Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If its not set correctly you'll need to re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? Probably -c, which is the one that checks for reverse dependencies.

[gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Oh, very droll! I just had to laugh at this: # emerge --sync [...] $ emerge -puDv world [...] emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ~x11- libs/qt-gui-4.7.1[accessibility=,aqua=,debug=]. !!! One of

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carteradamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If its not set correctly you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:48:45 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after emerging a new kernel version,

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:48:45 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 16 January 2011 10:26:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: Oh, very droll! I just had to laugh at this: # emerge --sync [...] $ emerge -puDv world [...] emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ~x11- libs/qt-gui-4.7.1[accessibility=,aqua=,debug=]. !!! One of the

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
I have compiled a kernel for 2.6.37 but I have not booted it yet. I'll set the link to the new kernel, emerge nvidia and see what happens when I boot the new kernel. In the past, I was on x86 on my old rig. Maybe it is the arch that affects something. I'm not sure but will test later

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to suit whatever kernel that is pointing to. If its not

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:19:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351829 So it is. That was quick. I don't agree with his suggestion, which seems to imply requiring all KDE systems to be built with +accessibility, like it or not. -- Rgds Peter. Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
I am using x86 rather than 64 and I did emerge it after rebooting to the new kernel, but I got invalid argument when issuing the modprobe command. Can you cut/paste the command and output? and also the command modinfo nvidia and its output?

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:18 on Sunday 16 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Sunday 16 January 2011 03:25:41 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module is built to

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:06:30 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: You can't emerge nvidia-drivers if /usr/src/linux points to a kernel version other than the currently running one - it complains it can't find a valid kernel config. This means that, after emerging a new kernel version, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] lxpanel-oddity

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:22:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: with my openbox desktop I am using lxpanel as taskbar. Unfortunately lxpanel gets confused what and where windows were opened and which of the desktop is currently active very often. I want to ask whether this general a

[gentoo-user] perl-5.12.2-r6 emerge installs but with warning

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
As the title says, I got this warning at the very end: = ... --- replaced obj /usr/bin/a2p --- replaced dir /usr/bin --- replaced dir /usr dir /usr/share/doc/perl-5.12.2-r4 * Linking /usr/bin/ptar-1.54-perl-5.12.2 to /usr/bin/ptar (relative) *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: On Sunday 16 January 2011 05:50:58 Philip Webb wrote: Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' Did you mean 'emerge -cpv ...' or 'emerge -Cpv...' ? What I wrote. Probably -c, which is the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X -config fail

2011-01-16 Thread doherty pete
how can i confim i have evdev,if i donn't have ,i think i have to edite /etc/make.cof USE=-evdev -dri -dri2 or VIDEOCARD=-evdev -dri -dri2 and recompile xorg-server 2011/1/16 walt w41...@gmail.com On 01/15/2011 07:17 AM, doherty pete wrote: when i input Xorg -configure the log is [

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread pk
On 2011-01-16 06:50, Philip Webb wrote: Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. eselect boost ? Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:56 on Saturday 15 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, john j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk wrote: Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox. Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig, compiled the kernel and copied it to

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:54:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: That's nonsense. It is not. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Sunday 16 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:54:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: That's nonsense. It is not. It has not been a problem for me, not once, in 4 years at least, both on x86 and amd64. Other posters

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X -config fail

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 January 2011 13:53:14 doherty pete wrote: how can i confim i have evdev,if i donn't have ,i think i have to edite /etc/make.cof USE=-evdev -dri -dri2 or VIDEOCARD=-evdev -dri -dri2 and recompile xorg-server Pete, can you please read the documentation and follow it to the letter:

Re: [gentoo-user] No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 January 2011 15:18:50 Daniel Tihelka wrote: And the kernel seems to use them (when started with boot options 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3 vga=792'): Dan, try removing uvesa/vesa/radeon/etc. framebuffer modules from your kernel and the above line too from grub when you boot and see

Re: [gentoo-user] Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Webb
110116 pk wrote: On 2011-01-16 06:50, Philip Webb wrote: Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. eselect boost ? That looks very

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome problem (?)

2011-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/15/2011 11:17 PM, Victor Fragoso wrote: Hello, After upgrading xorg to 1.9 now Gnome is not able to start session. This is the message I get after login in using GDM Protocol not supported by server. xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' which: no keychain in [PATH] *** gnome-session:

[gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS=-j1. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 16 January 2011 11:25:06 Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] how to forbid dhcp for eth0

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/14/2011 10:39 AM, Kostya Sha. wrote: On 14.01.2011, at 12:41, Norman Rieß wrote: Am 01/14/11 06:33, schrieb doherty pete: when i start the kernel, it wait long time to dhcp for eth0: eth0:dhcped 4.0.15 starting eth0:waiting for carrier i want to forbid dhcp,how can i do? Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 01/15/2011 06:03 AM, doherty pete wrote: yeah!it can work,now,this is my configure: /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=(null) modules=wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext config_wlan0=192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 routes_wlan0=default gw 192.168.1.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back

[gentoo-user] Re: No HW acceleraton on radeon Mobility X300 with linux-2.6.36-r5, mesa-7.9, xorg-server-1.9.2 and video-ati-6.13.2

2011-01-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/16/2011 05:18 PM, Daniel Tihelka wrote: Hallo, after update to 2.6.36-r5 kernel, xorg 1.9.2, mesa-7.9 and xf86-video- ati-6.13.2 (all from gentoo portage), the hw graphics acceleration stopped working. The problem seems to be in drm kernel module, as it is claimed by X.org (the part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on?  I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS=-j1. - Grant The near freeze is

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Grant
I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on?  I have 3GB RAM and MAKEOPTS=-j1. - Grant As Volker says,

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:15 on Monday 17 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: [snip] As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but keep some around. It's just disk space. I thought swap was no longer necessary on a machine with sufficient

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 03:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:15 on Monday 17 January 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: [snip] As Volker says, don't turn swap off. Make it small if you must, but keep some around. It's just disk space. I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:41:24 -0800, Grant wrote: 'onice -c 3 emerge -DuN world' ended up working great. Or you can set PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND in make.conf to make it a default. -- Neil Bothwick Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Em 16-01-2011 18:29, Valmor de Almeida escreveu: On 01/15/2011 06:03 AM, doherty pete wrote: yeah!it can work,now,this is my configure: /etc/conf.d/net config_eth0=(null) modules=wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext config_wlan0=192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:26 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:41 -0800, Grant wrote: ... I think that's well worded. He has insufficient memory when emerging. If he's really running short of DRAM

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the .config from /boot, run make oldconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:27:27PM -0200, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: I think that this software, wicd, is just to ubuntu's users not to Gentoo. You are in the minority. Many on this list (including me) use wicd for desktop/laptop use. If work without gui,, why i need a gui? wicd doesn't require a

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file. In fact that isn't it. I've copied the

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig whatever to create the .config file.

[gentoo-user] lilo wants to re-assign volume ID on external USB device

2011-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
I have an older 1-gig MP3 player with a USB interface that plugs into a PC and looks like a mass-storage device. It also recharges the internal battery from the USB port. I had it plugged in when I made a tweak to my kernel, and ran lilo to update the boot process for the new kernel. I got

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:13:54 Adam Carter wrote: The no kernel config error sounds more like you havent done make oldconfig/menuconfig

[gentoo-user] Firmware loading problem

2011-01-16 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a bttv0: detected: AVermedia AverTV DVB-T 771 [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0771 dvb-t card installed in my PC. I am running a vanilla linux kernel version 2.6.37 . Furthermore in /lib/firmware there is a folder called av7110 which I think contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] Left hand yes, right hand no

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Edenfield
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:33 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2011 12:19:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351829 So it is. That was quick. I don't agree with his suggestion, which seems to imply requiring all KDE systems to be built with

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware loading problem

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/1/17 meino.cra...@gmx.de: I am running a vanilla linux kernel version 2.6.37 . Furthermore in    /lib/firmware there is a folder called    av7110 which I think contains the firmware for that card. I don't think this card needs a firmware. You just enabled to much dvb related