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[gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothing audio related shows up. Does this mean my soundcard wasnt detected? Could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks!! CR -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6, 2)...newbie needs help
On Sat, May 14, 2005 6:49 pm, Charles Read said: I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothing audio related shows up. Does this mean my soundcard wasnt detected? lspci shows nothing on my iBook G4 either, but the option you need is SND_POWWERMAC, in Device Drivers-Sound-Alsa-ALSA Powermac devices. -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6, 2)...newbie needs help
Thanks for the write back! I compiled that as part of the kernel and not a module, yet nothing is detected at startup and /proc/asound/cards shows nothing... how did you get it working? How can I test to make sure that it is in the kernel? or does the fact that were having this convo say that? Thanks bunches!!! CR On Sat, May 14, 2005 6:49 pm, Charles Read said: I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothing audio related shows up. Does this mean my soundcard wasnt detected? lspci shows nothing on my iBook G4 either, but the option you need is SND_POWWERMAC, in Device Drivers-Sound-Alsa-ALSA Powermac devices. -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
Try http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ Bill Roberts On 17:45 Fri 13 May , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the excellent advice, Jonathan. Yes, I figured I'd have to move out of mbox sooner or later. I wonder if there are tools to convert mbox files to maildir format - I would guess yes. Michael On Fri, 13 May 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have Postfix running and I happily read email on my server, but I'd like to read my email on my IMAP/SSL cellphone client. I've seen Courier, UW, and Cyrus, and perhaps there are others. Any recommendations, for or against? Currently I'm the only user, but I host about a dozen friend's websites, and perhaps someday they too would like email, so I'd like to be able to grow into that, but I don't feel I need a database to support a huge number of clients. I support these virtual domains directly from Postfix. Any other things I should be thinking about, or aware of? Thanks in advance, Michael Courier-IMAP is pretty easy to deal with. Cyrus can get.. uh.. out of hand, real easily. It's overkill for many situations. the guy that wrote courier is also very active on the courier-users mailing list too, which is a big plus. uw-imap the mbox format in general are outdated sometimes dangerous, imo. back in the days where emails were nice tiny, it worked a lot better.. pgpHVtlvvPDCE.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3
I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overriding gcc version used to compile the kernel and maybe it had to do with some make.conf flag. I spent some time googling, searching gentoo forums (cannot seem to search for version numbers there) and gentoo wiki but I havent turned up much. Surely my searching skills have gone bad, I cannot imagine being the first to ask this question. What I am asking is: 0. Is there a HOWTO that I have blatantly missed? 1. Does the kernel compile with gcc and is it stable? 2. Is there a gentoo way to override compiler version used for the kernel compilation. If not but it is perfectly ok to compile the kernel with gcc 3.4 how does one get the kernel compile system to use particular gcc version? 3. Are there other packages that override the default gcc, maybe like ? Thanks, Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
Hi, I was most disgusted to find that to watch a dvd I rented last night I had to boot to doze. Luckily I just bought a new drive and had the OEM powerdvd, cos I haven't tried to do anything with a dvd in years under doze. I get the following error message from dvdrip 0.50.18: ... libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access [tcprobe] DVD image/device libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2812127 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 2 (VTS_02_0.IFO). Can't open the title 2 info file. (probe_dvd.c) failed to probe DVD title information [tcprobe] failed to probe source It may be invalid but powerdvd certainly manages to read it no probs. The problems started a couple of weeks ago but I thought they were related to my aging dvd drive. One gets similar messages (or vaguely anyway) when disks are scratched or dirty, and I also had problems with the head on the other drive (I think). It is not just transcode that has problems - neither xine nor mplayer can play the dvds (they around 1/2-2/3 through and then bail), and most annoyingly of all, a dumpstream on mplayer exits about 4/5s of the way through the movie reporting success! Argh! I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds between reads - clearly not an option for the last 1 gig! Seeing the problems I tried (on machine 1) remerging and the merging ~x86 versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss but no change. Any help or even similar stories would be most appreciated. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Peter Gordon wrote: My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build everything into the kernel, and I've not needed to use hdparm. There's a whole lot more one can do with hdparm. What the kernel _can_ do is enable dma only. hdparm is used to set other performance enhancing options. My '/etc/conf.d/hdparm' contains 'hda_args=-d1A1m16u1a64' which means: -d1 - enables dma for this drive (to ensure dma is set). -A1 - enables the IDE drive's read-lookahead feature. -m1 - set sector count to 16. This reads 16 sectors per interrupt instead of one. Some drives run slower with this. -u1 - set interrupt-unmask for the drive. Can be dangerous with some drive/controller combinations. Allows the kernel to service other i/o interrupts, afaicu. -a64 - set sector count for filesystem read-ahead to 64 sectors. A cache-mechanism. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3
Rumen Yotov wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overriding gcc version used to compile the kernel and maybe it had to do with some make.conf flag. I spent some time googling, searching gentoo forums (cannot seem to search for version numbers there) and gentoo wiki but I havent turned up much. Surely my searching skills have gone bad, I cannot imagine being the first to ask this question. What I am asking is: 0. Is there a HOWTO that I have blatantly missed? 1. Does the kernel compile with gcc and is it stable? 2. Is there a gentoo way to override compiler version used for the kernel compilation. If not but it is perfectly ok to compile the kernel with gcc 3.4 how does one get the kernel compile system to use particular gcc version? 3. Are there other packages that override the default gcc, maybe like ? Thanks, Eugene. Hi, GCC is slotted so you can have both 3.3.5 3.4.3 (i have them too). See gcc-config package which is a dependency of GCC-any-version. Just run 'gcc-config -l' in order to list/see all available versions, gcc-config -c' outputs the active one (gcc-config --help). To change the active gcc use: gcc-config 1|2|3|..6| ..9 depending on how many gcc versions/sub-vers. are there. Didn't had any problems with both 3.3.53.4.3, IIRC there are some new CFLAGS in gcc-3.4.X (mtune ?) which could be put in 'make.conf' but overly there're no problems with any of them. For about half an year 3.4.x is stable for me (kernel too). HTH. Rumen Thanks, I made a mistake. I do have gcc 3.4.3 set as default and it is being used to compile the kernel. When I checked which compiler was being used during the kernel compile I ssh'ed into a gcc 3.3.5 machine to test it so I thought it was switching back to 3.3.5... Tragic really. :) Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
Antoine schreef: I thought it might be a problem with the ugly state of my portage but I get a slightly different problem on a recently installed laptop running gentoo ~x86. On the laptop a dumpstream gets most of the way through and then starts transferring bytes about 8 at a time - with about 30 seconds between reads - clearly not an option for the last 1 gig! Seeing the problems I tried (on machine 1) remerging and the merging ~x86 versions of libdvdread and libdvdcss but no change. Any help or even similar stories would be most appreciated. Is it possible that these problems come from /usr/src/linux pointing to the ck sources instead of the 2.6.8 gentoo std that I am now running? Should I try to recompile? Cheers Antoine I don't so much see how that could be involved. But you say these are rented DVDs? Are they new films (such as Kingdom of Heaven, rather than older films such as Fargo)? The causes I see as more likely than the kernel link are: 1) dirt (rented DVDs pass through a lot of hands) 2) new encryption that libdvdcss cannot handle. After all, that regstered encoding copy-protection business that the media providers have been pushing/implementing (I don't follow RIAA/MPAA news that closely) is certainly more likely to be on DVDs available for rental, since they know that it's a source to rip DVDs. So that's where I'd put it if I thought it was important to make it (meaning on DVDs destined for rental outlets). Plus, you *played* it under PowerDVD, but you didn't try to *rip* it under Windows-- I suspect that it wouldn't work there either, and that PowerDVD and other Windows players have the facility to bypass the copy protection for reading, but that the DVD itself is copy-proofed against both Windows and Linux tools. Clearly some of them are-- I just read (not a week or two ago) about a French claimant who won (!!) a case claiming that DVD copy protection violated his privacy rights (he was trying to copy a DVD to a video tape-- the story is at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154663,00.html ). So clearly the technology is in use. Perhaps it's bitten you in the figurative butt. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out supposedly unmerged stuff
Walter Dnes wrote: Alternate subject The Ghost in the Machine. I unmerged vixie-cron and emerged dcron. [...] vixie-cron | rm /etc/init.d/vixie-cron Unmerging vixie-cron didn't remove this script, as it falls under the /etc CONFIG_PROTECT. To avoid this, some people add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in make.conf. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] / is full
James wrote: I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore I guess this is not a good file to remove? Kernel images are only this big: -rw--- 1 root root 2298699 Apr 30 00:17 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6B the kcore file is killing a 500 M partion. Ideas on what to do? James As sayd ignore it or understud it, you can look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt . kcore Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4)) another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build it (and for this google is your friend ;) ciao francesco -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (on his website)]. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS Stopped Playing
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:59:57PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:50:14PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Recently xmms stopped working. [...] Does it simply not produce audio output (but show the loaded file and activity in the level meter), or does it even not show the loaded file? No activity, does not show the loaded file. Here's what solved a problem for me. I posted this email in early April, so my problem was around mid-March... == I emerge/updated world a couple of weeks ago. xmms 1.2.10 no longer handled pls streaming. It wouldn't even respond to the old hack of downloading the .pls file and opening it on your drive with xxms. The correspondence on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85165 has the following fix, which worked for me... Step 1) emerge xmms-mpg123 Step 2) - open up xmms and go through the following menu hierarchy - Options = Preferences = Audio I/O plugins - select the MAD MPEG decoder plugin - uncheck the enabled button on the far right, half-way down the menu dialog - click on OK == -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition
Hello, I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though that it is mounted readonly. Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel
Hello! I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and rebooted the system. But booting stops after: --- Loading gentoo... BIOS data check successful --- I have black screen. Monitor lamp is green (ie. is on). Computer seeses hanged. After that booted from live CD, and returned last changes but still have the same problem. Is there any hit to solve this problem. Thanks. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:06 +0300, Panos Laganakos wrote: Hello, I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though that it is mounted readonly. Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? Read/write support for ntfs is only partially implemented and is a separate kernel option. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for details. -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition
Writing to NTFS partitions is not recommended - what writing that is supported is very limited. Only over writing files and to exactly the same size iirc. If you need to share data between Win and Lin, a FAT32 partition (or network drive) is probably your best bet. -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! Panos Laganakos wrote: Hello, I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though that it is mounted readonly. Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Zoneminder
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:11 +, James wrote: Hello, Portage lists version 0.9.12. The Zoneminder web site says this version was issued in Jun3 2003. Version 1.21.0 as being available since March 2003. Is it safe to assume that Zoneminder has been orphaned (i.e. no maintainer)? How would I know if a package is not being maintained? Bugzilla did not seem to help in this regard James There seems to be no metadata.xml file in the zoneminder directory, so it is possible that it has been abandoned. You're best bet will be to create a bug and assign it to www-misc. -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Re: / is full
On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build it (and for this google is your friend ;) kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal to the amount of RAM in your computer. *always* [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 939528192 May 14 15:24 /proc/kcore [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 15544601433900 120560 0 125208 753836 -/+ buffers/cache: 554856 999604 Swap: 250952 0 250952 Are you sure? Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-rc4, Compiled #1 Sun May 8 14:00:53 CEST 2005 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
1) dirt (rented DVDs pass through a lot of hands) cleaned with special stuff - if doze can get the data then linux should be able to too. 2) new encryption that libdvdcss cannot handle. After all, that regstered encoding copy-protection business that the media providers have been pushing/implementing (I don't follow RIAA/MPAA news that closely) is certainly more likely to be on DVDs available for rental, since they know that it's a source to rip DVDs. So that's where I'd put it if I thought it was important to make it (meaning on DVDs destined for rental outlets). possible, but highly unlikely. One of the dvds was quite old and I have successfully played/ripped dvds of that vintage. Plus it would make older dvd players no longer work. Plus, you *played* it under PowerDVD, but you didn't try to *rip* it under Windows-- I suspect that it wouldn't work there either, and that PowerDVD and other Windows players have the facility to bypass the copy protection for reading, but that the DVD itself is copy-proofed against both Windows and Linux tools. hmmm. If the player can get the stream then so can I. The problem is that neither mplayer nor xinelibs can get the stream. It very much appears to be a dvdread or dvdcss problem but you never know. They are just encrypted files, and the decryption software in powerdvd or libdvdcss should be able to decode it. Clearly some of them are-- I just read (not a week or two ago) about a French claimant who won (!!) a case claiming that DVD copy protection violated his privacy rights (he was trying to copy a DVD to a video tape-- the story is at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154663,00.html ). And guess where I live! Apparently there was some talk of encrypted dvds no longer legally being able to be distributed here. There is a law that says that once an author has distributed a work they must allow copy for private personal use. That means that if I rent a dvd I am *legally* allowed to copy it! Or that seems to be how the courts have interpreted it. Certainly no redistribution allowed, but copy for personal use seems to be OK. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full
On Sat, May 14, 2005 2:26 pm, Francesco Talamona said: On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal to the amount of RAM in your computer. *always* [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 939528192 May 14 15:24 /proc/kcore [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 15544601433900 120560 0 125208 753836 -/+ buffers/cache: 554856 999604 Swap: 250952 0 250952 That's how I understood it, and I've never seen it to be any different. Maybe someone can explain this, but yours is the first system I've seen where the figures don't match. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On 5/13/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:18:22 +0100, Russ Brown wrote: Say I run emerge -pvD world, and ten packages pop out. I look at the list and decide that I want to emerge all but one of the things on the list. How do I go about this without running an emerge command with nine packages passed to emerge, and causing the world file pollution described in this thread? emerge --oneshot package1 package2... -- Neil Bothwick Neil, Sorry - this is a bit long but there's really only two issues - why mozilla and - why two versions of libgtkhtml? Thanks. I've taken one machine and worked on getting it cleaned up. This machine is farily new and has a much more modest /var/lib/portage/world file with about 125 entries. Before doing the --depclean step emerge tells me *** WARNING *** : emerge --update --deep --newuse world TO VERIFY *** WARNING *** : SANITY IN THIS REGARD. So I've gone through and made sure everything is updated, but I'm left with two curious problems: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug 382 kB [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.8 +crypt -debug +gnome +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -postgres +ssl -xinerama -xprint 30,193 kB Total size of downloads: 30,576 kB dragonfly ~ # The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? dragonfly ~ # cat /var/lib/portage/world | grep mozilla www-client/mozilla-firefox dragonfly ~ # The second problem is libgtkhtml. The results looked very strange until I discovered that there are two versions installed: dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp libgtkhtml These are the packages that I would unmerge: gnome-extra/libgtkhtml selected: 2.6.0 3.2.5 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. dragonfly ~ # Some commands want to update 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, while others want to reinstall 3.2.5, and still others don't want to do anything! dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug 382 kB [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.8 +crypt -debug +gnome +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -postgres +ssl -xinerama -xprint 30,193 kB Total size of downloads: 30,576 kB dragonfly ~ # dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse libgtkhtml These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot libgtkhtml These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.2.5 -debug 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # Very strange to me! How should I handle this one? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug 382 kB [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.8 +crypt -debug +gnome +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -postgres +ssl -xinerama -xprint 30,193 kB Total size of downloads: 30,576 kB dragonfly ~ # The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? Add the -t flag to print the dependency tree. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 [2.6.0] -accessibility -debug 382 kB [ebuild N] www-client/mozilla-1.7.8 +crypt -debug +gnome +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -postgres +ssl -xinerama -xprint 30,193 kB Total size of downloads: 30,576 kB dragonfly ~ # The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? Something depends on mozilla. I think the standard way to find out what is to use --tree. The second problem is libgtkhtml. The results looked very strange until I discovered that there are two versions installed: dragonfly ~ # emerge -Cp libgtkhtml These are the packages that I would unmerge: gnome-extra/libgtkhtml selected: 2.6.0 3.2.5 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. dragonfly ~ # Some commands want to update 2.6.0 to 2.6.3, while others want to reinstall 3.2.5, and still others don't want to do anything! SLOTs. Some packages depend on gtkhtml-2.6.*, while others depend on 3.*. This is because they have different APIs and libtool version majors; and as such they can be installed in parallel and are given different SLOTs accordingly to reflect this. If later it turns out that the packages that required a particular gtkhtml version no longer do so, depclean will offer to unmerge the unused versions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On 5/14/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? Add the -t flag to print the dependency tree. Thanks. I'm surprised that the Gnome ebuid depends on Mozilla. I have Firefox installed. I would have hoped that would be enough. I'm looking at installing Gnome-light instead but I'm not clear if the emerge -C gnome step will uninstall everything and cause me to have to completely rebuild all parts of Gnome. Thanks for the -t idea. With best regards, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AMD64: vanilla-sources and the risk of using them
I *think* I know what they are, what risk do I run by using them? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel
On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and rebooted the system. But booting stops after: --- Loading gentoo... BIOS data check successful --- I have black screen. Monitor lamp is green (ie. is on). Computer seeses hanged. After that booted from live CD, and returned last changes but still have the same problem. What does the boot config in grub.conf look like? What is your kernel config? (/usr/src/linux/.config) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encrypted dvds no longer correctly decrypted under gentoo
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Antoine wrote: possible, but highly unlikely. One of the dvds was quite old and I have successfully played/ripped dvds of that vintage. Plus it would make older dvd players no longer work. That's right - some of us may recall the early release of Celine Dion's copy-protection CD that refused to play and jammed in Apple Mac CD drives... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? Add the -t flag to print the dependency tree. Thanks. I'm surprised that the Gnome ebuid depends on Mozilla. I have Firefox installed. I would have hoped that would be enough. I'm looking at installing Gnome-light instead but I'm not clear if the emerge -C gnome step will uninstall everything and cause me to have to completely rebuild all parts of Gnome. emerge -C gnome will only remove the gnome meta-ebuild that causes the other items to be installed. You will then be able to install gnome-light quite happily, without recompiling the packages you have already installed. The reason for the Mozilla dependency is that Epiphany uses the Gecko (Mozilla) rendering engine and there are currently problems with other applications using the rendering engine supplied with Firefox. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86872 for more information if you're interested in this. Hope this helps, -- Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2005 2:26 pm, Francesco Talamona said: On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal to the amount of RAM in your computer. *always* [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 939528192 May 14 15:24 /proc/kcore [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 15544601433900 120560 0 125208 753836 -/+ buffers/cache: 554856 999604 Swap: 250952 0 250952 That's how I understood it, and I've never seen it to be any different. Maybe someone can explain this, but yours is the first system I've seen where the figures don't match. That is also the way I understand it. A simple google search turns up lots of info, consider: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2003-08/msg00093.html http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/slinux/node57.html -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF pgpVbqWETnxrZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
My understanding is that the kernel will automagically configure DMA as appropriate if you build support for the IDE controller statically, but hdparm is needed to initialize DMA stuff if you build your IDE controller's driver as a module. I'm not certain though. I tend to build everything into the kernel, and I've not needed to use hdparm. There's a whole lot more one can do with hdparm. What the kernel _can_ do is enable dma only. hdparm is used to set other performance enhancing options. My '/etc/conf.d/hdparm' contains 'hda_args=-d1A1m16u1a64' which means: -d1 - enables dma for this drive (to ensure dma is set). -A1 - enables the IDE drive's read-lookahead feature. -m1 - set sector count to 16. This reads 16 sectors per interrupt instead of one. Some drives run slower with this. -u1 - set interrupt-unmask for the drive. Can be dangerous with some drive/controller combinations. Allows the kernel to service other i/o interrupts, afaicu. -a64 - set sector count for filesystem read-ahead to 64 sectors. A cache-mechanism. Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error with rc-update
Hi, Everytime i run rc-update or do a /etc/init.d/xxx status i get this error ... I have no idea where to start for solving this. /sbin/runscript.sh: line 1: CLOCK: command not found PAtrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: / is full
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build it (and for this google is your friend ;) kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal to the amount of RAM in your computer. Well after googling and reading have the night, I figured that one out... Amazingly I could find little formal documentation on kcore, in fact it is an image of the ram cat /proc/kcore was my final proof of satisfaction. (sometimes I have to learn things the hard way...) TMy problem is the /root/.ccache dir keeps filling up. I keep deleting it. Not sure how to tame this demon.. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] black screen (or freeze) at boot up after recompiling kernel
Thanks. I'm using lilo. Now I recompiled kernel again and did #lilo After that I'm able to boot the system. It means the clue was in lilo? askar On 5/14/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, askar ... wrote: I made a change (checked out the driver on net card) in kernel, recompiled, copied the bzImage and .config to /boot as usual and rebooted the system. But booting stops after: --- Loading gentoo... BIOS data check successful --- I have black screen. Monitor lamp is green (ie. is on). Computer seeses hanged. After that booted from live CD, and returned last changes but still have the same problem. What does the boot config in grub.conf look like? What is your kernel config? (/usr/src/linux/.config) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
In an attempt to clean up my newly installed and get everything back to default as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world. The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On May 13, 2005, at 6:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I figured I'd have to move out of mbox sooner or later. I wonder if there are tools to convert mbox files to maildir format - I would guess yes. Udoubtedly so, but it's easiest just to add your new IMAP account to the email client on which you access your old mboxes. You can thrn just drag drop messages to the server and delete the old POP3 accounts. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
Tom Holly, thanks for the responses. On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I'm surprised that the Gnome ebuid depends on Mozilla. I have Firefox installed. I would have hoped that would be enough. The gnome metapackage includes epiphany, which does depend on Mozilla. Evolution (also included) might depend on Mozilla as well. I'm looking at installing Gnome-light instead but I'm not clear if the emerge -C gnome step will uninstall everything and cause me to have to completely rebuild all parts of Gnome. No, it won't uninstall everything. In fact, it won't uninstall anything except the meta-build itself. It's kind of annoying, as I just did this myself, and still don't know how to clean my system of more GNOME cruft than the obvious (Epiphany, Mozilla, Evolution and Evolution-data-server). Right. I'm going to take the cruft part slowly over the next couple of days. There's no reason to rush that part as all it does is slow down emerge world operations which I won't be doing immediately. Like you I've removed Epiphany which took care of Mozilla, and Evolution. I guess I need to get rid of the data-server part also. But in any case, I think that what uninstalling the metapackage does is frees the underlying packages, so you *can* uninstall them, without having your next emerge -u world try to drag Mozilla, Epiphany, et al back in (because the metapackage depends on them). Hope this helps. Very much so. Thanks! - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full
Peter Ruskin wrote: $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1036512 990012 46500 0 112992 559844 -/+ buffers/cache: 317176 719336 Swap: 2104432 1388281965604 You guys are using HIGHMEM, aren't you? You must be in order to utilize that 1gb of RAM :) -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
Edit /usr/portage/media-libs/lcms/lcms-1.13.ebuild and change the line that says 'elibtoolize' to 'libtoolize --copy --force' and try again. That should fix it. A quick search of forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) and bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) would have given you the same answer. Tim Drew Tomlinson wrote: In an attempt to clean up my newly installed and get everything back to default as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world. The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge World - lcms Fails
On 5/14/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an attempt to clean up my newly installed and get everything back to default as much as possible, I'm running 'emerge --emptytree world. The build failed on lcms-1.13. Here's the output: *** Gentoo sanity check failed! *** *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.16, ltmain.sh = 1.5) *** Please run: libtoolize --copy --force OK, I did 'cd /var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.13/work/lcms-1.13' and ran 'libtoolize --copy --force'. When subsequent 'emerge lcms' commands failed, I read the emerge man page. It seemed that 'emerge --resume lcms' would be appropriate after doing the libtoolize thing again. However, it failed with the same output. How can I resolve this issue? And once resolved, is there anyway to resume the 'emerge --emptytree world' or should I just start over. Thanks, Drew Drew, There are reports on this in Bugzilla as well as a masked fix. I would have recommended ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv lcms but now that you've done the force step I'm not sure what you should do. In the future I'd recommend against anything that uses strong words like force just based on how much trouble that can cause on other distros. Maybe you can still add lcms ~x86 to package.keywords and be OK but you'll want someone better than me to tell you yes or no on that one. - Mark -- Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse Magic Tricks, DVDs, Videos, Books, More! http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as Knoppix. [..] I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda. Here is my screen shot :) Sat May 14 12:52 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # Again, it uses bash commands, so I would have to show you what an x terminal or a virtual terminal looks like with some typing in it. Perhaps these will help: Directory of Linux Bash Commands: http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ Gentoo install instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml The Gentoo Installation CDs are bootable CDs which contain a self-sustained Gentoo environment. They allow you to boot Linux from the CD. During the boot process your hardware is detected and the appropriate drivers are loaded. They are maintained by Gentoo developers. -the handbook, 2c I'm somewhat familiar with knoppix. when the handbook says self-sustained do they mean live, like knoppix? Yes, they are what I call live CDs, since they both run from CD and RAM. The only difference is, with Knoppix, you can install Gentoo (or Debian SID) from an x environment. With the Gentoo install, you are limited to 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. In Knoppix, you have 3 spare virtual terminals and one x session in which you can open as many x terminals as you wish. I'm not sure about the Gentoo install CD (I built mine either under a running Fedora Core 1 or using Knoppix. I pre-partitioned my disk first with the fdisk utility, then I installed WindowsXP, then my other distros (I quad boot Windows XP, Fedora Cores 1 and 3, and Debian Sid) and used grub for the bootloader. Here is how I started, and this all takes root privileges: # Make mountpoints and format partitions. mkdir /mnt/gentoo mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot mkswap /dev/hdb2 swapon mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr mkreiserfs /dev/hdb5 mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/usr mkdir /mnt/gentoo/opt mkreiserfs /dev/hdb6 mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/opt mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var mkreiserfs /dev/hdb7 mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/gentoo/var mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/home mkdir /mnt/gentoo/pub mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/pub cd /mnt/gentoo tar -xvjpf /pub/downloads/tars/gentoo/stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2 mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile # First emerges emerge system emerge app-portage/gentoolkit emerge app-portage/esearch eupdatedb Then, emerge (i.e download, compile and install, a Gentoo bash command most other distros lack) the other stuff you want. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: vanilla-sources and the risk of using them
On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan schreef: I *think* I know what they are, what risk do I run by using them? If you think there's a risk, then I don't think you know what they are :-) . The vanilla sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org. No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sources) or optimizations/patches (as you would find in ck-sources) and no bleeding edge patches (as you would find in mm-sources). The kernel doesn't get any more risk-free than vanilla-sources, because if those sources are broken then Linux is broken. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I've always used gentoo-dev-sources (now gentoo-sources, correct?) because I was under the impression that they were optimized for my hardware (specifically, amd64). If that's true, then I guess the risk I was referring to was the exposure created by not having that. Am I wrong? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full
On Sat, 14 May 2005 18:56:11 +0300, Matan Peled wrote: You guys are using HIGHMEM, aren't you? You must be in order to utilize that 1gb of RAM :) I was wondering the same. Both have the exact same size for kcore, even though they have different amounts of physical RAM. The figure for kcore looks rather close to the amount of memory you get on a 1GB+ machine without HIGHMEM -- Neil Bothwick Locutous for Pontiac: Excitment is irrelivent. pgpSRoQCwMAyu.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothing audio related shows up. Does this mean my soundcard wasnt detected? Could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks!! CR -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ALSA on my PowerBookG4(6,2)...newbie needs help
Hey everybody! I just installed Gentoo on my PBG4, it is 1000MHz and about a year old. I used genkernel to make my kernel so according to the ALSA Howto on Gentoo.org I should have sound support. I have made sure that my USE variable contains 'alsa' but when I do a 'lspci | grep -i audio' nothing audio related shows up. Does this mean my soundcard wasnt detected? Could somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks!! CR -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On 5/13/05, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 21:10 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Something about IMAP in an unrelated thread] Please stop thread hijacking. ... The usenet archives, via google, intermingle this thread with some questions I had. That doesn't make sense, since they apparently have different subject lines and just breeds confusion. Since it was my thread which you hijacked, Michael, I'm entitled to re-iterate don't do it, and I won't say please. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed
Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K Nice... Any idea how to pull this off with S/ATA? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
Gentlemen: Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard with the i810 integrated graphics device. I can see there is no /dev/mouse0 or /dev/agpgart on the Gentoo partition as there is on the Fedora partition, so part of the installation is incomplete. I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional Fedora X installation. When I invoke, startx, I get two errors. One has to do with the missing /dev/agpgart and the other has to do with the missing /dev/mouse0. I did try to follow the X Server Configuration Howto at gentoo.org with 'emerge xorg-x11', 'env-update', 'xorgconfig' and others, but I obviously missed a step and my naivety is showing a little bit. What installation step have I missed that precluded Gentoo from creating these two device nodes (and perhaps some others) that keep me from getting to the next step, an X windows screen (forget about KDE for now, I would be happy just to get a pointer moving around on the screen). Charles Krinke -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:13, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional Fedora X installation. So that config is wrong for this distro. Try running the xorgconfig program and make your own config file for this distro. Good luck, Mark Dear Mark: I started out with running xorgconfig and the result is the same. It's only this morning that I tried the xorg.conf from a different partition on this computer. I have figured out the mouse and it doesnt appear to be a problem anymore. Its the difference between /dev/mouse and /dev/input/mouse. Its this agpgart stuff that has me puzzled. I think the key issue is I dont quite know enough to properly craft an xorg.conf. Basically, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to get myself out of this quicksand. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Not Available on 2005.0 LiveCD
Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: Apparently current kernel configurations (make menuconfig) don't have the Linux equivalent of the *BSD adv(4) driver. Try: Code maturity level options - [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers Device Drivers - SCSI device support - * SCSI device support SCSI low-level drivers - * AdvanSys SCSI support -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: vanilla-sources and the risk of using them
Yea, if I understand you right, your wrong. Vanilla-sources is optimized for your computer as well. On 5/14/05, Michael Haan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always used gentoo-dev-sources (now gentoo-sources, correct?) because I was under the impression that they were optimized for my hardware (specifically, amd64). If that's true, then I guess the risk I was referring to was the exposure created by not having that. Am I wrong? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
On 5/14/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:13, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/14/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional Fedora X installation. So that config is wrong for this distro. Try running the xorgconfig program and make your own config file for this distro. Good luck, Mark Dear Mark: I started out with running xorgconfig and the result is the same. It's only this morning that I tried the xorg.conf from a different partition on this computer. I have figured out the mouse and it doesnt appear to be a problem anymore. Its the difference between /dev/mouse and /dev/input/mouse. Its this agpgart stuff that has me puzzled. I think the key issue is I dont quite know enough to properly craft an xorg.conf. Basically, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to get myself out of this quicksand. Charles Yes, it's hard at first. I admit that. Heck, I still look pretty goofy after 2-3 years but Gentoo runs great for me almost no matter what I do to mess it up. I want to encourage you to use the Gentoo docs and ask questions. Follow the docs **religously** and things will work out. Go step by step. The docs didn't tell you to get a file from a different distro. They tell you to run xorgconfig so let's do that and get it working. FYI - In my laptop (where I'm writing this) my xorg.conf file has no entries for agp at all. I do not think it's totally necessary to have that. If you want it later then you can add it in. Just work to get X going in a simple setup first. if any of this is being complicated by using genkernel than that's a bit beyond me since I do not use it. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird
Its the equivalent of the windows format c: G. On Sat, 14 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. While cfdisk can be used to reset your Thunderbird configuration to default, I'd recommend a somewhat less extreme approach :-O -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] getting the tvout to work with MSI nvidia geforce 4 mx 440
Hi, I have been looking about and found a couple of good things - unfortunately they don't seem to work. I have the latest nvidia binary driver. I just want to watch movies on the bigger Tv, though I know that watching movies (something about overlay) might be a big ask. Just getting kde would be a start. If anyone has got this to work and could give me the most basic xorg.conf that would work I would be most appreciative. I will need from devices down (ie, display, screen, etc) cos I have never set up a config with more than one screen (and usually just run xorgconfig...). Thanks heaps Antoine ps. will I have to recompile mplayer/xine with xinerama? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about qt and kde flags
This is real clear now Holy, thanks, Allan On 5/13/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. R. schreef: On 5/13/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am having a little doubt about qt and kde user flags, I am using Gnome in my system but I like some kde programs, so I have gtk and gnome flag, should I use kde and qt flags to or should I put the -kde and -qt ? -- Hi, It is my understanding that even if you disable those flags (-kde -qt) and you try to emerge a package that depends on kde and qt libraries, those will be compiled as well. As an example, I am running xfce4 (gtk2) and my use flags have -kde -qt, if I try to emerge k3b, it shows that it wants to emerge: (just a snippet) x11-libs/qt kde-base/kde-env kde-base/kde-libs The flags only affect what a given package is *able* to support. In this example, if I want to be able to use k3b, some kde and qt libraries need to be compiled so it can run, and that is completely different than the software supported by k3b that can be customized through altering the use flags. HTH, -AR This is true, but not exactly clear. Continuing with the K3b example (because it's a good one for this purpose), I have often compiled K3b without the -kde and -arts USE flags, because by preference I use GNOME or Openbox or IceWM, not KDE. Because K3b relies on kdelibs and qt before it can be compiled at all, those will be compiled when I emerge K3b, no matter what my USE flags say. They are required dependencies. However K3bsetup2 is an optional dependency. It is required if you want to integrate K3b into KDE (+kde), and sound output (the rasberry sound when a burn fails, the fanfare when it succeeds, etc) is an optional dependency that will be compiled with the +arts flag, also for integration with KDE. So if I am running K3b under GNOME, and thus have emerged it -kde and -arts, I won't have K3bsetup2 or the sound business, but then again, I'm running it under GNOME, so I don't actually care that much (I can do the setup manually if I must, and it's not worth it to have aRTs just to hear a fanfare when my burn succeeds). That's what an optional dependency is. If I don't have KDE installed, though, and try to emerge K3b +kde and +arts, K3b will not only emerge the required kdelibs, but also kdebase, because k3bsetup2 (the optional dependency added by +kde) requires that as well. So basically I'll get KDE, because I requested that K3b be integrated with KDE-- and that obviously requires that a viable KDE installation be present, so it will be created if it does not exist beforehand. So if you want your programs to have all possible integration into the KDE environment (perhaps you want to give it a spin, even I think that 3.4.0 is pretty nice), then use +kde and +arts. +qt you probably want if you want to use QT based programs (some of which are not related to KDE, for instance DVD:Rip, iirc, and probably Quanta). But if you know that you just want some KDE based programs, but not KDE itself, you can try using -kde and -arts (it should always be -both, because aRTs pulls in KDE if present). However, you should be aware that there are not all that many KDE-based programs that don't require KDE to be present to run, but only the libs. That may have changed with the split ebuilds, but up to now the only ones I know of are K3b and Krusader (mostly because they're the only ones I use when not using KDE). It's not like you can so much install Konqueror without KDE, for example. But again, that may have changed. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full
* On Sat May-14-2005 at 06:01:54 PM +0100, Neil Bothwick said: On Sat, 14 May 2005 15:37:21 + (UTC), James wrote: TMy problem is the /root/.ccache dir keeps filling up. I keep deleting it. Not sure how to tame this demon.. Set CCACHE_DIR in make.conf. Also set CCACHE_SIZE in make.conf. e.g. CCACHE_SIZE=2G -- Sami Samhuri pgpZVDiM1dBWG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp not accepting anonymous users
# cat vsftp.conf | grep anonymous_enable= Make sure there's only one entry there. It's possible that anonymous_enable=NO is set somewhere sequentially AFTER where you set anonymous_enable=YES, which would override your command. On 5/13/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set the anoymous_enable=YES in vsftp.conf, but it still is not accepting anonymous users. I have also restarted the server. I have tried both anonymous and ftp, using valid e-mail addresses as passwords. Is there another step I am missing to properly enable this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
So, that begs the question of where the module.ko file *might* be. Should genkernel have created an agpgart module somewhere under /lib/modules/kernel/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/drivers? If /dev/agpgart support was not configured to be modular then it won't exist anywhere. You must look in the kernel config file to figure this out. However, I say this again, I do not beleive that this is required for X to work. agpgart didn't happen until AGP devices came along. X works with standard PCI graphics adapters and they don't use agpgart at all. I havent found anything that looks promising. I guess I was assuming that 'genkernel' would get me far enough to let the X window system work, but I guess I must be wrong here. You are not wrong. The kernel certainly has enough support to get X running. Something else is going on. However you haven't posted any results. What happens when you try to start X? Post the results? What happens when you try to run xorgconfig? Post the results. No one here can help by saying the same thing in 5 messages but then you don't follow the direction. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] next step X
cfk wrote: ...SKIP... On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote: cfk schreef: Dear Holly: What I did was to take the default 'genkernel' compilation for Gentoo a couple of days ago. I'm not familiar enough with the distribution to go further then that yet. So, that begs the question of where the module.ko file *might* be. Should genkernel have created an agpgart module somewhere under /lib/modules/kernel/2.6.11-gentoo-r8/drivers? I havent found anything that looks promising. I guess I was assuming that 'genkernel' would get me far enough to let the X window system work, but I guess I must be wrong here. Charles Hi, Think it's a bad idea to use the default kernel-config from the install-CD, because it includes too many features, modules in order to boot/work on quite every system out there, the kernel will be too big with many unused things and eventually w/o some things which you need. To get a working X i booted from Knoppix-CD and just copied it's config to use it later, no acceleration but it's working. Later you could profile you kernel (read the help items in it). First time it took me 1-2 hours just to config my first kernel, even after that there were some omissions but not major ones, even now my config is evolving. Have agpgart and sis-agp and my kernel-config to get 3D (nvidia). Having active 3D in a generic-config is very rare IMHO, the install CD is just to get you going. HTH. Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with xine
Paul wrote: Thanks for the help Richard but after trying your suggestions I still Have the same problem. This is so frustrating, I'm sure it will turn out to be something simple, but I just can't see it. I still don't know what xiTK is and if it's relevent. regards Paul xiTK refers to the XIne ToolKit, it is xine's user-interface library, and is why I suspected a skin or visualization problem. I have no really good idea of what to do next. From googling around it seems that there is no single answer to this problem. Some more things to try are: 1. Try different --video-driver and --audio-driver options with xine. 2. Try the ~x86 versions of xine-ui and xine-lib: echo media-libs/xine-lib ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords echo media-video/xine-ui ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords (You'll probably have to add some other dependant packages as well...) 3. Try different GCC versions (3.3.5, 3.4.3, etc) or different CFLAGS/-march options. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition THUFIR HAWAT
[digest-mode reply] Thufir, For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an experts-only distro. (And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.) Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* -- it is a loaded *and* *cocked* pistol aimed at everything on your drives if you are installing it and are not a seriously knowledgable Linux user. I'm serious. I'm _deadly_ serious. Read the manual, and I suggest at *least* twice, before booting that CD you burned. If you are already a reasonably (==highly!) knowledgable linux user, please either skip the rest or at least take it with a *packet* of salt rather than a grain... If you are not, read on, and pay attention. The danger is not Gentoo as such, but the utterly 'naked' commands being used by someone who does not yet understand all the 'inwardnesses' of what must be done. This is not to say that a newbie or low-experience user cannot use Gentoo, but I would *emphatically* suggest that newbies other lower-powered *linux* users need to stay away from Gentoo, or else install to a *completely* empty drive, with no other drives in the computer. If you are highly knowledgable, just about all the power you could ever want is in here, including outright *brilliancies* that I never heard of before. (I Like! :) :) :) ) And with that knowledge, Gentoo is no more 'dangerous' than any other linux; probably a lot less dangerous, in fact! Read the manual (twice!) before booting that CD you burned, and if you are not already *very* Linux-knowledgable, this is not a good distro for you unless your intent is to become a linux expert in the next few weeks, by which time you will have a running system. And I repeat, if you are not already knowledgable, use a blank or blank-ABLE drive, only!, while learning. If you are not already powerful, other things you will need to know somewhat about (www.google.com/linux and www.LinuxQuestions.org are good places to look) are drives and partitions and formatting, and a little about TCP/IP, particularly IPv6 versus the rest of the w-w-world, and what your hardware and ISP provide. Read up, and we will be happy (and *able*!) to help. Best!, rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new virtuals setup confusion
On 5/14/05, Edward Catmur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/portage/profile/virtuals (/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/virtuals does not exist) /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/virtuals /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/virtuals /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals Obviously any settings you want to make go in /etc/portage/profile/virtuals. Thanks Edward. Exactly the sort of answer I was looking for but not finding. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE)
Hello everyone, This 4 mails are citations from comp.os.linux.misc (I've been advised to ask some more Gentoo-experts). :-) I would appreciate any helpful answer. Hi, I've decide to send this post to: comp.os.linux.development.system, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.x just because I'm not a Linux-guru and thus I don't know whether my problems are somehow linked with each other. In that way maybe more experts will read about my problems and maybe some of them will answer... I'm sorry for kilobytes and any inconvenience (three sub-posts) - don't kill me Thanking in anticipation for your answers... -- Pozdrawiam, Marcin Balcerzak frown.gif
[gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 4
THE THIRD PROBLEM concearns KDE. I've installed everything (according to emerge...) and it doesn't work. The only result of startkde is writing on STDERR: xsetroot: unable to open display '' xset: unable to open display xset: unable to open display xsetroot: unable to open display '' startkde: Starting up... startkde: Running kpersonalizer... DCOP: register 'anonymous-13139' - number of clients is now 1 DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-13139' kwin: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server that I mercily stop with ^C. startx gives (also only on STDERR): hostname: Unknown host X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux Shadowfax 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Thu May 12 06:08:06 CEST 2005 i686 Build Date: 10 May 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat May 14 21:15:33 2005 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o Also defined in /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Fatal server error: Module load failure Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The listing of this Xorg.0.log: X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 [ELF] Current Operating System: Linux Shadowfax 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Thu May 12 06:08:06 CEST 2005 i686 Build Date: 10 May 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat May 14 21:15:33 2005 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.7 X.Org XInput driver : 0.4 X.Org Server Extension : 0.2 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o Also defined in /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Fatal server error: Module load failure Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. What should I do to make KDE to work? Regards. -- Marcin Balcerzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On May 14, 2005, at 7:20 pm, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 5/13/05, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 21:10 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Something about IMAP in an unrelated thread] Please stop thread hijacking. ... The usenet archives, via google, intermingle this thread with some questions I had. That doesn't make sense, since they apparently have different subject lines and just breeds confusion. Since it was my thread which you hijacked, Michael, I'm entitled to re-iterate don't do it, and I won't say please. And saying it will probably continue not to help, because you haven't said what thread hi-jacking is. Anyone who starts a new thread by replying to an old one changing the subject is unlikely to be doing so out of maliciousness. Because it's so easy to start a thread the correct way, they're probably not even doing it out of laziness - they probably just don't know what difference it makes. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box
My DSL modems's add is 192.168.1.254 so that is the default gateway.The server's add is eth0/192.168.1.96 and I enabled ip pass through in the modem to the server,works fine.Next I wanted to set up the server as a router with a crossover cable to home box.home box address is 192.168.1.97 eth1/192.168.1.1 is set up for home box in server.I followed this guide; http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml and I had to swap eth0 for eth1 for me eth0 is the WAN and eth1 is the LAN.It worked but closed port 80 so I redid iptables and added this; (Optional) Allow access to our ssh server from the WAN # iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport ssh -i eth1 -j ACCEPT But I changed it to; # iptables -A INPUT -p TCP --dport 80 -i eth0 -j ACCEPT That didn't open port 80 but did close the WAN for home.So I attempted to set up a DLink router but its configuration page is 192.168.0.1 but I'm on 168.192.1.96 and the default gateway is 192.168.1.254 so I couldn't even get to the configuration page.Because I have to enable ip pass through in the modem is this why iptables is not working for me? Should I try another router? By me opening port 80 in the modem to serve web pages over the WAN keeping me from being able to do this?I think it can be done it's just over my head/experence.thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On 5/14/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And saying it will probably continue not to help, because you haven't said what thread hi-jacking is. Anyone who starts a new thread by replying to an old one changing the subject is unlikely to be doing so out of maliciousness. Because it's so easy to start a thread the correct way, they're probably not even doing it out of laziness - they probably just don't know what difference it makes. ... I brought it up again specifically because there was no acknowledgement when Michael was first called on it. Since I started the first thread, I felt entitled to do so. No, it wasn't a crime, but the confusion it created, as I said before, is annoying. I regret saying anything about it, as I seem to be at fault for doing so. Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'
On 5/14/05, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I meant to execute 'rm -rf var' but I hit 'rm -rf /var' instead. I realized my mistake after about 6 or 7 seconds when it was taking too long and I hit Ctrl+C. Everything looks OK, but something must be gone. What would you guys do in this situation? Restore from a backup? :-) As you are posting here, I guess that's not an option. You are probably missing the big directories /var/db and /var/tmp. /var/db is (at least it seems) where information about each emerged package lies. I'm not sure which trouble you will pass without those. Perhaps someone may enlighten you more than I. /var/tmp is where portage compiles packages, and can be safely deleted. I don't know about the directory structure though. Perhaps reemerging some packages like baselayout would reconstruct them. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'
Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs. If it fails to boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 4
On Sat, May 14, 2005 9:59 pm, Marcin Balcerzak said: (EE) Unable to locate/open config file Have you run xorgconfig? Did it create /etc/X11/xorg.conf for you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which IMAP is happiest with gentoo?
On May 15, 2005, at 12:07 am, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 5/14/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And saying it will probably continue not to help, because you haven't said what thread hi-jacking is. Anyone who starts a new thread by replying to an old one changing the subject is unlikely to be doing so out of maliciousness. ... I brought it up again specifically because there was no acknowledgement when Michael was first called on it. And if accused in a mailing-list thread of dongle-flopping, many people would ignore that, too, not know what it means. Since I started the first thread, I felt entitled to do so. Very reasonably, I'd say. No, it wasn't a crime, but the confusion it created, as I said before, is annoying. Indeed. I regret saying anything about it, as I seem to be at fault for doing so. No, that's not the case. But saying you hi-jacked my thread to someone is just likely to be ignored if they don't know WTF you're on about. Anyone who does so is probably ignorant of what they've done and the problem it causes, so bitching about it will only help if you EXPLAIN. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Whoops: 'rm -rf /var'
Often times var stuff is changing, not necessarily crucial data. I would reboot see if everything works. If it does, your fine. If only certain programs fail, reinstall the programs. If it fails to boot etc. then you'll probably have to reinstall gentoo. Alright thanks guys. I'm booted back up and running a browser so that's good. I really shouldn't be working as root. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error
Ian K wrote: Peter Gordon wrote: Ian K wrote: grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive This problem was discussed, and (if I recall correctly) resolved on the forums.[1] Try those solutions and see if that is fixed. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2269363.html This thread seems to pertain to emerge compilations rathre than manual ones. Next time, please also point to the step as opposed to only the thread. Thanks Ian Ive been waiting a while for a reply, so I am putting a reply to it. Please suggest some ideas. Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error
Ian K wrote: Ive been waiting a while for a reply, so I am putting a reply to it. Please suggest some ideas. I'm sorry I've been very busy at work and with school stuff this morning and most of yesterday, Have you tried running fix_libtool_files.sh? # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Hope that helps! -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 2
Marcin Balcerzak wrote: When loading, just after: Calculating module dependencies... I've got 3 or 4 lines like: error calling: unlink in 'GLOBAL' and the last is ended with [OK]. After some non-suspicious lines and Setting user font [OK] I've got: action_compat: error unlinking: * No such file or directory where * is, consecutively: vcs6, vcsa6, vcs7, vcsa7, vcs8, vcsa8, vcs9. These are devfs/devfsd messages. If you followed the instructions correctly, you would have not compiled devfs into your kernel, and you'd be using udev instead. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Style Compile Error
Peter Gordon wrote: Ian K wrote: Ive been waiting a while for a reply, so I am putting a reply to it. Please suggest some ideas. I'm sorry I've been very busy at work and with school stuff this morning and most of yesterday, Have you tried running fix_libtool_files.sh? # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Hope that helps! Great! It worked thanks so much for your help, Peter. Turns out I typed it with the wrong syntax. Thanks Again Ian begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
[gentoo-user] apr blocking apache-2.0.54
I am getting a conflict between apache-2.0.54 and apr which I did not get with apache-2.0.53. This is what equery and emerge tell me: zebedee root # equery l apr [ Searching for package 'apr' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [M ] dev-libs/apr-0.9.6-r1 (0) [I--] [M ] dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.6 (0) zebedee root # equery l apache [ Searching for package 'apache' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] net-www/apache-2.0.53 (2) zebedee root # emerge -avu world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-libs/apr-util (is blocking net-www/apache-2.0.54-r4) [blocks B ] dev-libs/apr (is blocking net-www/apache-2.0.54-r4) ... What should I do? Should I simply unmerge apr and assume that everything will work, or should I do something else? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: DSL modem + Web Server + Home Box
david wrote: My DSL modems's add is 192.168.1.254 so that is the default gateway.The server's add is eth0/192.168.1.96 and I enabled ip pass through in the modem to the server,works fine.Next I wanted to set up the server as a router with a crossover cable to home box.home box address is 192.168.1.97 eth1/192.168.1.1 is set up for home box in server.I followed this guide; Here is what you have explained, if I understand correctly: (INTERNET) | [ ?.?.?.? ] [ DSL MODEM ] [192.168.1.254] | [192.168.1.96 ] [LOCAL SERVER ] [192.168.1.1 ] | [192.168.1.97 ] [ HOME BOX ] I'm assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as your subnet mask. If this is the case, I don't know how to make it work -- but it's unnecessarily difficult. Try to set up this: (INTERNET) | [ ?.?.?.? ] [ DSL MODEM ] [192.168.1.254] | [192.168.1.96 ] [LOCAL SERVER ] [192.168.2.1 ] | [192.168.2.97 ] [ HOME BOX ] This puts the home box on a different sub-net. Question: Which one is supposed to be the web server? Notes: 1. The reason why they have to be on different subnets has to do with how packages are routed. Whenever a package is sent over the network the computer has to route it -- like a post office. The first the the router looks at is the sub-net. If your subnet is 255.255.255.0, it ignores the last number. If it's on the same subnet as the router, it just broadcasts it to the network. This is like a postmaster looking at the zip codes. He throws the local zip code in one pile, everything else goes to a different pile to be sorted. Using this analogy, you have DSL MODEM and HOME BOX in two different zip codes and LOCAL SERVER is your postmaster. However, you're acting like everyone is in the same zip code, so LOCAL SERVER is putting some of the letters in the wrong pile. 2. It appears to me odd that your DSL MODEM has an IP address, but you're running a server behind it. Usually, I see the DSL MODEM acting transparently. So the setup looks more like: (INTERNET) | [(TRANSPARENT)] [ DSL MODEM ] [(TRANSPARENT)] | [ 68.23.54.12 ] [ ROUTER] [ 192.168.1.1 ] | [192.168.1.97 ] [ WORKSTATION ] If you can set this up, it further simplifies your network arrangement. 3. If you're trying to give internet access to HOME BOX, you will have to set up LOCAL SERVER with NAT. This is especially true if HOME BOX is actually supposed to be the web server. and I had to swap eth0 for eth1 for me eth0 is the WAN and eth1 is the LAN.It worked but closed port 80 so I redid iptables and added this; I got lost in all this. Are you running Apache on one of the machines? Should I try another router? By me opening port 80 in the modem to serve web pages over the WAN keeping me from being able to do this?I think it can be done it's just over my head/experence.thanks Well, if you're just trying to get a router for a LAN, the WAL-MART off-the-shelf routers work great, with minimal setup. They also allow you to forward ports to specific computers on your network to act as servers. HTH! -- G a b r i e l M . B e d d i n g f i e l d -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
