RE: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Networking Gentoo as guest on vista I'm hoping some of you here have run gentoo on a windows host and will know something about the various networking possibilities. My setup: Wireless connected laptop running windows vista premium home Local lan network connected to internet via cable. Home router has the internet connection and wireless laptop is joined into lan by a WAP (Wireless access point). With static ip addressing (not dhcp). When setting up gentoo in the virtual machine you have two main approaches to networking. Bridged and NAT. Can anyone tell me which is best suited for my setup. Starting the 2008.0 minimal iso file in vmware... I end up with a working network immediately without doing a thing. Maybe I can just transfer those settings somehow but there are no setting in /etc/conf.d/net on the install disk. It appears to have gotten an address from a dhcp server built into vmware. I don't want to jerk around with wireless setting for the gentoo install and would prefer to connect thru the hosts ip and nameserver. Should I use `Bridged' or `Nat'. And how to set it up after making that decision. I run XP (with wifi) and VMWare Host with Gentoo VMs all the time. Bridged will give your VM an IP address from your router's DHCP pool -- It will look like any other network device on your home network. It will have it's own MAC and everything. In your setup, your router will NAT for you and probably your Vista and your VM will have a 192.168.1.x address unless you changed your router's default subnet / DHCP pool. NAT (what I use) is Network Address Translation and will setup a little private network between your Vista host and the VM. The VM will be assigned an IP from VMWare's VMnet8 (NAT) subnet (mine is 192.168.222.0/24). It will be able to get to the internet, but no machines will be able to get to it sans your Vista host. This works EXACTLY like your home router is NATing addresses to the internet for all devices you plug into it. In fact your Vista is most likely NATed via the router. In either case, you do NOT have to set up wireless settings in the VM at all. It emulates an AMD PCNET32 ethernet card. In BOTH cases, it will just connect to the network via your host Vista's networking. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check
On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the manifest, ebuild /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin/mozilla-thunde rbird-bin-2.0.0.14.ebuild digest and it failed, being unable to download the '.14 file from Gentoo.something. Well, this is to be expected, as Gentoo.something doesn't have the '.14 file yet; and the ebuild downloads the source code from the author's site, not from gentoo.something. So I ended up running the emerge 3 times, manually tweaking the Manifest's hashes with the newer hashes, 'til everything matched, and tbird 2.0.0.14 emerged normally. So the question becomes, is there a way to bypass the manifest check? Or alternatively, build the manifest with the correct hashes based upon the source code's author's code. I think the assumption is that the dev making the ebuild already has the downloadable files. You have to have them to see how the build works to be able to write an ebuild that automates it. So what I do in these cases is wget all the files manually, run 'ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest' and emerge it. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader
On Friday 02 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello Gentoo users, I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to install a very similarly named package to do this). But unfortunately doing this isnt a good idea, because: lapitopi gyuszk # emerge -pv kdebase-kioslaves These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Read the kde upgrade guide at the usual place. You are trying to install individual packages together with monolithic packages. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I searched for NROFF in /etc/man-conf and found a note saying to add | -c if something had a specific version. I tried that and it works | now. There may be otehr fixesm but that works for me. Just edit it | and look for NROFF, it's in a comment. Hello, you are right it's in the comment. After adding -c to the commands NROFF, TROFF and JNROFF, the man pages are looking fine again (with vimmanpager). Thanks W. Canis -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgazokACgkQKT9zBKF0twW8NQCbBqBlZUKdJYLLZQwBoiBytka/ DpoAoJXxmilxSU0LCKb/iKZ0zJOJo7Qx =rDlQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 15:48, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: I've setup chap-secrets and peer and when I'm doing #pon my_vpn I'm getting following: using channel 32 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/7 sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x24770bb6 pcomp accomp] rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 mru 1448 auth chap MS-v2 magic snip] sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x0 mru 1448 auth chap MS-v2 magic snip] rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 pcomp accomp] sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 magic snip] rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 magic snip] snip rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x17 snip] CHAP authentication succeeded sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 01 addr 192.168.1.3] rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x0 mppe +H +M +S +L -D -C] sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1] sent [CCP ConfRej id=0x0 mppe +H +M +S +L -D -C] rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x0 addr 192.168.5.1] sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x0 addr 192.168.5.1] rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 01] sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 addr 192.168.1.3] rcvd [CCP ConfNak id=0x1 mppe +H -M +S -L -D -C] sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2] rcvd [CCP TermReq id=0x2] sent [CCP TermAck id=0x2] rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1] LCP terminated by peer sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1] Script pptp --loglevel 1 a.b.c.d --nolaunchpppd finished (pid 27227), status = 0x0 Modem hangup Connection terminated. It looks like a compression negotiation problem, since everything until CHAP authentication works. Your client rejects the mppe +H +M +S +L -D -C options it receives from the server. What's the content of your /etc/ppp/options.pptp file? Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. -- Vladimir Rusinov Voronezh, Russia UNIX Admin @ Murano Software -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each line could be dispensed with for most of them. Probably would need more than 2-3 compiles to have all but rare ones answered. Some items really check a lot of things. I think it would be a major time saver when discussing huge numbers of compiles. Hello, ccache does caching, I use it and I'm very satisfied. W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. Another problem: the tunnel is now up, but I'm not able to ping or telnet router ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:192.168.5.253 P-t-P:192.168.5.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1448 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:90 (90.0 b) TX bytes:11064 (10.8 Kb) # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.5.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 172.16.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet1 192.168.194.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet8 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 192.168.1.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 ;( -- Vladimir Rusinov Voronezh, Russia -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....
ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Hello, ccache does caching, I use it and I'm very satisfied. W. Canis -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....
Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what I noticed in outputs during the build process. Perhaps my conclusion is wrong. W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Friday 2 May 2008, 10:50, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. Another problem: the tunnel is now up, but I'm not able to ping or telnet router You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:192.168.5.253 P-t-P:192.168.5.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1448 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:90 (90.0 b) TX bytes:11064 (10.8 Kb) # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.5.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 172.16.85.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet1 192.168.194.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 vmnet8 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 2 May 2008, 10:50, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir Rusinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, kernel module was not loaded and mppe was not enabled in options.pptp. Thank you. Another problem: the tunnel is now up, but I'm not able to ping or telnet router You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? Yes, network structure is (host 192.168.1.3) --ethernet-- (US Robotics ADSL 192.168.1.1, dynamic wan ip, default route via dhcp) --internet-- (D-Link router 192.168.5.1, wan ip 1.2.3.4) --ethernet-- (office network) I've trued to add `route add -net 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0`, but it does not help. -- Vladimir Rusinov Voronezh, Russia -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Friday 2 May 2008, 11:39, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? Yes, network structure is (host 192.168.1.3) --ethernet-- (US Robotics ADSL 192.168.1.1, dynamic wan ip, default route via dhcp) --internet-- (D-Link router 192.168.5.1, wan ip 1.2.3.4) --ethernet-- (office network) I've trued to add `route add -net 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0`, but it does not help. But the tunnel is between ppp0 in your box and the D-link router, or between ppp0 in your box and some internal box in the office network? What's the network address of the office network? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SMB protocol for Krusader
Well thanks. :) lapitopi gyuszk # emerge -pv kdebase These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-apps/xinetd-2.3.14 USE=perl tcpd 295 kB [ebuild N] net-fs/samba-3.0.28 USE=acl cups ipv6 pam python readline -ads -async -automount -caps -doc -examples -fam -ldap -quotas (-selinux) -swat -syslog -winbind LINGUAS=-ja -pl 17,735 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6 USE=cups pam samba* xscreensaver -arts -branding -debug -hal -ieee1394 -java -joystick -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -ldap -lm_sensors -logitech-mouse -openexr -opengl -xcomposite -xinerama 23,671 kB Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 41,700 kB lapitopi gyuszk # I think it's going to work. 2008/5/2, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Freitag, 2. Mai 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello Gentoo users, I'm trying to enable smb:// support for Krusader. Searching the net I got a solution: I have to emerge kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves. (on Ubuntu I had to install a very similarly named package to do this). But unfortunately doing this isnt a good idea, because: lapitopi gyuszk # emerge -pv kdebase-kioslaves These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] kde-base/kdialog-3.5.8 USE=-arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama 23,633 kB [ebuild N] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.8 USE=-arts -debug -hal -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -ldap -openexr -samba -xinerama 20 kB [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.8, kde-base/kdialog-3.5.8) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdialog-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6) Total: 2 packages (2 new, 3 blocks), Size of downloads: 23,653 kB Maybe kdebase has a use flag for kioslaves...? lapitopi gyuszk # emerge -pv kdebase These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.8-r6 USE=cups pam xscreensaver -arts -branding -debug -hal -ieee1394 -java -joystick -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -ldap -lm_sensors -logitech-mouse -openexr -opengl -samba -xcomposite -xinerama 23,671 kB No. :( Information: I'm running Gentoo amd64, everything up-to-date. Installed monolythic kde (emerge kde). Can anybody help? Thanks a lot. there is no flag, because kio-slaves are an integral part of KDE and always installed with kdebase. So you don't need to install anything. BUT you need to re-emerge kdebase with the samba useflag. lmsensors, opengl, hal, java, kdehiddenvisibility, xcomposity would be good ideas too. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:25:41 +0200 Wolf Canis wrote: Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what I noticed in outputs during the build process. Perhaps my conclusion is wrong. W. Canis As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small programs and compiles them. I can see how caching compilation info would help with this. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 2 May 2008, 11:39, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: You have several network connections. You probably need to add some static route(s). What's the IP address of the router? Yes, network structure is (host 192.168.1.3) --ethernet-- (US Robotics ADSL 192.168.1.1, dynamic wan ip, default route via dhcp) --internet-- (D-Link router 192.168.5.1, wan ip 1.2.3.4) --ethernet-- (office network) I've trued to add `route add -net 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0`, but it does not help. But the tunnel is between ppp0 in your box and the D-link router, or between ppp0 in your box and some internal box in the office network? What's the network address of the office network? It's between my box and d-link. The office network address is 192.168.5.0/24, my local network is 192.168.1.0/24. Currenty I can't even ping or telnet to d-link router (I'm 100% shure that https port is open on d-link). -- Vladimir Rusinov Voronezh, Russia -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat
On Friday 2 May 2008, 13:33, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: But the tunnel is between ppp0 in your box and the D-link router, or between ppp0 in your box and some internal box in the office network? What's the network address of the office network? It's between my box and d-link. The office network address is 192.168.5.0/24, my local network is 192.168.1.0/24. Currenty I can't even ping or telnet to d-link router (I'm 100% shure that https port is open on d-link). If you can't ping or telnet to the d-link using its wan public IP, then you should solve that problem first. If you can reach the router through its public IP, then the problem may be in the tunnel configuration. I don't know what degree of control you have upon the remote router, however, you could try using a different IP subnet for the tunnel (eg, 192.168.100.0/24), which is also a cleaner setup imho (the router needs to be configured to forward IP packets, but that is hopefully already so, otherwise it would be rather useless as a router). ATM you are using, for the tunnel, addresses belonging to the same office IP network. This can be done, but then you need to make sure the remote pppd is doing proxy arp (ie, option proxyarp to pppd). You still need a static route to 192.168.5.0/24 through ppp0, since by default only the /32 entry to the peer is created. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: New eth.0/openrc setup - I'm confused
Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do this; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop - verify the interface is down, if its not maybe just 'ifconfig eth0 down' it /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start A reboot cured the problem... It now works like one would expect. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in portage anymore, so I quit. Next I tried some gtk stuff, scripting stuff, gosh, so many. End up with WICD, wich for the most part works fine. I didn't have the time to check why the heck it tries to connect to None more often then it tries with the SSID Im telling it to (maybe some configuration file lost in the way), but anyway, change driver from ndiswrapper or wext and it eventually works. What are you guys using? Im accepting suggestions! -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Updated ebuild; bypassing manifest check
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Following the instructions here, I tried to create an updated ebuild for mozilla-thunderbird-bin. The newest version is 2.0.0.14; current ebuild is 2.0.0.12. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild Everything worked fine until I tried to update the hashes in the manifest, ebuild /usr/local/portage/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin/mozilla-thunde rbird-bin-2.0.0.14.ebuild digest and it failed, being unable to download the '.14 file from Gentoo.something. Well, this is to be expected, as Gentoo.something doesn't have the '.14 file yet; and the ebuild downloads the source code from the author's site, not from gentoo.something. So I ended up running the emerge 3 times, manually tweaking the Manifest's hashes with the newer hashes, 'til everything matched, and tbird 2.0.0.14 emerged normally. So the question becomes, is there a way to bypass the manifest check? Or alternatively, build the manifest with the correct hashes based upon the source code's author's code. I think the assumption is that the dev making the ebuild already has the downloadable files. You have to have them to see how the build works to be able to write an ebuild that automates it. So what I do in these cases is wget all the files manually, run 'ebuild /path/to/ebuild manifest' and emerge it. YES. makes sense; and now that you mention it, I recall somewhere seeing someone doing that! Thanks!! p.s. apologies to the guy maintaining Mozilla. I sent a couple of bugzilla notes about TBird being two releases behind; turns out that there was no release 2.0.0.13 for 'nix - that Portage Tbird ebuild was in fact quite on top of things.. apologies again. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in portage anymore, so I quit. Where does it say that the NetworkManager needs a downgraded version of wpa_supplicant? The reason that I ask is that I use NetworkManager on my laptop and it's been great.. except for at work where we use Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo laptop. Thanks, -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Network manager for laptop
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo laptop. Is it likely to be a kenel module involved? Maybe have your pal lsmod and send it to you to compare with your lsmod. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] webcam
Hi Sorry about this. lsusb sees my logptech 5000 webcam. I've configured according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_webcam but there's no light on. Can anypne help pls? g -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in portage anymore, so I quit. Where does it say that the NetworkManager needs a downgraded version of wpa_supplicant? The reason that I ask is that I use NetworkManager on my laptop and it's been great.. except for at work where we use Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo laptop. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people with this problem, tried all their solutions but still no game. I get the infamous couldn't connect to the supplicant syslog error. Believe me, I spent a LOT of time trying to figure this out... WICD had the None problem (must have something to do with the 00:00:00:00:00 failed authentication in wpa_supplicant (wich is something I must research too), that makes it annoying, but not impossible to use it. Any more suggestions? -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] webcam
Hi, If you mean a logitech 5000, this page may helps you: http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ I don't know the cam, but had no problem with old quickcams or spca5xx chipset based ones on gentoo. Just make sure you have V4L enables in your kernel config. cu Max On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:03 +0100, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi Sorry about this. lsusb sees my logptech 5000 webcam. I've configured according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_a_webcam but there's no light on. Can anypne help pls? g -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/-MERGING-pam
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I'm just about done cleaning up a machine that I haven't touched in
a while. For the first time I used eix-test-obsolete to look for
inconsistencies in the portage config files. It worked wel. The
machine is clean in terms of emerge -DuN world;emerge
--depclean;revdep-rebuild. However I am left with one strange package
that doesn't exit. I'm thinking sys-libs/-MERGING-pam is left over
from some emerge that possibly failed and would like to clean it up. I
does exist in /var/db/pkg but I've never touched anything in these
dirfectories by hand so I'd like to know the right way to go about
this.
The other few packages that failed in eix-test-obsolete allowed an
emerge -C but this one doesn't.
Thanks,
Mark
gandalf ~ # slocate MERGING-pam
/var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1
gandalf ~ #
gandalf ~ # eix-test-obsolete
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.use.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags.
The following installed packages are not in the database:
sys-libs/-MERGING-pam
--
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.mask (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.use (or test switched off).
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags (or test switched off).
All installed versions of packages are in the database (or test switched off).
gandalf ~ # eix -I pam
[I] sys-libs/pam
Available versions: 0.99.8.1-r1 0.99.9.0 ~1.0.1 {audit cracklib
elibc_FreeBSD elibc_glibc nls selinux test vim-syntax}
Installed versions: 0.99.9.0(09:06:34 12/24/07)(cracklib
elibc_glibc nls -audit -elibc_FreeBSD -selinux -test -vim-syntax)
Homepage:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Description: Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
gandalf ~ #
Hi Mark,
Just remove (or move it somewhere) the whole directory:
#rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-pam-0.99.8.1-r1
Probably left from some error while merging pam.
Then test again.
HTH, Rumen
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Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Friday 2 May 2008, 18:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Yes. XP will blow away the MBR and replace it with its own MBR, so, to be able to boot linux again, you'll have to boot with a livecd, chroot, and re-install grub (or lilo). On the other hand, if you install windows first, and linux last, you will have no problems when you'll have to configure grub: just add another entry for booting a non-linux OS. 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. Any particular reason to put windows at the end of the drive? This should however not be a problem, it you partition the space at the beginning of the disk *before* installing XP (eg, doing (c)fdisk from a livecd). On my laptop, I partitioned as follows: hda1 - windows (23GB) hda2 - extended hda5 - /boot (50MB) hda6 - swap (2GB) hda7 - /home (45GB) hda8 - / (remaining space, ~10GB) I don't need a separate /var. Do you have special requirements to keep it separated? On the other hand, I like to use a dedicated partition for /home. This is useful because you can share your home folder among different distros (in case you have more than one installed), and, more important, if you need you can wipe / and reinstall without touching /home (probably saving /etc and something else beforehand if you want...but still quicker than backing up several GB of data, which you are forced to do if you have /home on /). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? All of this is mostly my own viewpoint from experience. There may be other ways: Other way round. Windows operating systems have a nasty habit of assuming they are the only system on the machine and merrily trash everything in sight for their own nefarious purposes. Then they overwrite any existing bootloader. I do this: Install XP. If you can get it to limit the partition size it uses, so much the better Resize windows partition downwards with Linux LiveCD. Most recent ones support this. Install Linux and set up a chainloader as normal in grub to boot windows Finally boot Windows and let it do what it wants with the partitions that need checking. This is expected behaviour caused by the downward resize 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Again, you have to take account of windows brain-deadedness and the even greater braindeadedness of windows administrators. They don't expect boot partitions I would allocate as little as possible for windows itself. Say 10G, which allows for the OS plus it's virtual memory file plus other cache stuff From sda2 onwards, lay out your partitions as for a regular Linux installation. Use your own preferences for swap, lvm, filesystems etc. Being able to share data between both OSes is useful, so leave the most space possible for data: You have two options: FAT32. This is gross and gives you no security. It's also the easiest as both OSes support it out the box. Ext3/ReiserFS: Better solution security-wise but requires some setup. You have to download and install windows drivers from sourceforge. There's a third option - use the ntfs-ng driver in Linux. It seems just silly to use this for your main data storage though. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Dunno. All machines I ever setup as dual boot had Windows pre-installed, so I can only say: There are no issues when installing Windows first. 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. Here they are: I mostly keep 20G for Windows, but it could well be 10 :-) My setup: sda1 - Windows sda2 - /boot, ext2, 32m. sda3 - /, xfs, 256m (Setting up this way frees you from using initramfs) sda4 - LVM, for everything else. LVM Setup (one volume group having the machine name in its name, like /dev/machine-name_vg00/volume, with volume being: usr - /usr, xfs, starting with 3G, growing on demand var - /var, xfs, 1G opt - /opt, xfs, 1G johndoe - /home/johndoe, xfs, size depends overlays - /gentoo/overlays, xfs, 1G (portage tree and overlays) build - /gentoo/build, xfs, size depends (up to 6G if you want to build OOo) distfiles - /gentoo/distfiles, xfs, 2G swap - swap, swap, 2G (optional) whatever you need in addition. You wrote this is a laptop, so if you consider encrypting the volumes (incl. /) you need an initramfs anyway, which means you could also put / on a logical volume (in which case the above would change to: sda3 - LVM and root - /, xfs, 256m). HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? All of this is mostly my own viewpoint from experience. There may be other ways: Other way round. Windows operating systems have a nasty habit of assuming they are the only system on the machine and merrily trash everything in sight for their own nefarious purposes. Then they overwrite any existing bootloader. I do this: Install XP. If you can get it to limit the partition size it uses, so much the better Resize windows partition downwards with Linux LiveCD. Most recent ones support this. Install Linux and set up a chainloader as normal in grub to boot windows Finally boot Windows and let it do what it wants with the partitions that need checking. This is expected behaviour caused by the downward resize 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Again, you have to take account of windows brain-deadedness and the even greater braindeadedness of windows administrators. They don't expect boot partitions I would allocate as little as possible for windows itself. Say 10G, which allows for the OS plus it's virtual memory file plus other cache stuff From sda2 onwards, lay out your partitions as for a regular Linux installation. Use your own preferences for swap, lvm, filesystems etc. Being able to share data between both OSes is useful, so leave the most space possible for data: You have two options: FAT32. This is gross and gives you no security. It's also the easiest as both OSes support it out the box. Ext3/ReiserFS: Better solution security-wise but requires some setup. You have to download and install windows drivers from sourceforge. There's a third option - use the ntfs-ng driver in Linux. It seems just silly to use this for your main data storage though. First, thanks to everyone for the quick answers. 1) I'll go with Windows first. That's relatively fast and if I run into hardware problems it will show up more quickly which is good. Saves me the time of doing the Gentoo install and then finding issues. 2) If I do Windows first then /dev/sda1 will be NTFS. Does this change how I install grub? I'm a little fuzzy as to where the MBR is. Is it in the first partition or in a special area by itself? The commands from the install guide is this: livecd conf.d # grub grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) quit I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use grub setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. grub setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: I presume I'll use grub root(hd0,4) to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. grub setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye... Dirk Thanks Dirk. Windows is nearly installed so I'll move on to Gentoo in the next hour or so. I went with a 10G NTFS partition and will use the rest for Gentoo. I've been using a Windows etx3 driver to access Linux partitions so I'll do that here and set up a common personal data area for both environments where I can keep my files. I've also got about 8 external 1394 and USB drives so if I need more of anything I can always plug one of them in. I really appreciate everyone's inputs. Thanks! Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
(Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Saw a similar thread, going the wrong way.) I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org I would be very careful about installing from OEM disks. My HP OEM disks will actually blow ALL the partitions on the drive away, repartition and reformat the whole drive back to the way it was shipped from the factory. Better if you can find a regular retail copy of XP. Note that in the case of this HP Vista license it only works with the OEM install. The license is no good with a normal copy of Vista. The other issue I'm having right now is that XP is installed and the machine boots just fine but a 2001 XP disk doesn't have drivers to enable networking support so the machine cannot get to the net for updates. I think now I'll start on the Gentoo install, get a drive set up that the XP partition can see (small FAT or NTFS drive) and then use Gentoo to get the drivers onto the system so that XP can start working. You might not have that problem with your OEM disk as they certainly have the right drivers for your hardware. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Danis Petkakis wrote: well i did boot with windows cd did a fixmbr, then reinstalled lilo in mbr and now it seems to work...when i choose windows the entry of the ntldr shows up and then i choose to boot to windows without any problems...could i somehow put an entry in ntldr so that instead of booting to windows to fall back to lilo menu again so that i don't have to reboot?? Google for boot Linux with ntldr or chainload linux with ntldr. But it is not maintenance free. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP: sda1 - /boot = 50MB sda2 - swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) sda3 - /var = 2GB sda4 ==extended sda5 - / balance of Linux side, say 55GB sda6 == Windows drive C: Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. Any particular reason to put windows at the end of the drive? This should however not be a problem, it you partition the space at the beginning of the disk *before* installing XP (eg, doing (c)fdisk from a livecd). On my laptop, I partitioned as follows: hda1 - windows (23GB) hda2 - extended hda5 - /boot (50MB) hda6 - swap (2GB) hda7 - /home (45GB) hda8 - / (remaining space, ~10GB) I don't need a separate /var. Do you have special requirements to keep it separated? On the other hand, I like to use a dedicated partition for /home. This is useful because you can share your home folder among different distros (in case you have more than one installed), and, more important, if you need you can wipe / and reinstall without touching /home (probably saving /etc and something else beforehand if you want...but still quicker than backing up several GB of data, which you are forced to do if you have /home on /). Great inputs. I'm going to use a 10GB partition for /home, a 40GB partition for data shared with XP, and a 1.3GB /var partition. My reason for keeping /var on it's own is that I sometimes run into programs that spew so much stuff into /var that they will fill up the partition. If that happens then I cannot log into X until I clean it up. It's just what I do. I put in a 2GB swap partition. It's not 2x memory but I really think it's unlikely that I'll need it. If I do then I'll size down the data sharing partition which I'm putting at the end of the drive and put it out there. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sandro Hannemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. However that's not on the 2007.0 install CD so it will get enabled after I get the machine built. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install
Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf portage-latest step and noticed the inconsistency. Apparently all the 2007.0 snapshots, etc., are now gone from the servers. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....
Brandon Mintern ha scritto: I had thought the same thing myself some time ago, and I discovered that there had been work on a FEATURE called confcache. I believe it was abandoned, though, due to major difficulties. This is merely a guess, but I think some of the problems arise in that some of the things that are checked for actually change as a package is installed or updated (e.g. checking gcc version). This means that each package being installed would have to somehow flag confcache and indicate that it has changed, and confcache would have to keep a list of all these cached values and their dependencies. What was the problem with that? Ebuilds of stuff like gcc could be tailored to flag confcache. Otherwise, emerge could do the relevant checks before emerging the first package, and be trained to do them again after a known troublesome package has been emerged. I understand this requires coordination and maintaining, of course, and that's the non-trivial part, I guess. However, are there many packages affecting common configure checks? If they are, say, less than 10 affecting 80% of configure flags, it seems worth the hassle. If troubles arise, one can quickly try with confcache disabled, and debug. Heck, I'd help with it myself, if only I had some confidence with portage code and C compilation (However, I know Python, FWIW) m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people with this problem, tried all their solutions but still no game. I get the infamous couldn't connect to the supplicant syslog error. Believe me, I spent a LOT of time trying to figure this out... WICD had the None problem (must have something to do with the 00:00:00:00:00 failed authentication in wpa_supplicant (wich is something I must research too), that makes it annoying, but not impossible to use it. Any more suggestions? I have a Macbook Pro laptop with Gentoo, with WPA working fine with NetworkManager (Madwifi drivers). I now do not have time to check the full configs. However I remember that mixing wpa_supplicant configuration and NetworkManager was BAD. I kept a very confused diary of my Macbook Gentoo install, the relevant part is: ok, found problem. using the conf.d/net and wpa_supplicant.conf WITH NetworkManager is just problems. so I am trying to use only NetworkManager. ...and it's what I'm currently doing. I guess NetworkManager takes care of wpa_supplicant. Then, madwifi drivers for that card are a bit flaky, but that's another story... Tell me what info you need, I may try to help you. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VirtualBox libSDL segfault
When trying to install an XP guest on a Gentoo Linux host I get the following in dmesg: VirtualBox[31849]: segfault at 2d5b4ae0 ip 7fd12ddb9cf6 sp 7fff37a9ac60 error 4 in libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.0[7fd12dda4000+64000] also: VirtualBox[13373]: segfault at 2759ae0 ip 7ffa02f5ee56 sp 7fff0cc3fe00 error 4 in libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.2[7ffa02f49000+65000] Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried ~amd64 versions of sdl stuff to no avail. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out communicating with the AP. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf portage-latest step and noticed the inconsistency. Apparently all the 2007.0 snapshots, etc., are now gone from the servers. There shouldn't be a problem. Aside from the fact that a LiveCD is quite a complex thing, as far as installation goes it's sole purpose is to provide an environment where you can unpack a stage3 and chroot into it. When you have chrooted, you are essentially in a self-contained environment and all that is left of the original environment is the kernel it provides. The build system is provided entirely by the chroot and nothing in user space can come from or be influenced by what's outside it (this is the entire point of chroot). As long as 2008.0 beta2 can work nicely with the kernel on 2007.0 LiveCD, it must work exactly as designed. It's hard to imagine a way this wouldn't be the case. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions
On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Not quite. It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there for ages, and it's *partial* write support. From fs/Kconfig line 836: config NTFS_RW bool NTFS write support depends on NTFS_FS help This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot be written to. While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have so far not received a single report where the driver would have damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), is not safe. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install
On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf portage-latest step and noticed the inconsistency. Apparently all the 2007.0 snapshots, etc., are now gone from the servers. There shouldn't be a problem. Aside from the fact that a LiveCD is quite a complex thing, as far as installation goes it's sole purpose is to provide an environment where you can unpack a stage3 and chroot into it. When you have chrooted, you are essentially in a self-contained environment and all that is left of the original environment is the kernel it provides. Well, plus all running services/daemons unless you take them down after chrooting and bring them up again within the chroot. This can be a life saver. I have my portage tree on box A while box B NFS mounts it. At one stage, NFS versions of A and B got so out of sync, B couldn't NFS mount /usr/portage any more. A LiveCD with an NFS version matching (well, at least fitting) the one on box A was my path to salvation. ;-) The build system is provided entirely by the chroot and nothing in user space can come from or be influenced by what's outside it (this is the entire point of chroot). This, of course, is absolutely true. Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people with this problem, tried all their solutions but still no game. I get the infamous couldn't connect to the supplicant syslog error. Believe me, I spent a LOT of time trying to figure this out... WICD had the None problem (must have something to do with the 00:00:00:00:00 failed authentication in wpa_supplicant (wich is something I must research too), that makes it annoying, but not impossible to use it. Any more suggestions? I have a Macbook Pro laptop with Gentoo, with WPA working fine with NetworkManager (Madwifi drivers). I now do not have time to check the full configs. However I remember that mixing wpa_supplicant configuration and NetworkManager was BAD. I kept a very confused diary of my Macbook Gentoo install, the relevant part is: ok, found problem. using the conf.d/net and wpa_supplicant.conf WITH NetworkManager is just problems. so I am trying to use only NetworkManager. ...and it's what I'm currently doing. I guess NetworkManager takes care of wpa_supplicant. Then, madwifi drivers for that card are a bit flaky, but that's another story... Tell me what info you need, I may try to help you. I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon as I get home... All I need is to know if you can actually use WPA, store the keys, reboot, and try again, with the same SSID, it fails for me all the time. (and var log messages says couldn't connect to the supplicant). -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? At this moment I'm doing the tar xjf portage-latest step and noticed the inconsistency. Apparently all the 2007.0 snapshots, etc., are now gone from the servers. There shouldn't be a problem. Aside from the fact that a LiveCD is quite a complex thing, as far as installation goes it's sole purpose is to provide an environment where you can unpack a stage3 and chroot into it. When you have chrooted, you are essentially in a self-contained environment and all that is left of the original environment is the kernel it provides. Well, plus all running services/daemons unless you take them down after chrooting and bring them up again within the chroot. This can be a life saver. I have my portage tree on box A while box B NFS mounts it. At one stage, NFS versions of A and B got so out of sync, B couldn't NFS mount /usr/portage any more. A LiveCD with an NFS version matching (well, at least fitting) the one on box A was my path to salvation. ;-) The build system is provided entirely by the chroot and nothing in user space can come from or be influenced by what's outside it (this is the entire point of chroot). This, of course, is absolutely true. Uwe Thanks guys. I've finished the install and attempted to boot. My first kernel failed at some point I've not run into before complaining about IO_APIC vectors. I'm searching around in Google for what might have caused that and building a new kernel in parallel. The good sign is the machine is starting to show some life. I need to put the dual boot stuff in grub.conf and make sure Windows is still booting, and then get this kernel issue worked out. Thanks for all your inputs today. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I get when I chroot into the new installation? No. You can use what ever LiveCD you like to install Gentoo. Last time, I used GRML. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Kernel hangs on Enabling IO-APIC IRQs
I'm bringing up this dual core laptop. The kernel hangs with these messages: Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1 CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK-53 stepping 01 Total of 2 processors activated (6834.25 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 If I append noapic on kernel options in grub then the machine does finish booting and I can log in so I'm not at a dead stop but I'd like to figure out what's going on. Any ideas where I might look for kernel config options that would effect this? I haven't found all the stuff I'm looking for in make menuconfig yet but grepping the kernel config file I've currently got this: laptop1 linux # cat .config | grep APIC CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y laptop1 linux # I think I really want IO_APICs with a dual processor so I'm wondering what else might be involved. Thanks in advance, Mark laptop1 ~ # lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI-X GeForce Go 6100 (rev a2) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02) laptop1 ~ # -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with autoconf when building samba (x86_64/AMD64, as stable and experimental packages)...
# emerge -v samba These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] net-fs/samba-3.0.28a USE=acl ads async cups fam ipv6 ldap pam python readline syslog winbind -automount -caps -doc -examples -quotas (-selinux) -swat LINGUAS=pl -ja 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB Verifying ebuild Manifests... Emerging (1 of 1) net-fs/samba-3.0.28a to / * samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] Unpacking source... Unpacking samba-3.0.28a.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.0.28a/work * Applying 3.0.26a-lazyldflags.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 3.0.26a-invalid-free-fix.patch ...[ ok ] * Applying 3.0.28-libcap_detection.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 3.0.28-fix_broken_readdir_detection.patch ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf -I. -Ilib/replace ... [ !! ] * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.0.28a/temp/autoconf-13269.out * * ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.28a failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack * environment, line 3646: Called eautoconf '-I.' '-Ilib/replace' * environment, line 1297: Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf' '-I.' '-Ilib/replace' * environment, line 593: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die Failed Running $1 !; * The die message: * Failed Running autoconf ! * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.0.28a/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.0.28a/temp/environment'. * autoconf * * autoconf -I. -Ilib/replace configure.in:341: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_AIX lib/replace/autoconf-2.60.m4:182: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:451: AC_AIX is expanded from... lib/replace/autoconf-2.60.m4:182: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from... configure.in:341: the top level autom4te-2.62: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon as I get home... What happens? what error messages? All I need is to know if you can actually use WPA, store the keys, reboot, and try again, with the same SSID, it fails for me all the time. (and var log messages says couldn't connect to the supplicant). I think yes, since I use it everyday with my WPA router at home. I must confess that I didn't experience such difficulties. Hope it's not a new bug waiting to bite me... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?
Sorry about all the noise today. I guess it goes with building a new architecture for the first time. I am going to run 32-bit Gentoo on an AMD64 dual processor laptop. Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe I referenced this page to try to decide: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html My single processor AND64 Gentoo machine uses k8. Not sure if I should change anything for a dual processor. If someone is running a machine like that and can provide a complete make.conf file that would be great. Thanks, Mark laptop1 linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 104 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-53 stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 1700.000 cache size : 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps bogomips: 3418.67 clflush size: 64 processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 104 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-53 stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 1700.000 cache size : 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps bogomips: 3415.56 clflush size: 64 laptop1 linux # -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon as I get home... What happens? what error messages? Nothing happens, when I try connecting, it asks for my key, I submit it, and then it dies. /var/log/messages says Couldn't connect to the supplicant. It appears to be a error regarding wpa_supplicant and DBUS. All I need is to know if you can actually use WPA, store the keys, reboot, and try again, with the same SSID, it fails for me all the time. (and var log messages says couldn't connect to the supplicant). I think yes, since I use it everyday with my WPA router at home. I must confess that I didn't experience such difficulties. Hope it's not a new bug waiting to bite me... Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?
Mark Knecht wrote: Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I weren't using -march=native. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Would I be making a reasonably good setting using this in make.conf? CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -pipe That's what I would be using on my single, dual and quad cores if I weren't using -march=native. ;) That surprises me Neil. It seems more 'automatic' than a nuts bolt guy such as you might choose. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... You can say so, but WICD and NetworkManager are completely different programs, they both call wpa_supplicant, but in completely different ways, as far as I can see. NM tries to use DBUS to talk to supplicant, while WICD launches supplicant directly, by pointing it to a generated config file. But yes, I suppose NM is broken in the sense it can't talk to wpa_supplicant on my laptop. -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first. deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +, James wrote: Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user
Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- show-all-if-ambiguout show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user
can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- show-all-if-ambiguout show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first. deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +, James wrote: Michael Higgins linux at evolone.org writes: I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install from Dell OEM disks that came originally. Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have to re-install grub that's it? '-) The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. James Just a small heads-up about my installation of WinXP today on the laptop that went down last night. No problems installing Gentoo. It's up and running. Double built emerge -e world. However on the Windows side my OEM had installed Vista which I didn't like so I installed XP today. No problems installing XP (as per a previous thread) however I have no sound, video, audio or networking drivers for XP. I think I found some at the nVidia site but HP/Compaq don't want to support XP so they don't have them. The nVidia instructions say I have to install Service Pack 1a first and without networking I had to scrounge around for those, burn them to a CD, and hopefully get them installed tomorrow. The basic lesson is that M$ pushes the OEMs to abandon XP and its getting harder and harder to install XP all the time. Just a small heads-up. Not an issue if you like the version of Windows your system came with. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux
Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. Maxim Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user
on Friday 05/02/2008 deface([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface Yep, the user is in the video group. On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a normal user I get the following errors: /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- show-all-if-ambiguout show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]converting usb mp3 player to linux
On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I have a USB MP3 flash player and I was wondering if there was some way to install a linux based operating system or what ever it takes to play files. maybe. depends on the player. Also there is one really good project - 'rockbox' - which is not linux based. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
