Khan wrote:
bash-2.05b# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3100 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1550.24 MB/sec
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate
ioctl for device
Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.02 seconds = 56.28 MB/sec
Henrik Andersson wrote:
does that mean that kernel =2.6.12-rc2 will have better support for
SATA? I guess that Khan had a sata-drive.
As always, SATA support improves with every kernel release.
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Cumbers wrote:
My question is how do I let someone within gentoo know that this is the
case, and get them to upgrade the portage to reflect this change of
versions?
http://bugs.gentoo.org
Be sure to check that the new version isn't already available in the testing
tree first. If it is, you
Stuart Howard wrote:
thx for reply
I found a few bugs but this one seems to match
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85802
I dont see a workaround at the moment so am falling back to 2.6.10 for
a quiet life ;)
There is a workaround: Don't use the inbuilt kernel AGPGART. (the nvidia
driver
William Kenworthy wrote:
Just did an emerge sync and see the long awaited change of
gentoo-dev-sources being moved into gentoo-sources has occurred.
However, kernel.org shows 2.6.12-rc1 is out and no ~x86 version of this
is evident. Does the next gentoo-sources kernel get worked on in
another
Richard Brown wrote:
nvidia-kernel won't work with a vanilla 2.6.11, you'll have to wait
for an ebuild for ck or gentoo-dev-sources
I don't think you are right here. gentoo-dev-sources is not patched with
anything that would aid nvidia compatibility.
I think you might be right in saying that
Keith Gable wrote:
Gamin, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5
Disabling inotify in the kernel, disabling inotify in the gamin config, or
reverting back to fam should solve your issue.
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Keith Gable wrote:
I have a rather odd problem, and I'm wondering if anyone here knows
how to fix it. Every time I unmount my iPod logged on to GNOME as
keith, my system freezes. I can unmount as any user, and as long as
keith is logged on to GNOME, it'll freeze. Nothing out of the
ordinary is
William Kenworthy wrote:
In this case, the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong! When I
sleep the laptop, on wakeup, the OS is varying times ahead of the
(correct) hwclock - ntp soon corrects it and its back in sync again.
Is this with 2.6.10? If so, try upgrading to
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd ask. I want to upgrade to the last possible profile, 2005.0, but not sure
how I proceed. Do I have to unlink the 2004.0 profile before I link it to a new
2005.0?
Would any one tell me a code how to do it? Or, I follow the same procedure as
before
without
Nicolas Bailey wrote:
Are there any documents that cover this migration currently? Are they
planned to be released with 2005.0?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
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Nick Smith wrote:
since devfs is being depreciated, will 2005.0 ship with udev by default?
Yes, for supported archs
or will we always have to change to that separately? im kinda nervous to
try migrating to it, but if its installed by default it would be easier
for me to try.
You can either follow
Kurt Guenther wrote:
seeker ~ # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004
J\urg Schilling
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r13
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems,
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I've been following this list for a while and been downloading some
documentation trying to prepare myself for my very first Gentoo
installation. From what I have understood by reading the couple of last
gwn:s from last year the 2005.0 release will mean some changes to
Jerry McBride wrote:
After much hair pulling, I remember something I read along time ago...
remember the sources... A few moments into the svgalib archive I now have
this script that creates the /dev/svga* devices.
Alternatively, just emerge sync and update to the latest svgalib revision
Jerry McBride wrote:
I won't shoot you, but the difference may be that I don't use devfs or udev on
any of my gentoo projects.
Gentoo defaults to devfs and provides udev as an option. So for 99.9% of users
this is automatically done. I guess there are still some who live with a
static /dev
Peter wrote:
Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation,
I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from
package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps
forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day...
It just seems to me that the
Holly Bostick wrote:
But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the
user is trying to connect to said VPN through software?
Yes, or their ISP forces them to use it..
So if the OP had such a router (or, alternatively, if and when I get my
bf to switch to Linux, making this
never ?
Peter wrote:
Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo
sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to
internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll
never understand my problems...
Tamas Sarga wrote:
My only workaround is k3b. Just a note, when it comes
for first time, it wants to change permissions on cdrecord, it isn't a
good idea.
Newer versions of k3b do not do this.
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Vittorio wrote:
Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= ATAPI:0,0,0
gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=0 -dao -eject -pad
-data /home/victor/tmp/track-01.iso ...
Don't use dev=ATAPI, use dev=/dev/hdc (or whatever your cdrom device is)
cdrecord: Cannot
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Its in Dutch (my native language), but its for French people.
I can speak French but don't write it, its going to be translated at
work.
I will post both versions after the translation.
Maybe your work would be beneficial to Gentoo as a whole.. If you are
interested,
J. Patrick Campbell wrote:
about to install this kernel.
any gentoo udev people here noticed any issues yet?
Judging from the very low number of bug reports that we've had so far about
2.6.10 in comparison to previous kernels, I'd say this is one of the most
stable releases in a long time.
Hi,
Fabrizio Prosperi wrote:
Here is a snaphshot of my current desktop environment:
http://tosh.dyndns.biz/~fprosper/snapshot.png
I'm running fluxbox 0.9.10 and kde3.3 on a gentoo 2.6.8.1 kernel system, and
using current portage xfs daemon at default runlevel.
It seems to me that fonts aren't
Mark Knecht wrote:
In my case I have some fonts on the system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/
bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera
fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf
Holly Bostick wrote:
So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in
sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font,
your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New
Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New
John Dangler wrote:
The end result is always: Fatal Can't loopmount /tmp/tmp./mindilinux.
does your kernel support loopfs? your linux distro is broken.
Do you have loopback support built into your kernel? If you do, you should
have device nodes such as /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1, etc.
If you
Dennis Robertson wrote:
Daniel,
I would be grateful for any help in getting the parallel printer recognised,
though. Thanks again. Regards.
OK. Looking at the parallel printing driver, I don't see any SYSFS support.
Meaning that udev can't yet create nodes for parallel printers (unfortunately
Hi,
EvgGad wrote:
Hello!
Yestarday I decidet to install a pure 2.6 kernel udev system, but I
don't know how to do that, when I do bootstrap-2.6.sh instead of
bootstrap.sh it merges 2.4 kernel headers and even when I emerge udev
before emerge system it all the same offers to install devfsd.
Hi,
Alejandro Escalante Medina wrote:
Debian has a
great packager but iit is and overly cryptic distribution for me yet,
with a very difficult installer.
So, is it Gentoo a good distribution for me?
The Gentoo installation is long-winded, and quite complicated - there is no
interface to help
Daniel Drake wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I'm in the process of writing a quick tutorial
on writing rules for udev. It sure is a nifty tool.
Will post here and CC you when its up.
Here it is.
http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
Hope its of use to someone :)
Daniel
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Collins Richey wrote:
1) What is the best way to prevent world from trying to downgrade my
linux-headers? Inject linux-headers-2.4.22? A better way?
I am not totally sure of the process, but I believe you can create
/etc/portage and manually unmask linux-headers-2.6.x in a file
Collins Richey wrote:
3) In the article published at www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php,
the author claims that external action must be taken to make udev work
with nvidia's drivers. That is not the case for me. I have
nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx active, and I did not need to tweak udev
at all.
Collins Richey wrote:
Were you using 2.6 and udev-017?
Was using 016, but I just retested with 017. Same problem.
Using 2.6.3-rc2-mm1.
I have nothing in autoload for this (or any other module), nor have I
altered anything in /etc/udev.
I assume you used the gentoo ebuilds to install udev. If so,
Collins Richey wrote:
Cool. Does it do anything for you that devfs doesn't?
I too have it running. devfsd is unmerged, and devfs is not compiled into the
kernel.
There are a few advantages over devfs - devfs has not been developed for quite
a while, udev has had years of planning and months
Hi,
Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
Still trying to get rid of the sheeking noise...
??
Are you referencing an earlier post?
My BIOS says I have a 'via 3058 AC97' chip. I've been using
M VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 South Bridge
Can you post the output of lspci and lspci -n? lspci is in the pciutils
Paul Vint wrote:
Thanks for the great post, Daniel! I've been using udev for a while now,
but never really took advantage of it like that yet.
Good info, much appreciated - it's posts like this that I like reading
these lists for - it's not something I was looking for information on,
but I've
Hi Simon,
Simon Chappell wrote:
However when i try to emerge to xmms or jnust about any media type
application i get errors like this ;
aclocal: configure.in: 56 : macro 'AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library..
and the attached output at the end o the emerge attempt..
I also cannot emerge gnome
Hi,
raptor wrote:
~emerge alsa-driver
driver-1.0.2c
checking cross compile...
checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux
checking for kernel version... 2.4.20-gentoo-r7
checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: colortail: invalid option -- ? Try 'colortail --help' for more
Hi,
Tianran Chen wrote:
i recently upgrade to kernel 2.6.1, thus started to use alsa
instead of oss. alsa support and all sound device drivers
are compile into the kernel. now the sound works find, i can
hear good sound without tweak anything. but whenever the
'alsasound' service start, it
Hi,
You will need to install gentoolkit to use the qpkg command.
Radu Filip wrote:
Hi, on Gentoo, what are the equivalents of the following RPM options:
rpm -qi installed_package
(show info about an installed package)
What kind of info?
rpm -qf file
(show to what installed package a file
Markus Klimke wrote:
I don't know if openmotif is calculated as dependency of gnuplot, it
seems not. I've installed it by default, so you should install openmotif
(libXm).
And emacs.
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Grendel wrote:
1. I want a 2.6 kernel, so should I select the gentoo-dev-sources kernel?
Never tried it myself. But yes, it would probably be a good place to start.
2. I plan to use genkernel and hotplug as the livecd detected it fine.
You might want to read up about genkernel and 2.6. I've never
Kevin wrote:
Thanks for the replies, Rob. Problem is, apparently all the rsync mirrors
(I've tried 5-10 of them now) think that 1.2.10 is the latest version of
OpenAFS. Any idea how to point portage to the source site for a
particular package?
Your question has been responded too already in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
since I adopted K 2.6 (mm-sources) I have a hard time using my scanner.
In make menuconfig, USB Scanner is said obsolete. and:
This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb.
What does it mean? What is libusb?
TIA
Hi,
If you upgrade kernels, you wont
Grendel wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Mike Williams commented thusly,
- Is there some distribution-specific scripts/apps to handle addition
and removal of hardware (scanner, printer...)?
Not to my knowledge.
I too am a user about to install gentoo, I have been postponing it till I
get some good
Hi,
Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
I meant an autodetect tool to help install new devices with appropriate
drivers (coming from Mandrake, I'm looking for a 'harddrake'
replacement, which is not crucial but comes in handy from time to time)
Ah. Gentoo doesn't have anything like this as standard, but
Grendel wrote:
I see, so that means that the dhcp client side programs are automatically
installed and that I dont have to manually install them right?
The package you will need is dhcpcd. On my system, thats part of the system
profile, so it should get installed automatically.
Even so, if it
Hi,
Claudinei Matos wrote:
Hey guys,
Well, I've tried to use a windows partition in DocumentRoot of my
apache2.conf like the line below:
DocumentRoot /mnt/dados/Jobs/Work/cjmatos.no-ip.com/www
But when I try to view the page in the browser I get this error:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to
Claudinei Matos wrote:
That's it...
I get a look at the directory and I see that the permissions is just for
owner:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] myers $ ls /mnt/dados -ld
drwxr--r-- 27 root fat 16384 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/dados
so in my /etc/fstab I'm using gid in mount options. how can I mount
Hi,
Arne Vogel wrote:
Ok, so etcat says I have autoconf 2.58 installed, which so far is the
latest unmasked version. However, when I do autoconf --version, it says:
Autoconf version 2.13
which is ancient! Also, the info pages seem to belong to an autoconf
much older than 2.58. qpkg -f `which
Hi,
Ralph Slooten wrote:
1) Problem: I have no terminal bell (system beep) which on the one hand
is annoying, yet sometimes handy (ifplugd and my network as an example).
Is this a kernel option that you know of, or ...? Any ideas here?
You might want to read through this:
Hi,
Mauro Arnoldi wrote:
Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
/usr/sbin/run-crons )_
Feb 5 14:21:58 [CRON] (root) CMD (root^Itest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
/usr/sbin/run-crons )_
This is your cron daemon executing some cron tasks. You might want to look at
the
Hi
Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Also why g++ in
/usr/bin/g++
is different from
/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2/g++ ?
/usr/bin/g++ looks like a wrapper script. Its not actually a script though,
its a compiled program. But this is why i make my assumptions:
# strings /usr/bin/g++
Bear in mind that you cant (or shouldnt) use dual-athlon-XP's in a SMP board.
You should use AMD's MP chips. Unfortunately these don't go as fast as the XP
chips (as in, XP's go up to 3000 and MP's go upto 2400 or something), and the
board support is also a limiting factor.
I built 5
Hi,
Krikket wrote:
Now, given the comments about copying the kernel over and not remembering
doing that (which seems to be confirmed by the lack of it's presence) I
went over the directions in the install manual again for that part of the
load.
I see it as part of the instructions if you manually
Ville Leskinen wrote:
Also be sure to submit it to bugzilla so it might be in official portage some
day:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml
Of course, it would make sense to look in the bugzilla before you even write
the ebuild (or install it by hand) - a lot of the time, some other
Hi,
I think you mean 2004.0 (2004.1 is expected in March/April I think).
Stages are online here:
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/
There are no LiveCD's yet, as far as I know.
Daniel
Jason Calabrese wrote:
Hi all,
Have packages been built for 2004.01 yet? Is there an iso
Hi,
LoneStar wrote:
!!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
our recorded digest: 53e9acbf1afde9e77c8c044133523036
your file's digest: 1d34348e805715559fcd0d978272f031
!!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//arts-1.1.5.tar.bz2
Known bug, fixed earlier.
emerge sync
Redeeman wrote:
realtek 8139 is talked bad about, by alot ppl, but mine works perfect!
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 19:42, Jaime Diaz wrote:
I use realtek's in my PC's, but be warned. Over 2 years, I've had 5 fail (over
3 PC's)! They just die, and then the system wont power on again with them
development-sources are the raw 2.6 kernel sources from kernel.org
gentoo-dev-sources are the 2.6 sources plus some other patches applied
my guess is that one day, gentoo-dev-sources will become gentoo-sources, and
development-sources will become vanilla-sources.
Daniel
Aaron Walker wrote:
I
Richard Revis wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
AGP]
(So VIA82Cxxx chipset driver?)
No, the line you pasted refers to your PCI controller. We are interested in
your IDE controller.
Please post the entire lspci output.
Alan wrote:
Funnily enough, add -X into your list of use flags for this. However,
php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font
processing.
USE=-X -qt *should* be enough here.
Daniel
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Richard Revis wrote:
Are you using 80-conductor or 40-conductor IDE cables?
Not sure.
Doesn't really matter, if it works on 1 kernel it should work on the other.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus
emerge xfs
rc-update add xfs default
Add FontPath unix/:7100 to the Files section of your
XFconfig file.
Add font dirs to /etc/X11/fs/config
then reboot, or:
/etc/init.d/xfs start
restart X
I tried this configuration, and when starting X, it says:
Could not init font path
Hi,
I'm not sure about how successful Gentoo would be installed on a low spec
system, but as for your visibility problem, you could try booting with the
nofb kernel (from the grub prompt), or using the monitors inbuilt controls
to move the image up so that you can see the bottom.
Daniel
Jose
Google's cache contains a copy of the older version from dec 10 (but probably
not for long, as it will update).
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:gRaa4SarfikJ:www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml+hl=enie=UTF-8
Daniel
Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Hrm.. the virtual mailhosting system guide
Barry Marler wrote:
Likewise the problem, likewise flux.
They've fixed it :)
http://www.fluxbox.org/version-0.9.php
From 0.9.7 changelog:
Fixed mozilla focus issue
Daniel.
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I was curious about this the other day.
From http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/ :
Hardened Stages: Complete x86 Gentoo Linux installation stages, enhanced with
transparent Propolice Stack Smashing Protection, and transparent etdyn support
to take full advantage when used with PaX/Address
I'm assuming you are running the 0.1 series of fluxbox?
I'd strongly suggest that you try the latest beta version (0.9.6) - its in
portage and there arent many bugs left. There are many many improvements over
the 0.1 series.
Steve B. wrote:
1. When I tell a window not to tab the setting is not
Great. Just tried to emerge it, and I get compile errors :(
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37186
Daniel
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
You're behind the times... 0.9.7 is out as of yesterday :) Looking to
get that marked stable on x86 and sparc asap, 'cos it really is so much
better than the
Hi,
I think this was introduced in a recent portage update. Its normal - I'm
seeing it on my PC's.
Daniel.
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
Over the last week or two I've noticed that sometimes when I do an
emerge sync I'm getting one file from a different server first. After
this file comes in I get
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday,
and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this
address is only used for receiving list mail, so anything that isn't to
any of the lists is crap per se. But it's
As I said earlier, this is not so much of a problem, as it is an
annoyance. The real problem is of course that this list is the source
for email adresses.
What about setting up some honey pots?
The list admin could for instance send some kind of email with unique
from field, and see what addresses
Hi,
It's already in portage.
The default ebuild (k3b-5) will download the source from CVS and compile it -
that will get you the very latest source as written by the developers.
If you specifically want 0.10 :
emerge /usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/k3b-0.10.ebuild
However, it looks like 0.10.3-r2 is
Michael Balamuth wrote:
I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo
versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal
of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be
accomplished on a running system by setting new USE
+0100] CloseClient() 5
D [02/Jan/2004:10:12:52 +0100] CloseClient() 6
D [02/Jan/2004:10:12:52 +0100] CloseClient() 8
- Original Message -
From: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user
Hi,
Sounds like you haven't correctly compiled in support for your IDE controller
into the kernel.
You can use lspci (from the pciutils package) to find out which IDE
controller you have, and then you should compile support for that into the
kernel (in 2.6 menuconfig: Device Drivers ---
Hi,
Try catching the output of this:
ifconfig eth0 | grep inet addr | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d -f 1
Daniel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm using DHCP for getting a IP address is there a file where the IP-address is
stored ?
I need to write a script that needs to know the IPaddress.
I know
Hi,
GLIS is probably the closest that you will get, currently.
http://glis.sourceforge.net/
You might also try asking for help when you get lost :)
Daniel.
Mac Intyre, Steven wrote:
Hi all,
Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to
Mandrake.
I have tried to install
I [01/Jan/2004:16:47:05 +0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug to find
out more.
You should do that for a start. The setting is found in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Reload cups, print again, and examine the logs again.
Daniel
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Hi,
You can often find newer versions of packages in portage, masked.
# emerge -p R sane-backends
[ebuild N] dev-lang/R-1.6.1
[ebuild N] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.12-r2
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p sane-backends R
[ebuild N] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.13-r2
[ebuild N]
Simple:
ebuild /path/to/your/ebuild digest
Daniel.
Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
I tried to make my own ebuild for the newest ATI drivers. I noticed that,
among others, I had to provide an MD5 checksum for the downloaded file. How
can I create this?
Thanks!
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