Re: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:17 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i
given size. I have tried
find /home -type d -size +5k
and
find /home -type d -size +5k -iname *
Both without much success...
Any help will be :D
Cheers
Rav
Try this:
find /home/ -size +5 -exec ls -lahg {} \;
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[gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! 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] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http://www.proxim.com or http://www.buffalotech.com for more details. -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http://www.proxim.com or http://www.buffalotech.com for more details. Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at Rokland.com last month for roughly $50. Atheros chipset, 802.11a/ SuperA/b/b+/g/SuperG... very nice. It works in Windows (with the driver CD), Mac OS X (with the shareware OrangeWare driver--totally worth the $15 shareware fee) and, naturally, Linux (with MADWIFI). It picks up Channels 1 through 14, and can put out up to 100 mW of power (40 mW on A networks). There's no antenna jack, though, but I hear most PCMCIA Orinocoes can be modded to include some kind of external jack; I'm not that desperate for power, but with dial-up at home, I might do that mod and build a yagi antenna, get in my car, and... well, you get the idea. :-) Still haven't had any luck with KisMAC (the OS X port of Kismet), though. It finds my card but doesn't detect my wireless network... I'll figure it out eventually. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Colin wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http://www.proxim.com or http://www.buffalotech.com for more details. Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at Rokland.com last month for roughly $50. Atheros chipset, 802.11a/ SuperA/b/b+/g/SuperG... very nice. It works in Windows (with the driver CD), Mac OS X (with the shareware OrangeWare driver--totally worth the $15 shareware fee) and, naturally, Linux (with MADWIFI). It picks up Channels 1 through 14, and can put out up to 100 mW of power (40 mW on A networks). There's no antenna jack, though, but I hear most PCMCIA Orinocoes can be modded to include some kind of external jack; I'm not that desperate for power, but with dial-up at home, I might do that mod and build a yagi antenna, get in my car, and... well, you get the idea. :-) Still haven't had any luck with KisMAC (the OS X port of Kismet), though. It finds my card but doesn't detect my wireless network... I'll figure it out eventually. -- Colin My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) 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] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Colin wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:54 AM, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http://www.proxim.com or http://www.buffalotech.com for more details. Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Oh, this laptop has absolutely no ethernet port, and the router is in my parent's room, so just to be out of the way, i would like to go for a wireless card. :) 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] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Changes the possible security implications too... Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at Rokland.com last month for roughly $50. Atheros chipset, 802.11a/ SuperA/b/b+/g/SuperG... very nice. It works in Windows (with the driver CD), Mac OS X (with the shareware OrangeWare driver--totally worth the $15 shareware fee) and, naturally, Linux (with MADWIFI). It picks up Channels 1 through 14, and can put out up to 100 mW of power (40 mW on A networks). I forgot about Enterasys and Atheros. The Orinoco-based cards have power output of around 24mW and the sensitivity is right around -83dB which I've found works well in most situations. I usually see about 3.5mbps of throughput when connected at 11mbps. Could be better but it gets the job done. Btw, I think YDI (Terabeam) still sells an Orinoco-based card. They've got really good support should you need it. There's no antenna jack, though, but I hear most PCMCIA Orinocoes can be modded to include some kind of external jack; I'm not that desperate for power, but with dial-up at home, I might do that mod and build a yagi antenna, get in my car, and... well, you get the idea. :-) I've got three or four of the cards back from the days when they were still made by Lucent and with the proper pigtail you can connect an external antenna. In fact I used to use Orinoco PC cards with a PCI adapter to deliver high-speed access to folks around here and they worked quite well, then the telco showed up with DSL but that's another story. As for the newer cards, I believe the Proxim cards can be modded by opening the antenna housing on the card to get to the antenna connector. If you want to go to an external antenna check with YDI, I think they still make PC cards with external antenna connectors. Still haven't had any luck with KisMAC (the OS X port of Kismet), though. It finds my card but doesn't detect my wireless network... I'll figure it out eventually. Maybe the drivers don't support monitor mode? That's what I ran into with Linux but that was only a kernel patch away and my experience with KisMAC is exactly zero... -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about driver compatibility. -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Ian K wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing model numbers. So lot #1234 can be atheros, while #1235 can be intersil, #1236 can be, well you get the picture. The best is to buy from a store with a liberal return/exchange policy...of course it always helps if it says supports linux on the box! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Richard Fish wrote: Ian K wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing model numbers. So lot #1234 can be atheros, while #1235 can be intersil, #1236 can be, well you get the picture. The best is to buy from a store with a liberal return/exchange policy...of course it always helps if it says supports linux on the box! Yeah, if you've listened to this list, you'll know some chipsets are good, and some are just plain bad. Bad chipsets (Broadcom, PrismGT, ACX100, ACX111) are not supported well if at all under Linux. (Hell, even Windows choked on a Windows-only ACX111 card.) You may have success with the Windows drivers and NDISwrapper, but more than likely this is one for shipping back to your e-tailer. These chipsets being el cheapo, they pop up in a lot of low-end consumer wireless devices. Good chipsets (Atheros, Atmel, Intersil, Orinoco, Prism, Prism2) are natively supported by Linux, and most of them can be loaded from the LiveCD with the modprobe command. The rest are usually supported by building in support when you build the kernel. Sadly, these are more expensive because all the hardware is on the card, and nothing is emulated via a driver (remember Winmodems vs. hardware modems? This is it all over again.) But you do get what you pay for, as a lot of enterprise-level solutions have these chipsets, and they boast excellent reliability, compatibility and range. Any other chipset, just Google. Some manufacturers stick to one chipset (like Apple does Broadcom). However, most manufacturers often change chipsets during production without warning, keeping the same model number and just tacking on a Revision B, often written on the card only but most do write it on the box in tiny print. Just wait until no one's looking and open up the box and check :-) As for supports Linux, there are far too many distros, drivers, hacks and configurations to test with. Maybe they tested Debian with MADWIFI? Slackware with NDISwrapper... and which Windows driver? If it says Linux compatible, don't take it as a green light. Take it as a yield sign instead--look first, then go. If you've got a laptop, bring it and a LiveCD to the store (if you don't buy it online) and give it a whirl... with permission, of course. And slip the boy at Best Buy a couple Alexander Hamiltons ($10 bills, in case you forgot your U.S. history) for making him put up with you testing a million different cards and not finding anything that works. :-P -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing model numbers. So lot #1234 can be atheros, while #1235 can be intersil, #1236 can be, well you get the picture. The best is to buy from a store with a liberal return/exchange policy...of course it always helps if it says supports linux on the box! -Richard This is exactly why I stick with Proxim or Buffalotech, they aren't the usual moving targets like some other vendors. It's also nice to have the ability to pick up the phone and talk to someone about the product. They are usually quite willing to help. Speaking of companies who are willing to help check out http://www.demarctech.com. They post right on their website whether or not a particular card has Linux drivers available and they cater primarily to small, independent WISPs. Good bunch of people to work with. I hope all of this information has helped rather than furthered your confusion. -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?
Hi all, I am experiencing this strange problem. Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/that-log.log is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? And why konsole is not affected by it? Any help appreciated. Fabrizio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?
Me again, of course it wasnt't emerge --pretend, it was emerge --update world :) Fabrizio On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:52:06AM +0200, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: Hi all, I am experiencing this strange problem. Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/that-log.log is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? And why konsole is not affected by it? Any help appreciated. Fabrizio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
Hi guys, I just bought a new PS/2 Trust optical mouse (3 buttons), but I can't get it works under my gentoo: I'm using gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r6 for amd64 and I think I configured my kernel as well as possible for PS/2 mice support. When system boots, it turns the red laser light off and when i try cat /dev/input/mice or cat /dev/psaux i get some X on 1,2 and 3 button pressed. I think there is probably a problem on hw detection on system booting, but I really don't know where to put my hands on!!! Can anybody help me please TNX! S.G. PS: dmesg | grep PS/2: PNP: PS/2 Controller... irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
smoke3 wrote: Hi guys, I just bought a new PS/2 Trust optical mouse (3 buttons), but I can't get it works under my gentoo: I'm using gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r6 for amd64 and I think I configured my kernel as well as possible for PS/2 mice support. When system boots, it turns the red laser light off and when i try cat /dev/input/mice or cat /dev/psaux i get some X on 1,2 and 3 button pressed. Ok, so you get some characters when you read /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux. What doesn't work? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Update] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:32:19 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: OK- if it doesn't happen during light computing stuff, and only with very cpu intensive stuff like compiling, I feel virtually certain it is a cpu heat issue. IMHO, there's not really any other reasonable explanation. A duff power supply? That would also tend to suffer under heavy load. -- Neil Bothwick I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. pgpBoIDZfG8Sh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so you get some characters when you read /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux. What doesn't work? I don't get any trash chars when i move my mouse and red light is off! If i unplug and re-plug the mouse, i get red light turned on for just a second and if i try to move the mouse, it gets off again. What does work? ;) S.G. -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/that-log.log is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with aterm and only affect aterm. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so you get some characters when you read /dev/input/mice and /dev/psaux. What doesn't work? I don't get any trash chars when i move my mouse and red light is off! If i unplug and re-plug the mouse, i get red light turned on for just a second and if i try to move the mouse, it gets off again. What does work? ;) Ok, your original message wasn't clear to me. Many mice have a two-stage LED that goes dim after a few seconds (not completely off though). And I thought that X was a translation for the non-printing characters. Did you set CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y or =m? If =y, try rebuilding as a module. This would let you remove and reload the driver (rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse) to see what happens. Also, is this a real PS/2 mouse (not using a USB to PS/2 adapter), or do you use a KVM switch? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/that-log.log is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with aterm and only affect aterm. -hwh This may be a shot in the dark, since I don't use aterm, but can you check /var/log/messages and see if maybe the kernel is killing aterm due to excessive memory usage? The search string is oom for out-of-memory. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCD monitors are fixed-rate, so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution and then display at a lower rate if you wish. Why would you want to display at lower resolution than the best available ? to make the fonts look bigger. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hi, emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. [snip] adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/modern.jar zip warning: ../modern.jar not found or empty adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/homedir = ../../dist/bin/chrome/classic.jar error: file './resources/skin/classic/taskbar-cookie.gif' doesn't exist at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 418. This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Yes, that is my thought too. Assuming that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right now), there's still something wrong with your build system somewhere. I think that I am the only one that can show the problem so you might very well be correct. This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. I'll be doing that. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 23:26 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Hmm, since others with similar systems cannot duplicate the problem, I decided to capture all of the build output on my system (P4) and compare. Jules, there is definitely something not right on your system, but I don't know what yet. You get the following: +++ overriding content/cookie/contents.rdf adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/modern.jar zip warning: ../modern.jar not found or empty adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/homedir = ../../dist/bin/chrome/classic.jar error: file './resources/skin/classic/taskbar-cookie.gif' doesn't exist at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 418. The /var/tmp/portage/homedir is wrong. Sharp eyes. I didn't notice that one. On my system, I get: +++ overriding content/cookie/contents.rdf adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/modern.jar zip warning: ../modern.jar not found or empty adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/classic.jar Using the wrong version of autoconf/automake is the only thing I can think of that would cause this kind of thing. What do you get if you do: # which autoconf omc-2 ~ # which autoconf /usr/bin/autoconf # autoconf --version omc-2 ~ # autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. I am trying to reemerge autoconf and automake as zac advised. BTW, the homedir above is now empty, but is does still exists. It has other permissions that the other directories. Like: ### snip ## drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jul 21 03:05 grep-2.5.1-r6 drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jul 21 02:10 gzip-1.3.5-r5 drwxrws--- 4 portage portage 120 Jul 22 20:58 homedir drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Jul 19 21:41 linux-headers-2.6.8.1-r4 ### snip ## Don't know if that is significant, but is sure does look suspicious... Best regards, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y or =m? If =y, try rebuilding as a module. This would let you remove and reload the driver (rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse) to see what happens. I tried it also as module: I even passed every type of proto to the module during modprobe, but while i'm fetching the driver, the light turns off and I can only cat buttons working Also, is this a real PS/2 mouse (not using a USB to PS/2 adapter), Yes it's a _real_ PS/2 mouse ;) or do you use a KVM switch? What is a KVM switch? It's the first time i hear this! -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:22 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hi, emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. [snip] adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/modern.jar zip warning: ../modern.jar not found or empty adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/homedir = ../../dist/bin/chrome/classic.jar error: file './resources/skin/classic/taskbar-cookie.gif' doesn't exist at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 418. This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Yes, that is my thought too. Assuming that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right now), there's still something wrong with your build system somewhere. I think that I am the only one that can show the problem so you might very well be correct. This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. I'll be doing that. OK, I get a segfault doing that: ## snip ### test -z /usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake || mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake /bin/install -c -m 644 'Config.pm' '/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake/Config.pm' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' Making install in am make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z /usr/share/automake-1.9/am || mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/am /bin/sh: line 1: 16093 Segmentation fault mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/am make[3]: *** [install-dist_amDATA] Error 139 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/automake-1.9.5 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 36, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. ## snip ### Wouldn't it be a good idea on this point to reemerge coreutils or maybe the whole of system? Is the correct way doing: emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world emerge -e world ? or is a single emerge -e system sufficient? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y or =m? If =y, try rebuilding as a module. This would let you remove and reload the driver (rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse) to see what happens. I tried it also as module: I even passed every type of proto to the module during modprobe, but while i'm fetching the driver, the light turns off and I can only cat buttons working Also, is this a real PS/2 mouse (not using a USB to PS/2 adapter), Yes it's a _real_ PS/2 mouse ;) or do you use a KVM switch? What is a KVM switch? It's the first time i hear this! Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix for example. KVM means keyboard,video, mouse and stands for a switch between more pcs and one console equipted with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Such a console can be mounted in a rack and you can control more servers with it for example. M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 01:02 +0200, Patrick Börjesson wrote: Although... I would suggest that the OP give a more explicit question, since I was really not sure if it was a anyone seen this before?, I'm a n00b, please solve this for me! or a where should I take this to get it solved? question. Being the OP it was a question in the line of Here might be a potential problem in the build but I don't know if it is the source, my system, the ebuild or if I'm an idiot. Has anyone seen this too? Sorry if I was to vague. I'll be more specific the next time :-) Best regards, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor
On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCD monitors are fixed-rate, so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution and then display at a lower rate if you wish. Why would you want to display at lower resolution than the best available ? to make the fonts look bigger. Why don't you change your default font to a larger font instead? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCD monitors are fixed-rate, so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution and then display at a lower rate if you wish. Why would you want to display at lower resolution than the best available ? to make the fonts look bigger. Sorry i missed the point. Why would you change the native resolution on a LCD monitor to get bigger fonts, when you can change the font size to a bigger one and leave the resolution native ? ;o) M. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding CTRL
On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde control panel - Regional Accessibility - Accessibility. M. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the first place. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix for example. Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on other computers running M$... KVM means keyboard,video, mouse and stands for a switch between more pcs and one console equipted with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Such a console can be mounted in a rack and you can control more servers with it for example. Ok, i remember i just heard something about it, but that wasn't the name... However i thought it was a kind of enterprise stuff, not really useful at home, with only one PC installed. ;) Any ideas else? S.G -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] problems on AMD64
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:08 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:51:53 +0200 Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your advise. I got sound working by disabling ALSA and using OSS instead. I think this is an ALSA AMD64 issue. No, it's not. The reason I can say that is I have a 2P Opteron with the same chipset as your system and a SB Audigy 2. Running alsa causes no problems. It's either a hardware issue or a kernel issue. Obviously. The sound works perfect under XP with Creative drivers and with the deprecated OSS drivers, so we seems to be left with some kernel issue. Anyway, I have filed a detailed bug at alsa-project and I hope it will help them to eventually track is down. At some point, the problem will need resolution as kernel OSS is going away. Yes. But for now I'm glad you have it working. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Assuming that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right now), there's still something wrong with your build system somewhere. This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. Hmm... Among my USE flags is nptlonly. Might that be a problem? -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:52:11 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/24/05, Michal Pronay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like your mouse is broken, try booting some livecd like knoppix for example. Easy way, but not the right one: my mouse is new and does function on other computers running M$... Hm, OK, other computers... What about the computer you want to use it with? What does it do if you try another OS? When the mouse is considered OK, then there's the computer left... I'd also check * BIOS settings regarding the mouse * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) * dmesg output regarding the psaux driver * another PS/2 mouse (this isn't clear from your postings if there was one before you bought the new one) -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK, other computers... What about the computer you want to use it with? What does it do if you try another OS? When the mouse is considered OK, then there's the computer left... It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bought it from and the mouse did function as well! I'd also check * BIOS settings regarding the mouse Everything ok! * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! * dmesg output regarding the psaux driver dmesg | grep psaux -- nothing dmesg | grep PS/2 -- PNP: PS/2 Controller... irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 * another PS/2 mouse (this isn't clear from your postings if there was one before you bought the new one) Ok: I tried an older mouse (not optical) and it does function... cat /dev/psaux sends me lots of trash when i move it. -- the PC is ok! *** NEED HELP *** -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] aterm do crash displaying long files, konsole don't: swappiness problem?
Thank you guys for the replies, I don't have access to the machine right now but I'll check /var/log/messages for oom messages and get back to you ASAP. Fabrizio On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:24:19PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:52:06 +0200 Fabrizio Prosperi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing a long emerge -up world aterm kept crashing and I thought it was an emerge problem, but then I focused on a particular emerge (mozilla-firefox) and I realised it was it. Just doing cat /var/log/portage/that-log.log is making aterm crash again, but not konsole. I guess I something with swappiness settings, but how to fix it? Hm, don't know about aterm and its memory management, but that's for sure: _swappiness_ should have absolutely nothing to do with this. The swap management isn't up to userspace applications, that's kernel's matter. Well, there might be some small probability left that your swap management is somewhat hosed due to bugs in the kernel but that is very unlikely and wouldn't explain why these conditions only occur with aterm and only affect aterm. -hwh This may be a shot in the dark, since I don't use aterm, but can you check /var/log/messages and see if maybe the kernel is killing aterm due to excessive memory usage? The search string is oom for out-of-memory. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
Hi, On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:23:14 +0200 smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's OK: I had winzoz installed from the seller i bought it from and the mouse did function as well! Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! Well, seen it before, and I thought to mention it doesn't harm... :-) dmesg | grep PS/2 -- PNP: PS/2 Controller... irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Hm, OK. So it _is_ recognized then... Maybe the kernel choses a level that's too high. From kernel docs (kernel-parameters.txt): snip psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to probe for (bare|imps|exps). psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports per second. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] Try to reset the device after so many bad packets (0 = never). snip So I'd try to begin with the proto setting. Note that this only applies if the driver actually is compiled into the kernel instead of being a module. In the latter case, you'd need to edit the module parameters. On the grub kernel line (or LILO's parameter line, respectively), append something like: psmouse.proto=imps And see what happens. Try with the other values (exps, bare), too. Of course, this will need a reboot after modifiing the kernel command line. As a side note, my dmesg reads: Jul 2 12:59:52 sub00421 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Last question: Does this mouse work for any (other) linux box? What does the dmesg read there? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, OK, it definately _is_ a driver issue then... * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! Well, seen it before, and I thought to mention it doesn't harm... :-) Ok ok! I'm a bit nervous on this mouse marrow...! ;) dmesg | grep PS/2 -- PNP: PS/2 Controller... irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Hm, OK. So it _is_ recognized then... Maybe the kernel choses a level that's too high. From kernel docs (kernel-parameters.txt): snip psmouse.proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to probe for (bare|imps|exps). psmouse.rate= [HW,MOUSE] Set desired mouse report rate, in reports per second. psmouse.resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] Try to reset the device after so many bad packets (0 = never). snip I tried all the protocols... I even modified psmouse-base.c in order to get all the abbreviation for protos, but none of them did function... I dont' know how to use the latter params!!! Any explaination is appreciated! As a side note, my dmesg reads: Jul 2 12:59:52 sub00421 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 Last question: Does this mouse work for any (other) linux box? What does the dmesg read there? I'm downloading a knoppix 3.9... i'll upload any result! For now none! -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. I'll be doing that. OK, I get a segfault doing that: ## snip ### test -z /usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake || mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake /bin/install -c -m 644 'Config.pm' '/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/Automake/Config.pm' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/Automake' Making install in am make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. test -z /usr/share/automake-1.9/am || mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/am /bin/sh: line 1: 16093 Segmentation fault mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/am make[3]: *** [install-dist_amDATA] Error 139 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib/am' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/work/automake-1.9.5/lib' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/automake-1.9.5 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 36, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. ## snip ### Wouldn't it be a good idea on this point to reemerge coreutils or maybe the whole of system? Is the correct way doing: emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world emerge -e world Well, since world includes system, if you want to rebuild *everything*, I would think the following should be sufficient emerge --oneshot gcc binutils (check gcc-config and binutils-config to ensure sanity) emerge -e world The above should ensure that everything gets rebuilt with the rebuilt version of gcc and binutils. To save some time, you could try just system instead of world. That *should* still give you a sane build environment, but if you get many more segfaults, I am going to start thinking that you have some hardware problems... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switching to LCD monitor
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:45:56AM -0400, David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 06:21 am, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 01:36:44AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 050723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCD monitors are fixed-rate, so you have to buy one that has the resolution you like with CRT monitors where you buy the highest resolution and then display at a lower rate if you wish. Why would you want to display at lower resolution than the best available ? to make the fonts look bigger. Why don't you change your default font to a larger font instead? bitmap fonts only go so big - and there's not a matching bold for many of the larger sizes. I'm certain that some people sending bug-reports are using lower screen resolutions because they're finding odd problems with the small font sizes. Some of those are because of hardware limitations, but it is also likely that some are using lower screen resolutions because the effective font sizes are larger (and more readable). Of course if one chooses only scalable fonts (with the corresponding performance degradation), this is irrelvant. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift
David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde control panel - Regional Accessibility - Accessibility. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the first place. Go to the Keyboard tab there, press Shift-F1, and click on Activation gestures. You will see it wasn't Ctrl but Shift that beeps after 8 seconds. You may want to read the relevant section in the Help Center. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
smoke3 wrote: On 7/24/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * the right PS/2 plug (not that keyboard one...) nice joke, but... no! Did you get the mouse working under M$ on this computer or a different one? If you have never gotten it to work on this computer, you might try switching the mouse and keyboard anyway... regardless of what the little labels say. I had a motherboard once where the bios was programmed wrong. I couldn't get my keyboard to work at all. It would come on at boot, and then it would stop working. Or something like that. I remember it was very mysterious. It turned out they had gotten the keyboard and mouse ports mixed up in the bios. I switched the mouse and keyboard so that they were each in the _wrong_ jack and then they both worked fine. I think they fixed the problem in a bios update by making it not matter which jack you used for what. -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:48 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Well, since world includes system, if you want to rebuild *everything*, I would think the following should be sufficient emerge --oneshot gcc binutils OK. What about glibc or is that just a part of world? -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: This seems like a continuation of the previous build problems that you have had with firefox (where we were discussing MAKEOPTS). Assuming that others cannot reproduce this (sorry, I don't have my amd64 right now), there's still something wrong with your build system somewhere. This could be a shot in the dark, but I think that you should remerge your autoconf and automake packages to see if that affects this. Hmm... Among my USE flags is nptlonly. Might that be a problem? Well, nptlonly seems to work for a lot of people, so I don't think that should be a problem. I've only ever heard of it affecting old binary-only software. The only change I would be tempted to make to your USE flags would be to add multilib, which would give you the ability to build/run both 32 and 64-bit applications. I don't see how this could fix your current problems...but I did notice that Bob Sanders (one of the two WFM reports on this thread) has this in his USE flags. Of course he also doesn't have nptlonly, or userlocales, so who knows... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:48 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Well, since world includes system, if you want to rebuild *everything*, I would think the following should be sufficient emerge --oneshot gcc binutils OK. What about glibc or is that just a part of world? It is part of world. On my system it would be the 152nd package to be rebuilt. Technically, both gcc and binutils are also part of world, and will be built twice with the above instructions, but since they generate just about everything else, you want to make sure those are sane before starting. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:20 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... Among my USE flags is nptlonly. Might that be a problem? Well, nptlonly seems to work for a lot of people, so I don't think that should be a problem. I've only ever heard of it affecting old binary-only software. I am seeing random crashes of Evolution. The backtrace originates, as far I know, always in libpthread, so maybe this nptlonly is a bad idea after all? The only change I would be tempted to make to your USE flags would be to add multilib, which would give you the ability to build/run both 32 and 64-bit applications. I don't see how this could fix your current problems...but I did notice that Bob Sanders (one of the two WFM reports on this thread) has this in his USE flags. Of course he also doesn't have nptlonly, or userlocales, so who knows... Hmm... I am seeing (-multilib) when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 14:22 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:51 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hi, emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. [snip] adding: content/cookie/contents.rdf (stored 0%) +++ making chrome /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2/work/mozilla/extensions/cookie = ../../dist/bin/chrome/modern.jar zip warning: ../modern.jar not found or empty adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/taskbar-cookie.gif (stored 0%) adding: skin/modern/communicator/cookie/status-cookie.gif (stored ...SKIP... !!! ERROR: sys-devel/automake-1.9.5 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 36, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. ## snip ### Wouldn't it be a good idea on this point to reemerge coreutils or maybe the whole of system? Is the correct way doing: emerge -e system emerge -e system emerge -e world emerge -e world ? or is a single emerge -e system sufficient? Thanks, jules Hi, Don't have any new idea, but could you check if there are some hardened USE-flags in your /etc/make.conf (like 'pic', 'pie', 'hardened' etc). Using some of them on a normal system may cause problems. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 16:28 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Don't have any new idea, but could you check if there are some hardened USE-flags in your /etc/make.conf (like 'pic', 'pie', 'hardened' etc). Using some of them on a normal system may cause problems. HTH. Rumen Nope, none. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... I am seeing (-multilib) when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... I am seeing (-multilib) when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 Um, nevermind. Going back to your original post: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) But maybe you can try to follow their by hand instructions for to make sure that everything is sane for your profile. I mean, multilib should be enabled by default, unless you are actually linked to the /no-multilib profile... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:51 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... I am seeing (-multilib) when doing the emerge of gcc and binutils, so multilib is disabled by my profile and shouldn't be enabled manually, right? Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. It does: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jul 19 20:22 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 Hmm... I am running 2005.0 (from stage1) and the only content of 2005.0/scripts is 2004.3-2005.0upgrade.sh so I guess that I shouldn't need to upgrade anything? -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:20 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... Among my USE flags is nptlonly. Might that be a problem? Well, nptlonly seems to work for a lot of people, so I don't think that should be a problem. I've only ever heard of it affecting old binary-only software. I am seeing random crashes of Evolution. The backtrace originates, as far I know, always in libpthread, so maybe this nptlonly is a bad idea after all? IMO that would be reading too much out of the a single segfault. You certainly have some instability but it is most likely rooted elsewhere. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 Um, nevermind. Going back to your original post: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) But maybe you can try to follow their by hand instructions for to make sure that everything is sane for your profile. I mean, multilib should be enabled by default, unless you are actually linked to the /no-multilib profile... I am not, but emerge insists on (-multilib). I don't think the manual method will work either: ### snip # omc-2 ~ # USE=multilib emerge -va gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -static 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. ### snip # The existence of lib32 indicates multilib capabilities, right? I do got both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32. I think that I will let memtest86+ run overnight and see if it finds something. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] transcode convertion
Hello! I have a problem to convert a video. I need to use it in a DVD. I create an animation with GIMP and exported as .fli file and after with mencoder as a mpeg file but it was no right for dvdauthor. Now I tried to convert it with transcode (that has a DVD option -F 8) but it doesn't find the plug-in. This is the output: transcode -F 8 -y mpeg -i intro.mpeg -o prova transcode v0.6.14 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T. Bitterberg [transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms [transcode] auto-probing source intro.mpeg (ok) [transcode] V: import format| MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob) [transcode] V: AV demux/sync| (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence [transcode] V: import frame | 720x576 1.25:1 encoded @ 4:3 [transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.174 [transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,3 [transcode] V: Y'CbCr | YV12/I420 [transcode] A: import format| 0x50MPEG layer-2 [44100,16,2] 128 kbps [transcode] A: export format| 0x50MPEG layer-2 [44100,16,2] 128 kbps [transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 25.000,3 [transcode] A: bytes per frame | 7056 (7056.00) [transcode] A: adjustment | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tc_memcpy: using libc for memcpy [transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x576 [import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio) MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle) [transcode] warning : /usr/lib64/transcode/export_mpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [transcode] warning : (dl_loader.c) loading /usr/lib64/transcode/export_mpeg.so failed [transcode] warning : (encoder.c) loading audio export module failed [transcode] warning : failed to init export modules [transcode] critical: plug-in initialization failed This is the transcode's FLAGS: [ebuild R ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2 (-3dnow) +X +a52 (-altivec) +avi (-divx4linux) +dv +dvdread +encode +fame +gtk +imagemagick +jpeg +lzo +mjpeg (-mmx) +mpeg -network +ogg (-pvm) +quicktime +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) +theora +truetype +v4l +vorbis +xml2 +xvid What can I do? Or what can I do to export from GIMP in the format? Thanks, Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpw9LUJRbN6h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 Um, nevermind. Going back to your original post: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) But maybe you can try to follow their by hand instructions for to make sure that everything is sane for your profile. I mean, multilib should be enabled by default, unless you are actually linked to the /no-multilib profile... I am not, but emerge insists on (-multilib). I don't think the manual method will work either: ### snip # omc-2 ~ # USE=multilib emerge -va gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -static 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. ### snip # The existence of lib32 indicates multilib capabilities, right? I do got both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32. I think that I will let memtest86+ run overnight and see if it finds something. Thanks, jules Hi, No experience with 64-bits, but a USE-flag in () means not supported by the profile. Have you changed profiles? HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 17:43 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: No experience with 64-bits, but a USE-flag in () means not supported by the profile. Have you changed profiles? No. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)
Jules Colding wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:58 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Could you double check the symlink /etc/make.profile. AFAIK, you want it to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0. But read this first before changing anything: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=1 Um, nevermind. Going back to your original post: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 x86_64) But maybe you can try to follow their by hand instructions for to make sure that everything is sane for your profile. I mean, multilib should be enabled by default, unless you are actually linked to the /no-multilib profile... I am not, but emerge insists on (-multilib). I don't think the manual method will work either: ### snip # omc-2 ~ # USE=multilib emerge -va gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -static 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. ### snip # The existence of lib32 indicates multilib capabilities, right? I do got both /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32. How about /emul/linux/x86/lib? Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask contains multilib, but with a comment stating it is forced on when MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS=x86 amd64. Can any AMD64 users shed some light on this please? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] transcode convertion
Luigi Pinna wrote:
Hello!
I have a problem to convert a video.
I need to use it in a DVD.
I create an animation with GIMP and exported as .fli file and after with
mencoder as a mpeg file but it was no right for dvdauthor.
Now I tried to convert it with transcode (that has a DVD option -F 8)
but it doesn't find the plug-in.
This is the output:
transcode -F 8 -y mpeg -i intro.mpeg -o prova
transcode v0.6.14 (C) 2001-2003 Thomas Oestreich, 2003-2004 T.
Bitterberg
[transcode] (probe) suggested AV correction -D 0 (0 ms) | AV 0 ms | 0 ms
[transcode] auto-probing source intro.mpeg (ok)
[transcode] V: import format| MPEG-2 (V=vob|A=vob)
[transcode] V: AV demux/sync| (1) sync AV at initial MPEG sequence
[transcode] V: import frame | 720x576 1.25:1 encoded @ 4:3
[transcode] V: bits/pixel | 0.174
[transcode] V: decoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] V: Y'CbCr | YV12/I420
[transcode] A: import format| 0x50MPEG layer-2 [44100,16,2] 128
kbps
[transcode] A: export format| 0x50MPEG layer-2 [44100,16,2] 128
kbps
[transcode] V: encoding fps,frc | 25.000,3
[transcode] A: bytes per frame | 7056 (7056.00)
[transcode] A: adjustment | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tc_memcpy: using libc for memcpy
[transcode] V: video buffer | 10 @ 720x576
[import_vob.so] v0.6.0 (2003-10-02) (video) MPEG-2 | (audio)
MPEG/AC3/PCM | (subtitle)
[transcode] warning : /usr/lib64/transcode/export_mpeg.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
[transcode] warning : (dl_loader.c) loading
/usr/lib64/transcode/export_mpeg.so failed
[transcode] warning : (encoder.c) loading audio export module failed
[transcode] warning : failed to init export modules
[transcode] critical: plug-in initialization failed
This is the transcode's FLAGS:
[ebuild R ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2 (-3dnow) +X +a52
(-altivec) +avi (-divx4linux) +dv +dvdread +encode +fame +gtk
+imagemagick +jpeg +lzo +mjpeg (-mmx) +mpeg -network +ogg (-pvm)
+quicktime +sdl (-sse) (-sse2) +theora +truetype +v4l +vorbis +xml2
+xvid
What can I do?
Or what can I do to export from GIMP in the format?
Thanks,
Luigi
I'm not sure about that specific library problem you're having but I may have a
solution for you. I've noticed that dvdauthor is quite picky about the format
of the mpeg files that you give it. In my case, I used ffmpeg to convert an
avi to mpg but then dvdauthor did not like it. I found a workaround though. I
used tccat and tcextract to demux the mpg into separate audio/video files and
then I remuxed them with mplex.
Here is the relevant section from my script:
set -x -e
ffmpeg -i ${INPUT_AVI_FILE} -vcodec mpeg2video -b 1500 -r ntsc -s 352x240 -aspect 4:3
-acodec mp2 -ar 48000 -ac 1 ${TEMP_VOB_FILE}
tccat -i ${TEMP_VOB_FILE} | tcextract -x mpeg2 -t vob -a video_track
${TEMP_M2V_FILE}
tccat -i ${TEMP_VOB_FILE} | tcextract -x mp2 -t vob -a audio_track
${TEMP_MPA_FILE}
rm -f ${TEMP_VOB_FILE}
mplex -f 8 -o ${OUTPUT_MPG_FILE} ${TEMP_M2V_FILE} ${TEM ffmpeg -i
${INPUT_AVI_FILE} -vcodec mpeg2video -b 1500 -r ntsc -s 352x240 -aspect 4:3 -acodec mp2 -ar 48000 -ac 1
${TEMP_VOB_FILE}
tccat -i ${TEMP_VOB_FILE} | tcextract -x mpeg2 -t vob -a video_track
${TEMP_M2V_FILE}
tccat -i ${TEMP_VOB_FILE} | tcextract -x mp2 -t vob -a audio_track
${TEMP_MPA_FILE}
rm ${TEMP_VOB_FILE}
mplex -f 8 -o ${OUTPUT_MPG_FILE} ${TEMP_M2V_FILE} ${TEMP_MPA_FILE}
It's not really elegant but it worked. Note that I used mp2 because I ran into
some troubles with some avi files and the ac3 encoder. However, ac3 worked
fine with most files.
Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
Jules Colding wrote: Hmm... Among my USE flags is nptlonly. Might that be a problem? I don't think so as I have that too. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift
On Sunday 24 July 2005 08:58 am, Benno Schulenberg wrote: David Corbin wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:11 pm, Michal Pronay wrote: Sound like accessibility support to me. Try to take a look in your kde control panel - Regional Accessibility - Accessibility. Well, that allows me to turn off the System Bell, but I'm curious as to why it's beeping in the first place. Go to the Keyboard tab there, press Shift-F1, and click on Activation gestures. You will see it wasn't Ctrl but Shift that beeps after 8 seconds. You may want to read the relevant section in the Help Center. You're right of course, it was the Shift key. However, my help center documentation doesn't have any information on Activation Gestures, and worse, even if I uncheck Use gestures for activating the above features and APPLY, it still beeps. Furthermore, even though I've unchecked Use System Bell, I get an audible bell and no visible bell (despite having checked that). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about driver compatibility. The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as Apple's Airport Extreme products - I know, because I sold three of these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper referred to in many forums articles relating to it. This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism chipset. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:49 am, Ian K wrote: I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Currently available are cards using the Ralink chipset, as this manufacturer has open-sourced their own drivers and there is a strong GPL project that will (I believe) eventually join the main kernel tree. I have tested CNet cards using this chipset, and indeed I supply them to Windows customers as they're very good value, however I prefer the Belkin under Linux, as they just seem to behave slightly better. The difference is nearly intangible, but the CNet cards would sometimes not start properly when called by the /etc/init.d scripts, only to work perfectly when restarted manually. I could not make any rhyme nor reason of this, although I expect they'll work perfectly in a year or two when the rt2500 driver is more mature. Some others have suggested finding a supplier with a liberal returns policy and have suggested that no-one can guarantee that a model will have a specific chipset. I'm associated with the famous UK cartoon IT consultant, Network Ned, and can vouch that he does indeed test every batch of wireless cards that he receives for Linux compatibility. He offers these on a guaranteed to work with Linux basis - http://networkned.co.uk/hardware.php - but is aware that his website isn't CSS-compliant, thankyouverymuch. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stroller wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: On 7/23/05, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about driver compatibility. The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as Apple's Airport Extreme products - I know, because I sold three of these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper referred to in many forums articles relating to it. This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism chipset. Stroller. Get an Atheros or Prism54 based chipset, then all will be good. :) cheers. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC48vGDkIR3wj6NQcRAnqvAJ9bwjMe1YHmWiejaZTkzXC4yKkgSgCdERYy +KzqOljKsnwNao0b7xh1lBU= =Ir/J -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
Ok, some news: 1. Knoppix recognize the mouse as an ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse and I cannot get it working even with this livecd!!! 2. I think the problem is with the 2.6.* kernels: it seems mouse is always recognized, but the optical lens shuts down as soon as i begin moving it... On 7/24/05, Matt Randolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you get the mouse working under M$ on this computer or a different one? If you have never gotten it to work on this computer, you might try switching the mouse and keyboard anyway... regardless of what the little labels say. No, on this computer all was good with M$... apart form my consciousness and my pride!!! ;) Any ideas? -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help
On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:23 pm, C.Beamer wrote: hda1 is DOS hda2 is /boot hda3 is swap hda4 is my extended partition hda5 is /root The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hda0, 1) kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 I haven't tried booting with a RAM disk, so I can't comment on the other lines, but in the first there should be no space after the comma. IE: root (hda0,1) as you've done correctly below: title=DOS root (hda0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ... Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? I always do so by booting from the Gentoo LiveCD, mounting /dev/hda2 to /mount/gentoo, editing grub.conf with `nano` and then rebooting. You can experiment amply like this until you get it right. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask contains multilib, but with a comment stating it is forced on when MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS=x86 amd64. Can any AMD64 users shed some light on this please? multilib can be, or it used to be able to, turned off so that only 64-bit versions of the libs get built. Normally, it should be turned on and set in the USE string, for most folks on a x86_64 platform. But, on a system without multilib, turning it on means that, as a minimum an - emerge -uDav --newuse system will need to be performed to rebuild gcc, glibc and all the base system libs so that the following get created - /lib64 /lib32 /usr/lib32 /usr/lib64 and a few other items. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On 7/24/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as Apple's Airport Extreme products - I know, because I sold three of these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper referred to in many forums articles relating to it. That answers my question of compatibility. This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism chipset. I'm pretty sure it uses a supported chipset but I can't help but wonder if maybe Buffalo changed horses somewhere along the line and is now using Broadcom chipsets in all of their PC Cards. -- http://pizon.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help
remove space in root (hda0, 1) my kernel line also has devfs=nomount but probably this isnt needed if using latest genkernel, dont know. Martins On Sunday 24 July 2005 20:23, C.Beamer wrote: Hi All, After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo install trial run. All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot into DOS okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo. Ergo, I think the grub install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file. Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook. Details are as follows: I have a dual boot system: hda1 is DOS hda2 is /boot hda3 is swap hda4 is my extended partition hda5 is /root The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hda0, 1) kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 title=DOS root (hda0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the command 'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*' as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. Have I missed something or done something wrong? Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message when I try to boot into Gentoo that says: Error 15: File not found This displays immediatedly after the line kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev Any assistance would be appreciated. And please remember, I am not stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad. I've been running Linux at home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora. However, I'm finding that with each release of Fedora, more quirks appear. Things that I was able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without letting some blood. Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can install the software from source using emerge. This will be a learning curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was! Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete details be stated for any help that is provided. And if you tell me that I screwed up royally and have to start all over, that's okay. That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know before installing Gentoo on a production system. BTW, I did a Stage 3 install. Since it was my first time and I don't know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my head. :-) Thanks in advance for any assistance. Respectfully, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:10 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask contains multilib, but with a comment stating it is forced on when MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS=x86 amd64. Can any AMD64 users shed some light on this please? multilib can be, or it used to be able to, turned off so that only 64-bit versions of the libs get built. Normally, it should be turned on and set in the USE string, for most folks on a x86_64 platform. But, on a system without multilib, turning it on means that, as a minimum an - emerge -uDav --newuse system will need to be performed to rebuild gcc, glibc and all the base system libs so that the following get created - /lib64 /lib32 /usr/lib32 /usr/lib64 All of those are present on my system, but I am still seeing (-multilib) when I do e.g. emerge -va glibc. -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help
Martins Steinbergs wrote: remove space in root (hda0, 1) Actually, that should be (hd0,1), like you have for the splashimage. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED - CONCLUSION] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler
Summary: For those who didn't follow up the thread, I was investigating an error message: Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler. where the computer comes to a complete freeze, the only thing that works is the power switch. The error appears only under heavy load like compiling. This is a new box Asus A8V, AMD64, 1Gb or RAM (PC3200 DDR400 Kingston RAM) and Sata 200Gb I was able to find out that Aiee is a hardware error, Intel has a nice article about it: http://resource.intel.com/telecom/support/tnotes/tnbyos/2000/tn062.htm So following this lead I was looking and trying to pin-point hardware error. It took me one week to investigate trying different solutions like: 1.) I Run memtest86 first time, got some errors, so I run the same test on individual sticks (I have 2 x 512Mb), the individual sticks passed the test without errors. I exchanged the sticks between two slots and run the memtest86 again overnight. The test completed 17-passes without any error. So I excluded Memory as a culprit. 2.) I disabled Network controller on the motherboard and installed another one on PCI bus - this eliminated possible IRQ conflict, the Sata Drive on channel-0 was sharing an IRQ with Network controller. But it didn't help. 3.) I removed the heatsink, cleaned it with 99% isopropyl alcohol and applied a thin layer of new heatsink grease. Did not help. But I still wanted to try as per Robert C. suggestion: some arctic silver compound instead. It's good for a 3-5C. drop from the regular stuff. Anyhow, I opened the box cover, and the temp. of the CPU dropped from about 40C to about 35C / 36C so I decided to follow some other leads first. 4.) I removed SATA drive and tried to install Gentoo on standard IDE drive; this would eliminate SCSI problem and/or buggy driver. Did not help, I haven't had a chance to do a complete base installation when I got the same error message: Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler. I got a lead from Francesco T. ''Sometimes memtest doesn't stress enough the hardware, see: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html ... So it made me think again about the memory. I swapped the two sticks with the two sticks from one of my Backup Server PC2100 2x512Mb So I downloaded some linux source kernel but it needs to be modified as the Red Hat memtest.sh is looking for linux top-level directory not some linux-2.6.-something. Instead of modifying the script it is easier to just modify the kernel-source (as per Richard F help): tar -xzvf linux.tar.gz mv linux-* linux tar -czvf linux.tar.gz linux and one more thing, change the first line of the script: #!/bin/bash2 to: #!/bin/bash I run the RedHad memory test on my main server (different box 20-passes standard script setup) and it went just fine. It finished with an empty line no error as weg-page suggest: ---quote How do you know if your memory passed? Very simple. If you run that script from the command line on your computer and it completes without ever spewing a single message onto your screen, then you passed. If you get messages from diff about differences between files or any other anomolies such as that, then you failed. ---end quote- I run some compiling and did not receive any errors or kernel panic I did run the RedHat memory test on the memory stick from my backup server and it finished without spilling a single error message. So, at this point I know the problem is the memory stick I put back the original memory stick, the Sata Drive, and used the on board Network controller. I tried to run the RedHad memtest.sh it freeze with the same kernel panic: Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler. It appears that the test only made into fourth-round when it freeze. It did not spill any message into the screen it just freeze with the kernel panic as always. So I wasn't 100% sure that this would qualify as failed memory test: ...f you get messages from diff about differences between files or any other anomolies such as that, then you failed. But I suppose, it would qualify, you be the judge. Anyhow, I replaced the pair of stick with two new once run memtest.sh 30-passes it passed without spilling single error on the the line, clean finish. I was able to emerge kde-meta and it finished without a single hiccup. Thank you ALL for all your suggestions help, it appears another mystery has been solved. So my conclusion: Do not rely on memtest86 -- #Joseph On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 20:23 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Joseph wrote: [...] -bash: ./memtest.sh: /bin/bash2: bad interpreter: No such file or directory On both boxes the I have bash-3.0 so what is it looking for? Correct the first line of the script from #!/bin/bash2 to #!/bin/bash and everything will be fine. Ciao Francesco Thank you, yes that is what I did as soon as I posted the message. Though it puzzle me whey it runs on my main server and not on
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:00:27 +0100, Stroller wrote: The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as Apple's Airport Extreme products - I know, because I sold three of these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I believe that there are no open-source drivers for this chipset, and have seen NDISwrapper referred to in many forums articles relating to it. The driver for the Broadcom chip in the Airport Extreme card is indeed closed source. You can use it with ndiswrapper on x86, but not in an Apple laptop. This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported Prism chipset. The Airport card uses a different chipset from the Airport extreme, one for which an open source driver is available. -- Neil Bothwick Seduced by the Chocolate side of the Force... pgpY3xhjSuZgS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting 140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700 memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to 133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 904336 kB MemFree: 91224 kB Any ideas? -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help
Hi, Thanks all for noticing the typo. However, this was a typo in the e-mail, not in the boot.conf file. :-) Regards, Colleen Richard Fish wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: remove space in root (hda0, 1) Actually, that should be (hd0,1), like you have for the splashimage. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Mark Shields wrote: I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting 140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700 memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to 133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 904336 kB MemFree: 91224 kB Any ideas? Hm, now this is a toughie. Barring any BIOS misconfigurations, I'd say that you might have a defective stick of RAM. Try booting another OS and see if it can detect the full gigabyte; if it happens then it's probably a hardware problem, not a Gentoo issue. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sunday 24 07 2005 21:46 Mark Shields wrote: I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . Did you enable high Memory Support in your kernel? HTH Kai Ole Schultz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Mark Shields wrote: I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting 140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700 memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to 133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 904336 kB MemFree: 91224 kB Any ideas? Hi, There's an option in kernel-config to enable the remaining memory you have. Check it. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:46:10 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: I recently got my home server back up and running after the power supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . You need to set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y in your kernel config. -- Neil Bothwick Bookmark - A means of returning to where you got lost last time. pgpyfmy52kW9M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help
C.Beamer wrote: Hi, Thanks all for noticing the typo. However, this was a typo in the e-mail, not in the boot.conf file. :-) So, what does you actual boot.conf file contain? (hd0,1) or (hda0,1)? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ── ┌─── High Memory Support ┐ │ Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │ │ the item you wish to select followed by the SPACE BAR. Press│ │ ? for additional information about this option. │ │ ┌┐ │ │ │(X) off │ │ │ │( ) 4GB │ │ │ │( ) 64GB│ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ └┘ │ ├┤ │ Select Help│ └┘ All 3 memory sticks appear fine. The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe, my main PC has an A7N8X-E Deluxe; both of them are capable of using 3gb of memory, 1gb per stick (3 slots for memory). The 2 x 256 mb sticks came from my main PC which I upgraded with 2 x 512mb sticks. The 512mb stick has been in use by the server for 4 months. I could understand if it was possible that they're incompatible, but then it wouldn't show a gig of RAM when the PC shows the bios screen. Regardless, I'll run memtest86 overnight to be sure. I'll also see what an ubuntu or knoppix livecd shows. On 7/24/05, Kai Ole Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 07 2005 21:46 Mark Shields wrote: I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . Did you enable high Memory Support in your kernel? HTH Kai Ole Schultz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Mark Shields wrote: No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Actually, help says: CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM: If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer off here It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be off. But maybe boundary condition is not correctly defined, and for exactly 1GB it is necessary to select CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM = 4GB... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): well the -mm kernel does not have this option anymore, but IIRC you need to select 4G support to enable the rest of your memory. Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ┌─── High Memory Support ┐ │ Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │ │ the item you wish to select followed by the SPACE BAR. Press│ │ ? for additional information about this option. │ │ ┌┐ │ │ │(X) off │ │ │ │( ) 4GB │ │ │ │( ) 64GB│ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ └┘ │ ├┤ │ Select Help│ └┘ did you read the help asociated with each item? All 3 memory sticks appear fine. The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe, my main PC has an A7N8X-E Deluxe; both of them are capable of using 3gb of memory, 1gb per stick (3 slots for memory). The 2 x 256 mb sticks came from my main PC which I upgraded with 2 x 512mb sticks. The 512mb stick has been in use by the server for 4 months. I could understand if it was possible that they're incompatible, but then it wouldn't show a gig of RAM when the PC shows the bios screen. Regardless, I'll run memtest86 overnight to be sure. I'll also see what an ubuntu or knoppix livecd shows. I'm sure you will not see any hardware failures, it has something todo with the split user/kernel that you only see ~800MB of ram. enable highmem support for 4G and you will be able to use all of your memory. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ── ┌─── High Memory Support ┐ │ Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │ │ the item you wish to select followed by the SPACE BAR. Press│ │ ? for additional information about this option. │ │ ┌┐ │ │ │(X) off │ │ │ │( ) 4GB │ │ │ │( ) 64GB│ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ └┘ │ ├┤ │ Select Help│ └┘ You definetly have to say 4GB here. The Linux Kernel (Gentoo is not responsible for detecting your RAM) will otherwise not access all RAM available. Usually, if you execute dmesg the first lines talks about LOWMEM and HIGHMEM. On a machine with 1GB of RAM, it will usually read like that: 750MB LOWMEM 150MB HIGHMEM Using off will result in something like that: 750MB LOWMEM 0MB HIGHMEM which is what you're experiencing. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. On 7/24/05, Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): well the -mm kernel does not have this option anymore, but IIRC you need to select 4G support to enable the rest of your memory. Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ┌─── High Memory Support ┐ │ Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │ │ the item you wish to select followed by the SPACE BAR. Press│ │ ? for additional information about this option. │ │ ┌┐ │ │ │(X) off │ │ │ │( ) 4GB │ │ │ │( ) 64GB│ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ └┘ │ ├┤ │ Select Help│ └┘ did you read the help asociated with each item? All 3 memory sticks appear fine. The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe, my main PC has an A7N8X-E Deluxe; both of them are capable of using 3gb of memory, 1gb per stick (3 slots for memory). The 2 x 256 mb sticks came from my main PC which I upgraded with 2 x 512mb sticks. The 512mb stick has been in use by the server for 4 months. I could understand if it was possible that they're incompatible, but then it wouldn't show a gig of RAM when the PC shows the bios screen. Regardless, I'll run memtest86 overnight to be sure. I'll also see what an ubuntu or knoppix livecd shows. I'm sure you will not see any hardware failures, it has something todo with the split user/kernel that you only see ~800MB of ram. enable highmem support for 4G and you will be able to use all of your memory. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
* On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Any ideas? All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows down your memory, and some people choose to keep it off for speed unless they're using the full gig. Another option, better imho, is to use a kernel with the 1g_lowmem patch (originally from -ck patchset) or to patch it in yourself, which enables exactly 1 gig of memory at full speed. The patch for kernel 2.6.12 is available here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12-ck3/patches/1g_lowmem1_i386.diff If you need it for a different kernel version, start here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/ Tom pgpBOQkDjRNzr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift
David Corbin wrote: However, my help center documentation doesn't have any information on Activation Gestures, Indeed, it doesn't here either. Time for a doc-patch? :) and worse, even if I uncheck Use gestures for activating the above features and APPLY, it still beeps. Hmm, sounds like this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97425 What version of KDE are you using now? Here 3.4.1. Furthermore, even though I've unchecked Use System Bell, I get an audible bell and no visible bell (despite having checked that). This all works fine here, in every combination: beep, song, flash. And I can disable all that too. But holding Shift for eight seconds doesn't actually enable Slow keys, also there is no confirmation dialog (although it is ticked). Pressing Shift five times _does_ activate Sticky keys (and it asks first when ticked). Hmm, there is definitely something wrong with these Accessibility things. Maybe kcmaccessibilty depends on extra things, other split ebuilds, some of which I've installed but you don't? $ grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort kde-base/kaddressbook kde-base/kappfinder kde-base/kate kde-base/kbabel kde-base/kde-i18n kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/khelpcenter kde-base/khexedit kde-base/khotkeys kde-base/kmail kde-base/kmenuedit kde-base/kmix kde-base/konqueror kde-base/konsole kde-base/kopete kde-base/kpat kde-base/kpdf kde-base/ksnapshot kde-base/kstart kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/kuickshow kde-base/kwalletmanager kde-base/kxkb kde-misc/kdiff3 kde-misc/ksensors And this is my ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc: [Bell] ArtsBell=true ArtsBellFile=/usr/share/sounds/Borealis/Question.ogg SystemBell=true VisibleBell=true VisibleBellColor=255,0,0 VisibleBellInvert=true VisibleBellPause=200 [Keyboard] BounceKeys=false BounceKeysDelay=500 GestureConfirmation=true Gestures=true SlowKeys=false SlowKeysDelay=500 StickyKeys=false StickyKeysLatch=true [Mouse] MKCurve=0 MKDelay=160 MKInterval=5 MKMaxSpeed=500 MKTimeToMax=1000 MouseKeys=false Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS options. All of those cache this or that ROM into memory options eat some some ram. You can disable those to try and get some more memory, but your system performance will probably suffer overall. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote: Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS options. All of those cache this or that ROM into memory options eat some some ram. You can disable those to try and get some more memory, but your system performance will probably suffer overall. Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS after the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just a waste of memory if you're using Gentoo. Caching video RAM was nice back in the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video cards, shut off that option. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). No way to check from my work though (ssh-enabled BIOS, or BIOS configurable from linux, would be nice). On 7/24/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS after the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just a waste of memory if you're using Gentoo. Caching video RAM was nice back in the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video cards, shut off that option. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). On 7/24/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 17 minutes ago, yes. On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you build the kernel with high memory? snip -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. that's better than here: rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1026304 kB MemFree: 79152 kB that's almost 22MB... and that's what Richard already said probably a BIOS setting which you shouldn't try to disable to get a couple of MB's more. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. Could it be shared ram taken for an on board graphics card? I know the one in this box used to be anywhere from 4MB to 64MB iirc - replaced it with a seperate board now. that's better than here: rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1026304 kB MemFree: 79152 kB that's almost 22MB... and that's what Richard already said probably a BIOS setting which you shouldn't try to disable to get a couple of MB's more. Rudmer -- 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] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:38:24 +0200, Jarry wrote: Actually, help says: CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM: If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer off here It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be off. But maybe boundary condition is not correctly defined, and for exactly 1GB it is necessary to select CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM = 4GB... Keep reading, the next paragraph says If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then answer 4GB here. The wording is ambiguous, both apply to a 1GB machine. The first should say 1GB or more instead of more than 1GB. -- Neil Bothwick Bugs are Sons of Glitches pgpCzfz3bOyTY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Colin wrote: On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote: Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS options. All of those cache this or that ROM into memory options eat some some ram. You can disable those to try and get some more memory, but your system performance will probably suffer overall. Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS after the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just a waste of memory if you're using Gentoo. Caching video RAM was nice back in the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video cards, shut off that option. Just to point out, PCI Express is abbreviated PCIe. PCI-X is a different thing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Thomas Kirchner wrote: * On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote: Any ideas? All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows down your memory, and some people choose to keep it off for speed unless they're using the full gig. Another option, better imho, is to use a kernel with the 1g_lowmem patch (originally from -ck patchset) or to patch it in yourself, which enables exactly 1 gig of memory at full speed. The patch for kernel 2.6.12 is available here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12-ck3/patches/1g_lowmem1_i386.diff If you need it for a different kernel version, start here: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/ Tom He could also emerge ck-sources, which include the full ck patchset and genpatches base. I've been using them for about a year now on my desktop machine. In my experience, and according to the ck mailing-list, the patches are very stable these days. There is also a server version of the patchset. To get this with emerge you have to enable the 'ck-server' USE flag. Kernel patch homepage of Con Kolivas: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PS/2 mouse not working
On 7/24/05, smoke3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading a knoppix 3.9... i'll upload any result! For now none! Ok, some news: 1. Knoppix recognize the mouse as an ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse and I cannot get it working even with this livecd!!! 2. I think the problem is with the 2.6.* kernels: it seems mouse is always recognized, but the optical lens shuts down as soon as i begin moving it... S.G: -- You can't learn what you think you know. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift
On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:56 pm, Benno Schulenberg wrote: and worse, even if I uncheck Use gestures for activating the above features and APPLY, it still beeps. Hmm, sounds like this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97425 What version of KDE are you using now? Here 3.4.1. 3.4.1 Maybe kcmaccessibilty depends on extra things, other split ebuilds, some of which I've installed but you don't? $ grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort When I get that, all I get is: kde-base/kde I had 3.3 installed, and simply did an emerge -uavD world. And this is my ~/.kde/share/config/kaccessrc: Ah! I see what's happened to me (at least in part). When I run the control center, it prompts me for the root password, which I gave it. And which means my root now has those settings. This seems like a mistake in the KDE world - it seems like there's a mix of things in the control center that are system-like settings, and user preferences. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] wxGTK compile crash
I have fetched sunday morning src file for wxGTK-2.6.1 and compile it and everytime i got this error: ## /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start': init.c:(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [.pch/wxprec_basedll/wx/wxprec.h.gch] B³±d 1 !!! ERROR: x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1 failed. !!! Function configure_build, Line 46, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. What should i do to compile it and install?? Refeching sources could help? Thanks for any help Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Help
Hi, Have you made sure of the filenames of the init ram disk and the kernel? Only reason I say this is because the other day when I did a Stage 3 Genkernel the files were named something completely different from what is in the handbook. (I think initrd was something along the lines of initramdisk-more text and the both included genkernel in the file name) I had myself wondering over that for a while :) hth Alex A. Smith p.s. im installing a gentoo 2.6.12-r6 Stage 3 genkernel atm so I'll let you know when its done if the above didn't help ya. -Original Message- From: C.Beamer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 July 2005 18:24 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help Hi All, After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo install trial run. All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot into DOS okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo. Ergo, I think the grub install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file. Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook. Details are as follows: I have a dual boot system: hda1 is DOS hda2 is /boot hda3 is swap hda4 is my extended partition hda5 is /root The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hda0, 1) kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 title=DOS root (hda0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the command 'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*' as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. Have I missed something or done something wrong? Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message when I try to boot into Gentoo that says: Error 15: File not found This displays immediatedly after the line kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 udev Any assistance would be appreciated. And please remember, I am not stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad. I've been running Linux at home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora. However, I'm finding that with each release of Fedora, more quirks appear. Things that I was able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without letting some blood. Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can install the software from source using emerge. This will be a learning curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was! Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete details be stated for any help that is provided. And if you tell me that I screwed up royally and have to start all over, that's okay. That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know before installing Gentoo on a production system. BTW, I did a Stage 3 install. Since it was my first time and I don't know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my head. :-) Thanks in advance for any assistance. Respectfully, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Hi, Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. That sounds perfectly normal. The kernel usually secures 10-20mb RAM for itself, which isn't available to the rest of the system. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
