Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Dennis Robertson commented thusly, in module-init-tools and have tried the downgrade suggestion with no effect. I added an option via82xx something to modules.d/alsa as suggested in Why do you need a via option a7n8x is NOT a VIA board, it depends

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Drake Wyrm
On Wed, 2004-02-11, 00:33:32 -0500, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Clay Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2004 11:11 pm, LoneStar wrote: I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. You sould get out more. =D What's this out thing I keep hearing about? From where does one download

Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 for kde3.2 then what ?

2004-02-11 Thread Simon Prosser
kde-3.2 has gone stable now... :D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.2 + Latest nVidia driver= Unable to initialize kernel module - a solution

2004-02-11 Thread Simon Prosser
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 04:29, Kathy Wills wrote: I was having problems with making a working system using the latest Linux kernel and nvidia driver. i had this problem a couple of days ago..it was with the latest version nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r1.ebuild somewhere in the forums it was

[gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Ryan
Hi all im trying to emerge dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4 but i keep getting the same error checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -L/us r/lib -ldb-4.1 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/inter base/lib -L/opt/interbase/lib

[gentoo-user] Annoying messages with emerge

2004-02-11 Thread David Gethings
Hi, I recently changed my cron daemon from vcron to fcron (via vixie-cron). Now with every emerge I get the following output: * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not adding service 'vcron'... * Service 'fcron' already provide 'cron'!; * Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying messages with emerge

2004-02-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:28, David Gethings wrote: Hi, I recently changed my cron daemon from vcron to fcron (via vixie-cron). Now with every emerge I get the following output: * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'fcron'

[gentoo-user] access violation summary

2004-02-11 Thread henkg
Hello, since my problems with portage 2.0.50 I get the following message when I try to emerge something: - start -- eutils gnuconfig eutils gnuconfig eutils gnuconfig Unpacking source... Unpacking libtool-1.4.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/libtool-1.4.3-r3/work

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices

2004-02-11 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Michael Peppler wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:07, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Michael Peppler wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database server. On RH these devices are created by

[gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread raptor
why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) one more question the machine crashes from time to time !???! only thing different from other machines i had is that I have Gsecurity at medium ? Is there a place where info is saved after crash so that i can

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared raptor commented thusly, why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) You have to have a high memory capacble kernel, ie the kernel has to be compiled with high memory set to 4gb in your case. one more

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Barry Marler
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:20:43 +0200 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) one more question the machine crashes from time to time !???! only thing different from other machines i had is that I have Gsecurity at

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 13:20, raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! snip BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820:

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 13:20, raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! snip BIOS-provided physical RAM map:  BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable)  BIOS-e820:

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:20:43 +0200 raptor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB Because you don't have HIGHMEM support enabled. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:23:47 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: special device /dev/hda3 does not exist * Checking root filesystem . Failed to open the filesystem. If the partition table has not changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread James Jones
raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) I bet you have a motherboard with on-board graphics, and it's taking 1024 - 896 = 128 MB of RAM off the top for its use. James Jones -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Owen Ford
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 06:16, Ryan wrote: Hi all im trying to emerge dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4 but i keep getting the same error checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -L/us r/lib -ldb-4.1 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

2004-02-11 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:39 pm, Brendan Sullivan wrote: i also have a suggestion that is possibly obvious...but sometimes is overlooked...If you run your network, mouse cables, etc too close to your speaker wires (either interconnects or the signal cables from your amplifier to your speakers),

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Barry Marler commented thusly, As the message says, Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel ;). In 2.6 kernels, the option is CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y; don't remember if 2.4 is exactly the same. No it is not as if you have highmem enabled it can lead to a slowdown

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:16, Ryan wrote: Hi all im trying to emerge dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4 but i keep getting the same error checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -L/us r/lib -ldb-4.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

2004-02-11 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 05:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set it to ASLA instead of Autodetect. Thanks, but that is what I had done with no effect. I'll try Grendel's suggestion and ditch alsa. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419

Re: [gentoo-user] DMA

2004-02-11 Thread Scharf Yuval
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Calvin Walton wrote: After rebooting my machine dmesg showed the following lines: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } more of same... hda: DMA disabled hdb had the DMA on and hda had

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, The cure for this is simple, but not quick, and permanent. unmount /dev/hdxn (if mounted) mke2fs -j /dev/hdxn tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hdxn reinstall software on /dev/hdxn I encountered

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread raptor
hmmm :), it is my first 1GB machine ... have another one.. today, hove to recompile there too... thanx -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Cal Evans
just a guess but I'm thinking your CFLAGS are hosed. The last time I got that error it was because I had messed them up. Check them or go back to one of the defaults and try again. Let me know how I may be of service, =C= * Cal Evans * http://www.eicc.com * We take care of your IT, * So you

[gentoo-user] Compiling error pam_krb5

2004-02-11 Thread Markus Klimke
Hello there, Doing a fresh install everything works up fine the three stages, except the kerberos packages. The 1.2.7 version of krb5 won't compile with the gcc3.3.2 a/o against the glibc2.3.2 (just the nls flag enabled). The 1.3.1 version of krb5 compiles fine, but the pam_krb5 package needs

[gentoo-user] lirc-0.6.6-r1 doesn't compile

2004-02-11 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I'm having problems in compiling. Some days ago I couldn't compile mozilla, but I thought because of some inconsistencies with old packages (I forgot use -u while emerging since a while :-( so I tryed to update first the system (everything ok) then world and again a strange error: emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:55:07 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, N! Please DONT install ext3, ext3 is just a ext2 file system with journalling support. ext2 is a slow file system and

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Spider wrote: If you want some more numbers, I'd suggest the 2.6 filesystem shootout : http://fsbench.netnation.com/ Are you sure that's the site? I can't resolve that. -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

2004-02-11 Thread Kurt Guenther
lukas wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 04:53, Kurt Guenther wrote: Not sure what's up. hda7 is definitely my Gentoo root. What does fsck say when you check /dev/hda7? I'ts clean . -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Spider commented thusly, N! Please DONT install ext3, ext3 is just a ext2 file system with journalling support. ext2 is a slow file system and ext3 is even slower, it also has to keep a kjournald thread running taking up your CPU. no,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Jose González Gómez
bit root # emerge sys-party/get-out These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy sys-kernel/gentoo-female have been masked. !!! possible candidates are: - sys-kernel/gentoo-female-1.0-rlisa (masked by: discussion.mask, ~me) -

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:55:07 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So, I reverted to ext3, and I will never touch reiserfs again. ext3 | doesn't loose its marbles. | | N! Please DONT install ext3, ext3 is just a ext2 file system with | journalling support. ext2 is a slow file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Roy Kidder
OK, that was mildly amusing. ;) Jose González Gómez said: bit root # emerge sys-party/get-out These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy sys-kernel/gentoo-female have been masked. !!! possible candidates are: -

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:13:44 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spider wrote: If you want some more numbers, I'd suggest the 2.6 filesystem shootout : http://fsbench.netnation.com/ Are you sure that's the site? I can't resolve that. Yep, its one of those try

[gentoo-user] problem with jack-audio-connection-kit

2004-02-11 Thread Manuel Perez Lopez
Hello: Can anybody help me? I do not know, why I have this error in emerge jack-audio-connection-kit (or alsa), with kernel 2.4: JACK will use System V shm API (shmget() and friends) checking for snd_pcm_drop in -lasound... no configure: WARNING: ALSA 0.9 support not found configure: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:31:44 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | My dear arachnid, how do you explain the above widely respected | benchmarks. Respected? Heh. | namesys.com has some more benchmarks related to ext3 and reiserfs. In other news, Microsoft has benchmarks comparing Linux

[gentoo-user] fam 2.7 won't compile

2004-02-11 Thread henkg
When trying to emerge -u world fam seems to be required. When fam emerges I get: g++ { global: .libs/libfam.ver g++: { global:: No such file or directory g++: no input files and terminates. Any ideas? Henk, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Ciaran McCreesh commented thusly, | Ext2 is so badly designed that although we know that journalling file | systems have additional overhead that non journalling filesystem, but | although ext2 is a non journalling file system, it cant even match up

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown video card on Acer Aspire 1350

2004-02-11 Thread Jose Gonzlez Gmez
Martin, I tried with the savage driver with no success... right now I'm compiling the development version of xfree, that is supposed to contain the via driver. Thanks, regards Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi: Of course it's an VIA but Via has bought the Technology from S3 The

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Ryan
hi sorry but i cant find a cofig.log anywhere On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:52:03 + Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:16, Ryan wrote: Hi all im trying to emerge dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4 but i keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Ciaran McCreesh commented thusly, On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:31:44 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | My dear arachnid, how do you explain the above widely respected | benchmarks. Respected? Heh. Respected...Just search for

[gentoo-user] KDE

2004-02-11 Thread Scharf Yuval
Hello, When building kde-3.2.0 I got the following message: configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.in: and that

Re: [gentoo-user] fam 2.7 won't compile

2004-02-11 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to emerge -u world fam seems to be required. When fam emerges I get: g++ { global: .libs/libfam.ver g++: { global:: No such file or directory g++: no input files and terminates. Any ideas? There is a bug with the

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r4

2004-02-11 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 February 2004 15:56, Ryan wrote: hi sorry but i cant find a cofig.log anywhere That's because it's config.log :) (sorry) emerge mod_php, and when it's failed look in

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:55:07 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: N! Please DONT install ext3, ext3 is just a ext2 file system with journalling support. ext2 is a slow file system and ext3 is even slower, it also has to keep a kjournald thread running taking up your CPU.

[gentoo-user] WM that can handle dual-head

2004-02-11 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I have a dual-head setup. The main display is running at 1024x768 and the secondary is 800x600. I'm not using the Xinerama extension, so I effectively have 2 separate X sessions running. I'm currently using fluxbox as my window manager. I want to try something new. I tried Openbox, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Carpella
Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems straightforward, but my grub.conf has: title Gentoo (2.6.1-r1) root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda7 and I checked the /etc/fstab and it has /dev/hda7 / ext3noatime 0 1 I had a similar

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, I can't disagree with much of what you have to say, but my experience (and I've read numerous other reports) with reiserfs has been less than sterling. When it fails, it fails big time, i.e. not just a few files,

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying messages with emerge

2004-02-11 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:45, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The init scripts for both vcron and vixie-cron are still in /etc/init.d. emerge won't remove them as /etc is CONFIG_PROTECT'd (CONFIG_PROTECTED ?) Just delete them and run depscan.sh. I thought it

[gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Has anybody else had this happen? I have OSS emulation setup. I try to run mpg123 and it complains that there is no /dev/dsp ... and there isn't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] modules.d # /etc/init.d/alsasound start * Loading ALSA drivers... * Using ALSA OSS emulation * Loading: snd-emu10k1 * Loading:

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:40:19 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody else had this happen? I have OSS emulation setup. I try to run mpg123 and it complains that there is no /dev/dsp ... and there isn't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] modules.d # /etc/init.d/alsasound start *

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs? - A solution

2004-02-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:46:50 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, thanks very much. While I wish I could do this in Linux, and possibly will find I can one of these days, it's great to have this working right now. Be sure to let others know, if you find out. :) -- /~\ The ASCII

Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage

2004-02-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:04:14 -0800 (PST) Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im having issues that i cant seem to mount it at all... Maybe you are missing scsi disk support in kernel? I know I had this problem not long ago... -- /~\ The ASCIIAndrej Ticho Kacian andrej at kacian

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get past 2.6.1

2004-02-11 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:09, rh wrote: Have been using the development-sources for a while now with great luck and am currently running 2.6.1. However, even though all versions after this will compile, they will not boot...they crash on boot with a kernel panic...attempt to kill init. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread LoneStar
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. The RAM that was in the PIII system is now in the Athlon

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

2004-02-11 Thread Kurt Guenther
I do have the ext2/ext3 compiled into the kernel. Where can I read up more on the initrd? The gentoo install docs have the manual kernel build w/o an initrd. --Kurt Thomas Sjolshagen wrote: You sure you've got either the ext3 modules included in an initrd image, or (the simplest

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread LoneStar
Clay Culver wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2004 11:11 pm, LoneStar wrote: I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. You sould get out more. =D I *DO* get out a lot. Out of money, out of time, out of patience, out of beer, ... :-) -- Johnny Sistumz injunear -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a domain member on a Win NT network

2004-02-11 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
my $0.02: this is called the captive-ntfs project, it's homepage is www.jan-kratochvil.net and it works like a charm :-) tested it at home, and it is great. it even has a cool gui utility that searches a windows installation or a mounted win NT/2k/XP cd for the windows original ntfs (and other)

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.2

2004-02-11 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:18, Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am compiling gcc. Not sure why its looking at /proc, but out of 4 machines, this is the first one to fail anyone have an answer for this? Thanks * This sys-libs/glibc has __guard object

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Imre Solti
Grendel wrote: imagine having to fsck a 40gb partition :( How about fsck on a 200 GB partition? :-(( Imre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Larry Meadors
Either that, or you kernel is not configured to use that memory. make menuconfig - processor type and features - High Memory Support Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/04 5:19 AM raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I have 1GB ?!?! (see below) I bet

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc-0.6.6-r1 doesn't compile

2004-02-11 Thread Jakub Krajcovic
For starters you could use the latest cvs lirc 0.7.2 i think it is. And another thing, if you are compiling this under 2.6 kernels then i think you're out of luck. I am quite sure that lirc can't be compiled under 2.6 kernels. The only soulution i know of is to obtain the lirc pathc for 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
LoneStar wrote: Norbert Kamenicky wrote: LoneStar wrote: I tried installing it on a PIII system from both the i686 and pentium3 live CDs and all I could get was seg faults when trying to untar the stages (I tried all 3). Check RAM with memtest86. The RAM that was in the PIII system is now

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc-0.6.6-r1 doesn't compile

2004-02-11 Thread Alberto Bert
I'm using the gentoo-sources 2.4.22, but I don't really care so much about having lirc immediatly, I can wait untile there is a stable gentoo version. I thought it was a problem of my configuration... actually I didn't asked to emerge lirc but gentoo wanted to install it as new package during the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 Kernel Panic

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Kurt Guenther commented thusly, I do have the ext2/ext3 compiled into the kernel. If it is not as a module but directly builtin to the kernel then it should work. Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me

Re: [gentoo-user] how to test crond actions ??

2004-02-11 Thread raptor
no, i give this just as an example... i'm adding crond stuff quite often and just want a way to test them to be sure they work as expected... as u may expect often they have to call remote processes over ssh or keychain for example and it is hard to resolve problems with permissions and so

[gentoo-user] portage slots

2004-02-11 Thread Aleksandr Guidrevitch
Hi All, I've seen some notes about SLOTs in portage (in gentoo docs), but can't find detailled explanation of what is this and how it works/is implemented. Could anyone point me to the right docs ? Sincerely, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cant boot into gentoo

2004-02-11 Thread Kevin Hanson
Chris wrote: reiserfsprogs was updated and now cant boot into gentoo it says the fs is read only how do i fix this? Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.554 / Virus Database: 346 - Release Date: 12/20/2003 --

RE: [gentoo-user] portage slots

2004-02-11 Thread Luke Macken
Quote from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml SLOT Portage handles different versions of the same installed programs. If you would want, say GCC 2.95 and GCC 3.2 installed at the same time, you would specify the SLOT in each ebuild. Here we would set the SLOT of GCC 2.95 to 2 while

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Kevin Hanson
Larry Meadors wrote: Either that, or you kernel is not configured to use that memory. make menuconfig - processor type and features - High Memory Support Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/04 5:19 AM raptor wrote: why kernel is saying that it will use only 896 MB RAM, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not generate the device file! Reported as bug, but no fix in sight. No problem using OSS, however.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:14:21 -0600 Kevin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The confusing thing is that the help text that menuconfig provides | says: | | If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with | more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer off here | | Well, I

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:19:52 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo female?

2004-02-11 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:11, LoneStar wrote: I'm beginning to think gentoo is female. If she likes you, all is well and fine. If not, you may as well go find a Lady in Red(Hat). I've installed Gentoo from the i686 live CD on 3 Athalon systems without much trouble and am currently

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Kevin Hanson
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:14:21 -0600 Kevin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The confusing thing is that the help text that menuconfig provides | says: | | If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with | more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE

2004-02-11 Thread Timothy Grant
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 06:01, Scharf Yuval wrote: Hello, When building kde-3.2.0 I got the following message: configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is

Re: [gentoo-user] 1GB or 896MB, who tells the true ?

2004-02-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:30:58 -0600 Kevin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:14:21 -0600 Kevin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | The confusing thing is that the help text that menuconfig provides | | says: | | | | If you are compiling a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd does not generate the device file! Reported as bug, but no fix in sight. No problem using OSS, however.

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:19:52 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Not the same card, but I have ens1371 (SB16 PCI), and with alsa I have to modprobe- rmmod -modprobe ens1371 to get /dev/dsp. When the module is initially loaded, devfsd

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Collins, Thanks for your advice. Failed to open the filesystem. If the partition table has not changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with --rebuild-sb Warning... fsck.reiserfs for

[gentoo-user] error emerging fam-2.7.0

2004-02-11 Thread s-gt
Hi. I am trying to emerge fam-2.7.0 (a gnome 2.4 dependancy) in a fresh gentoo 1.4 x86 installation. I just finished doing a successful 'emerge system'. I then tried to emerge gnome-2.4.2, and I get the following build error while emerging fam-2.7.0. I get the same error if I try to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE

2004-02-11 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 16:31, Timothy Grant wrote: I got a similar though not identical error the first couple of times I tried to build it. I did a sync and discovered a newer version of autoconf, merged that, then merged KDE and all was good. What version of automake? I use KDE too. I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging fam-2.7.0

2004-02-11 Thread David Gethings
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am trying to emerge fam-2.7.0 (a gnome 2.4 dependancy) in a fresh gentoo 1.4 x86 installation. I just finished doing a successful 'emerge system'. I then tried to emerge gnome-2.4.2, and I get the following build error while emerging

RE: [gentoo-user] error emerging fam-2.7.0

2004-02-11 Thread Luke Macken
Here is the workaround that I used: --- cd /var/tmp/portage/fam-2.7.0/work/fam-2.7.0/lib ../libtool g++ -g -O2 -o libfam.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -export-symbols fam.sym Client.lo fam.lo -lstdc++ -lrpcsvc ebuild /usr/portage/app-admin/fam/fam-2.7.0.ebuild compile ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound System Noise

2004-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, On Wednesday 11 February 2004 07:26, Dennis Robertson wrote: The noise starts on boot when alsa is detected and is amplified with mouse clicks, disk activity etc. It tapers off after about 15mins but is always there in the background. Turning off alsasound has no effect. Trying various

Re: [gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world

2004-02-11 Thread Jared Thirsk
On February 10, 2004 15:42, phil wrote: Are you running reiserfs or have had any lockups? when i first installed gentoo i was using rfs and locked it a few times (badly configured kernel ,acpi-nforce2 issue) which badly messed up some files and forced me to reinstall with ext3,which seems to

[gentoo-user] scanner module

2004-02-11 Thread jm . bornier
Hello all, since I adopted K 2.6 (mm-sources) I have a hard time using my scanner. In make menuconfig, USB Scanner is said obsolete. and: This driver has been obsoleted by support via libusb. What does it mean? What is libusb? TIA -- Jean Magnan de Bornier jm.bornier-at-free.fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:07:13 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cause of my havoc differs from yours. It happened only after running 'emerge -u world' and rebooted automatically. I strongly believe 'upgrading betagenkernel' is critical which was also done automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:40:05 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Sorry, it was worth a try. Just to be sure. What I observed was: 1) alsa module loaded automatically (brief pop to indicate the card had been touched). 2) no /dev/dsp 3) rmmod and

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Grendel
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly, The situation still exists on my other machine. On latest 2.6.2 I get the same behavior, but now the card produces no sound. alsa has great intent, but poor delivery for some cards, most especially since the card

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices

2004-02-11 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Michael Peppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm new to gentoo - long time RH user, though - and I need to create the /dev/rawctl and /dev/raw/rawX devices for use with a Sybase database server. On RH these devices are created by default, but it seems that [...] IIRC, /dev/raw* are

[gentoo-user] Kde 3.2 - how to remove 3.1?

2004-02-11 Thread Persson
I succesfully emerged kde 3.2, but seems to me that the 3.1.x stuff is still there (eg, the /usr/kde/3.1 directory). Is it safe to do an emerge umnerge kde-3.1.5 or could that command accidentally delete something that may cause 3.2 to stop working? Has anyone tried this? Thanks P -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Two questions about emerge -UD world

2004-02-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
Hi. I have two questions about emerge -UD world. 1) This question is something of a bump. For that I am sorry, I hope it's ok. emerge -pUD world seems to list some odd things, like: [ebuild N] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21 Why is this? I am running kernel 2.6.2, which installed manually

[gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird

2004-02-11 Thread D.Wilkening
Hi, does anybody know, why Mozilla Thunderbird is still masked? I use it since 0.2 on 4 Locations with gnome, xfce4, xp, w2k and like it very much. What bugs are still unresolved? any hints? bye, dieter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/dsp created with Alsa?

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:25:34 +0600 (LKT) Grendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: point in it. Alsa setup is also a bit of a PITA. No, its a major PITA. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world

2004-02-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:58:41 -0700 Jared Thirsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On February 10, 2004 15:42, phil wrote: Are you running reiserfs or have had any lockups? when i first installed gentoo i was using rfs and locked it a few times (badly configured kernel ,acpi-nforce2 issue) which

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start gnome as normal user

2004-02-11 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 01:21, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:35:26 +0200 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've some strange problem. Can't start gnome as normal user but as root everything is OK. It must be something with the file/dir permissions or

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