Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find 2nd network adapter?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I added the 2nd network adapteer to my gentoo-box and I want to use it. But... I do not know how it is called! ifconfig shows only the one adapter I had, called enp3s0. I remember some time ago I moved from human network names (i.e. eth0) to this and now I see the first disadvantage: while before I could guess new network name (probably eth1, eth2, etc), now I can not. I tried enp4s0, enp3s1, enp4s1 but I always get only No such device error. I checked gentoo-handbook but it works with those old good network devices (eth0, eth1). So how can I find name of the new network adapter? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. What does ifconfig -a return? Did you try grepping dmesg for eth[0-9]? --Joshua D Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] xeffects overlay
b.n. wrote: Hi, It's a bit the xeffects overlay seems unreachable. I had a (admittedly brief) look on the web and it seems they are moving/rebuilding/refactoring it, but I had no info on how to find it now and/or when it will be back alive. Where can I look for instructions? m. I'm pretty sure it's closed, and the ebuilds moved to desktop-effects overlay. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xeffects overlay
b.n. wrote: Qian Qiao ha scritto: b.n. wrote: Hi, It's a bit the xeffects overlay seems unreachable. I had a (admittedly brief) look on the web and it seems they are moving/rebuilding/refactoring it, but I had no info on how to find it now and/or when it will be back alive. Where can I look for instructions? m. The overlay has reached it's EOL[1]. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641342.html I've read the thread, and now I'm even more confused. - Where are the ex-xeffects ebuilds? arcon, desktop-effects or what? - What is the difference between desktop-effects and xeffects? (Why closing xeffects, if then the same people then open another overlay at desktop-effects? I suppose *there has to be* a difference) I'm pretty sure that jmbsvicetto retired from maintaining the overlay. The only difference I've seen is desktop-effects uses git. - What's the best migration pathway? Is eliminating xeffects and adding desktop-effects to layman enough, or more convoluted stuff is to be made? That's all I did. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers
Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with anticipatory because I am using an IDE disk or switch to something else because my system is a server? That article is before the work began on the CFS/CFQ scheduler. There has been a lot of improvements made to the CFQ scheduler in the past year. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059 I don't know which one would be better for a server. If you aren't having any issues with the scheduler now I don't see a reason to switch. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: Jason Carson wrote: I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which says... AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems and IDE disks ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with anticipatory because I am using an IDE disk or switch to something else because my system is a server? That article is before the work began on the CFS/CFQ scheduler. There has been a lot of improvements made to the CFQ scheduler in the past year. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059 CFS and CFQ have NOTHING IN COMMON. CFS is a TASK scheduler. CFQ is a BLOCK IO scheduler. Two completly different fields. Please stop confusing this stuff, ok? deadline/cfq/as is block IO stuff cfs is about 'what app runs next' stuff. My mistake. Thanks for clearing that up for me. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -march CHOST settings for new laptop
Grant wrote: What -march and CHOST settings would you guys use for a CPU that shows up like this in cpuinfo: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46Ghz I'd use prescott for this one, as you're using x86 CHOST anyway. Does this CPU have 64-bit extensions? I believe it does, check the flags at /proc/cpuinfo to be sure. nocona would be my choice if possible to create a 64 bits system. Alright, I'll give nocona a try. Should I be using CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu? And the processor family in the kernel should be Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon? I wouldn't use x86_64-pc-linux-gnu unless you want to break your system. Unless you are starting from scratch 64 bit. Is there any way to switch to that CHOST after I've already installed a stage3? If I do get this working with 64 bits, will I be using amd64 packages even though it's not an AMD system, or would I still be x86? - Grant Have you already installed a 32bit stage3? If so there is no way to switch except for a reinstall. AMD64 is for both AMD and Intel 64 bit. Do you think Generic-x86_64 in the kernel? - Grant I think you're safe with that. According the kernel Family 15 is older Netburst and family 6 is the newer Core micro architectures. You can tell by /proc/cpuinfo. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin won't start on amd64
Grant wrote: I've installed a new 64 bit system and everything is running great except firefox-bin won't start. I get a cannot execute binary file error which evidently means I've got a mismatch between the binary and my system's architecture. I used an x86_64-hardened stage, my CHOST is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, I'm using -march=nocona, and intel.com says my CPU has 64-bit extensions. Should I have used mult ilib somewhere along the line or something? - Grant Do you have 32 bit execution support in your kernel? Executable file formats / Emulations -- │ │ [*] IA32 Emulation │ │ │ │ * IA32 a.out support --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -march CHOST settings for new laptop
Grant wrote: What -march and CHOST settings would you guys use for a CPU that shows up like this in cpuinfo: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46Ghz I'm going ahead with i686 and i686-pc-linux-gnu for now because I want to get this thing set up, but I'm planning on doing an emerge -e world when I'm done. Does this CPU have 64-bit extensions? It looks like it does. http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=slaec Does it support sse3? If /proc/cpuinfo flags has pni Then I'd go with march=prescott --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -march CHOST settings for new laptop
Grant wrote: What -march and CHOST settings would you guys use for a CPU that shows up like this in cpuinfo: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46Ghz I'd use prescott for this one, as you're using x86 CHOST anyway. Does this CPU have 64-bit extensions? I believe it does, check the flags at /proc/cpuinfo to be sure. nocona would be my choice if possible to create a 64 bits system. Alright, I'll give nocona a try. Should I be using CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu? And the processor family in the kernel should be Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon? I wouldn't use x86_64-pc-linux-gnu unless you want to break your system. Unless you are starting from scratch 64 bit. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -march CHOST settings for new laptop
Grant wrote: What -march and CHOST settings would you guys use for a CPU that shows up like this in cpuinfo: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46Ghz I'd use prescott for this one, as you're using x86 CHOST anyway. Does this CPU have 64-bit extensions? I believe it does, check the flags at /proc/cpuinfo to be sure. nocona would be my choice if possible to create a 64 bits system. Alright, I'll give nocona a try. Should I be using CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu? And the processor family in the kernel should be Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/older Xeon? I wouldn't use x86_64-pc-linux-gnu unless you want to break your system. Unless you are starting from scratch 64 bit. Is there any way to switch to that CHOST after I've already installed a stage3? If I do get this working with 64 bits, will I be using amd64 packages even though it's not an AMD system, or would I still be x86? - Grant Have you already installed a 32bit stage3? If so there is no way to switch except for a reinstall. AMD64 is for both AMD and Intel 64 bit. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?
brullo nulla wrote: On 8/21/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might add to avoid using on board video or video cards like my own, an NVIDIA based LE 6200, that uses system RAM. Even if you aren't doing games. You are using only 1GB of RAM. Ok, so the specs that are coming out for the motherboard are: - amd x2 (what model of that? the brisbane? something that heats not too much would be better...) - supported Intel onboard video card with its own video RAM An integrated Intel video card is only going to be available on an Intel Chipset. That is not going to work with an AMD CPU. If you are going to use an AMD and integrated video you should look at a nvidia chipset. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade to expat 2 blows up system
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 21:43:03 Joshua Doll wrote: I find the easiest solution is to link /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2 to /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0, but I don't think that's the right of doing things. Things start working again though. Sure.. and occasionally things crash randomly as a result of it.. Didn't say it was the best solution just the easiest. I would like to point I did try the revdep-rebuild like the ebuild said but still nothing would compile. It wasn't until I created that symlink that things started to compile again. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?
Grant wrote: My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system was powered off for several hours with an external fan blowing on it. Is that definitely the video card? - Grant I would think so. Unless you have an integrated video card. Then I'd be concerned about the Motherboard. Try the video card in a known working system that will give you loads of information. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/30/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hi list, I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network card work... According to lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03) The weird thing is, it works just fine when booting the LiveCD, dmesg shows: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 e1000: :02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:32-bit) 00:10:c6:a1:5a:41 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/1000 speed: disabling TSO but when booting the local kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection It appears as if driver works and has created the device but... The device was not created (and yeah, that's weird since there's a mention to eth0 in dmesg), also the init script is there and there is a config for the interface at rc.conf/net. It seems the probe is not working, as it never detects the link is up or down... What does ifconfig -a return? A lot of times udev will remap the device name. Especially if there is IP over firewall. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Gigabit Ethernet problem
Joshua Doll wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/30/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hi list, I've been struggling with this for a while, I am setting up this new machine, but got stuck because I can't find a way to make the network card work... According to lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03) The weird thing is, it works just fine when booting the LiveCD, dmesg shows: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 e1000: :02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:32-bit) 00:10:c6:a1:5a:41 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/1000 speed: disabling TSO but when booting the local kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.2.9-k4 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection It appears as if driver works and has created the device but... The device was not created (and yeah, that's weird since there's a mention to eth0 in dmesg), also the init script is there and there is a config for the interface at rc.conf/net. It seems the probe is not working, as it never detects the link is up or down... What does ifconfig -a return? A lot of times udev will remap the device name. Especially if there is IP over firewall. --Joshua Doll Opps firewire not firewall. Long weekend. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best virtual machine for my needs
A. R. wrote: On 7/27/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I need a way to use Napster or iTunes on Linux. (I don't like DRM but it's not my PC and not my decision) I think my best bet would be a virtual machine with Windows 2000 (I can spare the licence). The PC is an older AMD64 without AMD-V. Therefore I need something that a) is free or at least not expensive b) works without AMD-V and Intel-V c) works with Win2k d) simulates a CD recorder for burning the music (or do you know a better way to get rid of DRM again?) I hope my English was good enough to explain myself and you can help me. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp The only thing I can think of is wine (an emulator), which is in the portage tree: emerge -va wine After that, there is a very good site for using wine with several programs: http://frankscorner.org/ I know nothing on how to avoid all that DRM fiasco. HTH - AR There's vmare, kvm, qemu?, and xen that I can think of right off the top of my head. Wine might work but I wouldn't bet on it. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot error
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:57:48 + (UTC), James wrote: This is frustrating because except for using a stage 1 tarball and issuing a questionable 'etc-update' I verbosely followed the handbook installation process. So follow the handbook and use a Stage 3. Stage 1 is only of benefit to those that like to spend hours watching GCC output. I know I do.. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
James wrote: Hello, I have several new portables to install. On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic installation (no X, KDE ) The installation ran to completion. The installation process declared itself successful. Upon reboot I get this error message: Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... The partitioning is quite simple sda1 ntfs vista(soon) sda2 reiserfs /boot sda3 swap ada4 reiserfs / Trying sda2 does not work either. Is the best method to rescue this install to use the minimal cd and fdisk and mark the sda2 partition as a boot. I'm about ready to use the Handbook and perform the install the old way... Any suggestions? James What's the drive mappings look like in the bios, I've had issues with sata (I assume) in the past and funky drive mappings because of the bios. It's also possible you missed the sata drivers in the kernel. Did you use genkernel or did you do it by hand? --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot error
James wrote: Joshua Doll Joshua.Doll at gmail.com writes: What's the drive mappings look like in the bios, I've had issues with sata (I assume) in the past and funky drive mappings because of the bios. The bios is minimalistic. Boot order is about all it will let me change. Right now it is as it should be: USB floppy cd hard drive usb hard drive ! network adapter It's also possible you missed the sata drivers in the kernel. Did you use genkernel or did you do it by hand? They looked like they were all there. I tried the standard and the advance. each method trying standard and downloading a stage3 tarball All the same result. Any other ideas? James Sounds like you might have missed the kernel, the stage3 tarball doesn't include a kernel. I'm not familiar with the graphic installer, but I don't think it does a kernel for you. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hello list, I just got a new box for use at work, its an Intel Core Duo 1.8, 1GB RAM, with an Intel graphic card, its a IBM Lenovo machine. My old one is an Itautec Athlon XP 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and an Nvidia AGP graphic card. My make.conf (intersting part): CFLAGS=-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPTS=-j2 I'd look at what optimizations the march athlon-xp uses and compare that with the march you are going to there maybe some that you want to enable for the Core Duo. The CHOST shouldn't be an issue. It should be noted that you won't have an 64bit support if the new CPU even supports this don't remember off the top of my head. I suspect it will run without issues though. What I want to know is, will my software, compiled with the above settings, run in the new processor? Cause if it does, I may be able to compile a generic kernel set (using genkernel) and udev should take care of most module loading, and I won't need to rebuild all my stuff. I've tested some binary packages with an old Pentium III processor, and it worked... Anyway, should I start from scratch or there's an easy way to migrate all this stuff? --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?
b.n. wrote: Sorry, I sent the mail too early. Two corrections: b.n. ha scritto: Hi, Today, while I was at work, there had been a power failure. My Gentoo box was on when it happened. I was at work, but the box is at home, so I have no idea of what really happened. I rebooted a bunch of times, and everytime it behaved like there were no more hard disks. It looked for a bootsector in the CD/DVD drives and in the floppy drive, but behaved like the SATA HD did not exist. I tried to boot a Knoppix and its fstab showed no trace of an hard disk. Even more strange, at startup it ...seemed active, because the red LED blinked sometimes. No strange noises etc. whatsoever. Thanks again, m. I wonder if it reset your BIOS. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging knob
Marco Antônio da Veiga wrote: I got this error emerging knob (to volume control in my HP ZV6000): Emerging (1 of 1) media-sound/knob-1.2-r1 to / * knob-1.2.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * knob-1.2.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * knob-1.2.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * knob-1.2.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking knob-1.2.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] * QA Notice: USE Flag 'arts' not in IUSE for media-sound/kn ob-1.2-r1 * The package media-sound/knob-1.2-r1 you're trying to merg e requires aRTs. * However, kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r10 was compiled with art s flag disabled. * * QA Notice: USE Flag 'arts' not in IUSE for media-sound/kn ob-1.2-r1 * To build this package you have to recompile * kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r10 with this arts use flag enable d. !!! ERROR: media-sound/knob-1.2-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1631: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 703: Called qa_call 'pkg_setup' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called pkg_setup ebuild.sh, line 1305: Called kde_pkg_setup kde.eclass, line 68: Called die !!! kdelibs missing arts !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and t he call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/med ia-sound/knob-1.2-r1/temp/build.log'. Please, what should I do? You need to emerge kdelibs with the arts use flag. try: USE=arts emerge -av kdelibs or echo kde-base/kdelibs arts /etc/portage/package.use emerge -av kdelibs --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron
Nick wrote: Hi there, I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with only what she needs etc. Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just keep itself working and secure. So, I'm planning to run sudo emerge --sync and sudo glsa-check -f new from a cron job, perhaps once a week. I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools from a cron job? Thanks, -Nick I think cron can run jobs as root. --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags
b.n. wrote: Hi, I'm currently using xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled and Beryl. Yesterday night I did an emerge --sync emerge -pv world and that's what I found (among others): [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 [1.1.1-r5] USE=dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minimal -xprint (-aiglx%*) INPUT_DEVICES=aiptek joystick keyboard... Notice the (-aiglx%*). man emerge says, about the use flag display syntax: [ebuild U ] sys-devel/distcc-2.16 [2.13-r1] USE=ipv6* -gtk -qt% Here we see that the make.conf variable USE affects how this package is built. In this example, ipv6 optional support is enabled and both gtk and qt support are disabled. The asterisk following ipv6 indicates that ipv6 support was disabled the last time this packages was installed. The percent sign following qt indicates that the qt option has been added to the package since it was last installed. Now here I have the following situation: - I have a functional AIGLX xorg-server - I have the aiglx USE flag enabled in my make.conf (and also emerge --info confirms aiglx is enabled) but Portage tells me that aiglx: - was a USE flag of the previous version of xorg-xserver (true) - it was disabled in the previous version (false, as far as I understand) - is still disabled (false, AFAIU) - it has been added only now to xorg-xserver (false, AFAIU) What is that I don't understand? Thanks, m. From what I understand Aiglx functionality was merged into the xorg-server package as of 7.2 and the aiglx use flag was no longer needed. 24 Jan 2007; Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; +xorg-server-1.2.0.ebuild: Bump. Upstream incorporated some version of all of our patches, so no more I hope understood what you were asking and answered correctly. --Joshua Doll need for the aiglx USE flag. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally
Would ROOT= in the emerge command work? --Joshua Doll Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hy everybody, can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be located under /something/*. I understand that the ebuilds contain directives of where to install the files through src_install(). However I don't believe it would be a good idea to edit ebuilds manually since it would lead to breakages during emerge --sync. So is there some file I can edit to change the install directory for a certain package? For example like setting wireshark /wifi firefox /stuff baselayout / (this is just a rough sketch of what I'm looking for.) All help would be greatly appreciated! Many Greetings Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGN3ilaHrXRd80sY8RCuhlAKDAg/ioaMe9TnFTy6g5dvqfStzWCgCcDL4E v+16b13Vj0m58U5LkXHlPGk= =ZCsw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: problem :eht0 not getting detected
what about ifconfig -a? I sometimes run into a problem where udev remaps the ethernet device. On 4/11/07, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well specifically what kind of realtek ethernet card is it. A quick count in my kernel config showed 3 different drivers for realtek. You might want to try modprobing the other ones and see if that brings it up. On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:34:28AM -0700, agam gupta wrote: hello i have recently started with gentoo. there is a problem my eth0 is not there in ifconfig (lo is only there ) .used ispci it showed realtek. used modprobe-l |grep rtl it gives rtl8150.ko the on modprobing rtl8150 it gets loaded but on ifconfig there is no eth0 what should i do ? please help -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list