[gentoo-user] How to apply Genkernel 2.4.22-r4 Patch.

Hello, Im currently downloading "gentoo-souces" and I noticed an accompanying patch. Do I need to do anything special with the kernel patch or will the patch be applied when I configure genkernel?? Never applied a Kernel Patch before. Thanks, JBanks __ Do you Yah

[gentoo-user] How To Remerge: Recent Stage 2 tarballers

>From a stage2 tarball, I've gotten through Fetching and compiling most all the "system -u update" packages. How can I make Gentoo remerge all of the system update packages again? I've done something wrong and I don't want to install the kernel with the state that the system is in currently. I w

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

Peter Ruskin writes: > > > > Am I missing something? Anybody got any clue? > > > My guess is that doing `make mrproper` before rebuilding the kernel > would remove those redundant modules. > I did (because the kernel wouldn't compile without ;-). I did make mrproper cp /boot/config .con

Re: [gentoo-user] Newsgroups gateway

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:38:55AM +0100 or thereabouts, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > Is there some way to get the newsgroup without the mailinglist, or can I > stop getting mails on the mailinglist, while still being subscribed? No. Not at this time. --kurt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

On Friday 09 Jan 2004 08:57, Fred Labrosse wrote: > All, > > Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off > SMP support in the kernel. > > However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below > when insmod'ing snd.o: > > /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9/kernel/so

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is not working

Norbert Kamenicky wrote: I experienced this problem too ... if I start my gentoo and PS2 mouse is disconnected then keyboard freezes after starting of gpm. If I stop gpm (through ssh) keyboard alives again. (It must be a bug in gpm.) noro Unfortunately, I don't use gpm. -- Sensei

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:52, Bill Roberts wrote: > MozillaFirebird and certain libraries will not prelink. Don't > really know the issues involved. There is some info in > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml I saw nothing specific about MozillaFirebird in that how-to. However it did remi

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:36, David Gethings wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote: > > You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and > > running ldconfig afterwards. > Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said: > > # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update;

Re: [gentoo-user] What must I do to take a snapshot of portage on my system?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 January 2004 07:19, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > Hi: > > First, let me thank this excellent list, because there is always someone > here who seems to be inadvertently talking about my problems. :) > > Anyway my query goes like this: > What d

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:44, Joshua Banks wrote: > --- Kim Ingemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:57, David Gethings wrote: > > > My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? > > > > You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and > > running ld

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On 09:57 Fri 09 Jan , David Gethings wrote: > I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages > like the following: > > prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse > `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared > libraries: libxp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to happen. When I started using Gentoo, I was using kernel version 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

--- Kim Ingemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:57, David Gethings wrote: > > My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? > > You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and > running ldconfig afterwards. > What does "ldconfig" do. Or whats its

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:32, Kim Ingemann wrote: > You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and > running ldconfig afterwards. Well I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it said: # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to # contents of /etc/env.d directory so I we

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:57, David Gethings wrote: > My question is how do I add this dir to the ldcache? You can add directories to ldcache by changing /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig afterwards. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards, Kim Ingemann http://pingvinland.dk/ signature.asc Desc

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

Robert G. Waycott writes: > On Friday 09 January 2004 04:04 am, Fred Labrosse wrote: > > > > > Doing an "insmod mach64" works but does not solve the problem. > > > > Any ideas? > > > Fred, have you added mach64 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x ?? That is > where all modules which ne

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:51:08PM -0600, Rainer Sigwald wrote: > > I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do? > > Boot from XP CD, run 'recovery console', log in to the right windows installation. > > Then run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' . . . will obliterate GRUB, but should

[gentoo-user] Adding a dir to ldcache

Hi, I'm using prelink. Everytime I update prelink I get a number of messages like the following: prelink: /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: Could not parse `/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/timebombgen: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

Kevin Reichhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to use the windoze bootloader, do the following: > > Assuming that your windows partition is hda1, at the grub command line, > type: > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > boot > > This will boot into windows. Once in wind

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

On Friday 09 January 2004 04:04 am, Fred Labrosse wrote: > > Doing an "insmod mach64" works but does not solve the problem. > > Any ideas? > Fred, have you added mach64 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x ?? That is where all modules which need to be automatically loaded at boot time should go

[gentoo-user] DRI and mach64

All, I'm trying to enable DRI with my ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics card. Finally discovering that this is a mach64, I emerged xfree-drm as said in the "Hardware 3D accelaration guide": ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfree-drm with VIDEO_CARDS set to mach64 in /etc/make.conf. This indeed produces a

[gentoo-user] ALSA and SMP support

All, Trying (and now succeeding) to power off my computer, I turned off SMP support in the kernel. However, since then, I get loads of messages similar to the one below when insmod'ing snd.o: /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r9/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol try_inc_mod_count_Rsmp_e6105b

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo not powering off

Øyvind Stegard writes: > On Wednesday 07 January 2004 11:51, Fred Labrosse wrote: > > All, > > > > When I power off from gentoo, the computer is actually not powered off > > (Winblow does though).  I have APM compiled in the kernel, I have tried > > both possibilities for CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

On 2004/01/08, at 23:23, Stephen Clowater wrote: Oh come on, have a sense of humor. If you execute commands you read on a mailing list from someone whom you don't know without at least reading the first 3 lines of the man page, well, you needed to learn the hard way. learn what? in sixth grade i

[gentoo-user] Newsgroups gateway

My newsserver carries linux.gentoo.dev/user. Since I prefer Newsgroups over Mailinglist, I tried to subscribe to them, but the problem is that I have to keep subscribed to the mailinglist as well. What's the point of having a newsgroup, when I can' t send postings to the newsgroup when unsubscribed

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 04:56, Marius Mauch wrote: > Both r2 and r3 were fixed yesterday, however to be sure use r3 (the > patch was added to r2 after it was already deployed, so it's hard to say > wether your installation has it). Sorry to prolong the thread, but isn't this not supposed to happen?

Re: [gentoo-user] I killed my xp boot sector with grub

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Reichhart wrote: | dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX will write zeros to every byte in your | partition, effectively deleting everything there. yes, _never_ do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda is a much better way of accelerating preformance in wi

[gentoo-user] what -march and -mcpu should I use?

Hi, I finally compiled my first gentoo system. right now, it's quite small, cause I was thinking about not to compiling anything that I won't need. But I'd like to get better performance, optimize some compiler flags... So, that's my question: what kind odf mcpu and march should I choose as I have

Re: [gentoo-user] cups printing slow - page by page

Collins wrote: I've seen the same behavior with cups a number of times on different distros, but I've never been able to suss out the answer. When a file consists of multiple pages, cups prints them as though each page were a file by itself - long pause between pages. On other distros (SUSE 9.0,

[gentoo-user] What must I do to take a snapshot of portage on my system?

Hi: First, let me thank this excellent list, because there is always someone here who seems to be inadvertently talking about my problems. :) Anyway my query goes like this: What do I have to do to take a backup/snapshot of Portage on my current Gentoo box? Because if I was to install Gentoo 1.4

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