Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.1.0 in gentoo doesnt use the official OO dictionaries anymore but myspell
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 09:07:34 W.Kenworthy wrote: It appears that openoffice 2.1.0 in gentoo (this is possibly a gentoo only thing) doesnt use the official OO dictionaries anymore but myspell. However, I cant find any info on how to install myspell into OO so it actually works for en_AU. There also doesnt seem to be anyway to revert to the older dictionary system so I am currently stranded (there is no wizard so the OO help docs arent applicable. [SNIP] # grep -A 1 myspell $(portageq portdir)/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-2.1.0.ebuild elog Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, elog if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package elog according to your language needs. # eix myspell-en * app-dicts/myspell-en Available versions: 20060316 Installed versions: 20060316(10:09:30 04/12/06) Homepage:http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/ Description: English dictionaries for myspell/hunspell That includes a en_AU dictionary. hunspell and openoffice is compatible with app-dicts/myspell-*. -- Bo Andresen pgp6yGtpPJHCL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic volumes for distfiles mirror
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:59:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: So if you run this on a suitable cross-section of machines overnight, http-replicator's cache will be primed by the time you stumble bleary-eyed into the office. That has to be the most accurate description of my typical mornings I've ever read anywhere... :-) If we were meant to turn up at work wide awake, $DEITY wouldn't have given us coffee machines :) If all your machines run a similar mix of software, say KDE desktops, you only need to run the cron task on one of them. Um, that's the hard part. Here's KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, e17 - just for WMs. All machines are ~x86 but that's where the similarities end. I suppose I could set up a master machine whose world is a combination of all the clients. But whatever I chose, the solution doe not appear to be simple :-( There's nothing to stop you installing all the DE/WMs on one box, it doesn't have to use them all, or run emerge -uf world on more than one. I guess you could also join all your world files into one, remove dupes and do something like emerge -uf system; xargs emerge -uDf masterfile. -- Neil Bothwick Don't be humble, you're not that great. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:12:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't trust my memory either so I looked it up. The most recent copy of FHS I have is 2.2: The /tmp directory must be made available for programs that require temporary files. Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are preserved between invocations of the program. It says nothing about reboots, that is a common mis-interpretation of the standard. But Why not just keep it as /var/tmp? Defined as: The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp. So it does say that /tmp can't be relied upon to survive reboots, but not in the definition of /tmp :( AIUI FHS is for binary distros, so doesn't apply to Gentoo anyway. Portage shouldn't even begin to start thinking about belonging in /usr :-). That's why I have: nazgul ~ # cat /etc/make.conf | grep PORTDIR PORTDIR=/var/portage Or mount /usr/portage on its own filesystem. I have it mounted on a sparse file as per http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick -- Neil Bothwick A hundred years of forgetting and it all comes rushing back... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory?
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:18:26PM +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem, but i don't know why? Can you tell me why? You could make a cycle (like directory placed inside itself) that would be undetectable and all the nice utils like find, grep -r, cp and so would work forever traversing them. -- There's the light at the end of the the Windows. -- Havlik Denis Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpKfVouOn7v7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] why forbids making hard link for directory?
On 30/01/07, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it forbids making hardlink for directory in current filesystem, but i don't know why? Can you tell me why? Hardlinking directories is forbidden as it allows you to introduce loops into the filesystem. E.g. directory a within b within a again. See this thread on LKML, kicked off by a patch to allow hardlinked directories, for more information on why this is a very bad idea: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/669080 Cheers, Duane. -- I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine - Bob Dylan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp. So it does say that /tmp can't be relied upon to survive reboots, but not in the definition of /tmp :( Yes :-) There's nothing to stop you leaving /tmp/* around for 100 days, you just shouldn't rely on them every being there AIUI FHS is for binary distros, so doesn't apply to Gentoo anyway. Huh? Where does that come from? I think you have FHS confused with LSB. FHS describes the standard layout of what kind of stuff goes where, with rationales. It's there so the eg finding shared libs becomes easy instead of the nightmare it was in years gone by, and binary distros do benefit most. But by no stretch of the imagination should you ever think that means that it doesn't apply to Gentoo. FHS is a standard, and we have these things for a reason - to be used. There are always edge cases but these are a small price to pay for the consistency that standards give alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Monday 29 January 2007 20:12:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: Why not just keep it as /var/tmp? Defined as: The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp. Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that deletions occur at a less frequent interval than /tmp. Strictly per the standard, /var/tmp is the correct place for emerge temp files and /tmp is incorrect. Not that it matters on your box with your symlink (which is totally standard-compliant btw) Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit from surviving reboots? -- Bo Andresen pgpqH6gTKEBH8.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!
Hi group, I've been working and reading and tweaking and editing all day and gentoo will not boot. Typical kernel panic: grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x13d208] grubboot ,,,VFS: Cannot open root device hda3 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic-not syncing...unknown-block(0,0) Panics for hda1 and hda3. Whether I use the device names or grub (hd0,x) terminology. Whether or not I declare a root dev after /vmlinuz Yes, ext2fs support was compiled *into* the kernel. There are 4 primary partitions: hda1(boot-ext2), 2(swap), 3(root-ext2) and 4(home-ext2). Very simple. No dual boot. No extended partitions. e2fsck checks out for hda1 and hda3. No errors are noted for the drive in dmesg or fdisk. Is there something I haven't tried? Maxim Check to make sure you have all the disk drivers compiled in -- for your controller etc -- some ide / ata drives require odd ones here and there -- I have tons of these errors :) Tim Holmes IT Manager / Webmaster / Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
I think you confused my message. When I said I've always been told... I didn't mean I was told it was part of the standard, I mean it is common knowledge, common sense, rule-of-thumb, best practice -- whatever. Yes there is FHS but I don't consider it the Bible. most distros break FHS in some way anyhow... I mean let's get a little realistic here. We're talking about temporary files, not /etc/passwd... My main point was not to point out theory (FHS) but practice. Over two years of use shows that it is perfectly fine to run portage in /tmp (with tmp on tmpfs) and, if you take a second to think about it, it does make sense that that would be a viable alternative. You mentioned exceptions like OpenOffice and I suggested a workaround. As always YMMV. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:22:07 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit from surviving reboots? Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked Power signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:09:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit from surviving reboots? Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p -- Bo Andresen pgp99JR527Prs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel [SOLVED]
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:43 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my vanilla kernel source (2.6.11.12 - the newest patch they have for SMP kernels) into /usr/src and changed the symlink. I applied the Win4Lin patches. I wanted the config of my currently running kernel, so I said make oldconfig (make oldconfig does do that, right?) I didn't turn on the Win4Lin support yet because I wanted to see if I could get the old kernel to work without it first. I set up the kernel in my /boot/grub/grub.conf file, just like my other kernels. Pretty routine. When I tried to boot with 2.6.11.12, I got this: quote Booting 'Linux 2.6.11.12' root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda udev Error 13: Invalid or unsupported execution format /quote Here's my grub.conf: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r6 root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6 title=Gentoo 2.6.18-r4 root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r4 title=Linux 2.6.11.12 root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.11.12 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.11.12.img title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I checked against /boot and all the file names are correct. I booted with the top kernel, so I know those settings are correct, with the only changes in the filenames. What am I missing here? -Michael Sullivan- Nevermind. I rebuilt the kernel and tried to boot into it and it worked. I'm not sure why, though... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 20:12:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: Why not just keep it as /var/tmp? Defined as: The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp. Files and directories located in /var/tmp must not be deleted when the system is booted. Although data stored in /var/tmp is typically deleted in a site-specific manner, it is recommended that deletions occur at a less frequent interval than /tmp. Strictly per the standard, /var/tmp is the correct place for emerge temp files and /tmp is incorrect. Not that it matters on your box with your symlink (which is totally standard-compliant btw) Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit from surviving reboots? It doesn't, and that's not why it defaults to /var/tmp If you read FHS, you see that /tmp is intended for scratch pad stuff - when the process exits, it has no further need for it's tmp files left behind and they are liable for garbage collection. So /tmp is unsuitable for PORTAGE_TMPDIR per the standard. /var/tmp is also for temp files, with the added feature that a reboot will not cause them to be deleted i.e. they are long lived. /var/tmp exceeds the requirements for PORTAGE_TMPDIR so it is an ideal place. These temp files are deleted in a site-specific manner so portage is free to dictate exactly how this will happen. The word reboot is in the definition as a characteristic of /var/tmp but has nothing to do with the reason why it's chosen for PORTAGE_TMPDIR alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:09:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit from surviving reboots? Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? Doesn't FEATURES=keepwork cause /var/tmp/portage/pkg cat/pkg name to not be deleted after a *successful* merge? I don't use that feature and the work files for all failed emerges are always left behind. Not that they are especially useful in any way... Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. 4 hours 2 seconds with gnome, kde and all other fluff out of USE. It's enough to make a fellow wanna consider openoffice-bin... alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:52:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? Doesn't FEATURES=keepwork cause /var/tmp/portage/pkg cat/pkg name to not be deleted after a *successful* merge? I don't use that feature and the work files for all failed emerges are always left behind. Not that they are especially useful in any way... Actually it can be reused with FEATURES=keepwork to decrease the time to complete the emerge instead of starting all over again. I've mostly used it when a big emerge failed due to a broken test case (with FEATURES=test). Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. Well, this is a three year old laptop so I'm satisfied with that.. :) -- Bo Andresen pgp6Pk7k603Lt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:22:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? I tend to use ebuild /pah/to/ebuild package followed by emerge -K package. And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( -- Neil Bothwick Orcs aren't all that bad... if you have plenty of ketchup. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text
Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried creating diagrams in xfig. It works fine for my LaTeX documents, but does not export well to PNG for use in web pages. Hm, what do you mean by saying not so well? If it's just that it isn't antialiased as good as you'd like it to be, then just export it at higher resolution and scale it down with some pix-image tool afterwards. Aside from that, it really depends on what diagrams you're creating. Personally, I turned away from xfig a bit, but that's mostly due to its interface. I like dia for flow-charts and similar stuff and inkscape for more graphic intensive stuff. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED
Did a bit of googling for ya. You did compile in support for your IDE Bingo! Thanks everybody! Maxim TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On 30 January 2007 15:52, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Anyway if you know how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. 4 hours 2 seconds with gnome, kde and all other fluff out of USE. It's enough to make a fellow wanna consider openoffice-bin... What are the specs of your box? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libssl.so.0.9.7 undefined symbol.
I suspect that you're being bitten by some lib problems with the update or openssl from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8. IIRC you need to revdep-rebuild around libssl and libcrypto to fix everything. This thread has most of the details if this is your problem. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-499331.html Ahh, I think i found my problem. I did follow that before (mostly) with the revdep-rebuilds and all. BUT, I didn't remove the 0.9.7 versions of the libraries in /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/. Removing those and things work now. Thanks! -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is // nothing but cabbage with a college education. // -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar pgpYqyqdcPRR7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED
maxim wexler wrote: Did a bit of googling for ya. You did compile in support for your IDE Bingo! Thanks everybody! Maxim TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ I guess sometimes I am worth something. :-p I must confess though, that error looked familiar. I googled to make sure it was what I thought it was. I did that the other day on my second box. I just used the wrong driver then though. I think the generic IDE should be enabled by default myself. It may not have DMA but at least it will boot up. Glad you got it working. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
[gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
Hi list, i would like to install gentoo on a new Asus P5B motherboard which have a RTL8111/8168B PCI express network chipset. I'm using the 2006.1 amd64 livecd but unfortunately the network card is not recognized. Does anyone has experience with this type of chipset and Gentoo? Regards, m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
=== On Tuesday 30 January 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: === Hi list, i would like to install gentoo on a new Asus P5B motherboard which have a RTL8111/8168B PCI express network chipset. I'm using the 2006.1 amd64 livecd but unfortunately the network card is not recognized. Does anyone has experience with this type of chipset and Gentoo? Regards, m Last kernels does support this LAN chipset (r8169 module). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
Hi Andrew, Last kernels does support this LAN chipset (r8169 module). ok that's fine. however i'll have to install gentoo without the nice gentoo graphical linux installer, is it right? regards, m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore
On Monday 29 January 2007 22:02, Mick wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 23:23, Marc Redmann wrote: After finding http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_D-BUS_Session_Bus_with_KDM and following it automounting in KDE works again. Nice to know that there are other ways round that problem ... What's the difference between system D-BUS (rc-update thingy) and session D_BUS (script in .kde/env)? I'm afraid the wiki doesn't explain it adequately for my humble needs. Sorry, but I dont know - it just started to work after adding the script to kd/env. -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** pgpp0GNX9rhAv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
=== On Tuesday 30 January 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: === ok that's fine. however i'll have to install gentoo without the nice gentoo graphical linux installer, is it right? regards, m Yes, you have to install a new kernel (and add it to your loader) manually. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:22:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo emerge :-O So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that? I tend to use ebuild /pah/to/ebuild package followed by emerge -K package. And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( Ha, ha! :) Sat Mar 18 21:22:50 2006 app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1 merge time: 23 hours, 30 minutes and 58 seconds. As if that's not bad enough I remember a couple of years ago I tried it 3 times in a row, with different fixes each time (some bug wouldn't let it complete the emerge). I must have been at it for the best part of a week. -- Regards, Mick pgpt9vgj5ltba.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.1 livecd amd64 and rtl8111/8168B network card
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:08:20 +0300 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok that's fine. however i'll have to install gentoo without the nice gentoo graphical linux installer, is it right? nice ??? ; ) I think you might be able to get a binary from realtek that supports the 2.6 kernels. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:10:45 +, Mick wrote: Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages available. It takes around 15 hours :( Ha, ha! :) Sat Mar 18 21:22:50 2006 app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1 merge time: 23 hours, 30 minutes and 58 seconds. As if that's not bad enough I remember a couple of years ago I tried it 3 times in a row, with different fixes each time (some bug wouldn't let it complete the emerge). I must have been at it for the best part of a week. I know how you felt. there was a problem that caused the OOo install script to fail, after 15 hours of compilation. That took quite a few runs to get sorted. The day after I got it to install, a new version came out with the same problem :( -- Neil Bothwick Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary
Hey! I know this not related to Gentoo so I apologize for writing this e-mail. Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? I know a few on the web however I travel a lot (up to 5 hours a day) by train so I got no Internet access there. It would be nice if anybody could recommend me some good software. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Jay -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up
On Monday 29 January 2007 23:30, Mick wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 23:06, James Ausmus wrote: So - possible solutions: 1. Figure out the date/time of the emerge of the *successful* rt2x00- package using genlop, then check out the CVS source tree as of that date, and build/install by hand Where do I find this? I've had a look at the website and all I can see is the daily builds. 2. Work with the rt2x00 developers to figure out the problem and get it corrected in the current version 3. Try what I'm currently doing with my rt2500 card (using the rt2x00-999 package compiled from CVS on Wed Jan 3 20:39:53 2007, according to genlop) - manually set the ESSID, AP, and encryption settings on the card, then issue a /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start/restart command. When you say configure it on the card do you mean in the /etc/conf.d/net file? BTW - If you do figure out the date/time of the successful CVS package, let me know, and I'll try that one on my laptop, see if it fixes my problems. :) These two worked fine for my USB adaptor: Sat Dec 9 08:54:56 2006 net-wireless/rt2x00- Wed Dec 27 17:34:33 2006 net-wireless/rt2x00- How could I get portage to emerge a particular CVS version? I found the answer and it is using this very package as an example! http://gentoo-wiki.com/Skipping_fetch_for_CVS_packages However, still don't know where to find older tarballs. -- Regards, Mick pgp0CkkGNF5H0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Projector on my laptop
It doesn´t have a s-video output, just the ordinary monitor plug. -- Felipe Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://feliperibeiro.blogspot.com 83 9979-3161 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Monolingual Dictionary
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04:51PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jakob Buchgraber squawked: Is there any excellent monolingual dictionary available for (Gentoo) Linux? What do you mean by monoligual? (English to English? or other languages?) Anycase, I have on my desktop 'sdcv' installed. The last time I checked (about 18 months ago) it is not in portage. Not quite sure if it is now. http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ It is a commandline interface for StarDict, and so can just use stardict's dictionaries. (Speaking of which, if you are willing to have a GUI, you can just emerge stardict; you would also need to emerge the dictionaries that you need, they are all under app-dicts with a stardict- prefix. There are also additional dictionaries that you can download on http://stardict.sourceforge.net/) On my laptop, I just run a dictd server (emerge dictd). You also need to install dictionary files, again, all under app-dicts/dictd-* For English to English, I suggest the WordNet dictionary. You can also, alternatively, just emerge wordnet. Personally, if you just need an English-English dictionary, I would suggest using wordnet. Dictd is a bit fancier, but you might not find it more useful (I personally find the elements database quite useful every now and then). If you need support for other languages, I would suggest StarDict. Also, you can just look into the portage tree under app-dicts and app-text HTH, W -- (aikamuotojen k?ytt? aikamatkustuksessa) You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you like without prior (late fore-when) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.) Sortir en Pantoufles: up 53 days, 20:33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... -- Neil Bothwick IRQs? We don't need no stinking IRQs! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Having a problem booting a vanilla kernel
On Monday 29 January 2007 09:43:45 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: I wanted to try installing my Win4Lin 9x 5.0 software, so I unzipped my vanilla kernel source Did you copy the old .config file into the new source directory??? -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. That's fine if you have 8GB of RAM... Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:26 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote: Not necessarily. tmpfs will start to use the harddrive when it runs out of memory, that being one if its nice handy dandy features. Really? The lat time I tried putting /tmp on tmpfs on this box, I had problems when VMware tried to save 512MB files there. I use it on my laptop though. I'll give it another try, perhaps things have changed since I last used it, although Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt warns of the dangers of setting the size too high. Thinking about it, my problems may have been caused by the default size being to low. Even so, you'd need a huge swap partition to build OOo in tmpfs. -- Neil Bothwick Pentium is a risk processor signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED
that error looked familiar. I googled to make sure I googled lots but didn't find that particular nugget. Unless my eyes were glazing over. What search terms did you use? Maxim Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic from hell!-FIXED
maxim wexler wrote: that error looked familiar. I googled to make sure I googled lots but didn't find that particular nugget. Unless my eyes were glazing over. What search terms did you use? Maxim Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com I used Please append a correct root= boot option and it was in there somewhere. I think it was the second one. After that, I remembered running into it myself. I like that quote thing. It helps a lot sometimes. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
