Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! Recompile v86d with the x86emu flag on. That solved the problem for me. Greetings! -- Jorge Martínez López [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgeml.net

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! Again, it is not working. The relevant error in /var/log/messages is: uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x209, err=0) In the mean time I recompiled the kernel (2.6.25-gentoo-r7). I will reemerge v86d once again, to see if it fixes it. Greetings! -- Jorge Martínez López [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! Sorry for the monologue. It appears to be a complex issue. I hope someone with more experience can solve this. Here come some links with interesting info: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226107 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/7/241 Greetings! -- Jorge Martínez López [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hi! Again, it is not working. The relevant error in /var/log/messages is: uvesafb: mode switch failed (eax=0x209, err=0) I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was working. I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC and rc.conf

2008-07-27 Thread Mick
2008/7/27 Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:09:45 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question is how can I recover and make sure any new config file has been activated? (If your rc.conf is totally wack, remerging openrc should fix it [and possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 26. Juli 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X. If I try to use nvidia I get a blank screen and the machine locks. I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before it wrote anything. Suggestions

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hello! 2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was working. I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the boot splash enabled right at boot without any delay). If you're on x86 or AMD64 you might

[gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hello! 2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it was working. I switched from uvesafb to vesafb at some point (to have the boot splash enabled right at boot without any delay). If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

2008-07-27 Thread William Kenworthy
I went through the kernel options turning everything on for console and now I have it back. BillK On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:42 +0200, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hello! 2008/7/27 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] I was always getting that one too, but other than this message, it

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2008.0 1st reboot: kernel panic...

2008-07-27 Thread Jarry
Hi, I finished 1st part of gentoo installation up to rebooting the system (10.d in handbook), so I rebooted, but I get some kernel panic error. I can not scroll screen back, so I can put here only messages I can see: _ (some registry values I'm too

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2008.0 1st reboot: kernel panic...

2008-07-27 Thread Dale
Jarry wrote: Hi, I finished 1st part of gentoo installation up to rebooting the system (10.d in handbook), so I rebooted, but I get some kernel panic error. I can not scroll screen back, so I can put here only messages I can see: _ (some registry

RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Budd, Tracy
Card GeForce 8600GT. nvidia-drivers 173.14.09. -Original Message- From: Jesús Guerrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 7/27/2008 12:10 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work Hi, Please, let us know the

RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Budd, Tracy
removed wfb, xtrap, record. Still didn't work. No nvidiafb in kernel. Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? Thank you. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 7/27/2008 4:57 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]

RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? Nope -- NVidia forum. I don't have a URL at hand. Do a Google search This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? Nope -- NVidia forum. I don't have a URL at hand. Do a Google search http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 27. Juli 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote: removed wfb, xtrap, record. Still didn't work. No nvidiafb in kernel. Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list? Thank you. -Tracy http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=14 you should search the forum first - and read the sticky's.

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC and rc.conf

2008-07-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
Mick: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you use the --noconfmem option when emerging openrc so that it replaces the config file no matter what with the new default one. Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you Mick. I have followed your advice and

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan E. Davis wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Somehow the equery depends seems very unhappy. python-updater hasn't run but equery is doing this: dragonfly ~ # equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 [ Searching for packages depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Qian Qiao
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-07-27, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

2008-07-27 Thread Neil Walker
Budd, Tracy wrote: Card GeForce 8600GT. nvidia-drivers 173.14.09. That's exactly the combination I have on this machine (and several others). No issues here so it suggests to me you have a configuration problem. Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and

[gentoo-user] --depclean and python. Safe to remove??

2008-07-27 Thread Dale
Hi, Just doing a little house cleaning here. Sort of curious about this tho: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p --depclean SNIP the usual warning Calculating dependencies... done! Checking for lib consumers... Assigning files to packages... These are the packages that would be unmerged:

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:55:23 +0100 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a little OT but I love that old board so much I had to chime in with my $0.02. Is that the game? I have an old abit bp6 on loan out to a friend as a workstation. two pentium IIs or pentium II class

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python. Safe to remove??

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just doing a little house cleaning here. Sort of curious about this tho: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p --depclean SNIP dev-lang/python selected: 2.4.4-r13 protected: none omitted: 2.5.2-r5 SNIP [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python. Safe to remove??

2008-07-27 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just doing a little house cleaning here. Sort of curious about this tho: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p --depclean SNIP dev-lang/python selected: 2.4.4-r13 protected: none omitted:

[gentoo-user] DNS Server Patches

2008-07-27 Thread Dan Farrell
The recently released (early july) advisory on the DNS exploits discovered earlier this year have caused a bit of stir on the BIND mailing lists, and rightly so. Everybody on board with this one? CERT Bulletin: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113 Dan Kiersky's own description, and

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G]

2008-07-27 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: The radeon driver is in the kernel/xorg-X11. The ati-drivers package is closed source, proprietary stuff. did you do an lsmod to see what module is running? Sorry for the delay Yep I forget about those video driver being part of the kernel

[gentoo-user] prevent resolv.conf generation by dhcp

2008-07-27 Thread »Q«
Since I connect to wireless APs with nameservers not patched against the cache poisoning vulnerability, I'd like to stick with using the opendns.com servers for a while. I'm using wpa_supplicant and openresolv. What's the best way for me to keep my resolv.conf from being overwritten when I

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent resolv.conf generation by dhcp

2008-07-27 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:23 -0500 »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I connect to wireless APs with nameservers not patched against the cache poisoning vulnerability, I'd like to stick with using the opendns.com servers for a while. I'm using wpa_supplicant and openresolv. What's the best

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually quite simple: step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
A more conservative approach (which shouldn't break anything AFAIK, but will take longer) is; 1. Run python-updater to move everything from 2.3 to 2.4 2. Uninstall python 2.3 3. Do your full emerge -uvD to update to python-updater 0.5 and python 2.5 4. (optional, you could to it later)

[gentoo-user] Re: prevent resolv.conf generation by dhcp [solved]

2008-07-27 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:58:10 -0400 Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:34:23 -0500 »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I connect to wireless APs with nameservers not patched against the cache poisoning vulnerability, I'd like to stick with using the opendns.com

[gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

2008-07-27 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'm having fits about dbus, at least that's what I think? Firefox 3, epiphany, and firefox 3 bin all do this. Attach any file (as any user, on KDE or Gnome) and firefox immediately crashes. Root can attach files. Some background. Today I upgraded these before I noticed this problem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2008.0 1st reboot: kernel panic...

2008-07-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Jul 2008, at 11:59, Jarry wrote: ... What is going wrong? I do not have any idea and frankly this is the first time I see kernel panic message... You don't say if this is your first Gentoo installation, so please excuse me if my suggestion is patronising, but a kernel panic on