Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ethereal bug?
James wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file: .kde3.4/share/config/gtkrc It does not die off (temporary fix) But each time I reboot the portable I have to edit the file again. What KDE theme style are you using? I don't seem to have this setting (or problem) in my gtkrc file...so I think maybe it is a theme-specific issue. Good question. I have never set this(these) setting. Going through 'control panel' Theme ManagerNothing is selected or highlighted under 'Choose your visual KDE theme: At the bottom under 'style' is says 'plastik is the 'widget style'. Can you be more specific as to what parameters I need to look at, or maybe they are consolitdated in a config file somewhere? James You can check your current style/theme at: ~ grep CurrentTheme .kde3.4/share/config/kcmthememanagerrc CurrentTheme=Plastik ~ grep widgetStyle .kde3.4/share/config/kdeglobals widgetStyle=Plastik Also, I did some more checking. I do not have the gtk-alternative-button-order setting in .kde3.4/share/config/gtkrc file, but it *is* in my .kde3.4/.../gtkrc-2.0 file. Coincidentally, my USE flags for ethereal specify gtk2.0: carcharias rjf # emerge -Dv --pretend ethereal ... [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 -adns -gtk +gtk2 +ipv6 -kerberos -snmp +ssl 0 kB Are you building ethereal against gtk1.2 or gtk2.0? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SuperMicro P4SCT+ and SATA
List, I'm trying to get 2005.1 onto this box I was just gifted. It's got a SuperMicro p4sct+ with a goofy SATA controller. I've got four hard drives in it, connected to these four SATA connectors (labeled like 1/5, 2/6, 3/7, 4/8). I guess i'm using them in 1,2,3,4 mode. But my gentoo cannot see the drives. lspci sees the controller :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) :00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02) :00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02) :00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02) :00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02) :00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02) :00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02) :00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02) :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a) :00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) :00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev 02) :00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02) :00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02) :01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller :02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX5041 4-port SATA I PCI-X Controller :03:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) :03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller It's that dang Marvell thing, I think. When it boots it says Adaptec-HOSTRAID something. There are also two other SATA connectors, seems that they connect to the Intel controller. Shouldn't ata_piix find it? Seems like it. What about a Marvell driver for the four drives, am I hosed? Any ideas? Relevant stuffs from dmesg Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:1f.1 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 hdb: ATAPI DVD DD 2X16X4X16, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ ... ] libata version 1.11 loaded. ata_piix version 1.03 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE200 ctl 0xE302 bmdma 0xE600 irq 18 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE502 bmdma 0xE608 irq 18 ata1: SATA port has no device. scsi0 : ata_piix ata2: SATA port has no device. scsi1 : ata_piix -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?
On 18 August 2005 22:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose splash: no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice) could not find silent image. Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while. I have: - copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the livecd config file; - converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names; - put the full path to the images in the config file; - converted the 32-bit images from .png to .jpg None of it works. The images cannot be found. Holly, I don't have that livecd theme. Can you tar /etc/splash and send it to me off the list? Maybe I can find out what's wrong with it. P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme (which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM* theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway I can't help here. I use KDM. ;-) 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
[gentoo-user] PC Speaker issue
Hello listers! I am very excited -- Gentoo is cleanly installed and I have successfully booted. I have one small problem, however. My PC Speaker doesn't appear to be working. I don't get a bell when doing `echo -e \\a'. I also use brltty -- a program which sends text on the console to a refreshable braille display. It uses the PC speaker to make sounds to let the user know what is being turned on/off or to indicate a certain operation is taking place. I am not getting any of those sounds either. Could this have something to do with the terminal settings (just a thought)? Any and all comments/suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks very much. Best regards, -- Let music echo the thoughts of your soul. -- Jason Castonguay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Moon is Full -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Depclean
Hi everybody, I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an update, and run : emerge --newuse -Dvu world It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok. Afterwards, I run : revdep-rebuild It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless software and/or lib. Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse -Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : nothing has to be done . Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? Thank by advance about this your help. Sébastien This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] net.eth0 error
Hello, since yesterday I am getting such strange message at boot: localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting eth0 /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 683: interface_variable: command not found * Cannot default to dhcp as there is no dhcp module loaded * No configuration for eth0 [ !! ] and localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo ... /etc/init.d/net.lo: line 664: interface_loopback_create: command not fou [ !! ] my /etc/conf.d/net contains following: config_eth0=( 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) Could someone tell me where problem might be? Zbynek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
The apparent solution to this, according to Bugzilla bug #48895 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48895 is to Try rebuilding freetype with -fno-strict-aliasing - how do I go about doing this? Thanks Jamie Jamie Dobbs wrote: I am trying to build Xorg on a newly installed 2005.1 system and get the following output: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib XLOCALEDIR=../../../exports/lib/locale ../../../exports/bin/mkfontscale -b -s -l . /usr/bin/fc-cache . make[5]: *** [fonts.cache] Illegal instruction make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/xc/fonts/scaled/Type1' make[4]: *** [all] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/xc/fonts/scaled' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/xc/fonts' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/xc' make[1]: *** [World] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2/work/xc' make: *** [World] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 failed. !!! Function build, Line 974, Exitcode 2 !!! make World failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I have searched Bugzilla but can't see any references to the error I am experiencing, can anyone point me in the right direction? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 error
Zbynek Houska wrote: my /etc/conf.d/net contains following: config_eth0=( 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 Have you upgraded baselayout recently? Did you do etc-update afterwards? Do you have iproute2 installed? If you did all above, then change /etc/conf.d/net to following: modules=( iproute2 ) config_eth0=( 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) -- marek wiecek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
Sébastien MORAND wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an update, and run : emerge --newuse -Dvu world It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok. Afterwards, I run : revdep-rebuild It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless software and/or lib. Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse -Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : nothing has to be done . Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? Hi Sébastien, It's normal for some packages to become unecessary as you update packages, unmerge packages, and change use flags. Generally, it's best to do a depclean *before* packages are built (via direct emerge or revdep-rebuild). Also, do a revdep-rebuild after a depclean. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:59:24 +0200, Sébastien MORAND wrote: Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? This looks normal. For example, if you have -ldap in USE, you are unlikely to need perl-ldap. Packages like these are generally only installed as dependencies, they are not end user software, if nothing needs them, they may as well be removed. You can run emerge world -uavDN and revdep-rebuild -p after removing them, just to be certain your system is consistent. -- Neil Bothwick Headline: Explosion At Sperm Bank, Nurses Overcome pgpEIFfkAraJ2.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: ethereal bug?
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: You can check your current style/theme at: ~ grep CurrentTheme .kde3.4/share/config/kcmthememanagerrc CurrentTheme=Plastik Oddly, this file is not present on my system. Here's the listing: ls .kde3.4/share/config/kcm* .kde3.4/share/config/kcmartsrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcminputrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmaudiocdrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmkresourcesrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmbellrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcmlaptoprc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmcddbrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcmmidirc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmdisplayrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmnspluginrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmfontinstuirc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmshellrc ~ grep widgetStyle .kde3.4/share/config/kdeglobals widgetStyle=Plastik Even more strange, I have this file, but there is nothing that matches even a substring of widget 'idget' the only substring matches I get are for 'Style' XftHintStyle=hintmedium View Style=Simple Also, I did some more checking. I do not have the gtk-alternative-button-order setting in .kde3.4/share/config/gtkrc file, but it *is* in my .kde3.4/.../gtkrc-2.0 file. Coincidentally, my USE flags for ethereal specify gtk2.0: carcharias rjf # emerge -Dv --pretend ethereal ... [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 -adns -gtk +gtk2 +ipv6 -kerberos -snmp +ssl 0 kB Are you building ethereal against gtk1.2 or gtk2.0? emerge -Dv --pretend ethereal reveals [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 -adns -gtk +gtk2 +ipv6 -kerberos -snmp +ssl 0 kB ??? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2005 CD and lshw
Hello, I wanted to use a Gentoo installation CD to be able to boot up any pc and run lshw lspci to get a quick view of the hardware on the machine. lspci is on the 2005.0 instllation CD but, lshw is not. I have not check 2005.1. Is their a guide or 'howto' to add things to the 2005.x cd so that one could customize the tools available at boot time, or add additional software(tools)? Any other diag tools I should add to a custom boot cd? Sure be nice to have a cd that boots and supports as much hardware as possible, so when you see a bargan in computer hardware used or new, you can boot and check it out more closely. Diags such ad memtest are already present and of great value, especially when testing older, used systems. Ideas on adding lshw to the boot cd's are most appreciated? It may be used where there is no Internet access, only the boot cd. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SCSI Emulation Problem for USB
Hi!! If i do dmesg i get scsi0 : sata_sil ... shouldnt there be the SCSI Emultation scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA ... thats my SATA HD if i do cat /proc/scsi/scsi i get: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 --- # the dmesg scsi msg sata_sil version 0.9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:0b.0[A] - Link [LNK3] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE080 ctl 0xE08AE08A bmdma 0xE08AE000 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE0C0 ctl 0xE08AE0CA bmdma 0xE08AE008 irq 11 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7fea 84:4023 85:74e9 86:3c02 87:4023 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 160836480 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: no device found (phy stat ) scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 - Maybe a wrong interrupt is the problem! CPU0 0: 4724423 XT-PIC timer 1: 7103 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 944743 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1, NVidia nForce2, skge, ICE1712, eth0 7: 5803 XT-PIC parport0 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 9: 3 XT-PIC acpi, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci1394 10: 0 XT-PIC MPU401 UART 11: 360076 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2, libata, nvidia 12: 223166 XT-PIC i8042 14: 1200 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1870 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 4724640 ERR: 53 MIS: 0 Please help! Greetings,He4D
Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI Emulation Problem for USB
Tobias wrote: Please help! It would help if you started by explaining what you are trying to do, what you have tried, what problems you have faced, etc. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keyboard problem with Gnome 2.10.1
Hallo, i am getting crazy with my actual Problem: When i log in (from gdm) into gnome 2.10.1 as standard user, my keyboard doesn't work. Every keypress is recognized. In xterm for example the cursor gets white if i press any key, but no chars are typed in. BUT when i log in as root, all works fine. Even in xscreensaver the keyboard works for the user, but it doesn't work in xterm, firefox, gedit, evolution, and so on... I hope somebody has got any idea what could cause this strange behaviour. I have checked the Xorg-configuaration but hadn't found any errors. I am getting crazy about it!! CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] for changing to the consoles also works as user AND as root. So i think it must be a problem in gnome-config, but i don't know where. I tried all config-Items but didn't find a solution. Furthermore i couldn't find help in the news-groups! :-( Much thanks for your help greetings from Cologne Markus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI Emulation Problem for USB
Tobias wrote: Hi!! If i do dmesg i get scsi0 : sata_sil ... shouldnt there be the SCSI Emultation scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA ... thats my SATA HD if i do cat /proc/scsi/scsi i get: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 --- # the dmesg scsi msg sata_sil version 0.9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:0b.0[A] - Link [LNK3] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE080 ctl 0xE08AE08A bmdma 0xE08AE000 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE0C0 ctl 0xE08AE0CA bmdma 0xE08AE008 irq 11 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7fea 84:4023 85:74e9 86:3c02 87:4023 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 160836480 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: no device found (phy stat ) scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 - Maybe a wrong interrupt is the problem! CPU0 0: 4724423 XT-PIC timer 1: 7103 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 944743 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1, NVidia nForce2, skge, ICE1712, eth0 7: 5803 XT-PIC parport0 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 9: 3 XT-PIC acpi, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci1394 10: 0 XT-PIC MPU401 UART 11: 360076 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2, libata, nvidia 12: 223166 XT-PIC i8042 14: 1200 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1870 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 4724640 ERR: 53 MIS: 0 Please help! Greetings,He4D Okay! I want to mount my USB 2.0 Harddisk. But i cant mount it without the /dev/sd device Ive done everything that stands in the Gentoo USB Install Manual. Nothing worked! The Kernel is 100% right configured!! Greetings, He4D
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? 1. it might be old stuff that really isn't needed anymore, as already mentioned by others 2. portage up to a short while ago had a bug (or feature?!?) that when you emerged a package for the first time and used -u to do this, it would not be added to the world file. Nowadays it does the right thing and adds it to the world file if you use -u or not. This means that possibly some packages that you emerged yourself and weren't pulled in as dependencies by other packages in the world file are now regarded by --depclean as unnecessary, as they don't appear in the world file themselves and aren't dependencies of anything in there. This means that you'll have to go through the list resulting from a '--depclean -p' and have to see if you truly wanted that package, and if yes, re-emerge that package or add it to the world file yourself. Once you're done remerging the stuff you want to keep and have cleaned out the rest, it would probably be best to check that everything is ok with a revdep-rebuild In the future though, everything should work fine just as you were doing it. Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1
On 8/19/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The apparent solution to this, according to Bugzilla bug #48895 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48895 is to Try rebuilding freetype with -fno-strict-aliasing - how do I go about doing this? Thanks Jamie It sounds like something you'd temporarily add to the compiler flags in make.conf. Remember to take it back out if you do it that way. Also consider making absolutely sure that you are only building xorg-x11 if you do that. There's likely a way to do it at the command line also. man emerge, etc., to figure that out I suppose. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 error
Marek Więcek píše v Pá 19. 08. 2005 v 11:40 +0200: Zbynek Houska wrote: my /etc/conf.d/net contains following: config_eth0=( 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 Have you upgraded baselayout recently? Did you do etc-update afterwards? Do you have iproute2 installed? well, I omited to add that system was undergoing emerge -uD system, so I figured out that culprit was me by not updating config files using etc-update. If you did all above, then change /etc/conf.d/net to following: modules=( iproute2 ) config_eth0=( 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.1 ) so now everything works as expected :) thank you for your patience. -- marek wiecek Zbynek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI Emulation Problem for USB
Tobias wrote: Tobias wrote: Hi!! If i do dmesg i get scsi0 : sata_sil ... shouldnt there be the SCSI Emultation scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA ... thats my SATA HD if i do cat /proc/scsi/scsi i get: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 --- # the dmesg scsi msg sata_sil version 0.9 ACPI: PCI *Interrupt* Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI *Interrupt* :01:0b.0[A] - Link [LNK3] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE080 ctl 0xE08AE08A bmdma 0xE08AE000 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xE08AE0C0 ctl 0xE08AE0CA bmdma 0xE08AE008 irq 11 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7fea 84:4023 85:74e9 86:3c02 87:4023 88:203f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 160836480 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: no device found (phy stat ) scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: HDS722580VLSA80 Rev: V32O Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 - Maybe a wrong *interrupt* is the problem! CPU0 0: 4724423 XT-PIC timer 1: 7103 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 944743 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1, NVidia nForce2, skge, ICE1712, eth0 7: 5803 XT-PIC parport0 8: 0 XT-PIC rtc 9: 3 XT-PIC acpi, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci1394 10: 0 XT-PIC MPU401 UART 11: 360076 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2, libata, nvidia 12: 223166 XT-PIC i8042 14: 1200 XT-PIC ide0 15: 1870 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 4724640 ERR: 53 MIS: 0 Please help! Greetings,He4D Okay! I want to mount my USB 2.0 Harddisk. But i cant mount it without the /dev/sd device Ive done everything that stands in the Gentoo USB Install Manual. Nothing worked! The Kernel is 100% right configured!! Greetings, He4D Make sure you have CONFIG_USB_STORAGE and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD enabled in your kernel config. If the drivers are modular then you need usb_storage and sd_mod loaded (in addition to the usb drivers). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
On Friday 19 August 2005 06:08 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:59:24 +0200, Sébastien MORAND wrote: Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? This looks normal. For example, if you have -ldap in USE, you are unlikely to need perl-ldap. Packages like these are generally only installed as dependencies, they are not end user software, if nothing needs them, they may as well be removed. You can run emerge world -uavDN and revdep-rebuild -p after removing them, just to be certain your system is consistent. Where do we easily find a list of necessary files, system files etc... so we dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time now, can I let depclean remove devfsd? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze
On Thursday 18 August 2005 02:47 am, Tony Davison wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... I should have noted, I can get it running with softlevel=singlest don't know how to determine the problem. I had the same problem this morning after updating baselayout to 1.12.0_pre5, but the booting stopped after starting samba. Downgraded baselayout back to 1.11.13 and everything worked fine again. Thought that might be it, as My laptop is really booting weird now after upgrading as well. It runs some init scripts twice. Over enthusiastic use of etc-update option 5 ? There was a thread about this a while back, basically the new base-layouts move some of the init scripts to /etc/conf.d and can screw up networking if not properly configured. Might be, although I use cfg-update, which I usually catch that stuff. I got it going yest. found some config files that were empty.. Not sure why, but everything is all ok with the desktop now. Now for th elaptop... Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I also agree with the LG comments. They really are good. Only thing that I can criticise is that the drives do get a bit fussy when it comes to cheaper, lesser-known-brand disks - which my CD writer refuses to even start a write on. Other than that, I've never had a bad write on my LG CD writer. I have a Lite-On DVD writer which is also very good. It writes on just about anything except used toilet paper - which is what impressed me. Plus it was quite a bit cheaper than the LG equivalent. Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Mark Humphrey wrote: Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I also agree with the LG comments. They really are good. Only thing that I can criticise is that the drives do get a bit fussy when it comes to cheaper, lesser-known-brand disks - which my CD writer refuses to even start a write on. Other than that, I've never had a bad write on my LG CD writer. I have a Lite-On DVD writer which is also very good. It writes on just about anything except used toilet paper - which is what impressed me. Plus it was quite a bit cheaper than the LG equivalent. Email Disclaimer http://www.aplitec.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm Hi, Could recommend LiteON too for a DVD-writer (also had very good Nec CD-RW). Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:03:52 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Where do we easily find a list of necessary files, system files etc... so we dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time now, can I let depclean remove devfsd? They will be defined in your profile, and therefore be a dependency of system. Emerge will show you a big, scary warning if you try to remove one. The reason depclean wants to remove devfsd is that system no longer requires it, current profiles default to udev. -- Neil Bothwick I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. pgp09UCjcgni7.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light
Good morning, Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. pgpG5D9J3znzj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light
John, None of my Linux boxes with SATA drives (3 machines) show drive activity via the LED. It seems to be some limitation of the Linux drivers. The SATA bus is a different hardware interface from the EIDE interface. My suspicion has been that the LED is hard wired into the EIDE controller and probably has to be driven by extra commands (somehow...) when using the SATA interface. Keep in mind that the EIDE controller is in your chipset and the Silicon Image SATA controller is a completely separate chip so what it's doing may or may not be visible to the hardware that drives the LED. Anyway, a bit long winded but you are not alone. ;-) Cheers, Mark On 8/19/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:01:42AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? Although I'm not totally sure, my reading is that it will grab the highest version marked stable. But I've been wrong before! John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. pgpXZ62i23YTu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering, here's the quote: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, use this option only in combination with the world or system target. I accept that this is somewhat unclear, but to explain it fully would take more space than a man page really is for. But anyway, the 'best' version available is mostly determined by the arch masks, which are determined by the developers. Best in this case is a somewhat poor choice of words, but at least indicates the subjectiveness of the determination. In any case, a few examples: media-video/mplayer Available versions: 1.0_pre6-r4 1.0_pre6-r5 1.0_pre6-r6 1.0_pre7 Installed: 1.0_pre7 Homepage:http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ Description: Media Player for Linux All available versions of mplayer are stable, so the 'best' version is the most recent stable. media-libs/xine-lib Available versions: ~1_rc6-r2 1_rc8-r1 1.0-r2 1.0.1-r3 ~1.0.2 ~1.1.0 ~1.1.0-r1 Installed: 1.0.1-r3 Homepage:http://xine.sourceforge.net/ Description: Core libraries for Xine movie player in this case, if one was using stable arch, and had not activated unstable for this package (as I haven't), the best version is the most recent stable (1.0.1-r3), which is not the most recent version. However, if one was using ~arch, or had activated unstable for this package in /etc/portage/package.mask, then the 'best' version would be 1.1.0-r1, which is the most recent revision, but not in stable Portage. media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.8.25-r3 8.10.19 8.12.10 [M]8.13.3 [M]8.13.4 8.14.13 8.14.13-r1 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 *8.16.20 Installed: 8.14.13-r2 Homepage:http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets Now in this case, the 'best' version is the most recent stable. The second most recent version (8.14.13-r3) is hard masked, but if I unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.unmask (and possibly also /etc/portage/package.keywords), then Portage would consider it the 'best', insofar as it would attempt to install it if I upgraded the drivers. Of course, the very fact that you have to manually unmask the packages should give you pause as to whether you really want to consider this the 'best' for you. The very most recent version (8.16.20) is 'not available' -- meaning that it will never be considered the 'best' version until it returns to Portage; masking or unmasking is of no use here. I know, because I had unmasked and installed the latest drivers, which did not work well, to put it mildly, and today I synced and Portage downgraded them. I would have downgraded them manually anyway, but it was interesting to see Portage downgrade them by force despite the fact that they were still unmasked. They have so many problems that they are no longer on the Portage radar until the issues are determined to at least an extent that someone knows what to fix, and who has to fix it (Gentoo, the kernel guys if it's a kernel conflict, ATI). So, 'best' is a matter of judgement, and basically Gentoo sorts packages into categories so that you can have some context to make the judgement about what is best *for you*. If stable is best for you, then Portage will choose the stable packages (because you told it to). If unstable is best for you, then Portage will choose the unstable packages (because you told it to). If stable is generally best, but in some specific cases, unstable is best for you, then Portage will choose the stable packages except where you told it that unstable is OK. That's how it's done, mostly. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ethereal bug?
James wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: You can check your current style/theme at: ~ grep CurrentTheme .kde3.4/share/config/kcmthememanagerrc CurrentTheme=Plastik Oddly, this file is not present on my system. Here's the listing: ls .kde3.4/share/config/kcm* .kde3.4/share/config/kcmartsrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcminputrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmaudiocdrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmkresourcesrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmbellrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcmlaptoprc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmcddbrc.kde3.4/share/config/kcmmidirc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmdisplayrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmnspluginrc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmfontinstuirc .kde3.4/share/config/kcmshellrc ~ grep widgetStyle .kde3.4/share/config/kdeglobals widgetStyle=Plastik Even more strange, I have this file, but there is nothing that matches even a substring of widget 'idget' the only substring matches I get are for 'Style' XftHintStyle=hintmedium View Style=Simple Also, I did some more checking. I do not have the gtk-alternative-button-order setting in .kde3.4/share/config/gtkrc file, but it *is* in my .kde3.4/.../gtkrc-2.0 file. Coincidentally, my USE flags for ethereal specify gtk2.0: carcharias rjf # emerge -Dv --pretend ethereal ... [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 -adns -gtk +gtk2 +ipv6 -kerberos -snmp +ssl 0 kB Are you building ethereal against gtk1.2 or gtk2.0? emerge -Dv --pretend ethereal reveals [ebuild R ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 -adns -gtk +gtk2 +ipv6 -kerberos -snmp +ssl 0 kB ??? James Very strange...at this point, I would suggest logout of kde, move .kde3.4 to .kde3.4.old, and login again. Everything will be set back to KDE defaults, so you can try ethereal again and see if you have the same problem. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
Holly Bostick schreef: media-libs/xine-lib Available versions: ~1_rc6-r2 1_rc8-r1 1.0-r2 1.0.1-r3 ~1.0.2 ~1.1.0 ~1.1.0-r1 However, if one was using ~arch, or had activated unstable for this package in /etc/portage/package.mask, which should of course be /etc/portage/package.keywords... sigh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Thanks, that was helpful. Now the system finds the root fs and loads it. But the system still wont boot. It tells me RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 as a final kernel message, then just sits there (for ages). At lease its closer to functioning then before, but there are a few bugs to iron out. What could be wrong? Check that your /linuxrc script inside the initrd has exec permissions. Also, you might want to place an: echo Hello from linuxrc message near the top of the script to see if the kernel is executing it. I assume that the initrd image has /dev/console, /dev/null, and /dev/zero? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors
--- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler schreef: Hello everyone, Sound files played fine prior to the update. When unit boots speakers thump at Loading: snd-seq-oss...as before. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lsmod Module Size Used by fglrx 238332 0 agpgart33320 1 fglrx ppp_deflate 6272 0 zlib_deflate 22680 1 ppp_deflate zlib_inflate 18304 1 ppp_deflate ppp_async 11392 1 crc_ccitt 2176 1 ppp_async ppp_generic23828 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async slhc7680 1 ppp_generic snd_pcm_oss58784 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss33024 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq54416 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 8844 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq uhci_hcd 31244 0 rtc 8212 0 ohci1394 32900 0 ieee1394 103220 1 ohci1394 snd_intel8x0 31040 0 snd_ac97_codec 69760 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm93320 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 24836 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd56452 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_m idi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9184 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10372 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ohci_hcd 29448 0 ntfs 207668 1 displays Sound files play but without sound and without any sort of error. Nothing in dmesg, messages amiss. alsasound(newly created in /etc/init.d) is listed in /etc/runlevels/boot and properly linked. Only hint that something is wrong: boot console fails to display mixer settings as before. Yes, my username *is* in the audio group. Must be something simple, but what? Idea #1: Put alsasound in default, rather than boot runlevel. There is no use for sound in the boot runlevel, and having it there often causes (weird, inexplicable) problems. Doesn't work. madplay gives the error Audio: esd_open_sound() failed but the other players xmms, ogg123, mpg123 churn away as if nothing was wrong Idea #2: might something have gone wonky with your mixer settings? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ amixer [...] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [on] Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 [...] everythings else is off HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring
Hi Jonathan, on Thursday, 2005-08-18 at 16:42:56, you wrote: I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main machine and then let the others sync off it. That's what I was thinking...OK, I'll just try it that way. Thanx! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E 1F 10 81 A4 66 29 46 B9 8A B9 E2 09 9F 3B 91 pgpGXD4UOXZkA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering, here's the quote: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, use this option only in combination with the world or system target. I accept that this is somewhat unclear, but to explain it fully would take more space than a man page really is for. SNIP media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.8.25-r3 8.10.19 8.12.10 [M]8.13.3 [M]8.13.4 8.14.13 8.14.13-r1 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 *8.16.20 Installed: 8.14.13-r2 Homepage:http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets Now in this case, the 'best' version is the most recent stable. The second most recent version (8.14.13-r3) is hard masked, but if I unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.unmask (and possibly also /etc/portage/package.keywords), then Portage would consider it the 'best', insofar as it would attempt to install it if I upgraded the drivers. Of course, the very fact that you have to manually unmask the packages should give you pause as to whether you really want to consider this the 'best' for you. The very most recent version (8.16.20) is 'not available' -- meaning that it will never be considered the 'best' version until it returns to Portage; masking or unmasking is of no use here. I know, because I had unmasked and installed the latest drivers, which did not work well, to put it mildly, and today I synced and Portage downgraded them. I would have downgraded them manually anyway, but it was interesting to see Portage downgrade them by force despite the fact that they were still unmasked. They have so many problems that they are no longer on the Portage radar until the issues are determined to at least an extent that someone knows what to fix, and who has to fix it (Gentoo, the kernel guys if it's a kernel conflict, ATI). Hi Holly, Yes, the explanation you give is pretty much what I already knew, with the exception of the ati-drivers example. If this thread is worth continuing then it's probably around that sort of situation. So far: MASKED == not available unless we unmask a package by hand. for stable - highest available stable version would be chosen for ~arch - highest version available, whether stable or ~arch, would be chosen However, in your ati-drivers example you use the term 'not available' for the 8.16.20 version. That's an interesting choice of words since any version 'not available' would (in my mind) never be chosen by --update. It's not part of 'best' because it's not available, or so it seems to me. Best is still the highest version using stable and only changes (I think) if you do an umask in portage.unmask. I think that my question was mostly born out of sort of vague language in the man page. I don't think there's any real mystery here but I've wondered about if for awhile and just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing some great undiscovered feature of portage! Thanks for taking the time to write. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holly Bostick schreef: media-libs/xine-lib Available versions: ~1_rc6-r2 1_rc8-r1 1.0-r2 1.0.1-r3 ~1.0.2 ~1.1.0 ~1.1.0-r1 However, if one was using ~arch, or had activated unstable for this package in /etc/portage/package.mask, which should of course be /etc/portage/package.keywords... sigh. Well, yes, but you're forgiven! ;-) (Or also at the command line with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 even though it's somewhat frowned upon these days.) Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:27:39PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark snip So, 'best' is a matter of judgement, and basically Gentoo sorts packages into categories so that you can have some context to make the judgement about what is best *for you*. If stable is best for you, then Portage will choose the stable packages (because you told it to). If unstable is best for you, then Portage will choose the unstable packages (because you told it to). If stable is generally best, but in some specific cases, unstable is best for you, then Portage will choose the stable packages except where you told it that unstable is OK. That's how it's done, mostly. One other thing is that --update is often contrasted against the now deprecated --upgradeonly option from yonder times. If, say, you updated a package yesterday, and someone found a critical bug in it this morning. The devs decide to hard-mask the ebuild until the problem is solved. emerge --update world will downgrade that packages to the latest one not hard-masked and fits in your profile, while emerge --upgradeonly world will skip that downgrade. I suppose this might have been used before packages.keywords were introduced and allowed people who installed certain programs using KEYWORDS=~arch emerge ... to not constantly worry about the up-and-down jumpiness of updates. Best, W -- `You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' `THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' `No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' `But sir,' it squealed, `I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' `Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.' - Zaphod and the Guide's receptionist. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 7 days, 19:07 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean
dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time now, can I let depclean remove devfsd? yes you can, at least i had no problems with that Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?
What did I miss, my cdrom is no longer /dev/cdroms/cdrom, but now /dev/hdc?? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?
Hi Mike, How about /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 being mapped by udev to /dev/hdc? - Mark On 8/19/05, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did I miss, my cdrom is no longer /dev/cdroms/cdrom, but now /dev/hdc?? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] after emerge -Du world - - no sound no errors
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:41:46AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ amixer [...] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 25 [81%] [on] Front Right: Playback 25 [81%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 [...] everythings else is off I don't know about your computer, but on my desktop, to get sound to play, I also need to turn on Headphones [12:48 PM]wwong ~ $ amixer sget Headphone Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 31 Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on] Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on] [12:48 PM]wwong ~ $ W -- Proud to be a... **** *** *** *** *** ** ** **** **** ** * ** ** **** ** ** ** * ** ** *** ** ** ** *** ** ** ***** **** *** **** *** Sortir en Pantoufles: up 7 days, 19:50 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light
You might want to check a few other options available to you. Often times, hard drives have a specific 2-pin LED connector on the drive itself. This is typically used for having one LED per drive instead one LED per bus, and most commonly found in RAID solutions. Being a SATA drive, it's likely your drive has this connecter as well, and it would be worth looking in your product specifications for. Granted, this solution means you only receive a blinking LED for the SATA drive (all other devices are SOL), but it's at least one more option to consider. As a side note to Mark's comment, I'm not sure it's standard specification. I have a Biostar iDeq 220T, with on board SATA RAID, and the access LED lights up fine for me in Gentoo with no cajoling to speak of. It seems more chipset specific than a standard specification. -- Wade Brown On 8/19/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, None of my Linux boxes with SATA drives (3 machines) show drive activity via the LED. It seems to be some limitation of the Linux drivers. The SATA bus is a different hardware interface from the EIDE interface. My suspicion has been that the LED is hard wired into the EIDE controller and probably has to be driven by extra commands (somehow...) when using the SATA interface. Keep in mind that the EIDE controller is in your chipset and the Silicon Image SATA controller is a completely separate chip so what it's doing may or may not be visible to the hardware that drives the LED. Anyway, a bit long winded but you are not alone. ;-) Cheers, Mark On 8/19/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?
Actually the problem is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 has been the cdrom since this machine got Gentoo, now all the sudden it is listed in dmesg as /dev/hdc. I think I have some issues with the latest baselayout. My boot process seems to repaeat itself when loding drivers and starting the network. I need to do some digging. This is probably all related to a baselayout problem, KDE is messed up with kdesu, I can't upgrade my nvidia-kernel, and nvidia-glx above 1.0.7174 or I get version mismatches. Mike On Friday 19 August 2005 12:47 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Mike, How about /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 being mapped by udev to /dev/hdc? - Mark On 8/19/05, Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did I miss, my cdrom is no longer /dev/cdroms/cdrom, but now /dev/hdc?? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering, here's the quote: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, use this option only in combination with the world or system target. I accept that this is somewhat unclear, but to explain it fully would take more space than a man page really is for. SNIP media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.8.25-r3 8.10.19 8.12.10 [M]8.13.3 [M]8.13.4 8.14.13 8.14.13-r1 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 *8.16.20 Installed: 8.14.13-r2 Homepage:http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets Now in this case, the 'best' version is the most recent stable. The second most recent version (8.14.13-r3) is hard masked, but if I unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.unmask (and possibly also /etc/portage/package.keywords), then Portage would consider it the 'best', insofar as it would attempt to install it if I upgraded the drivers. Of course, the very fact that you have to manually unmask the packages should give you pause as to whether you really want to consider this the 'best' for you. The very most recent version (8.16.20) is 'not available' -- meaning that it will never be considered the 'best' version until it returns to Portage; masking or unmasking is of no use here. I know, because I had unmasked and installed the latest drivers, which did not work well, to put it mildly, and today I synced and Portage downgraded them. I would have downgraded them manually anyway, but it was interesting to see Portage downgrade them by force despite the fact that they were still unmasked. They have so many problems that they are no longer on the Portage radar until the issues are determined to at least an extent that someone knows what to fix, and who has to fix it (Gentoo, the kernel guys if it's a kernel conflict, ATI). Hi Holly, Yes, the explanation you give is pretty much what I already knew, with the exception of the ati-drivers example. If this thread is worth continuing then it's probably around that sort of situation. So far: MASKED == not available unless we unmask a package by hand. for stable - highest available stable version would be chosen for ~arch - highest version available, whether stable or ~arch, would be chosen However, in your ati-drivers example you use the term 'not available' for the 8.16.20 version. That's an interesting choice of words since any version 'not available' would (in my mind) never be chosen by --update. It's not part of 'best' because it's not available, or so it seems to me. It's not my choice of words. Look at packages.gentoo.org and search ati-drivers. 8.16.20 is - for x86, which in the legend is listed as 'not available'. However, this is a status change from yesterday, when it was hard masked (actually hard masked so I had to unmask it in package.unmask). Today the package is no longer available, so when I went to update the package again (after a sync), the package was downgraded, despite still being unmasked. Atm I still have the ebuild, but I imagine if I synced again, it would be removed. The reason I mention it is that if 'best' means 'the most recent' (which is really the only way to quantify such a subjective quality as 'best' for an automated system like Portage), the 'best' version has been known to be removed from Portage completely. Consider the case of unace, for example. The version available in Portage is quite old, and won't open newer *.ace files due to its age, but the 'best' version (i.e., the most current) is not available in Portage at all (unstable or masked; it's just 'not available', because of serious security bugs. Best is still the highest version using stable and only changes (I think) if you do an umask in portage.unmask. 'Best' is the highest version available in Portage, based on your profile (profiles mask packages or keywords based on the needs of the profile), your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting in /etc/make.conf (which may be ~arch, after all, so the highest version using stable would not be accurate in that case), and any adjustments you may have made in /etc/portage/package.keywords and/or /etc/portage/package.unmask. Because 'best' is a matter of judgement, and these settings are your judgement as to what is 'best' for you. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze
On Thursday 18 August 2005 22:52, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2005 02:47 am, Tony Davison wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:28, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... I should have noted, I can get it running with softlevel=singlest don't know how to determine the problem. I had the same problem this morning after updating baselayout to 1.12.0_pre5, but the booting stopped after starting samba. Downgraded baselayout back to 1.11.13 and everything worked fine again. Thought that might be it, as My laptop is really booting weird now after upgrading as well. It runs some init scripts twice. Over enthusiastic use of etc-update option 5 ? There was a thread about this a while back, basically the new base-layouts move some of the init scripts to /etc/conf.d and can screw up networking if not properly configured. Might be, although I use cfg-update, which I usually catch that stuff. I got it going yest. found some config files that were empty.. Not sure why, but everything is all ok with the desktop now. Now for th elaptop... I know how you feel. Just got a new baselayout 1.12.0-pre6 and it changes /etc/conf.d/net quite dramatically. I had to upgrade dhcpcd which then lost my /etc/ntp.conf. To get that back i had to re-emerge ntp, 'cos it also overwrote the example file in usr/share/. maybe I'm getting too old for this ~arch stuff :-) -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze
maybe I'm getting too old for this ~arch stuff :-) HA! You have no Idea!! I sometimes feel too old then I think well I AM!! Mike -- Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Actually the problem is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 has been the cdrom since this machine got Gentoo, now all the sudden it is listed in dmesg as /dev/hdc. dmesg has listed it like that for a long time. Chances are in your previous configuration (whatever that was) you had both /dev/hdc and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, one was the real node and one was a symlink. On my system, cdrom0 is a symlink to hdc. This is probably all related to a baselayout problem, KDE is messed up with kdesu, I can't upgrade my nvidia-kernel, and nvidia-glx above 1.0.7174 or I get version mismatches. Sounds like /usr/src/linux is incorrect or you just need to reload the nvidia module after upgrading. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge woes
haven't updated my box in a while and when I tried this afternoon and I get this error and cant seem to get past it. any ideas? actually im getting several emerge errors across a couple boxes, this is just one of them, different files, but I hope they are somehow related and the answer to this will fix the others. thanks for any and all help. tuxbox htdocs # emerge -uD worldCalculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 257) sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 to / Downloading http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2--14:47:32-- http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2'Resolving gentoo.seren.com... 65.245.115.11Connecting to gentoo.seren.com[65.245.115.11]:80... connected.HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OKLength: 305,598 [application/x-tar] 100%[==] 305,598 13.81K/s ETA 00:00 14:48:17 (8.08 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2' saved [305598/305598] md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.2-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.1.ebuild md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.3.ebuild md5 files ;-) ChangeLog md5 files ;-) metadata.xml md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.2-r1 md5 files ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.3 md5 files ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch md5 src_uri ;-) m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work* Applying m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch ... [ ok ]* Applying m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch ... [ ok ] Source unpacked../configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls --enable-changewordconfigure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.checking for gawk... gawkchecking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gccchecking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executablesSee `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:!!! /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work/m4-1.4.3/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 failed.!!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0!!! econf failed!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
[gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route
I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). I have this: config_eth0=( 192.168.1.5/24 ) which works and: route_eth0=default gw 192.168.1.101 which doesn't work. I tried: route_eth0=(default via 192.168.1.101) and route_eth0=default via 192.168.1.101 noting works. I get no error and no default route. Any ides how to get some output of what's going on or something like ? Or a solution ? Thanks. -- José Pable Ezequiel Fernández -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?
On Friday 19 August 2005 02:05 pm, Daniel Drake wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Actually the problem is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 has been the cdrom since this machine got Gentoo, now all the sudden it is listed in dmesg as /dev/hdc. dmesg has listed it like that for a long time. Chances are in your previous configuration (whatever that was) you had both /dev/hdc and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, one was the real node and one was a symlink. On my system, cdrom0 is a symlink to hdc. This is probably all related to a baselayout problem, KDE is messed up with kdesu, I can't upgrade my nvidia-kernel, and nvidia-glx above 1.0.7174 or I get version mismatches. Sounds like /usr/src/linux is incorrect or you just need to reload the nvidia module after upgrading. No the problem seems to be that emerging nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx builds the files but somehow actually installs teh new gls, and not the new kernel. I don't know why, there have been a few bug reports about this but I can't seem to solve it with either. weird thing it has happened since 1.0.7174 as this seems to work fine. If I upgrade and can't start x I just downgrade to this version on both and works fine.. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route
On 8/19/05, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). I have this: route_eth0=(default via 192.168.1.101) Change that to routes_eth0 and it should work. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge woes
Just fixed a similar problem. The answer(for me) was in the config.log. It wasn't flagged as an error just a line saying /usr/local/include not a dir. At which point output simply stopped without a whimper. Sure enough 'include' was a file containing an include file with a different name--there never was a /usr/local/include dir. Once that was sorted all was serene :) --- Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: haven't updated my box in a while and when I tried this afternoon and I get this error and cant seem to get past it. any ideas? actually im getting several emerge errors across a couple boxes, this is just one of them, different files, but I hope they are somehow related and the answer to this will fix the others. thanks for any and all help. tuxbox htdocs # emerge -uD world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 257) sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 to / Downloading http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 --14:47:32-- http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2' Resolving gentoo.seren.com... 65.245.115.11 Connecting to gentoo.seren.com[65.245.115.11]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 305,598 [application/x-tar] 100%[==] 305,598 13.81K/sETA 00:00 14:48:17 (8.08 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2' saved [305598/305598] md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.2-r1.ebuild md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.1.ebuild md5 files ;-) m4-1.4.3.ebuild md5 files ;-) ChangeLog md5 files ;-) metadata.xml md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.2-r1 md5 files ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.1 md5 files ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.3 md5 files ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch md5 src_uri ;-) m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work * Applying m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch ... [ ok ] Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls --enable-changeword configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for gawk... gawk checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work/m4-1.4.3/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge woes
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:57:05PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables I remember seeing this recently from sandbox: If configure fails with a 'cannot run C compiled programs' error, try this: FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox Good luck. Haven't had this problem, so don't know exactly what the fix is. Just remember that warning from enotice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke on. Just my 2c. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:24:34PM -0300, Jos?? Pablo Ezequiel Fern??ndez wrote: I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). I have this: config_eth0=( 192.168.1.5/24 ) which works and: route_eth0=default gw 192.168.1.101 which doesn't work. I tried: route_eth0=(default via 192.168.1.101) check your spelling. I suggest routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.1.101 ) ^ -| hth W and route_eth0=default via 192.168.1.101 noting works. I get no error and no default route. Any ides how to get some output of what's going on or something like ? Or a solution ? Thanks. -- Jos?? Pable Ezequiel Fern??ndez -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- If we don't all watch the same TV, what will keep our culture homogeneous? -- Calvin Sortir en Pantoufles: up 7 days, 22:59 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer iso ?
Is there an atlhon_xp distro with the installer anywere? I would like to try it but don't want to rebuild everithing later whith the right arch...On 8/15/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Nelis Lamprecht wrote: I can't seem to see these two additional images on any of the mirrors, could someone please point them out to me ?http://your_favourite_mirror/experimental/x86/livecd/x86/livecd-x86-2005.1.isoChristoph--echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Antonio SoutoLaboratorista e mestrando doPIPCA - Programa Interdisciplinar de Pós-Graduação em Computação Aplicada Bacharel em Ciência da ComputaçãoUNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos SinosFones (0xx51) 590- | 591-1100 | 591-1122 ramal 1658São Leopoldo - RS[The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology.]
[gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone
i am install asterisk in gentoo linux, #emerge zaptel #emerge asterisk #modprobe zaptel #modprobe wcfxo #asterisk -vvvc localhost ~ # asterisk -vvvc == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found Asterisk 1.0.8, Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Digium. Written by Mark Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] = == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/logger.conf': Found Asterisk Event Logger Started /var/log/asterisk/event_log == Manager registered action Ping == Manager registered action Events == Manager registered action Logoff == Manager registered action Hangup == Manager registered action Status == Manager registered action Setvar == Manager registered action Getvar == Manager registered action Redirect == Manager registered action Originate == Manager registered action Command == Manager registered action ExtensionState == Manager registered action AbsoluteTimeout == Manager registered action MailboxStatus == Manager registered action MailboxCount == Manager registered action ListCommands == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/manager.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/rtp.conf': Found == RTP Allocating from port range 1 - 2 Asterisk PBX Core Initializing Registering builtin applications: [AbsoluteTimeout] == Registered application 'AbsoluteTimeout' [Answer] == Registered application 'Answer' [BackGround] == Registered application 'BackGround' [Busy] == Registered application 'Busy' [Congestion] == Registered application 'Congestion' [DigitTimeout] == Registered application 'DigitTimeout' [Goto] == Registered application 'Goto' [GotoIf] == Registered application 'GotoIf' [GotoIfTime] == Registered application 'GotoIfTime' [Hangup] == Registered application 'Hangup' [NoOp] == Registered application 'NoOp' [Prefix] == Registered application 'Prefix' [Progress] == Registered application 'Progress' [ResetCDR] == Registered application 'ResetCDR' [ResponseTimeout] == Registered application 'ResponseTimeout' [Ringing] == Registered application 'Ringing' [SayNumber] == Registered application 'SayNumber' [SayDigits] == Registered application 'SayDigits' [SayAlpha] == Registered application 'SayAlpha' [SayPhonetic] == Registered application 'SayPhonetic' [SetAccount] == Registered application 'SetAccount' [SetAMAFlags] == Registered application 'SetAMAFlags' [SetGlobalVar] == Registered application 'SetGlobalVar' [SetLanguage] == Registered application 'SetLanguage' [SetVar] == Registered application 'SetVar' [StripMSD] == Registered application 'StripMSD' [Suffix] == Registered application 'Suffix' [Wait] == Registered application 'Wait' [WaitExten] == Registered application 'WaitExten' Asterisk Dynamic Loader Starting: == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf': Found [chan_modem.so] = (Generic Voice Modem Driver) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modem.conf': Found == Loading modem driver chan_modem_aopen.so = (A/Open (Rockwell Chipset) ITU-2 VoiceModem Driver) == Registered channel type 'Modem' (Generic Voice Modem Channel Driver) [res_musiconhold.so] = (Music On Hold Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/musiconhold.conf': Found == Registered application 'MusicOnHold' == Registered application 'WaitMusicOnHold' == Registered application 'SetMusicOnHold' [res_adsi.so] = (ADSI Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/adsi.conf': Found [res_features.so] = (Call Parking Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/features.conf': Found -- Registered extension context 'parkedcalls' -- Added extension '700' priority 1 to parkedcalls == Registered application 'ParkedCall' == Registered application 'Park' == Manager registered action ParkedCalls [res_crypto.so] = (Cryptographic Digital Signatures) -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'iaxtel' -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'freeworlddialup' [res_indications.so] = (Indications Configuration) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/indications.conf': Found -- Registered indication country 'cl' -- Registered indication country 'tw' -- Registered indication country 'us' -- Registered indication country 'au' -- Registered indication country 'fr' -- Registered indication country 'de' -- Registered indication country 'nl' -- Registered indication country 'uk' -- Registered indication country 'fi' -- Registered indication country 'no' -- Registered indication country 'br' -- Registered indication country 'za' -- Registered indication country 'it' -- Registered indication country 'us-o' -- Registered indication country 'gr' -- Registered indication country 'ru' -- Registered indication country 'nz' -- Registered indication country 'sg' -- Registered indication country 'hu' -- Registered indication country 'lt' -- Registered indication country 'pl' -- Registered indication country
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not my choice of words. Look at packages.gentoo.org and search ati-drivers. Sorry. Didn't mean to imply you were making anything up. thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone
Walter Willis wrote: i am install asterisk in gentoo linux, #emerge zaptel #emerge asterisk #modprobe zaptel #modprobe wcfxo #asterisk -vvvc localhost ~ # asterisk -vvvc == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found Asterisk 1.0.8, Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Digium. Written by Mark Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] = == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/logger.conf': Found Asterisk Event Logger Started /var/log/asterisk/event_log == Manager registered action Ping == Manager registered action Events == Manager registered action Logoff == Manager registered action Hangup == Manager registered action Status == Manager registered action Setvar == Manager registered action Getvar == Manager registered action Redirect == Manager registered action Originate == Manager registered action Command == Manager registered action ExtensionState == Manager registered action AbsoluteTimeout == Manager registered action MailboxStatus == Manager registered action MailboxCount == Manager registered action ListCommands == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/manager.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/rtp.conf': Found == RTP Allocating from port range 1 - 2 Asterisk PBX Core Initializing Registering builtin applications: [AbsoluteTimeout] == Registered application 'AbsoluteTimeout' [Answer] == Registered application 'Answer' [BackGround] == Registered application 'BackGround' [Busy] == Registered application 'Busy' [Congestion] == Registered application 'Congestion' [DigitTimeout] == Registered application 'DigitTimeout' [Goto] == Registered application 'Goto' [GotoIf] == Registered application 'GotoIf' [GotoIfTime] == Registered application 'GotoIfTime' [Hangup] == Registered application 'Hangup' [NoOp] == Registered application 'NoOp' [Prefix] == Registered application 'Prefix' [Progress] == Registered application 'Progress' [ResetCDR] == Registered application 'ResetCDR' [ResponseTimeout] == Registered application 'ResponseTimeout' [Ringing] == Registered application 'Ringing' [SayNumber] == Registered application 'SayNumber' [SayDigits] == Registered application 'SayDigits' [SayAlpha] == Registered application 'SayAlpha' [SayPhonetic] == Registered application 'SayPhonetic' [SetAccount] == Registered application 'SetAccount' [SetAMAFlags] == Registered application 'SetAMAFlags' [SetGlobalVar] == Registered application 'SetGlobalVar' [SetLanguage] == Registered application 'SetLanguage' [SetVar] == Registered application 'SetVar' [StripMSD] == Registered application 'StripMSD' [Suffix] == Registered application 'Suffix' [Wait] == Registered application 'Wait' [WaitExten] == Registered application 'WaitExten' Asterisk Dynamic Loader Starting: == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf': Found [chan_modem.so] = (Generic Voice Modem Driver) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modem.conf': Found == Loading modem driver chan_modem_aopen.so = (A/Open (Rockwell Chipset) ITU-2 VoiceModem Driver) == Registered channel type 'Modem' (Generic Voice Modem Channel Driver) [res_musiconhold.so] = (Music On Hold Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/musiconhold.conf': Found == Registered application 'MusicOnHold' == Registered application 'WaitMusicOnHold' == Registered application 'SetMusicOnHold' [res_adsi.so] = (ADSI Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/adsi.conf': Found [res_features.so] = (Call Parking Resource) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/features.conf': Found -- Registered extension context 'parkedcalls' -- Added extension '700' priority 1 to parkedcalls == Registered application 'ParkedCall' == Registered application 'Park' == Manager registered action ParkedCalls [res_crypto.so] = (Cryptographic Digital Signatures) -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'iaxtel' -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'freeworlddialup' [res_indications.so] = (Indications Configuration) == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/indications.conf': Found -- Registered indication country 'cl' -- Registered indication country 'tw' -- Registered indication country 'us' -- Registered indication country 'au' -- Registered indication country 'fr' -- Registered indication country 'de' -- Registered indication country 'nl' -- Registered indication country 'uk' -- Registered indication country 'fi' -- Registered indication country 'no' -- Registered indication country 'br' -- Registered indication country 'za' -- Registered indication country 'it' -- Registered indication country 'us-o' -- Registered indication country 'gr' -- Registered indication country 'ru' -- Registered indication country 'nz' -- Registered indication country 'sg' -- Registered indication country 'hu' -- Registered indication country 'lt' -- Registered indication country 'pl' -- Registered indication country 'pt' -- Registered indication country 'ee' -- Registered indication country 'mx' --
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X100P clone
yes include : #rc-update add zaptel default #rc-update add asterisk default and after #rc-update del asterisk # reboot and reboot normality, charge modules etc, etc. login in gentoo linux and : #/etc/init.d/asterisk start and #ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.6 0.1 1460 500 ?S16:48 0:02 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SN 16:48 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [events/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [khelper] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [kthread] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [kblockd/0] root60 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [pdflush] root61 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [pdflush] root63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [aio/0] root65 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [xfslogd/0] root66 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [xfsdatad/0] root62 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [kswapd0] root67 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [xfsbufd] root 652 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [kseriod] root 1074 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [khubd] root 1500 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [khpsbpkt] root 1731 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 16:48 0:00 [ata/0] root 2839 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S16:48 0:00 [kjournald] root 6565 0.1 0.1 1460 456 ?Ss 16:48 0:00 udevd root 8305 0.0 0.2 1712 688 ?Ss 16:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng root 8719 0.0 0.4 2208 1120 ?Ss 16:50 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe mysql 8793 0.0 2.0 37624 5272 ?S16:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --us root 8825 0.0 0.5 3152 1440 ?Ss 16:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd mysql 8838 0.0 2.0 37624 5272 ?S16:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --us mysql 8841 0.0 2.0 37624 5272 ?S16:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --us mysql 8859 0.0 2.0 37624 5272 ?S16:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --us root 8925 0.0 0.2 1500 608 tty1 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root 8928 0.0 0.2 1496 604 tty2 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux root 8929 0.0 0.2 1500 608 tty3 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux root 8930 0.0 0.2 1496 604 tty4 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux root 8931 0.0 0.2 1496 608 tty5 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux root 8983 0.0 0.2 1496 608 tty6 Ss+ 16:50 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux root 9025 0.1 0.7 5976 1880 ?Rs 16:52 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 root 9028 0.0 0.5 2212 1300 pts/0Ss 16:52 0:00 -bash asterisk 9094 4.6 1.0 3920 2568 ?S16:53 0:04 mpg123 -q -s --mono -r 8000 -b 2048 -f 4096 fpm-calm-river.mp root 9101 0.0 0.3 2440 832 pts/0R+ 16:54 0:00 ps aux but no work!!! for asterisk is necesary sound card -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs
I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I have some way to get back in. How do I compile a new kernel that I can add to the grub.conf with the alternate config ? Thanks for the input John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - the best version available
Holly Bostick wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/19/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Hi, I wonder what the explanation in the emerge man page about the --update option really means. What is meant by, and how does emerge pick, the best version available? - Mark For those wondering, here's the quote: --update (-u) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, use this option only in combination with the world or system target. I accept that this is somewhat unclear, but to explain it fully would take more space than a man page really is for. SNIP media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.8.25-r3 8.10.19 8.12.10 [M]8.13.3 [M]8.13.4 8.14.13 8.14.13-r1 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 *8.16.20 Installed: 8.14.13-r2 Homepage:http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipsets Now in this case, the 'best' version is the most recent stable. The second most recent version (8.14.13-r3) is hard masked, but if I unmasked it with /etc/portage/package.unmask (and possibly also /etc/portage/package.keywords), then Portage would consider it the 'best', insofar as it would attempt to install it if I upgraded the drivers. Of course, the very fact that you have to manually unmask the packages should give you pause as to whether you really want to consider this the 'best' for you. The very most recent version (8.16.20) is 'not available' -- meaning that it will never be considered the 'best' version until it returns to Portage; masking or unmasking is of no use here. I know, because I had unmasked and installed the latest drivers, which did not work well, to put it mildly, and today I synced and Portage downgraded them. I would have downgraded them manually anyway, but it was interesting to see Portage downgrade them by force despite the fact that they were still unmasked. They have so many problems that they are no longer on the Portage radar until the issues are determined to at least an extent that someone knows what to fix, and who has to fix it (Gentoo, the kernel guys if it's a kernel conflict, ATI). Hi Holly, Yes, the explanation you give is pretty much what I already knew, with the exception of the ati-drivers example. If this thread is worth continuing then it's probably around that sort of situation. So far: MASKED == not available unless we unmask a package by hand. for stable - highest available stable version would be chosen for ~arch - highest version available, whether stable or ~arch, would be chosen However, in your ati-drivers example you use the term 'not available' for the 8.16.20 version. That's an interesting choice of words since any version 'not available' would (in my mind) never be chosen by --update. It's not part of 'best' because it's not available, or so it seems to me. It's not my choice of words. Look at packages.gentoo.org and search ati-drivers. 8.16.20 is - for x86, which in the legend is listed as 'not available'. However, this is a status change from yesterday, when it was hard masked (actually hard masked so I had to unmask it in package.unmask). Today the package is no longer available, so when I went to update the package again (after a sync), the package was downgraded, despite still being unmasked. Atm I still have the ebuild, but I imagine if I synced again, it would be removed. The reason I mention it is that if 'best' means 'the most recent' (which is really the only way to quantify such a subjective quality as 'best' for an automated system like Portage), the 'best' version has been known to be removed from Portage completely. Consider the case of unace, for example. The version available in Portage is quite old, and won't open newer *.ace files due to its age, but the 'best' version (i.e., the most current) is not available in Portage at all (unstable or masked; it's just 'not available', because of serious security bugs. I don't believe the ebuild will be removed at any stage from portage for 8.16.20. I'd say this is so people (more the developers with more skills than I) can have a crack at fixing the problems encountered with the ebuild. What they have done is remove all architectures from the ebuild so that it won't be installed without user intervention (exactly like gcc4 versions) KEYWORDS=-* #~amd64 ~x86 (The #~amd64 ~x86 part is not included as the brackets are already closed) The package is not available on any architectures (therefore no longer masked) The way to make it available (not that I'd recommend it) is to put the following in /etc/portage/package.keywords media-video/ati-drivers -* By doing that (and only that) has the new version become available to
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light
John - I have a similar story to yours but it probably has nothing to do with your situation. I will tell it anyway just in case it helps anyone. Once upon a time, I had Windows on my computer. All of the LEDs worked perfectly. One day I upgraded my BIOS (in Windows) and rebooted into Linux. I happily used my computer for some time until one day I noticed that none of my LEDs were working. The reset button had stopped working too. At first I thought I had a short or a faulty ground at the LEDs. What else could possibly explain why they all stopped working at once? In the course of trying to troubleshoot the problem, I reversed the pins of the LEDs and switch. When I turned it back on, everything was working again. The only thing I can think of that it could have been is the BIOS flash. I don't remember if the LEDs worked in Windows after the BIOS flash but before reversing the pins. Actually, I don't know if they work in Windows after reversing the pins either. I find it hard to imagine how my problem could have been OS specific. The moral of the story is that your motherboard manufacturer can (and mine did) reverse the polarity of the pins in BIOS between versions. In my case they did this to all of the LEDs at once. It might be possible, though I think it's quite unlikely, that it could happen to only one LED too. It is easier for me to imagine this happening if the LED in question is the only one that uses a two pin-wide connector yet the MOBO provides three pins for it. Since SATA support in Linux is still pretty green, I'm guessing that Mark and Wade are right and that your SATA chipset isn't perfectly supported yet. However, if you flashed your BIOS at about the same time you punted Windows, that could be a clue. Even if you didn't flash recently, if your HDD LED stays dark even when your IDE CDROM is active, you might try reversing the pins. - Matt Wade Brown wrote: You might want to check a few other options available to you. Often times, hard drives have a specific 2-pin LED connector on the drive itself. This is typically used for having one LED per drive instead one LED per bus, and most commonly found in RAID solutions. Being a SATA drive, it's likely your drive has this connecter as well, and it would be worth looking in your product specifications for. Granted, this solution means you only receive a blinking LED for the SATA drive (all other devices are SOL), but it's at least one more option to consider. As a side note to Mark's comment, I'm not sure it's standard specification. I have a Biostar iDeq 220T, with on board SATA RAID, and the access LED lights up fine for me in Gentoo with no cajoling to speak of. It seems more chipset specific than a standard specification. -- Wade Brown On 8/19/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, None of my Linux boxes with SATA drives (3 machines) show drive activity via the LED. It seems to be some limitation of the Linux drivers. The SATA bus is a different hardware interface from the EIDE interface. My suspicion has been that the LED is hard wired into the EIDE controller and probably has to be driven by extra commands (somehow...) when using the SATA interface. Keep in mind that the EIDE controller is in your chipset and the Silicon Image SATA controller is a completely separate chip so what it's doing may or may not be visible to the hardware that drives the LED. Anyway, a bit long winded but you are not alone. ;-) Cheers, Mark On 8/19/05, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Something that's been bothering me, although not that much, for about 3 years now. I've never investigated, and perhaps the answer is simple, but every distro I've used (RH9, FC1, FC2, Suse 9.1, and now Gentoo), has not shown the tiny blinking drive activity indicator on the front of my tower. This machine has always, until a few weeks ago when I finally dumped it for good, dual-booted with XP. And XP always showed activity via the light when there was activity. I would have thought that this was actually a hardware signal, and not OS related. But it doesn't appear that way. This is with a WD 36GB SATA drive on a ASUS A7N8X deluxe mobo w/ onboard Silicon Image controller. Any, and all, help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USE flags
I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? Thanks, as always, for the input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] updates
I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However, if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new version of the gentoo-sources (2.6.12-r9). Why wouldn't kernel updates be included in a system emerge? Thanks, as always, for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I have had a TDK and now a SONY dual-layer. Both work excellent. Sony on newegg.com for 89.00. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux! Registered Linux User#225662 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B
John Dangler wrote: looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networking, I see an entry which says. [blocks B] =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.0 (is blocking net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3) . . . [ebuild N] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3 -debug 61kb [ebuild U] net-wirelss/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 [1.1.0] -debug 96kb After reading the portage documentation online, I'm a little confused. Should I unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0 in order for the ieee package to emerge? (when I read through the packages that were necessary for the wireless to work, I found that I should emerge both. Any input, as always, is appreciated. John D With a quick look at that it looks like the old version of net-wireless/ipw2100 is causing ieee80211-1.0.3 to be blocked. Give this a go: Update this package first # emerge -u ipw2100 (or emerge --nodeps -u ipw2100 if that doesn't go) Then try updating as you did before and see if it still occurs Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B
That fails with this... !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 failed. !!! Function linux-mod-src-compile, Line 491, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux IEEE80211_INC=/usr/include all. 3 John D -Original Message- From: Peter O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B John Dangler wrote: looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networking, I see an entry which says. [blocks B] =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.0 (is blocking net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3) . . . [ebuild N] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3 -debug 61kb [ebuild U] net-wirelss/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 [1.1.0] -debug 96kb After reading the portage documentation online, I'm a little confused. Should I unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0 in order for the ieee package to emerge? (when I read through the packages that were necessary for the wireless to work, I found that I should emerge both. Any input, as always, is appreciated. John D With a quick look at that it looks like the old version of net-wireless/ipw2100 is causing ieee80211-1.0.3 to be blocked. Give this a go: Update this package first # emerge -u ipw2100 (or emerge --nodeps -u ipw2100 if that doesn't go) Then try updating as you did before and see if it still occurs Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs
John Dangler wrote: I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I have some way to get back in. How do I compile a new kernel that I can add to the grub.conf with the alternate config ? The kernel config file used for compiling the kernel is called .config So, to compile a kernel with that config file, just replace the .config with your alternate file, saving the old .config of course if you want to keep it: mv .config my-old-config mv my-new-config .config (do this in the kernel source dir) You might have to call 'make clean' before you compile your new kernel, i'm not 100% sure on that -- it won't harm though. You can add as many kernels to your grub config as you like -- you might want to check with the install guide how to do that exactly: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 Basically, your second kernel gets the same kind of entry just as your first, but you will want to change the title and of course the kernel (the root line should be the same as in the first block). Move your kernel under the name you specified to the same location where your other kernel is, using the name you specified in the config. (you will probably have to mount your /boot partition to do all this naturally) I.e. add an extra block something like this to your grub.conf: title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r11 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
John Dangler wrote: I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? Thanks, as always, for the input. John D I believe it takes the default USE flags from /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/make.defaults (since I am on a x86) The way the system works is that it applies those default USE flags unless you say otherwise. The way to alter the default USE flags for your system is to edit your /etc/make.conf and make additions/subtractions from the USE flags. Basically this is a way to customise your system to the way you want it. This site shows them all and a brief description http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml The best way to see what USE flags are currently set is # emerge info as this takes into account the defaults and all the changes you have made through /etc/make.conf For instance in the default USE flags has USE=alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds(many more) If you don't have a printer on your system, there is little point in having cups as a USE flag (it will add unnecessary time to compile your packages). So in your /etc/make.conf file you can put USE=-cups Same thing if you don't want to use kde, and say you want to have mozilla support on your system as well you would end up with. USE=-cups -kde mozilla Then if you run # emerge info again it will have removed cups and kde from the USE flags and added mozilla to the list as well. Hope that helps Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
John Dangler wrote: I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? The relevant part in the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2 A list of all USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: xbindkeys and kde-3.3.2
Oscar Carlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why are you using some external program when there is a superb support for keybindnings in kwin? Everything you need for keybindings is avalible in kcontrol :) It is a superior setup. It can be hand edited in minutes. Mass entries of 20 to 30 keycombos can be setup in a matter of a minute or two. No wasted clickity clack baloney. And it is dead simple. Further it is portable to any of the more common linux desktops. All and all it would be a hard one to beat. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates
John Dangler wrote: I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However, if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new version of the gentoo-sources (2.6.12-r9). Why wouldn't kernel updates be included in a system emerge? The packages in your system come from /etc/make.profile/packages (Note: do *not* edit this file) The packages considered for world are the ones from system plus the ones in /var/lib/portage/world The world file is where portage records the packages you emerged, e.g. when you typed emerge gentoo-sources it recorded it there. I suppose the reason the kernel is not in the system file is that this file is a kind of 'factory-defaults', which you shouldn't be normally changing. But there is more than just one kernel source tarball avilable in portage, e.g. gentoo-sources, vanilla-sources and some more. Putting this in the system file would unnecessarily constrain your choice as to which kernel to run. Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Finer grained date output.
This question is not gentoo specific but really a more general question about date manipulation. Like many people I use the `date' command to set file names that need to be unique by using one of the specially formatted commands, to output something like: img_080905_103343.jpg Which is img_$(date +%m%d%y_%H%M%S).jpg or mnthdayyr_hrminsec This is used in file renaming scripts or the like. I want to find some tool that outputs a more fine grained reading. Maybe adding milliseconds to output so that the unique names can be generated in less than a second. I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the `date' command that is its own dedicated program. Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates
you might also want to try man emerge most commands on your system will have a manpage, and they will probably give you helpful hints as to how they function. you can also do it with any other command: man ls man gcc man ldd man man ... Hope that helps, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] updates
That makes some sense. (Gentoo is all about choices) So, basically, I emerge the new 'slot' and then re-compile the new kernel version according to the handbook, giving me both the existing kernel version and the new version... John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates John Dangler wrote: I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However, if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new version of the gentoo-sources (2.6.12-r9). Why wouldn't kernel updates be included in a system emerge? The packages in your system come from /etc/make.profile/packages (Note: do *not* edit this file) The packages considered for world are the ones from system plus the ones in /var/lib/portage/world The world file is where portage records the packages you emerged, e.g. when you typed emerge gentoo-sources it recorded it there. I suppose the reason the kernel is not in the system file is that this file is a kind of 'factory-defaults', which you shouldn't be normally changing. But there is more than just one kernel source tarball avilable in portage, e.g. gentoo-sources, vanilla-sources and some more. Putting this in the system file would unnecessarily constrain your choice as to which kernel to run. Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained date output.
Harry Putnam wrote: I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the `date' command that is its own dedicated program. Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? man date look for nanosecond format, e.g.: date +%N Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags
The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE=-X with the system level apps (although I don't know if that's the best plan for something like cdrtools/dvdrtools). I did find the defaults (thanks!) and have added those as comments in my make.conf file just for my own reference. I figure that the next step (aside from the reading of the online docs) is to get cd tools and anti-virus (clam looks good) running. At the point that I think I have everything at this level, I intend to back it up (jic), and then install X, sound, and get a graphical environment running - at least that looks to be the most logical next steps... I really appreciate the feedback!!! John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:51 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? The relevant part in the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2 A list of all USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs
Does the moving of the config files have any effect on the already compiled kernel? (I was under the impression that a .config _went with_ a specific build) or is that a throwback to too much time in a m$ environment? John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs John Dangler wrote: I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file. I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I have some way to get back in. How do I compile a new kernel that I can add to the grub.conf with the alternate config ? The kernel config file used for compiling the kernel is called .config So, to compile a kernel with that config file, just replace the .config with your alternate file, saving the old .config of course if you want to keep it: mv .config my-old-config mv my-new-config .config (do this in the kernel source dir) You might have to call 'make clean' before you compile your new kernel, i'm not 100% sure on that -- it won't harm though. You can add as many kernels to your grub config as you like -- you might want to check with the install guide how to do that exactly: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 Basically, your second kernel gets the same kind of entry just as your first, but you will want to change the title and of course the kernel (the root line should be the same as in the first block). Move your kernel under the name you specified to the same location where your other kernel is, using the name you specified in the config. (you will probably have to mount your /boot partition to do all this naturally) I.e. add an extra block something like this to your grub.conf: title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r11 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - vsftp revisited
I have a user who can't upload files to his account on my server. He can connect and log in, he can see the files and directories in his home directory, but he can't interact with them. I can log into my personal account via the external IP of my router and interact with my personal account just fine, so I'm not sure why he can't use his. Here's the information I've been able to gather: He is using FireFTP as his client on Windows XP. He can log into the FTP server, his home directory loads, but he can't move from his home directory to any of the subdirectories under his home directory. Here is the log output from his most recent attempt, taken from /var/log/vsftpd.log: Fri Aug 19 21:10:08 2005 [pid 23592] CONNECT: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:10:09 2005 [pid 23591] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:10:51 2005 [pid 23595] CONNECT: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:10:51 2005 [pid 23594] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:11:32 2005 [pid 23609] CONNECT: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:11:32 2005 [pid 23608] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:12:12 2005 [pid 23614] CONNECT: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:12:12 2005 [pid 23613] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:12:53 2005 [pid 23617] CONNECT: Client 68.226.26.135 Fri Aug 19 21:12:53 2005 [pid 23616] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client 68.226.26.135 I have no idea even how to start solving this problem. I don't have access to a computer outside my network with Internet access, so I've only been able to try connecting to the same address he does, except from inside the network. Can anyone help me out here? -Michael Sullivan- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
The way dependencies seem to work with portage, I wouldn't bother installing x. Just install say kde or gnome or whatever (see the docs) and X will be installed and configured automagically. for instance, I installed this dell laptop, then emerged kde-meta (be patient if you try that...my poor celeron took 16 hours to do that) and followed the documentation for kde on the gentoo site and it's all happy...except sound works in xmms, but not kde sytem notificationsnot sure why, but it's at the BOTTOM of my list. On Friday 19 August 2005 21:19, John Dangler wrote: The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE=-X with the system level apps (although I don't know if that's the best plan for something like cdrtools/dvdrtools). I did find the defaults (thanks!) and have added those as comments in my make.conf file just for my own reference. I figure that the next step (aside from the reading of the online docs) is to get cd tools and anti-virus (clam looks good) running. At the point that I think I have everything at this level, I intend to back it up (jic), and then install X, sound, and get a graphical environment running - at least that looks to be the most logical next steps... I really appreciate the feedback!!! John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:51 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? The relevant part in the docs: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2 A list of all USE flags: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates
John Dangler wrote: That makes some sense. (Gentoo is all about choices) So, basically, I emerge the new 'slot' and then re-compile the new kernel version according to the handbook, giving me both the existing kernel version and the new version... Exactly, installing the new kernel sources does not automatically clean out the old ones. After you've compiled the new kernel and copied it to /boot, you can then add another entry to grub.conf so you can choose between the two kernels when booting. Hint: If you're happy with your old kernel config, copy it over from your old kernel dir (or from /boot if you've saved it there) to your new kernel directory. you can then run 'make oldconfig' which will only prompt you for new configuration options that have been added between the releases so you don't have to select everything again by hand. One further note about cleaning out old kernels: running make modules_install will install the kernel modules to a subdirectory in /lib/modules/. Once you're not *using* an old kernel anymore, you can remove the subdirectory specific to that kernel from there. emerge -C =some-kernel-version will only remove the kernel sources from /usr/src Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B
Would John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B That fails with this... !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 failed. !!! Function linux-mod-src-compile, Line 491, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux IEEE80211_INC=/usr/include all. John D Would the solution be to unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0, then emerge -uDv world, then emerge ipw2100 ? John D -Original Message- From: Peter O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B John Dangler wrote: looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networking, I see an entry which says. [blocks B] =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.0 (is blocking net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3) . . . [ebuild N] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3 -debug 61kb [ebuild U] net-wirelss/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 [1.1.0] -debug 96kb After reading the portage documentation online, I'm a little confused. Should I unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0 in order for the ieee package to emerge? (when I read through the packages that were necessary for the wireless to work, I found that I should emerge both. Any input, as always, is appreciated. John D With a quick look at that it looks like the old version of net-wireless/ipw2100 is causing ieee80211-1.0.3 to be blocked. Give this a go: Update this package first # emerge -u ipw2100 (or emerge --nodeps -u ipw2100 if that doesn't go) Then try updating as you did before and see if it still occurs Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
John Dangler wrote: The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE=-X with the system level apps (although I don't know if that's the best plan for something like cdrtools/dvdrtools). just add the ones you need -- you're not missing out on anything :) you can always add them later on when you need them I really appreciate the feedback!!! no problem Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained date output.
Marco Matthies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the `date' command that is its own dedicated program. Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? man date look for nanosecond format, e.g.: date +%N Ha .. Thanks.. has that been there a long time? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Sean Johnson wrote: I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke on. Just my 2c. I could have bought another brand for less, but my Plextor has yet to meet a brand of disc that it couldn't burn. I haven't had any bad burns yet either. One thing you might do is check http://www.videohelp.com/dvdwriters to read up on whichever models you are thinking about buying. This site lists reviews and blank media compatibility reports for nearly every drive under the sun. Check to see how picky the drives you like are and read the reviews. If you find one that will burn perfectly on every type of media that has been tried in it, that's a major plus. Many drives have trouble writing to inexpensive discs. When you find a promising drive or two, look to see if any of the reportedly compatible media can be bought at your local shop. Better yet, look for some you can buy in bulk on the cheap through a shopping engine (I like pricewatch.com). Be sure to verify that the media you intend to use will play in your set-top DVD player too. Find your DVD player at http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers and look at the player's media compatibility reports to do this. The compatibility lists for the players aren't always as complete as they are for the burners--especially for older players--but it is better to have looked than not to have. It's a lot of leg-work, but it beats buying a drive that will only burn expensive media, or that won't burn any of the brands of discs that work in your set-top box. When you find a drive/cheap-media/player combination that works, you can save a lot of money by buying the discs in bulk, even if you have to pay a premium for a more capable burner. When you find a good deal on a DVD burner, and that burner will record a wide variety of brands of discs, and among those varieties of discs are some that you can get cheap, and those cheap discs will play in your set-top DVD player... well, then start digging out your credit card already! What more do you want?! Just my 13 cents. P.S.: Seemingly identical blank discs can be made by different manufacturers even if they are the same brand/speed/model-number. Don't buy bulk media unless you're ABSOLUTELY sure that it is going to work for you. You might ask the vendor if they will sell you a sample disc to test first. Who knows? It could happen. -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs
John Dangler wrote: Does the moving of the config files have any effect on the already compiled kernel? (I was under the impression that a .config _went with_ a specific build) or is that a throwback to too much time in a m$ environment? the .config file determines how and especially which parts of the kernel are built by the kernel build environment -- the .config has no effect after the kernel has been built. a windows kernel will probably be built similarly, though who knows what happens in the kernel caverns of redmond... :) Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags
And how I hate to miss out on anything! :) Thanks, again Marco. John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE=-X with the system level apps (although I don't know if that's the best plan for something like cdrtools/dvdrtools). just add the ones you need -- you're not missing out on anything :) you can always add them later on when you need them I really appreciate the feedback!!! no problem Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo stage 3 using kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6, following the documentation. after #umount /mnt/gentoo ... (Chapter 10.d. Rebooting the system) #reboot The following messages are displayed: shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl Any pointer on how to tackle this prob? Thanks heaps for any pointers. Regards, Yance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wireless update [was update with B]
running emerge -uDvp world, I got a block between ipw2100 and ieee-80211. I ran emerge -C ipw2100, and the block cleared, although ieee80211 was no longer in the update list either. Since it was recommended to have both of these on the system in order for the wireless to work correctly, is that a bug or do I really not need both of these on the system? the install is 2005.1 2.6.12-r6 on a dell i8600 Thanks as always for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B
John Dangler wrote: Would John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] An interesting conundrum indeed. You can't install (due to it being blocked) ieee80211-1.0.3 with ipw2100-1.1.0 merged And from the error message you posted it looks like you can't merge ipw2100 (1.1.0) without having the ieee80211 package installed. So an unmerge of the old version and emerge of the newer version (which isn't ideal) was the only way to upgrade ipw2100, which has worked -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B That fails with this... !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 failed. !!! Function linux-mod-src-compile, Line 491, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux IEEE80211_INC=/usr/include all. John D Would the solution be to unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0, then emerge -uDv world, then emerge ipw2100 ? John D -Original Message- From: Peter O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B John Dangler wrote: looking at the list of updates after a fresh install of 2005.1 (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop which has both wired and wireless networking, I see an entry which says. [blocks B] =net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.0 (is blocking net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3) . . . [ebuild N] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.0.3 -debug 61kb [ebuild U] net-wirelss/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 [1.1.0] -debug 96kb After reading the portage documentation online, I'm a little confused. Should I unmerge ipw2100-1.1.0 in order for the ieee package to emerge? (when I read through the packages that were necessary for the wireless to work, I found that I should emerge both. Any input, as always, is appreciated. John D With a quick look at that it looks like the old version of net-wireless/ipw2100 is causing ieee80211-1.0.3 to be blocked. Give this a go: Update this package first # emerge -u ipw2100 (or emerge --nodeps -u ipw2100 if that doesn't go) Then try updating as you did before and see if it still occurs Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with portage overlay
Hi there, When I run the ebuild command with the digest parameter, I get an error. Please be assured that the path is correctly pointing to a downloaded ebuild. Avalon media-video # pwd /usr/local/portageOverlay/media-video Avalon media-video # ebuild /usr/local/portageOverlay/media-video/f4l-0.2.ebuild digest !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'portageOverlay/f4l-0.2' not specified: !!!None !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'portageOverlay/f4l-0.2' not specified: !!!None doebuild(): aux_get() error reading portageOverlay/f4l-0.2; aborting. Avalon media-video # Any ideas? Thanks! Ian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wireless update [was update with B]
John Dangler wrote: running emerge -uDvp world, I got a block between ipw2100 and ieee-80211. I ran emerge -C ipw2100, and the block cleared, although ieee80211 was no longer in the update list either. Since it was recommended to have both of these on the system in order for the wireless to work correctly, is that a bug or do I really not need both of these on the system? the install is 2005.1 2.6.12-r6 on a dell i8600 Thanks as always for any input. John D By doing emerge -C ipw2100 you have removed the ipw2100 package (so you no longer have it on your system). This also removes ipw2100 from /var/lib/portage/world Now when you run emerge -uDvp world it no longer includes ipw2100 (and dependencies of ipw2100, which ieee80211 is) in the list. If you want to use ipw2100 you will have to emerge it again (which will emerge ieee80211 as well). Do an emerge -p ipw2100 (having unmerged it already, it shouldn't have the block on ieee80211). Then if all looks good emerge ipw2100 and hopefully you don't get any errors on compilation -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with portage overlay
Ian K wrote: Hi there, When I run the ebuild command with the digest parameter, I get an error. Please be assured that the path is correctly pointing to a downloaded ebuild. Avalon media-video # pwd /usr/local/portageOverlay/media-video Avalon media-video # ebuild /usr/local/portageOverlay/media-video/f4l-0.2.ebuild /usr/local/portageOverlay/media-video/f4l/f4l-0.2.ebuild ^ Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:46:21PM -0400, John Dangler wrote I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default' settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? The default settings for X86 machines using 2005.1 is the sum of base, default-linux, default-linux/x86 and default-linux/x86/2005.1. It's the developers' attempt to be all things to all people. However, one size does not fit all. For instance default-linux/x86/make.defaults contains the statement... USE=alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode fortran foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis X xml2 xmms xv zlib While the KDE and GNOME people make some great *APPLICATIONS* (e.g. Koffice, Gnumeric, AbiWord, etc) their desktop environments are fat, bloated, resource-hogging, eye-candy that accomplish nothing other than to make a P4 emulate a PII with half the RAM. I don't want the gnome or kde flags. That means dumping the arts flag, because ARTS depends on KDE and building ARTS will result in building KDE. Why is oss in there as a flag, given that OSS is deprecated? PAM is a good idea for somebody running a server with multiple external users accessing it. IMHO, PAM belongs in the optional security packages, with hardened linux, and NSA SELinux. For the average home desktop, PAM is a PITA. The 90%+ of the online world that doesn't use IPV6 can do without the ipv6 flag, thank you. When the ipv6 flag was introduced, a lot of people noticed their internet apps would sit there for 90 seconds, time out IPV6, and then try IPV4 addresses... oops. To block that, put -ipv6 in your USE. My approach is to use -* which zaps all flags, then specify the ones *I* want/need. If a particular package wants/needs a specific flag, hey that's what /etc/portage/package.use is for. If enough packages need a specific flag, I'll think about adding it to my USE variable. Here's what I have... USE=-* a52 aac alsa apm audiofile dio encode exif ffmpeg flac foomatic fortran gb gif gstreamer gtk2 ieee1394 jpeg maildir mikmod mmap mmx mng ncurses offensive ogg opengl plotutil png posix quicktime sdl slang sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vorbis win32codecs wmf xv Your specific needs will differ, depending on what *YOU* run on your machine. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations
Edward A Mihalow Jr wrote: Mark wrote: I have a TDK indi DVD. It works perfectly. I would also add that I have excellent results with LG products as others have mentioned. I have had a TDK and now a SONY dual-layer. Both work excellent. Sony on newegg.com for 89.00. I'm running a Sony dual layer here ($89.00Ca at futureshop.ca) works just fine. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] updates with B
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:31:14AM +1200, Peter O'Connor wrote: An interesting conundrum indeed. You can't install (due to it being blocked) ieee80211-1.0.3 with ipw2100-1.1.0 merged And from the error message you posted it looks like you can't merge ipw2100 (1.1.0) without having the ieee80211 package installed. So an unmerge of the old version and emerge of the newer version (which isn't ideal) was the only way to upgrade ipw2100, which has worked Now that much of a conundrum. If I remember correctly, earlier versions of ipw2100/2200 provided the functionalities of ieee80211. The two split in mid July for better packaging (and allowing other drivers to use the ieee80211 functions). Seeing that these are kernel modules, ieee80211 package will provide conflicting symbol names with the (old) ipw2100 package, and that is bad. The block prevents the conflict from happening accidentally. This type of block you will see a lot in gentoo land, especially when packages are split up or certain functionalities of packages are extracted (for example, when mailbase and ftpbase were introduced last year). In general, the solution to blocks due to your current version being not new enough, is to 1. unmerge current version 2. remerge new version. The package being blocked will most likely be included in the emerge as a dependency. W -- Why can't I ever build character at a Miami condo or a casino somewhere? -- Calvin Sortir en Pantoufles: up 8 days, 7:56 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained date output.
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:17:27AM +0200, Marco Matthies wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the `date' command that is its own dedicated program. Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? man date look for nanosecond format, e.g.: date +%N The nanosecond option has always puzzled me, if only because on my box I never get any finer grained output than microseconds... i.e. date +%N always gives 0 as the last three digits. Now technically this computer runs at 2 GHz... so presumably it is possible to hit the enter key not exactly on the microsecond. Is there something in the kernel? or the clock? W -- You're not paranoid. The world _IS_ fucked. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 8 days, 8:08 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
