[gentoo-ppc-user] xorg.conf for Mac G4 mini

2009-07-15 Thread David Friedlander
Hello, all! I'm having the damnedest time getting X to run on my Mac Mini 1.25Ghz (Radeon 9200 processor). I've wasted a lot of time following various web instructions, but to no avail. One issue, of course, is the right xorg.conf file. Another one may be (in some people's opinion is)

[gentoo-user] mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I wanted mod_perl on my gentoo system. It seems to be touchy about thread safety. Well that seemed reasonable, but it failed to emerge (gentoo-speak for install from source), and left me without my favorite editor (!!!): vim. To handle thread-safety issues, I put this in /etc/package.use: #

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
More info: Even though the perl and libperl emerges seemed to go okay, they also fail on startup, with pretty much the same complaint about this Errno.pm file. On looking at that file, I see that it says it's auto-generated, and has this old 2.4 kernel string built-in. Too bad there's no hint

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: More info: Even though the perl and libperl emerges seemed to go okay, they also fail on startup, with pretty much the same complaint about this Errno.pm file.  On looking at that file, I see that it says it's

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Torsten Veller
* Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not match executable architecture (i686-linux-thread-multi-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. ^^^ Where does

[gentoo-user] X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread James
Argh... I week or so ago, I thought I had my main system stable. it borked again. So here is what I have now: kernel : 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 gcc (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 954f (ATI 4350) kde 4.2.4 evdev 2.1.3 rc-status: acpid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Torsten Vellerml...@veller.net wrote: * Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com: Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not match executable architecture (i686-linux-thread-multi-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor) at

Re: [gentoo-user] X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:43:00 + (UTC), James wrote: I'm using 'startx' to start kdm (xdm has been removed from rc auto startx starts and X session and runs~/.xinitrc, it does not start kdm. If you want to go into KDE from a console, use startkde. starting cause it hoses the system to where

[gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

2009-07-15 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I recently upgraded from amanda-2.4.5 to amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4. I think I've been able to make backups successfully: the backup reports amanda sends afterwards look reasonable. However, I've not been able to do restores. It appears that the contents of /etc/amanda/amandahosts and

[gentoo-user] Re: mod_perl is hard to set up on gentoo; this even messes up vim

2009-07-15 Thread walt
On 07/15/2009 06:22 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Torsten Vellerml...@veller.net wrote: * Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com: Errno architecture (i686-linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-kosmanor) does not match executable architecture

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:17:03 + (UTC), James wrote: What's in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput. (WW)

[gentoo-user] Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: This pretty much explains it. You are trying to use the kbd and mouse drivers, instead of letting HAL take care of it. Either add AllowEmptyInput = false or remove/comment the mouse and keyboard sections of xorg.conf. Or even move xorg.conf out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 15:49, Jameswirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Below, maybe you can whittle down my xorg.conf to what I still needs. Hours do not give me anything. A scant xorg.conf file that works is best for me(?). Here the xorg.conf file: Section ServerLayout        

[gentoo-user] Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread James
Daniel da Veiga danieldaveiga at gmail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml Yes I've read it severaltimes. everthing I try fails. No xorg.conf does not work either. I seem to get closer with hacking down the xorg.conf file, but now I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Also ... anyone have another idea how to iron this out. I've done everything suggested here in this thread but still cannot compile pycairo successfully. How about it folks... anymore suggestions on this: emerge error: [...] building 'cairo._cairo'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Still getting calls to gcc-i486

2009-07-15 Thread Heiko Wundram
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:01 -0500, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: snip So far I haven't found any instance of i486 files remaining on the system... what else might evoke that output? As I said: some Python makefile retains the reference to the (former) i486 compiler. That Makefile is

[gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: ideas? I thought I'd post my working xorg.conf with ati-drivers-9.6. It can probable be whittle down more, but it works with xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 so I done for now. thx to all that help James Section ServerLayout Identifier

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:35 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I thought I'd post my working xorg.conf with ati-drivers-9.6. It can probable be whittle down more, but it works with xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 so I done for now. thx to all that help Just FYI, I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:35 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I thought I'd post my working xorg.conf with ati-drivers-9.6. It can probable be whittle down more, but it works with xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 so I done for now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: so very wrong. From the AMD driver web site: 32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work. The ebuild also pulls in the app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:56:57 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: so very wrong. From the AMD driver web site: 32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work. yes, but that does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:16:02 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: you said 'strictly 32bit' which is absolutely and utterly wrong. Sorry, bad wording on my part. I should have said mixed since that is what the web site (and ebuild) implies. My knowledge comes strictly

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:16:02 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: you said 'strictly 32bit' which is absolutely and utterly wrong. Sorry, bad wording on my part. I should have said mixed since that is what the web site

[gentoo-user] iptables

2009-07-15 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm looking for a guide for iptables specifically for gentoo 2.6. I was also wondering if anyone was using apf Advanced Policy Firewall on a gentoo 2008.0 2.6 machine? Thanks. Dave.

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers. I also use boards with Intel embedded graphics chips. :-) They also have a strong open-source effort. In fact, I think they have the best

Re: [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem

2009-07-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers. I also use boards with Intel embedded graphics chips. :-) They also have a strong