On Friday 30 October 2009 14:05:27 Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 20:50 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4,
and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i
missed something, or ext4 is not
I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed
libs from somewhere and use ldpreload to load them into memory before
running the application. Google will help.
In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later
libs and run ldconfig before trying to
On Friday 30 October 2009 16:48:23 Philip Webb wrote:
How have others got Gentoo installed on their 1005HA's ?
-- did they all use wireless access to the Internet ?
You could try the atl1c module, which works on my wife's 1005HA, although
lspci shows an Attansic 1062 chip. Long shot maybe,
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:36 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote:
I have a cluster of Gentoo boxes I'd like to update all at once, along
with emerging specific packages to the servers simultaneously.
Does anyone have any experience(s) with a good utility for doing this?
I've seen a few scripts
My windowsXP video editing machine where I use various adobe tools to
capture and edit video, has lost use of the ohci ports, and seemingly
the usb ports as well. I've been seeing problems with those inputs
for a while and today, finally the machine simply is not `seeing' the
video cam attached
Krzysztof Poc wrote:
Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the
screen
very slowly. top shows me that X process takes up around 95% of the CPU
while I have Intel Core 2 Duo.
What's wrong with my system ?
I have the following installed:
kernel 2.6.30.7 #3
Mick wrote:
Am I the only one with dodgy glxgears? Any ideas at all?
On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Mick wrote:
I've updated xorg following all relevant instructions by gentoo devs on an
old laptop and when I run glxgears I get no graphic and pedestrian speeds:
$ glxgears
629 frames in 5.0
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the symlink follows.
It appears you are
On 10/31/2009 06:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is
required only when you want to build something
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I upgrade a kernel, I first change the symlink using eselect to
point to
On 10/31/2009 08:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely correct. It is
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:09:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the kernel you are running is not entirely
On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Krzysztof Poc wrote:
Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the
screen
very slowly. top shows me that X process takes up around 95% of the
CPU while I have Intel Core 2 Duo.
What's wrong with
On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:34:57 Dale wrote:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer
from command line?
I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track
it down on the mplayer mailing lists. If it's the
On Saturday 31 October 2009 02:46:34 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:33:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
tomorrow I shall take myself off to see my special good friend Peter
who is giving me a fantastic deal on a brand new mother of a
motorcycle. And in the afternoon I shall watch
On 10/31/2009 09:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:09:37 Harry Putnam wrote:
Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes:
The link is created only if you have the symlink USE flag enabled.
Also, Gentoo requires that the [...] symbolic link points to the
sources of the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary? Doe something look at
/usr/src/linux for files?
For example, if
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back
it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I
have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few
months but don't remember when hal went away... I do remember
On Friday 30 October 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
People send me slideshows, some of which are interesting enough to
watch. With OOO-3.0, I had to click or use NextPage for each picture
and I got no sound, and that was fine with me. Now OOO 3.1 automates
these slideshows and they really
Harry Putnam wrote:
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back
it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I
have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual the last few
months but don't remember when hal went
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:05:42 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if anyone here has used gentoo for mini-dv capture and if
so what do I need to do regarding the kernel?
It's been a few years (my current camcorder has a hard disk and uses USB
for transfer) but I don't think I built anything
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:00:35 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So, to sum it up, when you update to a new kernel, first update the
symlink (or let the ebuild take care of it), build the kernel, boot it,
*then* rebuild external modules (like ati-drivers). If you know what
you're doing, you
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:36:34 Dale wrote:
Harry Putnam wrote:
When I noticed the thread here about `hal' that started a while back
it caused me enough curiousity that i ran eix -Ic ^hal$ but found I
have no `hal' installed.
I have keep up with updates somewhat better than usual
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:06:35 Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Nikos is being kind to the document writers :-)
Thanks for saving me from the Dunce cap...hehe.
But I might yet acquire full rights to it..
So, is the symlink not really necessary?
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
each kernel you want to use it with (nvidia-drivers builds and installs a
kernel driver
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I upgrade a kernel, I first change the symlink
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you must build it twice - against
each kernel you want to use it with
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:34:57 Dale wrote:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
kmplayer can get in the middle, can you -please- test regular mplayer
from command line?
I've had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago, and we were able to track
it down on the mplayer
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also have 2.6.31-r3
installed. To install nvidia-drivers, you
Hi group,
From the gentoo docs:
Older cards such as the GeForce FX 5 series should use the 173.x
drivers, such as nvidia-drivers-173.14.15. For these cards, you should
mask =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174.00 in your
/etc/portage/package.mask file. This will prevent newer versions of
the driver
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:44:00 Maxim Wexler wrote:
Hi group,
From the gentoo docs:
Older cards such as the GeForce FX 5 series should use the 173.x
drivers, such as nvidia-drivers-173.14.15. For these cards, you should
mask =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174.00 in your
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:43:21 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 10/31/2009 11:07 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:03:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
For instance, you might be running 2.6.31-r4 and also
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I
On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not) which is why
he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit.
Speaking of which...
Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I
missed it? And if so, is there some
On Sunday 01 November 2009 00:25:55 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not) which is
why he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit.
Speaking of which...
Has the switchover to devicekit
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not)
which is why
he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit.
Speaking of which...
Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I missed it?
And
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel
On Sunday 01 November 2009 00:52:42 Dale wrote:
emerge, build, install new kernel
carry on with work
boot into new kernel at some later point
observe xdm doing nothing on-screen
curse and swear mightily
Ctrl-Alt-F1
login as root
check symlink
module-rebuild rebuild
modprobe -r
Someone posted recently about an oversight between latest version of xulrunner
in the tree and the version required by firefox. A fixed ebuild is in the
tree, but if you sync and update daily, firefox might fail to start and give
you this on the console:
$ Could not find compatible GRE between
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:20:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm a forgetful old git. In my world it usually goes like this:
emerge, build, install new kernel
carry on with work
boot into new kernel at some later point
observe xdm doing nothing on-screen
curse and swear mightily
Ctrl-Alt-F1
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or
On 10/31/2009 04:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and something else
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:29:27 Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and
Hi,
Earlier today emerge --depclean wouldn't remove db because 3
programs needed it so I rebuilt the 3 programs but it's still
complaining about php. Sometimes I'll just remove the problem package
- like db in this case - and then let an emerge -DuN @world /
revdep-rebuild fix it, but I wanted
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/31/2009 04:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do
On 10/31/2009 7:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and something else -
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:29:27 Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever
check that you don't have the ebuild listed in package.unmask
package.unmask is empty, haven't needed it yet. Only just started
stocking a fresh install.
Maxim Wexler wrote:
check that you don't have the ebuild listed in package.unmask
package.unmask is empty, haven't needed it yet. Only just started
stocking a fresh install.
Do you have a space in front of the line or something else that may
interfere with package.mask ?
You sure
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
First it failed on aclocal... I re-emerged
emerge -v sys-devel/aclocal-wrapper
Tried again and it failed on autoconf
emerge -v sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper
But that didn't help it ...
On 10/31/2009 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
...
* Failed Running autoconf !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
On 10/31/2009 06:03 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone tell from the tail of emerge -vuD system
what the trouble is with aclocal/autoconf and libxslt.
...
* Failed Running autoconf !
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
On 10/31/2009 04:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
...
* sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p4 pulled in by:
* dev-lang/php-5.2.11 needs libdb-4.6.so
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-5.2.11 USE=apache2 berkdb bzip2 cgi cli
On 10/31/2009 04:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
...
If it matters this is a PPC Mac Mini used as a MythTV backend
server...
Oops, I forgot to ask:
It may be very important -- but I don't have a clue what a MythTV
server does or what packages it depends on.
Does your server use something like
On 10/31/2009 07:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/temp/autoconf.out
* autoconf *
* PWD: /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/work/libxslt-1.1.26
* autoconf
configure.in:120: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
walt wrote:
On 10/31/2009 07:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
...
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/temp/autoconf.out
* autoconf *
* PWD: /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26/work/libxslt-1.1.26
* autoconf
configure.in:120: error: possibly undefined macro:
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, which seems solved:
Nvidia-drivers 180.60 won't compile with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31-r4 .
The problem is fixed by moving up to N-d 185.18.36-r1 (also testing).
I've just rebooted apps seem to start noticeably faster on Fluxbox.
--
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:26 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/31/2009 04:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
...
If it matters this is a PPC Mac Mini used as a MythTV backend
server...
Oops, I forgot to ask:
It may be very important -- but I don't have a clue what a MythTV
server does or
Do you have a space in front of the line or something else that may
interfere with package.mask ?
You sure you have the file as package.mask ? You know, spelled right
and all? I mention because it sounds like something I would do. lol
Dale
I guess I shouldn't feel so embarrassed then.
Confirmed
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, which seems solved:
Nvidia-drivers 180.60 won't compile with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31-r4 .
The problem is fixed by moving up to N-d 185.18.36-r1 (also testing).
Maxim Wexler wrote:
Do you have a space in front of the line or something else that may
interfere with package.mask ?
You sure you have the file as package.mask ? You know, spelled right
and all? I mention because it sounds like something I would do. lol
Dale
I guess I shouldn't
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