jamie > > > Please do not send HTML formatted emails to this list. Plain text only! -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems
On Saturday, 24 February 2007 23:08, Gyuszk wrote: > Dear Gentoo users, > > I'm having VNC-related problems. > I want to make VNC'ing work the following: > > I have a Gentoo desktop box with gdm+gnome, only one user. I'm using X > on DISPLAY:0 0-24/7 all the time. If I'm not sitting in front of the > box, I lock the session with the corresponding Gnome menu. So, X > DISPLAY:0 is always active with my Gnome desktop (sometimes locked, > thats all). > > I have another machine with Windows XP. (Just on a little partition, I > want to install Linux on the remaining 70GB.) > > >From this machine I want to connect using VNC to the gentoo desktop. > > I've read the corresponding howtos on gentoo-wiki.org, with no success. > What works: I can connect to the Gentoo box using VNC, but it opens > DISPLAY:1 and starts an X session with TWM, instead of opening my > existing X session on DISPLAY:0 > > All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing > DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible? > If isn't, the following will do: > > a GDM session opens in my VNC window, and I can login to my account into > gnome. With existing user, with existing home folder. > > I hope I was clear. Sorry for my English, I'm from Hungary. > > Thanks in advance! > > Gyuszk You can use x11-misc/x11vnc to view an existing X session over vnc. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] daylight savings time
On Friday, 2 March 2007 23:28, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 13:35:22 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hm, set your hardware clock to UTC and do as root: > > > > rm /etc/localtime > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime > > > > should work... > > That's not how it's done anymore. Instead you set: > > TIMEZONE="Canada/Newfoundland" > > in /etc/conf.d/clock and: > > # rm /etc/localtime > # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Newfoundland /etc/localtime > > This has the advantage that it'll work even when /usr isn't mounted. TIMEZONE is used by the timezone-data ebuild, so emerge it and it'll automatically update /etc/localtime, no need to do it manually. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] format ipod shuffle as fat32?
On Sunday, 20 August 2006 3:47, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I just got an ipod shuffle, 1gig, for "free". Apparently it has > different partitions for music/data and must by synced with iTunes to > a specific machine? > > Err, is that so? > > If so, can I just format the darn thing and use if for mp3's? > > > -Thufir Windows formatted iPods have 2 partitions, one containing the firmware, the other containing music and other data. Formatting the data partition will most likely leave it in a condition where it has to be restored using the apple firmware updater on windows or osx as important files will be deleted. Amarok or gtkpod are probably the easiest ways to get music onto the ipod. You can't simply copy music onto the data partition as it requires all the metadata to be in a special database that the previous two programs can generate. ps. Surely a mentat would be able to work all this out on their own ;) -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Syncing Directories between 2 Linux boxes
On Sunday 17 September 2006 22:19, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > > I have brought my new Gentoo File server online over the weekend, and I am > in the process of getting things set up. I have bumped into one situation > that I could really use some help with. Please bear with me as a bit of > explaination will be necessary. > > Our school website is hosted on our webserver (192.168.0.29) in > /var/www/mca0506/htdocs the site is created with Macromedia Dreamweaver (I > know I know) and the teachers edit it using Macromedia Contribute. > This is important because, Dreamweaver makes changes to my local files > (which are on 192.168.0.4/data/website/mca0506) and Contribute makes its > changes directly on the live site on the main webserver. What I need is a > way to sync the two bi-directionally. As I create pages etc, those changes > would need to go up to the site, and as the teachers update their sites > etc, those changes would need to be synced back to my local files, both so > that I can > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 net-misc/unison might be what you're looking for. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Wikipedia history in Firefox
On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:30, Jorge Almeida wrote: > When I access Wikipedia's main page, I see a "Search" form which > displays (in Firefox) the _whole_ history of my past searches. The thing > appears to intend to go on forever and ever. Anyone knows where such > information is kept? I assume it's kept localy, because I tried with > Konqueror and there wasn't anything there. I checked that there are no > Wikipedia cookies in Firefox... > > -- > Jorge Almeida This is just Firefox saving anything you enter into a form on a web page. You can clear these entries or disable it entirely by going to: Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Saved Forms -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD recording speed is awfully low
On Thursday 19 October 2006 0:26, Matias Grana wrote: > I'm recording a DVD which is capable of doing 16x, using k3b. Before > starting, k3b explicitly said: > Writing speed: 22713 KB/s (16,40x) > but then, it began writing at speeds between 0.5x and 0.9x, so it took > me about 2 hours to record. > Before I begin writing the next 2 dvds I need to, I beg for any advise > as to how correct this. Is DMA enabled for this drive? Does anything odd appear in dmesg? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 22:08, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:49, Dale wrote: > > I have never done any of this before. Somehow, likely by mistake, I got > > one CD copied over and can play off the hard drive. I have no idea how > > I did this really. I need someone on or off list to teach me how to get > > the music off the CD, get it into Amarok so I get get this going. This > > looks really cool. > > > > If whoever can help me uses MySql instead, I would be willing to install > > it, especially if it is better. I only want to do CDs. I have a lousy > > dial-up connection here. > > By default amarok uses a built-in copy of SQlite, so you don't really need > MySQL unless you use it for something else. Postgres is not supported. Rip > your CDs with k3b. An easy way to rip cds is to go to 'audiocd://' in konqueror, then it will show some folders containing mp3s, oggs and flac files which you can then copy and paste to whereever you want and the cd ripping and encoding will be handled transparently for you. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo wirelesss access point
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Can someone point me to a document so I can set up a gentoo laptop with > a built in ipw2200 wireless as an access point using wpa ??? > > I need to use it for a demo of some wireless 802.11 phones. Looking at > the conf.d/net file doesnt show what I need to fill out to get a working > access point. > > Or is this best done manually (iwconfig and wpa_supplicant) > > BillK The drivers in the kernel and the ipw2200 ebuild don't support master mode. This project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200-ap adds master mode support for ipw2200 cards although I have no idea what state it is in. It's not in portage but there are probably ebuilds floating around somewhere for it. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth compatibility
On Thursday 02 November 2006 11:57, Grant wrote: > I need a wireless headset to use with my softphone. My laptop doesn't > have bluetooth built-in so I need a USB bluetooth adapter and > bluetooth headset. Has anyone used bluetooth with Gentoo? Should I > be researching both devices' Linux compatibility, or just the adapter? > > - Grant Most USB bluetooth devices are pretty generic and will work with the USB HCI bluetooth driver in the kernel. I don't know about the headset, but you should not have any issues with the adapter itself. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete > 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, > does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? > > Thanks in advance! > > Rafael You'll have to enable the ones you want via USE flags. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > >On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > >>I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete > >>0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, > >>does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? > >> > >>Thanks in advance! > >> > >>Rafael > > > >You'll have to enable the ones you want via USE flags. > > One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history plugin > do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of kopete flags? > > Thanks for your reply emerge -pv kde-base/kopete The history plugin is enabled with the 'history' USE flag. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail system recommendations
On Thursday 09 November 2006 5:03, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have a small network, consisting of three PCs. Each of these PCs has > a public WAN address, and each runs Apache, vsftpd and sendmail (as well > as ipkungfu for firewall protection). One of them runs mailman. I > would like to replace sendmail with something not so...shall we say > prehistoric? I've been advised many times to do so on this list and > others. Would anyone please give me some recommendations for a new > choice of mail server? I'd like one with plenty if documentation. > Thank you. > -Michael Sullivan- postfix is supposed to be pretty good. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VMware legal question
On Friday 10 November 2006 22:29, Daniel Iliev wrote: > I apologize for the offtopic, but I think my question and especially its > answer would be of interest to other list members. I'm concerned about > this because I'll have to do something similar in the near future and I > don't want to break any laws. > > > Is it legal to do the following: > > 1) "emerge vmware-workstation" > 2) build some images (within the 30 day trial period) > 3) "emerge -C vmware-workstation" (within the 30 day trial period) > 4) "emerge vmware-player" and use it to play the images created by > vmware-workstation You don't need vmware-workstation to build vmware images for vmware player. Sites like http://www.easyvmx.com/ can do it for you within seconds. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1
On Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:16, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > >> The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. > > > >^ > > > > As the message says, you might have a hardware problem (usually bad RAM > > or CPU). > > My experience has been that it NEVER is a hardware problem. The next > emerge of the same package always completes successfully. > That behaviour usually indicates a hardware problem. Random unexplainable segfaults that you can't reproduce. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo
On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:07, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, guys > > Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I > remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under > development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has > recent news including the one from the subject of this e-mail. Its date > is Oct 24, 2006 and has only a picture which represents a sailor waving > for good-bye to someone or something (my first assoc. is sinking ship). > So whats going on? > > [1] http://www.xmms.org/ > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel I'm surprised you failed to notice the 'Bye Bye Gentoo' heading. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo
On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:18, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > On Friday, 1 December 2006 17:07, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, guys > > > > Can someone explain me what is going on? Gentoo drops XMMS and here I > > remained with the impression the reason is because XMMS is not under > > development anymore. On the other side I see the site of XMMS [1] has > > recent news including the one from the subject of this e-mail. Its date > > is Oct 24, 2006 and has only a picture which represents a sailor waving > > for good-bye to someone or something (my first assoc. is sinking ship). > > So whats going on? > > > > [1] http://www.xmms.org/ > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Daniel > > I'm surprised you failed to notice the 'Bye Bye Gentoo' heading. Oh it seems you did notice, just ignore me :p -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amd Athlon 64 x2 install cpu?
On Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:59, Chris Walters wrote: > James wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Im using the livecd amd64 to install a new AMD ATholon 64 x2 Dual-Core > > based system. I'm at the processor selection and stumped by the lack of > > choices. > > > > My amd64 turion laptop uses this option: > > CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" > > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > > > > > > In the current install, I k6, k6-2, k6-3, athlon-xp and athlon-mp > > as choices. > > > > > > Did I burn the wrong liveCD amd64 cd? > > > > > > > > James > > Hello James, > > I would suggest trying in the CFLAGS, "-athlon64" you might want to set > some other flags like "-mfpmath=", "-sse", "-sse2", and "-3dnow". You should be specifying '-march=athlon64'. '-athlon64' is not a valid CFLAG, also -sse/2 and -3dnow are all implied by -march=athlon64 and I'm quite sure that -mfpmath=sse is also the default on amd64. It may be useful to specify '-msse3' in the CFLAGS though if your cpu supports SSE3 as no -march setting implies it yet. Although it's unlikely that gcc utilises sse3 properly. I recommend the following CFLAGS: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" Adding -msse3 if appropriate for your cpu. > > Those were the options I used, and from what I can see you did indeed > download the proper image for your processor (provided it is an AMD > Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core system). > > Regards, > Chris -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Learning how to write a simple ebuild?
On Saturday, 2 December 2006 15:10, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I would like to try my hand at a VERY simple ebuild for "xtide", a > tide prediction program, that compiles readily on Unix-type systems. > Is anyone on this list familiar with the program, and/or correspond > with me off the list in trying to learn how to do this? Otherwise, > what would be the best way to go about seeking tutorial advice? > Except for a few gotchas from time to time. (a font, for example, that > isn't installed by default on gentoo xorg installs anymore), there is > little outside the ordinary to compiling the program: a data file, one > or two Env variables. Irregularly, new versions of the beta version > appear also with dated names. > > I've looked at the docs. I've posted on bugzilla a request for an > ebuild. I don't anticipate to become a developer, but would like to > gain insight into the process and the layout. > > Thank you, > > Alan Davis > The documentation at the following site should help you out: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] It isnt murder killing XP
On Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brilliant, ill give that a crack, i have the software for a windows > machine(sonic stage) so ill give wine a shot. > > thanks > > Plus any dev out there who wants to become a hero in the recording industry > take note we need a linux atrac management program... Or atleast a > converter! Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone > Have a look at the following URL for some info on running SonicStage with wine: http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?iVersionId=3876 -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 screen saver
On Friday, 8 December 2006 12:22, David Corbin wrote: > I have a recently upgrade my gentoo system, including X11. Now, instead of > my KDE screen saver, I get a giant X11 logo. I cannot find where this > should be turned off. Any pointers? > > David The giant X11 logo seems to have replaced the blank screensaver. You can adjust screensavers in the kde control center in 'Appearance and Themes -> Screen Saver'. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge
On Monday, 11 December 2006 22:51, Cosmin Rentea wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to have in "emerge" something similar to the "-k" option > of "make" ? > > > -k, --keep-going > Continue as much as possible after an error. While the > target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the > other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same. > > > It would be particularly useful when emerging "world", "system" or > multiple packages, some of which have broken ebuilds. > If you take a look at the latest GWN I recall seeing mention of a script that did what you are proposing. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before
On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 9:42, Jakob wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo > 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600). > The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I > installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the difference between > my old desktop and my new laptop. > I got about 1.000 FPS and was happy. I continued installing the system > and built some new kernels to get all the things working like wlan etc. > some days later I run glxgears again and was shocked of the glxgears > output: > > 31189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6237.635 FPS > 31163 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6232.600 FPS > 31178 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6235.511 FPS > > > since this time I never got more than 6400.000 FPS, I `ve tried to install > newer versions of nvidia-driver and the nvidia-driver from the nvidia page > but its not going over 6400.000 FPS. After some time I thougth maybe it > didnt run faster the first time and I was remembering wrong but than I saw > a forum entry from someone with the same notebook running fedoracore and he > postet his putput of glxgears and got about 1.000 FPS. > > Has anyone any ideas what the problem could be??? > I dont want to install gentoo again because everything else works fine. > > Thanks and Regards > > Jakob The problem is that glxgears is not a benchmark. Run some real programs and if you have performance problems with those, then you have something to worry about. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Googleearth: Filesize does not match recorded size
On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 22:40, Dale wrote: > Hi > > Has anybody else ran into this? > > [snip] > > It seems to be thinking it is getting a bad download. Is this a bug or > is it just me? It does the same thing each time, downloads it then > pukes it out. Since I am on this slow dial-up and it takes about 2 > hours for this download, I would rather it either like it or stop > trying. :-/ I do have it installed though and it is pretty cool. ;-) > > If it is a bug, I'll file it. I just want to make sure it is not just me. Upstream does not version their downloads or allow distros to mirror the files so whenever google updates the application the manifest won't match. Either your portage tree is too old or google earth has been updated recently. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before
On Wednesday, 20 December 2006 6:07, Jakob wrote: > On 12/19/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that glxgears is not a benchmark. Run some real programs > > and if > > you have performance problems with those, then you have something to > > worry about. > > > > -- > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Hmm ok, I still think its very strange that I didnt get that much FPS > > than > > the first time an someone with the same notebook still does. > > does someone know a benchmak tool for opengl? > I searched in portage but I didnt find one. The best benchmarks are the programs you actually use. If you want to play a certain game or use a particular 3d application, benchmark that. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiler error during qemu installation
On Friday, 22 December 2006 0:30, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install qemu on my system. The command I used (and the > response) were: > > emerge -v --ask --tree --newuse qemu > > >>> --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options. > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] app-emulation/qemu-0.8.0 0 kB > [ebuild N] app-emulation/qemu-softmmu-0.8.0 USE="kqemu -sdl" 77 kB > [ebuild N] app-emulation/kqemu-0.7.2 USE="-sdl" 1,310 kB > [ebuild N] app-emulation/qemu-user-0.8.0 0 kB > > > The compilation of qemu-user dies with the error msg > --start-- > [snip] > > --end-- > > OK. What now??? > Puzzled in Vienna, > Wolfgang Liebich You need gcc 3.x to compile Qemu. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Default locale/charset changed after update?
On Saturday, 23 December 2006 3:09, Grant Edwards wrote: > Sometime in the past week or two, doing and emerge sync/update > appears to have changed the default charset from iso-8859 to > UTF8. There are still too many apps I use everyday that don't > support UTF8, so this was a problem. > > Creating /etc/env.d/02locale and running env-update fixed the > problem, but I'm curious how/when the default changed. IIRC the default locale is either C or POSIX unless you specifically alter it. grep the contents of /etc/env.d/ for LANG or LC_ALL and use equery to see which ebuilds own any files that appear. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems
On Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:21, Pavel Kouřil wrote: > I have few problems with my gentoo. =// > 1. After X & WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane > CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] Run 'top' to see which processes are causing this. > 2. How I can setup autostart in KDE? (i wanna run firefox etc. > automaticaly) You can put scripts and symlinks in ~/.kde/Autostart/ to run whatever you want on login. > And last problem, but this is more wine-related. > I have big game freezes in Ragnarok Online (kRO version), and when i > wanna run updater, it ever falls down. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=928 Have a look at this page on the wine website to see if there are any bug reports or solutions relating to your problem: > > Thanks and Happy New Year Everbody. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems
On Sunday, 31 December 2006 23:02, Pavel Kouřil wrote: > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > > On Sunday, 31 December 2006 22:21, Pavel Kouřil wrote: > >> I have few problems with my gentoo. =// > >> 1. After X & WM (I use KDE, in fluxbox it was same) my PC have insane > >> CPU and RAM usage. Why? =// [2.0GHz AMD, 512MB RAM] > > > > Run 'top' to see which processes are causing this. > > In top isn't anything suspicious. What is telling you that you have high cpu and ram usage? > > >> 2. How I can setup autostart in KDE? (i wanna run firefox etc. > >> automaticaly) > > > > You can put scripts and symlinks in ~/.kde/Autostart/ to run whatever you > > want on login. > > If it is shell script, with chmod a+x, it only opens in KWrite at the > start. =/ I've only seen that happen when the script wasn't executable, double check that you have given it +x permissions. > > >> And last problem, but this is more wine-related. > >> I have big game freezes in Ragnarok Online (kRO version), and when i > >> wanna run updater, it ever falls down. > > > > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=928 > > > > Have a look at this page on the wine website to see if there are any bug > > reports or solutions relating to your problem: > > There isn't anything about it. It was firt place, where I searched for > solutions. > > >> Thanks and Happy New Year Everbody. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...
On Tuesday, 2 January 2007 3:13, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If it useful, this is my lsmod: > > >ohci_hcd 21636 0 > > >uhci_hcd 24648 0 > > >ehci_hcd 33160 0 > > > > I seem to recall that loading multiple USB controller drivers can > > cause problems on some systems. You might try unloading all of these > > with rmmod, then loading just one, and see if your drive will work. I > > believe for most systems the ehci_hcd driver would be the preferred > > one. > > AFAIK ohci is for USB 1.1, uhci for 2.0 and ehci is firewire, I have > them loaded all too. But I may be wrong Actually ohci and uhci are both for USB 1.1 (two different sorts of controllers), ehci is USB 2.0 and firewire you'll find in the IEEE1394 driver section. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freecell clone?
On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 8:04, Dan wrote: > can anyone help me find a linux freecell clone? Try xfreecell. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto
On Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi, > I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop > server timeout. > What could be the solution (except waiting...)? > Is there any other way to get it as from a "down" server? Find another mirror and download it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection
On Thursday, 4 January 2007 7:47, Sean wrote: > I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. > It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that > could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter > any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a project. > > I also hope to be able to export that info somehow. This attempted > project will only be fully useful if I can get the database in some form > into my Palm after it is created. > > Any such packages in portage that anyone can recommend for such a project? > Any tips from anyone who has attempted such a project? > > Also, I am running Gentoo amd64, so the app(s) will need to run on that > platform. > > Thanks in advance > Sean I'm not sure if it's what you're after but Amarok can create a music collection database using either sqlite, mysql or postgresql. I believe it can use musicbrainz for automatic tagging, although I have no experience with it. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) A eureka moment!
On Wednesday, May 3 2006 17:03, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I just discovered something (I think). Probably everyone else already > knew it but didn't tell me. Shame on all of you! > > Do all audio cd's have the mp3's and ogg files on them also > > I happened to look at one with konqueror and noticed several files and > directories on it. The cd was not mounted (and could not be mounted) > but was viewable nontheless. And I could copy a mp3 to my hard disk and > play it. > > Not mountable implies no filesystem so how was I able to view it and > copy from it? > > And if all audio cd's are this way, why do we need to rip them? Just > copy the mp3's, or ogg's (or wav's). > > I am really confused! > > Tony > -- > Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >-- Benjamin Franklin KDE's 'audiocd:/' ioslave automatically gives you virtual folders full of oggs and mp3s. When you copy and paste these files to your filesystem KDE automatically performs the ripping and encoding in the background. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) A eureka moment!
On Wednesday, May 3 2006 17:23, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Does is also get the filenames, etc. from CDDB? > > Tony As far as I know, yes it does do a cddb lookup for the cd. Although personally I've always preferred kaudiocreator for cd ripping in kde. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Difficulties
On Thursday, May 4 2006 8:15, Kris Kerwin wrote: > I tried installing xorg 7.0, but of course, as it is masked, it didn't > work. Since I'm a college student in the midst of finals, having a > working graphical desktop is mission critical right now, and I don't > have the time to tinker with it to get it to work. So, I reinstalled > 6.8.2-r6. I did my best to remove all of the modular dependencies > that 7.0 installed (this was definantly the hardest part). > > Now, however, whenever I try to emerge -Du world, I get warnings that > various packages want to reinstall some of the dependencies from the > 7.0 tree, but can't because they're masked. Unfortunately, emerge > isn't very verbose, even with the -v option, and only returns one > blocker at a time (instead of all of them). Here is it's output as a > sample of the problem: The modular X migration guide located at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml includes a list of packages you may download which you add to package.keywords to unmask all of the X.org 7.0 packages. The package list is here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Non Standard X Resolution
On Thursday, May 4 2006 13:16, Jamie wrote: > In the next few days I will be getting my brand new Dell 2007WFP LCD > delivered and obviously I want to use it on my Gentoo box. > This screen uses a non-standard resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I have no > idea how to get this setting in my XOrg setup. Can anyone point me in the > right direction? > > Thanks > > Jamie How exactly is this non standard? It is a perfectly valid resolution, my laptop screen has the same resolution. You will most probably only have too add a "1680x1050" mode to the Screen section of your xorg.conf and possibly fiddle with the hsync and vrefresh settings if you have them set. It should just work, assuming your video card is capable of outputting that resolution, most are afaik. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Non Standard X Resolution
On Friday, May 5 2006 11:12, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've only done this with CRTs, but it should also work with CRTs. You > need to know the max and min frequencies (both horizontal and vertical) > for your display. Knowing the card's max bandwidth helps, but isn't > as critical. Since you're getting a new machine, you should have the > manuals for the display and the card. Find those numbers and go to > http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines and fill in the > numbers and it'll generate a whole slew of modelines for you. In your > case the "enter the desired screen ratio here:" entry should be... You should not need to generate a mode line or specify hsync or vertrefresh for an LCD monitor. X can obtain this information directly from the monitor and work out the rest on it's own. Simply specifying a "1680x1050" mode should be sufficient. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card
On Friday, May 5 2006 22:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? > > BillK > > -- > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home! I recommend the in-kernel drivers, simply because they are much more convenient and easier to get working. Just configure it like any other wireless device, there is a section in the handbook on wireless networking iirc. Otherwise there is plenty of information in /etc/conf.d/net.example and /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. Also, you'll need to emerge ipw2200-firmware regardless of whether you use the in-kernel or external driver, firmware-2.4 is needed for the in-kernel driver and firmware-3.0 is needed for the external driver, they are slotted so both firmwares can coexist nicely. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card
On Friday, May 5 2006 23:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Does anyone really know what the difference is? I originally used the > ebuilds because I could only assume that they will be more up to date. > But now I realize that new kernels come out pretty quick so I don't > think this is the case. Anyone have insight? The ebuilds are more up to date. The in-kernel ipw2200 (as of 2.6.16) is based on version 1.0.8. kernel 2.6.17 features an even newer version. Using the ebuild means that you must remove ieee80211 from the kernel, which from what i understand means that you can no longer use any of the other wireless drivers which require it in the kernel. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card
On Saturday, May 6 2006 5:41, Jure Varlec wrote: > For me, both worked well for normal usage. However, the in-kernel drivers > didn't support monitor mode too well (or at all), i.e. kismet didn't work. > I think firmware was the real culprit, but I'm not sure. Anyways, ebuild > drivers and firmware 3.0 work perfectly. They do support monitor mode, it was just that the option to enable it was not present. The latest gentoo-sources and 2.6.17 allow you to enable it. Yes firmware 2.4 was buggy with the monitor mode, but that doesn't matter for normal operation. Also in my experience the bugginess was nothing more than dmesg filling up with firmware restarting messages, otherwise it all seemed to work perfectly fine. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files
On Saturday, May 6 2006 3:27, kashani wrote: > Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes > > with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE > > flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : > > > > mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc > > It's important to note that the above only works for wmv8 and older > files not the newer wmv9 codec that many sites/tools are starting to > use. I don't believe there is any free decoder of wmv9 files on Linux at > the moment. > > kashani A native wmv9 (vc-1) decoder in ffmpeg is actually an upcoming google summer of code project :) So if there is any success there we should start seeing support for it all over the place. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT : Recommendation for Bluetooth USB adapter
On Monday, May 8 2006 15:30, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone here recommend a Bluetooth USB dongle which will work under > Linux? Hopefully, it's something cheap and which can be purchased from > Fry's AFAIK they pretty much all work using the generic HCI USB driver included with the kernel. I picked up a cheap one from hong kong on ebay and it worked great. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X
On Tuesday, May 9 2006 12:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file > syncroniser? > > I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a > pre-built binary from the developer. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work > Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null > Killed by signal 1. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > I had a few glitches on the upgrade so want to check its not me before I > post a bug. In the meantime, it does work with the text ui! > > BillK Although I usually only use the cli interface, a quick check has the X interface for unison working perfectly fine on x86 and amd64 machines with modular X. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what to do to remove all kde dependencies and kdelibs
On Thursday, May 18 2006 18:25, JC Denton wrote: > Hi! > > What can I do to remove all kde dependencies from my system? In have > "-kde" in my /etc/make.conf and already did a emerge --depclean and > revdep-rebuild after I did an emerge --update --deep --newuse world. But > there is still a lot of kde stuff on the system. how can I check if an > application still uses this stuff? How to remove the stuff savely? > > Thanks! Many applications require kdelibs, the kde use flag merely determines whether certain packages will have optional kde support. Also, start a new message when posting to the mailing list, rather than replying to an existing message. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile
On Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:56, JC Denton wrote: > Hi! > > May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of > /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! > I would like to have some space back ;) > > JC Yes you may safely remove anything that you no longer need or want from /usr/portage/distfiles/ If anything you deleted is later required by portage it will be downloaded automatically. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?
smartmontools does in fact support SATA disks starting with kernel 2.6.15. Use the '-d ata' argument with SATA disks and it will work fine. For example: # smartmontools -d ata -a /dev/sda On Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:03, CapSel wrote: > Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. Is there any > other tool to check S.M.A.R.T. on this kind of disks? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA raptor failure - why?
These are supported by libata as of kernel 2.6.15 On Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:09, Jarry wrote: > CapSel wrote: > > Unfortunately smartmontools does not support SATA disks. > > More exactly: > > "Smartmontools should work correctly with SATA drives under both > Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, if you use the standard IDE drivers > in drivers/ide. If you use the new libata drivers, it won't work > correctly because libata doesn't yet support the needed > ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls." (smartmontools.sourceforge.net) > > Jarry -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdehiddenvisibility: What does it do?
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility should tell you all you need to know about the new symbol visibility features of gcc. On Friday, 26 May 2006 17:12, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello. > > New KDE ebuilds feature a USE flag called "kdehiddenvisibility", which > is described as: > > [-] kdehiddenvisibility - Makes KDE symbols hidden by default, requires > GCC 4.1 (experimental) > > Well, this doesn't tell me much. What would I get, if I'd enable this > flag? Where can I read more about this? > > Thanks, > > Alexander Skwar > -- > BOFH Excuse #408: > > Computers under water due to SYN flooding. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!
>From what I understand it is only accessible from the US. On Saturday, 27 May 2006 4:10, Lord Sauron wrote: > On 5/26/06, Ptitjack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JimD a gentiment tapote: > > > It is official. > > > > > > http://picasa.google.com/linux/ > > > > > > It installs and runs well with Gentoo. > > > > > > Jim > > > > Hi, > > > > 404 Error Not found ! > > Worked just fine for me... -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!
I saw a few reports on /. and digg that it was only accessible from within the US. It may have been a temporary issue that was resolved or perhaps there was no issue and it was simply user error. On Saturday, 27 May 2006 5:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 27 May 2006 04:30:22 +0930, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > >> From what I understand it is only accessible from the US. > > > > Worked here from the UK. > > Works also from Germany. > > It would be interesting to find out, from where Raymond got his > understanding. > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Yes, but every time I try to see things your way, I get a headache. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is synclient?
It comes with the synaptics driver. On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 9:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > I was just going back through some archives, and found mention of the > command 'synclient' to modify the Synaptic touchpad driver options - but > I can't find it anywhere. equery, esearch, and slocate show nothing. > > Where do I get it? > > thanks, > -- > Iain Buchanan > > The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed, a problem, but > not the problem we thought was the problem. > -- Mike Smith -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to trigger complete rebuild after changing CFLAGS oder USEFLAGS
# emerge -e world On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:14, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > can anyone give me a quick hint, how to trigger a complete rebuild > if some build settings, ie CFLAGS or USEFLAGS are changed ? > > thanks > -- > - > Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service > > phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ > fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cellphone: +49 174 7066481 > - > -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- > ------------- -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor shape fo X.org ?
I assume you're talking about Cursor Themes. Any desktop environment should allow you to install new themes. Otherwise I believe you can download a theme and put it in ~/.icons/default/ and it will become the default cursor theme for that user. On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:08, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > is there a "legal" way to change the shape of the Cursor in X.org ??? > > Thank you very much for any helpful reply in advance! > Keep hacking! > mcc -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64
On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:51, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> Hiya list,
>
> I bought myself a new AMD Athlon64 in December, and initially installed
> it as a 64-bit Gentoo. In January this year I decided to reinstall it as
> a 32-bit OS due to constant issues with flash plugins, win32 codecs etc.
netscape-flash works with mozilla-firefox-bin and any other 32-bit browser,
it's also possible to make it work with 64-bit konqueror. You might also be
interested in looking at net-www/gnash, still alpha quality but will
hopefully become a fully fledged flash player with amd64 support.
mplayer-bin will play all codecs that you normally need win32codecs for. Also
if you're like many users and WMV3 videos are all you use win32codecs for,
you might be interested to know that a VC-1 (WMV3) codec is a google summer
of code project, so will hopefully be in a future version of ffmpeg soon.
>
> Seems I made one muck-up ... I used (for the 32-bit OS):
>
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
>
> instead of (according to
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Opteron.2FAthlon64_.28AMD.29):
>
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse2 -O2 -pipe -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
-march=athlon64 implies -msse2, all amd64 cpus have sse2 support.
Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not use it
but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead.
>
>
> Notice the athlon-xp <=> athlon64...
>
> Does anyone with an good understanding of these flags know the
> consequences/results of
> a) Keeping the old flags (athlon-xp)?
> b) Changing to the new flags without a total reinstall?
AFAIK '-march=athlon-xp -msse2' is equivalent to '-march=athlon64'
>
> While I understand that I quite possibly have to reinstall several
> packages if I change the flags, which are the ones to pay particular
> note to, or is such a change drastic to the OS requiring a total rebuild
> of everything?
>
> Please advise.
I would not bother with a full system rebuild, everything should be fine.
>
> Greetings,
> Ralph
--
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mplayer windows codecs
emerge mplayer-bin There is no native 64-bit solution for windows media or real formats. On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:34, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I would like to decode some wmv and realplayer videos to any other > format. > I intend to use this way, for example: > http://www.annodex.net/node/57 > But I need mplayer to read wmv and ram videos. > I will also need mplayer to read wma, because I have some audio files to > convert. > > What USE flags would you recommend? > I am using an amd64 Gentoo. > > -- > A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). > Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. > http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64
Yes they are for different architectures, the main architectural difference being the addition of sse2 in athlon64 cpus. There may possibly be other differences in how gcc optimizes based on that -march setting, however i'm not 100% certain if this is the case, I suspect not. On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:22, Ralph Slooten wrote: > > AFAIK '-march=athlon-xp -msse2' is equivalent to '-march=athlon64' > > Interesting. Maybe someone else can clarify this? It might be the reason > I had these flags to start off with, but again I'm not sure. The > gentoo wiki implies they are for different architectures: Athlon XP > (AMD) <=> Opteron/Athlon64 (AMD) -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > > A few months back, I went through a phase where I built several > computers via the gentoo installer disk, they work, but they are not as > well optimized as I would like. I have successfully destroyed 5 of them > trying to fix the use flags, so after that im to the point of asking for > some help :) -- Too much optimisation can be a bad thing. > > My IDS box is the next one on the list to be fixed. I would like to be > able to rebuild the kernel for what I use it for - -No problem there -- > that's simple. And I would like to take out all the unused use flags > and replace them with a basic set - -this is where I have gotten into > trouble before on the other systems -- I can edit them in make.conf so I > have what I want - right now it looks like I will be using > > USE="apache2 dev/lang-php mysql -ipv6 -mmx -mp3 -nls -xmms -alsa -arts" What is dev/lang-php doing in there? If your intention is for the mysql USE flag to only apply to dev/lang-php then put the line 'dev-lang/php mysql' into /etc/portage/package.use Also mmx is not a default USE flag, specifically disabling it is redundant. > > Knowing that, once I edit make.conf, what do I need to do next to get > stuff re-compiled etc? if you had looked at the emerge man page you'd have noticed the 'N' argument. > > Any other recommendation etc??? My recommendation is to not touch any USE flags that you don't understand. The defaults are usually perfectly fine unless you have a good reason to disable particular flags. I would also recommend that you go through and read all the portage documentation. > > Thanks > > TIM > > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstructing a Gentoo Installer Computer
I believe you're looking for the 'php' USE flag. dev-lang/php is not a USE flag it's the php package. As I stated previously, mmx is not set by default, so '-mmx' is redundant. On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:59, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > [Timothy A. Holmes] > > > Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff as > BASE requires it. > > The -mmx and several of the others are there to keep conky from pulling > in a bunch of stuff as well that it does not need > > Thanks > > TIM > > > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage 2.1 uses LINGUAS, why?
Hates Polish? I think including (what I assume is) a Polish translations of portage would indicate that it loves polish :p If you don't want polish then don't put 'pl' in your LINGUAS variable, if you want to be able to set 'cs' for portage than make a translation. On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 23:04, Petr Kocmid wrote: > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1_rc3-r2 [2.1_rc3-r1] USE="doc -build" > LINGUAS="-pl" 3 kB > > Any good explanation why portage hates polish? I never used pl in LINGUAS, > have LINGUAS="cs" in make.conf all the time. And It's not just rc3-r2, I > already noticed this before. I would rather expect portage to be linguas > neutral. > > -- > > Petr -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] march athlon-xp to athlon64
On Thursday, 1 June 2006 0:38, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > Also -ftracer is not in the safe cflags list, personally I would not > > > use it but if you believe it benefits you then go ahead. > > > > Another handy tip. Can't remember why I had it (did the "research" when > > I reinstalled it 32bit). I'll remove it too. > > ftracer is harmless. > From man gcc: > -ftracer >Perform tail duplication to enlarge superblock size. This > trans- formation simplifies the control flow of the function allowing other > optimizations to do better job. If it was harmless and beneficial it'd already be included in an -O? level. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/pam-login
Take a look at the following page, it will tell you what you need to do. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2006/03/19/the_shadow_and_pam_login_conflict On Thursday, 1 June 2006 2:30, JimD wrote: > I get this message when trying to do an emerge -vpuDN world: > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies . ... done! > > [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) > > Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow? I thought that was part of system? > > Jim > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > JimD > Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 wireless problem
Might want to look at using WPA for your wireless security. A lot harder to crack than WEP. On Friday, 2 June 2006 2:48, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > Log in to your router and check what IP's are in use to what mac > > addresses. Maybe someone got on your wireless network? > > Yup, exactly what happened! Hmm... have to check the neighbors out, and > change teh WEP.. > > Mike -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen Power down
On Friday, 2 June 2006 23:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks: > > I, like several others have been battling the problem of screens going > into power saver mode, and I have not been able to come to a resolution > to it yet. I followed the discussion of several weeks ago, and it did > not appear to make a difference. I have pasted in the relavant parts of > my xorg.conf. If someone could please help me out here -- this is > getting a bit frustrating -- the options I specified according to the > messages from a couple weeks ago in the section under the monitor (the > DPMS etc) > > There was a question at the time of the discussion if the 0 was the > appropriate value to turn stuff off, but I never heard a resolution on > that either. > > blah blah > Remove the following line. > Option "DPMS" "true" > > blah blah > > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
emerge kdebase-meta to get a minimal kde. Then you can emerge whatever other kde programs you want afterwards, eg. kmail, kopete, kpdf, etc. They're all separate ebuilds now. On Saturday, 3 June 2006 5:16, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic > KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install > everything except toys, games and educational packages. Since the > DO_NOT_COMPILE is not meant to be used anymore, how would you suggest > I go about it? > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
They're the same as the monolithic packages but with -meta on the end. Easiest way to see what is in them: # emerge -pv foo-meta On Saturday, 3 June 2006 5:51, Mick wrote: > On 02/06/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:46:07 +, Mick wrote: > > > Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic > > > KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install > > > everything except toys, games and educational packages. > > > > Install kdebase-meta, kdenetwork-meta, kdepim-meta etc. kde-meta is for > > those that want to install everything. > > Thanks for all the replies. What's the best way to find out what > -meta packages exist and what they contain? > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
$ ls /usr/portage/kde-base/ | grep meta kdeaccessibility-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeadmin-meta kdeartwork-meta kdebase-meta kdebindings-meta kdeedu-meta kdegames-meta kdegraphics-meta kde-meta kdemultimedia-meta kdenetwork-meta kdepim-meta kdesdk-meta kdetoys-meta kdeutils-meta kdewebdev-meta On Saturday, 3 June 2006 6:13, Mick wrote: > On 02/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They're the same as the monolithic packages but with -meta on the end. > > > > Easiest way to see what is in them: # emerge -pv foo-meta > > Thanks. > Where's the complete list of available meta packages? > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
Yes, that is normal. The KDE ebuilds are 'split' now, one monolithic ebuild is equivalent to a few dozen split ebuilds. Each individual app or library has it's own ebuild. On Saturday, 3 June 2006 6:41, Mick wrote: > On 02/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ ls /usr/portage/kde-base/ | grep meta > > Thanks. Last question: > > Is emerging kdebase-meta meant to pull in 45 packages, or are there > any old kde apps in my system pulling them in as I am trying to emerge > my new split KDE? > > From the log: > === > 1149285323: *** emerge --update --deep --verbose kdebase-meta > 1149285332: >>> emerge (1 of 45) kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6 to / > 1149285332: === (1 of 45) Cleaning > (kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6. >ebuild) 1149285341: === (1 of 45) Compiling/Merging > (kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6::/usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6. >ebuild) === > > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter
There was a blog entry on planet gentoo recently about this: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/06/02/utemptations_with_xterm It looks like you have to unmerge utempter and then emerge libutempter and rebuild xterm. On Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When doing an > > emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world > > I received the following error > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-207-r1 [207] > -Xaw3d +doc -toolbar +truetype +unicode 727 kB [ebuild N] > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 21 kB > > Total size of downloads: 749 kB > > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > installed !!!on the same system. > > I *thought* I knew what to do when such a blockage occurs. I > > 1. did a quickpge utempter (for safety) > > 2. unmerged utempter > > 3. emerged libutempter > > 4. re-emerged utempter (from the portage tree not /usr/portage/packages) > > No errors were reported during any of these 4 steps. But now an > emerge world reports > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) [nomerge ] x11-terms/xterm-207-r1 > -Xaw3d +doc -toolbar +truetype +unicode [nomerge ] > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > installed !!!on the same system. > > Reading the ebuilds I can see the problem. > >* both: PROVIDE="virtual/utempter" > >* libutempter demands exclusivity: DEPEND="!virtual/utempter" > > So they really do block. Which one am I supposed to keep and which > one should I unmerge ... > > ... and how should I have figured this out? > > What is the correct procedure when a blockage is encountered? Should > I write a wiki page with this information? > > thanks, > allan -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter
On Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:24, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > So this utmpter/libutmpter appears to be a special case where the > normal > >unmerge A >merge B >merge A > > is wrong. > > thanks again, > allan I don't believe the procedure you mentioned has ever been normal. If packages block it usually indicates that a package is being replaced by another. An example is how shadow recently replaced pam-login. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dangerous to emerge --depclean
On Sunday, 4 June 2006 0:11, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > I emerge -- depclean and the drivers of keyboard,mouse ,vedio and many > libs of font and many other package have been unmerge. > After revdep-rebuild, i reboot but i even can not startx,and i have to > re-emerge the drivers to startx,and then the libs of font to make my > fonts normal manual accroding to the unmerge messages in > /var/log/emerge.log.And now my audacious can't show my Chinese > characters ever after re-emerge it. > > I just can't understand why "emerge -- depclean" such a dangerous > command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am > right). > Does this ever happened to you? > How can you fix it ? > > -- > wcw I'm surprised you missed the dozen *** WARNING *** lines telling you how broken --depclean is and to manually check the list of packages it wants to remove and keep a backup. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/DIR_COLORS
On Sunday, 4 June 2006 3:03, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: > Hi, > > How can I set the proper ls configuration to show ls output colored? > I type dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS and after this? > > Leandro Put the following into your .bashrc: alias ls='ls --color=auto' -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?
On Sunday, 4 June 2006 4:40, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Gentoo. I come from FreeBSD. I have to run Gentoo in > this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs > better on Linux than FreeBSD. > > That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo. > It's far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had. > > What I'm looking for is freebsd equivalent features in Gentoo. There > are three that I'm really looking for: > > 1) periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions. runs daily, weekly, > monthly and security scripts. These scripts do everything from check > rejected emails to backing up the passwd file. It's also got a local > facility where I can put my own scripts in. It's run out of cron and > emails the output of the periodic output nice and clean. I > understand that I can manually manufacture the equivalent scripts, > but I was hoping there was something similar out there. I don't see how this is any different to just using cron? > > 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. Outputs > what newer ports are available to what versions are actually > installed. I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I > can't find anything that operates the same way. emerge -pve world will list all installed packages. emerge -avuDN will show all new packages to be installed after a sync. Just use various combinations of emerge flags to do what you want. > > 3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known > vulnerabilities. I believe gentoolkit has a glsa-check script which would be equivalent to this. > > Anyone know of any Gentoo equivalents and if not, what might be > decent workarounds? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge running forever
On Monday, 12 June 2006 0:32, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:53 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did an > >emerge portage > > and everything runs fine. > > > > Than I did a > >emerge --searchdesc luks > > > > which runs "forever" (I killed that job after waiting for about half > > an hour...) > > > > What is going wrong here? Did I missing something while/after > > updateing portage ??? > > > > Thanks a lot for any help in advance ! > > mcc > > Try eix. Much faster. http://packages.gentoo.org is good as well. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck
On Monday, 12 June 2006 3:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Once again... portage is mad at me, I guess... unless I'm not alone > kdepim is required by KDE: > treat ~ # equery --nocolor depends kdepim-3.5.2-r2 > [ Searching for packages depending on kdepim-3.5.2-r2... ] > kde-base/kde-3.5.2 > kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.2-r1 > treat ~ # > BUT is blocked by other pieces of KDE >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkpgp-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkmime-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5* (is blocking > kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/kalarm-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdepim-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/ktnef-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/certmanager-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking > kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2) >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkcal-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > 3.5.2-r2) > > I find it especially charming that libkdepim is blocking kdepim, both being > of the 3.5 flavor. > Can anyone tell me where to turn? You can't mix and match monolithic and split ebuilds. kdepim-meta is the one you're after. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem
On Monday, 12 June 2006 3:49, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote: > Hi all > > Could anyone point me to some resource or share his/her "/etc/conf.d/net*" > ? > > I was using the (nowadays) old "/etc/init.d/rp-pppoe" script to > start/stop my adsl connection, but I did an "emerge world" without > looking at the messages that now the "net" script should handle all > possible types of connection, so now I don't know how to configure it. > > I have seen on the posts and on the foruns, but none of the presented > configurations has worked. PPPoE _is_ working, thanks to "tkpppoe", but > I'd prefer to go back to the init script. > > Thanks > Francisco Have you read /etc/conf.d/net.example? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage weirdness
On Monday, 12 June 2006 5:35, Rodrigo Lazo wrote: > Hi everybody, > > today I've updated to portage 2.1 and everything works fine. I'm setting a > chroot and this are the steps I've take: > > 1-Downloaded stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 > 2-Create a partition with ext3 > 3-tar xvjpf stage2-i686-2006.0.tar.bz2 > 4-mkdir usr/portage > 5-mount my portage partition mount /dev/hda9 usr/portage > 6-mount proc and dev > 7-chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile > 8-emerge system > 9-stop it after update portage > 10-emerge --metadata > 11-emerge -pvK system > > Now I'm getting some packages with the following output > > [binary U ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r1 [2.5.4a-r6] USE="nls% -static" > [binary U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 [3.4.4-r1] USE="doc% fortran* > gtk* nls -bootstrap* -boundschecking -build -gcj -hardened -ip28 > -ip32r10k% -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla" > > note those % like nls% and ip32r10k%. Portage "paint" them in > yellow. In my main system this doesn't happen. > > AFAIK, the step that takes you from stage2 to stage3 is emerge system. > Since I already have a system where to take the packages from, I try to > save some donwloading using stage2. > > I copy my main system's /etc/make.conf to this chroot. > > Why am I getting that output? What does it means? > > Best regards > > -- > Rodrigo Lazo (rlazo) It's a new feature of portage-2.1 (straight from the emerge man page) [ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE=ipv6* -gtk -qt% (snip...) The percent sign following qt indicates that the qt option has been added to the package since it was last installed. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck
On Monday, 12 June 2006 7:02, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/11/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, 12 June 2006 3:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Once again... portage is mad at me, I guess... unless I'm not alone > > > kdepim is required by KDE: > > > treat ~ # equery --nocolor depends kdepim-3.5.2-r2 > > > [ Searching for packages depending on kdepim-3.5.2-r2... ] > > > kde-base/kde-3.5.2 > > > kde-base/kdeaddons-3.5.2-r1 > > > treat ~ # > > > BUT is blocked by other pieces of KDE > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkpgp-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkmime-3.5* (is blocking > > > kde-base/kdepim- 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkpimidentities-3.5* (is blocking > > > kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/kalarm-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdepim-3.5* (is blocking > > > > kde-base/kdepim- > > > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/ktnef-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/certmanager-3.5* (is blocking > > > > kde-base/kdepim- > > > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdenetwork-3.5* (is blocking > > > kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2) > > >[blocks B ] =kde-base/libkcal-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim- > > > 3.5.2-r2) > > > > > > I find it especially charming that libkdepim is blocking kdepim, both > > > > being > > > > > of the 3.5 flavor. > > > Can anyone tell me where to turn? > > > > You can't mix and match monolithic and split ebuilds. kdepim-meta is the > > one > > you're after. > > That sounds interesting, but I have no idea what to do about it. I think > once > upon a time, when I was first installing gentoo, I opted for KDE. I > haven't done > a thing about it since KDE 3.2. Now all of a sudden I've got this > conflict. > > What do I need to change? > > ++ kevinb Ah, it seems like i misread what you were doing. You already have the monolithic kde packages installed and it looks like you have parts of the kdepim-meta package as well for some reason. If you want to emerge kdepim-3.5.2-r2 you'll have to unmerge all those kde packages that are blocking it as they are actually part of kdepim. If you're not sure what the 'split' ebuilds or the *-meta packages are for, basically starting with kde 3.4 a new set of ebuilds were created with all the various parts of kde split up into hundreds of individual packages so that users were not forced to install whole chunks of kde when they only wanted a few particular programs installed. kdepim-meta is basically just the kdepim package split up into a couple dozen smaller ebuilds for each individual program or library that makes up kdepim. More info at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Question about duplicate lines in file
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and > all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have > found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted > from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really > know what to search for. I would like to remove the duplicate entries > and then put them in alphabetical order if I could. I would gladly then > make this available if someone wanted to host it. I don't have a place > to host it. > > Oh, there is 15,000 entries in my hosts file. O_O > > Could someone tell me how this is done? May even learn something here. > If I can do this, I'm sure I will. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) 'uniq' and 'sort' should do what you're after, check out the man pages. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Question about duplicate lines in file
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:49, Teresa and Dale wrote: > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > >On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 2:12, Teresa and Dale wrote: > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>I have batched a bunch of servers in my hosts file to block, for ads and > >>all that crap. I got them from several different places, some I have > >>found too, and am sure there are dups in there, same server but pasted > >>from several sources. I am not a programer at all and don't even really > >>know what to search for. I would like to remove the duplicate entries > >>and then put them in alphabetical order if I could. I would gladly then > >>make this available if someone wanted to host it. I don't have a place > >>to host it. > >> > >>Oh, there is 15,000 entries in my hosts file. O_O > >> > >>Could someone tell me how this is done? May even learn something here. > >>If I can do this, I'm sure I will. > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >>Dale > >> > >>:-) :-) > > > >'uniq' and 'sort' should do what you're after, check out the man pages. > > Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried > this: > > uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort > > It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over. > There are only 2 lines missing. Does spaces count? Some put in a lot > of spaces between the localhost and the web address. Maybe that has a > affect?? > > Thanks for the help. I had never seen that command before. I had heard > of sort, never used it though. I do have those on my desktop. I'm > playing with copies instead of my real hosts file. > > Thanks again. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Yes the spaces matter, you could possibly use 'tr' to turn all repeated spaces into a single space. $ tr -s ' ' < filename That should do it, then you can pipe it through uniq and sort and do whatever else you want with it. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Earth/Picasa
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hi there, > > Does exist any way of installing Google Earth/Picasa into amd64 ? > > Thanx. > > > -- > "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" - > Linus Torvalds The current ebuild was just keyworded ~amd64 today. Check out the changelog. http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/x11-misc/googleearth/ChangeLog -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MPlayer-1.0_pre8
On Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:48, Pavel Kouřil wrote: > Can you merge mplayer-1.0_pre8? I can't and portage says that will be > downgrade x( You'll have to mask all the mplayer-1.0.2006* packages as they are considered to be higher version numbers by portage. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
