Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail
well, if you need one, tell me your address. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account, anyone have one to give? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
thanks to all... i finally get the cdrom work, not perfectly though, i change the BIOS setting that use S-ATA only instead and keep P-ATA enabled, which makes cdrom the primary 1st, the sata drive recognized as primary third. (i hate such layout !! i prefer the hard disk to be the primary first and recognized as hda). at last, the sata drive was recognized as sda, so that's the whole story, now i'm wondering what on earth are the changes made with those BIOS settings, and how it affect the kernel? (because whatever i configure, the M$ Windows just works perfectly). i would not think the problem solved already, i'll take a look at this later. thanks again. daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:35:51PM -0400, Greg Yasko wrote: On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:19:37 +0800, danielhf wrote: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! any ideas please, thanks a lot. - daniel I had the same problem several months ago when I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel and udev. Just boot off the livecd, mount the / partition and delete .devfsd from the /dev directory. That should do it. Hope this helps. -G.Y. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?
yes, that's exactly what you should to make the command take effect. On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:46:40PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:35 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to create a crontab for my account using crontab -e. However system tells me I have no permission to run crontab. I checked the Gentoo Linux Cron Guide_ and find that I must add my account to the cron group to use crontab. Follow the guide, I ran: $ sudo gpasswd -a hongqn cron and run crontab -e again. But bash still tells me Permission denied. It seems the system has not recoginized I am already a cron group member immediately. Maybe it reads a cache somewhere? If so, how can I flush that cache? -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=1 Thunderbird! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliatesid=67907t=183 Hi, i think you'll have to logout login to activate this change. HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting problems with nVidia and OpenMosix kernel
i have got the same problem while installing the nvidia-kernel within portage tree on my 2.6.12-5 kernel. i solved it by commenting the line --- Load glx in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. i recommend downloading the latest driver xxx.run from nvidia.com and compile a module for your kernel. it worked for me, just for your reference. ;-) On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:42:33AM +, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi there, I got a Gentoo box with two kernels, one is linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 kernel sources and the other linux-2.4.30-openmosix-r3. On the 2.6 kernel, the nvidia driver works fine. But on the OpenMosix version, whenever I try to start X, it crashes, and in the log, there are no error messages. All I get is: (II) Initializing extension GLX *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE returns nothing. I believe it is a flaw in the agpgart module, because if I try to load the module, I get: /lib/modules/2.4.30-om-migshm/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: Invalid argument Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.30-om-migshm/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.30-om-migshm/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.30-om-migshm/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart failed Anyone knows how to fix this? Thank you for your attention, Raphael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!
i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! i test with my usb disk, and the /dev/ directory could add and remove the sda1 device node accordingly, it seems that everything goes well. but where is my cdrom? i have changed the /etc/conf.d/rc, and replace RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes with RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no several days ago, because i think that'll be ok for me, and everything seems working with the exception of the cdrom i found today! the rule file under the etc/udev/rules.d/ makes no sense to me, any ideas please, thanks a lot. - daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!
unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either. and dmesg does not show anything about my cdrom or hdc. just odd. On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:36:49PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! i test with my usb disk, and the /dev/ directory could add and remove the sda1 device node accordingly, it seems that everything goes well. but where is my cdrom? i have changed the /etc/conf.d/rc, and replace RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes with RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no several days ago, because i think that'll be ok for me, and everything seems working with the exception of the cdrom i found today! the rule file under the etc/udev/rules.d/ makes no sense to me, any ideas please, thanks a lot. /dev/cdrom (or in my case, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw, and /dev/dvd) are just symlinks to the real device anyway. The real device is hd* (in my case, 'hdc', because the CD/DVD drive is the master on the second IDE channel, as my hard drive is hda because it's master on the first channel). So maybe try looking for the actual device, instead of a symlink (which has apparently been removed), and see if that gets you any further. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. besides, why there is a register dump while i reboot, the error occures at /etc/init.d/halt.sh right after Unmounting filesystems. hehe ;-(. broken... unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either. and dmesg does not show anything about my cdrom or hdc. just odd. how about modprobe ide-cd ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. besides, why there is a register dump while i reboot, the error occures at /etc/init.d/halt.sh right after Unmounting filesystems. hehe ;-(. broken... unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either. and dmesg does not show anything about my cdrom or hdc. just odd. how about modprobe ide-cd ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
my BIOS infomation shows my cdrom is at the third IDE primary, so i do: mknod -m 660 hde b 33 0 and later i tried mknod -m 660 hdc b 23 0 the output: hdc is not a valid block device no luck. hde failed either, i give it up. ;-( thanks for all help. daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:53:57PM +0400, Alex Korshunov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
yes, it works just well in WindowsXP. it even works before i use udev. hehe i'm not sure it failed due to the udev, i have no idea now. On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:20:42AM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: Alex Korshunov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? I didn't see the beginning of this thread so my question may be redundant. Did you (the OP) verify that the drive is still detected by the BIOS? -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
i did read that document, to find the doc is trivial. what i got is just similar. the udev just create the device files which were detected by kernel, and handle the operations like add or remove dynamically. i tried this feature with my usb devices already, i really like the way udev works. i could not found any info from the output of dmesg, so i think perhaps there is a problem on detecting the device, but not the problem of udev. thanks daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:40:20AM -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2005 08:20, Matt Randolph wrote: Alex Korshunov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well All my cdroms in /dev/cdroms/cdrom. May be...? I didn't see the beginning of this thread so my question may be redundant. Did you (the OP) verify that the drive is still detected by the BIOS? having done some research yesterday on udev, specifically the gentoo udev howto, it was my understanding that udev did NOT create node files. those must exist and udev just manages the mappings to those files. that's what the tar/untar process on shutdown/boot takes care of. devfs, on the other hand DID take care of those files. the gentoo udev howto specifically gives a walkthrough on the steps necessary to switch from a hybrid udev/devfs system to a pure udev system. Have you looked at that document? Unfortunately, I don't remember the link at this moment, but I linked to it from the udev stuff at kernel.org. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting problems with nVidia and OpenMosix kernel
i'm not sure, i use a nvida card instead, i will recieve some error
while there is a wrong module compiled or i have two module which locate
at different path, this will occur probably when i update my driver.
for example, i emerge nvidia-kernel and it is in /lib/module/`uname
-r`/video/nvidia.ko, but when i update my driver to the one i downloaded
from nvidia.com, it is in /lib/module/`uname
-r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko. system will be confused.
i'm not so experienced either, just for reference. good luck.
daniel
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:22:17PM +, James wrote:
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales raphael.melo21 at gmail.com writes:
Hi there,
I got a Gentoo box with two kernels, one is linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9
kernel sources and the other linux-2.4.30-openmosix-r3. On the 2.6
kernel, the nvidia driver works fine. But on the OpenMosix version,
whenever I try to start X, it crashes, and in the log, there are no
error messages.
All I get is:
(II) Initializing extension GLX
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE returns nothing.
Well, an intel based portable with a radeon 9000 was working fine
with a 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 kernel until this morning. X(kdm) would
not start. I logged in (console) and entered 'startx' and got something
very strange that may be related to other xorg problems:
First I had to comment out the { Load speedo } line, then the next
problem was:
'Symbol drmGetClient from module
/usr/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved'
I also get:
(**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled
(WW) No core pointer registered
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Keyboard1 (type: KEYBOARD)
No core pointer
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
I did a emerge -uD world yesterday.
Could these problems be related?
???
James
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
there are two items there: ide-cdrom ide-disk but just empty directories. ?? On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. Are you really really sure? What do you have in /sys/bus/ide/drivers ? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!
i discover a something while examine my dmesg output. --Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 --ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx --Probing IDE interface ide0... --hda: ST380817AS, ATA DISK drive --Probing IDE interface ide1... --Probing IDE interface ide2... --Probing IDE interface ide3... --- there should be a cdrom detected here --Probing IDE interface ide4... --Probing IDE interface ide5... --ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 --hda: max request size: 1024KiB --hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63 --hda: cache flushes supported -- hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 now, maybe i can say it's a problem of detecting my driver for sure? there have been a lot of problems around since i use a SATA hard drive, and a common ATA cdrom, i spent a lot of time to find out the right CMOS configuration: P-ATA only | S-ATA only | P-ATA S-ATA etc and some others. i use a Native Mode, so that my disk can be recognized as /dev/hdaXX instead of /dev/sdaXX. and P-ATA only but with S-ATA enabled. is there any advice on how to config such stuff correctly? WindowsXP works with them just perfectly, and it's ok on my gentoo box before the udev comes out maybe. i remember... many thanks daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. Are you really really sure? What do you have in /sys/bus/ide/drivers ? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:28:21PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the best window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and why? I wouldn't trade the multitude of options availabe in Linux for anything, but the choices can be overwhelming. I've played with a lot of 'em, starting with fvwm, through window maker, enlightenment 15 16, icewm, gnome, xfce, kde, blackbox... I've been using Fluxbox for quite a while now. I want something that is fairly minimal/lightweight, but with a hint of eye candy and a functional panel or taskbar. Fluxbox just about has this, but, I can't seem to figure out how to get a gnome-like panel (unless I ran gnome, which would trump the lighweight requirement). I've seen the E17 screenshots, and I'd like to run it, but it's not a trivial install, plus it's still alpha code (though there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that it's plenty stable... I'd still rather wait for an official release). Some interesting links, if you aren't already aware: http://xwinman.org/ - basic overview of available WMs/DEs http://www.lynucs.org/ - desktop screenshot archive http://www.enlightenment.org/ - best of eye candy :) Anyway, I was just hoping to start a pub-style conversation on what people like/disklike in a window manager. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list seems that nobody likes FVWM, i dont like to try a lot of things, most of WMs mentioned here are not used )-: Gnome and KDE are OK and used to be my faviorate desktops, however, they are just too good for me, ;-) i would like one which is lightweight and can be fully controlled. i know there must be a lot of excellent WM around, i just give FVWM a try and stick to it afterwards, i configured a taskbar, a clock, some menus and nothing more. it's perfect! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:47:22PM +, Stefan K?gl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be changed to drwx-- and owner changed to root automatically. 2. i try to use a mount option users, $ mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users no luck somehow as well. 3. i would not use sudo to do this, i believe there is a way to solve the problem. and not sure sudo will work. any ideas about this? thanks a lot in advance Which filesystem are you talking about? If you mean NTFS (or maybe others too), you'll have to add a umask to the mount-options. best regards daniel greetings -- Stefan K?gl | Tel.: +43 664 44 24 894 Apetlonerstra?e 11 | Mail: Stefan K?gl [EMAIL PROTECTED] A-7132 Frauenkirchen | ICQ: 115578877 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list actually, both ntfs (windows partition) and fat32 (usb disk) have the problem, i'll try the umask option, thanks to all for your help. -- daniel -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?
i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be changed to drwx-- and owner changed to root automatically. 2. i try to use a mount option users, $ mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/win -o rw,users no luck somehow as well. 3. i would not use sudo to do this, i believe there is a way to solve the problem. and not sure sudo will work. any ideas about this? thanks a lot in advance best regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?
portage reminds me of updating packages frequently, i have to decide what to update, and if it's worth downloading? is there a easy way to see what's new of those packages to be updated? the ChangeLog within /usr/portage/xxx-xxx/ make no sense to me. thanks. regards daniel.. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem running qalculate (a calculator)
is anybody using qalculator (the calculator) on gentoo? thay are masked by the keywords, so i added the packages in my package.keyword, and they where emerged as normal then. however, so long as i run qalc or qalculate, it complains that it could not load global definitions from /var/tmp/portage/libqalculate/, i know that's a temp dir, and all files there will be removed after emerge, but i could do nothing about it, it seems the path is not configurable. i know the real files are in /usr/share/qalculate. any ideas about changing the path to the correct one? thanks a log regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] acct: function not implemented
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:12:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been looking for a program that can audit my system, it seems that acct just fit, however, as i run accton /var/account/pacct it complains: function not implemented, i searched the web, and somebody says the kernel has to be compiled with accounting enabled, i checked the kernel config menu and found nothing. please help. thanks in advance. daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list i have added the BSD accounting support to my kernel, and the accton lastcomm now runs ok. but the output is in quite a mess, it seems that the acct does not make records in the way i assumed, root lastcomm --user root ?? root ?? 2.07 secs Thu Jan 1 08:03 ?? root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 08:16 ?? root ?? 0.00 secs Thu Jan 1 08:16 i could not understand the question marks there, and the format does not match desctiption in the lastcomm man page. anyone ever used it before ? or any ideas about it ? thanks, best regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] display image in links?
is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? thanks in advance, i have enabled the framebuffer for the console.. daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:13:55AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? thanks in advance, i have enabled the framebuffer for the console.. daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list thanks to all for your help. the links2 -g -driver fb works. i tried links2 -g before, but it stops responding. the -driver option is not mentioned in the man page. so... there might be tips somewhere i dont know.. thanks again daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
