Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: finally I've got to optimum (in my opinion) combination: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose You should also change real_root= to just root=. But I've got new problem - for some reason KDE (3.4.1) now hangs after login doing initialize peripherals or something like that... and it happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going on I should be aware of? Have not seen this. Might be related to DBUS or HAL support though. Do you get anything odd in ~/.xsession-errors? FYI, some scary looking messages in that file are completely normal! Also, on this list it is the standard to reply only to the list, and not to CC someone privately, unless specifically requested to do so. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
On 2005-07-13 23:29:56 + (Wed, Jul), aabb wrote: I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 Yet hda1 mounts with no problems, whereas hda5 doesn't. If I execute mount /mnt/win_d I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems I tried various combinations (such as mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d) and always get the same error. The only differences between the 2 partitions that I can think of are: Check any messages in dmesg output and your syslog file (/var/log/messages or /var/log/everything/current) after you try to mount /dev/hda5. Usually the winner is the lack of necessary encoding in kernel: File Systems - Native Language Support - ... I assume that /dev/hda5 _HAS_ proper FAT filesystem on it.. ;-) HTH -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me. pgp0rm0SW0ZXJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:03 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going on I should be aware of? I've had this too. After switching over to 2.6.12 kernels, fbsplash doesn't work anymore and I don't even get my Tux on bootup :-( -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:12:35 up 1 day, 1:37, 5 users, load average: 1.13, 0.83, 0.78 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash
Zac Medico wrote: That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking forward to the howto ;-). Well, I don't use busybox. The main problem using an initrd with loop-AES is that the memory used by the initrd can never be freed (I think it can be swapped out though), and thus the reason you want to use something small like busybox/dietlibc/klibc. In my case, to make my initrd small, I ended up using /bin and /lib directories on the /boot partition to contain the majority of the programs needed by the /linuxrc script. But with an initramfs, you don't care as much about the memory problem, because almost every byte of that can be reclaimed simply by rm -rf'ing all of the files in the initramfs once you have the root filesystem mounted and you have pivoted to it. Thus the reason I don't use busybox...having a 10MB uncompressed initramfs is not a problem. I can have bash, glibc, and a bunch of other regular utilities available before the root is mounted, and when I am done with them, I simply delete the files and umount -n -l the initramfs. Oh, and it works either way, but I have a slight preference for compiling the cpio into the kernel. It keeps the init environment and the kernel inexorably linked, and also lets me dump all ramdisk support from my kernel config. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
aabb wrote:
Thanks for all replies so far.
What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda?
Output from fdisk -l /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1179414410273+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda217951800 48195 83 Linux
/dev/hda31801 19457 141829852+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda51801420019277968+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda64201710023294218+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda771017190 722893+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda87191 1945798534646 83 Linux
Maybe it isn't really a FAT32 filesystem?
Could you try something like: strings /dev/hda5 | less
With a FAT32 filesystem, I get:
mkdosfs
BRJF_KEYFAT32
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
RRaA
rrAa{
mkdosfs
BRJF_KEYFAT32
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
list of short filenames on system...
Obviously I formatted the above with mkdosfs, but you can see the label
(RJF_KEY) and type as well.
By comparison, on NTFS, I get:
374 t+a`j
454 Invalid partition table
504 Error loading operating system
543 Missing operating system
0077003 NTFS
...
HTH
-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems
Iain Buchanan wrote: -install: applet not found /init: 41: In: not found /init: 45: cat: not found /init: 150: sed: not found Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration: From another thread on this list less than 12 hours old: Zac Medico wrote: It's not as bad as it looks. I had the same problem. You simply need to enable CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER in the busybox config. Then you can do busybox --install and it automatically creates hardlinks for all the enabled applets. Zac HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del
I noticed that in the windows version of tightvnc, there is an option to send ctrl-alt-del to window boxes. In the linux version, there is not such capability. Or am I wrong? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:02:56 up 1 day, 4:28, 8 users, load average: 1.80, 1.56, 1.37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems with udev
hi to all i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up to 660, like this crw-rw 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null crw-rw 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/zero so when i login as a normal user, i get /dev/null: Permission denied and i have to chmod 666 /dev/null to be able to login in kde furthermore, in kde, when i launch konsole, the window of konsole shows up, but there's only the cursor blinking, and i cannot enter commands - i have to ctrl+alt+fn to a terminal and allways in kde, when i launch a program that requires root's password, as kuser, i get a window with this message The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly. though su, which is perfectly working in a terminal, is in /bin which IS in my PATH i really don't know if these problems in kde are correlated with the permissions in dev, but on google i found many persons having problems with udev and having more or less the same problems (though i couldn't find a solution to my case). i tried, as explained on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml#doc_chap3 to mknod new null and console in /dev, but when i boot the permissions are again set to 660. does somebody have an idea of what i should do? if there's some information i lacked to give please ask thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del
yes there is, I think its right click in vncviewer for the menu, or shiftF8 to get the menu. Going from memory but this should point you in the right direction. BillK On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:03 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I noticed that in the windows version of tightvnc, there is an option to send ctrl-alt-del to window boxes. In the linux version, there is not such capability. Or am I wrong? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:02:56 up 1 day, 4:28, 8 users, load average: 1.80, 1.56, 1.37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM
Hello Daniel, Just to clarify, this is a problem with all 2.6.12 releases (not just -gentoo-r4) Thanks for the information. I only became aware of the issue when -gentoo-r4 became stable. Sean -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev
Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that file is: null:root:root:0666 which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect. I had problems with some other devices, like misc/nvram, and had to make modifications to the file. Sean On Thursday 14 July 2005 05:07 am, renna wrote: hi to all i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up to 660, like this crw-rw 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null crw-rw 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/zero so when i login as a normal user, i get /dev/null: Permission denied and i have to chmod 666 /dev/null to be able to login in kde furthermore, in kde, when i launch konsole, the window of konsole shows up, but there's only the cursor blinking, and i cannot enter commands - i have to ctrl+alt+fn to a terminal and allways in kde, when i launch a program that requires root's password, as kuser, i get a window with this message The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly. though su, which is perfectly working in a terminal, is in /bin which IS in my PATH i really don't know if these problems in kde are correlated with the permissions in dev, but on google i found many persons having problems with udev and having more or less the same problems (though i couldn't find a solution to my case). i tried, as explained on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml#doc_chap3 to mknod new null and console in /dev, but when i boot the permissions are again set to 660. does somebody have an idea of what i should do? if there's some information i lacked to give please ask thanks -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw a forbidden message. I have checked my configs and they have not changed at all. I did a emerge world the other day that installed the new PHP, but thats all. I really can not think of any reason why this has happend. All the permisions are right apache:apache. There was a update to Apache, which went through the other night, but everything looks just fine here, so i do not understand why! Any one got any ideas? -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk I don't need to outrun the bear, just the guy next to me... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). Does the apache server run with apache user rights (check with ps aux)? Michael Thompson wrote: All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw a forbidden message. I have checked my configs and they have not changed at all. I did a emerge world the other day that installed the new PHP, but thats all. I really can not think of any reason why this has happend. All the permisions are right apache:apache. There was a update to Apache, which went through the other night, but everything looks just fine here, so i do not understand why! Any one got any ideas? ___ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.beta.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). The permissions have not changed. They are all apache:apache with a mask of: drwxrwxr-- 20 apache apache 4096 Jul 14 10:34 htdocs Does the apache server run with apache user rights (check with ps aux)? ps aux root 19093 0.0 0.8 22312 8872 ?Ss 12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19098 0.0 0.6 21600 6924 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19099 0.0 0.8 22336 9072 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19100 0.0 0.8 22336 9072 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19101 0.0 0.8 22312 8904 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19102 0.0 0.8 22312 8904 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19103 0.0 0.8 22312 8904 ?S12:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN apache 19310 0.0 0.8 22312 8904 ?S12:30 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D SSL -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN The main page loads, the user pages load, just *anything* in a subdirectory of /var/www/localhost/htdocs fails with a forbidden. -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk I don't need to outrun the bear, just the guy next to me... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev
Am Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2005 12:52 schrieb ext Sean Higgins: Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. No. This has already changed since more than 10 versions of udev. Permissions are now set in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgp2VAtV4aJuX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). The permissions have not changed. They are all apache:apache with a mask of: drwxrwxr-- 20 apache apache 4096 Jul 14 10:34 htdocs What about its subdirectories? They need to be executable to allow access to paths below themselves and need to be readable to allow directory listing (which also needs to be allowed as per httpd.conf). -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev
On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:52, Sean Higgins wrote: Try checking a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions, this file sets the permissions of devices during boot. My line in that file is: null:root:root:0666 which sets the permissions to 0666 which is what you expect. I had problems with some other devices, like misc/nvram, and had to make modifications to the file. Sean uops i realized i hadn't done an etc-update after emerging udev. doing it adjusted some files in /etc/udev and now everything works. thanks to all -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:04, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:40:42 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:23, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Try giving access to anyone to tost if it's a permissions related problem. (Perhaps using php files need also execution rights). The permissions have not changed. They are all apache:apache with a mask of: drwxrwxr-- 20 apache apache 4096 Jul 14 10:34 htdocs What about its subdirectories? They need to be executable to allow access to paths below themselves and need to be readable to allow directory listing (which also needs to be allowed as per httpd.conf). -hwh Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the htdocs dir, nothing wrong here that I can see polaris mike # ls -all /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ total 240 drwxrwxr-- 20 apache apache 4096 Jul 14 10:34 . drwxrwxr-- 7 root root4096 Feb 16 01:10 .. -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 3612 Mar 8 05:34 Forwarded_eth1_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 3026 Mar 8 05:34 Forwarded_eth1_out_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2640 Mar 17 00:40 Incoming_Total_Local.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2800 Mar 17 00:40 Incoming_Total_WAN.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2455 Mar 8 05:34 Incoming_eth0_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2951 Mar 8 05:34 Incoming_eth1_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2776 Mar 17 00:40 Outgoing_Total_Local.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2910 Mar 17 00:40 Outgoing_Total_WAN.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2763 Mar 8 05:34 Outgoing_eth0_Out_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2728 Mar 8 05:34 Outgoing_eth0_out_All.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2851 Mar 8 05:34 Outgoing_eth1_All.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root2326 Jul 13 09:51 apache_pb.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root root1385 Jul 13 09:51 apache_pb.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root2414 Jul 13 09:51 apache_pb2.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root root1463 Jul 13 09:51 apache_pb2.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root2160 Jul 13 09:51 apache_pb2_ani.gif drwxrwxr-- 5 apache apache 4096 Sep 1 2004 awstats-6.1 drwxrwxr-- 11 apache apache 4096 Dec 31 2004 base drwxrwxr-- 10 apache apache 4096 Dec 30 2004 board drwxrwxr-- 10 apache apache 4096 Aug 31 2004 bugzilla drwxrwxr-- 7 apache apache 4096 Jun 17 19:57 catalog drwxrwxr-- 10 apache apache 4096 May 17 14:58 cpg133 -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 41100 Jan 16 2004 div_159.jpg drwxrwxr-- 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 31 2004 files drwxrwxr-- 11 apache apache 4096 Jan 19 11:37 geeklog-1.3.9sr1 drwxrwxr-- 19 apache apache 4096 Feb 8 07:42 horde -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 822 Mar 7 07:55 host-play.html -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 840 Mar 8 05:29 host-polaris.html drwxrwxr-- 2 apache apache 4096 Feb 12 20:08 htdig drwxrwxr-- 2 apache apache 4096 Jan 22 03:02 images -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 999 Jan 23 09:30 index.htm drwxrwxr-- 8 apache apache 4096 Jan 24 02:00 newsportal -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 16067 Sep 22 2004 oe.JPG drwxrwxr-- 7 apache apache 4096 May 8 17:24 phpmyadmin drwxrwsr-x 14 root root4096 Jul 12 10:31 phpwebsite -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2376 Mar 8 05:29 polaris-internet-Daily.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2324 Mar 8 05:29 polaris-internet-Monthly.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2657 Mar 8 05:29 polaris-internet-Weekly.png -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2605 Mar 8 05:29 polaris-internet-Yearly.png drwxrwxr-- 5 apache apache 4096 Apr 11 19:43 squirrelmail drwxrwxr-- 2 apache apache 4096 Jun 16 12:35 temp -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 1091 Mar 8 05:29 traf.html -rwxrwxr-- 1 apache apache 2818 Mar 8 05:34 traf2.html drwxr-xr-x 14 root root4096 Jul 14 10:35 xoops drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 Jun 10 10:09 zap Even the drwxr-xr-x will not run at all. These have not changed since they were working previously. -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk I don't need to outrun the bear, just the guy next to me... pgpMm2FEwezNc.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/man SGID ?
Hallo, I'm checking my freshly installed system for SUID/SGID files, and to my surprise I see: -r-xr-s--x 1 man 41172 Jul 13 13:28 /usr/bin/man Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why? I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/man SGID ?
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:28:57 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does /usr/bin/man really have to have SGID-bit on? Why? For caching the rendered man pages for all users, IMHO. I just checked one debian-box, where /usr/bin/man is without SGID... On debian, if configured to be chatty when installing packages, one is asked upon installation of the man package if it should be set SGID. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:12:56 +0100 Michael Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the drwxr-xr-x will not run at all. These have not changed since they were working previously. Hm. Isn't anything written to the apache error log that could give a hint? Did you restart apache after installing the new php module? It may even help to stop and then start it as a restart won't kill the apache master process. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
Michael Thompson wrote: All my previously working apache sub directorys have started to throw a forbidden message. I have checked my configs and they have not changed at all. I did a emerge world the other day that installed the new PHP, but thats all. I really can not think of any reason why this has happend. All the permisions are right apache:apache. There was a update to Apache, which went through the other night, but everything looks just fine here, so i do not understand why! Any one got any ideas? Try adding a directory statement in the http.conf file Directory /var/www/localhost Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Then modify to suit your needs. Craig -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice / localisation
Hi folks, I've got a couple of questions regarding localisation. 1. OO and English If I set OO to either British or South African English the spellchecker still accepts American spelling which is wrong in Namibia. Anybody in the know how to make it stick to British spelling? 2. OO and currency The Namibian Dollar (either NAD or N$) is missing from the list of currencies. Is it possible to add a new one to OO? 3. KDE and aspell I emerged aspell-af, aspell-de, aspell-en and aspell-pt. KDE's control centre shows a whole plethora of languages, some of them looking like English (United Kingdom - ise-w_accents-only). I bet No user has got an idea what that means. In kmail on the other hand, most languages are shown as Unknown. I would like to nail that down to: British English American English German German (no Swiss or Austrian German) Portuguese Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Afrikaans with British English the default. Do I simply delete the other stuff under /usr/lib/aspell-0.60? Exactly what can I safely delete? There is more but this should be enough for today. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
For archiving purposes: I've finally fixed my machine up with as follows: 1. chosen kernel was 2.6.12-r5 as it fixes ugly bug with iptables which takes ages for applications to load. 2. configured grub without using initrd title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose After doing all that system became usable again and boots with no glitch. Thanks everybody for help. -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpxLnnGjhmkH.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] 1st Install
Hi there I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM - solved
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:23, Zac Medico wrote: Yuval Scharf wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4. Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage. I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the father of the other) which I can't kill. After rebooting the machine I can login once and then the probelm returns. Any ideas? Thanks, Yuval Scharf This kind of problem is usually some type of permissions issue. Maybe it's related to the hidden .ICE-unix, .X0-lock, or .X11-unix in /tmp. Try logging in as root and/or bypass kdm with startx. Did you get anything in /var/log/kdm.log? Zac Hi, Apparently /tmp/.ICE-unix was owned by my user instead of the root. Thanks, Yuval -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
On Thursday 14 July 2005 15:15, Craig Duncan wrote: Try adding a directory statement in the http.conf file Directory /var/www/localhost Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Then modify to suit your needs. Craig Does not help any. That is already there in the default config, but I did try that earlier to see if it did help. No joy. -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk I don't need to outrun the bear, just the guy next to me... pgpTwvvkcinCo.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead. It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A. Ah well. So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I reboot, when after the GRUB screen and kernel selection, the screen goes black with lots of pretty blue squares all over it. Nice, but not helpful in logging in. And of course sshd isn't enabled by default. No matter, I reboot off the CD, mount everything, do the chroot thing and add sshd to the default runlevel, reboot and I can get in remotely. I guess I will rebuild the kernel with Matrox support removed and see if that fixes. BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM
Thanks for this information. It helped to solve my problem. :) Uwe Daniel Drake wrote: Sean Higgins wrote: Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your login will work. Just to clarify, this is a problem with all 2.6.12 releases (not just -gentoo-r4) If you upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5, the problem will be solved. Yes, and it'll be fixed upstream for 2.6.12.3 and 2.6.13 :) Daniel begin:vcard fn:Uwe Klosa n:Klosa;Uwe org:Uppsala University;Electronic Publishing Centre adr:;;;Uppsala;;75120;Sweden email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+46 (0)18 471 7658 url:http://publications.uu.se/epcentre version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward. Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2 has been available for a couple of months and 1.2.1 a fortnight... I wouldn't have considered this a difficult package to port to Gentoo - especially as just about every other platform is supported directly by the Subversion developers... I've tried using ~x86 as my USE flag - but the 1.2 ebuild still won't install reporting a Problem in dev-util/subversion-1.2 dependencies... I'm reluctant to use an unstable subverison port as it would cost me a fair bit of time if it scrambles my version controlled files. Does anyone know what the problems are and why its taking so long to get 1.2.x into the default portage tree? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: Hi there I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print everything, you should at least take some notes. Read them again, look out for other helpfull guides. The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too. After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is your friend Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into the free space, / and /boot. Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions! This will sometimes cause some very delicate problems. After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides. Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I reboot, when after the GRUB screen and kernel selection, the screen goes black with lots of pretty blue squares all over it. This may be due to the framebuffer chosing a wrong mode for the kind of monitor you have. You can set the resolution and frame rate on the kernel command line. This should be documented in /usr/src/linux/ Documentation/fb/... (don't have it here atm) I guess I will rebuild the kernel with Matrox support removed and see if that fixes. This will probably work, too :-) BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. If the hardware is builtin, and you don't have problems with somewhat random hardware enumeration (i.e., multiple NICs getting different devices on each boot), there's little reason to build the drivers as modules. OTOH, probing a module triggers (if it loads successfully) a hotplug event, which is not the case during bootup (AFAIK, at least there are no hotplug scripts available at that moment). So if you chose to compile them into the kernel, you need to e.g. have net.eth0 in the runlevel configuration for boot or default. If you're probing them as modules, that will trigger hotplug and this should take care of running the respective start script. If you intend to run a common kernel on multiple machines, it may be wiser to compile some drivers to modules, but for e.g. PCI devices this shouldn't matter a lot, you only will save some RAM on machines that don't need the driver (compiled into the kernel). Sound is another matter: The kernel ALSA isn't always the latest version. So it's best to only configure sound support but no ALSA or OSS and then later emerge alsa-driver. Then there are drivers that have their own code base only. In most cases it's much more complicated to integrate them into the kernel sources than to compile them as external modules. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
Jim Hatfield wrote: BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. We are writing documentation on this at the moment. With manual configuration, build everything into the kernel unless you have a reason *not* to. Build ALSA (sound) as modules, since the ALSA utilities work better with modules. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward. Portage (by default) still gives me version 1.1.3... but version 1.2 has been available for a couple of months and 1.2.1 a fortnight... I wouldn't have considered this a difficult package to port to Gentoo - especially as just about every other platform is supported directly by the Subversion developers... I've tried using ~x86 as my USE flag - but the 1.2 ebuild still won't install reporting a Problem in dev-util/subversion-1.2 dependencies... Huh? I've been using 1.2 for awhile and emerge 1.2.1 as of yesterday. Did you add: dev-util/subversion ~x86 to your /etc/portage/package.keywords. You can just emerge subversion and keep everything else on the stable build. If you still block, send the output from: emerge -pv subversion --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I switched last night from devfs to udev and had the same kde problem. I solved it by running udevstart as root. Oh, and I checked the permissions file in /etc/udev If running 'udevstart' fixes your ownership/permissions problem, try logging in again and see if the problem reappears. If it does, then it means something is running on login and imposing its own permissions. This is probably pam, which you'll want to turn off. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward. you must have missed this link from the gentoo homepage (on the left): http://packages.gentoo.org/ a search yields this: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=subversion also, for a command-line version, read: man equery You might also want to read up on the portage section in the gentoo handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 sorry for such a canned answer, but i would only repeat what's been written there. I've tried using ~x86 as my USE flag - but the 1.2 ebuild still won't install reporting a Problem in dev-util/subversion-1.2 dependencies... I'm reluctant to use an unstable subverison port as it would cost me a fair bit of time if it scrambles my version controlled files. Does anyone know what the problems are and why its taking so long to get 1.2.x into the default portage tree? Don't put ~x86 in your USE flags just for that - use /etc/portage/package.keywords (see the above mentioned portage guide). I'm not exactly sure what you want - Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords (create this file if it doesn't exist) : =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5~x86 =dev-libs/apr-0.9.5 ~x86 You just add one package, ask portage to merge, then put in the next dependency, and so on... Tried this on amd64 (with ~amd64 instead of ~x86, naturally), it's happily compiling away... This was just info about portage, it is in no way any form of endorsement on the new version of subversion, as I haven't used it at all - and I don't know if you should be so impatient with a new version of a package that seems to be important to you and your data... Hope this helps, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the htdocs dir, nothing wrong here that I can see Do those sub-dectories have index.html file in them? If not, then you need to explicitly switch on directory listings (they are off by default). An example config: # allow dir listings for stats folders Directory /home/*/html/stats AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order allow,deny Allow from all /Limit /Directory -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Zac Medico wrote: I heard there was a problem like that with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 and iptables: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=112129686806476 Im using the kernel with iptables - no problems. -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Sub directorys
On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:25, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Michael Thompson wrote: Umm, I thought of that earlier, here is the complete ls -all of the htdocs dir, nothing wrong here that I can see Do those sub-dectories have index.html file in them? If not, then you need to explicitly switch on directory listings (they are off by default). An example config: # allow dir listings for stats folders Directory /home/*/html/stats AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order allow,deny Allow from all /Limit /Directory They were all working fine until the upgrade of apache, which I missed. They all have index files. -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A http://www.thompsonmike.co.uk I don't need to outrun the bear, just the guy next to me... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge error with glibc and nptl
Hi, I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm getting an error. The emerge command I'm running is: emerge --newuse -buD glibc The error is: Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/ category sys-libs /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1.ebuild: line 845: cd: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work/build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl: No such file or directory * Installing GLIBC with NPTL... Makeconfig:84: x86/config.make: No such file or directory Makerules:782: no file name for `include' configure.in configure.new /bin/sh: configure.in: command not found make: *** [configure] Error 127 Everything I've read about ntpl and glibc would seem to indicate that I should just be able to emerge a new glibc without any problems. Any ideas? Thanks, Kristina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue - SOLVED :)
On 7/13/05, Petr Kocmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your modem/router which is 192.168.1.254 on eth0 fits the netmask of the eth1 network. Weird thing is that this configuration as always been working for me, with no problems whatsoever... until now. Anyways, thank you! Problem solved! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.
Ian K wrote: Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might effect the fans would be: 1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up. What would you recommend along those lines? Why, my Standard Operating Procedure of course! (Start) | [ Try Something ] | Problem Fixed? - / \| Y N | / \ | (Quit) [Try Something Else] ;- Seriously, I've seen posts that: 1. Booting into Windows and letting it run for a while, then warm-rebooting into linux, lets the fans work. 2. or also, that #1 makes things worse in Linux; That things work best with a cold boot into Linux. On the topic of ACPI, I found this post on LinuxQuestions. I post as omega21 there. The thread is in the SuSe Forum, but I doubt it matters too much. What do you make of it? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=288588 Looks like the A65 and A70 laptops have serious problems with fan control, reboots, and static discharge issuesas far as what I make of it...well, maybe the problem with my Sager 5680 of cracking plastic around the hinges of that requires me to continually repair/glue the thing together isn't such a bad problem after all! (Sorry, I couldn't resist) As well, someone else on LQ advised trying APM, instead of ACPI(?). Im not sure if its a good idea or not. I say go for it. ACPI isn't doing much for youdoesn't even know the difference between battery power and AC! You will probably want to configure your kernel with both APM and ACPI support, then you can switch between them by adding the appropriate apm=off or acpi=off entries to the kernel command line. Lastly, I found another project that packs Toshiba features into the kernel. Im not sure if I should try it though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ Project seems nearly dead. Only 5 posts (including yours) between the two forums this year. And the last release of anything was in Februrary, which doesn't list anything but an updated Makefile and a change to some documentation as features -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
Marco Matthies wrote: Gentoo leaves packages in unstable for a default period of time to make sure they work allright. If you want the newest version of a package, you must tell portage to do so by putting the appropriate stuff (subversion and it's dependencies) in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords (create this file if it doesn't exist) : =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5~x86 =dev-libs/apr-0.9.5 ~x86 In one way this looks better than my fiddling with USE - however I'm reluctant to choose specific versions in a durable configuration file. Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an emerge -uD world in another few months? This was just info about portage, it is in no way any form of endorsement on the new version of subversion, as I haven't used it at all - and I don't know if you should be so impatient with a new version of a package that seems to be important to you and your data... I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration so (other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest Subversion. [Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more demanding than mine!. :-) ] Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more questions from me about Gentoo. I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future version newer than that which becomes unmasked. Am I missing some other obvious things? I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the questions I was thinking. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? At least a month and there can't be any major bugs reported to bugs.gentoo.org. About specifics on Subversion you need to ask its maintainer. It will stay masked as long as needed for the maintainer to become sure that the package really is stable. Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an emerge -uD world in another few months? No it would not. You are just changing the accepted the keywords for Subversion. Portage always chooses the latest version with accepted keywords. If just add dev-util/subversion you say that you will accept every version marked as ~x86 or you can use =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 to only mark one version. If you don't use version numbers, you will always update to the latest version. If you lock down the version number, the next time you will update if after there is a version greater then 1.2.1, which is marked stable (x86). I'm only impatient in so far as I'd prefer to use my gentoo server rather than some other platform. I'm already using Subversion 1.2 on other platforms and I've found no problems for my configuration so (other than possible gentoo specific issues) I'm happy to run the latest Subversion. [Disclaimer - please don't blame me if your requirements are more demanding than mine!. :-) ] Gentoo is all about choice. Thanks for the reply - it at least convinces me that it is possible to get Subersion-1.2 installed... However, your solution raises more questions from me about Gentoo. I'm now unsure if I want to wait-out the default unstable time for packages (to minimise risk and to simplify systems management) - or if there is a more subtle way to declare that I'd like version 1.2.1 now and to have that upgraded when a future version newer than that which becomes unmasked. Am I missing some other obvious things? I found the Gentoo handbook a little opaque on the topic of masked packages... lots of info - just not the answers to the questions I was thinking. Hopefully I answered this. Regards, Petteri Räty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1rBTcxLzpIGCsLQRAnfOAKCSwFJDenGWoGRiZWmvS/K67WGP9wCfZrjz tTtBWzlJKXu5kwfNJUfgwQo= =cdsY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glibc and nptl
kristina clair wrote: Hi, I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm getting an error. The emerge command I'm running is: emerge --newuse -buD glibc The error is: Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/ category sys-libs /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1.ebuild: line 845: cd: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work/build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl: No such file or directory * Installing GLIBC with NPTL... Makeconfig:84: x86/config.make: No such file or directory Makerules:782: no file name what ifor `include' configure.in configure.new /bin/sh: configure.in: command not found make: *** [configure] Error 127 Everything I've read about ntpl and glibc would seem to indicate that I should just be able to emerge a new glibc without any problems. Any ideas? Thanks, Kristina That default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl looks suspicious because with nptl CHOST is restricted to i486|i586|i686-pc-linux-gnu. What is your CHOST? Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glibc and nptl
I'm trying to update glibc with nptl and nptlonly USE flags, but I'm getting an error. The emerge command I'm running is: emerge --newuse -buD glibc The error is: Install glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/image/ category sys-libs /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1.ebuild: line 845: cd: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work/build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl: No such file or directory * Installing GLIBC with NPTL... Makeconfig:84: x86/config.make: No such file or directory Makerules:782: no file name what ifor `include' configure.in configure.new /bin/sh: configure.in: command not found make: *** [configure] Error 127 Everything I've read about ntpl and glibc would seem to indicate that I should just be able to emerge a new glibc without any problems. Any ideas? Thanks, Kristina That default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl looks suspicious because with nptl CHOST is restricted to i486|i586|i686-pc-linux-gnu. What is your CHOST? Hm! CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu I did not set this box up, so I'm not sure - is there any reason why someone would set the CHOST to that? I checked the /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work directory, and indeed there is no subdirectory build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl. In fact, in the work directory, there is only glibc-2.3.3. Thanks, Kristina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: Hi there I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print everything, you should at least take some notes. Read them again, look out for other helpfull guides. The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too. After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is your friend Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into the free space, / and /boot. Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions! This will sometimes cause some very delicate problems. After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides. Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram. Very good advice. Good luck, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100 Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. We are writing documentation on this at the moment. With manual configuration, build everything into the kernel unless you have a reason *not* to. Build ALSA (sound) as modules, since the ALSA utilities work better with modules. *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with glibc and nptl
kristina clair wrote: Hm! CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu I did not set this box up, so I'm not sure - is there any reason why someone would set the CHOST to that? I checked the /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1/work directory, and indeed there is no subdirectory build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-nptl. In fact, in the work directory, there is only glibc-2.3.3. Thanks, Kristina Well, i386-pc-linux-gnu is the generic CHOST for the x86 arch so it could be for a number of reasons. Maybe it was just a mistake. You might be able to change the CHOST and emerge -e world but the normally recommended solution is to reinstall with a stage3 for your chosen subarch. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into the free space, / and /boot. Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not necessary here. There may be some performance difference between a swap partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares. Be careful about /boot, many systems today still ship with borken LBA implementations in BIOS that prevent access to cylinders above 8GB. It is *always* safest to have /boot, and to make it the first partition on the disk. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
Allan Gottlieb wrote: *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). It's fine to build ALSA into the kernel if you are happy to configure it, which usually isn't too much hassle anyway. The reasoning behind compiling ALSA as modules is that it then gives you the option of using 'alsaconf'. alsaconf is a great little utility, which, providing you have built the modules, will configure pretty much any sound card for you, set up the system for autoloading the relevant modules and saving/restoring volume, and unmuting the channels. I came across it when i was attempting to get an ISA sound card going in an old computer. It just didn't work when built into the kernel or loading the module manually. I discovered alsaconf, which did some weird probing, and 20 secs later informed me of 4 cryptic parameters that were needed to pass to the module in order to find the sound card, as well as doing everything else I described above. Recently at work, I built *all* alsa drivers as modules, and proceeded to test 30-40 sound cards that we had lying around. ALSA supported every one of them that wasn't so broken that it stopped the PC booting, and alsaconf made it dead easy even with the older PCI cards and the ISA ones too. So, the advantage of building ALSA modules is that you can use alsaconf, which in most cases makes initial configuration a little bit simpler, and in some cases is a complete lifesaver. You might be interested in our recently revamped ALSA guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml And also, if you are interested in the upcoming kernel config doc, then you can add yourself to the CC list on http://bugs.gentoo.org/94955 Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into the free space, / and /boot. Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not necessary here. There may be some performance difference between a swap partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares. nope ;) there is no difference between swapfile and swap with 2.6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:53 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:48 -0400, daniel wrote: On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference. I still can't get -win32codecs to +win32codecs Comment? FWIW, if you haven't worked this out yet :) USE flag masking is controlled by use.mask, which is a standard stackable profile file; as with package.mask, the masked USE flags are generated by combining use.mask from all the directories in the profile stack; but unlike package.mask, which is counteracted by package.unmask, the way to re-enable USE flags is to delete them from the use.mask profile stack by entering them in a later-processed use.mask file with a - before. So, what you would do in this case is: echo -win32codecs /etc/portage/profile/use.mask (make sure /etc/portage/profile exists, yada yada.) Again: the - at the beginning of the line instructs portage to *remove* win32codecs from the list of masked USE flags generated by merging the use.mask profile stack. Compare e.g. /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/use.mask. HTH, Ed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] error during emerge --newuse --emptytree system
Hello list, I have today attempted to do a stage 2 installation and I got to the point of building the system using emerge --newuse --emptytree system. I was not shure how to understand the Handbook entry in that respect, and I got an error like: !!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist! -- with another 32 packages to be compiled left. I am not sure at all what to think of it and could not find a particular reason while searching on the net. Should I have selected more mirrors earlier? I selected about 5 of the closest ones around London, so it should have been fine. Please help! thnks Karsten AMD Athlon XP +1600 1.040GHz 256MB RAM Nvidia -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning
Hi, I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions, all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32). I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap, too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended partition I created a new logical partition which had the same start and end cylinders as the resized Reiserfs partition. Further I created a new swap partition within the extended partition and created a (primary) partition for FreeBSD on the place freed by resizing the Reiser-partition. Actually everything seems to work, I'm not missing any files and all systems (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows) work fine. The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 130 65488+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 131 79717401118485 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 * 79718 95960 8186314+ a5 FreeBSD Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 95964 11627910239264c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk Do you have any ideas how I could get rid of these messages? Thanks in advance! Regards, Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning
Robert G. Siebeck wrote: The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 130 65488+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 131 79717401118485 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 * 79718 95960 8186314+ a5 FreeBSD Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 95964 11627910239264c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Technically, there is no error here. The first message is completely normal for large disks. The does not end on... messages mean that the disk was originally parititoned in LBA mode (which represents the disk as having 255 heads, and about 1/4 as many cylinders), but for some reason, Linux is seeing the disk in non-LBA mode. (side note: I really don't understand why BIOSs don't provide an option that says Force the damn disk to LBA!!!) Again, nothing actually wrong with this, but if you were to delete and recreate any partitions with fdisk, it would insist on creatin the partitions on a cylinder boundary, meaning they start/end sectors would *not* be the same. So, if you see such messages, either be prepared to delete the entire table and start over, or don't change anything with fdisk! cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk Well, this is most likely because it is extremely rare to have logical volumes out of order in the extended volume. So the sanity checks in cfdisk might be fairly simple, like making sure the start cylinder of hda6 comes after the end cylinder of hda5. Sounds like a bug in cfdisk if you ask me I think the only way to really get rid of the error messages would be to do a full backup, then blow everything away, and then restore it. Probably not worth the effort though... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] system update
Folks, I'm trying to update my system with this command: emerge world -Dup and got this type of output: snip ... [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdebase-3.4.0 [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.0 [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdegames-3.4.0 ... snip I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old version still installed. TIA, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion 1.2
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time? What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked? I *think* it is something along the lines of 30 days without a bug, not 100% sure though. Here, i just did it myself by putting this in my package.keywords (create this file if it doesn't exist) : =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.5~x86 =dev-libs/apr-0.9.5 ~x86 In one way this looks better than my fiddling with USE - however I'm reluctant to choose specific versions in a durable configuration file. Ideally I'd like to follow the natural upgrade cycle in future. Wouldn't putting those lines in my package.keywords file prevent me getting, say, version 1.3 automatically when I do an emerge -uD world in another few months? the line: =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 means that you tell portage that you'll accept subversion, version 1.2.1 exactly, with a keyword of '~x86'. You can use '=' instead of '=', which means any version equal or greater than 1.2.1. the two following lines were the two dependencies i found by trying 'emerge -uD subversion'. once 1.3 or any version higher than 1.2.1 becomes stable (marked 'x86'), it will be considered by portage as well and will be merged. Hope that helps, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system update
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote: I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old version still installed. Update kde as usual, then # emerge -av --depclean Make sure that portage doesn't offer to remove packages you want to keep installed! Also a good idea to run revdep-rebuild afterwards. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ivtv modprobe fails
I have been having this problem with kernels starting with 2.6.11-x including the most recent 2.6.12 version. They are all gentoo kernels, and I have also tried them with kernels directly from kernel.org with the same result. Here is the error: # modprobe ivtv WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) WARNING: Error inserting i2c_algo_bit (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r4/extra/ivtv.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) Here is dmesg: i2c_core: Unknown parameter `i2c_debug' i2c_algo_bit: Unknown symbol i2c_del_adapter i2c_algo_bit: Unknown symbol i2c_add_adapter ivtv: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_add_bus ivtv: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_del_bus I don't think it's ivtv itself, as I have tried the stable (0.2.0_rc3) as well as 0.3.6z and get the same error. I have checked and rechecked my kernel configs for i2c and I believe everything is correct. I am using the same config with 2.6.10 and it works fine. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org 20:30:58 up 6:16, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:36 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: -install: applet not found /init: 41: In: not found /init: 45: cat: not found /init: 150: sed: not found Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration: From another thread on this list less than 12 hours old: Zac Medico wrote: It's not as bad as it looks. I had the same problem. You simply need to enable CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER in the busybox config. Then you can do busybox --install and it automatically creates hardlinks for all the enabled applets. What busybox config? `equery files busybox` doesn't show any config files for busybox. I found the previous thread here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=112127857419654w=2 and Zac suggested some different options: root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n but that didn't help either. And why do I need to do a `busybox --install` ?? shouldn't this come up in some emerge warning or be done by genkernel or something? I monitor all the output from emerge with enotice, but I didn't see anything about busybox... TIA, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
Thanks all. It's fixed. When I ran dosfsck /dev/hda5 I got the error:
Logical sector size is zero
So I re-created the file system with mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/hda5
(after backing up all my files!) and now it mounts properly. Not sure I
understand it because I hadn't run the mkfs command on hda1 either. I
formatted both from Win98.
Thanks again,
Alex
Maybe it isn't really a FAT32 filesystem?
Could you try something like: strings /dev/hda5 | less
With a FAT32 filesystem, I get:
mkdosfs
BRJF_KEYFAT32
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
RRaA
rrAa{
mkdosfs
BRJF_KEYFAT32
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
press any key to try again ...
list of short filenames on system...
Obviously I formatted the above with mkdosfs, but you can see the label
(RJF_KEY) and type as well.
By comparison, on NTFS, I get:
374 t+a`j
454 Invalid partition table
504 Error loading operating system
543 Missing operating system
0077003 NTFS
...
HTH
-Richard
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[gentoo-user] Recommended GB NIC
We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? Intel, Broadcom, 3Com? Thanks. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended GB NIC
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:40 -0500 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have several Dell Precision workstations (530, 610, and 620 models) with 3Com 3c905 10/100 NICs. We'd like to upgrade the NICs to GB. Which GB PCI card would you recommend to work with Gentoo 2005.0 running Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4? Intel, Broadcom, 3Com? Yes. They all work. The Broadcom Tigon3 will generally give higher sustained throughput. While I don't know, nor care about, the specific Dell models, if you don't have a 64-bit 66 MHz slot for the GigE board, heavy use of the net port will cause problems. The typical 32-bit 33 MHz bus will saturate with network transactions. And that bus saturation can cause...umm...interesting system behavior. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:36 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: -install: applet not found /init: 41: In: not found /init: 45: cat: not found /init: 150: sed: not found Apparently it is a problem with busybox configuration: From another thread on this list less than 12 hours old: Zac Medico wrote: It's not as bad as it looks. I had the same problem. You simply need to enable CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER in the busybox config. Then you can do busybox --install and it automatically creates hardlinks for all the enabled applets. What busybox config? `equery files busybox` doesn't show any config files for busybox. I found the previous thread here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=112127857419654w=2 and Zac suggested some different options: root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n but that didn't help either. So it still uses the initramfs even though you didn't specify root=/dev/ram0? Richard said something about that (I wasn't aware of this behavior). Apparently you need to remove the initrd parameter in order to disable it. Genkernel builds busybox with the config file in /usr/share/genkernel/$arch/busy-config. Of course, it will only build busybox if it doesn't find a suitable binary in your bincache (specified in /etc/genkernel.conf). And why do I need to do a `busybox --install` ?? shouldn't this come up in some emerge warning or be done by genkernel or something? I monitor all the output from emerge with enotice, but I didn't see anything about busybox... TIA, You don't do busybox --install, that happens automatically in the init script. It seems that the genkernel devs may have overlooked this minor detail. It's easy to forget about it after you have a working busybox in your bincache. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge error...
Hello list, The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4 and again: !!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist! files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0-pre1 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1.ebuild Why can it not get the sources and build it? Could this be a problem within make.conf's known mirrors or so? KArsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xdm problems
I'm trying to finish up a fresh install of gentoo, and I've run into the following problem: when trying to start xdm, the screen turns black, flickers once, and the system freezes. According to the xdm log (attached) I get errors regarding AGP, sometimes xf86_EINVAL and sometimes xf86_ENODEV. I tried setting the permissions mask in my udev rules to 777, and now xdm starts up, but freezes on exit. Running startx both as root and as a normal user works fine, but xdm has problems. I've had this working before on the same hardware, using the same config. A different kernel; the working kernel was 2.6.11 whereas this is 2.6.12, but all the relevant kernel options (framebuffer, drm, etc) are the same. So far the forums and googling have yielded unhelpful results, except for the suggestion of changing the permissions, so I'm assuming I've done something boneheaded that perhaps the list will catch. Thanks in advance. X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux loki 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #1 Thu Jul 14 19:39:16 EDT 2005 i686 Build Date: 14 July 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jul 14 22:01:30 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Using vt 7 (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error xf86_ENODEV (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP xdm error (pid 6914): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux loki 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #1 Thu Jul 14 19:39:16 EDT 2005 i686 Build Date: 14 July 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Jul 14 22:01:42 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Using vt 7 (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found xdm error (pid 6911): nable to acquire AGP, error xf86_EINVAL Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension SubSection extmod Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadglx # libglx.a Loaddri # libdri.a #Load Xrandr EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/lib/X11/rgb #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/local/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section ServerFlags Option RandR On Option Xinerama Off EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver kbd Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel microsoftinet Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol ExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 31-97 VertRefresh 50-180 Option DPMS #Modeline 1280x1024 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync #ModeLine 1280xi1024 167.61 1280 1336 1616 1728 960 962 974 1000 #97Hz #ModeLine 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync #Modeline [EMAIL PROTECTED] 300.92 1600 1632 2768 2800 1200 1222 1239 1261 EndSection Section Device Identifier Standard VGA VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver vga EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter Driver fglrx Option NoDDC #Option KernelModuleParm agplock=0 # AGP locked user pages: disabled Option no_accel no Option no_dri no Option mtrr off # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr Option DesktopSetup
[gentoo-user] Re: xdm problems {SOLVED}
On 7/14/05, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far the forums and googling have yielded unhelpful results, except for the suggestion of changing the permissions, so I'm assuming I've done something boneheaded that perhaps the list will catch. Thanks in advance. Yes, boneheaded indeed. Misspelt my search terms. Bloody hell. The solution was, as usual, in the forums. Seems that ati doesn't play nicely with the 2.6.12 kernel, so I downgraded to 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 and, voila! Sorry for the static. -=- Ryan W -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:33:23 +0100 Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). It's fine to build ALSA into the kernel if you are happy to configure it, which usually isn't too much hassle anyway. The reasoning behind compiling ALSA as modules is that it then gives you the option of using 'alsaconf'. alsaconf is a great little utility, which, providing you have built the modules, will configure pretty much any sound card for you, set up the system for autoloading the relevant modules and saving/restoring volume, and unmuting the channels. I came across it when i was attempting to get an ISA sound card going in an old computer. It just didn't work when built into the kernel or loading the module manually. I discovered alsaconf, which did some weird probing, and 20 secs later informed me of 4 cryptic parameters that were needed to pass to the module in order to find the sound card, as well as doing everything else I described above. Recently at work, I built *all* alsa drivers as modules, and proceeded to test 30-40 sound cards that we had lying around. ALSA supported every one of them that wasn't so broken that it stopped the PC booting, and alsaconf made it dead easy even with the older PCI cards and the ISA ones too. So, the advantage of building ALSA modules is that you can use alsaconf, which in most cases makes initial configuration a little bit simpler, and in some cases is a complete lifesaver. thank you for the lucid explanation. You might be interested in our recently revamped ALSA guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml It is indeed much improved since I last used it. And also, if you are interested in the upcoming kernel config doc, then you can add yourself to the CC list on http://bugs.gentoo.org/94955 Done. Thanks again, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error...
Karsten Gebbert wrote: Hello list, The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4 and again: !!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist! files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0-pre1 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1.ebuild Why can it not get the sources and build it? Could this be a problem within make.conf's known mirrors or so? KArsten Unfortunately our portage tree rsync system does not handle concurrency well which occasionally results in an inconsistent portage snapshot. If you emerge sync again that should fix it. Alteratively, you can use ebuild path to ebuild digest to correct the inconsistency yourself. See the ebuild(1) manpage for details. Also, maybe you can skip the first 58 packages with emerge --resume. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error...
Zac Medico wrote: Karsten Gebbert wrote: Hello list, The described error, or failure, always occures when building the 59th app after emerge --newuse --emptytree system: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r4 and again: !!!Files listed in the manifest do not exist! files/digest-baselayout-1.12.0-pre1 baselayout-1.12.0_pre1.ebuild Why can it not get the sources and build it? Could this be a problem within make.conf's known mirrors or so? KArsten Unfortunately our portage tree rsync system does not handle concurrency well which occasionally results in an inconsistent portage snapshot. If you emerge sync again that should fix it. Alteratively, you can use ebuild path to ebuild digest to correct the inconsistency yourself. See the ebuild(1) manpage for details. Also, maybe you can skip the first 58 packages with emerge --resume. Zac actually, that works fine! after emerge --sync and another emerge system, it seemed to have resumed at the respective point. cheers, KArsten -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
