Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pointer in Xorg?
Jeff Grant wrote: Can you change it on the fly? As in, I'm using Gnome - but it's mouse config doesn't have the boring core pointer as an option - and I like the boring core pointer. Not for running apps, but any new apps you start will use the change. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Emerge
Bill Six wrote: Hi, 3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for about 6 months. However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently, the build will crap out and I'll get something like the following. Any idea why this happens? Are they happening in unreproduceable locations? If so, see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/20600 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.1 profile and use flag changes
Richard Fish wrote: However, for the next gcc-upgrade cycle, I plan to ask (as a userrep) that the gcc compilation bugs not be closed until the fixes actually make it to stable. That way at least the stabilization bug will continue to reflect just how broken the tree might get if it is pushed through. Try to come up with a different solution, I don't want fixed bugs clogging up my view of real, open ones. Perhaps a keyword like Testing or so. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to make esearch run agains overlay too
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make esearch scan my overlay too? The esearch man page makes no mention of overlay, and none of the options appear to allow directing esearch to a separate portage. eix is smart enough to do this, and it's nearly a drop-in replacement. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to downgrade X and its dependencies
don wrote: I foolishly upgraded to xorg7, and found some things that don't work. I'd like to go back to 6.8 which is the last stable version. However there are a lot of packages that got upgraded, too many to list here. Is the a fairly simple way to get them all downgraded to the version that works with xorg 6.9? If it were something less basic than X, I would just unmerege them all and re-emerge. But removing X will remove a lot of things including some large applications (won't it?). You can get a list of all the packages at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ and then do this: emerge portage-utils emerge -Ca $(qlist -IC $( modular-x-packages.txt)) Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT
Grant wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. I'm using the ati driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos driver might be better. I haven't even turned this laptop on in quite a while so it's running a lot of old stuff. Should I update x11-xorg to 7.0 and use a particular VIDEO_CARD flag and see if that works? How should my xorg.conf look? TV-out is probably one of the worst-supported things in X right now. There is no official X.Org driver that supports it. The gatos driver purports to, although it may not work with 7.1. Also I think someone posted a patch to the xorg list a few months ago to add it to the ati driver. If you're able to use the binary drivers with your card, you may have better luck there. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.28.8 - How to get DRM support?
Mark Knecht wrote: With these ATI drivers what is the proper way to configure the kernel? I've tried it with kernel DRI support on and off. Is there some other setting required to make this work? Try kernel DRM off, kernel AGP as modules. I think ATI finally stopped distributing its own agpgart. Then you may need to stick your chipset-specific AGP module into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Should I be using a DRM from the fglrx package, from the kernel, from libdrm or somewhere else? DRM comes from ati-drivers. libdrm only provides the userland library and headers. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorgcfg doesn't work: Couldn't get keyboard
Alexander Skwar wrote: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-o-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-1 to type FontStruct X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Serial number of failed request: 817 Current serial number in output stream: 821 And after that, xorgcfg quits. I tried copying /etc/X11/xorg.cfg.example to /etc/X11/xorg.cfg and ran xorgcfg after that. Still the same error message. Am I doing something wrong? Do you have media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi installed? xorg-server should have pulled it in, and it should provide that helvetica font. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 upgrade questions
James wrote: Still in /etc/X11/xkb the symbolic link flashes red indicated that /usr/lib/X11/xkb does not exit. I've never heard of /etc/X11/xkb, and I don't have it on my systems. Get rid of it. KDM will not fire up automactically. So I log in and run 'startx' and here are the errors I get: 'failed to load module kbd (modules does not exist, 0)' Perhaps you don't have the keyboard driver installed. Install portage-utils and run `qlist -I x11-drivers` -- this should get installed if you have configured the INPUT_DEVICES variable properly in make.conf, or even if you left it blank (Assuming you aren't on a super-old profile). and 'Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or dir' On the mouse issue 'ls /dev/input' shows only this dir: by-path Sounds like your kernel's missing mouse support, or you've specifically configured udev to do something other than the default behavior. On my other xorg 7.0 systems I get this: # ls /dev/input event0 event1 event2 mice mouse0 mouse1 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3
Pupeno wrote: On Tuesday 29 August 2006 05:24, Donnie Berkholz wrote: You may need to modify the ebuild. Try adding something like this near the top: PYTHON_SLOT_VERSION=2.3 That's used by distutils.eclass, which mysql-python inherits. Ouch! Is that the only way ? modifying the ebuild and loosing it for Python 2.4 ? Well you may not need to lose it for 2.4, if you also revision bump it. Portage doesn't support simultaneously installing the same version multiple times, that's why you need to change the revision number (or the package name). Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers not in portage
Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm wondering why the new nvidia 1.0-8774 drivers don't show up in portage at all? They were released 5 days ago. I would expect that the devs would be all over this like #ff on rice. It has support for Xorg 7.1 finally! Isn't that something we've all been anxiously waiting for? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=535num=1 http://digg.com/linux_unix/NVIDIA_1_0_8774_Linux_Driver_Released http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html But then portage only goes up to 1.0-8762 and the last stable x86 release was way back to 1.0-6629 which is a bit shocking since I've used 1.0-8762 for many months without incident. :-| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=nvidia http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8774.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup says it was added almost 5 days ago. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages for Python 2.3
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I am developing some software that needs to be tested against Python 2.3. So my Gentoo box has both, Python 2.4 and 2.3. Now, I need to have some Python packages available for both (or at least, for 2.3), for example: mysql-python. How do I achieve that ? You may need to modify the ebuild. Try adding something like this near the top: PYTHON_SLOT_VERSION=2.3 That's used by distutils.eclass, which mysql-python inherits. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Neither klibc nor splashutils will emerge
Mick wrote: Any ideas at all, please? Tried bugs.gentoo.org? If you don't find it there yet, file a new bug. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] XDM / GDM hangs when logging in.
Samuel Baldwin wrote: I've recently installed GDM, XDM, and Fluxbox on a new Gentoo machine. When I boot to XDM, and login as root, everything is fine and dandy, with a nice Fluxbox desktop. When I login as my user, it just hangs on a black screen (which xdm used to do when it was pointing to a wm that didn't exist). CAD, CAB, and CAF1 do nothing, and I'm forced to reboot via the power button. I do not know why it is doing this (perhaps bad permissions for fluxbox?), and I would prefer not to do everything as root. Did you run etc-update? Make sure /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers says vt7 at the end. Try changing XSTATICVT in /etc/conf.d/xdm if you already have the vt7 set in Xservers. On the side, is it possible to customize the appearance of XDM (I know I can for GDM)? Yeah it uses the fun Xresources stuff. You should be able to configure for your system in e.g. /etc/X11/app-defaults/xdm. See the xdm man page for details. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware player screen resolution
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just started using a VM built some time ago. It has just VGA screen resolution and colors (ugh!). Are there video drivers I could put in there (for Win 98 SE) that would give me something like the real estate of my modern screen? Or should I start over looking for a better VM? Install the vware tools, there should be a menu entry in vmware for this. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dependency required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
Pete Pardoe wrote: Hi All Havinbg a bit of a strange problem - an emerge -puD world is producing the following error. I have tried putting it in package.keywords with the following ~x86, ~* and * and none of them worked. Any advice? ~ Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-1.6.0_alpha20060720 (masked by: missing keyword) Not sure where you're getting those packages from, they aren't in the tree. Contact the overlay maintainers and get them to fix the keywording. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which package has at?
darren kirby wrote: I just realized my Gentoo has no 'at' I searched but couldn't find as google will not consider less than 3 char words and equery only works on installed apps. Web interface to portage didn't reveal it either. Where the heck is at at? I would think it was one of the coreutils...wrongly it seems. Many query tools accept basic regular expressions, namely ^ to begin a line and $ to end it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix ^at$ * sys-process/at Available versions: 3.1.8-r11 3.1.8-r12 Installed: none Homepage: ftp://jurix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/jurix/source/chroot/appl/at/ Description: Queues jobs for later execution This is more generally applicable than the other example of the -e flag. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: OK. And about NFS? Is still the best one for file share proposes? What about CIFS? NFSv3 over TCP is pretty solid, but if you're in a mixed Windows-Linux environment you might want to look into CIFS. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi list, few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the users home. What do you recommend? You can use LDAP + pam_ldap for auth, I think there's a guide on gentoo.org. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --deep world installs unwanted packages
Andrew Syrewicze wrote: I ran that command and they showed up in the list, among other things. How would I go about fixing that??? If you installed gnome, they both will get pulled in as they're an official part of gnome as distributed by upstream. You may look into package.provided (see the portage man page) to provide a fake version if you really don't want them installed, but you're responsible for anything that depends on them and breaks. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Best IRC client
Anthony E. Caudel wrote: So I'm wondering what the consensus is regarding what is the best irc client under Gentoo. A lot of people use xchat for GUI, it's gtk2-based. KDE has a couple of pretty good ones, too. If you want always-on IRC, the usual answer is to run irssi in a screen session on some server. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'm just installing some X applications on an headless machine and I'd like to have only the xlib client libs, no server stuff. The problem is: the non-deterministic dependencies to the X libs get resolved badly - it always wants to install the Xserver. Lack of determinism has nothing to do with it, gtk+ hard-depends on an X server to build. I think this is fixed in 2.10, but the ebuild does not reflect it -- it still inherits the virtualx eclass. Just set USE=minimal -xorg -kdrive -dmx for xorg-server and you'll be doing the best you can. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem
Enrico Weigelt wrote: I don't want to have an Xserver at all, so it doesn't anyting. It requires Xvfb to build and install correctly, at least up until 2.10. If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ dependency problem
Enrico Weigelt wrote: If you want more info, search bugzilla or ask the gnome team -- I'm sure someone else has filed a bug about this at some point. Couldn't find anything. Perhaps you've got some pointer ? No, I don't, or I would have given it to you. Instead, I told you where to look and what to do next if you cannot find anything there. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs
Steve Dibb wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:45 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: A few devs have setup an unofficial Gentoo project, a planet feed of blogs of Gentoo users. The site is available online right now at http://larrythecow.org/ The idea is simple -- we already have Planet Gentoo[1] and Gentoo Universe[2] which pull in blogs from the developers, but we'd also like something that will give us a pulse on what you, the users, are up to. So if you use Gentoo, blog about Gentoo, or think about Gentoo and have a blog, send your website address and name and we'll get you added right away. :) I use gentoo and I blog about gentoo too. but my posts are not _all_ about gentoo, so I'm not sure how that stacks up with what you guys are doing. That's fine. In fact, that's how Gentoo Universe is setup. Planet Gentoo only pulls in Gentoo-related posts, while Universe pulls in the entire dev's blog. We'll be doing the same thing, but for users -- any and all posts in your blog. I'm using Livejournal. Okay, send me the link off-list and I'll get you added. :) LiveJournal doesn't have a method to separate topics into separate feeds. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
Richard Fish wrote: I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered driver works. Pretty well on anything but the newest games, on which it tends to work OK. ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux support. This hasn't been true for at least a year, since they started a real Linux team up. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout
Justin R Findlay wrote: Ideally a fully documented card is what I want. That is why I've been following the open graphics project. Your best bet right now is to buy something with Intel integrated graphics. Intel's hired X developers to work on a fully open-source driver, and it also contracts Tungsten Graphics for the 3D driver. If you want to support open-source graphics, buy Intel, then send ATI/Nvidia letters to tell them why they lost your business. Regretfully there's not much that can be done for those of us who prefer AMD processors.. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?
Alexander Skwar wrote: Justin R Findlay schrieb: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a profile!! Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's ready, Why should it? If I set the profile to $whatever, I've got my reasons to do so. because for people like me who rarely visit the gentoo main page I'm not going to know about a new profile unless I manually look around in /usr/portage/profiles. And because of lazy people, other people have to suffer? You get big fat warnings once you're using a deprecated profile. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems
Pete Pardoe wrote: I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back but I now have a problem that has me stumped. You filed a bug for the failure, right? Monolithic X won't be around forever ... When I do an emerge -puD world there are a whole slew of packages that are blocked by a non existant package. I have xorg-x11 6.8.2-r8 installed not 6.9 but get the following in front of all the blocked packages. How do I convince the system that it doesn't have this package installed. =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking I have tried emerge --clean x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and emerge --prune x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there. I have done a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --newuse --update --deep world and nothing has fixed it. You may not realize = means less than or equal to, so your 6.8 installation would qualify. If you want Gentoo to stop asking you to upgrade to the current stable modular X every time you 'emerge world' then you may want to add '=x11-base/xorg-x11-7' to /etc/portage/package.mask. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables
James wrote:
I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit this
scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo
place of preference to launch my scipt after the gentoo runscipt
'/etc/init.d/iptables' is finished running?
Is their a way to get 'rc-update add my_firewall default' to launch
my_firewall without putting it in the /etc/init.d/ dir and using the
runscipt template for my script?
You can run arbitrary commands in /etc/conf.d/local.{start,stop}.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli
John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 060801 John J. Foster wrote: In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? 'echo $DISPLAY' returns ':0' from Konsole, but nothing from a raw terminal called up via Ctl-Alt-F2 . Of the different methods suggested, I like this one best. This will also be set in ssh sessions with X forwarding turned on. You might want to check whether you're in one of those as well. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Foomatic should be added to the Gentoo Printing doc
Grant wrote: I followed this guide to set up printing: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml but it didn't start working until I emerged foomatic. The guide doesn't mention foomatic whatsoever. My printer is a Brother HL-2040 laser. The latest cups ebuild will force you to install some sort of drivers, defaulting to foomatic, on USE=ppds. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Hello all, I am trying to install Fortran for a school project my wife is working on. Any reason you can't use gcc's Fortran compiler? Are there any installation instructions better than the following ones?: 1) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117452 - my question with this link is, where is this overlay directory that is mentioned? 2) http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds - This link seems to have turn more into a discussion of the proper use of ~x86 in package.keywords Why do you need an overlay? ifc's in the main tree. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging IFC - Intel Fortran Compiler
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Any reason you can't use gcc's Fortran compiler? I would be happy to, I didn't know there was one. Is there any docs that explain how to the gcc fortran complier? USE=fortran emerge gcc If you're on gcc4, it's gfortran and is Fortran95 (and older) compatible. If you're on gcc3, it's g77 and is (as one would expect) compatible with Fortran77. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Hardware...
Jerry McBride wrote: Howdy, I'm gearing up for a new hardware purchase and I find that I need a little help figuring out what is and what isn't linux compatible. The days of pci, agp video and socket A hardware are slowly coming to a close and I'm itching to try something new. Does anyone here run any cutting edge hardware, like socket am2 motherboards and pci-e video cards? Sounds dumb, but I've no hands on experience with the new stuff and would love to hear from those with first hand knowledge. In particular, what hardware are you using and how does it work on your desktop? Any driver issues with xorg-x11, etc.? My goal is to build a desktop, taking full advantage of the current available video hardware... maybe even use xgl on it too. Anything would be welcomed. Feel free to email me off list if you desire. As far as video, I would recommend a motherboard with Intel graphics if you want to support open source. The latest stuff is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 9250. Intel is doing a superb job of supporting open-source drivers and is the _only_ company with fully open-source drivers on its newest hardware. If you still want open-source drivers but need better performance, check into a Radeon X800 XT or any X### where ### is less than 1000. Those will use the reverse-engineered r300 driver. I cannot recommend any non-Intel graphics outside of the Radeon series 8500-X850. Nobody in the open-source community will want to help or support you if you are using binary drivers, so there's nothing you can do if you hit a bug in them. With the recent news that AMD is buying ATI, perhaps more good news will surface that ATI will open up its drivers and specs once again. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't install ati-drivers
Stefán István wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 USE=bitmap-fonts dlloader ipv6 nls opengl pam truetype-fonts type1-fonts xv -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -dmx -doc -font-server -insecure-drivers -minimal -mmx* -nocxx -sdk -sse* -static -xprint* 0 kB I missed the beginning of this thread, but you need USE=-dlloader to use binary drivers with xorg 6.8. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question
Mark Knecht wrote: I wanted to know if I leave the kernel and ati-driver package alone but upgrade to xorg-x11-7.0 will it work? Does xorg-x11-7+ force any specific kernel requirement? With X.Org 7.0, you will need to install an ati-drivers package that supports modular X. I did a quick grep and came up with this: $ grep xorg-server ati-drivers-* -l ati-drivers-8.20.8.ebuild ati-drivers-8.21.7.ebuild ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1.ebuild ati-drivers-8.22.5.ebuild ati-drivers-8.23.7.ebuild ati-drivers-8.24.8.ebuild ati-drivers-8.25.18.ebuild ati-drivers-8.26.18.ebuild If one of those is already installed, you will need to reinstall it to get the correct, dlloader-using drivers. There should be no kernel requirement from X.Org, any kernel requirement will be by ati-drivers. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts - FireFox - X11 ?
Mark Knecht wrote: Did you emerge the font set that was in the xorg-x11-7 upgrade HOWTO? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg # emerge -DuNav font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi font-adobe-utopia-100dpi \ font-adobe-utopia-75dpi font-bh-100dpi font-bh-75dpi font-bh-type1 \ font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi \ font-bitstream-100dpi font-bitstream-75dpi ttf-bitstream-vera \ corefonts sharefonts freefonts font-ibm-type1 In general that's kind of a silly font set. No new apps still use bitmap fonts (-75dpi and -100dpi). Probably the only ones worth having there are ttf-bitstream-vera and corefonts, maybe sharefonts/freefonts if you'll settle for lower quality. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?
Cliff Wells wrote: I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that I'm aware of, but I'd hardly call it sucking. I'm too lazy to search all over the net for xfs power outage or power loss, here's a couple of examples: http://lwn.net/Articles/181355/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=4#doc_chap4 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey
Jacob Klitmøller wrote: However when I try to emerge gnome I get [blocks B ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13) or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc /portage/package.mask is of no use since both is required. I have also tried fiddeling fith USE, but with no luck. How do I resolve this and get gnome 2.14 emerged? Seamonkey is the replacement for mozilla. The old mozilla package is full of security holes and no longer maintained by upstream, so we're transitioning all packages using it to either seamonkey or firefox, if possible. The problem is that not everything is transitioned over to seamonkey yet. I think if you add www-client/mozilla to /etc/portage/package.mask, it will show you what package is trying to pull it in. You can then search for / file a bug for that package. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Xorg breaks terminal
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I am testing various settings in the xorg.conf file. Some settings change the performance of X, others break X all together. Some setting not only break X but also corrupt all of the command line terminals. The only way I am able to restore the terminals is by rebooting the computer. Is there a way to fix corrupted command line terminals once corrupted other than rebooting. You could try 'reset' but that will usually just fix up corruption from e.g. catting a binary file. Once the framebuffer's corrupted, it's tough to fix. You could try fixing the X settings to ones known to work and restarting X, that may fix whatever was screwed up. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X undefined symbols.
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: My last email didn't seem to make it to the list, I hope this isn't a duplicate. I've converted 4 machines to modular X, and one is having an issue. My laptop (Thinkpad T43) is getting the following error when I start X: dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so: undefined symbol vgaHWGetIndex If I run X -configure it complains about XAACreateInfoRec when loading i810_drv.so, and vgaHWGetIndex when loading vga_drv.so. It also complains about VBEExtendedInit when loading the VESA driver. I've followed the conversion how-to. I've set the dri USE flag. My VIDEO_CARDS flag is set to i810 vesa. I've been unable to find any solution... Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Please file a bug with this information, xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and emerge --info. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg v7.0 trying to load modules that I'm not
Trenton Adams wrote: # grep -e EE -e WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (WW) Option XkbOptions requires an string value (WW) Warning, couldn't open module v4l (EE) Failed to load module v4l (module does not exist, 0) (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (EE) Unable to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (EE) Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (open failed, 2) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module radeon (EE) Failed to load module radeon (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module Keyboard (EE) Failed to load module Keyboard (module does not exist, 0) (WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics (EE) Failed to load module synaptics (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. I do not have radeon, or synaptics specified in my xorg.conf. Any reason why it might try and load these instead of nvidia drivers? I have nvidia specified. If you would attach the whole log, we would have a better chance of helping. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X upgrade
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libddc.so (II) Module ddc: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8 That's where it stops. I've ssh-ed in and tried to kill X (which is using 100% CPU) but I can never recover without a reset. Mount your filesystem with the sync option and you may get more info in the log. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Great, I knew there must be a solution for this issue. Thanks for interpreting the man page for me ;) Perhaps it could be more clear what site-specific overrides means but now I know. Thanks again. Could you suggest wording that would make it more clear to you? There's no rule saying the docs can't be fixed. =) Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Compile question
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
Tony,
Some ebuilds filter out MAKEOPTS=-jX because the makefile(?) is not
written correctly to compile with more than one concurrent compile
process. According to the OOo ebuild, -jX is not filtered, so that is
not the case. Also, you may have checked the CPU usage when it was
extracting the tarball, obviously the choke point here would be the HD,
not the CPU.
Actually ...
# Should the build use multiprocessing? Not enabled by default, as
it tends to break
export JOBS=1
if [ ${WANT_DISTCC} == true ]; then
export JOBS=`echo ${MAKEOPTS} | sed -e s/.*-j\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/`
fi
Then later on, this gets passed to configure:
--with-num-cpus=${JOBS} \
To sum up, you need to set the WANT_DISTCC variable to use parallel
builds on openoffice because they're fragile.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7 emerge fails on libXt dependencies unmet
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Sorry this is a little long but it's mostly cut and paste stuff. Using the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg I am at the point of emerging xorg-x11-7. It fails pretty much immediately with this message: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for XT... configure: error: Package requirements (sm x11 xproto kbproto) were not met: No package 'x11' found No package 'kbproto' found ... However if I try to emerge libXt by itself, it seems to have a list of dependencies that must be in place before it is emerged, none of which are being met for the xorg-x11 emerge: Mark, please save the output of emerge --debug --pretend with both of those, and file a bug with it. I've been hoping someone would be able to reproduce this. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start
Gentoo wrote: After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the following error from startx: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I have numerous fonts in my xorg.conf FontPath, as near as I can tell. I've had this problem with both radeon and vesa drivers. Any help appreciated.g Make sure you've got /usr/share/fonts/misc listed in xorg.conf. Make sure /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5 does not exist (1.4 is fine). Remerge font-alias, encodings, font-misc-misc, font-cursor-misc. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg and static libraries
Steve Brenneis wrote: Actually, none of that was my problem. The problem was solved by commenting out the ModulePath statement in xorg.conf. Now I just have to figure out what may have gotten broken by doing that. I think I'll just unmerge everything (in Xorg) and start over. Nothing should get broken by doing that, that is the correct way to have it. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Font problems with xorg-x11 7.0
Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi List! I recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0, as it was unmasked in stable. However, I was given some font problems along with the upgrade. I haven't found anything on either Google or on bugs.gentoo.org, so I'm turning to the list now. My main problem is that xfs (the X font server, not the filesystem) hogs the CPU for about 2-3 seconds whenever I start a new xterm, blocking the new xterm during that time. I haven't found the exact extent of programs affected by the problem -- right now, I only know that xterm and twm are affected. I've tried turning off xfs and moving the FontPaths into the X server itself, but that only made the problem worse (taking 6+ seconds instead). Does a symlink /usr/share/fonts/fonts exist? There is also another, unrelated and rather minor, problem: The 8x16 fixed font seems to have disappeared in 7.0. Does anyone know where it went? Try font-schumacher-misc or font-sony-misc. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12. It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but im not sure. Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me to appropriate reading so I can protect myself. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git-commits-headm=115273802320119w=2 is the actual commit, with a fair bit of detail about it. You could pull the 1-line patch from there and apply it to your kernel. There's also the workaround mentioned in the SANS message if you don't feel comfortable with patching, as long as you don't need to use core dumps as non-root. For gentoo-sources, the most reliable way to figure out what's going on is the ChangeLog. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading X
Pablo Antonio wrote: Hello, I don't know if this was asked previously or someone had the same problem I'm about to talk about. If that is the case, please redirect me to some place where I can find the answer. I tried to upgrade to modular X religiously following the Migrating to Modular X HOWTO. I removed the old X and installed the new one. Everything was fine until I rebooted and tried to open my favourite terminal (uxterm), but it wouldn't. It gave the following error: xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Quick fix: add this to /etc/portage/package.use x11-libs/libXaw xprint and remerge libXaw. That's when I recalled I had to do a revdep-rebuild before complaining :), but it failed while doing a certain emerge (last lines): In file included from main.c:21: menu.h:28:23: error: menu-tree.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.10.2/work/gnome-panel-2.10.2/gnome-panel' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.10.2/work/gnome-panel-2.10.2/gnome-panel' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.10.2/work/gnome-panel-2.10.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.10.2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile gnome-panel-2.10.2.ebuild, line 50: Called die Thus, it wasn't able to continue with the next emerges. The questions are: First, how can I fix this? Sounds like a gnome-panel bug, not related to Xorg at all. Have you searched bugzilla? Last, but not least, scrolling down in firefox works abnormally slow for some reason. Does this -again- have something to do with all the other problems? Doubtful. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?
Ow Mun Heng wrote: What I meant is secure ftp. sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: virtual Windows solution...
Peter Ruskin wrote: The free vmware-player will unfortunately refuse to work if you have more than one processor. Win4LinPro works pretty well (win4lin.com), is cheaper than vmware, but nonetheless pricy. Parallels Workstation (parallels.com) is much more reasonably priced, but won't work with kernel 2.6.17. vmware-server is free, but only in the vmware overlay at present. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/fonts/TTF doesn't exist
Richard Fish wrote: Just make sure that every directory produced by this command has a FontPath entry: find /usr/share/fonts/* -type d I wouldn't worry too much about this anyhow, only really old apps use FontPath entries. Most new ones use fontconfig, which searches /usr/share/fonts/ recursively. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] XKB docs
Peter Ruskin wrote: You aren't the only one. While trying to fix my perceived problem I searched through the documentation provided by xorg-docs. All I got was a headache. I wish there were a user-friendly doc that explained all those config options like XkbOptions, XkbLayout, etc. Here's a few ideas: http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/ http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/ http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.0/doc/html/XKB-Config.html Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/share/fonts/TTF doesn't exist
Mick wrote: Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/default, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/encodings, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local, removing from list! You probably don't have fonts sitting in any of those directories. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade
darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I just completed upgrading to Xorg 7.0 and it went fine, however, I seem to be missing Courier 10 pitch which was the only monospaced font that looks decent on my screen. When I started X all my monospaced fonts were set as courier which looks terrible. Does anyone know where to get this font back? I did a google but it did not help. Thanks for consideration, -d Try font-adobe-100dpi or font-adobe-75dpi or possibly font-ibm-type1. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hardened: setuid
James wrote: Hello I was performing a routine security audit using: find / -user root -perm -4000 -print which found these peculiar files: /usr/athena/bin/su /usr/athena/bin/otp /usr/athena/bin/rcp /usr/athena/bin/rsh /usr/athena/bin/rlogin upon greater inspection this is most troubling: -rws--x--x 1 root root 108416 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/su -rws--x--x 1 root root 105640 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/otp -rws--x--x 1 root root 95840 May 4 19:52 /usr/athena/bin/rlogin Are these part of a normal gentoo system running hardened, or is it time to re-install this machine? Have you tried checking which (if any) packages own these files? Have you built anything yourself outside of portage that could have installed them? Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Update system
Juliano Morais Barbosa wrote: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/l d: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Hm, I'd bet it's that problem that comes up with randomly missing files from modular X packages. This might fix it, although it will take a while: emerge -e libX11 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade
darren kirby wrote: quoth the Donnie Berkholz: darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I just completed upgrading to Xorg 7.0 and it went fine, however, I seem to be missing Courier 10 pitch which was the only monospaced font that looks decent on my screen. When I started X all my monospaced fonts were set as courier which looks terrible. Does anyone know where to get this font back? I did a google but it did not help. Thanks for consideration, -d Try font-adobe-100dpi or font-adobe-75dpi or possibly font-ibm-type1. The adobe fonts were already installed (no 10 pitch) and I installed the IBM fonts and it was not there either. However, Courier [IBM] seems to look fine, and will be suitable. I would still like to know where the 10 pitch is if anybody knows... Oh, do you not have ttf-bitstream-vera installed? It looks like I've got bitstream fonts providing it, maybe font-bitstream-type1 if you can't get it from the other. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Font missing after xorg upgrade
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I notice that some of the fonts you mention are keyword masked (at least on x86). For example font-bitstream-* (except for -vera) and font-ibm-type1. Are these fonts less tested? Would you recommend unmasking all of them? Would you want me to file a bug asking for stabilization? I should add that I am not at all hurting with just the (stable) fonts that I do have installed. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but the idea is that we're trying to figure out which programs, fonts, etc people really use and need. If you actually use something (not just install it and never use the fonts or whatever), please file a bug requesting that it be stabled. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hardened: setuid
James wrote: Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org writes: Have you tried checking which (if any) packages own these files? Have you built anything yourself outside of portage that could have installed them? Well I used --tree and it revealed nothing. --tree? How does it tell you what owns these files? Try something like equery or qfile (gentoolkit or portage-utils). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout
Cláudio Henrique wrote: hi, there, I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line in xorg.conf telling it to use us_intl as my kbd layout, but it seems to be ignoring it. as a consequence, I have to execute setxkbmap us_intl every time I enter Gnome. I also tried adding it to ~/.xinitrc . If you're on stable (7.0 or above), us_intl no longer exists. You probably want this in xorg.conf: Option XkbLayout latin Option XkbOptions lv3:ralt_switch Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular Xorg login rights
Mick wrote: Other than the status of the Xorg the two machines are pretty much set up identical. Could someone please explain why this message is now coming up in chkrootkit and if there is something I need to change in my settings? In modular X, we've enhanced the xdm init script to run sessreg to register logins. `grep sessreg /usr/lib/X11/xdm/*` to see exactly what's happening. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I ensure all fontpaths are loaded?
Walter Dnes wrote: The subject says it all. As part of the Xorg7 update I emerged some font groups. How do I find all the directories and include them xorg.conf? ls /usr/share/fonts/ -- all Gentoo font packages install there. Add each dir to xorg.conf as another FontPath directive. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers ebuild?
Alan E. Davis wrote: I haven't noticed this ebuild before. I am seeing a new ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Can someone explain this? I can only hope this is the end of a long and troubling issue with xorg and nvidia-kernel. I fear not, however: (I am running with ~amd64) The nvidia driver maintainers decided to switch them to a single ebuild, since it matches how they're distributed and makes a number of issues easier related to maintainance, FreeBSD drivers and, for users, version mismatches between kernel module and userland driver. Also note the new nvidia-legacy-drivers package for older cards, so you don't need to fiddle around with package.mask anymore. | RDEPEND=kernel_linux? ( virtual/modutils | | || ( x11-base/xorg-server virtual/x11 | | !=x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 | || ( media-libs/mesa virtual/x11 ) | app-admin/eselect-opengl | kernel_linux? ( !media-video/nvidia-kernel ) | kernel_FreeBSD? ( !media-video/nvidia-freebsd ) | !app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia | !x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers | !media-video/nvidia-glx Maybe I just didn't notice this before? I think not, however. I have found a couple of messages on the forum referring to nvidia-drivers as a new replacement (??) for nvidia-kernel/nvidia-glx. Does this mean a major xorg downgrade? No binary drivers currently exist for use with xorg 7.1, so you'll need to downgrade xorg-server to 1.0.x and any drivers (`emerge portage-utils qlist -I x11-drivers/`) if you want binary drivers. That's what's holding 7.1 from being marked stable on x86 and amd64. I have nvidia drivers and glx working pretty well, with only very minimal redrawing issues maybe two or three times over the last 24 hours. Should one avoid any upgrade, or what? If so, HOW? Uninstall nvidia-* and install nvidia-drivers. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)
Grzegorz Sójka wrote: Hi there! I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is supported by new versions). So my question is where can I find the Gentoo 2004.x LiveCD for SPARC? I did search ftp archives but unfortunately I was not able to find it. Try the gentoo-sparc list, they can give you more specific help and definitely tell you whether you need an older LiveCD. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols
John Blinka wrote: Symbol fbCloseScreen from module /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! See how all your nvidia driver ends with .o instead of .so? That means you didn't build the drivers with USE=dlloader (which is now set by default). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 -- xorg-7.0 -- 6.8 -- 7.0 impossible?
Grant wrote: Would 'emerge -eK world' be OK so I don't have to recompile? As long as you created the packages before downgrading to monolithic (6.x). Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DRI? ATI X300 PCIe
fire-eyes wrote: Hi, I am interested in getting my ATI X300 (r300 or r370, conflicting info out there), which is a PCIe card, working with DRI with open source drivers. I am using xorg-x11-7.1 . Any ideas? I am specifically looking for ways of doing this not including messing with overlays, that is a major pain, and (opinon) I shouldn't have to do that anyway. There are one or two patches to Mesa post-6.5 that fix PCIE support, I think by Dave Airlie (airlied). If you'd like to find them, I would be happy to add them to the ebuild. Just file a request bug with a pointer to the patch. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from X to a VT
Statux wrote: I don't know if this has been asked yet/recently, but I've noticed that I cannot use the ctrl+alt+F? sequence to pop out of X since my upgrade to xorg 7.0. I'm assuming that ctrl+alt+backspace won't kill the server either. This usually means your XKB is broken. First, make sure you're on a recent sync and remerge xkeyboard-config --oneshot. Next, try running setxkbmap to see what error messages you get: # prints current layout -- should show a few lines of info setxkbmap -print # sets a new layout and model setxkbmap -layout us -model pc105 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved
Lord Sauron wrote: My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. This NEVER happened in Debian. Yeah, emerge should probably start caching this info for faster searches. emerge overall though got a pretty solid speedup in 2.1. I also am considering trying to adapt aptitude to Gentoo. I think aptitude is the best thing since... anyways, I love aptitude and want to make it portage-friendly. Just having a command-line package browser like aptitude in Gentoo would be awesome. Now is the time to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for imagining something like that. Otherwise I might just fire up KDevelop, grab a copy of aptitude, and start working. I'm known to do things like that. Might wanna take a look through the stuff in app-portage/ before you start. I'm a fan of porthole. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces
Molle Bestefich wrote: Unfortunately, the spurious xorg-x11-6.9 package just shows at the top of the tree: Calculating world dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-1.6.0) Any other suggestions? There is nothing spurious about it. You aren't reading closely enough to see the '=' (less than or equal to) in front of it. Maybe you want to check out the Blocked packages section of the handbook [1]. Basically it's saying that you need to uninstall your old xorg-x11 before you can upgrade to the new, modular xorg-x11. Please also glance at the howto for this upgrade [2]. Thanks, Donnie 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap4 2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm still stucked on Xorg-6.8 and not intending to upgrade anytime soon unless there is a lot of good things to expect out of it. Right now, as long as there's no exploit/bug for xorg-6.8, I'll keep it that way. Yep, that's your prerogative. But the next exploit may not get updated in 6.x. There are plenty of improvements to expect, but you'd need to read the ChangeLogs for details. Addition of the new acceleration architecture (exa), accelerated indirect GLX, and many fixes to drivers are just a few. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server does not build on amd64
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, compiling xorg-server fails on my amd64 complaining about something not defined in a glxXXX header file. VIDEO_CARDS is set to nvidia and nv. Anybody had similar problems? Try updating your emul-xlibs package to 7.0. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem
Grant wrote: I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the two 'Driver' lines below but I still get mouse errors and X won't start. Section InputDevice Identifier mymouse # Driver mouse Driver synaptics Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 150 Option MaxTapTime 0 Option MinSpeed 0.3 Option MaxSpeed 0.75 Option AccelFactor 0.005 # Option SHMConfig on EndSection I ran 'revdep-rebuild -p' and it only wants to remerge gcc and some gst stuff so I haven't run it for real yet. Does anyone know how to fix this? Try changing the device to /dev/input/mice for the mouse driver. I think the synaptics driver has to use the event interface. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-xcursors in xfce4
Grant wrote: It looks like modular xorg installs gentoo-xcursors by default. How can I give them a try in xfce4? To do it on the system level, create /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/ and drop an index.theme file in there: $ cat /usr/local/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default/index.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=gentoo-silver Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-6.8 -- xorg-7.0 -- 6.8 -- 7.0 impossible?
Grant wrote: I had some trouble upgrading to xorg-x11-7.0 due to a mouse issue so I downgraded back to xorg-x11-6.8 via the -K emerge option. Now I'm trying to get back to 7.0 to test the fix and I can't seem to do it. After unmerging 6.8, 7.0 emerges just fine without or without the -K option. Trying to startxfce4 after that results in an xinit error and there are other missing file X errors before I get to the command line (I use gdm). Something must be out of order, but I don't know enough about xorg to determine what. 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't come up with anything. Does this issue make sense to anyone or do I need to come up with some specific error messages? Yeah, the problem is that you never uninstalled the modular packages when you downgraded. The easiest way to proceed right now is `emerge -e xorg-x11`. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!
John J. Foster wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Warning: Cannot convert string
-bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type
FontStruct
Try installing the fonts it's complaining about, and add 'em to your
FontPath list in xorg.conf. This one looks like font-bh-100dpi or -75dpi.
Thanks alot Donnie, media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi did the trick. Out of
curiosity, how did you know which font package might be correct?
The font token starts with the foundry it's from -- bh. This translates
to bh in the package name. It's specified using the old core fonts setup
(the foo-blah-*-foo-140-*-etc), so I know it's probably a bitmap font,
meaning 75dpi or 100dpi. It's not lucidatypewriter but just lucida, so
I'm able to eliminate those font-bh-lucidatypewriter-* packages. That
just leaves font-bh-{100,75}dpi.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps
Mick wrote: I updated to the new xorg and discovered that a lot of applications (e.g. xcalc, xvidtune, etc.) were uninstalled when I unmerged the monolithic version, but were not reinstalled with the new meta. So, I thought of trying emerging them individually. However, they seem to be masked. Is this because they are not compatible with the new meta ebuild? What should I do? If there are apps you use that you need stabilized, please file a bug requesting this. We haven't stabilized everything because we're trying to get an idea of what people actually use. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg meta apps
Mick wrote: On 05/07/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are apps you use that you need stabilized, please file a bug requesting this. We haven't stabilized everything because we're trying to get an idea of what people actually use. Thanks. I will do so. I was just worried that the new xorg-meta ebuild may require different x-apps-meta ebuilds and that's why the old ebuilds are now masked. Is there perhaps a 'bucket' bug report that I should add to for this problem, or should I start a new one? Just go ahead and file a separate bug for each app you want stabilized. I've already done a few, so make sure you've got a current sync before you do so. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Big thanks to spyderous
Richard Fish wrote: Just want to give a big public Thank You to spyderous for hanging out in -user and helping out those who had/are having trouble with the modular-X upgrade. I've been trying to do the same on the forums, for those of you around there. Hope it's made this somewhat difficult transition a bit easier for you. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg modules problem
Mick wrote: Hi All, I've gone through the big Xorg update, copied back my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf, changed the rgb path in line with a previous post because it gave me an error and now it fails like so: == (EE) Failed to load module bitmap (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module pcidata (module does not exist, 0) Fatal server error: Unable to load requried base module, Exiting... Sounds like you also have a ModulePath line in xorg.conf. Delete it. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!
John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error: Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct followed by about 10 million of these lines: Warning: Name: textfield Class: XmTextField Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded. Try installing the fonts it's complaining about, and add 'em to your FontPath list in xorg.conf. This one looks like font-bh-100dpi or -75dpi. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
Graham Murray wrote: Maybe what is needed is an enhancement to portage to allow the removal of a meta-package to (optionally) also remove the 'real' packages which it caused to be installed. Heard of emerge --depclean? Use it with care, though. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: glxclient.h:257: error: syntax error before GLXContextTag glxclient.h:257: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union glxclient.h:401: error: syntax error before '}' token clientattrib.c: In function `do_enable_disable': Is there something shortly above these like foo.h: No such file or directory? Yes, here what it says: In file included from clientattrib.c:38: glxclient.h:59:25: GL/glxproto.h: No such file or directory Try switching your opengl to xorg-x11 (eselect opengl set xorg-x11) and make sure /usr/include/GL/glxproto.h (a symlink) points to a file that exists. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?
Alexander Skwar wrote: confcache is gone from portage. No, it's not. It's in package.mask. I guess you need a new search tool. =) Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade
Dale wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Did you try eselect opengl nvidia? -Richard Regretfully, yes. Still no go. I even made sure it was actually using it too. I selected a NON-OpenGL screen saver and now the CPU doesn't go nuts. Do you have direct rendering working? `glxinfo | grep direct` will tell you. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade
Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Any ideas? Thanks for the help. Try this: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade
Dale wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Do you have a dri section in xorg.conf? Something like: Section dri Group graphics Mode 0660 EndSection -Richard Added that and now I get a error in my screen saver thingy. It goes something like this: The specified library screensaver could not be found. The diagnostics is: libGLcore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Try eselect set opengl nvidia Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade
Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # eselect set opengl nvidia !!! Error: Can't load module set exiting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Bah, I just gave you the command in the wrong order. `eselect opengl set nvidia` was the right one. Need to tell it which module, before the action to use from that module. I see you figured that out below. I assume this ain't good right. O_O OK, I logged out, stopped the GUI, rmmoded nvidia and reemerged all the nvidia stuff. Reloaded nvidia and ran the command. Now this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # eselect opengl show nvidia [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # So that works and then I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Sweet! That looks good to, still no worky and my screens are really slow. Sometimes even the mouse is slow. I also noticed that if I go to configure desktop and try to play with the screen saver settings, it hogs up a LOT of CPU time. Almost all of it yet it does not work at all. Odd. Are you out of ideas yet? I'm not sure what to do. The emerge -e world is still going though. 309 of 866 and counting. kdelibs went by a bit ago. It's on swig right now. I dunno what it is. This could be a problem, particularly if you have preemption off or don't set PORTAGE_NICENESS. If you're running that in a screen session, try a ^Z (ctrl-z) to suspend it for a bit and see whether that helps, then `fg` to foreground it again. Any clue? Am I doing something wrong? Is this new xorg that bad? Should I unmask the newer xorg? I read the nvidia drivers are not ready yet. At this point it's not real clear what the problem is. You could try running oprofile to see where all the time is being spent, then rebuild that package with debugging support (Add -g to CFLAGS, remove -fomit-frame-pointer) to get info on where in that program the time is spent. To get oprofile going, build the kernel module (it's included in the main kernel, just enable it -- CONFIG_PROFILING in Instrumentation), run `make vmlinux` in /usr/src/linux, emerge oprofile, then run this little script like this: ./oprof someapp It will start profiling, and stop when you quit that app. Make sure you run it long enough so that the app's startup stuff isn't the primary thing you profile; you want to profile the runtime slowdowns. Thanks, Donnie #!/bin/sh echo INIT OPROFILE... sudo opcontrol --init sudo opcontrol --start --vmlinux=/usr/src/linux/vmlinux sudo opcontrol --dump sudo opcontrol --reset echo RUN TEST APP... $@ echo RUN DONE. sudo opcontrol --stop echo WRITING PROFILE: oprof.txt opreport --long-filenames --symbols oprof.txt echo DONE. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenGL problem after xorg upgrade
Donnie Berkholz wrote: To get oprofile going, build the kernel module (it's included in the main kernel, just enable it -- CONFIG_PROFILING in Instrumentation), run `make vmlinux` in /usr/src/linux, emerge oprofile, then run this little script like this: ./oprof someapp It will start profiling, and stop when you quit that app. Make sure you run it long enough so that the app's startup stuff isn't the primary thing you profile; you want to profile the runtime slowdowns. One more note, oprofile will profile _everything_ your computer is doing, so make sure you are doing as little as possible that you don't want to end up in the results. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: makedepend: warning: glcontextmodes.c (reading /usr/X11R6/include/bits/types.h, line 31): cannot find include file stddef.h not in ./stddef.h not in ../../../include/stddef.h not in ../../../include/GL/internal/stddef.h not in ../../../src/mesa/main/stddef.h not in ../../../src/mesa/glapi/stddef.h not in ../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/common/stddef.h not in /usr/include/drm/stddef.h not in /usr/X11R6/include/stddef.h not in /usr/include/stddef.h Hi, Those warnings are irrelevant. You need to find the actual error. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xorg-xll fails out at media-libs/mesa-6.5-r3
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Oops, sorry about that. Here are the error messages that follow the warnings: glxclient.h:257: error: syntax error before GLXContextTag glxclient.h:257: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union glxclient.h:401: error: syntax error before '}' token clientattrib.c: In function `do_enable_disable': Is there something shortly above these like foo.h: No such file or directory? Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?
Alan McKinnon wrote: I found the opposite effect with split ebuilds. Even with the unpack/configure step, updating 100 splite packages out of 330+ was many hours faster than compiling a huge monolithic everything in the past BTW, if you install confcache and enable FEATURES=confcache, it will speed things up a lot. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
Matthew R. Lee wrote: is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I logged in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', it's not there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages are installed but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using? tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and recompile the packages from scratch? You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg worked! Minor issues....Thanks, Gentoo
dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51 wrote: 1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted it). But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A restart allowed successful completion. This directory was formerly under configuration protection so we have to tell the user to delete it manually. 2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything worked - except for the rgb file. Yeah, there's a bug for this -- modular X currently lacks a rule to create it. 3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding black. So I emerged rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it. RgbPath/usr/share/X11/rgb You should be able to comment out RgbPath 4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be emerged. Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but emerge did. Perhaps you haven't regenerated eix's cache lately? 5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). So I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything worked except for the kde office applications. If you just want the libXaw.so.8 back, emerge libXaw with USE=xprint. Thanks for your detailed report, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout
Luigi Pinna wrote: Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Try this, for the Right Alt key to get you into the level 3 stuff (á, ë, etc) Option XkbOptionslv3:ralt_switch If you want the various keys that can be put there instead of ralt_switch, run this: grep xkb_sym /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/level3 Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?
Dale wrote: I thought it was ccache? I did this a while back too. Is this something else we can use in addition to ccache? Yeah, it caches the results of configure scripts so they don't need to re-run tests. Although as Bo suggests, there can be some occasional issues. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
