[gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird
Hi, I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this becomes unmanageable... Any pointers welcome, Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - imap and thunderbird
Antoine wrote: Hi, I can't work out how to tell thunderbird to look in all of the folders on an imap server (for a single account) and retrieve at least the fact that there is a new message. It is rather annoying that one has to click on the folder for it to check - with 20+ folders this becomes unmanageable... Right-click on each folder, select Properties, check Check this folder for new message, and click OK. -- Andrew Gaffneyhttp://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I going to maintain a Gentoo server in another country, normal i'm going to connect with the internet, but if something is wrong i'm thinking to connect a modem to the machine. What do i need of software so i can connect with a another machine to this machine over a telephone line? The machine has no X installed. TIA Patrick Just connect a modems to serial ports on both sides and start one of getty proceses (agetty, mgetty ... the last is recommended) on server. To do that, put something like this to /etc/inittab: m1:12345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -x1 -n1 ttyS0 next notify init process about changes: # init q On client side start minicom, setup modem and dial servers number (using AT-commands). If everything done properly, u see login prompt on the screen. In next u can set up PPP demons, so u can do everythink in the same way as via internet. HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I have found this howto Linux dialin server setup guide that i'm installing now: http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers-1.html -- This is Unix-Land. In quiet nights, you can hear the Windows machines reboot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: I installed kudzu-knoppix some time back (I can't remember why). With the issues yesterday re: revdep-rebuild, r-r wanted to update kudzu-knoppix. Well, kudzu-knoppix failed to build because of issues with the linux headers. Rather than trying to resolve the problem and since I really didn't need kudzu-knoppix anymore, I cleared it out using emerge -C kudzu-knoppix. A quick check of the world file indicates it was removed. Today, however, an emerge --pretend --update --deep world results in: Try emerge -uDtpv world and show us the output. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package...
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:49 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When emerge -C package doesn't really remove the package... On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: I installed kudzu-knoppix some time back (I can't remember why). With the issues yesterday re: revdep-rebuild, r-r wanted to update kudzu-knoppix. Well, kudzu-knoppix failed to build because of issues with the linux headers. Rather than trying to resolve the problem and since I really didn't need kudzu-knoppix anymore, I cleared it out using emerge -C kudzu-knoppix. A quick check of the world file indicates it was removed. Today, however, an emerge --pretend --update --deep world results in: Try emerge -uDtpv world and show us the output. butthead ~ # emerge -uDtpv world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] x11-misc/mkxf86config-0.9 -livecd [nomerge ] sys-apps/hwsetup-1.0-r2 [ebuild N] sys-apps/kudzu-knoppix-1.1.36-r2 -livecd -minimal +nls +python 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB butthead ~ # Hmm, this output makes me think that there apparently are dependencies on kudzu-knoppix... Also makes me remember why kudzu-knoppix was installed... When trying to get X up and running I was using mkxf86config to generate the X config file. Removing those packages resulted in the removal of the previous need to install kudzu-knoppix. Shouldn't equery have identified kudzu-knoppix as a dependency for hwsetup? How then are dependencies determined by equery? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging man-1.6
Christian Herzyk schreef: Replying to my own mail: I just found the solution on the forums (the idiot at this keyboard only searched google and not the forums). The solution can be found here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354675-highlight-man1+6.html For the information of anyone who might need to know-- it's fixed already. I just now synced and emerged it (in a -uaDtv world), and man-1.6 downloaded (I had deleted the previous tarball in /usr/portage/distfiles), extracted and emerged without a single problem (without changing my MAKEOPTS or anything of that nature, or of any nature, to be honest. It Just Worked). I *love* the Gentoo Dev team! You guys are the *best*! Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa stops working after 'emerge -uD world'
* Emanuele Morozzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have esperienced your problem; in my case it was caused by the lack of a var, and that that caused the mixer not to load the previously saved settings. 1. Specifically in /etc/conf.d/alsasound I had to add this lines RESTORE_ON_START=yes SAVE_ON_STOP=yes that referes to the mixer setup saving and restoring. 2. In make.conf see if the var ALSA_CARDS=ens1371 3. Be sure the correct module is loaded; use the alsa daemon or put the module in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 using cat snd-ens1371 /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (alsa daemon is preferred by me because it saves at 'stop' and restores at 'start') the mixer level. Emanuele Many thanks for the tips. I took a look and ALSA_CARDS=ens1371 is in make.conf, and the two lines you mentioned are also in /etc/conf.d/alsasound. I am curious about number three. What exactly is the alsa daemon? Is that what is invoked by alsaconf? I do agree that the saving at stop which my system always did is nice and I hesitated going the modules.autoload.d method for that reason. Fortunately things do seem to be moving better now that I have copied back the old alsasound init.d script. The new one was empty which really fouled things up apparently. Thanks again, Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - imap and thunderbird
Remy Blank wrote: This mostly does it. However, I found that Thunderbird still sometimes misses new messages in subfolders, and only finds them when you click on it. I'm not sure if this is a Thunderbird or a courier-imap problem, though... Could be both... From /etc/courier-imap/imapd ##NAME: IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS:0 # # Set IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS to 1 if you want the server to check for new # mail in every folder. Not all IMAP clients use the IMAP's new mail # indicator, but some do. Normally new mail is checked only in INBOX, # because it is a comparatively time consuming operation, and it would be # a complete waste of time unless mail filters are used to deliver # mail directly to folders. # # When IMAP clients are used which support new mail indication, and when # mail filters are used to sort incoming mail into folders, setting # IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS to 1 will allow IMAP clients to announce new # mail in folders. Note that this will result in slightly more load on the # server. # IMAP_CHECK_ALL_FOLDERS=1 /Naga -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging man-1.6
I'm was seeing this too, from a emerge --sync I did yesterday. I tried emerge --sync just now and then emerge man and everything went OK, still version 1.6. /djb Christian Herzyk wrote: Hello, emerge -u world wants to upgrade man to version 1.6. I get the following errors: Created Makefile and conf_script. Now do make and make install. cd src; ../conf_script Makefile cd man2html; ../conf_script Makefile Creating Makefile from Makefile.in Creating Makefile from Makefile.in cd man; ../conf_script Makefile cd gencat; make Creating Makefile from Makefile.in make[1]: Entering directory `/data/portage/tmp/portage/man-1.6/work/man-1.6/genc at' i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -c -o gencat.o gencat.c cd msgs; ../conf_script Makefile Creating Makefile from Makefile.in cd src; make make[1]: Entering directory `/data/portage/tmp/portage/man-1.6/work/man-1.6/src' gcc -o makemsg makemsg.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -c -o genlib.o genlib.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -march=a thlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I. -DSTDC_HEADERS -DPOS IX -DDO_COMPRESS manfile.c In file included from manfile.c:15: gripes.h:1:23: gripedefs.h: No such file or directory manfile.c: In function `glob_for_file_ext_glob': manfile.c:87: error: `CALLTRACE3' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c:87: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once manfile.c:87: error: for each function it appears in.) manfile.c:115: error: `ABOUT_TO_GLOB' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c: In function `glob_for_file': manfile.c:152: error: `CALLTRACE2' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c:183: error: `NO_MATCH' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c:187: error: `GLOB_FOR_FILE' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c: In function `manfile_from_sec_and_dir': manfile.c:209: error: `CALLTRACE1' undeclared (first use in this function) manfile.c:230: error: `FOUND_FILE' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [manfile.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/portage/tmp/portage/man-1.6/work/man-1.6/src' make: *** [source] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-z,now -o gencat gencat.o genlib.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/portage/tmp/portage/man-1.6/work/man-1.6/genca t' !!! ERROR: sys-apps/man-1.6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 57, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Any ideas what could be the problem? Thanks Christian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mailman group id
Eric S. Johansson wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml says: # nano -w /usr/portage/net-mail/mailman/mailman-$ver.ebuild MAILGID=280 (Set MAILGID to the mailman group instead of nobody This is needed for postfix integration.) and building fails with !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.6_rc4.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size If you have modified the ebuild, the digests need rebuilding, which you tried but (theres always a but) so I thought I would try to rebuild the digest (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) and I get: tbtf-xeno mailman # ebuild digest mailman-2.1.6_rc4.ebuild !!! Name error in : missing a version or name part. !!! Error: PF is null ''; exiting. try this instead ebuild mailman-2.1.6_rc4.ebuild digest suggestions please? -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] source release target release
Hi, Is there a good solution to this issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-336926-highlight-ant.html?sid=13c87663527168f3871ce928f26ec868 I've been wrestling with it for a bit now. I've tried a few of the bits of advice, but generally have just ended up working around the issue. -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, James wrote: I'm the only admin. I found the behavior with a gentoo system, a debian system and any number of different embedded targets all isolated on a flat hub. No DNS, auth, or other fancy stuff going on. Dirt simple class C (/24) network. That doesn't mean that the telnetd will not *try* and do a reverse DNS or ident lookup though does it? Yep this is the approach, but it'll take some time. I was hoping for 'short circuit analysis' i.e. surely somebody knows the schema of telnet's implementation on gentoo? Surely there is an easy way to install some very old, simple telnet code on the portable, alias it to another name, like simpletelnet, and let me get on with work, so as to avoid, playing code_detective on what paranoid security minds have done to telnet on gentoo. Use the Source, Luke. -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bugday reminder
Hi all! Next Bugday is saturday July 2. 2005. As usual it will be held in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net. I hope to see lots of participants and that we can solve lots of bugs as usual :) Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo L 80 Boot Error
I agree, early genkernels did a good job, then it just started causing too much grief. When faultfinding things like driver problems, boot problems or almost anything kernel, dumping genkernel is a good first step. I suppose they might have fixed it by now, but the problems it caused me means I am in no hurry to try it again. BillK On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:47 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:06:14 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Its been said before: many of us dont use genkernel because of various problems... Problems with genkernel? Works fine for me ;-). I haven't use lilo in ages though. It does cause a lot of problems though. We it works right, you just accept it without knowing why it's working right. When it goes wrong, you usually don't know why it has gone wrong. genkernel originally simplified kernel building, up to around version 1.6, but later versions made a seemingly complicated but actually quite simple task into a seeming simple but actually complicated task. -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:09 -0500, LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to set my framebuffer so at boot time i get 1024x768 i am not using a splash screen just want the terminal at 1024x768, i have read the tutorial and compiled in all the components i need but jsut cant get it to work my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That is all on one line right? firstly, try a lower resolution, like 800x600-24 just to see. title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x318 secondly, you cant mix video= and vga= thirdly, what errors (if any) did you get? don't forget this step - you might find people don't answer without it! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
I, humbly, must disagree. ATI's drivers have been far behind. The Radeon drivers, rather than the fglrx ones, fall short on many fronts. The ATI fglrx drivers, have been behind since I got this card. You still can't run composite and dri together. Buying an ATI card for a Linux box is not a good decision. Go with nVidia, at least their drivers work. I've thought of buying an nVidia card for this notebook for months because, frankly, ATI hasn't been taking care of the matter, and won't in the forseeable future. Justin On 6/29/05, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Jueves 30 Junio 2005 00:20, XXOmega21XX escribió: --- Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: hello ppl i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300 based How are the drivers for this graphic card?? Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to play games. just the aplications commonly used. What about video out?? does it work?? the instalation is smooth or not?? share your experiences please, help me decide For Desktop Use you´ll be perfectly happy with Xorg radeon drivers. They work perfectly here on an Inspiron 8600 (Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo, which is the same chip with a lower frequency AFAIK). You´ll get: Video-Out support (Including Clone, Xinerama and ext. only), Dynamic Clock frequency, Working Hibernate/Suspend to Ram (With hibernate-script and vbetool). Basically everything works except DRI and TV-Out. (Which work with the ATI-Drivers). Feel free to contact me if you run into troubles. I´ll happily share my xorg.conf. Benny -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi. I have a similar question. My Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A70) does have SVideo Out, and I really need that to work. I saw on the ATI site that their propriatary Linux drivers were not for notebooks. Is that true, and is there an extra package (open source) I could emerge for Open Source support on SVideo? For the record, its an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. Thanks!!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Well, I do own a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO with ATI RADEON 9700 and IT DOES WORK PERFECTLY with ati-drivers, so I think that it works with laptops... Bye. -- You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now. - Linus Torvalds Gentoo GNU/Linux. -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: telnet into embedded devices
Which telnet package - theres a couple emerge telnet -s qpkg -l net-misc/netkit-telnetd will give the file locations for the netkit package What are the results of telnet gentoo to debian-box, telnet gentoo-localhost? BillK On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:56 -0500, Paul Varner wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 14:42 +, James wrote: Nope, It's an embedded device on a flat hub with a Gentoo and Debian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:31 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: On 6/29/05, anthony hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any tips on getting XdirectFB working on gentoo 2005? There's also a lengthy post in the forums about it: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-34174-highlight-xdirectfb.html One post mentions that this might be a gcc-3.4 issue. Have you tried emerging it using 3.3? HTH, Matt Thanks for the link, I have been through all the forums and what feels like most of the rest of the web looking for a solution. I have tried emerging it with gcc 3.2.3.3.3.4 - none work. If someone can point me to a good tutorial on unpacking / fixing / repacking an ebuild etc I might have a go at fixing the package. C is not my thing but I might end up having a go. I need XDirectFB to work. Either that or I'll just get the Xorg source and patch it with the latest XDirectFB cvs and make install that forget about using ebuilds for either - but I'd prefer to have a fixed ebuild. Thanks for the response. Anthony. -- Mr Anthony Hornby RHCE BIT ALIATEC Library Systems Technology Coordinator Charles Darwin University | CRICOS 300K [EMAIL PROTECTED] | office +61 8 89 466011 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdirectfb on 2005 - no binary after compilation - any tips to get xdirectfb working
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:49 +0900, Steve B wrote: On 6/29/05, anthony hornby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Matrox G550 dual head graphics card and I want to have DirectFB running on one head for VDR output http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ using softdevice, and the other head running XDirectFB so I have a local graphical desktop. The latest ebuild for xdirectfb is broken the compile runs but produces no binary - seems to be related to some broken macros - see bug report below http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76167 Anyone have any tips on getting XdirectFB working on gentoo 2005? I have DriectFB and VDR all working now - just need XDirectFB to be working and its all done. Thanks a lot. Anthony. I have searched for a long time for a solution to this. I would recommended to build it yourself (althought that has never worked for me either) it might help you. But the question has been asked by a lot of people for a long time, and no solutions or comments have been suggested. Perhaps there is regex somewhere deep within Gentoo that has XDirectFB piped to /dev/null (terrible joke.. but hey its late and i'm tired). Anyways if you do find a solution and get XDirectFB built.. share the knowledge ;P I'm thinking I might have a go at fixing this - it is sufficiently annoying to warrant further investigation. If I come up with a fix I'll post it here and submit it back to the gentoo bugs page. Thanks for the help. Anthony. -- Mr Anthony Hornby RHCE BIT ALIATEC Library Systems Technology Coordinator Charles Darwin University | CRICOS 300K [EMAIL PROTECTED] | office +61 8 89 466011 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
Well, I cannot turn on composite extension. Right. I'm sure that very early ATI will improve linux's graphical drivers, as they're doing right now. They're developing better drivers, so there's no reason about thinking that composite won't be enabled for ATI graphics card. Well, I liked TOO MUCH this laptop specifications and it was INCREDIBLY CHEAP, and a 128mb graphics card for a laptop is a HUGE graphics card... so I couldn't resist... I see that from time to time, ati is improving ati drivers. Bye. El Viernes 01 Julio 2005 01:49, Justin Hart escribió: I, humbly, must disagree. ATI's drivers have been far behind. The Radeon drivers, rather than the fglrx ones, fall short on many fronts. The ATI fglrx drivers, have been behind since I got this card. You still can't run composite and dri together. Buying an ATI card for a Linux box is not a good decision. Go with nVidia, at least their drivers work. I've thought of buying an nVidia card for this notebook for months because, frankly, ATI hasn't been taking care of the matter, and won't in the forseeable future. Justin On 6/29/05, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Jueves 30 Junio 2005 00:20, XXOmega21XX escribió: --- Benjamin Fritzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: hello ppl i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb graphic card. R300 based How are the drivers for this graphic card?? Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to play games. just the aplications commonly used. What about video out?? does it work?? the instalation is smooth or not?? share your experiences please, help me decide For Desktop Use you´ll be perfectly happy with Xorg radeon drivers. They work perfectly here on an Inspiron 8600 (Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo, which is the same chip with a lower frequency AFAIK). You´ll get: Video-Out support (Including Clone, Xinerama and ext. only), Dynamic Clock frequency, Working Hibernate/Suspend to Ram (With hibernate-script and vbetool). Basically everything works except DRI and TV-Out. (Which work with the ATI-Drivers). Feel free to contact me if you run into troubles. I´ll happily share my xorg.conf. Benny -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi. I have a similar question. My Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A70) does have SVideo Out, and I really need that to work. I saw on the ATI site that their propriatary Linux drivers were not for notebooks. Is that true, and is there an extra package (open source) I could emerge for Open Source support on SVideo? For the record, its an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. Thanks!!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Well, I do own a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO with ATI RADEON 9700 and IT DOES WORK PERFECTLY with ati-drivers, so I think that it works with laptops... Bye. -- You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now. - Linus Torvalds Gentoo GNU/Linux. -- Justin W. Hart -- You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now. - Linus Torvalds Gentoo GNU/Linux. pgpGRGrWaXetu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel. That's what I did. Graphics support: [*] Support for frame buffer devices * VESA VGA graphics support VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) --- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA default mode Then my grub is simply: timeout 30 default 0 title Gentoo Latest root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 HTH, Roy Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:09 -0500, LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to set my framebuffer so at boot time i get 1024x768 i am not using a splash screen just want the terminal at 1024x768, i have read the tutorial and compiled in all the components i need but jsut cant get it to work my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
I guess Roy's solution would be the best for you since you dont plan on using any splash screen or graphic candy, it would put your console to 1024x768 and you wouldn't have to worry about anything. (be careful if your monitor supports the resolution and specially the refresh rate). On 6/30/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel. That's what I did. Graphics support: [*] Support for frame buffer devices * VESA VGA graphics support VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) --- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA default mode Then my grub is simply: timeout 30 default 0 title Gentoo Latest root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 HTH, Roy Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:09 -0500, LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to set my framebuffer so at boot time i get 1024x768 i am not using a splash screen just want the terminal at 1024x768, i have read the tutorial and compiled in all the components i need but jsut cant get it to work my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New list member installing gentoo
(this question may seem n00b)
I noticed you have a /livecd shell string, so, did you chroot
correctly? Because I guess when you change the root system this shell
changes (but it was quite a long time since I installed my stage1, so,
I may be wrong).
On 6/30/05, Jason Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list members.
I just joined the list and am looking forward to participating and
learning. I am in the process of installing Gentoo and have run into a
problem that will not go away. I have researched it in the Gentoo forums,
but have not found a definite solution to the problem. I hope that I am
not missing anything because I realize how frustrating it can be to deal
with recurring questions.
I am running an AMD k6-2 500 MHZ processor on a FIC VA-503+ motherboard.
Initially, I had only 128MB of RAM and was installing the 2005.0 release
of Gentoo following instructions from the verbose handbook. I opted to go
with a stage 1 tarball and was doing fine until the bootstrap process. My
computer chugged away for quite some time and suddenly gave up. Above the
four lines of `!!!' messages, I saw a message indicating that the error
was not software based and was most likely a hardware/OS problem. I went
to the Gentoo forums and tried looking this up and found several different
posts. Unfortunately, I didn't find the forum interface very easy to
navigate, but my search yielded an interesting document:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html
Which gives instructions for performing a stage 1 install using a stage 3
tarball. I thought, somehow, that since this came up as part of my search
results, I would try this. Furthermore, the reasoning behind it made
sense to me and it sounded like a challenge (I can't resist a good
challenge). However, I am still encountering an error at the point where
I am at section 7.1 Building the Toolkit: GCC 3.3.5 in the document I
referenced above. I have determined that the error occurs quite a ways
into the glibc portion of the `emerge gcc-config glibc binutils gcc' by
running each command separately.
I investigated further and saw messages from others having similar
problems. Another possible reason for the error is that the system runs
out of memory. However, I have upgraded to 512MB of memory and am still
experiencing the problem. I do have swap space allocated and see it
available when I type `free' but it doesn't seem to be used. I checked
regularly during the emerge process and it was either not used at all or
used very little.
Here is the last screen at which the error occurs. Unfortunately, I am
not able to scroll back any further due to the limitations of speakup (I
am a blind Linux user and use speakup to get text from the screen spoken).
_
e754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include -isystem /usr/include
-D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h -DNOT_IN_libc=1
-DIS_IN_librt=1-DBROKEN_THREAD_SIGNALS -o
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og
-MD -MP -MF
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og.dt
-MT
/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[2]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/lio_listio64.og]
Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4/rt'
make[1]: *** [rt/others] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/glibc-2.3.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 failed.
!!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_compile, Line 237, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
message.
livecd / #
_
Again, this is generally the same error I got when bootstrapping.
Here is a copy of my make.conf:
_
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
# x86 refers to the stable software branch
# ~x86 refers to the testing software branch
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo L 80 Boot Error
Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've used genkernel for a good time now and I'm happy with it, switch from regular kernel and never had problems, in fact I recommend it. LILO, well, this is a problematic one, sincerely, since its earlier versions I always had trouble with it. I'm also a happy genkernel user. I use the initrd for two things: 1) Load usb modules to boot a usb-storage device. 2) Populate a tmpfs/unionfs root fs for a livecd or diskless node. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions
Check that looked over by grub.conf and i had the wrong bzImage in there sorry to disturb you. On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 20:42 -0500, LostSon wrote: I have done everything you have suggested and still nothing On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 21:54 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I guess Roy's solution would be the best for you since you dont plan on using any splash screen or graphic candy, it would put your console to 1024x768 and you wouldn't have to worry about anything. (be careful if your monitor supports the resolution and specially the refresh rate). On 6/30/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is to just compile the framebuffer into the kernel. That's what I did. Graphics support: [*] Support for frame buffer devices * VESA VGA graphics support VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) --- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) VESA default mode Then my grub is simply: timeout 30 default 0 title Gentoo Latest root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 HTH, Roy Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:09 -0500, LostSon wrote: Hello I am trying to set my framebuffer so at boot time i get 1024x768 i am not using a splash screen just want the terminal at 1024x768, i have read the tutorial and compiled in all the components i need but jsut cant get it to work my grub.conf looks like this title=Gentoo-2.6.11-r11-boot-1024 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new3 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org Public Key http://www.lostsonsvault.org/dls/lostson.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New list member installing gentoo
El Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Jason Castonguay me dec�a: Hello list members. Hello Jason, and welcome. I saw a message indicating that the error was not software based and was most likely a hardware/OS problem. Did you checked your hardware after viewing that error message? Back in february, when i began with gentoo, it took three days of trials to get a gentoo installation up and running. I did not have a hardware error message, but was glibc that continuously failed compilation. So i get my knoppix live CD y let the computer test the memory all night long. The next day i have to go shopping (changing in fact) memory in good shape. To make it short: test your RAM. I went to the Gentoo forums and tried looking this up and found several different posts. Unfortunately, I didn't find the forum interface very easy to navigate, but my search yielded an interesting document: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html I think this has nothing to do with your problem, given the information we have from you, besides check the warning at the top of the howto, i quote it for you: WARNING: This is an ADVANCED installation method. The amount of time required for you to complete this type of installation will equal or exceed that of any other Gentoo installation method. Your time will be well invested, though, as the result will be a very stable Gentoo system. This installation method may prove to be somewhat difficult and cumbersome for users who are new to Gentoo. It will prove especially painful for users who plan to install Gentoo old hardware. If you are new to gentoo i suggest you try the more general methods before. From what i've read in that link, when you become an average gentoo user, it will still be a challenge ;) So don't get complicated from the beginning. -- Fernando Canizo - LUGMen: www.lugmen.org.ar - A8N: a8n.lugmen.org.ar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gimp 2.2.8 - autoclean trackback failure.
Kurt Guenther wrote: Gimp 2.2.8 compiled fine, but then the autoclean section dies (below). I've searched through bugs, forums, and this mail list archives with no hits. Any ideas? --Kurt --- !found obj /usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.7-r1/ChangeLog.pre-2-0.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3206, in ? unmerge(clean, [world]) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2251, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in [clean,prune]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 2901, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 6187, in unmerge mymd5=portage_checksum.perform_md5(obj, calc_prelink=1) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py, line 25, in perform_md5 return perform_checksum(x, md5hash, calc_prelink)[0] File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py, line 128, in perform_checksum myhash, mysize = hash_function(myfilename) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py, lin --- !found obj /usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.7-r1/ChangeLog.pre-2-0.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 3206, in ? unmerge(clean, [world]) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2251, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in [clean,prune]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 2901, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 6187, in unmerge mymd5=portage_checksum.perform_md5(obj, calc_prelink=1) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py, line 25, in perform_md5 return perform_checksum(x, md5hash, calc_prelink)[0] File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py, line 128, in perform_checksum myhash, mysize = hash_function(myfilename) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksue 82, in md5hash data = f.read(blocksize) IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error It looks like your are getting an Input/output error trying to checksusum /usr/share/doc/gimp-2.2.7-r1/ChangeLog.pre-2-0.gz from the old version. Maybe the disk is going bad? Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: New list member installing gentoo
Jason Castonguay wrote: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. make[2]: *** Are you finding the bug to be repeatable? Did you try it again? Do you get this error every time? I ask, because once I got an odd error like this when bootstrapping on a 486. When I tried it again, everthing worked without fail. ...FWIW. -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New list member installing gentoo
Hi Gabriel. Yes, I seem to be able to repeat the problem exactly the same without fail simply by issuing the command over and over. Also, even if I clean the disk and start over from scratch it does this. Always at that line 237, too. I'm trying something new going on what I heard either from this list or a forum -- I can't remember. I'm changing my MAKEOPTS from -j2 to -j1. We'll see. Best regards, -- Let music echo the thoughts of your soul. -- Jason Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jcast/.signature: pom: command not found On Jun 30, 2005 22:39 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Jason Castonguay wrote: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/work/build-default-i586-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt/aio_notify.og The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. make[2]: *** Are you finding the bug to be repeatable? Did you try it again? Do you get this error every time? I ask, because once I got an odd error like this when bootstrapping on a 486. When I tried it again, everthing worked without fail. ...FWIW. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New list member installing gentoo
Hi Fernando. Thanks for responding. I can't say that I CHECKED my hardware because I thought that it might be referring to the lack of memory as being the actual problem. So I went out and bought some brand new Centon DIMMs. The computer sees them fine, but perhaps I should test them. I do know that, as the compilation is going on, I can see the memory running out as I continue to monitor. It ends up using all of it for some strange reason (all 512MB just about). The same thing was happening with my 128MB, though I think things were quitting much sooner. Now, it'll chuug away at glibc for about 3.5 hours or so. Before, it was just an hour or less. Very strange. And yes, you're right. The disclaimer on that article says it is not for beginners, but I got caught up in the coolness of the idea and thought I'd take the plunge. Perhaps I should stick to the installation handbook, though I did experience the same problem with the bootstrap procedure. I haven't tried the bootstrap since the new memory was installed. I'm guessing it'll still do the same thing, but who knows? Chat soon! Best regards, -- Let music echo the thoughts of your soul. -- Jason Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 30, 2005 23:03 -0300, Fernando Canizo wrote: El Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Jason Castonguay me decía: Hello list members. Hello Jason, and welcome. I saw a message indicating that the error was not software based and was most likely a hardware/OS problem. Did you checked your hardware after viewing that error message? Back in february, when i began with gentoo, it took three days of trials to get a gentoo installation up and running. I did not have a hardware error message, but was glibc that continuously failed compilation. So i get my knoppix live CD y let the computer test the memory all night long. The next day i have to go shopping (changing in fact) memory in good shape. To make it short: test your RAM. I went to the Gentoo forums and tried looking this up and found several different posts. Unfortunately, I didn't find the forum interface very easy to navigate, but my search yielded an interesting document: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html I think this has nothing to do with your problem, given the information we have from you, besides check the warning at the top of the howto, i quote it for you: WARNING: This is an ADVANCED installation method. The amount of time required for you to complete this type of installation will equal or exceed that of any other Gentoo installation method. Your time will be well invested, though, as the result will be a very stable Gentoo system. This installation method may prove to be somewhat difficult and cumbersome for users who are new to Gentoo. It will prove especially painful for users who plan to install Gentoo old hardware. If you are new to gentoo i suggest you try the more general methods before. From what i've read in that link, when you become an average gentoo user, it will still be a challenge ;) So don't get complicated from the beginning. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mailman group id
Tim Igoe wrote: try this instead ebuild mailman-2.1.6_rc4.ebuild digest thank you that helped. Now I am fighting problems that are my own dammed fault. ---eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines competition is that prices and service suck. We're the world's leader in Internet technology - except that we're not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver
Rafael Fernández López wrote: Well, I cannot turn on composite extension. Right. I'm sure that very early ATI will improve linux's graphical drivers, as they're doing right now. They're developing better drivers, so there's no reason about thinking that composite won't be enabled for ATI graphics card. I would not count on ATI improving their drivers. If they work for you, great, but there are known issues, such as no software suspend support, that have existed for more than one year (and I think closer to 2 years), and are listed in the notes for each release. And it isn't like suspend support is something new or difficultalmost every single open source driver for *any* hardware supports supports it. Another example was their crappy configuration script, that also needed fixing for over a year. (I think this just got upgraded...I'm not sure) Another example is it took them over 6 months to support x.org after it's initial release. My point is they seem to be mostly concerned about adding support for the latest-and-greatest graphics cards, without fixing the existing problems and deficiencies. And supporting new standards in X or the kernel are never done on a reasonable schedule. NVidia does a *little* better, but they still have issues with suspend as well. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
