[gentoo-user] Recomendation of wireless USB or PCI
Hello ! As I have no network cable where my gentoo computer will be placed, I need to use a wirelss network adapter. Do you have any recomendations of which product (USB plug) to buy which is simple to install ? In my local stores I can choose from: (only USB sticks) - GIGABYTE Link ACT - D-Link DWL-G122 - Sweex LW053 Or maybe a PCI card ? / Thomas
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie. In addition to Simon's questions, can I ask if anyone has used Freeswitch? http://www.freeswitch.org/ I read about it a while ago, and found this article, which I think was on the site's main page at the time: http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 From that, you might interpret that the lead developer either really knows his stuff and is really innovative, or you might wonder if he fell out with the Asterisk devs because he didn't get his own way. ;) I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps this thread will give me a little bit of a kick up the arse. At least it's given me enough motivation to do some homework - the cheap X100 card (to take calls from a regular phoneline feed them into the PBX) does indeed seem to be supported by Freeswitch :) Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:04:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 23:45:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:30:27 Xavier Parizet wrote: Can you repost emerge output using MAKEOPTS=-j1 to see what make command is launched. Try also to run make prepare in your kernel source tree before. # cd /usr/src/linux # make prepare # MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge nvidia-drivers This time it compiled just fine. I reckon the maintainer of the nvidia-driver ebuild would be *very* interested in this. -j is well known for causing weird faults. I recommend submitting a bug along with all build logs etc I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems, the first thing to do is to make mrproper make oldconfig make prepare to get a clean up-to-date kernel build tree. Cheers. -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7. Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following: Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file: [SNIP] * 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/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'. Can you please post /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log after running emerge kvm as portage suggests you ?? Because the above posted output doesn't help us to solve your problem... I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu and in package.keywords I have app-emulation/kvm ~x86 Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to be done to make this work. I don't think the portage upgrade is the problem, but it remind me another thread about nvidia-drivers build, and i'm directing towards a kernel configuration problem... The log i ask you earlier will help us to see if it is the case ;) Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it. TIA, brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 in /var/log/cups/error_log? If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas. - -- Morten 'T-Hawk' Holt In the joy of anticipation there's the anticipatory letdown of anticipating not anticipating anticipation of some future anticipation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknwEeYACgkQ4U83l8z/woK5zQCgply7PWz2Ndg1ROEVKCGbqsFN +tQAnRlgk1CqQXVnxNCfBDpBbVme4W1V =ASIB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200, Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 in /var/log/cups/error_log? For this error, it's because you have an entry ::1 (equivalent for 127.0.0.1 in IPv6) for localhost in your /etc/hosts. To solve, either remove the ::1 localhost entry in /etc/hosts, or add ipv6 use flag to cups. If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas. - -- Morten 'T-Hawk' Holt In the joy of anticipation there's the anticipatory letdown of anticipating not anticipating anticipation of some future anticipation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknwEeYACgkQ4U83l8z/woK5zQCgply7PWz2Ndg1ROEVKCGbqsFN +tQAnRlgk1CqQXVnxNCfBDpBbVme4W1V =ASIB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
Am Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:29:09 -0400 schrieb Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. I have the newest stable poppler/evince installed and recall that have upgraded poppler recently. Should I be downgrading. Below is the output of eix -I poppler -o evince thanks, allan [snip] See bug #266678, especially comment #8. A revision bump of cups ought to be under way. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- Lt. Frank Drebin: It's true what they say: cops and women don't mix. Like eating a spoonful of Drāno; sure, it'll clean you out, but it'll leave you hollow inside. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] vmware install error
Perfect Thank you. One more question. localhost vmware-modules # emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 [1.0.0.15-r2] [blocks B ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.8.126538) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked localhost vmware-modules # emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 Calculating dependencies / !!! 'app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. !!! (Did you specify a version but forget to prefix with '='?) localhost vmware-modules # I couldn't install vmware-modules in /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/Changelog it seems that 1.0.0.23 don't support kernel2.6.27. right? KIM -Original Message- From: Kan-I Jyo [mailto:cecilhs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error 2009/4/22 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: My kernel version is 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 And I try to install VMware-server-1.0.9 Up-to-date gcc. When I install vmware-server, ./vmware-install.pl there is an error. This is error information -- /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1781: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function' make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html; and http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html;. Execution aborted. -- So I found solution searching in google. It’s tell me There is an patch. I got Vmware-any-any-patch through ftp. And execute patch, But same error What is a solution? Help me. If 1.0.9 is not a necessity, you may want to try vmware-server in portage(1.0.8) instead. $ sudo emerge -pv vmware-server [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 483 kB [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.8.126538 104,611 kB As an addition, if you build kernel manually, turning CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS on beforehand or vmware-modules will refuse to compile. $ cd /usr/src/linux $ sudo make menuconifg (Kernel hacking) -- (Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols) -- (y) $ sudo make make modules_install Boot the machine with new kernel and issue the above 'emerge' command should bring you a working vmware-server. -- Sincerely, Jyo
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64
On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems, the first thing to do is to make mrproper make oldconfig make prepare to get a clean up-to-date kernel build tree. I don't like the sound of that; it's distinctly ominous. What can interfere with the kernel source tree after I've compiled a kernel, copied it to the boot partition, booted it and moved on to other things? One or two packages install modules into the source tree, but at the moment I can only think of the one I was working on: nvidia-drivers. Or is it that compiling the kernel itself damages its own source configuration? -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] libtool question
Hi, unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely doesn't contain pcreposix. So, why does libtool try to find /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la (which doesn't exist, indeed)? Howto fix this? Many thanks for a hint (a libtool tutorial?) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely doesn't contain pcreposix. So, why does libtool try to find /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la (which doesn't exist, indeed)? Howto fix this? Many thanks for a hint (a libtool tutorial?) There was a bug about this (libpcre not installing the .la files). Try reemerging the package /usr/lib/libpcreposix.a (or .so) belongs to (equery belongs, qfile). Most likely libpcre. Philipp
Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:59 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: There was a bug about this (libpcre not installing the .la files). https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266016 should be it btw.. Philipp
Re: [gentoo-user] Backup and Restore
On Donnerstag 23 April 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: as I wrote above, you got me thinking. If I can extract a multivolume archive created with star with gnutar I am sold and will try star. I have to have a closer look at the -fifo/fs= options. The man page makes it look promising. Star implements aprox. twice as many features than GNU tar. Star is even able to extract most if not all of those multi volume GNU tar archives that GNU tar does not like (while not being able to verify whether the follow up archive is the right one). Star intentionally does not implement write support for GNU tar multi volume archives because the GNU tar format is not a good idea. Jörg ok, I tried star last night. Backup worked well, but I made some mistake with the exclude file. Now I have a backup of /sys as well. Won't kill me. The - FF... option + .exclude is a very nice feature. Will test restore early next week.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler
Xavier Parizet wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200, Morten Holt th...@t-hawk.com wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file--print and select a printer (there are two), the print button is greyed out. With print to file, the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631 (the cups home page on this machine), I can print test pages to either machine. Is there a way I can ask firefox to tell me why the print button is greyed out? Some further information. Evince has the same situation, print is greyed out. Sounds like the same issue I have, do you get log entries like: Request from localhost using invalid Host: field ::1 in /var/log/cups/error_log? For this error, it's because you have an entry ::1 (equivalent for 127.0.0.1 in IPv6) for localhost in your /etc/hosts. To solve, either remove the ::1 localhost entry in /etc/hosts, or add ipv6 use flag to cups. No, I don't, that was one of the first things I checked, nothing has changed on the system other than CUPS being recently updated. If you find a solution to this, please let me know here, I can't seem to find a solution to the issue, and appearantly nobody has any ideas. -- Morten 'T-Hawk' Holt In the joy of anticipation there's the anticipatory letdown of anticipating not anticipating anticipation of some future anticipation.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27 and iwl3945-ucode
[...] You can try Wicd which is a great network manager, until you are more familiar with gentoo/wifi configuration. I have the same chip, with wpa2, wicd handless this without problems. This is cool! For the moment this is perfectly ok for me! Thanks for the tips!
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware install error
2009/4/23 김무성 ki...@infosec.co.kr: in /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules/Changelog it seems that 1.0.0.23 don't support kernel2.6.27. right? 1.0.0.23 does support kernel 2.6.27, according to the change log. In your case, as you can see from the 'emerge' output, it is the vmware-server package to block vmware-modules 1.0.0.15. In other words, if you want to install vmware-server, stay with vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 might be the only option. -- Sincerely, Jyo
Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/phasex
2009/4/22 Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this package appears to be a porn site now. what do we do? kelly Lots of copies on mirrors: http://www.filewatcher.com/m/phasex-0.11.1.tar.gz.391539.0.0.html Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
Hey thanks John, I found some pages of it online (specially the TOC) and it does seem like a very thorough answer to clear the fog in my situation! I'll try to find a place to read the whole content, or a book like this i might actually buy it. Thanks! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet and use voip or similar services. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered by these... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk Thanks for any help! -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
Well i've had several projects ideas in the past that would have used asterisk in different ways. So, the reason to get it installed for my personal 1-line use is really a first step in understanding asterisk's basics and since I will probably work and tweak it every day for a certain period of time, this would be an awesome learning experience. I dont have a GF, yet, and the lady that might fill the position (soon?) wont have a word to say about that. haha But i clearly hear what you mean about the waste, I'm with you on this, but i also see it as an investment! Thanks a lot though, you brought some important points to consider! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:52 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. [] I tend to tell folks up front to never listen to me or believe anything I say, so here's my... $.02. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, [] Don't. Your GF will hate you for wasting your time. I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered by these... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk Thanks for any help! Asterisk is unlike most other open source projects I've seen. Free help doesn't exist, really -- there's just too much money to be made replacing proprietary telco hardware for folks to enjoy educing that aha! moment. All would tell you, at your hourly rate, choosing to roll your own asterisk install on Gentoo is probably the most expensive option available to you. Anyway, it can be done. #gentoo-voip are helpful folks, but unless you have a real reason to know asterisk, really, don't bother... it's huge PITA for just getting a phone. Even if you do decide to kill that gnat with a sledgehammer, you're better off with Trixbox, astlinux or something you can pretty much expect some help with. (So I hear.) If all you want is to use a SIP trunk, my local telco monopoly, for example, will rent me a box to plug a phone into for a fixed monthly fee and unlimited calling. Or, you can probably get any Dahdi compat fxs card and plug a phone into your gentoo box. Or just get a SIP phone... plug into your router. Basically, there are so many options, it's bewildering. From my (limited) experience with it, I'd say that Asterisk is really more of a place to create telco appliances from computers, not an application you run with other things as an afterthought, just because you can. But, then again, you already run Gentoo, so you are familiar with needless self-inflicted pain as a pastime. Asterisk may be just for you, too! ;-) Cheers, -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
Hey Stroller, nice to see a friend in a similar situation as mine! I'm sure that having the hardware already, you probably made a lot of tests in the past... can you share some of your experience? and also, i wonder, why did you let the project down? was it because of lack of motivation (ie other priorities) or because the difficulties you found? Thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:30, Simon wrote: ... I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie. In addition to Simon's questions, can I ask if anyone has used Freeswitch? http://www.freeswitch.org/ I read about it a while ago, and found this article, which I think was on the site's main page at the time: http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 From that, you might interpret that the lead developer either really knows his stuff and is really innovative, or you might wonder if he fell out with the Asterisk devs because he didn't get his own way. ;) I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps this thread will give me a little bit of a kick up the arse. At least it's given me enough motivation to do some homework - the cheap X100 card (to take calls from a regular phoneline feed them into the PBX) does indeed seem to be supported by Freeswitch :) Stroller. -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet and use voip or similar services. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered by these... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk Thanks for any help! -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
oh! wow, i was on that page, but i followed some of the links and got to a place where you had to register to view the whole content on the website... didnt know it was avail for download!! thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet and use voip or similar services. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered by these... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk Thanks for any help! -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
Your welcome, also I seem to remember there being a caveat to running asterisk in a vserver (if your host uses that technology) but its not coming to mind. Maybe when I'm home infront of a real computer I can find it. Also I really liked the voiper soft phone, its not in the tree but might be woth a look. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Simon turne...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:02 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] telephony oh! wow, i was on that page, but i followed some of the links and got to a place where you had to register to view the whole content on the website... didnt know it was avail for download!! thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: It is a great book, I used it to help me setup my first voip box. Here's that link: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:18 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] telephony Take a look at a book called The Future of Telephony -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it. on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote hi there, i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to the internet and use voip or similar services. I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered by these... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk Thanks for any help! -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4
-Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7. Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following: Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file: [SNIP] * 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/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'. Can you please post /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log after running emerge kvm as portage suggests you ?? Because the above posted output doesn't help us to solve your problem... I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu and in package.keywords I have app-emulation/kvm ~x86 Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to be done to make this work. I don't think the portage upgrade is the problem, but it remind me another thread about nvidia-drivers build, and i'm directing towards a kernel configuration problem... The log i ask you earlier will help us to see if it is the case ;) Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it. TIA, brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, I have attached the build.log. The kernel has KVM configured as modules for both Intel and AMD. CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m Also I doubt the portage version is the problem as I downgraded it to 2.1.4.5 and it still fails in the same way. Please let me know if you need other logs or configs. brian build.log.gz Description: build.log.gz
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4
Brian Wince a écrit : -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7. Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following: Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file: [SNIP] * 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/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'. Can you please post /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log after running emerge kvm as portage suggests you ?? Because the above posted output doesn't help us to solve your problem... I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu and in package.keywords I have app-emulation/kvm ~x86 Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to be done to make this work. I don't think the portage upgrade is the problem, but it remind me another thread about nvidia-drivers build, and i'm directing towards a kernel configuration problem... The log i ask you earlier will help us to see if it is the case ;) Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it. TIA, brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, I have attached the build.log. The kernel has KVM configured as modules for both Intel and AMD. CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m Also I doubt the portage version is the problem as I downgraded it to 2.1.4.5 and it still fails in the same way. Please let me know if you need other logs or configs. After reading the build log you provide, try to enable CONFIG_PCI_MSI under Bus options (PCI etc.) - Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) in make menuconfig for your kernel, and then make prepare et retry the KVM emerge. brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408
Re: [gentoo-user] telephony
On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:57, Simon wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stroller ... I've actually got a really expensive (or it was when I bought it!) Cisco phone and an X100 POTS card sitting here, as I've been meaning to get round to implementing Asterisk for about 4 years now! Perhaps this thread will give me a little bit of a kick up the arse. nice to see a friend in a similar situation as mine! I'm sure that having the hardware already, you probably made a lot of tests in the past... can you share some of your experience? and also, i wonder, why did you let the project down? was it because of lack of motivation (ie other priorities) or because the difficulties you found I've fixed your quoting. If someone replies at the bottom of your post, please do not then reply at the top. No, I'm afraid I never made any tests or anything like that. I use vgetty here at present, and have been for 5 years - that is just a service that uses a conventional old voicemodem as an answerphone. It saves the recordings as wav-like files and can then (optionally) calls another program with /the/path/to/the/recording as a parameter, so I use a Bash script to convert the wav to an MP3 and email it to myself. I have found an emailing-answerphone very useful, but at some point since I read about Asterisk and thought that a whole complete VoIP solution was just much cooler and elegant stuff. I think of redirecting callers to different answerphone messages based on CLID for instance (I don't want your shitty double-glazing) or telling the phone not to ring before 9am if it's a business call. To be realistic, these aren't very good arguments - vgetty might be able to perform the first task I gave as an example (I don't know), and the latter case wouldn't really suit my lifestyle (sometimes I'm up at 8:30 and want to answer the call; the list of exclusions for important customers would be complicated to manage; I'm better off rolling over in bed ignoring unwanted calls as I do now ;). So we get back to the cool factor (I can make free VoIP calls to the USA even though I know no-one in the USA) and that at least Asterisk could look up phone numbers in an LDAP directory so I can ignore customers who call when their work is overdue. :P So anyway, a while back, in a fit of enthusiasm when I had plenty of cash slushing about I grabbed the hardware from online vendors, but it has sat here idle ever since. :( I've been meaning for sometime to rebuild my server so that I'd have a system to run Asterisk on, but just lots of other stuff has gotten in the way. It would be a long boring story to explain all the circumstances that have coincided against me, but suffice to say I'm not the best-organised person at the best of times. If you want Asterisk to answer your conventional POTS phone line then you can use an X100P card which you can buy for c £17. AIUI this is basically a modem based on a certain chipset that Digium have written drivers for. At one time Digium sold this hardware at quite a premium, but people realised that other models would work just as well, and Asterisk (who are sponsored by / part of Digium) has been very fair about supporting these clones in the codebase. They're obviously not supported if you buy an official support package, and IIRC I have seen posters on the Asterisk mailing list being snobby and refusing to help posters using the clones because it's not supporting the developers. I don't know how well the X100P works, or if there are any gotyas to look out for, but I'm pretty sure plenty of people are using them. A couple of friends of mine (who I considered going into IT consulting with) implemented Asterisk after I mentioned it to them and I'm sure they've used the X100P; I think those lads have deployed Asterisk for customers since. As far as phones are concerned, the Cisco 7960G was the phone to have when I bought mine. I think the 7961 had just been released, or something, and the 7960 was old stock. I paid £200 for mine, but now I see you can pick up decent-looking ones on eBay for £40 or £50. :o This phone has handsfree and a big screen on which you can display several lines of information (caller ID, line 2 on hold, phonebook listings) and buttons to the side of the screen so that you can put someone on hold pick up another line and do all that sort of stuff. Although the 7960 is no longer a current model it seems to be supported with fairly recent firmware, and later phones in Cisco's 79xx series seem very similar without appearing to add much (256 shades of greyscale instead of plain BW text, or colour / touch screens in the executive models). If you use the X100P to answer your current landline then you're not limited to that. A PBX is intended for business use, and a business might want to have 8 or 30 lines coming in via ISDN but also some VoIP
RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4
-Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 Brian Wince a écrit : -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.- r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7. Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following: Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file: [SNIP] * 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/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'. Can you please post /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm- 84/temp/build.log after running emerge kvm as portage suggests you ?? Because the above posted output doesn't help us to solve your problem... I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu and in package.keywords I have app-emulation/kvm ~x86 Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to be done to make this work. I don't think the portage upgrade is the problem, but it remind me another thread about nvidia-drivers build, and i'm directing towards a kernel configuration problem... The log i ask you earlier will help us to see if it is the case ;) Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it. TIA, brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, I have attached the build.log. The kernel has KVM configured as modules for both Intel and AMD. CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m Also I doubt the portage version is the problem as I downgraded it to 2.1.4.5 and it still fails in the same way. Please let me know if you need other logs or configs. After reading the build log you provide, try to enable CONFIG_PCI_MSI under Bus options (PCI etc.) - Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) in make menuconfig for your kernel, and then make prepare et retry the KVM emerge. brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, Thanks for looking at this. I will give that a try and report back as to the results. brian
Re: [gentoo-user] libtool question
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, unfortunately, libtool is one of my black spots in my Linux knowlegde. Trying to emerge app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1 libtool fails with libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la' The libtool command is too long to include here, but it definitely doesn't contain pcreposix. So, why does libtool try to find /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la (which doesn't exist, indeed)? Howto fix this? emerge =dev-util/lafilefixer-0.5 lafilefixer --justfixit or emerge app-portage/gentoolkit revdep-rebuild -i -- -a /loki_val
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. For now, I simply edited kdmrc and set UseTheme to false. Still haven't figured out how to use System Settings, Advanced, Login Manager. Can't get anything to be enabled for editing. I've tried: * chmod -R 755 the config directories (/usr/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/share/config) * reset the config files with: genkdmconf --no-old The ownership of the conf files is root:root, so am thinking the permissions should be 775, but I've found multiple sources that state the perms should be 755, which would make since if I had an Admin button like they refer to. Maybe a sudo setup or something... Thank you, Roy
RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4
-Original Message- From: Brian Wince [mailto:bwi...@redback.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:53 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo-2.6.24.-r4 Brian Wince a écrit : -Original Message- From: Xavier Parizet [mailto:x...@gentooist.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing kvm on gentoo- 2.6.24.- r4 On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:30:54 -0700, Brian Wince bwi...@redback.com wrote: All, I am trying to install kvm (kernel virtual machine) on a box running gentoo-2.6.24.-r4. # uname -a Linux rbos-hybrid-02 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-nosctp-nomsi #3 SMP Fri Aug 1 12:12:33 PDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux When I first went to install it all of the KVM's were masked due to EAP so I upgraded portage to 2.1.6.7. Now when I try and install kvm it complains with the following: Failed to emerge app-emulation/kvm-84, Log file: [SNIP] * 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/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm-84/temp/environment'. Can you please post /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/kvm- 84/temp/build.log after running emerge kvm as portage suggests you ?? Because the above posted output doesn't help us to solve your problem... I have the following in /etc/portage/package.use app-emulation/kvm kvm sdl qemu and in package.keywords I have app-emulation/kvm ~x86 Is this due to upgrading portage or something else and what is it that needs to be done to make this work. I don't think the portage upgrade is the problem, but it remind me another thread about nvidia-drivers build, and i'm directing towards a kernel configuration problem... The log i ask you earlier will help us to see if it is the case ;) Please let me know if you require further information and I will post it. TIA, brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, I have attached the build.log. The kernel has KVM configured as modules for both Intel and AMD. CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m Also I doubt the portage version is the problem as I downgraded it to 2.1.4.5 and it still fails in the same way. Please let me know if you need other logs or configs. After reading the build log you provide, try to enable CONFIG_PCI_MSI under Bus options (PCI etc.) - Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI and MSI-X) in make menuconfig for your kernel, and then make prepare et retry the KVM emerge. brian -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Xavier, Thanks for looking at this. I will give that a try and report back as to the results. brian Xavier, Great that was the trick. I saw the errors regarding msi but saw it complained about enabling and then about disabling so it did not click. Thanks again for your help on this. brian
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Roy Wright r...@wright.org wrote: But now when KDM start I get half a screen of garbage on the left half of the left monitor and on the right half of the right monitor. KDM does the same for me on a wide-screen monitor. In fact it could be a security risk because after logging out of KDE, random pieces of screen from the last session sometimes show up on the garbage parts on the sides, including potentially sensitive information. It does not appear to support any kind of screen size detection. What you need to do is find (or make) a theme that is the same size/aspect ratio as your display setup and then it'll be okay. It's trying to use a 4:3 theme on a 8:3 or 16:9 or whatever and apparently the KDM people haven't gotten around to dealing with that yet. For now, I simply edited kdmrc and set UseTheme to false. Still haven't figured out how to use System Settings, Advanced, Login Manager. Can't get anything to be enabled for editing. I've tried: * chmod -R 755 the config directories (/usr/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/share/config) * reset the config files with: genkdmconf --no-old The ownership of the conf files is root:root, so am thinking the permissions should be 775, but I've found multiple sources that state the perms should be 755, which would make since if I had an Admin button like they refer to. Maybe a sudo setup or something... KDE4 system settings has no support for allowing you to enter Administrator mode from system settings, but some distros have their own patch to enable this. I think it is planned to be added in KDE 4.4 officially. For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing.
[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 - Intel unable to pin 'front buffer'
I am still having horrid problems with my wife's machine segfaulting when running any application using xv video. I read some posts in other forums by a couple of folks stating they had similar problems which were solved by updating a bunch of stuff, one fo them being the kernel to 2.6.29, so I'm attempting to get that working now. In the past I've generally done this by taking a copy of a recent .config file, running make oldconfig and then make make modules_install. Unfortunately in this case when I try to boot 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 I'm left with some messages as the X server fails to get going: X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 i686 Current Operating System: Linux dragonfly 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 22 14:30:51 PDT 2009 i686 Build Date: 21 April 2009 11:18:30AM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 22 15:09:49 2009 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file New driver is intel (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory Fatal server error: Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer Under 2.6.27 I get the message about the fbdev module not exiting but it doesn't cause problems. (That I know of) However with 2.6.29 I cannot start X. QUESTIONS: 1) I took fbdev to be something frame buffer oriented, but possibly it's 'front buffer' and now required? (I.e. - fbdev in make.conf...) 2) If not, then what kernel options or packages do I need to load to allow the intel driver to pin a front buffer. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 - Intel unable to pin 'front buffer'
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:24:37 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I am still having horrid problems with my wife's machine segfaulting when running any application using xv video. I read some posts in other forums by a couple of folks stating they had similar problems which were solved by updating a bunch of stuff, one fo them being the kernel to 2.6.29, so I'm attempting to get that working now. In the past I've generally done this by taking a copy of a recent .config file, running make oldconfig and then make make modules_install. Unfortunately in this case when I try to boot 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 I'm left with some messages as the X server fails to get going: ... Fatal server error: Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer Prehaps you should try disabling framebuffer by removing it's kernel parameters from grub line, if it's enabled, of course. Also, there's a video_modesettng switch on 2.6.29+ kernel for intel drm. If it's enabled (by default it isn't), intelfb shouldn't be in grub at all. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KDE4 has holes since updating Qt
Hi, I updated Qt earlier today, and rebuilt kdelibs, PyQt4, qt-opengl, and all of my qt-related themes, but apparently I've missed something because there are still holes: outlines of buttons or windows with no content. The most important of which is the Kicker menu. I can change it to classic mode and use it, but when I set it to kicker mode it's just an outline. This happened to me a long time ago and I can't remember what I had to rebuild to fix it. I'm sure I am just missing something easy. Also, is there a command that can scan my system and tell me which programs need to be rebuild after a Qt update? I seem to go through this every time. :) Thanks, Paul
[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers-180.51 on amd64
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:43:20 Xavier Parizet wrote: I think the MAKEOPTS was not the problem, but only the make prepare... I remember to see before that sometimes, the kernel source tree is no more up-to-date with the last kernel build, so when i see that problems, the first thing to do is to make mrproper make oldconfig make prepare to get a clean up-to-date kernel build tree. I don't like the sound of that; it's distinctly ominous. What can interfere with the kernel source tree after I've compiled a kernel, copied it to the boot partition, booted it and moved on to other things? One or two packages install modules into the source tree, but at the moment I can only think of the one I was working on: nvidia-drivers. Or is it that compiling the kernel itself damages its own source configuration? Whenever I have the same problem it's because I've done a 'make clean' or equivalent in /usr/src/linux, or more likely because a newer version of the kernel sources has been installed but I haven't yet built the newer kernel. It's possible that both the kernel sources and nvidia-drivers were updated about the same time, and when that happens the nvidia-drivers will be compiled immediately whereas the new kernel won't be compiled until you decide to go do it yourself. (Meanwhile, nvidia-drivers has crapped out.)
[gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem
Evening, Lately, for at least a few months, actually, I've been completely unable to sync normally. I'll get the following sort of thing three times from three different servers. Starting retry 2 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Mon Mar 9 08:43:32 UTC 2009 receiving incremental file list timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.5] Retrying... I imagine it must be on my end, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Not at my desk, but I seem to recall the syslog was empty as well. Has anyone run into this or, more importantly, a solution for this? Cheers, Wyatt
RE: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem
Welcome to crane.gentoo.org Server Address : 134.68.220.74 Contact Name : mirror-ad...@gentoo.org Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2024MB RAM Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation may be added to a temporary ban list. MOTD autogenerated by update-rsync-motd on Mon Mar 9 08:43:32 UTC 2009 receiving incremental file list timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.5] Retrying... Have you verified that the connection has been made? If not try; a...@voodoo ~ $ telnet crane.gentoo.org 873 Trying 134.68.220.74... Connected to crane.gentoo.org. Escape character is '^]'. ^]quit telnet quit Connection closed. If you don't get the Trying line, your DNS is broken. If you don't get the Escape character line, then the session hasn't been setup - check your firewall/routing. If you dot get Escape character its an application issues. Maybe try rebuilding rsync.
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm 4.2.2 not configurable?
Paul Hartman wrote: For now you can open a run dialog and type kdesu systemsettings to have the admin options enabled for editing. That works great! Thank you, Roy
