Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Vishnu Mohan is out of the office.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I will be out of the office starting 08/02/2006 and will not return until 08/08/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. If this is an urgent matter please contact Chris Martino or Madhav Kundala -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list ### Begin ~/.procmailrc rule ### # dump dork who sends out-of-office-replies to ml's :0 * ^From.*([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /dev/null ### End ~/.procmailrc rule ### -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:58 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:20 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: They're great devices - you can often buy a multimeter (every geek should have one :) with a current clamp (or transducer) thrown in. That way you have no wiring, no inline plugs, and you won't even have to turn the PC off to install it! Dang. I have to kick myself for calling myself a Geek. yeah, I have sore shins too... Here's one that is just a current clamp [fluke.com.au]: http://www.fluke.com.au/auen/products/Fluke+320.htm?catalog_name=FlukeAustralia but you can buy a normal multimeter with the option too... Hmm.. How does it work? Perhaps a google search or go through howstuffswork.com would help. how does it work or how do you use it? You use it by clipping the claws around one wire that you're interested in... um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp... oh well, it was a nice idea. But how it works (with AC) is something like this: AC produces a field around the wire as it flows. This field in turn will induce a current in a wire placed close to it. Loop a wire (transducer) around another wire (AC current flow), and you can inference the change in current in the original wire by measuring the current flow in the loop. It doesn't work with DC, as DC doesn't create a field (at least, not when it's steady. When switching on and off a DC device, you'll still get a change in current) IANAE(lectrician), so this might be complete bunkum, but that's how I remember it anyway. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Truth is free, but information costs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???
...forgot one...: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146468 keep booting! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with quota
thats right.. but always been this way... i can figure out was wrong On 8/3/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thiago Lüttig wrote: /dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults,quota,grpquota 1 2 Should not it be: defaults,usrquota,grpquota? At least in my fstab it is so, and I'm having no problems... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- __ Atenciosamente, Thiago Lüttig MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 194392373 __ Argh, it was an HTML-Mail. My doctor forbids me to deal with HTML-Mails. ;) Btw isn't defaults unnecessary if other options are specified? Regards Sebastian Noack -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work
Hi there, I've been trying to upgrade my Gentoo Laptop to 3.4.6 with the upgrade guide.. Everything seemed to go OK except now when I issue emerge --sync I get the message Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to 140.211.166.165: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(107) [receiver=2.6.8] . I thought maybe I would repeat the upgrade process but can't get passed emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3. The compilation starts and then always seems to freeze at In file included from /var/tmp/portage/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4/work/gcc-3.3.4/gcc/expr.c:39 /var/tmp/portage/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4/work/gcc-3.3.4/gcc/recog.h:227: warning type of bit-field mode is a GCC extension. I have a feeling I removed all the old GCC versions previously with emerge -aC =sys-devel/gcc-3.3* which is why it keeps failing. Another problem is that my laptop randomly freezes solid since upgrading GCC necessating a power cycle in order to get going again. I'm sort of thinking of rebuilding my system from scratch (presumably with emerge -e system and then emerge -e world) or am I just wasting lots of time. I susppect I've done something stupid ... Thanks anyone, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
Michael Crute wrote: Is it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the disk? Yes. Use fdisk to do so. Changing the part. types won't hurt the other partitions. Alexander Skwar -- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage
Iain Buchanan wrote: um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp... Or only the neutral. It doesn't matter, actually. But how it works (with AC) is something like this: AC produces a field around the wire as it flows. This field in turn will induce a current in a wire placed close to it. Loop a wire (transducer) around another wire (AC current flow), and you can inference the change in current in the original wire by measuring the current flow in the loop. It doesn't work with DC, as DC doesn't create a field (at least, not when it's steady. When switching on and off a DC device, you'll still get a change in current) IANAE(lectrician), so this might be complete bunkum, but that's how I remember it anyway. You almost got it. Actually, it's not necessary that the current be AC: even a DC current produces a magnetic field around the conductor (albeit a DC field). The clamp is a ferromagnetic ring that concentrates the magnetic field, and it is interrupted at one location by a hall-effect sensor that measures the magnetic field. The current can be calculated from the magnetic field intensity and the diameter of the clamp ring. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???
On 8/3/06, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I guess from here, I too will ask my own question stemming from this one: How do I get a bootloader (lilo preferably for me) to boot a device which may not always be in the same place like a SCSI-ish disk? Pay attention to BIOS drive mappings. Boot loaders like grub work based on the BIOS's idea of bootable devices. I haven't used lilo in a few years, but grub references BIOS disks as hd0, hd1, So FEX if you have 2 SATA drives connected to SATA ports #1 and #2, you can typically configure the BIOS to boot #1 (hd0 in grub) first, then #2 (hd1). If you reverse the boot order of the drives in the BIOS, then hd0 in grub will be #2, and hd1 will be #1. If you have a BIOS that will boot from a USB hard drive, and configure the BIOS to boot from that first, then hd0 in grub will refer to the USB drive. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???
On 8/3/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will change my system from ATA to SATA. Is there somethng special to consider for this in beforehand? (...before I will not be able anymore to post to this list a cry of help ... ;) :O) ))) Make sure to build scsi disk support into your kernel (=y, not =m). Grub setup should be fairly easy, just make a device.map that has: (hd0) /dev/sda and follow the normal grub setup instructions. If you need help here, just ask. The other thing I would suggest for your kernel is build USB and IEEE1394 support as modules. This will prevent any USB/firewire hard drives from confusing the sdX sequencing of the kernel and udev, at least for your SATA drives. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera
I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess there is no point raising a bug as it will almost certainly be my system not the package. Is there a list anywhere of the standard fonts that are used with linux distros? [ones that the opera people would be using] running from a term gives no clue as opera does not feedback errors to it. stu On 30/07/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have re-emerged Opera and run revdep-rebuild. the USE flags are : Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] www-client/opera-9.00 USE=spell -debug -gnome -qt-static 0 kB thanks for the reply stu On 28/07/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 23:48, Stuart Howard wrote: I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no text and the progress bar shows boxes instead of text. This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade does anyone know which font it is that Opera uses and that I therefore need to emerge or is it likly that I am just missing a link or similar? Any pointers will be happily recieved Starting from the beginning, have you re-emerged Opera and have you run # revdep-rebuild? -- Regards, Mick -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:19:09 -0700 On 8/3/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trying to write some udev rules to map two identical (model wise) SATA-harddiscs to different entries in /dev/. got a question mark into my head: I don't see any obvious way of doing this with udev. I have some identical USB drives that I use, and I can identify them by serial number, but this doesn't seem possible for SATA drives. Your best bet may be to mount filesystems by label, or use LVM to accomplish something similar. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi Richard ! (if just a moment before a incomplete posting by me has arrived you and/or the list: SORRY! I pressed the wrong button accidentaly) Is this logically/technically correct, Richard:? - The BIOS recogizes the first disk (grub: hd0) only by the bus it is attached to: A disk connected to SATA connector 1 will be hd0, and another one connected to SATA connector 2 will be hd1 - Therefore grub can distinguish the disks and choose the correct one to boot from right from the BIOS settings and the bus ID even all disks attached to the system are physically and model-wise absolutely identical. - So, booting a kernel image from the correct disk will be no problem. - Now...I will label the root of my bootdisk (grub: hd0) with root (only as an example...) and pass that as kernelparameter: root=root - The system will boot and find its root also. In the net it was mentioned that one has to configure the kernel to recognize partition labels...was this an old featire or what do I have to configure where? I searched through /proc/config.gz and found nothing appropiate as I found nothing in /usr/src/linux/Documentatio. Any idea ? Is this correct so far ? Leep booting !;) mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
Hi, is there a way to label partitions which have already been formatted with mkreiserfs and have data on it ? The manpage does not make that clear enough for me to check it on a running system.. Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
On Friday 4 August 2006 06:14, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: But: How can I distinguish both harddiscs? On one of my system, I run a raid 1 array with two identical disks (hde and hdg), and I have this (sorry for the line wraps): [Fri Aug 04 11:38:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ [cut] lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50 ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2CG9M5E - ../../hde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50 ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y3J1HW3E - ../../hdg Those device names DO include the disk's serial number, and are (I suppose) created by udev. So, just plug in each of your identical drives and look at the devices which udev creates. Once you identify the exact names (probably under /dev/disk/by-id), use those names to distinguish between the drives wherever you need to. The strange thing is that udev obviously knows the serial number of each drive (udevinfo -q all -n /dev/sda *DOES* show the device's serial number), but it seems that no file under /sys contains this information (for hard disks, at least), so it looks like it's not possible to use a regular udev rule to create different devices (but, as I said above, seems that udev is somehow able to do that by itself - if somebody has more info please tell). I could probably be missing something here. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. -- Pozdrawiam Janusz YANOUSHek Bossy gg# 791964 tlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Again SATA: hdparm - dma ???
Hi, what tool do I need to get/set the complete set of parameters of SATA-hds? Or in other words: Is SATA under linux scsi or ide ? (what a crazy question...) With hdparm I only get: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488392002, start = 63 Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
From: Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:57:23 +0200 ! WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! At least for me, this does not work! I applied mkreiserfs -l root to a SATA disk with the root fs on it and later reiserfsck. reiserfsck did not find any inconsistency because ALL DATA WERE ERASED !! ! WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! The question remains: How can I apply a label to an alreasy populated reiserfs-partition ??? Kind regards, mcc You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. -- Pozdrawiam Janusz YANOUSHek Bossy gg# 791964 tlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 14:43 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: I applied mkreiserfs -l root to a SATA disk with the root fs on it and later reiserfsck. reiserfsck did not find any inconsistency because ALL DATA WERE ERASED !! Of course, that's what mkreiserfs is for. AFAIK mkreiserfs also tells you so and even asks for confirmation. The rest is up to you. The question remains: How can I apply a label to an alreasy populated reiserfs-partition ??? reiserfstune Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpDtuzaHGypW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al
Ralph Seichter wrote: I'll try to figure out exactly which modules can be used to access the network controller (sk98lin, skge or sky2). emerge --update --deep world finished over night, and this is what I see after booting with an empty /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: # lsmod Module Size Used by nls_utf8 2688 0 ntfs 94664 0 i2c_viapro10264 0 via82cxxx 9732 0 [permanent] skge 40080 0 nfs 221744 0 lockd 67216 1 nfs sunrpc 168776 2 nfs,lockd ata_piix 14212 0 sata_vsc 9732 0 sata_sis 9476 0 sata_sx4 14980 0 sata_nv 11652 0 sata_via 9988 2 sata_svw 9220 0 sata_sil 11912 0 sata_promise 13700 0 libata75288 9 ata_piix,sata_vsc,sata_sis,sata_sx4,sata_nv, sata_via,sata_svw,sata_sil,sata_promise sbp2 25096 0 ohci1394 34504 0 ieee1394 106104 2 sbp2,ohci1394 ohci_hcd 21124 0 uhci_hcd 24088 0 usb_storage 71104 0 usbhid43040 0 ehci_hcd 33160 0 # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 1772896 IO-APIC-edge timer 1:1103 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 105 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 50 IO-APIC-edge ide0 16: 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5 17: 2 IO-APIC-level ohci1394 18: 3 IO-APIC-level ohci1394 19:3270 IO-APIC-level libata 20:3351 IO-APIC-level skge NMI: 64 LOC: 1772885 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 The kernel which I compiled supports sk98lin, skge and sky2 as modules, and it seems like skge is automatically chosen. BTW, shouldn't used by have a non-zero value for skge when the network controller is active? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] testing SATA drives
Hi folks: I have a server that failed under fedora a while back, the EXT3 partition ended up with thousands of errors on it and the journal corrupted itself into oblivion. I was able (I don't know how) to recover my data, but I wiped it out formatted the drives and installed gentoo. I now want to test the drives (they are now blank except for the os) to see if the problem was with fedora and lvm (the old one) or if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it. The server is a spare till I can validate it, then it will be moved back to production status. The result of that is, its ok if the testing takes some time etc. Thanks for all your help Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it. Use a livecd/knoppix thing and run badblocks(8) on them. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage
Remy Blank wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp... Or only the neutral. It doesn't matter, actually. But how it works (with AC) is something like this: AC produces a field around the wire as it flows. This field in turn will induce a current in a wire placed close to it. Loop a wire (transducer) around another wire (AC current flow), and you can inference the change in current in the original wire by measuring the current flow in the loop. It doesn't work with DC, as DC doesn't create a field (at least, not when it's steady. When switching on and off a DC device, you'll still get a change in current) IANAE(lectrician), so this might be complete bunkum, but that's how I remember it anyway. You almost got it. Actually, it's not necessary that the current be AC: even a DC current produces a magnetic field around the conductor (albeit a DC field). The clamp is a ferromagnetic ring that concentrates the magnetic field, and it is interrupted at one location by a hall-effect sensor that measures the magnetic field. The current can be calculated from the magnetic field intensity and the diameter of the clamp ring. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. Well you almost got it right. The clamp is just a basic transformer being the secondary winding. Since AC current flow changes both in amplitude and direction, induces a current flow in the secondary winding, the clamp. The current is then rectified and the measurement then is displayed on a meter. I've used high voltage transformers from old monitors to monitor and trigger alarms signaling excessive current change. Basically just a home made clamp. Cheers. -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:43:38 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Wouldn't it have been safer to have tried it on a USB stick first? ...I did copy the whole rootfs to a previously total empty SATA disk and used THAT hd for experimenting... I am not /that/ blind... :-) I prefer to do such filesystem experimentation on a USB stick, loop device or spare LVM partition. Any action involving the words untested and root is to be rigorously avoided :) -- Neil Bothwick Make like a tree and leave. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems
Thanks Guys,That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it worked except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on this?PeteOn 8/3/06, Toby Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:43:26AM +0300, Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 8/3/06, Pete Pardoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =x11-base/xorg- x11-6.9 (is blocking I have tried emerge --cleanx11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and emerge --prune x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there. it is written = before package name, so 6.8 counts too (6.86.9)Your problem is that the modular xorg is now in the stable tree, soportage is trying to upgrade to the modular xorg when you do an emergeworld (if you look further down the list of packages that emerge world is trying to install, you should see xorg-x11-7.0). The dependenciespulled in by modular xorg have to be installed before xorg-x11 itselfcan be upgraded, but they are blocked by your currently installed,non-modular xorg-x11-6.8.There are two solutions: unmerge the non-modular xorg-x11-6.8, andthen merge the modular xorg-x11-7.0 (following the migration guide onwww.gentoo.org). But you seem to have already tried this. The second solution is mask modular xorg by adding the linex11-base/xorg-x11-6.8to /etc/portage/package.mask (including the , obviously). Thenportage won't try to upgrade xorg, it won't pull in all those dependencies that block on your version of xorg, and portage shouldstop complaining.HTH,Toby--PhD StudentQuantum Information Theory groupMax Planck Institute for Quantum OpticsGarching, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]web: www.dr-qubit.org--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Pete Pardoe
Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera : Solved
On the off chance someone else gets this error the solution was :- I for whatever reason [2 year old system] had not set my locale in /etc/locale.gen I did this and ran locale-gen and whoosh problem has gone away. Only problem now is that I have migrated to firefox, ho hum what a choice :) stu ps. Firefox has come on a long way since last I used it. On 04/08/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess there is no point raising a bug as it will almost certainly be my system not the package. Is there a list anywhere of the standard fonts that are used with linux distros? [ones that the opera people would be using] running from a term gives no clue as opera does not feedback errors to it. stu On 30/07/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have re-emerged Opera and run revdep-rebuild. the USE flags are : Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] www-client/opera-9.00 USE=spell -debug -gnome -qt-static 0 kB thanks for the reply stu On 28/07/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 23:48, Stuart Howard wrote: I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no text and the progress bar shows boxes instead of text. This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade does anyone know which font it is that Opera uses and that I therefore need to emerge or is it likly that I am just missing a link or similar? Any pointers will be happily recieved Starting from the beginning, have you re-emerged Opera and have you run # revdep-rebuild? -- Regards, Mick -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage
Ted Ozolins wrote: Well you almost got it right. The clamp is just a basic transformer being the secondary winding. Since AC current flow changes both in amplitude and direction, induces a current flow in the secondary winding, the clamp. The current is then rectified and the measurement then is displayed on a meter. I've used high voltage transformers from old monitors to monitor and trigger alarms signaling excessive current change. Basically just a home made clamp. This is getting really OT, but as far as I remember my electricity lectures, what you describe is a current transformer. For it to work somewhat reliably, you have to wind the wire to be measured around a ferrite core, which already has a secondary winding where the current is measured. And yes, it only works for AC currents. The clamps we use (which are admittedly in the higher price range) measure the magnetic field directly using Hall-effect sensors, and also work for DC currents. The nice thing with this measurement principle is that it is independent of the placement of the clamp relative to the wire. It just has to go through the clamp. I couldn't find a nice explanation of the measurement principle, but here's at least something: http://support.fluke.com/find-sales/Download/Asset/1989065_A_w.pdf -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Again SATA: hdparm - dma ???
On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what tool do I need to get/set the complete set of parameters of SATA-hds? You don't. DMA, NCQ, and the like are enabled automatically if they are supported by the driver, chipset, and drive. hdparm -tT can still be used to test the throughput however. Or in other words: Is SATA under linux scsi or ide ? (what a crazy question...) The interface is through the SCSI subsystem, but it could also be called an IDE drive, since the definition of IDE is Integrated Drive Electronics, and these drives definitely have most of their smarts built-in. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] barnyard sguil output plugin doesn't work
Hello. I installed snort, sguil-sensor and barnyard on one of my machines and I can't start barnyard. Does someone has a running installation and could tell me the version numbers of all three programs? I suspect that the version numbers of barnyard and sguil don't fit, i.e. that the sguil patch on barnyard doesn't work. The sguil USE flag on barnyard is set. When I start by command line: Merkur snort # barnyard -c /etc/snort/barnyard.conf -d /var/lib/sguil/Merkur -g /etc/snort/gen-msg.map -s /etc/snort/sid-msg.map -f snort_unified.log -w /etc/snort/waldo.file -L /var/lib/sguil/Merkur -a /var/lib/sguil/Merkur/archive Barnyard Version 0.2.0 (Build 32) WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: mysql WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: sensor_id 0 WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: database sguildb WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: server 192.168.6.122 WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: user root WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: password pass WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: sguild_host 192.168.7.122 WARNING /etc/snort/barnyard.conf (136) = Unrecognized argument for Sguil plugin: sguild_port 7736 My barnyard.conf: ... output sguil: mysql, sensor_id 0, database sguildb, server 192.168.6.122, user root, password pass sguild_host 192.168.7.122, sguild_port 7736 Thank you for help, Robert Welz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XEN on Gentoo, enough stable for production use ?
Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Hi guys, I've learnt months ago the existing of Xen project. I think this kind of feature is really interesting for hosting heterogeous application, improve security of my system and reduce the maintain effort. I wonder if any of yours have already experienced Xen on Gentoo ? I wonder if Xen is enough stable to use in production ? Thanks in advance for your information. Hi. I use XEN (latest) without migration and have no big problems so far. The only big problem I had was to set up the network addresses of the domU's to their own subnet and to have dom0 routing instead of bridging. But that was to solve mainly with some websites which describes that task. And I disabled tx checksumming on the network interfaces in each domU to make the network go but this was discussed on the xen mailing list. My network speed from one xenized machine to another xenized machine is asymetric ( 30 MByte/s vs. 15 MByte/s (roughly) from DOM0 to DOM0, depending on the direction, measured with iperf ) on GB Ethernet but I believe that my hardware is the bottleneck, not XEN. I will further investigate the problem when I have some spare time. Robert BTW. I didn't use genkernel, I configured the kernel by hand. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions
From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:16:29 + (UTC) Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name writes: Janusz Bossy wrote: You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. Hm - is it possible to kick such lamers like Janusz? Alexander Skwar Sure, I was temporarily 86'd from the list for being a 'bone-head' about iptables. I'm still hard-headed, I just try to keep 'issues' to myself On another note, frequent creation and updates to wikis allows for quick responses to these sort of recurring questions. If the talented folks create such wiki pages, the bone-heads could easily learn to refer questions to the wikis in lieu of all of this repetition, and misguided responses Furthermore, ordinary gentoo-linux readers could volunteer to maintain these wikis, thus reducing the burden on the pool-o-genius. Perhaps a tool like eix/esearch that first (priortizes) searches for official/unofficial wiki-responsed to these common questions? Furthermore, it would attract more folks to Gentoo. hth, James There are three common problems left for those like me asking repetitioned questions: 1.) Most search engines of wikis are as bone-headed as those trying to answer the question like the above example. Search engines dont understand any context. 2.) For one not being a native English speaker it is often difficult to get the right words for the right match. 3.) Sometimes one can describe the problem without the faintest idea of any keyword to be filled into such [CENSORED] search engines. Without the evolution of search engine into finding enginges mailing lists will exist, where questions are answered more than once. Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
On 8/4/06, Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. WTF!!! Yeah, in theory, your suggestion might work. But it would be like going down stairs by jumping, and then having the doctor fix your broken legs!! To answer Meino's question: reiserfstune -l new label /dev/... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
On 8/4/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 15:43 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: But the idea, which was posted, was (cite): You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. OK. Yes, that was pure bull... Yeah, I think janusz meant to say something like reiserfsck --rebuild-tree. But it was still an incredibly stupid thing to recommend someone else to do... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
On 8/4/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not having reliable 3D :( Yeah, one of my main requirements for my new laptop was an Intel or Nvidia GPU, because I got sick and tired of ATIs shit. NVidia is better, but still not perfect. We can only hope that AMDs purchase of ATI will result in some better cooperation with the opensource community...eventually. For now, the only other option you have for 3D support is to try out the reverse-engineered r300 driver. If you have a recent enough kernel, you can turn on Device Drivers-Character Devices-Direct Rendering Manager and ATI Radeon. Then using the radeon driver and standard DRI setup, you might get hardware 3D acceleration. I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered driver works. I do know it is still very much a work in progress though, the more recent the kernel, the better. You might also have a look at the table in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h and compare to your vendor and device id (from lspci -n output), to see if your chip is supported by the in-kernel driver before going through the trouble. What can I do? I have struggled in the past very hard with getting DRI to work in xorgs radeon driver, but it takes cvs versions of this and overlays of Most of that should now be resolved with recent kernels and x.org versions that and blah blah blah... A real pain I should be able to get 3D going here, preferrably without ATI's drivers, i mean this card has been out for a while What do I do? So frustrating.. The problem is that ATI doesn't release programming specs either. So it is not simply a matter of time before something works...that only applies if the company will at least work with the interested devs. ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux support. If you have a choice, don't buy them. Again, we can only hope that the purchase by AMD goes through and changes the culture, but don't hold your breath. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al
On 8/4/06, Noack, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kernel which I compiled supports sk98lin, skge and sky2 as modules, and it seems like skge is automatically chosen. BTW, shouldn't used by have a non-zero value for skge when the network controller is active? No, the used by column of lsmod just tell you which other modules depend on the corresponding module. Not really. Used by is a reference count that can be incremented by either dependant modules, or by open devices. As an example from my system: carcharias linux # lsmod Module Size Used by ipw3945 102304 1 This is used by the user-space ipw3945d daemon. If I kill that, I can remove the module... af_packet 20040 2 arc42048 1 ipt_addrtype1856 1 ipt_LOG 5952 1 xt_pkttype 1920 3 xt_tcpudp 3072 4 .. and I have some packet filters setup... nvidia 4546580 12 ...no idea why nvidia requires 12 references for one desktop... b4424140 0 ...my wired network card. To answer the OP, you are allowed to remove the network module of a configured network interface. This has the effect of hot-removing the card, the interface just disappears. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
Richard Fish wrote: I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered driver works. Pretty well on anything but the newest games, on which it tends to work OK. ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux support. This hasn't been true for at least a year, since they started a real Linux team up. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map
to /dev ???
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:28:38 -0700
On 8/4/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Fri Aug 04 11:38:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
[cut]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50
ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2CG9M5E - ../../hde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 20 10:50
ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y3J1HW3E - ../../hdg
ARGH! Thanks Etaoin, I forgot about the by-id mappings.
Meino, take a look at the by-id rules in 60-persistent-storage.rules.
It looks like you can use the ENV{ID_SERIAL} to match SATA drives by
serial.
The strange thing is that udev obviously knows the serial number of each
drive (udevinfo -q all -n /dev/sda *DOES* show the device's serial
number), but it seems that no file under /sys contains this information
It uses the /lib/udev/scsi_id program to read the information directly
from the drive.
/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -s /block/sda -d /dev/sda
-Richard
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Hi Richard,
sorry, may be this is again a very nooby question, but...
Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ?
locate doesn't locate that file on my system...
Beside that: Great hack! Sounds like a real solution!
Thanks a lot!
Keep booting !
mcc
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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/4/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not having reliable 3D :( Yeah, one of my main requirements for my new laptop was an Intel or Nvidia GPU, because I got sick and tired of ATIs shit. NVidia is better, but still not perfect. We can only hope that AMDs purchase of ATI will result in some better cooperation with the opensource community...eventually. Ideally a fully documented card is what I want. That is why I've been following the open graphics project. http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=Open-Graphics Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1
Hi, after my last emerge -avuND world portage wants to install gcc-3.4.6: emerge -avuND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 USE=fortran gtk nls -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -doc -gcj -hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -test -vanilla 27,694 kB Total size of downloads: 27,694 kB I have switched to gcc-4.1.1, so why portage wants to install gcc-3.4.6? Another strange thing is that emerge -p depclean wants to remove emerge -p depclean dev-libs/gmp selected: 4.2.1 protected: none omitted: none dev-libs/mpfr selected: 2.2.0_p10 protected: none omitted: none but equery shows me: equery d dev-libs/mpfr [ Searching for packages depending on dev-libs/mpfr... ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 equery d dev-libs/gmp [ Searching for packages depending on dev-libs/gmp... ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.2.0_p10 sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 Does anybody know what this means? Thank you in advance, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions
Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes:
Sure, I was temporarily 86'd from the list for being
a 'bone-head' about iptables.
This was meant to reference inappropriate 'attitudes'
I unwisely shared openly. It was not
meant to characterize those persons with questions
and/or language barrier issues.
On another note, frequent creation and updates to
wikis allows for quick responses to these sort
of recurring questions. If the talented
folks create such wiki pages, the bone-heads could
easily learn to refer questions to the wikis in
lieu of all of this repetition and misguided
responses Furthermore, ordinary gentoo-linux
readers could volunteer to maintain these wikis,
thus reducing the burden on the pool-o-genius.
Perhaps a tool like eix/esearch that first
(priortizes) searches for official/unofficial wiki-responsed
to these common questions?
There are three common problems left for those like me asking
repetitioned questions:
1.) Most search engines of wikis are as bone-headed as those trying
to answer the question like the above example. Search engines dont
understand any context.
this is not a search engine proposal. I use the word 'search' in
its generic meaning, not specifically relating to 'search-engines'.
2.) For one not being a native English speaker it is often difficult
to get the right words for the right match.
English (US) is my native language. Struggles with english accompany
most of us, our entire life. Get use to struggles with english.
3.) Sometimes one can describe the problem without the faintest idea
of any keyword to be filled into such [CENSORED] search engines.
And that is solved and refined during the ordinary discussions
on gentoo-user.
Without the evolution of search engine into finding enginges mailing
lists will exist, where questions are answered more than once.
Maybe I did not articulate the idea clearly. It would not use
traditional search engines, such as google, Jeeves...
It would be a gentoo tool that runs on your machine like 'eix'
call it 'eix-help keyword '
where a typical keyword might be drive/harddrive/ATA/scsi/ide
so a listed of all of the official and testing
wikis that related to these keywords would be listed. The index
could be a brief description of the wiki.
Here's a simple script written by Ciaran that allos searching
to get the meanings on the flags. It was posted to this gentoo-user
group some time ago. I put in rooot's .bashrc:
# USE flag settings hack by Ciaran McCreesh:
explainuseflag(){ sed -ne s,^\([^ ]*:\)\?$1 - ,,p $(portageq portdir)/prof
iles/use.{,local.}desc; }
alias ef=explainuseflag
#
So when I want to know what a flag does all I type is
ef flag
For example
'ef x264' reveals multiple listings:
Enables h264 encoding using x264 (FFmpeg code)
Enables h264 encoding using x264
Enable x264 codec for mp4live (using x264-svn)
Enables h264 encoding using x264
hmmm, more than one explaination for a flag?
Simple, quite useful and scriptable.
There are lots of folks that answer similar questions over and over
again. Sometimes the answer is long, content-rich, and very
informative, even to those with experience. These 'perls' quickly get
lost if not harvested quickly.
The linux.gentoo.user search engine I use at gmane.org,
is less than robust, but, at least it is limited to this gentoo-user
list of postings.
Restated simply, I'm suggesting:
1. A simple wiki template be created/cited as a reference for
quick documentation creation.
2. Individuals with some measure of experience/ability populate
the template with subject matter specific information,
primarily gleaned from this
gentoo-user forum, supplemented with other knowledge.
3. A few keywords be included at the beginning of the wiki.
4. A simple tool/scipt could index these wikis according
to the number of keyword matches; and/or the priorty match
of keywords (that is the most relevant keywords would be
placed a the beginning of the keyword list for a given
specific wiki). The more keyword matches the higher order
a given wiki would appear in the indexed search result.
(This is not the result of a 'search-engine' search, rather
a result from using a script on your gentoo system' A file
listing somewhat like /var/lib/portage/world could
be employed.
5. Allow ordinary gentoo-users to maintain the wikis, that
is those with reasonable skills and a login/passwd to
bugs.gentoo.org as an example of a simple control mechanism.
6. Monthly, have a 'higher level' review of the wikis by those
with strong skills to ensure the wikis are current, relevant
and useful. Just look at all those wikis related to
ati/nvidia/xorg and tell me they are all current? Some do
depend on the version of xorg you are running, but they
do not alway clearly state this. Person with extreme knowledge
get too busy to maintain their initial wiki creations, but,
folks that use them are more likely to
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: On 8/3/06, dg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, Michael Crute wrote: I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine right now. The partition structure looks like this: hda1 - NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) hda2 - Swap hda3 - Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) -Mike In addition to what others already suggested, it also would make sense to actually change the partition type in the partition table: fdisk /dev/hda then press t and type partition number (1 in your case), then 83 (Linux Native) when asked for partition type. Right, this is exactly what I want to do but can I do it without seriously screwing up the disk? i.e. can I change the partition type without screwing up the existing partitions? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams Yes, you can change the partition type of /dev/hda1, it will not affect other partitions on /dev/hda. Just set it to Linux Native using fdisk and then mkfs it to ext3. BR, dmitri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
On 8/4/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This hasn't been true for at least a year, since they started a real Linux team up. I will grant that their releases over the last several months seem to be getting better. Indeed they are at least releasing on a montly basis, while nVidia seems to have trouble producing releases on a 4-month cycle! But it will take at least another year of that (plus solid power management and composite support!) before I consider buying an ATI card or laptop again. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1
On 8/4/06, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after my last emerge -avuND world portage wants to install gcc-3.4.6: Add --tree to see what is pulling in gcc-3.4.6. but equery shows me: equery d dev-libs/mpfr Equery depends is broken. It shows 'possible' dependancies, ignoring whatever your current use flags are. FEX pycrypto only depends on gmp if you have the gmp useflag set, see emerge -pv pycrypto. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?
poweroff is a good option? Thanks Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a NTFS partition and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click OK, and your shiny JFS is gone :-) -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/4/06, Alex Fortwinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: poweroff is a good option? Thanks shutdown -h now ? halt ? :) - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnmail.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica - http://www.buanzo.com.ar Genetic - A multiplatform Gentoo Portage Frontend - http://genetic.sourceforge.net for f in www blog linux-consulting vpnmail; do firefox http://$f.buanzo.com.ar ; done -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE06x7AlpOsGhXcE0RAi9kAJ9+SBylJIE+S5PYzG8MJHkhJoZ34wCfULej Nu7EkbLY49em9TnaHfLvrJ8= =JyIM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1 [Solved]
sorry for the noise. i must have removed the the gcc-4.1.1 entry in package.keywords by mistake. gcc-4.1.1 has =dev-libs/gmp-4.2.1 =dev-libs/mpfr-2.2.0_p10 as dependencies but not the stable gcc-3.4.6 which portage wants to install because of the missing keyword. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't locate that file on my system... carcharias linux # equery belongs /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules [ Searching for file(s) /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules in *... ] sys-fs/udev-096-r1 (/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules) HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?
Alex Fortwinder schrieb: poweroff is a good option? Thanks Never. halt the system. Alexander Skwar -- When you're ready to give up the struggle, who can you surrender to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Special characters in the console
Hello. I'm having trouble with special characters like cedilla (ç) and others like ã and õ. I have a Gentoo server here that runs a custom enterprise software based in ncurses and slang. I'm from Brazil and these characters are common in this country. How can I enable these characters without using unicode? Yes... because of some misterious reason I can't use unicode.
Re: [gentoo-user] CD trouble - can't read linux discs.
On 8/4/06, Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sent to gentoo-laptop by mistake. Sorry if you get this twice.) Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns bad superblock. The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a Scrabble disc Have you tried a different brand/type of recordable media? Generally I've found CD-R to be more readable than CD-RW. And of course, if you are using DVD+/-R[W] media, then your laptop would need the ability to read that media... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Special characters in the console
On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:21, Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos wrote: Hello. I'm having trouble with special characters like cedilla (ç) and others like ã and õ. I have a Gentoo server here that runs a custom enterprise software based in ncurses and slang. I'm from Brazil and these characters are common in this country. How can I enable these characters without using unicode? Yes... because of some misterious reason I can't use unicode. Paulo, You need to set your locale. Just set these in your .bashrc (or to /etc/env.d/02locale for system-wide settings): export LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.ISO8859-1 export MM_CHARSET=pt_BR Then, if you are working from console, you also need to set appropriate font and screenmap. Take a look at Gentoo Linux Localization Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?style=printable) for details. BR, dmitri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
Justin R Findlay wrote: Ideally a fully documented card is what I want. That is why I've been following the open graphics project. Your best bet right now is to buy something with Intel integrated graphics. Intel's hired X developers to work on a fully open-source driver, and it also contracts Tungsten Graphics for the 3D driver. If you want to support open-source graphics, buy Intel, then send ATI/Nvidia letters to tell them why they lost your business. Regretfully there's not much that can be done for those of us who prefer AMD processors.. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:17:47 + (UTC), James wrote: hmmm, more than one explaination for a flag? If it's a local USE flag, because it's use is specific to each application defining it, although they are usually very similar. Global USE flags have a single definition. -- Neil Bothwick Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work
Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to 140.211.166.165: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(107) [receiver=2.6.8] The server is refusing the connection, there's nothing wrong at your end except you need to try a different rsync server. Thanks ... I figured this bit out last night ... Sorry. I'm still puzzled why my lap top keeps freezing. Usually when the screen saver cuts in. The last things I've done are upgrade GCC and follow the power managment guide for my laptop. Are there any obvious mistakes that would cause this? Thank, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset
I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm running an ATI videocard and using the fglrx driver. The monitor on the right is using the DVI interface, while the screen on the left is using the SVGA interface. I've gotten everything working except for the fact that the left screen is shifted to the right. That is, there's a large black stripe down the left side of the display which I cannot move the mouse into, and there's an equal sized chunk missing off the right side (which is the middle of the wide screen display). It's like the left half of the display is shifted about 20% to the right. This was my primary display until I got the second monitor today, and it did not display the offset problem when it was configured for a single display. Here's my xorg.conf file: Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen 0 aticonfig Screen 0 0 0 InputDeviceGeneric Keyboard InputDeviceConfigured Mouse EndSection Section Files FontPath unix/:7100 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/afms FontPath /usr/share/fonts/artwiz FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/dejavu FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/freefont FontPath /usr/share/fonts/local FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/sharefonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/terminus FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ukr FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID EndSection Section Module Load GLcore Load bitmap Load dbe Load ddc Load dri Load extmod Load freetype Load glx Load int10 Load record Load speedo Load type1 Load v4l Load vbe Load xtt EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/psaux Option Protocol auto Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier aticonfig Monitor 0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier aticonfig Monitor 1 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9000 Pro (RV250 If) Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Driver fglrx Option (null) Option DesktopSetup 0x0201 Option UseInternalAGPGART on BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 1 Driver fglrx BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier aticonfig Screen 0 Device ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Monitoraticonfig Monitor 0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier aticonfig Screen 1 Device ATI Graphics Adapter 1 Monitoraticonfig Monitor 1 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives
Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it. Use a livecd/knoppix thing and run badblocks(8) on them. Cheers, Rasmus I vote for the Ultimate Boot CD. small download (i think) and it has pretty much every hard drive tool on it, so you can rum the appropriate manufacturer's tools and figure out if they are dead, and also low level format the drives for a complete fresh start. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset
Daniel D Jones wrote: I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm running an ATI videocard and using the fglrx driver. The monitor on the right is using the DVI interface, while the screen on the left is using the SVGA interface. I've gotten everything working except for the fact that the left screen is shifted to the right. That is, there's a large black stripe down the left side of the display which I cannot move the mouse into, and there's an equal sized chunk missing off the right side (which is the middle of the wide screen display). It's like the left half of the display is shifted about 20% to the right. This was my primary display until I got the second monitor today, and it did not display the offset problem when it was configured for a single display. Here's my xorg.conf file: Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen 0 aticonfig Screen 0 0 0 InputDeviceGeneric Keyboard InputDeviceConfigured Mouse EndSection Section Files FontPath unix/:7100 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TTF FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/afms FontPath /usr/share/fonts/artwiz FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/dejavu FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/freefont FontPath /usr/share/fonts/local FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/sharefonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/terminus FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera FontPath /usr/share/fonts/ukr FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID EndSection Section Module Load GLcore Load bitmap Load dbe Load ddc Load dri Load extmod Load freetype Load glx Load int10 Load record Load speedo Load type1 Load v4l Load vbe Load xtt EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/psaux Option Protocol auto Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier aticonfig Monitor 0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Monitor Identifier aticonfig Monitor 1 Option DPMS EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9000 Pro (RV250 If) Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Driver fglrx Option (null) Option DesktopSetup 0x0201 Option UseInternalAGPGART on BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter 1 Driver fglrx BusID PCI:1:0:0 Screen 1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier aticonfig Screen 0 Device ATI Graphics Adapter 0 Monitoraticonfig Monitor 0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier aticonfig Screen 1 Device ATI Graphics Adapter 1 Monitoraticonfig Monitor 1 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1680x1050 1280x1024 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection I have a 2005FPW on DVI connector as my left/main monitor and an iiyama 17 4:3 on VGA connector on the right/secondary monitor. i have a 6800 Ultra using the nvidia drivers. My display is setup nicely. here is my xorg.conf i am using. you might want to specify a bit more for your monitor, like the refresh, modeline, etc like I did...give it a shot Section ServerLayout Identifier Dual Screen0 Screen0 Screen1 Screen1 RightOf Screen0 InputDeviceMX518 CorePointer InputDevice
Re: [gentoo-user] CD trouble - can't read linux discs.
On Fri August 4 2006 18:29, dg wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:20, Ed Jabbour wrote: Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns bad superblock. The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a Scrabble disc for Windoze. Same with file -s; reads Scrabble fine, but barfs on the knoppix. Any hints or pointers on where on the lap's gentoo system to look for the difference in behaviour greatly appreciated. Thanks. Can you read (without mounting) knoppix cd on the laptop with something like dd if=your_cd_device of=/dev/null ? No. But it's getting weird. I tried mounting a straight data disc - the gentoo package one - and it mounted fine. So, I thought maybe the problem was just with bootable discs. Trying file -s, the system froze. I rebooted. Now, I have no /dev/hdc at all and lost /dev/dsp, too. So, something's wrong with udev. It seems my entire system is crumbling. I'd commit the heresy of reinstalling if I could boot off a CD. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:11 -0700 On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't locate that file on my system... carcharias linux # equery belongs /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules [ Searching for file(s) /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules in *... ] sys-fs/udev-096-r1 (/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules) HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list solfire:/etc/udevsudo equery belongs /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules [ Searching for file(s) /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules in *... ] solfire:/etc/udev (not found)...is my installation damaged ??? Keep booting! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:11 -0700 On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't locate that file on my system... carcharias linux # equery belongs /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules [ Searching for file(s) /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules in *... ] sys-fs/udev-096-r1 (/etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules) HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list okI found the file in /usr/porstgae/dostfiles/udev-087.tar.bz2 Keep booting the right drive! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
