[gentoo-amd64] fan control

2012-03-10 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
My laptop started getting hot recently. There is no dust issue. The fan just doesn't seem to start at all. I tried to use lm_sensors and sensor-detect, but it's not detecting any sensors. I tried to recompile the kernel, enabling all the sensors but no luck. using acpi woks in reporting some

Re: [gentoo-amd64] fan control

2012-03-10 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
On Sun Mar 11,2012 01:37 am, Florian Philipp wrote: I'm missing acpi-cpufreq in your module list. Is CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ enabled? What CPU frequency governor is enabled (`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor`)? By the way, 58?C is not particularly hot. Of course,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] keymap broken

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
wrote: Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I got a newer laptop, and rather than installing gentoo, I just swapped the hard disks. Now when I boot into the new one, it works up to the level I am expecting (still need some drivers), but the keyboard act wierd. When I press m it types 0, and some other keys

[gentoo-amd64] Network adopter driver

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
I am trying to install the driver for the wireless adopter. It looks like it's Intel based: lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Network adopter driver

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Dale, thank you a lot. I did a lot of googling before posting and will continue looking at the links you gave me. Will post the results. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I am trying to install the driver for the wireless adopter

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Network adopter driver

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Dale, atl1c is for ethernet and not for the wireless. What I looking for at this point is the wireless. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: Dale, thank you a lot. I did a lot of googling before posting and will continue looking at the links you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Network adopter driver

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
) It shows that I need the driver iwlagn : 8086008aYes Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 iwlagn v2.6.38- for the wireless device. I do have it, and it's loaded but still the device not seen by ifconfig ! On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Network adopter driver

2011-09-07 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
/wiki/Iwlwifi#Firmware you have the wrong firmware installed: Wireless-N 1030 needs net-wireless/iwl6030-ucode You can also have a look at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Iwlwifi to check your setup. On 08.09.2011 14:12, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I am trying to install the driver

[gentoo-amd64] keymap broken

2011-09-06 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
I got a newer laptop, and rather than installing gentoo, I just swapped the hard disks. Now when I boot into the new one, it works up to the level I am expecting (still need some drivers), but the keyboard act wierd. When I press m it types 0, and some other keys don't send anything at all. This

[gentoo-amd64] Lost synaptics touchpad scrolling after kernel upgrade

2011-06-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I upgraded from 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 to 2.6.38-gentoo-r6. I didn't change anything in the config file, and used the old kernel config to compile the new kernel. However, when I booted into the new kernel, I found the scrolling in the touch pad is not working ! If I boot into the older

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine with no-multilib on AMD64

2010-03-16 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
One last quesiton related to the cross compiler. I find the documentaion for this are incomplete, and not very clear, and in many cases links are broken. I have followed this page to get mingw ready: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/MinGW I am not using any overlay. So things should be simple. I am

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wine with no-multilib on AMD64

2010-03-15 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello Duncan: Pleae read my comments. On Sat Mar 13,2010 10:20 pm, Duncan wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann posted on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:29:06 +0100 as excerpted: On Samstag 13 M??rz 2010, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Hello all, I have been looking into installing wine and a cross dev tool

[gentoo-amd64] Wine with no-multilib on AMD64

2010-03-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I have been looking into installing wine and a cross dev tool chain. I didn't get much luck, since I have amd64 and I use no-multilib. I found this http://bugs.gentoo.org/269439 and I am wondering if any one can provide an advice. Is it be possible to run wine on amd64 with no-multilib

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Intel integrated graphics and Xorg

2010-02-24 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
advice about unmasking all of them with a better way ? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, thank you. Yes, this is new intel based system. Here's the link I got from gateway: http://support.gateway.com/s/notebook/2009/gateway/nv/nv59

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Intel integrated graphics and Xorg

2010-02-24 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 02:13 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Mark, thank you. Yes, this is new intel based system. Here's the link I got from gateway: http://support.gateway.com/s/notebook/2009/gateway/nv/nv59/NV59sp2.shtml I tried to recompile kernel without framebuffer, like you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Intel integrated graphics and Xorg

2010-02-23 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Duncan, thank you for helping, but I got a bit lost. ;) please read my comments. The framebuffer console is built-in ! Here are the relevant parts of my kernel .config: # Graphics support CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y Both AMD64 and Intel AGP?  You should be able to turn off the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Intel integrated graphics and Xorg

2010-02-23 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello, I have installed kernel 2.6.33-rc8, and here's the relevant part of my .config: # Input device support # CONFIG_INPUT=y # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV=m # # Userland interfaces # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y

[gentoo-amd64] Intel integrated graphics and Xorg

2010-02-22 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello All: I have been trying for the last two days to install gentoo on a new laptop. Issues I am having are related to Xorg. I am still unable to get it to work. When I startx, I get a blank screen and I have to reboot through an ssh connection to the laptop. localhost ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can not start X after update

2010-01-03 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
I don't think it updated the Xorg-server. I rebooted today, and it it went directely into gdm ! I don't know what happened, but it's working ! On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 01 January 2010 11:39:27 Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Hello All: I

[gentoo-amd64] Can not start X after update

2010-01-01 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello All: I just updated my system and after a reboot, I was not able to get into X11. startx is giving: === xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.22418 X.Org X Server 1.6.5 Release Date: 2009-10-11 X

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update

2009-10-21 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Thank you all. It was a matter of reinstalling m4. Things are working fine and everything is updated. On Thu Oct 15,2009 01:19 am, Duncan wrote: Mansour Al Akeel posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:32 -0300 as excerpted: Ok, I think I did something rally bad. I am unable to install emacs

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update

2009-10-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
, but I haven't done this for more than 2 months. I don't this should be an issue. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Mansour Al Akeel posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:25:15 -0300 as excerpted: I lost the output from the previos build, and unable to regenerate

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update

2009-10-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Ok, I think I did something rally bad. I am unable to install emacs. Here's the output : These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N] net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r2 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-amd64] failing to emerge update

2009-10-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
* The broken files are: * /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.so.7.0.0 On Tue Oct 13,2009 09:31 am, Alex Alexander wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All: emerge --update --deep world is failing

[gentoo-amd64] failing to emerge update

2009-10-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello All: emerge --update --deep world is failing. I can not install libXaw. I am getting the following error: make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.6/work/libXaw-1.0.6' make: *** [all] Error 2 * ERROR: x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.6 failed: * emake failed * * Call stack:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: failing to emerge update

2009-10-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
-Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement -march=athlon64 -Os -pipe -MT libXaw6_la-AsciiSrc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libXaw6_la-AsciiSrc.Tpo -c AsciiSrc.c -o libXaw6_la-AsciiSrc.o /dev/null 21 On Tue Oct 13,2009 06:10 am, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/13/2009 06:58 AM, Mansour Al

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cross compiler for Windows

2009-08-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
put in that make.conf. It's going to be for windows !! Any advice? Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/17/2009 03:13 AM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Hello all, I haven't done this before, but I need to build a cross compiler for c/c+ on gentoo, to produce windows executables. Is there an easy way

[gentoo-amd64] Cross compiler for Windows

2009-08-16 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I haven't done this before, but I need to build a cross compiler for c/c+ on gentoo, to produce windows executables. Is there an easy way to this. Anyone, had success with a cross compiler ? Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Video for Linux - webcam

2009-08-11 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
=unknown): Invalid argument capturing image failed I will look into the error message. It's worth mentioning, that the cam led flashs with the blue light indicating it's working then it goes off. Drake Donahue wrote: snip Saphirus Sage wrote: Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I have been trying

[gentoo-amd64] Video for Linux - webcam

2009-08-09 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
I have been trying to get the webcam to work on: Linux mars 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sat Aug 8 13:33:30 ADT 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Video for Linux - webcam

2009-08-09 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
drivers as modules, and will see. In the mean while, I will look into, the driver link you sent. I will share the results with the list. :) Thank you. Saphirus Sage wrote: Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I have been trying to get the webcam to work on: Linux mars 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Sat Aug 8 13:33

[gentoo-amd64] installing hal failing with file collision

2009-04-28 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
I have been trying to install hal, but no luck. Everytime, I end up getting an error, and couldn't find enough information to resolve the issue: Installing sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8 * checking 171 files for package collisions * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] installing hal failing with file collision

2009-04-28 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
root root 4096 Dec 1 20:41 var I will keep on looking, in the mean while if anyone has an idea, please let me know. Thanks Drake Donahue wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:52 -0300, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I have been trying to install hal, but no luck. Everytime, I end up getting an error

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-25 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello, and sorry for the late reply. See my comments On Wed Apr 15,2009 12:26 pm, Duncan wrote: Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com posted 20090413224623.ga20...@mars.lan, excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:46:24 -0300: Dieter: Thank you, that did the trick. On Mon

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-13 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection On Mon Apr 13,2009 06:54 pm, Dieter Ries wrote: Mansour Al Akeel schrieb: Hello all: Hi, today I did emerge --update --newuse --deep world in order to get the latest. However, I had to fight a bit

[gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all: today I did emerge --update --newuse --deep world in order to get the latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but after many attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working. I have xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0 , I am not using hal, and I would like not to. On

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Martin, thank you for the fast reply. I just tried recompiling the drivers under x11-driver/* but still no luck. On Sun Apr 12,2009 09:55 am, Martin Herrman wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Mansour Al Akeel [1]mansour.alak...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all: Hi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. Any idea ? On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com posted 20090412081011.ga4...@mars.lan, excerpted below, on  Sun, 12

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

2009-04-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
On Sun Apr 12,2009 10:33 pm, Duncan wrote: Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com posted 2a21586d0904121007y7c8d5862r5e6a883600076...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:07:50 -0300: You said the top of your xorg.conf. You do still have the InputDevice

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: can not install nvidia driver

2008-12-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
/src/linux-2.6.27. I don't know why that was happening but it's working now. Thank you. Duncan wrote: Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alak...@gmail.com posted 49433267.1090...@gmail.com, excerpted below, on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:56:23 -0400: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia

[gentoo-amd64] can not install nvidia driver

2008-12-12 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I am trying to install nvidia drivers. I am running amd64 no-multilib. I have tried to make oldconfig make prepare but no luck. I was running under kernel 2.6.27, then 2.6.26 but couldn't dig any further. What could be the issue ? Here is the log file: mars mansour # cat

[gentoo-amd64] from multilib to amd64

2008-12-06 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I am stuck in the conversion from multilib. I have changed my profile the emerged gcc glibc sandbox and baselayout then portage, while booted and chroot to my gentoo installtion from the installation cd as I was not able to boot. Before I updated world I unmerged gnome and merged

[gentoo-amd64] Re: from multilib to amd64

2008-12-06 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Fixed it. Changed the symlinks!

[gentoo-amd64] Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello all, I have updated my use flags. USE=X aac aiglx alsa aoss asf bzip2 cairo dbus dvd emerald fam firefox gif glitz gnome gstreamer gtk hal java jpeg mad mp3 mp4 new-login nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pdf png samba spell sqlite svg symlink threads tiff truetype unicode x264

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
wrote: Barry Schwartz schrieb: Mansour Al Akeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis: Any idea ? If you use ccache, try emptying it. I think there is something else wrong, because it fails in the configure phase. Send us an emerge --info output, please. I'm not an expert

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
. On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mansour Al Akeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:02:19 -0400: checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/var/tmp

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Tonko Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same error because I had the noexec option in my fstab file. The option was set on my swap file bus affected my whole system. my 2c 2008/11/14, Mansour Al Akeel [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
this ? On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Christoph Mende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:02:19 -0400 Mansour Al Akeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea ? Enable IA32_EMULATION in your kernel -- Christoph Mende Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Lead and Release Engineering GPG: EE2A

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can not compile gcc

2008-11-14 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
PROTECTED]: Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Just out of curiosity, how did you know that IA32_EMULATION is not enabled? Which message told you this ? He probably just suspected. Kernel's inability to run 32-bit code could be one of the reasons why the test code run failed. Other reason might