Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Jason Carson wrote: Greetings, I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in master mode but for some reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Dale
Jason Carson wrote: Hey all, I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried editing the defconfig file in

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 02:27:39 Dale wrote: That's sort of what I was thinking. It was generated when it was started up the first time. I also noticed some things that I installed in the Seamonkey directory too. Adblock was one of those. Tho there was a good many of them, I suspect most

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
Jason Carson wrote: Hey all, I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried editing the defconfig file in

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:16:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:35 -0500, Dale wrote: Also, I think emerge used to have the --digest option. Basically it tells emerge to skip checking the digest. I didn't see it in the man page so it may not be there anymore. It was dangerous, because it ignored digests for all packages

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

2009-06-09 Thread Laurent Lejeune
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]: Hi all, I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very basic needs very well, except from those two things: * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) which avoids checking all the symlinks. In case that you find implementation works correctly, this will not change anything unless either /usr/lib or /lib are symlinks. If you however use find

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Greetings, I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in master mode but for some reason it is starting up in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved

2009-06-09 Thread Philip Webb
090608 Philip Webb wrote: 090608 Mick wrote: I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency: eix kde-base/mimelib Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD) I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:05:05 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) which avoids checking all the symlinks. In case that you find implementation works correctly, this will not change anything unless either /usr/lib or /lib are symlinks.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of  ~/.xinitrc   then did 'startx' yes the desktop menus the panel menu had vanished.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: solved

2009-06-09 Thread Mick
2009/6/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/6/9 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: After the usual night's sleep to clear the cerebral tmp files I thought of starting the new day in KDE to try fixing things there. I swapped to my KDE version of  ~/.xinitrc   then did 'startx' yes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote: H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this... * Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support * Enabling drivers: * HostAP driver enabled * Wired driver enabled * Prism54 driver enabled * Madwifi driver enabled * nl80211 driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, be careful when you parse the output of the command. Most of the .pyc and .pyo files in the python2.5 directories are byte-compiled version that python generated dynamically the first time they are used. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? This is undesirable

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0100, Stroller wrote: The package's hosting may be donated to the software's author, for instance, by a 3rd party, so when you go directly to SRC_URI, avoiding mirrors, you wear out the author's welcome. There's another factor that some projects will change

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) zsh: argument list too long: qfile bash energy ~ # qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) bash: /usr/bin/qfile: Argument list too long bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:04:54 Stroller wrote: On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) zsh: argument list too long: qfile This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:48:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Definitely. I have to beat users over the head (metaphorically) with a stick to get them to use my mirror. They somehow have the idea that SRC_URI has better quality bits than my

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) zsh: argument list too long: qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mickaël Bucas mbu...@gmail.com wrote: You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} + The right way to handle any size for the list returned by find, is by using xargs : find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation. You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-) You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} + ah, thank you - I just copied from Neil (and had a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de: Mickaël Bucas mbu...@gmail.com wrote: You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} + The right way to handle any size for the list returned by find, is by using xargs : find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n'

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: If it's been around 19 years, why doesn't Google know anything about it? What is it? from the manpage of find, it even compares it to the xargs method: -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Mickaël Bucas
2009/6/9 Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Montag 08 Juni 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) qfile --orphans $(find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f) zsh: argument list too

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this is execplus (since 19 years). If it's been around 19 years, why doesn't Google know anything about it? What

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:04:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: This is not a zsh limitation but a Linux limitation. You may have longer arg lists if you use Solaris ;-) You may avoid the problem with find . -exec prog args {} + ah,

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this is execplus (since 19 years). If it's been around 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:42:34 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end;

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:21:32 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: command file 1 file 2 file 3 or command file 1 file 2 file 3 The latter. Thanks, and bye-bye xargs (not that I used it very often). -- Neil Bothwick Cross-country skiing is great in small countries. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:59:39 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: How does this handle quoted filenames? correctly. Are you part Vorlon ;-) -- Neil Bothwick The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.(Horace Walpole) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:20:49 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 9 June 2009, 16:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:21 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs -d'\n' qfile --orphans No, this is definitely wrong: the right way to handle this

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? As others have pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 20:26:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 09 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 17:56:41 Arttu V. wrote: On 6/9/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
Jason Carson schrieb: Greetings, I am trying to setup a wireless access point using the atheros kernel driver (Built into the kernel, not as a module). I am using Vanilla-Sources 2.6.29.4. I need my wireless network card to start up in master mode but for some reason it is starting up in

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote: H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this... * Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support * Enabling drivers: * HostAP driver enabled * Wired driver enabled * Prism54 driver enabled * Madwifi driver enabled * nl80211

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
On 9 Jun 2009, at 08:15, Jason Carson wrote: H, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this... * Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support * Enabling drivers: * HostAP driver enabled * Wired driver enabled * Prism54 driver enabled * Madwifi driver enabled * nl80211

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: let me guess: South Africa? Correct first time :-) It's not hard to work out ;-) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za -- Neil Bothwick Remember the good old days, when CPU was

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: let me guess: South Africa? Correct first time :-) It's not hard to work out ;-) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za Drat.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: let me guess: South Africa? Correct first time :-) It's not hard to work out ;-) Received: from nazgul.localnet

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: let me guess: South Africa? Correct first time :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 00:17:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:57:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:49:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: let me guess:

[gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch) right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up. Details: I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least several kernels but I think beginning with changing from one KVM to another a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:10:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How long does it take to sync the brand new Fedora 11 release? Don't know. How long should it take? Don't care :) -- Neil Bothwick NOTICE: -- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF ORDER TODAY -- (The nearest working elevators are in

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching

2009-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: On 9 Jun 2009, at 05:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, portage will try fetching from GENTOO_MIRRORS during an emerge and SRC_URI comes last. I want to reverse this; try SRC_URI first and if that fails, only then proceed to fetch from GENTOO_MIRRORS. Doable? This is

[gentoo-user] 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit installation

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I lurk on the LKML, say hi once in awhile, ask a question once in awhile, and try to read at least the interesting to a non-programmer posts. I was curious about this one that came up today. Seems like this is a natural for Gentoo. I have a Gentoo 64-bit setup but have had lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest X on G3 PPC?

2009-06-09 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: I've attached my xorg from my G4 eMac, hopefully it will be of some help. Actually, that config works without any changes! I merged in the monitor and screens config from my old config and I have my desktop back again. The only difference as far as

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Norman Rieß
Jason Carson schrieb: Hey Norman, I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it resulted in the following errors... *Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points *no access points found * Failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest X on G3 PPC?

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ajai Khattria...@bway.net wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote: I've attached my xorg from my G4 eMac, hopefully it will be of some help. Actually, that config works without any changes! I merged in the monitor and screens config from my old config

[gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just completed first part of a fresh install. Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: eix genkernel gentoolkit gentoolkit-dev gentoo-sources grub lynx ntp reiserfsprogs rsyslog vim

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: eix genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. [snip] What I see on reboot: Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text begins scrolling by and never

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3 - Preferences dialog broken

2009-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I decided to check out Firefox 3.5_beta4-r1 and Thunderbird 3.0_beta2 in one of my machines (from the mozilla overlay). They both emerged fine without problems. They even run without problems (I'm sending this from TB 3) except that I can't change their configuration. In both Firefox and

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition and could that be part of the problem?

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: [...] I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: [...] I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:03:52 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Summary: What can I do to get my keyboard recognized (through a kvm switch) right at bootup. I mean like when the grub prompt comes up. Details: I've had this curious problem for some time now. Over at least

[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not until I've reached the login prompt. But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub screen comes up - grub is loading it as a last step of it's execution, so any

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. (not genkernel on this one) I think he was hoping that you would find something in your chroot/var/log/messages file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:55:49 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Something finally allows the kvm pass through to be recognized but not until I've reached the login prompt. But linux kernel isn't loaded or used in any way when grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Carson
Jason Carson schrieb: Hey Norman, I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it resulted in the following errors... *Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points *no access points found * Failed

[gentoo-user] Re: 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit installation

2009-06-09 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I lurk on the LKML, say hi once in awhile, ask a question once in awhile, and try to read at least the interesting to a non-programmer posts. I was curious about this one that came up today. Seems like this is a natural

[gentoo-user] Re: 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit installation

2009-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2009 02:44 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Do others see value - getting 64-bit memory management, new CPU flags, etc., but keeping the apps 32-bit for compatibility? Personally, no. I see more value in a true multilib Gentoo. Unfortunately, Gentoo's multilib is fake. You can't build