Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yabootconfig: /dev/ROOT: No such file or directory why?

2009-06-30 Thread Joseph Jezak
mv.1001 wrote: Hi, I have a problem here. I follow everything step by step from handbook. but it always stopped here. I tried many time and searched it in google. but Can't find answers. the problem is: After I install yaboot in chroot environment. then I exit it, and try yabootconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptics support in xorg

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:44:10 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, According to 'The X Server Configuration HOWTO' If you use alternative input devices, such as a Synaptics touchpad for a laptop, be sure to add it to INPUT_DEVICES. So I put in make.conf INPUT_DEVICES=mouse keyboard synaptics

[gentoo-user] xorg resolution problem

2009-06-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Since moving from xorg-server 1.5.3 (?) to 1.6, xorg has gone back to an old behaviour of refusing the resolution I need (I switch using xrandr). Video chipset is i915 in a sony vaio with a 1366x768 screen. I am trying to use an external LCD monitor with 1280x1024 native resolution. Problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore

2009-06-30 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:03:32 +0400, Vasya Volkov wrote: After read this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a script which manual configure device but this is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote: After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes it's a keyup event -- in which case the key repeats indefinitely until another key

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions [solved]

2009-06-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Looks good to me. Finally, what is the PATH in /etc/profile.env? According to the order of your gcc paths, I guess it has /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc- bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it, while only the second one should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore

2009-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:24:10 +0100, Stroller wrote: After read this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a script which manual configure device but this is not the solution... emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread dhk
Stroller wrote: On 29 Jun 2009, at 13:53, dhk wrote: ... What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. No, I'm not sure how the

[gentoo-user] xx used greatest stack depth: nnn bytes left

2009-06-30 Thread David Shen
Hi, I setup a gentoo 2008 amd 64 system, and then created my own initramfs file. But when the initramfs is processed during boot, I got the following message: exe used greatest stack depth: 6040bytes left mdev ...(similar as above) lvm ...(similar as above) The system could boot, but I am

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-30, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote: After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes it's a keyup

[gentoo-user] gentoo ppc install and sound

2009-06-30 Thread alex stone
Hello, i'm Alex. I decided to take the plunge and install Gentoo PPC on my old G4, replacing a thoroughly bloated ubuntu. I chose a manual install, and kernel build, and everything seemed to go ok, until it came to sound. As those who are much smarter than i am in linux PPC matters will know,

[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? Can I solve it in some way? (Please, don't ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread AllenJB
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? Can I solve it

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jun 2009, at 11:21, dhk wrote: ... Finally, can you even install Linux on this scanner? Chances are its processor is ARM - Linux will run on that architecture, but you won't be able to chroot in from your x86 box install GRUB. Chances are that this scanner is some kind of rebadged HP

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 30 Juni 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any idea about this error? Can I solve it in some way? (Please,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 14:40:20 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all!! I tried today : emerge --update --deep world but I get the following error: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase (kde-base/kdebase is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6) I'm not very expert about emerge, have you any

Re: [gentoo-user] xx used greatest stack depth: nnn bytes left

2009-06-30 Thread Duane Griffin
2009/6/30 David Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com: Hi, I setup a gentoo 2008 amd 64 system, and then created my own initramfs file. But when the initramfs is processed during boot, I got the following message: exe used greatest stack depth: 6040bytes left mdev ...(similar as above) lvm

[gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Hunley
Just another bullet point of information for the 'can't upgrade to 4.5.2 cause of qt3support' thread. I solved it here by removing 'qt3' from USE in make.conf. For whatever reason, I had both 'qt3' and 'qt4' in the USE flag. Removing 'qt3' allowed 'emerge world' to do its thing. -- Douglas J

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread Pupino
Hi, I have no clues about cross compiling and bootloaders other than grub (ok, maybe lilo) but if you want to determine if that device is seen as a storage device why don't you just plug it in and have a look at dmesg? when I plug a usb key on my machine i see something like this: [ 1647.577443]

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:53 AM, dhkdhk...@optonline.net wrote: Stroller wrote: On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
I'm installing the split ebuild ( Very long operation.. x-/ ). Wouldn't be better to mask the kdebase monolithic ebuild, so that unexperienced gentoo linux users as I am would not spend useless hours installing it? Thanks again for your prompt help, Massimiliano On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:22

[gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, after an update my system is unable to reboot, or shutdown... it hangs just after unloading ALSA modules, and nothing else happens. I had some problem with gcc (after the update), something about I had to remocpile it because of some bug. but apart from that, nothing else strange.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Justin
Arnau Bria schrieb: Hi all, after an update my system is unable to reboot, or shutdown... it hangs just after unloading ALSA modules, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem, but I don't recover how I exactly solbved it, but it has to something with settings in the

[gentoo-user] usb not working after suspend to ram

2009-06-30 Thread Peter Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on my x86 gentoo install, usb ports and any devices plugged into them stop working after hibernate-ram. There do not seem to be any modules missing or services not running after hibernate that were there before. dmesg does not show anything if

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 17:41:35 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: I'm installing the split ebuild ( Very long operation.. x-/ ). Wouldn't be better to mask the kdebase monolithic ebuild, so that unexperienced gentoo linux users as I am would not spend useless hours installing it? No. That's a

[gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 /usr/bin/dp Package 'app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta' NOT merged due to file collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog

[gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? ebuild log for sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1 on evolone.org WARN: postinst The following users have non-existent shells! apache - /usr/sbin/nologin cron - /usr/sbin/nologin ldap -

[gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version 0.30 or not. I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, right. I did that last week, why is it telling me again?. How do others know

[gentoo-user] do I need this?

2009-06-30 Thread Michael Higgins
LOG: postinst Install =x11-libs/gtk+-2 if you need command gtk-update-icon-cache. So, do I need that command? Am I wrong in thinking this is a pretty silly message provided as such without any context? -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread meino . cramer
Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net [09-06-30 19:30]: Arnau Bria schrieb: Hi all, after an update my system is unable to reboot, or shutdown... it hangs just after unloading ALSA modules, and nothing else happens. I had the same problem, but I don't recover how I exactly solbved it, but

Re: [gentoo-user] do I need this?

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 20:00:26 Michael Higgins wrote: LOG: postinst Install =x11-libs/gtk+-2 if you need command gtk-update-icon-cache. So, do I need that command? Am I wrong in thinking this is a pretty silly message provided as such without any context? If you don't know what it is, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:58:40 Michael Higgins wrote: Here's an example of a (possibly) useless log warning. I say useless because I don't know (how would I?) whether this was updated from version 0.30 or not. I get these kinds of messages regularly. Sometimes, I say, right. I did that

Re: [gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:23 Michael Higgins wrote: Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? ebuild log for sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.1 on evolone.org WARN: postinst The following users have non-existent shells! apache -

Re: [gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 /usr/bin/dp Package 'app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta' NOT merged

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: How do others know if a warning applies after any system/world update? LOG: postinst The database format has changed between 0.30 and 0.40. You may need to update all your local databases and caches. To do so, please run the

Re: [gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:54PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious warnings?

2009-06-30 Thread Philip Webb
090630 Alan McKinnon wrote: We often attempt to ascribe human intelligence to software. It's a side-effect of being human. Be alert for it :-) One for my commonplace book (smile) ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Anthony Mutiso
Is there a difference between qt and qt4? Doug Hunley wrote: Just another bullet point of information for the 'can't upgrade to 4.5.2 cause of qt3support' thread. I solved it here by removing 'qt3' from USE in make.conf. For whatever reason, I had both 'qt3' and 'qt4' in the USE flag. Removing

Re: [gentoo-user] app-accessibility/speech-tools-1.2.96_beta build fails

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 21:04:56 Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:54PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: Detected file collision(s): /usr/bin/dp Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Yes. The difference is huge. KDE-3 uses Qt KDE-4 uses Qt4 They are so different that a name change from Qt to something else would be entirely acceptable. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com On Tuesday 30 June 2009 21:27:12 Anthony Mutiso wrote: Is there a difference between qt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case. Sounds like Gentoo needs a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why did this happen?

2009-06-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 19:54:23 schrieb Michael Higgins: Can anyone speculate as to why this error? Because it's /sbin/nologin. Is the fix to usermod -s /sbin/nologin for each of these? Yes. Or vipw. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:25:39 +0200 Justin Justin wrote: I had the same problem, but I don't recover how I exactly solbved it, but it has to something with settings in the /etc/modprobe.d and /etc/modules.d configs. If you don't get the answer until I am at home, I will you later what todo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com ERROR: could not find gem royw-qt-rebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: pxe boot + nfs mountpoints

2009-06-30 Thread James
bump On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jamesj...@nc.rr.com wrote: Okay, I've gotten a little further by moving some of the runscripts to /etc/runlevel/boot. I still, however, can't seem to get /usr/ nfs mounted before some of the boot runlevel daemons kick off (like keymap, etc.). I think

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Anthony Mutiso
So for those that *had* qt in make.conf, (like me), the right thing to do is to change it to qt4? Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes. The difference is huge. KDE-3 uses Qt KDE-4 uses Qt4 They are so different that a name change from Qt to something else would be entirely acceptable.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Arnau Briaar...@emergetux.net wrote: after an update my system is unable to reboot, or shutdown... it hangs just after unloading ALSA modules, and nothing else happens. AFAIK it is not recommended to unload the ALSA modules anymore and will become default

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Anthony Mutisoanm.mlis...@limuru.com wrote: So for those that *had* qt in make.conf, (like me), the right thing to do is to change it to qt4? I think the qt USE flag is deprecated in favor of qt3 and qt4 USE flags and ebuilds should have been updated to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Justin
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Arnau Briaar...@emergetux.net wrote: after an update my system is unable to reboot, or shutdown... it hangs just after unloading ALSA modules, and nothing else happens. AFAIK it is not recommended to unload the ALSA modules anymore and

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved

2009-06-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 30 June 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Anthony Mutisoanm.mlis...@limuru.com wrote: So for those that *had* qt in make.conf, (like me), the right thing to do is to change it to qt4? I think the qt USE flag is deprecated in favor of qt3 and qt4 USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge --update

2009-06-30 Thread Massimiliano Ziccardi
It's far preferable to let people like yourself suffer the consequences of not reading documentation Touched :-) However, I read the documentation. It's just that this is my first gentoo installation: I didn't get I had to uninstall the older version of the software to upgrade to the new one.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Arnau Bria
will try, thanks to both. Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to reboot

2009-06-30 Thread Arnau Bria
Worked!! many thanks, Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Roy Wright wrote: On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: == Installation $ emerge ruby rubygems $ sudo gem install royw-qt-rebuild --source http://gems.github.com Hi, $ sudo gem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 3:56 AM, Dale wrote: Sounds like Gentoo needs a new tool. Calling all geeks and nerds !! Dale Drum roll please... Roy, geek or nerd? Your choice. LOL I knew there had to be at least one around here. This is Gentoo after all. ;-) Dale :-)

[gentoo-user] OpenGL + Kaffeine

2009-06-30 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I tried to aktivate the opengl-driver part in kaffeine and it fails. Instead it activates auto. I am running nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GT (rev a2) with the original nvidiad-drivers. I did a solfire:/rooteselect opengl set nvidia Switching to nvidia OpenGL interface... done

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Graham Murray
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (= 0.7.10, runtime)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-30 Thread Roy Wright
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: OK, it's verified and ready now. Please try again. Will not install for me. It gives the following error ERROR: Error installing royw-qt-rebuild: royw-qt-rebuild requires commandline (= 0.7.10,