[gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
Hi, I have a strange problem with hal. To get my usb mouse (Logitech RX1000) running, I have to unplug the mouse before booting and plug it again after booting but before starting X11. This is nuisance and make a graphical login manager impossible. To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? Many thanks for your help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. you probably have some dangling symlinks left. That happens when you unmerge first, eselect later. eselect can not deal with dangling symlinks - it fails silently. So, check for broken symlinks, remove them, then run eselect again.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:37:53 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon. Would it make a difference if I install qt-phonon instead? a) don't install qt-phonon Why not? b) use xine as backend Why? I know xine works. However, I would prefer to use gstreamer. Will file a bug for KDE... Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
On 21 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. you probably have some dangling symlinks left. That happens when you unmerge first, eselect later. eselect can not deal with dangling symlinks - it fails silently. So, check for broken symlinks, remove them, then run eselect again. Thanks, can you please tell me where to search for these dangling symlinks? Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
* Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) [21.02.09 10:55]: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Try: eselect opengl set xorg-x11 HTH Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de pgppYOwbGdLBE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2, gstreamer backend and flac
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 22:37:53 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Further installed are phonon-kde and phonon. Would it make a difference if I install qt-phonon instead? a) don't install qt-phonon Why not? because media-sound/phonon is the one with working gst support? b) use xine as backend Why? I know xine works. However, I would prefer to use gstreamer. Will file a bug for KDE... because xine is 'better' - just ask the amarok guys.
Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 21 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Samstag 21 Februar 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver
to a machine with onboard radeonhd device.
Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl
it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl.
Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver.
How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage?
Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.
you probably have some dangling symlinks left. That happens when you
unmerge first, eselect later. eselect can not deal with dangling symlinks
- it fails silently. So, check for broken symlinks, remove them, then run
eselect again.
Thanks, can you please tell me where to search for these dangling
symlinks?
Helmut.
all over /usr/lib ;)
easiest way to fix it, would be running 'symlinks'
eix symlinks
[I] app-misc/symlinks
Available versions: 1.2-r2 {static}
Installed versions: 1.2-r2(18:07:20 20.06.2008)(-static)
Homepage:http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/file/
Description: Symlinks scans for and fixes broken or messy
symlinks
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? (Sorry if this came through already, gmail's draft saving via IMAP and a spotty wlan really mix up threads and messages in gmail's view.) During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a hal-enabled PS/2 keyboard and a hal-enabled Logitech USB mouse, the mouse was not the problem, but the keyboard layouts were the killer which prompted me to disable hal altogether (ref: earlier CTRL+C kills korganizer-thread). Mouse worked ok with following changes to my earlier xorg.conf and I had no need for plugging cables in and out, it Just Worked: Section Module: Loadevdev Section ServerFlags: Option AllowEmptyInput false Section for the mouse InputDevice needed to change driver to evdev. Section ServerLayout: Option AutoAddDevices false Option AutoEnableDevices true (But I ended up commenting them out and the mouse still worked ok, so not sure if you need to toggle the defaults values for these at all.) Those changes gave me a functional USB mouse pointer with xorg-server 1.5.x, but my keyboard problems went away only after I disabled acpid and hal, and re-emerged xorg-server with USE=-hal. Wasted nearly three good weeks' nights and weekends there with kde 4.2.0 upgrade, so you can understand my above-average grumpiness about hal -- just disable it unless you really really need it. :( -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless intel 4965 howto
Hi there! Sorry Alejandro, but that link didn't help very much... iwconfig shows: wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID: Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:87A7-2DD9-4D Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 'dmesg' shows the following: iwlagn :14:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 iwlagn :14:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x40100102, writing 0x40100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode iwlagn: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch wlan0: Failed to config new SSID to the low-level driver iwlagn: Error sending REPLY_WEPKEY: enqueue_hcmd failed: -5 mac80211-phy0: failed to set key (0, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) to hardware (-5) wlan0: Failed to config new SSID to the low-level driver iwlagn :14:00.0: PCI INT A disabled -- again, this rfkill-issue. The switch is in on position, the LED in the display shows active, but the driver thinks its off :-( Try to enable it manually: iwconfig wlan0 txpower on iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID: Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=-1 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:87A7-2DD9-4D Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 OK, looks better (At least we have TX-power now), lets try to scan the area ... iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down And now ??? Thanks for suggestions Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2009 schrieb Alejandro: 2009/2/20 Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at Hi there! Is there a working howto of how to get the wireless connection to work? Its a built-in chipset, intel 4965AG, and it was working with kernel 2.6.24, but I fail with any kernel newer. 2.6.26 had serious problems with rfkill-switch, and the only way for me was to unload the driver module, switch on the wifi-interface, load module again and then it worked. A little bit clumsy, but it worked. With 2.6.27 I entirely fail to get any connection at all. The wifi-interface refuses to accept any ESSID. So, is there a howto that describes how to get wireless to work? Maybe in a way so that I switch on the interface and no troubles with rfkill, etc? Thanks in advance Alex Take a look at the old gentoo wiki. i think is in www.gentoo-wiki.info. After kernel 2.6.26 yo have to change a couple of options and start using the open intel driver for that chip !DSPAM:506,499ed68a96841258219633!
Re: [gentoo-user] opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
2009/2/21 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have switched from a machine with Nvidia (proprietary) graphics driver to a machine with onboard radeonhd device. Now when reemerging xorg-server or trying to eselect opengl it always tries to find Nvidia's opengl. Of course, I have unmerged the nvidia driver. How can I get rid of the Nvidia heritage? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany Hi, have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? HTH Davide
Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently
Marcin Zwd schrieb: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vladimir Rusinov vladi...@greenmice.info wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd marcin...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn off the screen using nice program radeantool of course xset dpms force off worked as well. And turn off was permanent. It is worth to mention that I was using x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers... On the other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82. Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the backlight is back on! Try following: sleep 1 xset dpms force off Thanks, I tried that before as well. Besides the screen is turning off, however just for a few seconds. My guess is that probably gnome or some other apps is turning the screen back on. So, it seems that only I have this kind of problem :( Marcin No, I have this problem, too. When I use 'xset dpms force off' for the first few times, it works (screen stays off). After that, it always turns back on. It also didn't go away when I switched from XFCE to GNOME. The problem has been there since I bought my notebook 1.5 years ago. I just live with it.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de wrote: * Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [05.02.09 09:12]: Than I'll rephrase my statement: Gentoo would need a non-bugged GUI installer ;) No, Gentoo needs no GUI or CLI installer. It is very good, that if you install Gentoo for the first time, you must actually read the documentation, because it introduces you in the whole managing Gentoo stuff. What is important in the Handbook are not the commandline examples, but the surrunding text. A student of the path heard about Ubuntu, and wanted to try it, and learn about it. He asked his friend, a Linux guru, about it. Where can I find an installer of Ubuntu?, he asked. Rummaging about his stuff, his friend replied: Here, I have an extra Ubuntu CD for you.. After thanking his friend, he got about his business and went to install Ubuntu on a spare machine. After a while, he wanted to install other applications on his Ubuntu machine, but he didn't know how to do it. He quickly called up his friend and asked about it. Where can I find the official documentation for Ubuntu?, he asked. Read the documentation and manuals at these links, said his friend, who pointed at the site containing the offiicial documentation. After thanking his friend, he got about his business and learned a bit about his Ubuntu machine. Several months later, at the Ubuntu forums, he notices several users mentioning Gentoo over and over again. He quickly decides to give this Gentoo a try, and asks his friend where to get an installer. Read the documentation and manuals at these links, said his friend, who pointed at the site containing the official documentation. This answer confused the student, and after skimming the pages for a while, he notices that the documentation is too huge for him to read in a single sitting. He then asks his friend if he has a copy of the documentation for reference when he gets home. Rummaging about his stuff, his friend replied: Here, I have an extra Gentoo CD for you. The student was even more confused. Why is it that when I asked you for an installer, you pointed me to the documentation, but when I asked you for the documentation, you gave me a CD? Why didn't you give me a CD installer the first time around? To which the guru replied: If you just want a CD installer, then you can have this., and he gave the student another Ubuntu CD. At this point the student was enlightened.
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
-Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) To which the guru replied: If you just want a CD installer, then you can have this., and he gave the student another Ubuntu CD. At this point the student was enlightened. I think you just outlined the exact kind of help that keeps most people from switching to Gentoo. If that had been, for example, you and I having that particular conversation, I'd of probably smacked you with the CD and got my answers from somewhere else. Since most people, particularly most people new to linux, assume CD == installer. Also, while I like the general do it yourself attitude Gentoo takes right from instalation, there's nothing accessible about it. Which means, even though I know all the information's right there on the CD, I still won't actually be able to do it (can't see the screen, after all). So yes, there are still areas wherein the use of an installer, or even just the provision of better software on the CD, would probably make it easier for people to get into it.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other
I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But doing that I get: ath0 does not support setting the mode to master and madwifi IRC says: you can't use iwconfig to set master mode you need to do that with hostapd Does anyone know how to reconcile this? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi James, On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:29:18PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) To which the guru replied: If you just want a CD installer, then you can have this., and he gave the student another Ubuntu CD. At this point the student was enlightened. I think you just outlined the exact kind of help that keeps most people from switching to Gentoo. If that had been, for example, you and I having that particular conversation, I'd of probably smacked you with the CD and got my answers from somewhere else. Since most people, particularly most people new to linux, assume CD == installer. Also, while I like the general do it yourself attitude Gentoo takes right from instalation, there's nothing accessible about it. Which means, even though I know all the information's right there on the CD, I still won't actually be able to do it (can't see the screen, after all). So yes, there are still areas wherein the use of an installer, or even just the provision of better software on the CD, would probably make it easier for people to get into it. Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list? You might want to subscribe there. There are a couple of things that still need to happen (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can get them put on the live cd, but that is being worked on. For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to install from that cd. For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh connection if you can get to the box that way. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmgVB4ACgkQblQW9DDEZTiXGQCghh2O3vc/9b2qFpoP3OjQMm0G 3JAAn3G2nIT/jvsiMdZQMiCeh3rekh/J =9kbW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
-Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org] Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list? You might want to subscribe there. There are a couple of things that still need to happen (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can get them put on the live cd, but that is being worked on. I am, yes. Though admittedly not for very long. For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to install from that cd. Can you run speakup etc with software speech off the 2007.0 CD? For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh connection if you can get to the box that way. I was thinking of possibly doing that, too. Hopefully it'll play nice with the box's hardware (it's a 5-year-old HP laptop).
[gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. hth, James
[gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: # equery depends dbus-python [ Searching for packages depending on dbus-python... ] media-tv/miro-2.0.1 (dev-python/dbus-python) net-misc/wicd-1.5.9-r1 (dev-python/dbus-python) Grant, How are you getting miro? #rd party ebuild? My /usr/portage/media-tv directory does not contain miro? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315 curiously, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:33:17 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But doing that I get: ath0 does not support setting the mode to master You're using the wrong interface name. MadWifi uses ath0, ath5k uses wlan0. -- Neil Bothwick Maybe... How much are you bribing me this time? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other
I'm trying to set up ath5k in master mode. I get this from the hostapd ebuild: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But doing that I get: ath0 does not support setting the mode to master You're using the wrong interface name. MadWifi uses ath0, ath5k uses wlan0. -- Neil Bothwick Yes but I have: udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to ath0 Could that be a problem? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
# equery depends dbus-python [ Searching for packages depending on dbus-python... ] media-tv/miro-2.0.1 (dev-python/dbus-python) net-misc/wicd-1.5.9-r1 (dev-python/dbus-python) Grant, How are you getting miro? #rd party ebuild? My /usr/portage/media-tv directory does not contain miro? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315 curiously, James There are good ebuilds here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527 - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux traffic shaper setup advice
On Monday 09 February 2009 12:34:01 Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi Gentoo community, I have several computers at home and one Gentoo-powered router. I want to setup a very simple traffic shaper that will give each computer almost equal(the best choice - with some weight coefficient on each ip address) speed, without counting number of connections and etc. So, someone using torrent won't load whole pipe. One most important problem with it that I have fixed speed to the world and fixed speed to local resourses in my city, so I can't fix my up/down link speed to one fixed number, I actually have 2 speeds, depending on the IP address I'm accessing to. Any suggestions? First, when you say you have a Gentoo-powered router, what exactly do you mean? Are you running a dedicated hardware router where you've installed Gentoo or are you using a PC with multiple NICs as a router? This may or may not be important, depending on exactly what you end up implementing. Personally, I'd recommend using purpose built router software, such as DD-WRT or Tomato. They're Linux based but they're specifically customize for routing and are probably going to be much easier to configure, and they run on a lot of different commercially available hardware. A $50 Linksys WRT54G with DD- WRT can match a $1000 Cisco router in capability and performance in many circumstances. Second, how familiar are you with networking in general and traffic shaping in particular? If I'm understanding you correctly, what you're trying to do above would be difficult and quite inefficient. For example, if you do a hard limit on bandwidth per IP, then much of your capacity will be idle because it'll be reserved for systems which aren't using it. For example, if system A is downloading a file, it would be restricted in speed if bandwidth is being reserved for systems B, C, etc., even if no one is using those systems! So unless all of your systems are in use maxing out their allotted bandwidth at the same time, you're always going to have bandwidth that is sitting idle. That's quite inefficient. If your goal is to ensure that a bittorrent download on one system doesn't bog down a VoIP call or a WOW gaming session on another system, then you'd be much better off going with some sort of CBQ (Class Based Queuing.) This won't put a hard limit on the bandwidth usable by any particular system or IP, but it will prioritize traffic and prevent bittorrent, etc. from clobbering all your bandwidth. There's a good introduction to traffic shaping with Linux here: http://lartc.org/howto/ Note that manually configuring traffic shaping with iproute2 can get quite technical and require some indepth rule writing. Depending on your level of knowledge and the time and effort you're willing to put in, that may or may not be an issue.
[gentoo-user] Installing gentoo (was gentoo installer and handbook)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again James, I am moving this thread to gentoo-accessibility, so can we continue discussion there? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:27:13PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org] Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list? You might want to subscribe there. There are a couple of things that still need to happen (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can get them put on the live cd, but that is being worked on. I am, yes. Though admittedly not for very long. For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to install from that cd. Can you run speakup etc with software speech off the 2007.0 CD? No, software speech is not supported on that cd. You will need a hardware synthesizer. For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh connection if you can get to the box that way. I was thinking of possibly doing that, too. Hopefully it'll play nice with the box's hardware (it's a 5-year-old HP laptop). To make sshd start up automatically on the 2008.0 live cd, type something like this at the boot prompt: gentoo dosshd passwd=somepassword That will start sshd. Also, I would suggest using the minimal cd so you don't get an x environment. - --- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmga54ACgkQblQW9DDEZTitHQCcDIc//iOA1MLc/3Yx9y5sOAZL hhAAnRGUVPnSmfuExXl0/dRNQZazVyU9 =ZkEB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface
Hi list, I have a server with two interfaces in the same subnet. When asking for the MAC of one of the IPs, always both interfaces reply: arping -b xx.xx.xx.xx ARPING xx.xx.xx.xx from yy.yy.yy.yy eth0 Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:1D:7D:D7:6D:F3] 0.607ms Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:08:54:55:E7:02] 0.792ms ip_forward is set to 0. Is there a switch in /proc to make Linux only reply from the interface that really owns the IP? Right now all traffic goes over one physical link, regardless of the target IP. Thanks, Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface
Hi, set the interface with -I parameter. Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Hi list, I have a server with two interfaces in the same subnet. When asking for the MAC of one of the IPs, always both interfaces reply: arping -b xx.xx.xx.xx ARPING xx.xx.xx.xx from yy.yy.yy.yy eth0 Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:1D:7D:D7:6D:F3] 0.607ms Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:08:54:55:E7:02] 0.792ms ip_forward is set to 0. Is there a switch in /proc to make Linux only reply from the interface that really owns the IP? Right now all traffic goes over one physical link, regardless of the target IP. Thanks, Sascha begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Krasni=C4=8Dan n;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:Krasni=C4=8Dan;Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 email;internet:kra...@krasko.sk tel;cell:+420 605 520 368 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] Re: virtualBox and Gcc
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a specific compiler during an emerge? [...] I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions, compile it, then gcc-config back to normal... Maybe there's a way to define it at the package level (so you don't have to do that every time there's an update) but I don't know it off the top of my head. Thanks... Any other opinions?
Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..
ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason for using 2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the addition of the eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules on my Eee. When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find. Currently using 2.6.24. Will that patch bridge the gap? At a big disadvantage here, my home PC, gentoo, is woefully out of date and I can't do anything for it because my ISP, hdcanada.com, just disappeared. No warning, no explanation. I have to pedal to town and use the wifi with the EEE. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: opengl - howto get rid of Nvidia
James wrote: Pupino pupinux at gmail.com writes: have you also checked /etc/make.conf to ensure that there's not a line like this VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia in it's options? Also check in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and remove all references to nvidia. Also check it's not in your module-rebuild list.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
On 2/21/09, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and
wicd installed simultaneously:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/pyrex:0
('installed', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.8.5', 'nomerge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.6.4 required by ('installed', '/',
'media-tv/miro-2.0.1', 'nomerge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.3-r2 required by ('installed', '/',
'dev-python/dbus-python-0.82.4', 'nomerge')
It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously.
The gurus remain silent, but I have a theory. A bug in portage. I've
had several similar-looking nonsensical blockers lately -- after
portage learned to solve some blockers automatically, actually.
I think at the same time portage lost its ability to figure out that
if you have an unstable version package-3.4.5 installed and you're
installing another package, which requires, e.g., =package-1.2.3 and
the stable for that slot (and oldest available in portage tree) is
between the two, e.g., package-2.3.4 then portage seems to produce
these kinds of situations: wants to downgrade to 2.3.4, but
simultaneously to keep the 3.4.5 in the same slot.
I just had dev-libs/glib do the same two-three days ago. I have the
unstable 2.18.4 installed, package comes along that requires
=glib-2.14 and the latest stable in portage is 2.16.4 or something
for that slot. Boom, similar nonsensical blocker.
I've been solving them by unmerging the blocker and retrying the
emerge. Portage has invariably proceeded without a slightest hint of
blockers -- and re-emerged the unstable package version it just
complained was causing a blocker. So, there, I think it could very
well be a bug in portage. Maybe it has a bug report?
--
Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-hell - please help
Arttu V. wrote: On 2/21/09, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: To make it even work I had to put Option AutoAddDevices no to my xorg.conf file What am I missing? During my short-lived and generally moderately clueless experimentation with the latest xorg-server, evdev and a hal-enabled PS/2 keyboard and a hal-enabled Logitech USB mouse, the mouse was not the problem, but the keyboard layouts were the killer which prompted me to disable hal altogether (ref: earlier CTRL+C kills korganizer-thread). Those changes gave me a functional USB mouse pointer with xorg-server 1.5.x, but my keyboard problems went away only after I disabled acpid and hal, and re-emerged xorg-server with USE=-hal. Wasted nearly three good weeks' nights and weekends there with kde 4.2.0 upgrade, so you can understand my above-average grumpiness about hal -- just disable it unless you really really need it. :( I've felt the pain (MS natural keyboard) until recently. For my two ~x86 systems, here's the procedure that worked to get hal/xorg working. * set INPUT_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf * set hal use flag in make.conf * emerge -uDNav world * emerge xorg-x11 * emerge xf86-input-evdev * create a default xorg.conf (Xorg --configure) * remove all InputDevice sections in xorg.conf * remove all references to InputDevice in the ServerLayout section * configure your video in xorg.conf * test using X -config path/to/new/xorg.conf Here's my xorg.conf: http://gist.github.com/68202 HTH, Roy
Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and
wicd installed simultaneously:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/pyrex:0
('installed', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.8.5', 'nomerge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.6.4 required by ('installed', '/',
'media-tv/miro-2.0.1', 'nomerge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.3-r2 required by ('installed', '/',
'dev-python/dbus-python-0.82.4', 'nomerge')
It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously.
The gurus remain silent, but I have a theory. A bug in portage. I've
had several similar-looking nonsensical blockers lately -- after
portage learned to solve some blockers automatically, actually.
I think at the same time portage lost its ability to figure out that
if you have an unstable version package-3.4.5 installed and you're
installing another package, which requires, e.g., =package-1.2.3 and
the stable for that slot (and oldest available in portage tree) is
between the two, e.g., package-2.3.4 then portage seems to produce
these kinds of situations: wants to downgrade to 2.3.4, but
simultaneously to keep the 3.4.5 in the same slot.
I just had dev-libs/glib do the same two-three days ago. I have the
unstable 2.18.4 installed, package comes along that requires
=glib-2.14 and the latest stable in portage is 2.16.4 or something
for that slot. Boom, similar nonsensical blocker.
I've been solving them by unmerging the blocker and retrying the
emerge. Portage has invariably proceeded without a slightest hint of
blockers -- and re-emerged the unstable package version it just
complained was causing a blocker. So, there, I think it could very
well be a bug in portage. Maybe it has a bug report?
--
Arttu V.
Thanks for your message. You gave me an idea and I added pyrex to
package.keywords and now there is no blocker. Now I can emerge world,
but the weird thing is pyrex isn't even in the list of packages to
emerge.
- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] ARP reply from wrong interface
Hi, no, I'm not complaining about arping, which is run on the client (and has only one NIC), but I complain about the server replying from both interfaces. Sascha Am Samstag 21 Februar 2009 22:14:52 schrieb Tomáš Krasničan: Hi, set the interface with -I parameter. Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Hi list, I have a server with two interfaces in the same subnet. When asking for the MAC of one of the IPs, always both interfaces reply: arping -b xx.xx.xx.xx ARPING xx.xx.xx.xx from yy.yy.yy.yy eth0 Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:1D:7D:D7:6D:F3] 0.607ms Unicast reply from xx.xx.xx.xx [00:08:54:55:E7:02] 0.792ms ip_forward is set to 0. Is there a switch in /proc to make Linux only reply from the interface that really owns the IP? Right now all traffic goes over one physical link, regardless of the target IP. Thanks, Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
I'm getting this and I'm wondering if it means I can't have miro and
wicd installed simultaneously:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-python/pyrex:0
('installed', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.8.5', 'nomerge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.6.4 required by ('installed', '/',
'media-tv/miro-2.0.1', 'nomerge')
(and 1 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1', 'merge') pulled in by
=dev-python/pyrex-0.9.3-r2 required by ('installed', '/',
'dev-python/dbus-python-0.82.4', 'nomerge')
It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously.
The gurus remain silent, but I have a theory. A bug in portage. I've
had several similar-looking nonsensical blockers lately -- after
portage learned to solve some blockers automatically, actually.
I think at the same time portage lost its ability to figure out that
if you have an unstable version package-3.4.5 installed and you're
installing another package, which requires, e.g., =package-1.2.3 and
the stable for that slot (and oldest available in portage tree) is
between the two, e.g., package-2.3.4 then portage seems to produce
these kinds of situations: wants to downgrade to 2.3.4, but
simultaneously to keep the 3.4.5 in the same slot.
I just had dev-libs/glib do the same two-three days ago. I have the
unstable 2.18.4 installed, package comes along that requires
=glib-2.14 and the latest stable in portage is 2.16.4 or something
for that slot. Boom, similar nonsensical blocker.
I've been solving them by unmerging the blocker and retrying the
emerge. Portage has invariably proceeded without a slightest hint of
blockers -- and re-emerged the unstable package version it just
complained was causing a blocker. So, there, I think it could very
well be a bug in portage. Maybe it has a bug report?
--
Arttu V.
Thanks for your message. You gave me an idea and I added pyrex to
package.keywords and now there is no blocker. Now I can emerge world,
but the weird thing is pyrex isn't even in the list of packages to
emerge.
- Grant
Looks like the ~amd64 version of pyrex was already installed so that
must have confused things.
- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:03:17 -0800, Grant wrote: * In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But doing that I get: ath0 does not support setting the mode to master You're using the wrong interface name. MadWifi uses ath0, ath5k uses wlan0. Yes but I have: udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to ath0 Could that be a problem? I don't understand why you need to rename the interface from the standard kernel nomenclature to something non-standard, but that's by the by. You still have conflicting names if you have wlan0 in conf.d/net. Another possibility is that ath5k does not support master mode yet, I get an error trying to switch it to Master here. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00D: Window closed - Do not look outside signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:22 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find. I'm using tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 on this Eee and gentoo-sources-2.6.28 on my desktop. Either you haven't synced recently or you are only looking at stable packages. -- Neil Bothwick The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and Madwifi contradict each other
* In order to use hostapd you need to set up your wireless card * for master mode in /etc/conf.d/net and then start * /etc/init.d/hostapd. * * Example configuration: * * config_wlan0=( 192.168.1.1/24 ) * channel_wlan0=6 * essid_wlan0=test * mode_wlan0=master But doing that I get: ath0 does not support setting the mode to master You're using the wrong interface name. MadWifi uses ath0, ath5k uses wlan0. Yes but I have: udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to ath0 Could that be a problem? I don't understand why you need to rename the interface from the standard kernel nomenclature to something non-standard, but that's by the by. The wireless card uses madwifi right now, as I try to get ath5k working, so there's a udev rule that matches the hardware address with the ath0 label. You still have conflicting names if you have wlan0 in conf.d/net. Another That's taken care of. possibility is that ath5k does not support master mode yet, I get an error trying to switch it to Master here. The madwifi/ath5k guys say it should work in 2.6.28 which I'm on. The latest is I'm getting this directly from hostapd: Failed to set interface ath0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=... I'm sure my procedure is correct now, but I don't know why ath0 won't go into master mode. - Grant Neil Bothwick
[gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Yes, you heard me right - I recommend one uses Ubuntu to install Gentoo I took that a stage further with my Eee. Knowing how long it would take to build everything, I installed Ubuntu, then used that while Gentoo was building in a chroot. OK, got it. thanks James
[gentoo-user] Re: Mutually exclusive ebuilds?
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: There are good ebuilds here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527 thx grant, I'll just wait till it goes testing, then try it. I've got enough to hax @ these days. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:29 AM, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) I think you just outlined the exact kind of help that keeps most people from switching to Gentoo. If that had been, for example, you and I having that particular conversation, I'd of probably smacked you with the CD and got my answers from somewhere else. You don't like my koan? Originally I wanted it to be an LFS koan, but then I figured it wouldn't be half as subtle.
