Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Nick Rout wrote: Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install method) miss out? Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the issues. Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon) It doesn't look like it's hiding somewhere on the mirrors. Perhaps they want you to stick with the 2005.1 packages? Really odd all around. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen settings
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rajat Gujral wrote: Have you tried adding the option DefaultDepth? Since you have the Modes 1024x768 for 24, it should come out looking like: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection This is the only way I am ever able to get my system to go to 1280x1024, possibly it'll force yours to the correct setting. Hi richard and jerry thanx for ur suggestions but i guess my problem remains the same ... My xserver still starts with screen resolution of 640 x 480 ... Before the improper shutdown it was working fine in 1024 x 768 resolution , but now no matter what resolution i provide, it starts up with 640 x 480 resolution which makes the screen appear so big .. Is there anything else that i can do Thnx Regds Rajat :) P.S. I have done X -configure and has detected the following settings : Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/lib/modules FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load dbe Load dri Load record Load xtrap Load glx Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol Microsoft Option Device /dev/ttyS1 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines# i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver i810 VendorName Intel Corp. BoardName 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] BusID PCI:0:1:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection On 2/22/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/22/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: settings. I did mine manually a long long time ago, but I think you can use xorgconfig to detect most of your settings for you...if so...hopefully that will fix you up. I would suggest instead X -configure. That should autodetect most things, unlike xorgconfig which asks you a bunch of questions that most users don't know the answers to. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, gentuxx wrote: Read through http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6 You can install from a distro's boot floppies... I have done it sucessfully using Slackware 9.1 floppies. You need a binary of bzip, you can download one from where I stuck mine at http://members.lycos.co.uk/stupendoussteve/Misc/bzip2-102-x86-linux24 if you'd like. Just have to set it execute and then run ./bzip2 blah.tar.bz (this is to unpack the stage files). Slackware can partition and format on it's own. Once you unpack the stage files it's pretty much right out of the handbook. You'll need the slackware boot and install floppies, as well as the networking ones and probably some others. It's not the easiest process but it is not that time consuming... just gotta get the right floppies. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ghislain Bourgeois wrote: At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a stage-4, which is simply a stage3 updated, with the packages we want added to it and a generic kernel built with genkernel. It is made available through a tarball on a web server and I have a simple script generated by web-based configuration utility to install it on the server and configure it for the machine (partitionning, networking, etc...). The only thing you need to run the script is to have a basic linux system running, which you can get with a livecd or a floppy like tomslinux (sorry, I forgot the exact name...). Of course, I have an NDA and the scripts all belong to the company, so I can't make it available, but you can build yourself something similar. Well, thanks for the tip. But for one, I wasn't really planning to spend *that* much time fussing about it. The focus is something else entirely, and I don't have the time to dedicate to designing my own system. I totally understand the NDA/company proprietary info, etc., etc., so I appreciate the pointer. I've set up Solaris Jumpstart for Solaris installations in the past. And, ironically enough, this project is using gentoo-sparc. Jumpstart is relatively easy to configure, I just didn't know if there might be an equivalent for gentoo. I checked for both JumpStart and KixStart (I've seen KixStart ported to other distros even though it's a RedHat package) by running `emerge search jumpstart` and got bupkus. Also, one inherent flaw with your suggestion is the requirement of a livecd. I know you mentioned floppy, but these are SPARC boxen and I doubt I could fit all the drivers/commands/etc. on a floppy, and one doesn't even have a floppy. Thus the necessity for a network boot situation. I appreciate the response though. -- Ghislain Bourgeois --- Linux System administrator On 2/17/06, *gentuxx* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a little amateur project that I'm working on, and I'm running into some difficulty. The most immediate problem I'm having, is that I want to put gentoo on one of my systems, but they don't have a CDROM. (These are old boxes.) So, my question, simply enough, is there a JumpStart or KixStart equivalent in gentoo? I.e. tftp boot, that'll download the install image, etc.? TIA -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9rZ8LYGSSmmWCZMRAkU5AKDNfs9NcL1SOMRdOC9ZO5YpCUoIFQCeJxCe WCtWdPeoaf8q05nHZc8U9DQ= =IwrC -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, b.n. wrote: Hi, I still can't see KDE 3.5 in the stable x86. Since I'd like to try it, but I also don't like to rely on unstable (i.e. crashing, misworking) apps very much, I have a couple of questions for you... 1)What is the timeline for having 3.5 stable? If I have to wait still 1 or 2 weeks, I don't mind, otherwise... 2)Does kde 3.5 pulls in a lot of ~x86 dependecies? 3)What are current known bugs/instabilities/issues/what of KDE 3.5 packages I should be aware of? I don't use KDE itself (I'm happy with Fluxbox) but I use KDE apps very much (Konqueror,Kwrite,Kate,K3b...). Thanks! m. I've been using a totally ~x86 for a long time and never had an issue. KDE 3.5 is working very well, I've not had a crash. I think the main thing going to be pulled in by anything is kdelibs, which you'd have to allow to be ~x86. Just make sure you run emerge -pv packages and it will tell you exactly what it's going to need. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Module (3c59x) not recognized
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Gilberto Martins wrote: Hi all. Now I have only one problem: the ethernet module. During the initiatio, I have the following message: Failed to load 3c59x. Of course I had no network for this. I tried lsmod and saw that no modules were loaded. What shoud I do to configure the loading of needed modules at startup ? Thanx Add the module name on it's own line in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM and portage
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Daniel D Jones wrote: Can someone either explain or give me a pointer to an explanation for the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge --pretend kdm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdm-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/libkonq-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kicker-3.5.1-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesu-3.5.0) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kcminit-3.5.0) [ebuild N] kde-base/libkonq-3.5.1 [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.1 [ebuild N] kde-base/kicker-3.5.1-r1 [ebuild N] kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.1 [ebuild N] kde-base/kdesu-3.5.0 [ebuild N] kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.1 [ebuild N] kde-base/kcminit-3.5.0 [ebuild N] kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.1 [ebuild N] kde-base/kdm-3.5.1 Particularly, what does the 3.5* mean? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # equery list kdebase [ Searching for package 'kdebase' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 (0) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.1-r1 (3.5) I have kdebase-3.5.1-r1 installed. Why is kdm-3.5.1 blocked? Surely kdebase is a requirement for kdm, and it makes no sense to say that kdm-3.5.1 needs an earlier version of kdebase, does it? I'm probably missing some fundamental understanding of what's going on here. Thanks for any assistance. You installed one of the meta packages instead of what's inside. While covienient for time, it sometimes makes it a pain to individually manage packages. My favorored way is emerge -pv kdebase-meta, then individually installing the things in there. kdm is a dependancy of kdesktop, so it should already be on there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Faxing in Gentoo with Digital Phone Line
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, John Jolet wrote: On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:11 PM, C. Beamer wrote: Hi Guys: I'm a little fuzzy here, so I'm asking for help. I recently subscribed to my local cable company's digital phone service. Now, I would like to send a fax from my computer. Is rp-ppoe what I need (and of course a fax client) to do this? If this is not what I need, please advise. I don't know about YOURS, but my cable company's digital phone service looks to devices...well like phone service. pretend it's a POTS. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list You might look into hylafax. I was able to set it up at my previous company for sending faxes through our pbx. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably impossible but i just want to make sure. -- Cheers, Ghaith You can't complete the install through cygwin. You can complete the install through VMware though. Get the 30 day trial, create a new virtual machine, give it access to the raw disk partition (or whatever it says when you're creating it). I have used that method to install Debian over dial up in the past, you just need to compile the kernel and setup things like fstab to point to how it should be, now how it is off of vmware. I would give it access to the entire disk rather than just the linux partition, as you can then install grub. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this is the family pc :-P the vmware idea is nice.. but i don't know about it can i load a hole drive as my virtual harddrive? Yes, you can select using a physical drive instead of a virtual file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A new experience an account on gentoo without root priv
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: I have an account on a gentoo machine but no root privs. Is there some allowance using emerge to install software in ~/ Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball yourself, you could then run the configure and install scripts, giving it the location of where to install. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?
Hey list. I'm not sure if this is truly a broken ebuild issue or something weird on my system. I seem to remember my system running fine with the old version of KDM, and upgrading just fine, which is why I'm confused. This is a new install of Gentoo, and kdm refuses to build, which is causing me end of trouble in installing kde things (okay, so I did get kde on with skipping it, but I can't emerge -e world without it breaking!). Here's what I get when I try to install kdm 3.5.1... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../backend -I.. -I../../kcontrol/background -I../../kdmlib -I/usr/kde/3.5/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -std=iso9899:1990 -W -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe s -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -c `test -f 'kdm_greet.c' || echo './'`kdm_greet.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: s: No such file or directory i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: s: No such file or directory ./../backend/printf.c: In function `fmtstr': ./../backend/printf.c:210: warning: 'lastcol' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c: In function `fmtstr': ./../backend/printf.c:210: warning: 'lastcol' might be used uninitialized in this function kdm_config.c: In function `GetValue': kdm_config.c:632: warning: 'bestsec' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c: In function `Logger': ./../backend/printf.c:298: warning: 'radix' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c:300: warning: 'arlen' might be used uninitialized in this function make[4]: *** [kdm_config.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[4]: *** [kdm_greet.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm/kfrontend' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm/kfrontend' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdm-3.5.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 941: Called src_compile kdm-3.5.1.ebuild, line 47: Called kde-meta_src_compile 'compile' kde-meta.eclass, line 400: Called kde_src_compile 'make' !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Any clues? I'll post a bug if it doesn't look like something I've broke. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?
Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. Ah well, guess I can do an -e to get it the way I really wanted to (and it will work now!). On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 21:43, Steven S. wrote: Hey list. I'm not sure if this is truly a broken ebuild issue or something weird on my system. I seem to remember my system running fine with the old version of KDM, and upgrading just fine, which is why I'm confused. This is a new install of Gentoo, and kdm refuses to build, which is causing me end of trouble in installing kde things (okay, so I did get kde on with skipping it, but I can't emerge -e world without it breaking!). Here's what I get when I try to install kdm 3.5.1... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../backend -I.. -I../../kcontrol/background -I../../kdmlib -I/usr/kde/3.5/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -std=iso9899:1990 -W -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe s -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -c `test -f 'kdm_greet.c' || echo './'`kdm_greet.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: s: No such file or directory i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: s: No such file or directory ./../backend/printf.c: In function `fmtstr': ./../backend/printf.c:210: warning: 'lastcol' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c: In function `fmtstr': ./../backend/printf.c:210: warning: 'lastcol' might be used uninitialized in this function kdm_config.c: In function `GetValue': kdm_config.c:632: warning: 'bestsec' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c: In function `Logger': ./../backend/printf.c:298: warning: 'radix' might be used uninitialized in this function ./../backend/printf.c:300: warning: 'arlen' might be used uninitialized in this function make[4]: *** [kdm_config.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[4]: *** [kdm_greet.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm/kfrontend' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm/kfrontend' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1/kdm' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdm-3.5.1/work/kdm-3.5.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdm-3.5.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 941: Called src_compile kdm-3.5.1.ebuild, line 47: Called kde-meta_src_compile 'compile' kde-meta.eclass, line 400: Called kde_src_compile 'make' !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Any clues? I'll post a bug if it doesn't look like something I've broke. Double check your C(XX)FLAGS emerge dies because of this: -pipe s The 's' shouldn't be there -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kdm 3.5.1, broken ebuild?
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Steven S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah-hah! Thank you for pointing that out. I had -fomit-frame-pointers, I'm surprised nothing died before kdm. That's strange, there shouldn't be any way that -fomit-frame-pointers could break compilation. I've been using it for years without any problem (and compiled kde 3.5.1 using it too). __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com There shouldn't be an s in pointers, the GCC guide has the option as -fomit-frame-pointer. kdm compiled just fine when I removed it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 05 February 2006 23:45, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Well my signature is there because I want it to be there. But I don't want a comment from the list how I HAVE TO UNSUBSCRIBE. One thing is the signature, and another thing is the information messages from mailing system. well, he has a point - he just missed to type it: -signatures longer than 4 lines are considered offensive -double signatures are considered offensive -triple signatures like yours are even worse. So you are a three time offender with every mail you send... and you can be sure: most people don't read them and a lot of people don't want to see them at all. Erm... offensive? Maybe annoying but I can't think of anyone being offended.
