Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-17 Thread Nagatoro
Cédric FINANCE wrote: Hello, I have some trouble when I try to sync the portage tree. It works fine when I try by a friend in a wire network. At home, I have a wireless network and a treeway adsl modem. When I execute the emerge sync, it starts to download some files but everytime, it stops

Re: [gentoo-user] error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:33:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated world system. I've searched this group on all of those in caps at gmane and got some hits but not that I could put together into a plan of action. First, where do

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:03:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Then I was able to tweak my USE flags and CFLAGS and rebuild the system to the same as I'd have got from Stage 1 Neil, Would you mind sharing what changes you made to your CFLAGS to get the equivalent of a Stage 1 install? When

[gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have a USB memory stick and an external USB box with an IDE disk. I configured udev to assign device names to both items, or so I thought. The external box is plugged, the memory stick isn't. The problem is: the device for the box is not created, and the memstick device exists but represents the

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-17 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I nailed it on my system. I had some free time so installed gdb and ranamarok. Looks like if Retrieve similar artists is checked under Last.fm, itcrashes amaroK. I unchecked the option and now it runs flawlessly. Check it in your case as well.Abhay Ok, I

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 10:26 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: I have a USB memory stick and an external USB box with an IDE disk. I configured udev to assign device names to both items, or so I thought. The external box is plugged, the memory stick isn't. The problem is: the device for

[gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread askar k
Hello! I have packages CD. Mounted it and did #export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom When I do #emerge --usepkg packagename - sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't work and bedins compiling. For example, I wanted to install kde from package CD but it goes to compiling, though I see a lot of tbz files

Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread Nagatoro
askar k wrote: Hello! I have packages CD. Mounted it and did #export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom When I do #emerge --usepkg packagename - sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't work and bedins compiling. For example, I wanted to install kde from package CD but it goes to compiling, though I see

Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread askar k
A guess would be that the packages that portage want's to compile isn't on the CD. Not all packages from portage is there... Check tha package names and versions that want's to compile against the CD. -- Naga Thanks. Seems there's no kde itself, but many its components. How is the package CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Derek Tracy
On 11/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:50:00 -0500, Derek Tracy wrote: The biggest reason for the reinstall was because in my contant playing around with DE's and WM's trying to find one that I completely liked. I had KDE, GNOME, E17, FVWM, OpenBOX (I

Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 17 November 2005 05:18, askar k wrote: A guess would be that the packages that portage want's to compile isn't on the CD. Not all packages from portage is there... Check tha package names and versions that want's to compile against the CD. -- Naga Thanks. Seems there's no

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Nagatoro
Derek Tracy wrote: [...] (I did not change any other config files) and low and behold after a quick reboot everything was working again. The magic of computers :) -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] SpamAssassin upgrade

2005-11-17 Thread Nils William Olsson
Hello, I have recently upgrade spamassassin to 3.1.0-r1. That version should be run as spamd but system did not create this user automaticaly? is that a bug or? TNX -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:05 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:33:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: The messages below show up at the login prompt when I boot my updated world system. configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) These are all

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 10:26 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: I have a USB memory stick and an external USB box with an IDE disk. I configured udev to assign device names to both items, or so I thought. The external box is plugged, the

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are all settings from /etc/login.defs. Although I have this file on my system, no package appears to own it, so I suspect it is part of pam (I removed pam many months ago). Did you update pam or shadow? Yes, pam and I think Iain has guessed the

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are all settings from /etc/login.defs. Although I have this file on my system, no package appears to own it, so I suspect it is part of pam /etc/login.defs is owned by sys-apps/pam-login. You can check the version with `emerge -p pam-login`.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:23:46 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:03:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Would you mind sharing what changes you made to your CFLAGS to get the equivalent of a Stage 1 install? When installing a stage 3 you are using packages

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 13:43 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y (...) Did you also enable the sub options? # SCSI device support # CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)

[gentoo-user] Re: error source? on update of world

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/login.defs is owned by sys-apps/pam-login. You can check the version with `emerge -p pam-login`. Try re-emerging it and see if you missed updating /etc/login.defs by accident. Yup looks like I went the wrong way somehow. Instead of cping the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Roberts
On 11:20 Wed 16 Nov , Derek Tracy wrote: After restarting I noticed that ipw2200 did not load properly was posted in my boot mesg WTF. I distinctly remembered during the install that I waited until after I installed the kernel, then I went ahead and installed the external

[gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. I fought with it for a week or two and finally got it working with alsa-driver (it wouldn't work when I attempted to compile ALSA support for the card into the kernel.) Yesterday it just kind of stopped. I've just

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-my.rules BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=PLEXTOR , SYSFS_model=PlexFlash-2*, NAME=plextor_memstick%n BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=Maxtor 6 , SYSFS_model=L250R0*, NAME=external_hd%n

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 13:43 schrieb ext Jorge Almeida: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y (...) Did you also enable the sub options? No, since none appeared to have much to do with my devices. usb 1-7: new high speed USB device

Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:28:32 -0600, Chris Cox wrote: Besides, why would you want to use someone elses pre-compiled package? You have a lot more control over it by building it from source To get a working desktop as quickly as possible. It is no different from doing a stage 3 installation, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:52:47 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: What about -march ? At one point that was something that you weren't supposed to change unless using stage1. If one changes -march after stage3, are we supposed to first run bootstrap.sh before emerge -e ? There's no problem with

[gentoo-user] Scroll back buffer on boot screen

2005-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
What tools do I need to be looking at to set the scrollback buffer of the boot screen. I don't use framebuffer splash type stuff, just the basic terminal. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
Bob: Your comments are extremely useful. However much I would like to get a newer graphics card, I am stuck with this one for a few weeks at least. It works well on an Ubuntu system on a different partition. How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is doing. Turn

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Timer

2005-11-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
I found a source package called lab3timer. It didn't want to compile on my box. I think this guy has it set up with three separate timers for laboratory use. AlanOn 11/17/05, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something akin to the KDE timer?--Kurt--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:27:40 +, askar k wrote: When I do #emerge --usepkg packagename - sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't work and bedins compiling. For example, I wanted to install kde from package CD but it goes to compiling, though I see a lot of tbz files for kde. Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/17/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:03:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Then I was able to tweak my USE flags and CFLAGS and rebuild the system to the same as I'd have got from Stage 1 Neil, Would you mind sharing what changes you made to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge alsa-driver. The alsa-driver is included in the kernel. Just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver. Unless your sound card is a special case you should not emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel ALSA driver. SNIP I remerged alsa-driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Klosa
Which kernel were you using before the new kernel install. I did also have some problems when i upgraded from 2.6.13 to 2.6.14. Check that your kernel config is correct. In my case the config hasn't been correct. Cheers Uwe Michael Sullivan wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It

[gentoo-user] acx100 + 2.6.14-suspend2

2005-11-17 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
Hi, I'm trying to compile acx100 wireless driver in my gentoo box that uses 2.6.14-suspend2 kernel. I know that this module is in the blacklist of the resume modules, but I'd like to use it spite of it. The error that emerge gives me is: * Preparing acx_pci module make: Entering directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:55 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/17/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my new computer about a month ago. It uses the snd-hda-intel

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-my.rules BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=PLEXTOR , SYSFS_model=PlexFlash-2*, NAME=plextor_memstick%n BUS=scsi, SYSFS{vendor}=Maxtor 6 ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:55 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: Which kernel were you using before the new kernel install. I did also have some problems when i upgraded from 2.6.13 to 2.6.14. Check that your kernel config is correct. In my case the config hasn't been correct. Cheers Uwe Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread abhay
On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 7:36 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've just rebuild kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 Can we have output of lspci | grep Audio lsmod | grep snd emerge -pv alsa-driver dmesg Abhay pgpVG6964dwcR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So much for the rules in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html#hotplug ... Yes, it is terribly out of date, being written when udev was at version 016!! That is s last month! :-

[gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Well hi again, It took longer than I expected to change the server. Anyway. The VIA Unichrome situation turned out to be a no-go for me. I had to install an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 on the machine and get X running. I think this whole thread and me compiling various Xorg versions about 8 or 9

[gentoo-user]Specific umask for a specific ext3 filesystem

2005-11-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello, I have couple of ext3 partitions for my data. I need to mount them in such a way that all the files created on those partitions would always bear a umask which is different from the umask globally set in /etc/profile. How do I achieve this? I tried mounting the partition with

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:35:27 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:52:47 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: What about -march ? At one point that was something that you weren't supposed to change unless using stage1. If one changes -march after stage3, are we

[gentoo-user] udev not getting unmounted at shutdown/reboot

2005-11-17 Thread abhay
Hello, A few days ago my system hung and I had to do a reboot by pressing the power button. Since then I get the following message while shutdown/reboots Remounting remaining filesystems readonly [!!] umount : udev busy - remounted read-only umount : /: device is busy umount : /: device

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Can you post your current rules. Also, don't forget Dirk's suggestion regarding BUS==usb instead of scsi. You could use the SYMLINK target instead of changing the name. Something like: BUS==usb ... NAME=%k, SYMLINK=plextor_memstick%n This

Re: [gentoo-user] amaroK launching Kmail = virus?

2005-11-17 Thread Fernando Meira
On 11/16/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 9:08 pm, Fernando Meira wrote: .libs/rawscope_impl.o(.gnu.linkonce.d._ZTCN6Amarok13RawScope_implE4_N4Arts14StdSynthModuleE+0xb8): undefined reference to `virtual thunk to Arts::StdSynthModule::streamEnd()' collect2: ld returned 1

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Can you post your current rules. Also, don't forget Dirk's suggestion regarding BUS==usb instead of scsi. You could use the SYMLINK target instead of changing the name. Something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-17 Thread abhay
On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 10:55 pm, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: I still am confused about one thing though... which exactly is the 2D driver for VIA Unichrome? Could this be it? http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ Abhay pgpO6lNw5C6kd.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Hello all! This is just a short question... Does anyone know why it doesn't allow me to log on my system? I just installed gentoo... I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques for changing it (the init=/bin/sh in the bootloader and chrooting from the live-cd). I change them

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread abhay
On Friday 18 Nov 2005 12:08 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1b.0 to 64 hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying auto-probe from BIOS... hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8 hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 20:17 +0100, ÿc1lvaro Castro wrote: Hello all! This is just a short question... Does anyone know why it doesn't allow me to log on my system? I just installed gentoo... I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques for changing it (the init=/bin/sh in

[gentoo-user] udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Hello, A few weeks ago I updated all of the gentoo systems I manage to udev. (Late to the udev party). Well I've got vlc, mplayer, and kaffeine working splendidly on 2 different intel portables. However, an Athlon on an Asus A7v8X-X motherboard is not happy with the dvd or the audio: Works fine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 00:53 +0530, abhay wrote: #-- alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- # --- ALSACONF version

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2005-11-17 20:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques for changing it (the init=/bin/sh in the bootloader and chrooting from the live-cd). I change them succesfully but it still doesn't work! Check to make sure the console is listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Hi! Yes... I've done it a couple of times to be sure... Other thing: my console is using UTF-8 ¿maybe...? The console is still not working properly, it shows deformed characters because of the resolution. thanks! Have you run passwd for the root user while in the chroot environment?

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kjorling wrote: Check to make sure the console is listed in /etc/securetty, otherwise you won't be able to log in as root directly. (However, you can log in as a normal user and then use `su'.) ... if that user is in the wheel group. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Hmm, looks ok. Could you set udev_log=7 in /etc/udev/udev.conf, and post the entries that are added to /var/log/messages when you turn on the hard drive. $ tail -F /var/log/kernel/current Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sooo: I did notice The dvd devices are missing: ls -alg /dev/dvd Does /dev/hdc exist? If so, what are the permissions there? What about /dev/cdrom? What does /sbin/cdrom_id /dev/hdc report? You can also try setting udev_log=7 in

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Hello! Yes, I can find tts/0 in /etc/securetty The point is that the normal user can't login neither. thanks! .alvaro.castro. --- Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 2005-11-17 20:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I KNOW my password. And I also tried the 2 techniques

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ÿc1lvaro Castro wrote: The point is that the normal user can't login neither. You probable removed pam from your /etc/make.conf USE flags. That wont allow you to login, no matter what user you try. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman -

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-17 Thread Cédric FINANCE
The Link quality is not supported by the driver (ndiswrapper). I am connected to an irc server and I have no problems. I don't think that the problem come from the wireless connection. It might have something to do with the rsync protocol, the modem or my ISP. But I don't know how to figure

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cédric FINANCE wrote: The Link quality is not supported by the driver (ndiswrapper). I am connected to an irc server and I have no problems. I don't think that the problem come from the wireless connection. It might have something to do with the

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: important. If you have USB and the other drivers built as modules, reload them and try again. If they are built into your kernel, reboot. This is Chaos. On reboot, /dev/external_hd and

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Does /dev/hdc exist? If so, what are the permissions there? What about /dev/cdrom? Initially: brw-rw 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc so I change it to 777 brwxrwxrwx 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc but that did not fix it. ls -alg

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Something interesting did happen though. I had that Unknown device in my lspci output for both Gentoo and FC4 when I was on VIA Unichrome. Now after switching to nvidia, I can see a Host Bridge properly identified in its place. I wonder why that would be? Flaky

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Uff! Yes! That's for sure, since I made my own make.conf and I didn't know this was necessary! hum... how can I solve that? I mean, what things should I recompile? emerge --newuse world??? !!!thanks .alvaro.castro. --- Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ÿc1lvaro Castro wrote: Yes! That's for sure, since I made my own make.conf and I didn't know this was necessary! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep ^pam /usr/portage/profiles/use* /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:pam - Adds support PAM (Pluggable

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Hmm, do you RC_DEVICE_TARBALL set in /etc/conf.d/rc? That would cause something like this, and I recommend setting it to no for a pure udev setup. Yes, it was there since the time it was recommended. I changed it and rebooted. The memstick nodes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Does /dev/hdc exist? If so, what are the permissions there? What about /dev/cdrom? Initially: brw-rw 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov 17 16:41 /dev/hdc so I change it to 777 brwxrwxrwx 1 cdrom 22, 0 Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KERNEL==hdc, NAME=%k, GROUP=cdrom, ACTION==add, SYMLINK+=_dvd%e, IMPORT=/sbin/cdrom_id --export $tempnode Ok, bad form to reply to myself, but the above should say: SYMLINK+=dvd%e -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Dig

2005-11-17 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: Nick, the Debian list is organized by category and quite easy to browse and read. The gentoo list is not nearly as well organized as the Debian list, from my viewpoint. you can search by category on packages.gentoo.org, and also using eix. then

Re: [gentoo-user] Scroll back buffer on boot screen

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:28 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: What tools do I need to be looking at to set the scrollback buffer of the boot screen. You may have it already - try shift-pgup. For me, it doesn't scroll back much for the boot screen messages, but once I've done some I/O, I can scroll

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:59 +0100, Cédric FINANCE wrote: The Link quality is not supported by the driver (ndiswrapper). I am connected to an irc server and I have no problems. irc as in chatting? irc hardly does anything to stress your hardware!! I don't think that the problem come from

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Rather than changing the permissions, a better plan is to add any users that should be able to access cdrom/dvd devices to the cdrom group. In /etc/group it has been like this for some time: cdrom::19:root,james video::27:root,james What

[gentoo-user] Bug in net.eth0?

2005-11-17 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
Hi, Some verison info: Version: # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/net.eth0,v 1.41 2004/05/10 14:16:35 agriffis Exp $ Some background info: I have my ethernet driver compiled into my kernel. hareesh: hareesh/ $ lspci | grep Ethernet :00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:50:55PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: ?c1lvaro Castro wrote: The point is that the normal user can't login neither. You probable removed pam from your /etc/make.conf USE flags. That wont allow you to login, no matter what user you try. Clarify?

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:58:15 +0100 (CET), ÿc1lvaro Castro wrote: I mean, what things should I recompile? You need to re-emerge shadow after removing pam. emerge --newuse world??? That should cover all bases. IMO it's always worth doing --newuse after a change to your USE flags. --

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS -mcpu value for Celeron 2.00GHz

2005-11-17 Thread sempsteen
Hi, I was reading about CFLAGS to set it best for my system. I've searched for the -mcpu value that fits my Intel Celeron 2.00GHz processor but couldn't find it. By looking cpu family and model from Gentoo Wiki Safe Cflags article pentium4 value seems the best but i've a celeron?. In make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: 1. Try upgrading to a more recent version of udev. The current ~x86 version is 073. Tried this first, (added ~x86 to packages.keywords and emerged udev) Did not work. This look reasonable so I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS -mcpu value for Celeron 2.00GHz

2005-11-17 Thread Marko Kocic
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[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: 2. Write a custom rule for your device, and add it to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. Something like this should do the trick: OK, this file does not exist, only: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root54 Sep 14 10:38 30-svgalib.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS -mcpu value for Celeron 2.00GHz

2005-11-17 Thread sempsteen
thanks a lot Marko.

[gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the radeon driver. I would like to raise the refresh rate to 75

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I tried it with this line a 2 lines in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and as a single line. It should definitely be a single line. And you will want to either reboot or run udevstart afterwards.

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your USB bus is really not working right! Are these devices connected directly to ports on the PC, or going through a hub? If there is a hub, maybe it is broken... No hub. I changed the usb port the case is connected to and no

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of the cdrom_id Ok I'll file the bug report. Any recommendations on a DVDrw that has full linux support? How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the

[gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: It should definitely be a single line. And you will want to either reboot or run udevstart afterwards. After this, does /dev/dvd exist? (ls -l /dev/dvd). lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 17 19:01 /dev/dvd - hdc The system loggers available in

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in net.eth0?

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:01:29 -0800, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Version: # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/net.eth0,v 1.41 2004/05/10 14:16:35 agriffis Exp $ This looks like a very old script. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 should now be a symlink to net.lo. -- Neil Bothwick Press

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 17 19:01 /dev/dvd - hdc Ok, so everything is fine...but you say vlc and kaffeine still don't work? Hold on...googling... Um, the Samsung SC-152G is a CD-ROM drive, not a DVD drive. So udev and cdrom_id are doing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-11-17 17:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current x.org versions should be able to auto-detect the VertRefresh and HorizSync settings, as well as appropriate modelines. So I would comment out all such stuff from your xorg.conf file, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies, device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60 Hz 1024x768 using

[gentoo-user] FN - keys mouse scrollwheel

2005-11-17 Thread karlos
hi, I have just tried out gnome and uninstalled gdm after. now my FN-keys on the laptop as well as the scrollwheel behaviour of the mouse has changed (it does not scroll up but sideways anymore) and I would like to get both back to to normal again. has anyone an idea how to set this? Karsten

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point being, you need to know your monitor's specs. Back in the day, that was true. But with modern monitors (I'm not sure of the spec, I think is part of the VESA compliance requirements) the video driver can query the monitor for what

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you recommend to go about trying vesa. That may be what Ubuntu is doing. Turn on vesa framebuffer? Yes. Under - Device Driver -- Graphics support -- Select VESA VGA graphics support The further

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 11/18/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, it mught be useful to download the mga.o from Matrox andfollow the instructions to replace the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (if I recallthe path correctly). I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generated that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:58 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did download this driver, and when I installed, a message was generated that the version was wrong. Maybe I'll try again, and just install it anyway. I wonder if the HAL use flag needs to be set to use the driver?

Re: [gentoo-user] udev not getting unmounted at shutdown/reboot

2005-11-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/17/05, abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, A few days ago my system hung and I had to do a reboot by pressing the power button. Since then I get the following message while shutdown/reboots Remounting remaining filesystems readonly [!!] umount : udev busy - remounted read-only

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