Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23.37.58 Neil Bothwick wrote: Recent is never recent enough. I used to think daily backups were fine, until a failure at 5pm cost me a day's work :( Once an hour synced across 3 computers, with a master copy made daily :) -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My philosophy is: Don't think. -- Charles Manson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED
On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom1 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 9 08:25 cdrw - hdc appear since loading ide-generic.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 64 May 9 08:25 /dev/hdd Cool. It seemed to me that you set ide-generic to M by mistake as everything else is *. You could either change the config and recompile/install, or put ide-config in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Does the dvd device also work correctly now? -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage is stupid. The logical location for the tree would be on /var ... :) You are perfectly correct. That's why I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount | grep /var /dev/mapper/vg-var on /var type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) /dev/mapper/vg-portage on /var/portage type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/vg-distfiles on /var/distfiles type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) Note that distfiles is not a sub-dir of portage either -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: 3) Better still, http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#Make_A_Sparse_File_to_ create_portage_in I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option tail. It's just big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't expand that much over time). Care to elabortae on the benfits you get doing it your way? -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Hello Naga, Recent is never recent enough. I used to think daily backups were fine, until a failure at 5pm cost me a day's work :( Once an hour synced across 3 computers, with a master copy made daily :) Two separate backup methods, run alternate hours (in case one of them corrupts the backup) with an off-site backup to my Strongspace account three times a day. Belt, braces and string :) -- Neil Bothwick A friend in need may turn out to be a nuisance. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:08, Elias Probst wrote: Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets has gone. Glad this helped. :) The only thing I noticed is that when I launch Konqueror as root it reverts to small fonts. -- Regards, Mick pgpMi06XKNuZK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
Hello Alan McKinnon, I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option tail. It's just big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't expand that much over time). It is faster. If I were going to use reiserfs (I use ext2 for this) I'd use it with notail, the tail packing impacts performance. I'm more interested in speed than saving disk space. -- Neil Bothwick We shall shortly be landing. Please return your stewardess to the upright position. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
-Original Message- From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 09:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! Hi Iain, Take a look at SAMBA, if you have limited experience with AD type stuff it may even be better to run your small network using an NT4 style domain. Regards, Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe
Hi Michael, Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: If you don't want to write it in Procmail, maybe you like to do some Ruby. I once composed my own mail filter. It's not documented very well but really easy to use. http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/cropmail/ OKay. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? I'm using Exim and I only have no other machine at home where I could try another MTA. As I did with Exim, it should suffice when you take the Procmail plug of Sendmail and just s/procmail/cropmail/g it. A successful configuration example is welcome here. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
Francisco Rivas wrote: Hi Johannes and every friend of the list :D. Johannes two things: 1.- I think (i guess) it's better install the 8.36.5 ati drivers, because the 8.32.5 ati drivers is too bugs and is better have the actual driver, you can download from the ati page and put on the portage distfiles and install it. 2.- If you don't like the 1 then look here : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554065-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-atidrivers.htmland http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554736.html?sid=eeac31c8c7d77b4d130703a372462537 that persons have a problem very similary to yours. Well about your question I think, check your kernel configuration Graphics Drivers, you have to unmark the ATI modules of the kernel. At last, I had the same problem with 8.32.5 my laptop frezee and the only thing what can I do was reset using the Power bottom; and the solution was install the 8.36.5ati driver, believe me. I hope be helpfully to you, Have a nice day :D Hi Francisco Thanks for the help so far...but it still dos not play nicly According to 'lspci' my graphic card is: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) and according to: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon-prer200.html I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? I have tried to compiled ati support directly in to my kernel... this did not work I have tried to compile ati support as modules for my kernel... this did not work I have tried to add framebuffer support in the kernel with support for ati this allows me to start x but everything is running real slow and I experience clipping when I move around windows. Any pointers? Joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alan McKinnon, I never understood why portage on a sparse file is beneficial. Mine is on a small reiser logival volume mounted with option tail. It's just big enough to hold portage with 10-15% free space (the tree doesn't expand that much over time). It is faster. Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? What makes the sparse file faster? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:43 -0400, JD wrote: Thanks, Alex. I had to run 'installer' from commandline. Went with the recommended setup; got an Exception that the dialog says this is a Bad Thing ... Um, that's really no nice thing. You could try filing a bug or the like. Better yet: search the forums and existing bugs, probably someone has encountered similar issues. It is rather strange that the installer even loads the GLcore... but yes, probably for showing off with the live CD. I have never used it, but maybe you could read the manuals and try disabling this. I don't know whether or not this is supported. I've done it twice, gotten to this point, and whether I choose 'yes' or 'no' to the prompt at this point, the system hangs, with no choice but to start over. So, the stage 3 installer for 64 bit looks hosed. I'm afraid its back to the Minimal CD and building the system again from scratch. You could still try to insert the Minimal CD in your current system, then edit the xorg.conf. Or just proceed with the install with it, although this could still leave your system in a strange state. Probably --sync-ing and -DuvaN-ing world after adjusting make.conf could suffice for the task. Re-emerging -Du xorg-server could also help. I really hope the developer's can get this resolved... I was perfectly happy with stage1 and building from scratch back in the beginning. This 'helping to get a system up faster' just isn't working when it comes to gentoo... Actually Minimal Install is using stage3 by now and that's the only supported one. It's really quite unproblematic to get a working system within not more than an hour (of your work) and a day's work (by the computer ;) ) But then again, I'm afraid I'm totally unfamiliar with the graphical installer and just guessing :). Regards, Aleks -Original Message- From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:13 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install - X fails On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:52 -0400, JD wrote: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... On looking at the details dialog, I find Dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE) Failed to load module GLcore (loader failed, 7) That means it was not able to find the GLcore module. Try locating it with $ locate libGLcore.so on my system its in /usr/lib. You could den update the modules path in xorg.conf or symlink (but the latter is no good idea) Unfortunately I have no idea which package it belongs to. (Xorg itself?) In the X details dialog, other than the mouse error, and (what seems like) all of the fonts being invalid (Info and Warnings) The last line says: (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: No screens found It just can't find a lot of fonts. Don't worry, they can be added later. A recent version of x.org should really behave well despite this. The No Screens found is the usual output xorg gives when it encounters one or more errors during start up. The display (according to lspci) is Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express. Do I need to customize the xorg.conf file to get the install to work? You could just try commenting the line 'Load GLcore' in xorg.conf. That's just if you don't need GL-support for things like beryl. Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Gentoo specific: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? You should try $ sudo emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5 Note that the precise path (before the slash) is mandatory, as is the `=' sign. You don't have to copy the stuff into portage/distfiles, but maybe your xorg-version could block the merge. Try downgrading then. But I'm not sure if this could help with your issues. Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: It is faster. Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were measurably faster. -- Neil Bothwick If you got the words it does not mean you got the knowledge. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: Since Win XP also uses Kerberos 5 for authorization, adding a KRB 5 server to this may also be a good idea. Avoids to have passwords accessible anywhere (even not in encrypted form) and allows for true single sign on. http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ http://sial.org/howto/kerberos/windows/ Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:41:04 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hm. I don't understand. Why is portage in a sparse file of, let's say, 400m, with reiserfs and notail mounted, faster, then a real partition of 400m with reiserfs and notail? No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were measurably faster. That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? You should try $ sudo emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5 Note that the precise path (before the slash) is mandatory, as is the `=' sign. You don't have to copy the stuff into portage/distfiles, but maybe your xorg-version could block the merge. Try downgrading then. But I'm not sure if this could help with your issues. Regards, Aleks Hi Aleks Sorry... I get the same error Joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:34 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were measurably faster. That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. I allowed for that. I created a new filesystem for /usr/portage - I had been using a directory in /usr before. -- Neil Bothwick DOOM , said Pooh, and Slaughtered Christopher Robin with a chainsaw signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gnome power manager and gentoo-sources 2.6.21
Hi,
Some days ago I upgraded my kernel from gentoo sources 2.6.20-r5 to
2.6.21.
After this, gnome-power-manager could not sense the power source. It
shows always AC connector in, even it is running from battery.
Acpi shows me the fact, is it running from battery, but gnome power
manager cannot.
Switching back to the earlier kernel it is working well.
I recompiled hal/acpi, doesn't matter.
Does anybody know this issue? After googling I did not find solution.
Background:
fujitsu ~ # acpi -V
Battery 1: discharging, 82%, 02:54:15 remaining
Thermal 1: ok, 48.0 degrees C
AC Adapter 1: off-line
fujitsu ~ # eix sys-apps/hal
[I] sys-apps/hal
Available versions: 0.5.7.1-r3 0.5.7.1-r5 (~)0.5.8.1[1]
[M](~)0.5.9 {acpi crypt debug dell disk-partition dmi doc kernel_FreeBSD
kernel_linux pcmcia selinux}
Installed versions: 0.5.8.1[1](12:29:26 05/05/07)(acpi crypt
-debug -disk-partition -doc -mactel pcmcia -selinux)
Homepage:http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
Description: Hardware Abstraction Layer
[1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia
fujitsu ~ #
ACPI:
[I] sys-power/acpi
Available versions: 0.06-r5 (~)0.09
Installed versions: 0.09(12:26:37 05/05/07)
[I] sys-power/acpid
Available versions: 1.0.4-r2 1.0.4-r3 1.0.4-r4 {doc logrotate}
Installed versions: 1.0.4-r4(12:26:24 05/05/07)(-doc logrotate)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:24 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? You should try $ sudo emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5 Note that the precise path (before the slash) is mandatory, as is the `=' sign. You don't have to copy the stuff into portage/distfiles, but maybe your xorg-version could block the merge. Try downgrading then. But I'm not sure if this could help with your issues. Regards, Aleks Hi Aleks Sorry... I get the same error Joe Hi Johannes, Whoops, sorry, seems I got the version number wrong. Of course, just substituting the desired version would help. On my system: 12:40:11 | 1 $ emerge -p =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 USE=acpi opengl -doc [blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0) This means it is not fine to install them with a newer x-server on my arch (x86). Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gnome power manager and gentoo-sources 2.6.21
Hi,
Some days ago I upgraded my kernel from gentoo sources 2.6.20-r5 to
2.6.21.
After this, gnome-power-manager could not sense the power source. It
shows always AC connector in, even it is running from battery.
Acpi shows me the fact, is it running from battery, but gnome power
manager cannot.
Switching back to the earlier kernel it is working well.
I recompiled hal/acpi, doesn't matter.
Does anybody know this issue? After googling I did not find solution.
Background:
fujitsu ~ # acpi -V
Battery 1: discharging, 82%, 02:54:15 remaining
Thermal 1: ok, 48.0 degrees C
AC Adapter 1: off-line
fujitsu ~ # eix sys-apps/hal
[I] sys-apps/hal
Available versions: 0.5.7.1-r3 0.5.7.1-r5 (~)0.5.8.1[1]
[M](~)0.5.9 {acpi crypt debug dell disk-partition dmi doc kernel_FreeBSD
kernel_linux pcmcia selinux}
Installed versions: 0.5.8.1[1](12:29:26 05/05/07)(acpi crypt
-debug -disk-partition -doc -mactel pcmcia -selinux)
Homepage:http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
Description: Hardware Abstraction Layer
[1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia
fujitsu ~ #
ACPI:
[I] sys-power/acpi
Available versions: 0.06-r5 (~)0.09
Installed versions: 0.09(12:26:37 05/05/07)
[I] sys-power/acpid
Available versions: 1.0.4-r2 1.0.4-r3 1.0.4-r4 {doc logrotate}
Installed versions: 1.0.4-r4(12:26:24 05/05/07)(-doc logrotate)
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[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website) as supported, but it hasn't been since. Also, when I try and boot with vesafb-tng, I get this error in the kernel output: vesafb: BUG, returned from vm86 with (EIP: 0xc0fcc) vesafb: warning, copying modelist from somewhere in RAM! vesafb: Sorry, pre-VBE 2.0 cards are not supported. vesafb: vbe_init failed vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22 and a low 640x480 console resolution. anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zd1211 patch?
On Wed, 09 May 2007 22:24:47 +0200 Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, I have added a new fixed ebuild to the tree now :) Firest of all, thanks. Now, with zd1211-85.ebuild, I'm getting new error: /usr/src/linux /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85 -I/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/include -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -DZDCONF_WE_STAT_SUPPORT=1 -DHOST_IF_USB -DAMAC -DGCCK -DOFDM -DHOSTAPD_SUPPORT -DUSE_EP4_SET_REG -DDOWNLOADFIRMWARE -DfTX_GAIN_OFDM=0 -DfNEW_CODE_MAP=1 -DfWRITE_WORD_REG=1 -DfREAD_MUL_REG=1 -DENHANCE_RX=1 -DZD1211 src/zd1205.o src/zdasocsvc.o src/zdauthreq.o src/zdauthrsp.o src/zdmmrx.o src/zdshared.o src/zdhci.o src/zdglobal.o src/zdencrypt.o src/zdpmfilter.o src/zdpsmon.o src/zdsynch.o src/zdbuf.o src/zd1205_proc.o src/zdhw.o src/zddebug.o src/zdtkipseed.o src/zdmic.o src/zdusb.o src/zd1211.o make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85 modules make[2]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r3' CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1205.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdasocsvc.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdauthreq.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdauthrsp.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdmmrx.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdshared.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdhci.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdglobal.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdencrypt.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdpmfilter.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdpsmon.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdsynch.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdbuf.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1205_proc.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdhw.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zddebug.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdtkipseed.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdmic.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdusb.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.o /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825:40: error: la macro INIT_WORK requiere 3 argumentos, pero solo se proporcionan 2 /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c: En la función ‘zd1211_InitSetup’: /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: ‘INIT_WORK’ no se declaró aquí (primer uso en esta función) /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: (Cada identificador no declarado solamente se reporta una vez /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: ara cada funcion en la que aparece.) /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1826:58: error: la macro INIT_WORK requiere 3 argumentos, pero solo se proporcionan 2 make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85] Error 2 make[2]: se sale del directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r3' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: se sale del directorio `/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-wireless/zd1211-85 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 4047: Called src_compile zd1211-85.ebuild, line 43: Called linux-mod_src_compile linux-mod.eclass, line 516: Called die !!! Unable to make KERNEL_SOURCE=/usr/src/linux KDIR=/usr/src/linux KERN_26=y all. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/temp/build.log'. Any clue? I'm using the one from kernel, but it does not work fine with kismet. Do this one work with kismet? Best regards, Stefan Cheers, Arnau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zd1211 patch?
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: n Wed, 09 May 2007 22:24:47 +0200 Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, I have added a new fixed ebuild to the tree now :) Firest of all, thanks. Now, with zd1211-85.ebuild, I'm getting new error: Output in English please. Few people here can understand the error messages you are getting. -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zd1211 patch?
On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:03:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: n Wed, 09 May 2007 22:24:47 +0200 Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, I have added a new fixed ebuild to the tree now :) Firest of all, thanks. Now, with zd1211-85.ebuild, I'm getting new error: Output in English please. Few people here can understand the error messages you are getting. Sorry, did not notice (i've been playing with locales recently) * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found kernel object directory: * /lib/modules/2.6.19-suspend2-r3/build * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.19-suspend2-r3 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... [ ok ] Unpacking source... Unpacking zd1211-driver-r85.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85 ... * Preparing zd1211 module cd ..; make ZD1211REV_B=0 make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85' make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. /usr/src/linux /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85 -I/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/include -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -DZDCONF_WE_STAT_SUPPORT=1 -DHOST_IF_USB -DAMAC -DGCCK -DOFDM -DHOSTAPD_SUPPORT -DUSE_EP4_SET_REG -DDOWNLOADFIRMWARE -DfTX_GAIN_OFDM=0 -DfNEW_CODE_MAP=1 -DfWRITE_WORD_REG=1 -DfREAD_MUL_REG=1 -DENHANCE_RX=1 -DZD1211 src/zd1205.o src/zdasocsvc.o src/zdauthreq.o src/zdauthrsp.o src/zdmmrx.o src/zdshared.o src/zdhci.o src/zdglobal.o src/zdencrypt.o src/zdpmfilter.o src/zdpsmon.o src/zdsynch.o src/zdbuf.o src/zd1205_proc.o src/zdhw.o src/zddebug.o src/zdtkipseed.o src/zdmic.o src/zdusb.o src/zd1211.o make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85 modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.19-suspend2-r3' CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1205.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdasocsvc.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdauthreq.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdauthrsp.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdmmrx.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdshared.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdhci.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdglobal.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdencrypt.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdpmfilter.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdpsmon.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdsynch.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdbuf.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1205_proc.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdhw.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zddebug.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdtkipseed.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdmic.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zdusb.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.o /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825:40: error: macro INIT_WORK requires 3 arguments, but only 2 given /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c: In function ‘zd1211_InitSetup’: /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: ‘INIT_WORK’ undeclared (first use in this function) /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1825: error: for each function it appears in.) /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.c:1826:58: error: macro INIT_WORK requires 3 arguments, but only 2 given make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd1211.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
Good day, What kernel have you?, what version of xorg? :D On 5/10/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website) as supported, but it hasn't been since. Also, when I try and boot with vesafb-tng, I get this error in the kernel output: vesafb: BUG, returned from vm86 with (EIP: 0xc0fcc) vesafb: warning, copying modelist from somewhere in RAM! vesafb: Sorry, pre-VBE 2.0 cards are not supported. vesafb: vbe_init failed vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22 and a low 640x480 console resolution. anyone else have the Gigabyte GAM61VME-S2 or the nforce 400? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six more things than someone who hasn't. -- Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Francisco Rivas Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zd1211 patch?
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/z dusb.o CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/z d1211.o /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/zd1211-85/work/zd1211-driver-r85/src/zd 1211.c:1825:40: error: macro INIT_WORK requires 3 arguments, but only 2 given Error in source code :-( File a bug at b.g.o. and make sure Stefan Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] is cc'ed (he submitted the original ebuild) -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
Hi all friends, I really like this situations because we learn so much...I have to thank you to all for this experience... Well we got a lot of work to do for help Johannes. You fell confortable installing the ati-drivers manually?, if your aswer is Yes, then: 1.- Disable all support for ati in the kernel 2.- Enable the framebuffer console like http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash, because I know (for sure) you want a grubsplash and bootsplash :D : 3.- Unmerge all ati driver you have installed. 4.- Execute manually the installation and finally aticonfig --initial, and startx. Note : I have : X.org : X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux dta-desktop 2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 9 17:07:22 VET 2007 i686 Build Date: 28 February 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Kernel : 2.6.21-gentoo #3 SMP PREEMPT (but I has 2.6.20-r6,r7,r8) and it works too. Ati Card : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 $fglrxinfo OpenGL vendor string : ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string : ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 OpenGL version string : 2.0.6458 (8.36.5) If your answer is No. Try with #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge ati-drivers, in my case is * x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra Latest version available: 8.33.6 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 57,246 kB Homepage: http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers extra application License: ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0 * x11-drivers/ati-drivers Latest version available: 8.35.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 55,971 kB Homepage: http://www.ati.com Description: Ati precompiled drivers for recent chipsets License: ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0 Emerge the 8.35.5 and aticonfig --initial I hope this help you...Please comment us your experience... On 5/10/07, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:24 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:45 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? You should try $ sudo emerge -va =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5 Note that the precise path (before the slash) is mandatory, as is the `=' sign. You don't have to copy the stuff into portage/distfiles, but maybe your xorg-version could block the merge. Try downgrading then. But I'm not sure if this could help with your issues. Regards, Aleks Hi Aleks Sorry... I get the same error Joe Hi Johannes, Whoops, sorry, seems I got the version number wrong. Of course, just substituting the desired version would help. On my system: 12:40:11 | 1 $ emerge -p =x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.28.8 USE=acpi opengl -doc [blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0) This means it is not fine to install them with a newer x-server on my arch (x86). Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Francisco Rivas Linux User (New) : #448324 Linux Machine (New) : 355187
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
Sorry,my English is poor:-) I have a ATI with 9250 ,so I have to add x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.29.1 to /etc/portage/package.mask,ati-driver-8.28.8-r1 (not ati-driver-8.28.8) and the kernel with 2.6.19 is well,but the 2.6.20 cant. xorg 7.2 isnt support R200 (inclue 9200 9250)seriers.Dont update to 7.2 from 7.1. Of course you can choose open source driver,it could be supported. My English is very very Poor:-(sorry 2007/5/10, Johannes Skov Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Francisco Rivas wrote: Hi Johannes and every friend of the list :D. Johannes two things: 1.- I think (i guess) it's better install the 8.36.5 ati drivers, because the 8.32.5 ati drivers is too bugs and is better have the actual driver, you can download from the ati page and put on the portage distfiles and install it. 2.- If you don't like the 1 then look here : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554065-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-atidrivers.htmland http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554736.html?sid=eeac31c8c7d77b4d130703a372462537 that persons have a problem very similary to yours. Well about your question I think, check your kernel configuration Graphics Drivers, you have to unmark the ATI modules of the kernel. At last, I had the same problem with 8.32.5 my laptop frezee and the only thing what can I do was reset using the Power bottom; and the solution was install the 8.36.5ati driver, believe me. I hope be helpfully to you, Have a nice day :D Hi Francisco Thanks for the help so far...but it still dos not play nicly According to 'lspci' my graphic card is: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) and according to: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon-prer200.html I should then be using version 8.28.8 of the driver. I have tried coping both the 8.28.8 and the 8.36.5 to my dist folder and tried to run emerge: emerge -va ati-drivers but it only suggests the 8.32.5 version, which as previously mentioned, dos not work. Am I missing to parameters to emerge or? I have tried to compiled ati support directly in to my kernel... this did not work I have tried to compile ati support as modules for my kernel... this did not work I have tried to add framebuffer support in the kernel with support for ati this allows me to start x but everything is running real slow and I experience clipping when I move around windows. Any pointers? Joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop
On Thursday 10 May 2007 09:29:54 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:08, Elias Probst wrote: Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets has gone. Glad this helped. :) The only thing I noticed is that when I launch Konqueror as root it reverts to small fonts. Remove /root/.font* too and restart X to make sure no cached konqueror session is still alive. Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: zd1211 patch?
hmh, works fine for me on 2.6.21. You might want to consider using gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 because that is the latest stable one. Best regards, Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: zd1211 patch?
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:48:04 +0200 Stefan Schweizer wrote: hmh, works fine for me on 2.6.21. You might want to consider using gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 because that is the latest stable one. Mmmm... I use suspend ones... Linux pataki 2.6.19-suspend2-r3 #1 PREEMPT Fri Mar 9 02:17:29 CET 2007 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I'll download 2.6.20 and compile it again (later)... But, anyway, will it be possible to use it with suspend ones? Best regards, Stefan Many thanks, Arnau -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom1 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrw - hdc appear since loading ide-generic.ko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 64 May 9 08:25 /dev/hdd Cool. It seemed to me that you set ide-generic to M by mistake as everything else is *. You could either change the config and recompile/install, or put ide-config in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 Does the dvd device also work correctly now? I thought so until now having restarted the box -- I did put ide-generic into the autoload file before shutdown yesterday -- tried to play a DVD with gmplayer. Couldn't find the drive again. I just assumed it had forgotten that in preferences-misc the path to the drive had been changed from /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom1. Nope, that was still correct. Then I did an ls -l under /dev and this appeared: ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 02:23 cdrom2 - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 02:23 cdrom3 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 02:23 cdrw2 - hdc ... Compare this to the above. Something is incrementing the drive numbers! Does this have something to do with having modularized the driver? Guess my next stop is /usr/src/linux... ...to be cont'd -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe
On Tue, 8 May 2007 21:34:47 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Michael Sullivan wrote: I need a procmail recipe that will allow all mails marked as spam to be delivered to a dovecot maildir-style folder called Suspect located in /home/michael/.maildir/.Suspect (with new, cur, tmp as subdirs). :0 * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes /home/michael/.maildir/.Suspect/ Yep, that should work ,although you may have to adjust X-Spam-Status to match a header that your spam filtering has placed in the emails. Check the email headers to be sure. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim
I think I sent this question from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about an hour ago, but as I have not received it back again at either this address, or espersunited.com and as I don't seem to have sent any mail from espersunited.com since April, I'll send this again. In my exim.conf file, I'm a little confused about the hostlist relay_from_hosts variable. I need to be able to send mail from 127.0.0.1, 70.234.122.250 (the machine exim's running on), 70.234.122.251, and 70.234.122.248 (which are two other machines on my LAN). How would I set the variable thus? Also, exim needs to be able to receive mail from anywhere. Is this the default behaviour? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers
Stuart Howard stuart.g.howard at gmail.com writes: All versions of the ATI driver are blocking xorg-server 1.3 at the moment so you are not going to get around that one easily. If you look at the --tree to find out what package is asking for the upgrade of xorg-server and then mask that? this may help. Ok, Thanks James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] something keeps incrementing links to CD and DVD drives
Hi group,
By way of addendum to my earlier post on udev rules
and my CD and DVD drives, /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd.
At first the drives were'nt found then modprobeing
ide-generic.ko fixed that. But the links under /dev to
the drives were being mysteriously incremented. So
ide-generic was compiled with the kernel. Didn't work.
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 05:35
cdrom4 - hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 05:35
cdrom5 - hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 05:35 cdrw4
- hdc
crw--- 1 roottty 5, 1 May 10 11:36
console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot11 May 10 05:35 core
- /proc/kcore
drwxr-xr-x 5 rootroot 100 May 10 05:35 disk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 9 May 10 11:36 dsp
- sound/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 10 05:35 dvd5
- hdd
...
Every time I boot the links are incremented and the
optical drives don't work. Floppy and SATA hdd OK.
Here's /etc/rules.d/*cd*:
# This file was automatically generated by the
/lib/udev/write_cd_rules
# program, probably run by the
cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on
a single line
# and set the $GENERATED variable.
# LITE-ON_LTR-52327S (pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:0)
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrom, ENV{GENERATED}=1
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrw, ENV{GENERATED}=1
# CREATIVE_DVD-ROM_DVD6240E (pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:1)
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:1,
SYMLINK+=cdrom1, ENV{GENERATED}=1
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:08.0-ide-0:1,
SYMLINK+=dvd1, ENV{GENERATED}=1
# LITE-ON_LTR-52327S (ide-0:0)
#ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==ide-0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrom2, ENV{GENERATED}=1
#ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==ide-0:0,
SYMLINK+=cdrw2, ENV{GENERATED}=1
# CREATIVE_DVD-ROM_DVD6240E (ide-0:1)
#ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==ide-0:1,
SYMLINK+=cdrom3, ENV{GENERATED}=1
#ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{ID_PATH}==ide-0:1,
SYMLINK+=dvd3, ENV{GENERATED}=1
# these rules generate rules for the
/dev/{cdrom,dvd,...} symlinks
ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==block,
ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*, ENV{GENERATED}!=?*,
PROGRAM=write_cd_rules, SYMLINK+=%c
I commented out the extra lines but it didn't help.
Isn't the '+=' in SYMLINK+=cdrom computerese for
'add a one'?
FWIW, from the boot console I see something new:
Running hdparm
HDIO_SET_DMA failed Operation not permitted
for /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd
From .config the IDE stuff:
#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5535 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_JMICRON is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT821X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
Is it that 'FORCED' thing?
Maxim
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim
quoth the Michael Sullivan: I think I sent this question from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about an hour ago, but as I have not received it back again at either this address, or espersunited.com and as I don't seem to have sent any mail from espersunited.com since April, I'll send this again. In my exim.conf file, I'm a little confused about the hostlist relay_from_hosts variable. I need to be able to send mail from 127.0.0.1, 70.234.122.250 (the machine exim's running on), 70.234.122.251, and 70.234.122.248 (which are two other machines on my LAN). How would I set the variable thus? From exim.conf: # They are all colon-separated lists So you want: hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.251 : 70.234.122.248 I don't think you have to put 70.234.122.250 in here if it is the same machine as 127.0.0.1. At least I don't in my working configuration. Also, exim needs to be able to receive mail from anywhere. Is this the default behaviour? Short: Yes... Long: I believe there are some spam filtering mechanisms in place in the default config that may block some hosts. This may or may not depend on which USE flags you built exim with. Check the ACL section of the config... HTH -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails
JD jdangler at atlantic.net writes: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... Are you using 2007.0 based installation media? It was just release: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng hth James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Hi! I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up portage? Is there something like alien? Thanks in advance Florian Philipp pgpwG6QaE8n2x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop
On Thursday 10 May 2007 14:58, Elias Probst wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 09:29:54 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:08, Elias Probst wrote: Oups, you're right. emerge fontconfig did the trick for me! Ugly rendering of Konsole and password bullets has gone. Glad this helped. :) The only thing I noticed is that when I launch Konqueror as root it reverts to small fonts. Remove /root/.font* too and restart X to make sure no cached konqueror session is still alive. I've already tried that but it doesn't work. :( Also noticed that OpenOffice fonts look odd, but I think these are Gtk controlled? -- Regards, Mick pgpGySwGXyNWn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
quoth the Florian Philipp: Hi! I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up portage? Is there something like alien? Thanks in advance Florian Philipp Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm Use AYOR (at your own risk...), as I have no idea what repercussions this may have. Does RPM have a --pretend option? I have used `ebuild`s 'rpm' target to make RPMs of software with ebuilds which is essentially the opposite of what you want. Works good. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Well, you can always make an ebuild for it. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails
James wrote: Are you using 2007.0 based installation media? It was just release: I'm sure it would be lovely - if it didn't segfault on half of my machines. :( It loads the gui but nothing of consequence will run, including the install programs. The 2007.0 livecd images are definitely not ready for prime time. :( FWIW, the minimal install CDs seem to be OK. Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard video
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP could anyone tell me, what driver should I use for it ? For the moment: xf86-video-vesa. Support for your type of Chrome integrated graphics chip is being worked on: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats If you have no trouble compiling things yourself, this briefly explains how: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Work%20In%20Progress By the way, please don't hi-jack threads: don't reply to a random email and change the subject, but start a clean, new message. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 21:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Well, you can always make an ebuild for it. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources /index.html Argh, that's the broken link I was talking about, thanks! However, it seems as if there is no easy way to perform it and there are still some questions for me: 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using alien which leads me to problem number 2 ... 2. This page [1] tells me how to extract a .deb-package and that I could just extract [its binaries] to / But this doesn't help me because portage does not know about this package, its dependencies and so on. I could break my system quiet easily this way. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/deb-sources/index.html pgpT51AotAEGS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
quoth the b.n.: darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? m. I've no idea, but likely not. To tell the truth I was hoping the OP would be brave and find out ;) I was thinking he just had a one-off app he needed installed, and combined with some 'package.provided' alchemy he may be able to get the result he needed, however, in his response it seems this is not the case so... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:12:43 b.n. wrote: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? No, you are correct. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Well, you can always make an ebuild for it. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sources/index.html Argh, that's the broken link I was talking about, thanks! However, it seems as if there is no easy way to perform it and there are still some questions for me: 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using alien which leads me to problem number 2 ... There are plenty of ebuilds for binary only packages in the tree. The above link helps you to unpack the binary files to $WORKDIR. After that you can use the install functions [1] (or cp or whatever) in src_install() to install to the image ($D). And perhaps you need and env.d file or whatever else may be missing (for additions to *PATH variables). When all of that is done you can emerge it. And no, a .deb isn't any better. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard video
thanks - Original Message - From: Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Onboard video [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIA Chrome 9 HC IGP could anyone tell me, what driver should I use for it ? For the moment: xf86-video-vesa. Support for your type of Chrome integrated graphics chip is being worked on: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats If you have no trouble compiling things yourself, this briefly explains how: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Work%20In%20Progress By the way, please don't hi-jack threads: don't reply to a random email and change the subject, but start a clean, new message. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
quoth the b.n.: darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? m. I've no idea, but likely not. To tell the truth I was hoping the OP would be brave and find out ;) I was thinking he just had a one-off app he needed installed, and combined with some 'package.provided' alchemy he may be able to get the result he needed, however, in his response it seems this is not the case so... -d -- darren kirby Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? pgp4aGrsW8P1v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using alien which leads me to problem number 2 ... There are plenty of ebuilds for binary only packages in the tree. The above link helps you to unpack the binary files to $WORKDIR. After that you can use the install functions [1] (or cp or whatever) in src_install() to install to the image ($D). And perhaps you need and env.d file or whatever else may be missing (for additions to *PATH variables). When all of that is done you can emerge it. And no, a .deb isn't any better. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html One example from the tree is media-video/realplayer. It is a package that installs a binary package from an rpm. Regards, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Am Donnerstag 10 Mai 2007 22:29 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Well, you can always make an ebuild for it. http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/rpm-sou rces/index.html Argh, that's the broken link I was talking about, thanks! However, it seems as if there is no easy way to perform it and there are still some questions for me: 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or in portage itself while rpms of proprietary closed-source software are quiet common. I could transfer them into a .deb-archive using alien which leads me to problem number 2 ... There are plenty of ebuilds for binary only packages in the tree. The above link helps you to unpack the binary files to $WORKDIR. After that you can use the install functions [1] (or cp or whatever) in src_install() to install to the image ($D). And perhaps you need and env.d file or whatever else may be missing (for additions to *PATH variables). When all of that is done you can emerge it. And no, a .deb isn't any better. [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/install-functions/index.html Hmm, looks quiet complicated. Maybe there is a simpler solution: Since I can install an rpm after emerging rpm itself, there is no need to convert it. All I have to do is to make portage aware of this package. Of course I would have to take care of dependencies myself and let rpm forget about dependencies since it doesn't know about my emerged packages. Could that work? How do I do it? pgpkdWwJwt2du.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? The only real difference is the packaging method. The extra information contained in RPM files isn't used by portage as it is replicated in the ebuild. Where binary packages are provided in a choice of RPM or tarball formats, such as VMware, the ebuilds usually use the tarball. -- Neil Bothwick Foolproof operation: No provision for adjustment. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:34:46 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:34 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were measurably faster. That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. I allowed for that. I created a new filesystem for /usr/portage - I had been using a directory in /usr before. Well, maybe it has to do with the efficiency of reading discontiguous blocks from one file as opposed to a filesystem. Since it's a sparse file, there might be a lot of 'space' that, if it were on an actual disk, the heads would have to pass over; thus there may be a way in which a sparse file is more efficient than a regular filesystem. Remeber that the files in portage are, except for distfiles, quite small. By my calculation, the average size for files and directories under $PORTDIR (excluding $DISTDIR of course) is only 62 bytes. What would you bet that on a disk partition, the other 962 to 4034 bytes per block (I couldn't have block sizes less than 1K on reiser for my portage, and 4096 is the default for most FS's) are filled with nothing, and the heads need to pass over them to read the next block. On a sparse file that space is merely reserved, it needn't actually exist. Hope that helps you conceptualize the difference. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Netboot questions
On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:40:13 +0200 Jan Seeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes sorry there. Then I cannot help you, since I have no experience using netboot/pxe. Sorry Greetings Jan Seeger Well, dave, I look to be one of the few who have done this. I think I can give you a hand. 1. I can still compile/emerge on the frontend but its very slow as its on NFS. Can I compile on the server by chrooting? Basicallly I want to know if I can compile on EMT64 targeting AMD64. The frontend was installed with stage 1 so I guess the compiler won't even run in a chroot'ed environment. Various NFS tweaks can help with this. The biggest difference I noticed was allowing async NFS mounting -- and a substantial difference it was. During an emerge (genlop in this case) My sync-mounted router 'davey' gets about 2M or less per second on the server's hard drive, whereas the async-mounted 'slim' achieves speeds more on a reasonable scale of 5M or more; lag is significantly lower as well. After emerging I wanted to show what genlop said of the install speeds... | davey linux # genlop -i genlop | Global build time: 32 seconds. compared to | slim ~ # genlop genlop -i | Global build time: 7 seconds. I didn't think such a small package was a very good example, so a dependancy, DateManip, is also shown: | davey linux # genlop DateManip -i | Global build time: 7 minutes and 31 seconds. compared to | slim ~ # genlop -i DateManip | Global build time: 27 seconds. Here's the server export options from exportfs: | /nfsroot/davey 192.168.1.1(rw,wdelay,no_root_squash) | /nfsroot/slim 192.168.1.86(rw,async,wdelay,no_root_squash) And from fstab on the clients: | 192.168.1.87:/nfsroot/slim / nfs rw,async,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 0 0 | 192.168.1.87:/nfsroot/davey / nfs | noauto,wsize=1024,rsize=1024,sync,noatime 0 0 Although the async mount was scary at first, I haven't had any problems. slim is my media PC. 2. The Gensplash is compiled into the kernel. It appears at startup with the 'Initialising kernel' screen but the progress bar never appears. I'm not a gentoo spash user, but I'd wager you need to provide the splashscreen images and whatnot to the kernel. The kernel and any initrd/initramfs images must live on the TFTP server to be provided to PXE, and I would imagine the same thing would be true of a splashscreen. 3. My DHCP server issues static routes, but since I've made the frontend boot over PXE (static IP address) it never gets the routes. Any ideas? Contrary to popular opinion, there's nothing wrong with using dhcp to assign ip information -- At least, that is one of the few things that my net-booters haven't suffered from. My kernel invocation is something like | DEFAULT /bzImage.davey.2.6.19.new | APPEND ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.87:/nfsroot/davey As you can see, I use PXE-Linux and I recommend it. (I would be interested to hear from you if you got PXE-Grub working because I never did.) the useful /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsboot.txt suggests that: | ip=client-ip:server-ip:gw-ip:netmask:hostname:device:autoconf | | This parameter tells the kernel how to configure IP addresses of |devices and also how to set up the IP routing table. This option might solve the problem, but I'd think you'd have better luck using dhcp as I do. Best of luck, Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
El Thu, 10 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? The difference is that Gentoo is not RPM based. Could it supoprt RPM? Yes, and also DEB files, and also. As you see, each distro has it's own packaging system. Gentoo ebuilds are nothing more -ultimately- than bash scripts which provides an easy way to build stuff from source (RPM is by no means oriented on that direction, though there are also source RPM, but they are not the normal thing, like binary ebuilds are not normal either). Sure ebuilds can use data extracted from RPMs, that is no problem. But for any ebuild, a given RPM is nothing more than a tarball containing binaries, and not a proper package. -- Jesús Guerrero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:50:34 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007, maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrom1 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 3 May 9 08:25 cdrw - hdc [ /dev device nodes for cdroms ] appear since loading ide-generic.ko For one thing, generic IDE support is certainly less appropriate than support for your IDE card. Hardware-specific options cna be enabled and you might gain DMA if your hardware is really unusual. I can say from experience that generic ide support doesn't provide anything that drivers specific to your hardware fails to provide, unless I misunderstand greatly. It's not a question of increased functionality necessarily, but one of performance, and possibly less overhead for the CPU. Secondly, in addition to some kind of driver for IDE, either generic or specific, you need the cdrom driver (module: cdrom.ko) for cdrom support. My guess is, you upgraded the kernel and fell into the commonly experienced PATA driver burn -- there's two driver sets now, an experimental one and the old ones, and you have to make sure to get the right one for your configuration. Dont forget, you'll also need to have the ISO9660 and possibly UDF filesysem supported. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:36:41 Florian Philipp wrote: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? Gentoo is a source based distro. Usually in Gentoo binary packages are placed in /opt. Running revdep-rebuild to rebuild a binary package isn't going to do a thing. Sometimes paths need to be added to *PATH environment variables. Sure the package managers could (at least paludis or pkgcore if anyone skilled enough would do the job) be made to support rpm's or debian packages but there would still be binary compatibility issues to tackle... Also I don't really agree that creating an ebuild is so hard. Hope that answers some of it.. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
quoth the Florian Philipp: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? Another thought: Unless I've missed it, you've not mentioned *what* it is you have an RPM for. Have you checked bugzilla, and all the various overlays yet to see if there *is* a user-contributed ebuild for it? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:43 + b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darren kirby ha scritto: Well, you can install RPM... # emerge -p rpm You could then, presumably, install the RPM, though I have not ever tried this: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? m. Hi, no, I suppose you are perfectly right. But suppose there is a PREFIX for the rpm-program and this could be set to something like /usr/local or /usr/local/rpm. This way both trees would be independent - of course you would also have to keep a second tree up-to-date. Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:25 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) Unless the device is that new or that rare, I find it difficult to believe that lspci doesn't recognize it, at least without inquiring first as to whether you've recently updated lspci. If not, you may not be updating the device id database it uses to identify hardware. vesafb: BUG, returned from vm86 with (EIP: 0xc0fcc) vesafb: warning, copying modelist from somewhere in RAM! vesafb: Sorry, pre-VBE 2.0 cards are not supported. vesafb: vbe_init failed vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -22 Isn't there an option in more recent kernels to disable vm86 for buggy VGA bioses? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] python emerge appears to have broken my python man page symlink
Hey all. I updated my home server today, and while looking through the resultant emails from portage, I find this message from the python emerge | Subject: package dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 merged on zeus.spore.ath.cx | with notice | Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:45:15 -0500 | | WARN: postrm | /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz is a dead symlink. Looking to the changelog, I find | 10 May 2007; Bryan C398stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +python-2.3.6-r2.ebuild, +python-2.4.4-r3.ebuild, | +python-2.5.1-r1.ebuild: Change threads USE flag to nothreads, fix | non-linux linker issue and fix man-page symlink. Is this a bug with the ebuild, my friends? Or is it my system which is the source of the problem? Looks like i'm finally the first to run into something ; ) With Sincerity, Dan Farrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and vesa on GeForce 6100 nForce 400
On 5/10/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get nvidia binary drivers working for an onboard GeForce 6100 nForce 400? lspci doesn't recognise it: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d2 (rev a2) I saw it listed in _one_ nvidia-drivers package (on the nvidia website) as supported, but it hasn't been since. Try nvidia-legacy-drivers HTH- James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails
Yes, I believe so. I got the iso's (both stage 3 and minimal 2007) from gentoo.org . Is there a more recent release that would have the drivers for the 945 ? -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:01 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new install - X fails JD jdangler at atlantic.net writes: Just got a D420 laptop and wanted to setup gentoo... Booted from cd, got to the OpenGL start, and X fails ... Are you using 2007.0 based installation media? It was just release: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng hth James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] python emerge appears to have broken my python man page symlink
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:53:38 Dan Farrell wrote: Hey all. I updated my home server today, and while looking through the resultant emails from portage, I find this message from the python emerge | Subject: package dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 merged on zeus.spore.ath.cx [SNIP] | WARN: postrm | /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz is a dead symlink. [SNIP] Is this a bug with the ebuild, my friends? Yeah. [SNIP] Looks like i'm finally the first to run into something ; ) Nope.. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177471 -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: python emerge appears to have broken my python man page symlink
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:53:38PM -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: Hey all. I updated my home server today, and while looking through the resultant emails from portage, I find this message from the python emerge | Subject: package dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 merged on zeus.spore.ath.cx | with notice | Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:45:15 -0500 | | WARN: postrm | /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz is a dead symlink. Looking to the changelog, I find | 10 May 2007; Bryan C398stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +python-2.3.6-r2.ebuild, +python-2.4.4-r3.ebuild, | +python-2.5.1-r1.ebuild: Change threads USE flag to nothreads, fix | non-linux linker issue and fix man-page symlink. Is this a bug with the ebuild, my friends? Or is it my system which is the source of the problem? Looks like i'm finally the first to run into something ; ) Emerge --sync and update python. I've fixed this earlier today. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Hi, On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:50:42 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I can install an rpm after emerging rpm itself, there is no need to convert it. All I have to do is to make portage aware of this package. Of course I would have to take care of dependencies myself and let rpm forget about dependencies since it doesn't know about my emerged packages. Could that work? If you're lucky and actually *do* manage to get the dependencies right. I wouldn't bet a cent on it, at least, if we're talking about a dynamic executable. How do I do it? $ rpm -i --nodeps my.rpm -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:27 +, James wrote: Stuart Howard stuart.g.howard at gmail.com writes: All versions of the ATI driver are blocking xorg-server 1.3 at the moment so you are not going to get around that one easily. If you look at the --tree to find out what package is asking for the upgrade of xorg-server and then mask that? this may help. Ok, I just compiled xorg-server like this: conf_opts=--with-release-major=7 --with-release-minor=2 emerge xorg-server and I use x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.36.5 from my overlay. works fine. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-554798.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no CD or DVD but rules seem correct-FIXED-or, not
My guess is, you upgraded the kernel and fell into the commonly experienced PATA driver burn -- there's two driver sets now, an experimental one and the old ones, and you have to make sure to get the right one for your configuration. What I did was write a 10-local.rules file following the model at reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html. So now I get the proper symlinks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/cd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 10 10:21 /dev/cdrom - hdc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 10 10:21 /dev/dvd - hdd plus these unwanted ones which are the result of 70-persistent-cd.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 10 10:21 /dev/cdrom4 - hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 10 10:21 /dev/cdrom5 - hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 10 10:21 /dev/cdrw4 - hdc question is, how do I turn off persistent-cd rules? Even if I delete it another is generated when the PC boots. Do I delete /lib/udev*/write_cd_rules? According to the FAQ persistence is most useful for devices that are likely to be plugged in and out fairly often. I don't expect to do that with the optical drives. Maxim Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.3.3 messed up my desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: Is this the way it is supposed to look? Your attached picture looks fine to me, but I'm not sure what you were comparing it to... R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQ+XA7So1xaF/eR8RAlSXAJ9inANPR+d4194RDo32wiVjW2qjbwCfffTG imv1Ka9DpgQV8y3QwZild34= =Qkn7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Florian Philipp: Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up portage? Write an ebuild for it. portage uses rpm packages just like tar.gz. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103406 for an example ebuild that uses a src.rpm. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Separate /usr
On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:36:03 +0400, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:34:46 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:34 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: No idea, but I tried it when I encountered that page and portage operations were measurably faster. That might well be just the transfer effect: you went from an old fragmented file system to a fresh unfragmented one. I allowed for that. I created a new filesystem for /usr/portage - I had been using a directory in /usr before. Well, maybe it has to do with the efficiency of reading discontiguous blocks from one file as opposed to a filesystem. Since it's a sparse file, there might be a lot of 'space' that, if it were on an actual disk, the heads would have to pass over; thus there may be a way in which a sparse file is more efficient than a regular filesystem. Remeber that the files in portage are, except for distfiles, quite small. By my calculation, the average size for files and directories under $PORTDIR (excluding $DISTDIR of course) is only 62 bytes. What would you bet that on a disk partition, the other 962 to 4034 bytes per block (I couldn't have block sizes less than 1K on reiser for my portage, and 4096 is the default for most FS's) are filled with nothing, and the heads need to pass over them to read the next block. On a sparse file that space is merely reserved, it needn't actually exist. Hope that helps you conceptualize the difference. I guess the idea is correct, but the details are questionable. The heads do not move over empty tails, the spinning disk does. A head just moves to the track that contains the required sectors. The head movement and disk spinning do not influence performance directly since there are many levels of caching between a physical read and an application. It looks like it takes much less buffer space to cache lots of small files when they are joined into a sparse file than when they are in a real file system, making sparse file very efficient. -- Andrei Gerasimenko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
