[gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org When the screen locks, is it the whole computer? Can you do a CTRL+F7 and get to a console? When this happens, the screen is either black (cause the monitor has gone to sleep), black, but I can see my mouse cursor and it will move around if I move my mouse around, or I will have my KDE desktop, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard will work. As to your current predicament, I would give a livecd a try and see if the keyboard and mouse work in that. I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse and the keyboard worked fine. And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer. -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
On 12/25/11 14:20, Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) It's a little hard to do that since, I boot to a login screen and neither my keyboard nor mouse work - despite the fact that the cursor places itself in the password field on the login screen, I can't enter my password since the keyboard doesn't work. :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
On 12/25/11 14:27, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Happy Holidays, Everyone, To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org I got burned by this one also. re-emerge all the xf86 module stuff for your keyboard, etc. I've got it all in my module-rebuild -C rebuild list. Once you do that you'll likely be OK. You''ll either want to ssh in to do this or you might want to reboot, modifying your boot kernel line adding gentoo=nox to not start X at all, re-emerge and then start X to test. I haven't completely done this, but I did enter the 'gentoo=nox' to my kernel line and I got the command prompt. Thank you SO much for this! You may not know it, but Santa just gave me another present! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm in a Pickle
On 12/25/11 15:08, Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:20:56 Michael Hampicke wrote: Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. Wild guess: xorg-server was upgraded to a newer version with changed ABI, so you have to remerge everthing installed under x11-drivers # emerge -1a $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers/) +1 This is most likely related to the recent xorg updates, which as Michael suggests should be resolved by remerging all the xorg related drivers. Solved! Thank you all so much!! Re-emerging the x related drivers solved the issue. Thanks for this tip and how to prevent x from loading on boot! You guys are GREAT! Thanks for being there when I can't figure out something on my own! I'm not sure why your monitor will not wake up from sleep though. That's not normal. Have you tried going through the power settings of KDE in case it has been set up to sleep to RAM or hibernate and your set up has some acpi problem that causes it to crash? I'll look into this! Thanks! Happy Holidays! Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 05:59, Stroller wrote: On 16 October 2011, at 00:05, CJoeB wrote: ... However, when I boot, eth0 does not start. I can start it manually by doing 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' However, I would like to have my network started automatically. List broadcom and tg3 in /etc/conf.d/modules as per section 7.e. of the install guide. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=7#doc_chap5 I did from the beginning (i.e. before I posted to the list) - it didn't resolve the issue. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 06:43, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, However, now I have a networking issue. In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and was able to set it up. This time, when I booted to the install CD and typed net-setup eth0, the network card was not recognized. This means that your kernel is not configured with the corresponding modules for your network card, or that there is some other configuration problem with e.g. firmware loading (if such a thing is necessary for your card). I use genkernel. Granted, rather than just running genkernel all, I run genkernel --menuconfig all because I remove stuff that I know I won't need. However, in the network section, everything related to broadcom and tg3 is built as a module. I even tried building tg3 directly into the kernel and it didn't help. I had to do the 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then, 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' prior to running net-setup even when booted to the install CD. I googled and found a post where someone said that they had to 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' and then, run net-setup. I did this and then ifconfig returned my eth0 connection. Of course, later you have to do the cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ which I did and dhcpcd has been added to my default runlevel. However, when I boot, eth0 does not start. What does dmesg show? On line states: tg3 :03:00.0: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting What does cat /var/log/syslog | grep -i tg3 show Don't have a syslog file however, 'cat /var/log/rc.log | grep -i tg3' shows: *Loading modul tg3 ... The line is repeated a total of 7 times. I can start it manually by doing 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' So the question is why when you remove and install the module manually your NIC driver loads, but at boot time it does not ... Good question and I have no idea! :-) However, I would like to have my network started automatically. I do have config_eth0=dhcp in my /etc/conf.d/net file Please show: grep ^[^#] /etc/conf.d/net Prior to loading: config_eth0=dhcp Note, that this is the format listed in the Handbook. Previously, in the Handbook, the format was config_eth0=( dhcp ). I've tried it both ways ifconfig and ifconfig -a (before and after you modprobe the driver) Before loading: ifconfig just lists: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:198 (198.0 B) TX bytes:198 (198.0 B) ifconfig -a lists: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:324 (324.0 B) TX bytes:324 (324.0 B) After doing ''modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then, 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' ifconfig lists: eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:2b:cb:ad:9e:47 inet addr:192.168.2.15 Bcast:192:168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1727 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1826702 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:67525 (65.9 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:828 (828.0 B) TX bytes:828 (828.0 B) ifconfig -a lists eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 78:2b:cb:ad:9e:47 inet addr:192.168.2.15 Bcast:192:168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2024 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:958 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1846649 (1.7 MiB) TX bytes:70725 (69.0 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1062 (1.0 KiB) TX
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote: Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved. On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: (...) If this is your first install, is FrameBuffer (pretty consoles) really a vital component of getting your machine up and running? Not my first install - I've been running Gentoo exclusively since 2004. Framebuffer is not absolutely necessary I guess, but I really would like those penguins! What can I say? I'm female and I like animals! LOL Anyway, I got past the issue I was having where the boot hung. Now, I'm on to another issue. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 08:59, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 16.10.2011 12:43, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 00:05:01 CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo installed on my new desktop and booting to a command prompt. However, now I have a networking issue. In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and was able to set it up. This time, when I booted to the install CD and typed net-setup eth0, the network card was not recognized. This means that your kernel is not configured with the corresponding modules for your network card, or that there is some other configuration problem with e.g. firmware loading (if such a thing is necessary for your card). [...] Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use `modprobe -vr broadcom tg3`. If there is no output, the module was not loaded. Prior to unloading the modules, output from 'modprobe -vr broadcom tg3' is rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.39-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use `modprobe -vr broadcom tg3`. If there is no output, the module was not loaded. Prior to unloading the modules, output from 'modprobe -vr broadcom tg3' is rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.39-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko Hi Colleen, Looks like broadcom isn't loading at boot. Also, I'm not too familiar with broadcom, but why must you load two modules? I found [1] which sound like your problem (possibly the site you mentioned earlier) which references a similar problem when tg3 is loaded before broadcom. You may have already tried this, but have you tested changing the order in /etc/conf.d/modules? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110026 - Matt -- Matthew Finkel Tried changing the order of module loading. Didn't change anything! :-( But this was a good idea that I never thought of! Colleen. -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 13:37, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 17:08:45 CJoeB wrote: On 10/16/11 11:29, Matthew Finkel wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com mailto:colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Also: Are the modules actually loaded before you unload them? Use `modprobe -vr broadcom tg3`. If there is no output, the module was not loaded. Prior to unloading the modules, output from 'modprobe -vr broadcom tg3' is rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.39-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko Hi Colleen, Looks like broadcom isn't loading at boot. Also, I'm not too familiar with broadcom, but why must you load two modules? I found [1] which sound like your problem (possibly the site you mentioned earlier) which references a similar problem when tg3 is loaded before broadcom. You may have already tried this, but have you tested changing the order in /etc/conf.d/modules? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110026 - Matt Tried changing the order of module loading. Didn't change anything! :-( But this was a good idea that I never thought of! OK, that leaves the other 2 options I suggested in earlier message. BTW have you tried the latest stable kernel? It may have been patched by now. My head is starting to spin. I have the latest stable kernel. Someone said that since tg3 is not loading at boot then, I shouldn't have to remove it. However, if I just do 'modprobe tg3', ifconfig just returns the lo interface. If I do 'modprobe -r broadcom' 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3', I still only get the lo interface. The only thing that works is removing both modules and adding them again. I also tried following the openrc document. The only thing that seems to suggest a solution is to add arguments for my modules. I have no idea what those arguments might be and although I tried googling, I didn't really find anything that would point me in the right direction. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CJoeB wrote: On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote: Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved. On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeBcolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: (...) If this is your first install, is FrameBuffer (pretty consoles) really a vital component of getting your machine up and running? Not my first install - I've been running Gentoo exclusively since 2004. Framebuffer is not absolutely necessary I guess, but I really would like those penguins! What can I say? I'm female and I like animals! LOL Anyway, I got past the issue I was having where the boot hung. Now, I'm on to another issue. Regards, Colleen Wow, there is a Gentoo lady here. Howdy. tips hat I thought I remembered there being one here but wasn't sure. Colleen's been here longer than I have :-) Maybe, but I'm not as technical as some of you guys. I just have an affection for computers and I'm a control freak - that's why I like Gentoo! :-) -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/16/11 17:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Colleen's been here longer than I have :-) You shouldn't make such statements about a lady :P That gave me a huge laugh! Good considering the trials and tribulations I've gone through with my networking issue. However, Alan could possibly be right! I ain't no spring chicken! LOL Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote: As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the modules and dependencies are loaded. Would building one modules into the kernel and the other as a module solve (well, kludge) the loading order problem? Tried building tg3 directly into the kernel. It didn't help. :-( Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/16/11 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:14:45 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: CJoeB wrote: On 10/16/11 08:06, James Broadhead wrote: Thanks for the input. This issue is somewhat resolved. On 15 October 2011 23:44, CJoeBcolleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: (...) Not my first install - I've been running Gentoo exclusively since 2004. Framebuffer is not absolutely necessary I guess, but I really would like those penguins! What can I say? I'm female and I like animals! LOL Well, still no penguins, but I won't belabour that issue. However, something is still screwy, methinks! I got X installed and kdebase-meta (haven't gone farther than that) without much of an issue. However, now when I exit my xsession, the screen goes fuzzy coloured before the scrolling of the services shutting down starts. I can live with this, but if anyone has any ideas, let me know. BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns 'Unrecognized option: ati' You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve the issue as stated about. I've checked an rechecked the Gentoo ATI Guide and I've done everything it says. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
On 10/16/11 18:23, Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 23:04:00 CJoeB wrote: On 10/16/11 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:02:08 +0100, Mick wrote: As I said above the kernel ought to manage the order in which the modules and dependencies are loaded. Would building one modules into the kernel and the other as a module solve (well, kludge) the loading order problem? Tried building tg3 directly into the kernel. It didn't help. :-( Try building both broadcom and tg3 directly into the kernel. If upon reboot that doesn't work build broadcom in the kernel and tg3 as a module. If nothing else works, set up Florian's recommended init.d script and that should sort it out. I'll try the initscript. Hopefully, the issue will be solved when I can get another kernel. Thanks for all the help, guys! :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/16/11 20:38, Adam Carter wrote: BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns 'Unrecognized option: ati' You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve the issue as stated about. I've checked an rechecked the Gentoo ATI Guide and I've done everything it says. Try eselect opengl list to show what's available. IIRC ati will use fglrx. There may be an option called radeon, which you can used instead. I had already done this and the only option that is listed is 'xorg-x11 *' The * is actually included in the output and I was too chicken to try this. I don't understand why ati or radeon isn't listed 'cause I followed the Gentoo ATI Guide and X Configuration Guide. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
Hi guys, I'm still struggling with this. Gave up last weekend and haven't had time until now. Thought I had it going when I got a command prompt and then, networking wasn't working. Anyway, more details . On 10/10/11 16:43, David Abbott wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with the same result. I would enable kms; http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernel_Modesetting_.28KMS.29 http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-831521-start-0.html I booted to the Gentoo install CD, went through all the steps to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I followed the directions on the above link for my Radeon card. When I existed the 'chroot'd' environment and rebooted, the system seemed to hang - the last few lines that appear on the screen are: [drm] Loading CAICOS Microcode Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.289 MHz Switching to clocksource tsc I took someone else's advice who responded to my original post and got the output from dmesg after the install CD booted. Below is the entire listing related to the video section: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9 vesafb:scrolling:redraw vesafb:Truecolor:size=0;5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 vesafb:framebuffer at 0xd000, mapped to 0xc9001010, using 3072k, total 16384k console: switching to colour framebuffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA framebuffer device I really understand very little of what this is telling me except for the screen resolution and I get that there are hex code references in my grub.conf file the video line is as follows: vga=-0X31B video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I read somewhere that for radeon card you use the above statement as opposed to: video=uvesafb:mtrr:ywrap,1920x1080@60 Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is 1920x1080@60 Hz Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/15/11 16:21, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is 1920x1080@60 Hz To get this resolution that early you need kms. Check your kernel-config: CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set Okay, I had this configured properly Then you need radeon.modeset=1 instead of the vga=... stuff in your grub.conf. Also, see: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Kernel-basedModeSetting This must have been the issue because when I put the radeon.modeset=1 in my grub.conf file, I booted to the command prompt. Still no penguins on bootup and I had the when booting to the install CD. I'm pretty sure I have what I need to have in the kernel to get them. Thanks for the help! :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Another Install Issue
Hi everyone, Well, thanks to the help I got from the list, I finally have Gentoo installed on my new desktop and booting to a command prompt. However, now I have a networking issue. In past, when I booted to the install CD and my ethernet connection was not active, I typed net-setup eth0 and was able to set it up. This time, when I booted to the install CD and typed net-setup eth0, the network card was not recognized. I googled and found a post where someone said that they had to 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' and then, run net-setup. I did this and then ifconfig returned my eth0 connection. Of course, later you have to do the cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ which I did and dhcpcd has been added to my default runlevel. However, when I boot, eth0 does not start. I can start it manually by doing 'modprobe -r broadcom' and 'modprobe -r tg3' and then 'modprobe broadcom' and 'modprobe tg3' However, I would like to have my network started automatically. I do have config_eth0=dhcp in my /etc/conf.d/net file Any suggestions? Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
Hi Everyone, I hope someone will be able to lead me by the nose here. For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my new desktop. I kept running into issues and due to time constraints when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them. Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with the same result. The computer is a Dell XPS 8300 It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an issue until I tried to install X. Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with the same result. The computer is a Dell XPS 8300 It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an issue until I tried to install X. Does anyone have any ideas? Try dropping framebuffer console drivers? I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear when the computer is booting! :-) Also, what exact model of Radeon? The specs that came with the computer say its and AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3 Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
On 10/10/11 17:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Colleen I'll try this, but I REALLY want those cute little penguins that appear when the computer is booting! :-) Make sure this is configured in your kernel. The config option ought to be called CONFIG_BOOTUP_TUX, but it isn't - it's called Bootup Logo and is located at Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Bootup Logo. I think you get one penguin for each core your processor has. Well, still no penguins, but I did get it to boot to the command prompt. Still, it's back to the drawing board 'cause now I have an network issue and I thought I had copied the working /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf file to the /etc/resolv.conf file in the chroot'd environment. I'll keep plugging away. Thanks for the suggestions. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
On 07/22/11 23:07, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. What would you recommend that I used for the iso an stage 3? As a reminder my computer is a Dell XPS 8300 with an Intel Core -i7-2600 processor. I'm a little confused between the choices x86 (which seems to only apply to Pentium 4 systems and only utilizes 32-bit processing), amd64 and ia64. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Hi Colleen, I'm not sure I understand the warranty issue so take this with a grain of salt but most of the pre-configured Windows machines I've received in the last couple of years had some disk space left over outside of the Windows C drive. I'm sure you could install Gentoo on one of those and not void anything, assuming you have one. The thing is, I don't want Windows on the computer at all. My laptop is 4 years old and it was booted into Windows once and that was only because I didn't hit the F2 key fast enough to get into the bios to change the boot order. Then, Windows got removed completely. The computer I am getting is a desktop for home use and everything I need is in Linux. I don't want to have to put up with all the pain in the ass stuff Windows puts you through. I have to put up with Windows all day at work and it's like a breath of fresh air when I can come home to my Linux system. William's comment about running Gentoo in a VM is very valid. I've never installed a virtual machine so wouldn't even know how to go about it. There really aren't any specific 64-bit things I'm aware of that you need to choose. It's all pretty generic these days, at least with the Intel processors. I've not used an AMD processor in a while. Boot from pretty much any Linux Live CD and then do the stage 3 install and you should be fine. ia64 isn't TTBOMK knowledge something you need to pay attention to. All my Intel i5 i7 machines are amd64 stable with a few ~amd64 packages. So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be on an AMD machine? One note about the Sandy Bridge processor is reight now it does require a specific CFLAG setting to get everything to build correctly due to a gcc bug. So how do I know if it's a Sandy Bridge processor? Nothing in the specs that I read says it's anything more than and Intel i-7. As for any other distro, once you use Gentoo you won't be happy elsewhere. ;-) Stick with Gentoo, most especially since you have all the hardware power you need to build code at world class speed. I *have* tried other distros - first Redhat, then Fedora, then Kubuntu and you're right ... I wouldn't be happy with anything but Gentoo! I started my Linux journey in 2000, went to Gentoo in 2004 and have always been happy with it. The question is not really whether I will install Gentoo, but more about choosing the correct iso and Stage 3 because I don't want to get into a pickle that I can't handle. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
On 07/23/11 18:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:11:20 Mick did opine thusly: So, if I choose the amd64 iso and Stage 3, it doesn't have to be on an AMD machine? Correct, you will use this iso (or systemrescueCD or Knoppix) and a Staqe 3 equivalent to build a system on an Intel 64bit CPU. Just to flesh it out a bit more: The name amd64 came about because it's the 64 bit instruction set that AMD designed for their 64-bit chips. There was an earlier 64 bit cpu from Intel, but we don't talk about it anymore (and it has nothing to do with this topic). Anyway, the name is a nod to the company that designed it, and has nothing to do with the manufacturer of your CPU. Intel later had to eat humble pie and implement AMD's design just to stay relevant in the market, that's why 64 bit Intel chips run on an architecture that Gentoo calls amd64. The 32 bit design is called x86 because that was the general name in use for 20+ years prior. Most other distros call the amd64 design by the name x86_64 or similar, Gentoo is the most visible exception. Thanks for this, Alan! And thanks to all for the responses. Honestly, I wasn't so much worried about the hardware breaking. I took the leap and wiped Windows off my laptop and never had any issues. But I've never dealt with 64-bit stuff and I wanted to make sure that I made the right choices. Thanks to the feedback from this list, I am confident that I can. If I run into any problems, this will be the first place I turn! :-) Warranty is not a super huge issue. The computer I got was a super good deal - it came with 1 year warranty, but I never purchased extended warranty. And to be honest, I've had a total of 4 Dell computers and never had any hardware issues at all (touch wood!). My laptop is 4 years old and I've reinstalled Gentoo on it about 3 times - the original install, once because I screwed up the MBR when I hit the media button instead of the power button and then recently when I kept getting blocks for KDE packages and KDE had gone to KDE SC. Thanks, again! :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused
Hi everyone, First, thanks for all the input regarding CFLAGS. Can I be honest here? My technical skills don't seem to be anywhere near on a par with most of the people on this list. I've been using Gentoo since 2004 and the reason I do, is for the control that I have over my system. Because this will be a new computer and I may essentially void the warranty if I alter the pre-configuration, I seriously thought about leaving the status quo and putting up with Windows 7. However, I would lose practically as much as losing my first born! I would have to put up with all the things that bug me about Windows and I wouldn't have all the programs that I love in Linux. If I am a chicken shit and still want Linux, I could install another distro, like Kubuntu, where you can be almost brain dead and still get a running Linux system, but then I would sacrifice the control that I know and love about Gentoo. I'm not willing to do that either at least not without a fight. I've always managed to get my Gentoo system running and maintained, but I've always used an x86 iso and stage 3. I've googled and didn't really find a definitive answer to my question so, I am bowing to the experts on this list and asking you guys to bear with me and help me out. What would you recommend that I used for the iso an stage 3? As a reminder my computer is a Dell XPS 8300 with an Intel Core -i7-2600 processor. I'm a little confused between the choices x86 (which seems to only apply to Pentium 4 systems and only utilizes 32-bit processing), amd64 and ia64. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] New computer and Gentoo
Hi everyone, Today, I ordered a new desktop from Dell (offer too good to pass up!). The system is a Dell XPS 8300 with an Intel Core i7 processor. I was reading the Gentoo wiki about safe CFLAGS and it said that march=native is recommended if I use gcc = 4.2.3. I looked at processor specific CFLAGS and if I am understanding this correctly, for an Intel i7, I would use march=prescott for a 32 bit OS. It also mentions march=core2 if using gcc 4.3 for a 64-bit OS. However, it has amd64 in brackets. So would this be for an amd system? Should I stick with march=native? Advice would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Fonts and KDE SC
Hi all. Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install, there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for this, but haven't found anything relevant. Can someone please help? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fonts and KDE SC
On 06/04/11 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/04/2011 08:54 PM, CJoeB wrote: Hi all. Okay, colour me so stupid, but I want to add some TrueType fonts to KDE and I can't figure out how to do it. In my previous KDE install, there used to be a menu item for adding fonts. I *have* googled for this, but haven't found anything relevant. Can someone please help? In System Settings, in the System Administration section, there is a Font Installer icon. Okay, I AM stupid - not normally, but in this instance . YES! Would you believe that I looked in System Settings, but just did scroll down far enough to see the System Administration section. Thanks, guys, for your patience and not coming right out and calling me an idiot! That's one thing I love about this list - you're all so patient and even when you probably think someone is a total dolt, you're always so polite! :-) Regards, Colleen Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] KDE - specifically kwin question
Hi all, For the longest time, it has driven me nuts that when you are doing an emerge in a terminal window (kwin) in KDE, it doesn't display the progress - i.e. emerge 1 of 5). With my new and fresh installation of gentoo and kde, I figured out that by right-clicking on the tab at the bottom of the terminal window and choosing Rename and selecting the %w option, I can get this to display. However, I can't seem to figure out how to make it stick because on closing the window and reopening it, the effect that I want goes away. I've looked through all the menu items for configuring kwin and am not seeing what I need to get this to stick. I've googled to no avail. Can anyone help? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Updating world
Hi All, See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this goes on continuously. If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world, the second set of output is provided and this causes other problems - for instance, there are a whole whack of packages that depend on gettext. I haven't been able to update my system in well over a month. I keep hoping a sync will somehow miraculously correct my problem. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this? penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5[aqua=] have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) (dependency required by media-plugins/kipi-plugins-1.9.0 [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected) (dependency required by @world [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. - penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! One or more packages have been dropped due to !!! masking or unsatisfied dependencies: (sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.4-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.44 [2.4.43] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.2 [2.4.1] [ebuild U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80 [0.71] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 [8.5] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [1.1.1-r2] v Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world
On 03/27/11 21:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:25:18 +0100, JM wrote: You can allow it to install the masked packages by typing: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge --update --deep world That will update every package to the latest ~x86 version, and cause them all to downgrade again the next time you emerge world. As this includes packages that are both critical and hate being downgraded, like glibc, this is a really bad idea. You would have to really hate someone to want to put them through this. Okay, I see your point. I don't make a habit of unmasking packages. However, as stated in my previous message, I can't get past the kde ~x86 updates to update other packages that might have valid stable updates. I don't care if kde updates to an unstable version, I would just like to get past it so I can see what else needs to be updated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world
On 03/27/11 19:21, Roman Zilka wrote: According to my local portage mirror, kipi-plugins-1.9.0 is currently ~x86. There's probably a stray line in your /etc/portage/package.keywords which unmasks kipi-plugins-1.9.0. The latest stable is kipi-plugins-1.2.0-r3 which is happy with libkexiv2-4.4.5-r1, which in turn is stable for x86. That *was* the case, but I commented the line out and it still didn't solve the problem -rz See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this goes on continuously. If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world, the second set of output is provided and this causes other problems - for instance, there are a whole whack of packages that depend on gettext. I haven't been able to update my system in well over a month. I keep hoping a sync will somehow miraculously correct my problem. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this? penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5[aqua=] have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) (dependency required by media-plugins/kipi-plugins-1.9.0 [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected) (dependency required by @world [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. - penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! One or more packages have been dropped due to !!! masking or unsatisfied dependencies: (sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.4-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.44 [2.4.43] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.2 [2.4.1] [ebuild U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80 [0.71] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 [8.5] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [1.1.1-r2] -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world
On 03/27/11 22:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:50:36 CJoeB wrote: Hi All, See output below. I understand what this is telling me. However, the issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword. And this goes on continuously. I suspect a dodgy entry in /etc/portage somewhere. What's the output of: grep -r libkexiv2 /etc/portage* grep ACCEPT_KEYWORDS /etc/make.conf I didn't get any output. If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world, the second set of output is provided and this causes other problems - for instance, there are a whole whack of packages that depend on gettext. I haven't been able to update my system in well over a month. I keep hoping a sync will somehow miraculously correct my problem. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this? penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5[aqua=] have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) (dependency required by media-plugins/kipi-plugins-1.9.0 [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected) (dependency required by @world [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. - penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! One or more packages have been dropped due to !!! masking or unsatisfied dependencies: (sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.4-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) [ebuild U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.44 [2.4.43] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.2 [2.4.1] [ebuild U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80 [0.71] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 [8.5] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [1.1.1-r2] v Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One Att'n Neil Bothwick
On 11/02/10 07:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
2010/11/2 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com:
Hi,
The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was
about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work
as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my system and for
months, the scanner won't work at all - not as a normal user nor as root.
The sane project has a pretty good search engine [1] where you can
find the needed driver.
Hint: Try hpaio :) PS: Your internet search engine of choice is your friend.
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Hewlett-Packardmodel=Photosmartbus=anyv=p=
Thanks for the link. I got the scanner working and BTW, I did do a
google search, but the search parameters I used only returned stuff from
my previous posts.
The reason for the Att'n Neil Bothwick in the subject line is because
Neil responded months ago when I had the scanner working the first time,
but could only run xsane as root, not as a normal user. Neil responded
suggesting that I write a udev rule and gave me an example:
SYSFS{product}==CanoScan, SYSFS{manufacturer}==Canon,
GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660
I used this to write a udev rule after reading some documentation. Of
course I changed the product and manufacturer in the above line to what
is applicable to my HP C4795. After rebooting, I was able to run xsane
as a normal user. However, when I run it from the command line, a bunch
of messages appear and I'm not sure if there is a problem or if I didn't
write the rule correctly.
This is the message that repeats itself in the terminal window:
(xsane:10566): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
non-zero page size is deprecated
Do I need to be concerned about this?
Regards,
Colleen
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[gentoo-user] HP C4795 All-in-One
Hi, Before someone asks Haven't you posted this before?, I'll respond, Sort of, but not really! Anyway, I've reread all the previous posts. Mostly, they were related to the printer portion of the device. The printer works fine. The current problem is related to the scanner. My previous post was about not being able to use xsane as a normal user, it would only work as root. Since posting that, I've done upgrades to my system and for months, the scanner won't work at all - not as a normal user nor as root. I've tried reinstalling sane-backends and xsane using an unstable version, but that didn't help the situation. I've checked the kernel configuration and that looks fine. When installing sane-backends, after the normal USE=, there is a statement SANE-BACKENDS= ... where a number of devices are listed, but none in the 4700 series. I have no idea what is going on here. I don't scan much, but tonight when I desperately needed to scan I couldn't despite my best efforts. BTW, I AM in the scanner group, so that is not the issue. Whenever, I try to run xsane as a normal user or root, I get the message No device found. Help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the file to edit [1] will change. [0] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd [1] http://gentoo-pr.org/node/17 More than anything, I am acknowledging this response. My understanding is that Wicd requires wpa-supplicant. I don't know that I'm ready to try to tackle the setup of wpa-supplicant - it's supposed to be harder (it looks harder from what I have read) to configure than wireless-tools and I'm not having very much success with that and the iwl3945 driver built into the kernel. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto.
So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I
followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I
got to the point where I was told to type the following:
ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer)
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the
essid that has been set)
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy
way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
kernel was rebuilt.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few
problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd
have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again.
Does ifconfig list the interface? If not, what does ifconfig wlan0
up do? What about the output of iwconfig? And going for the obvious
here, any chance that the wireless is turned off?
Jake Moe
iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0
I discovered last night after sending my original message that my
symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to
net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created
the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my
wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I
assume) it can't establish a connection.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the any used to work when
I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I
tried last night to change the any to the essid printed on my Bell
router, but that didn't work.
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
#preup() {
# if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then
# sleep 3
# fi
# return 0
#}
modules=( iwconfig )
iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
config_eth0=(dhcp)
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
essid_wlan0=any
Regards,
Colleen
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Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto.
So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I
followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I
got to the point where I was told to type the following:
ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer)
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the
essid that has been set)
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy
way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
kernel was rebuilt.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few
problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd
have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again.
Does ifconfig list the interface? If not, what does ifconfig wlan0
up do? What about the output of iwconfig? And going for the obvious
here, any chance that the wireless is turned off?
Jake Moe
iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0
I discovered last night after sending my original message that my
symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to
net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created
the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my
wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I
assume) it can't establish a connection.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the any used to work when
I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I
tried last night to change the any to the essid printed on my Bell
router, but that didn't work.
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
#preup() {
# if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then
# sleep 3
# fi
# return 0
#}
modules=( iwconfig )
iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
config_eth0=(dhcp)
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
essid_wlan0=any
Regards,
Colleen
This is the wireless part of mine:
modules=( iwconfig )
config_wlan0=( noop dhcp )
dhcpcd_wlan0=( -d -t 15 )
associate_order=( forcepreferredonly )
associate_timeout=( 5 )
preferred_aps=( firstessid secondessid )
key_firstessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY1-1234-5678-90AB-CD )
key_secondessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY2-ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MN )
I've removed anything not having to do with the wireless for clarity.
From memory, the only lines needed are modules, config_wlan0, and
preferred_aps (I have two because I also use wireless at my g/f's
mum's house). Oh, and I use forcepreferredonly so it'll try to
connect even though it can't find my essid by scanning (because I've
told my router to stop broadcasting the essid of my wireless network),
and it'll only try to connect to networks I specifically tell it to, no
others. If your essid is hidden as well, you'll probably need to add
either forcepreferredonly or forceany if you want it to auto-connect
to any it finds if it can't connect to yours.
Reading through the wireless.example file, I came across this:
##
# SETTINGS
##
# Hard code an ESSID to an interface - leave this unset if you wish
the driver
# to scan for available Access Points
# Set to any to connect to any ESSID - the driver picks an Access
Point
# This needs to be done when the driver doesn't support scanning
# This may work for drivers that don't support scanning but you need
automatic
# AP association
# I would only set this as a last resort really - use the preferred_aps
# setting at the bottom of this file
Which is why I used perferred_aps instead of essid_wlan0. Give that a
try, perhaps?
Jake Moe
Haven't tried this yet - just got the e-mail and it's almost 11:00 p.m.
and time for me to hit the sack. However, I wanted to point this
out. This test was copied from dmesg. Unless, I am misreading this, it
looks like
[gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much easier when I could just use the ipw3945 driver. However, I can't build that because it requires TKIP and CCMP, neither of which I can find settings for in my active kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1. In one of the responses to my previous posts someone told me about the / trick while in the kernel configuration to bring up a search menu. I did this and the only reference I could find for TKIP was one related to debugging. So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I got to the point where I was told to type the following: ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer) iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the essid that has been set) When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes, I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the kernel was rebuilt. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Dumb KDE Question
Hi, I'm getting better recently updated to KDE 4.4 - 200+ packages that needed to be updated (including those that weren't KDE apps) and I had a bit of jumping through hoops to get everything installed - build failures, blocks, etc. but managed to do everything by myself with a little help from google! ;-) Anyway, the question is this I managed to do something (and I can't figure out what) so that now, when I minimize a running application in KDE, the application doesn't dock on the panel. Can't seem to find a setting to change this. Can anyone point me in the right direction? The Alt-Tab thing works so I can get the applications back, but I would prefer to see them docked on the panel. Thanks in advance. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.organ
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X
On 06/18/10 19:21, Alex Schuster wrote: Colleen Beamer writes: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: The can of worms comes from doing revdep-rebuild. However, the actual revdep-rebuild bombs and I get told that there are no e-builds to satisfy PyQt:0. PyQt is in the kde-sunset overlay which contains all stuff needed for KDE 3.5. Do you have such things installed? Or is PyQt accidentally in your /var/lib/portage/world file? emerge -pv --depclean PyQt should show you which stuff pulls it in. If you think nothing needs it, remove it with emerge -Ca PyQt, and try revdep-rebuild again. Or add the kde-sunset overlay with layman. As it turns out, this wasn't necessary. On running revdep-rebuild, a lot of files were looking for libpangocairo. Thinking that I'm so smart, I tried to emerge this, but of course, there was no such package. A google search discovered that libpangocairo is provided by pango-1.28.x. I only had 1.26.x on my system. 1.28.x was masked, but if fixed my package.keywords file, emerged pango-1.28.1 and that solved all of my problems - I could even do the remaining updates on my system which started with gtk+. Not sure exactly what was going on here, but I'm back and running and that's all I care about. revdep-rebuild has been cleared. Anyway, thanks for all the help. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Digikam issue
Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select Import -- Camera, my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I then select Import--Camera, I get the message Failed to connect to camera. The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of the plugdev group. As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but kwikdisk still fails to load. I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, I need to be led by the nose. One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that isn't the case here. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select Import -- Camera, my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I then select Import--Camera, I get the message Failed to connect to camera. The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of the plugdev group. As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but kwikdisk still fails to load. I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, I need to be led by the nose. One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that isn't the case here. Regards, Colleen Are you also in the USB group? My Canon is USB and I had to be in it for the camera to work. You may want to try running as root. If it works then, it's a permissions issue. If not, it may be hardware/software. Yes, I am in the usb group. Running as root produced the same result as described above. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Wireless Issue
Hi, I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945 driver, but this driver needs TKIP and something else (don't remember what) set in the cryptographic section of the kernel source. I can't seem to find where that is located, if it is in the kernel that I am currently running - 2.6.31-gentoo-r10. I've tried using the corresponding driver within the kernel, but I still get told that my wireless connection does not exist and that I should verify the hardware or kernel module driver. I have also always used wireless-tools. I know wpa_supplicant is supposed to be better because you can enable WEP encryption, but I tried to set that up too and I still get told that my wireless connection does not exist and that I should verify the hardware or kernel module driver. I'd be happy just using wireless-tools if I could get the ipw3945 driver to build, but can't without TKIP. Does anyone know if this setting has been taken out of the kernel source or if it is just located in some obsure place that I can't find? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade
On 05/03/10 10:10, Dale wrote: I think there is a interactive mode or something too. It is done by hitting the I key during the first part of the boot up. Just say No to xdm or whatever starts your GUI. Lots of options here. lol Dale Thanks, Dale, for the figurative whack in the head! I knew about interactive mode, but never even thought of it. Doing this, I was able to boot to a command line. Then, I took Remy's advise and re-emerged xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-keyboard-mouse. Turns out that they both needed updating. This fixed everything. Sorry, if I was a little terse. I panicked. I keep all responses to problems I've posted in case I run into the same thing again. So thanks guys for coming though for me as always! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] USE flag semantic-desktop
Hi, I have been doing a bit of cleaning on my system - namely, removing kde 3.5 packages according to directions given via Gentoo documentation. After doing this, I ran revdep-rebuild (with --pretend) and found that there were a lot of broken packages. One of the problem packages was krecipes. I haven't updated this in quite a while. When I tried to reinstall it, I got the message that it wanted to downgrade kde-libs from 4.3.5 to 4.3.3-r1 and I noticed that a use flag called semantic-desktop was enabled. I didn't do the install because I didn't know if I should downgrade kde-libs. Does anyone know what this use flag is about and should I enable it in my make.conf? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Package blocks
Hi, First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really helped. The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked by lzma-utils. One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of eix and another one, but neither of these are installed on my system. Another post stated that the person was uncomfortable removing lzma-utils because of the packages that depend on it. I feel the same way because among others, core-utils and linux-headers depend on lzma-utils, which has apparently been deprecated in favour of xz-utils. Has anyone solved this issue and if so, can you tell me what you did? Thanks in advance. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen This may not help but I noticed something weird like this a while back. The only way I could fix it was to delete the printer and add it back again. Mine is a HP as well so this may be worth trying at least. Also note, you should use the HP tool to add this printer. I think it is hp-setup. On the scanner, it sounds like you need to be added to a group to access the scanner as a user. Look in /etc/group and see if you something scanner related. Hope that helps if no one else has a better idea. Dale Thanks, Dale. Yours was the only response I have received so far. I'm really only replying to add some clarity. I did try deleting the printer and adding again with the same result. The HP tool won't even recognize the printer and gives me the option to go to the CUPS web interface. As far as the scanner goes, I haven't resolved that issue, but it is not a concern at this point. I *did* add myself to the scanner group. I posted that issue previously and was told that I should create a rule. Thanks, again, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Printing issue - Solved
On 03/27/10 01:25, Dale wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen This may not help but I noticed something weird like this a while back. The only way I could fix it was to delete the printer and add it back again. Mine is a HP as well so this may be worth trying at least. Also note, you should use the HP tool to add this printer. I think it is hp-setup. On the scanner, it sounds like you need to be added to a group to access the scanner as a user. Look in /etc/group and see if you something scanner related. Hope that helps if no one else has a better idea. Dale :-) :-) -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Printing issue
Hi, I have an HP C4795 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier. I had the thing working, with the exception that the scanner would only work with xsane when logged in as root. I haven't used the printer in a few days and have updated my system and the kernel since I last used it. Now, I can't get the darn thing to work. I can set up the printer used the CUPS web interface. I can send jobs to the printer and they will appear in the queue, but they just hang and won't print. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Wireless Issue
Hi, I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the iwl3945 driver. I currently am running the 2.6.30-r10 linux kernel and previous to that I ran 2.6.30-r6. For the last 2 kernel builds that I have done, I have been unable to build the ipw3945 driver because it is looking for TKIP (and a couple of other security things, but I don't recall off the top of my head). The point is, I used to be able to select TKIP and the other things in the kernel, but cannot find those things specifically in the 2.6.30 range of kernels. Tonight I, again, following the wiki, tried building the iwl3945 driver into the kernel, but had no success. I need to get wireless working because I am changing isp's and will not longer be using an ethernet connection, but a dsl one. I don't know if it matters, but I am using wireless-extensions as opposed to wpa-supplicant because it doesn't seem that wpa-supplicant supports the Intel 3945 wireless adaptor. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Running xsane
Hi everyone, I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I am having trouble with the scanner. I again have installed unstable versions (i.e. ~x86) versions of sane-backends and xsane). If I run xsane as root, the scanner is recognized. However, if I run xsane as a normal user, the device is not recognized. I can't seem to figure out what to change to rectify this - I've tried changing the owner and group on the xsane executable, but this didn't work. The permissions for the xsane executable seem fine. I have added myself to the scanner group, but this doesn't seem to have any affect. Also, despite the fact that the device can be set up wirelessly, I have not done this - I have the unit connected to my computer via USB cable. Any of you gurus have any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] What Gives - Anyone know?
Hi, For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I have nppdf.so as a plugin. Opera displays these files just fine - I have Opera installed as a backup when Firefox is giving me grief, but I don't really like the browser interface. Guess I'm old school and stick with what I am used to - I've always used Netscape, then Mozilla and now, Firefox. Anyone else have the same issue and know what's going on and if there is a solution? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] eselect usage
Chuck Robey wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 24 April 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: I have a machine which I hadn't used in about 3 months, so yesterday I began with an emerge --sync and then updated system. I got a message tellimg me I had to read an eselect message from gentoo, but no matter how I play with it, I can't get eselect to accept anything at all regarding gentoo. There isn't any such module, nor any news item at all available. If anyone recognizes the message from emerge about eselect, could you give me a command line that will report what it is that emerge is asking me to read? elesect news well, I had already tried eselect news, it only reports back that there are 0 items to read. Seeing as emerge is telling me I need to read the eselect news, it seems likely that I'm still doing something wrong, or maybe that my configuration is wrong. Maybe things will improve after I finish updating all the /etc/ files. This is what you have to do - I struggled a bit with this too. eselect news list This will report back any news items. On my system, the following is returned: eselect news list Unread news items: (none found) Read news items: 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Then, on my system I do: eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 The following is returned: penguinchick ~ # eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5 Title Migration to X.org Server 1.5 Author Remi Cardona r...@gentoo.org Author Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org Posted 2009-04-06 Revision 1 A lot of changes regarding device recognition and use by the X server have been introduced in the 1.5 update. As that version is going stable on all architectures, users should read the upgrade guide [0] before actually updating the package. [0] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml HTH Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/13/2009 12:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: There's a lot of us voting 1 today I think. How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and not causing problems. (rhetorical...) I must be lucky because I've been using it since it hit ~amd64 and using the HAL/fdi way and it works fine for me. :) Same here. All is working perfectly (or almost perfectly; see crappy ATI Catalyst drivers) for months. Linux is getting better and the X.Org updates are playing a major part. I've never had any problems with HAL or the new X that I didn't cause myself. (e.g. enabling modesetting in the kernel by accident, blindly copying FDI files from the intarwebs without noticing that the hal package already included then, completely failing to read the update-your-drivers warning, etc). In other words, exactly the same thing that happened to old-X when you didn't pay attention to what you are doing, happens to new-X when you don't pay attention to what you are doing. On the other hand, for the first time since I started putting Linux on my laptops, I have (with zero effort on my part) a working Synaptics touchpad with actual Synaptics features AND X recognizes my hot-plugged USB mouse. I'm up and running. I'm one of those people who doesn't have a really strong technical background - anything I've learned I've learned by guess and by God, by reading and with the help of this list. I struggled a bit, even though I followed the Migration to X.org server 1.5 document. I couldn't get X to start even though I recompiled the kernel and nvidia drivers. I tried not using my xorg.conf file and finally on a lark, tried running Xorg -configure, which gave me a new xorg.conf file. When I ran the command to check to see if the new xorg.conf file was going to work, I got a grey screen with an X in the middle. When I killed X, I saw an error message about my Microsoft Sidewinder joystick. So, on a whim, I rebuilt the kernel, enabling joysticks, but not specifying a joystick type. When I rebooted, x started just fine - no problems with my cordless mouse, keyboard, or touchpad and my joystick works. So, as they say, perseverance reaps rewards. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
AllenJB wrote: CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments: It's not a bug. It's a valid blocker. They happen. Yes, I know that, but I seem to remember this issue before and so, did a google and the solution I found was in a bug report, so I assumed it was still a bug. Sorry. 1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world 2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs 3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs Using -D (--deep) and --nodeps is contradictory. In addition, you just unmerged e2fsprogs, which means using --update (-u) now makes very little sense. -N (--newuse) also makes very little sense (in addition to the fact that it implies --update). 4. echo sys-libs/com_err /etc/portage/package.mask 5. echo sys-libs/ss /etc/portage/package.mask 6. echo sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided 7. echo sys-libs/ss-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided You should not add these packages to package.provided. There should be no need for this. I can see this causing issues. I didn't do this. I never got beyond step 3. From the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-712898.html # echo =app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r2 /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge --sync # emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs # emerge --unmerge ss com_err e2fsprogs # emerge -av e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs No sure why I add mit-krb5, I don't think it was installed before. Regardless, I added the line to my package.keywords file, but it still wants to pull in mit-krb5-1.6.3-r4. After unmerge ss and com_err and e2fsprogs (which I had already done, e2fsprogs-libs emerge fine, but I am still getting collisions with e2fsprogs, even if I use the --nodeps switch. You should also try to make sure you're using the latest version of portage (=2.1.6) as this has blocker handling functionality. I do. I was updating world and portage was the first thing it pulled in. This worked from a few people, so I felt safe doing it. On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. Please post the complete message (ie. the complete list of file collisions). This is what displayed at the end of the attempt to emerge e2fsprogs: Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1 * /lib/libblkid.so * /lib/libblkid.so.1 * /lib/libblkid.so.1.0 * /lib/libuuid.so * /lib/libuuid.so.1 * /lib/libuuid.so.1.2 * /usr/include/blkid/blkid.h * /usr/include/blkid/blkid_types.h * /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h * /usr/lib/libblkid.a * /usr/lib/libblkid.so * /usr/lib/libuuid.a * /usr/lib/libuuid.so * /usr/lib/pkgconfig/blkid.pc * /usr/lib/pkgconfig/uuid.pc * /usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/libblkid.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_clear.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_compare.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_copy.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_random.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_generate_time.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_is_null.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_parse.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_time.3.bz2 * /usr/share/man/man3/uuid_unparse.3.bz2 * * Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions. * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:22:31 -0500, CJoeB wrote: * Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions. * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. e2fsprogs-1.40 included the libraries, it was split into two packages from 1.41. That's why you are seeing collisions, because both e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs are want to install the libs. Unless you have some strange masking in /etc/portage, unmerging all e2fsprogs* packages followed by emerge system should get things straight. Thanks everyone! :-) Problem is solved. And it was basically my fault. For some reason, I had masked sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41. Thanks AllenJB for whacking me on the head and making me realize this! :-) I got so caught up with the fact that I had removed e2fsprogs and was getting collisions and was afraid I wouldn't be able to reboot my system that I never thought to look. I don't usually have too many problems with Gentoo and updating my system, but when I do run into a snag, it's always a lesson learned that I won't forget again. Thanks again everyone! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
Hi everyone, I know there is a bug here, but I followed this from the bug comments: 1. emerge -NuDav --fetchonly world 2. emerge -C ss com_err e2fsprogs 3. emerge -NuDav --nodeps e2fsprogs-libs e2fsprogs 4. echo sys-libs/com_err /etc/portage/package.mask 5. echo sys-libs/ss /etc/portage/package.mask 6. echo sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided 7. echo sys-libs/ss-1.40.11 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided This worked from a few people, so I felt safe doing it. On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. I have no idea what to do now. I googled, but didn't see anything relevant. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with e2fsprogs
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:57 -0500 CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On step 3, e2fsprogs-libs emerged fine, but at the end of the emerge of e2fsprogs, the emerge bombed and I got a message saying that e2progs was not merged due to file collisions. You can use 'equery b PATH' (app-portage/gentoolkit) to determine which package owns the offending files, then either unmerge it or just set FEATURES=-collision-protect to force installation despite collisions. The FEATURES=collision-protect didn't work. I assume I entered the command correctly because protage didn't give me grief. I have no idea how to determine what is the offending package because I don't know what the path is where the offending package is. This is the message I get at the end when emerge bombs: Package 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9' NOT merged due to file collisions. * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. I've looked at emerge.log, but nothing sheds any light. And if this isn't where I'm supposed to look, I'm not sure where I should be looking. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be reporting on the Firefox web site? And please, lets not get into a discussion of which browser is better. I like Firefox just fine and have never had any complaints about it until recently when Airiles must have updated their site and there must be (I assume) some incompatibility between their site and Firefox. This site seems to be the only one that I've encountered where Flash doesn't work properly. What version are you using? I got very good results upgrading to latest v10 even though it's hard masked. And it's 64 bit so I don;t need all that wrapper stuff anymore I'm using version 10.0.12.36-r1, Also, if you're using Firefox add-ons such as flashblock or adblockplus, I would try disabling them. Sometimes they interfere in the rendering of the page even when you've whitelisted the site. I don't use flashblock, but *do* use adblockplus. However, I tried disabling adblockplus and that was no help. What I don't understand is why the site would display just fine in Opera, but not in Firefox. And I'm 99% positive that the issue is with flash 'cause if I right-click on the portions of the page that don't display properly in firefox, I get a menu on the bottom of which is About Flashplayer 10. Anyway, thanks for the responses. I'll keep them in mind! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
[gentoo-user] Default profile question
Hi all, I just did an emerge --sync and when I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world', I got told that my profile was deprecated. I was told to run the following steps: # cd /etc/ # rm make.profile # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile I just want to make sure that if I do this, nothing will get broken or if there are any gotchas. If anyone has some words of wisdom, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Have you heard of Tellico. It's a collection manager that can be used for books, music, video ... whatever. It allows you to enter the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and if you have lent it out. It *is* in Portage. Some information: http://periapsis.org/tellico/ Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?
Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! I think you're being a little harsh. :-) Usually, unmerging a package that is blocking another package has, in my limited experience, always solved the problem. I probably would have fallen victim to this had I not been reading the problems that others have had. No matter, my intention is not to start a war and this is too late for the people that have already caused themselves grief by removing coreutils. However, once I read the problems that others have encountered when they did this, I searched the forums. A post from earlier this year saved my butt! This is the command that was suggested and worked fine for me: emerge -C mktemp emerge -uavDNt world Hopefully, it will help others who have not yet become Gentoo gurus. Regards, Colleen. -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Weirdness Here
Hi Guys, Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation. Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual files from my last failed kernel upgrade. First, let me say that my system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully - i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot. However, in /boot, all I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot). I don't see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there. What gives? This is making me a little antsy! Any suggestions as to what is going on? Any ideas how to solve the situation? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Weirdness Here
Disregard the message below. I've figured it out. Sorry! ;-( Colleen CJoeB wrote: Hi Guys, Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation. Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual files from my last failed kernel upgrade. First, let me say that my system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully - i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot. However, in /boot, all I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot). I don't see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there. What gives? This is making me a little antsy! Any suggestions as to what is going on? Any ideas how to solve the situation? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here
Chris Brennan wrote: look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ... Thanks. I figured that out. The thing that stymied me is that I normally don't have to manually mount /boot. Anyway, things are okay now. Regards, Colleen CJoeB wrote: | Hi Guys, | | Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to | upgrade the kernel, but no matter what I select, I can't seem to get the | sata drive on my laptop recognized. So, I've been sticking to a kernel | that works. That is just a lead-in to the situation. | | Today, I wanted to check /boot to make sure that I had removed residual | files from my last failed kernel upgrade. First, let me say that my | system boots fine into the kernel that I have been using successfully - | i.e. everything happens as expected when I boot. However, in /boot, all | I have is a symlink that says that boot is a link to . (dot). I don't | see any grub directory or any of the files that should be there. What | gives? This is making me a little antsy! Any suggestions as to what is | going on? Any ideas how to solve the situation? | | Regards, | | Colleen | -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DVD Playback Problem
Hi Guys, First, let me say that I did search this problem on Google. I found a somewhat relevant solution, but before I try it, I thought I would post here. The problem is jerky playback of the dvd when I try to play it using kaffeine. The laptop on which I am trying to play the DVD is a Dell Inspiron M1710. It is less than a year old (purchased late April 2006). One of the things the post said was to check that dma was enabled by running hdparm -I /dev/hdc. I did that and this is the output: /dev/hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM, with removable media Model Number: TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-L632D Serial Number: Firmware Revision: DE04 Standards: Likely used CD-ROM ATAPI-1 Configuration: DRQ response: 50us. Packet size: 12 bytes Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=227ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: EnabledSupported: HW reset results: CBLID- below Vih Device num = 0 Another thing this post said was that the person switched from the scsi/sata system for the drive to the deprecated ide/sata model. Admittedly, I haven't rebuild the kernel in a while. I'm running 2.6.21-gentoo-r4. This was because when I tried to upgrade to the next stable version of the kernel after 2.6.21-gentoo-r4, it wouldn't recognize my hard drive as a sata, so I went back to a kernel version that I knew worked. Do you think a kernel upgrade would help solve the problem. BTW I have 2 gig of memory on this laptop, so the issue shouldn't be memory related. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for the assistance! :-) Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: upgrade to goffice
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote: Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome? Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: upgrade to goffice
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008, CJoeB wrote: Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome? Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay. It's hard to see how that relates to your original problem. Did you have to do the whole expat-upgrade thing at the same time? No, I guess I misinterpreted the error message. Tried something that I found by doing a google search and it worked. All I did was to re-emerge XML-Parser. Sorry to have bothered the list. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Question re: upgrade to goffice
Hi all, I did an emerge --sync and got told that a few things needed upgrading, one of them being goffice. I have gnumeric installed on my system, but my USE flags include '-gnome'. I don't want gnome (i.e. the desktop) on my system!! gnumeric, gimp and abiword (and yes, I have openoffice.org, but find gnumeric and abiword more functional for some things) have always compiled okay with the -gnome USE flag. However, goffice is needed by gnumeric and probably the others, but now it doesn't seem to want to compile and I've removed the 0.2.1 version 'cause it wanted to put the 0.6.1 version into a new slot and I didn't want both versions on my system and of course, now I've broken gnumeric and as I said, goffice doesn't seem to want to compile without gnome (at least that is what I'm interpreting the error message to mean. Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome? Any feedback would be appreciated. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
