Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:36 AM Peter Böhm wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2023, 05:42:17 CEST schrieb Valmor F. de Almeida: > > > -> cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > processor : 0 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > > cpu family : 6 > > model : 158 > > model name :

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.460.0-r1

Hello, On a recent portage update: * ERROR: dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.460.0-r1::gentoo failed (install phase): * Something went badly wrong, can't find Expat.so. Please file a bug. * There is a bug filed for this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/827966 Just wondering whether anyone has seen this error

[gentoo-user] jupyter notebook 500 : Internal Server Error

Hello, I had to enable ~amd64 to emerge jupyter so I know this is bound for problems. However, anyone there able to use jupyter notebooks in gentoo? No matter what notebook I try to open, I get the internal server error. Thank you. -- Valmor

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 11:52 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > > > On 2020-06-25, at 13:40, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> > >> On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >>> H

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 25/06/2020 04:59, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI > > Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? > > A similar problem exists with Firefox b

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:42 AM Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 25 June 2020 09:59:46 BST Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI > > Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? > > A similar problem exists wi

[gentoo-user] thunderbird small fonts on hidpi

Hello, Does anyone know how to fix Thunderbird UI fonts on a HiDPI Gentoo/OpenBox system with no desktop? A similar problem exists with Firefox but it can be fixed using a CSS file (userChrome.css). However I can't get Thunderbird to work using a similar fix. The UI fonts are so small that the app

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:46 PM Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 1/16/20 10:40 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. > > Inputs appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -- > > Valmor > > >

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

Hello list, I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. Inputs appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor >>> Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-devel/llvm-8.0.1: * You can

Re: [gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:35 AM, naveen wrote: [snip] > Hi Valmor, > > I am presently running gentoo as a VM(virtualbox) on macos seirra. > I have app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32:0 and > x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32:0 installed and running. Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:06 AM, John Covici wrote: [snip] > > I have it working fine under vmware fusion and I have updated since > the install. I don't ust X on that box, so you may have a different > result. Thanks for the input. Yeah I will need X running on the guest.

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 06/02/2017 23:45, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>>

[gentoo-user] inputs on Gentoo emulation on a Mac OSX

Hello, I would appreciate inputs on emulation of Gentoo on a Mac OSX. For many years I have been using VirtualBox on the Mac as a host and a Gentoo guest. It seems it is becoming difficult to get the virtualbox-guest-additions package to compile and install on the Gentoo guest. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/02/2017 23:45, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Any idea on how to fix this on a gentoo virtualbox guest? >> Virtualbox-guest-additions will not emerge.

[gentoo-user] ERROR: x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.0.32::gentoo failed (compile phase): emake failed

Hello, Any idea on how to fix this on a gentoo virtualbox guest? Virtualbox-guest-additions will not emerge. The xf86-video build fails: [snip] if (static_branch_unlikely(_key)) /lib/modules/4.9.6-gentoo-r1/build/include/linux/jump_label.h:297:48: expected primary-expression before

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:56:34 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > >I have done several > > > >emerge --sync > > > >today but the digest verification problem below does not go away. > > > >Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:14 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Use webrsync or webrsync-gpg and see if the problem persists. > Waited for a few hours and tried both emerge --sync and emerge-webrsync still problematic. Thanks for the replies. -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] Digest verification failed:

Hello, I have done several emerge --sync today but the digest verification problem below does not go away. Any thoughts? Thank you. -- Valmor >>> Fetching (165 of 221) media-libs/mesa-11.0.6::gentoo !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa/mesa-.ebuild !!!

[gentoo-user] help with dependency conflict:

Hello, After a recent portage update I get the list of conflicts below. Inputs on how to resolve them would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor - USE='-dso perl dbus xetex' emerge -vp --update --newuse --tree --deep --with-bdeps=y @world These are the packages that would be merged,

Re: [gentoo-user] help with dependency conflict:

Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Fri, 12 Jun 2015 02:09:11 -0400 schrieb Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com: Hello, After a recent portage update I get the list of conflicts below. Inputs on how to resolve them would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor - USE

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: Failed to emerge dev-python/pytables-3.0.0

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On a recent portage update, I tried to emerge pytables-3.0.0 and the error: * python3_3: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile * python2_7: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-python/pytables-3.0.0

Hello, On a recent portage update, I tried to emerge pytables-3.0.0 and the error: * python3_3: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile * python2_7: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile /usr/bin/python3.3 setup.py build /usr/bin/python2.7 setup.py build

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote: No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line above I do use dolvm. Will check on that though. Of course it won't boot then. GRUB 2

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote: No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line above I do

[gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

Hello, I have been searching the web for help on this but no luck. I have just upgraded from grub legacy to grub2. Followed the gentoo docs and grub2 will not boot. It hangs in the beginning with the messages: Loading Linux 3.10.17-gentoo ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Here is the section I try

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:05 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: On 24/11/13 10:06, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I have been searching the web for help on this but no luck. I have just upgraded from grub legacy to grub2. Followed the gentoo docs and grub2 will not boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/03/2013 01:21, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would appreciate help with this multiple-packages-in-a-single slot problem. In the past I have unistalled packages and reinstalled on a case-by-case basis

[gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

Hello, I would appreciate help with this multiple-packages-in-a-single slot problem. In the past I have unistalled packages and reinstalled on a case-by-case basis and dealt with the fall out manually. I wonder whether there is a more efficient way of doing it. Thanks, -- Valmor - USE=libkms

[gentoo-user] does texlive-2012 have the media9 macro?

Hello, I have texlive-2011 installed into my gentoo version at the moment (recent portage updated) and the latex media9 macro is not there. I could use the ~amd64 keyword to get the unstable version 2012 of texlive emerged but before I try that I am wondering how do I find out whether media9 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: does texlive-2012 have the media9 macro?

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/12/12 19:32, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I have texlive-2011 installed into my gentoo version at the moment (recent portage updated) and the latex media9 macro is not there. I could use the ~amd64 keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

On 9/24/12 3:17 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 23/09/12 at 09:20pm, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Hi, I have libreoffice-bin installed and I can insert video files into presentations. I tried a few random files that were lying arround

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

On 9/24/12 3:40 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 24/09/12 at 11:24am, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Do you think I need to reemerge libreoffice after emerging gst-plugins-meta? Nope. Gstreamer detects plug-ins on the fly. You can run revdep-rebuild to make sure. I emerged gst-plugins-meta

[gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video

Hello, I have emerged libreoffice with the USE flags below and still the Insert-Movie and Sounds does not import any movies I tried (formats): avi, mpg, ogg. Every movie I tried plays fine with vlc on my machine. Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Thanks, -- Valmor

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

On 6/25/12 6:01 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:20:42 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: udev persistent rules strike again The contents of /var/log/wicd/wicd.log below do indicate a mess up with eth1 and eth0. Any idea on how to fix this? Yep. All I needed to do was to change

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to configure. I have compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/24/12 7:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:04:25 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought

[gentoo-user] wicd setup on a virtualbox gentoo guest

Hello, I am having a hard time getting wicd to work on gentoo guest. Thought that it was a simple matter of emerge and run wicd-client -n to configure. I have compiled the correct ethernet driver in the kernel (at least I think so). Does anyone have some experience with this or could point

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

On 03/11/2012 02:29 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 11.03.2012 16:38, schrieb Valmor de Almeida: Hello, I have not looked at encryption before and find myself in a situation that I have to encrypt my hard drive. I keep /, /boot, and swap outside LVM, everything else is under LVM. I think all

[gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

Hello, I have not looked at encryption before and find myself in a situation that I have to encrypt my hard drive. I keep /, /boot, and swap outside LVM, everything else is under LVM. I think all I need to do is to encrypt /home which is under LVM. I use reiserfs. I would appreciate suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe. I have the right driver built into the kernel. All works but as I said, wicd does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

On 10/23/2011 05:19 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 23 Oct 2011 21:01:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 10/23/2011 03:21 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:11 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: for this particular install. The ethernet card is Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

On 10/23/2011 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:45 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: I don't have net.eth0 (I deleted it per wicd installation instructions). My other machines that use wicd do not have it either and they all work. Don't seem to find the difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

On 10/22/2011 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/22/2011 08:08 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network configuration, no connection is established during boot. After logging in, I need to issue dhcpcd eth0 to obtain an IP address

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

On 10/22/2011 02:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:13:53 -0400 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/22/2011 02:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/22/2011 08:08 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network

[gentoo-user] why a manual dhcpcd eth0 is needed?

Hello, On a recent gentoo install using wicd for network configuration, no connection is established during boot. After logging in, I need to issue dhcpcd eth0 to obtain an IP address and access the internet via ethernet. I thought wicd would take care of that. I did not emerge dhcpcd, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with cblas libraries

On 08/26/2011 08:12 AM, denis cohen wrote: Hello, I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas-reference, and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). Not sure that was a good idea because now, even if I've reinstalled these packages, I am having several

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [snip] You're fundamentally right, although I would go for install linux Mac myself. The results may refer to installing other distros, such as Ubuntu, but it's surely just a matter of adapting the instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [snip] You're fundamentally right, although I would go for install linux Mac myself. The results may refer to installing other

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: [snip] You're fundamentally right, although I would

[gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

Hello, I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In other computers without a

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make sure you partition with Guid Thanks, -- Valmor On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb

Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Nick Gotsinas d...@gameforce.ca wrote: I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during boot? Yes. I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just fine

[gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

Hello, At work, I typically use emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree. But I don't know how to sync the layman tree. This layman --sync ALL does not work. I guess because git pull does not work across the firewall. Is there a solution to this besides requesting a firewall exception?

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use layman --sync ALL across a firewall

On 08/17/2011 02:45 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.08.2011 18:27, schrieb Valmor de Almeida: Hello, At work, I typically use emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree. But I don't know how to sync the layman tree. This layman --sync ALL does not work. I guess because git pull does

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2

On 05/31/2011 01:31 PM, James wrote: Anyone having any problems with VirtualBox and kernel panics? I've tried vbox 3 and 4, both with the same behavior. Installing Windows 7 as a guest and either (a) my system will completely freeze (I'm assuming the kernel panicked), or (b) I'm thinking the

[UNSOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On 05/26/2011 01:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] For the record. Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL vbox (source). All usb devices on the gentoo host

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You should still delete it. I assume you mean just the haldaemon, not the group cdrw, right? Then I leave the cdrw empty with no users, correct? -- Regards, Mick This is what I did. -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

Hello, I am interested in usb support within virtualbox guests. The version I am currently using does not offer it: virtualbox-3.2.12-r4 would the bin package virtualbox-bin- 3.2.12-r1 has it? Is the usb support the main difference between the bin versus non-bin packages? Thanks, --

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:53:26 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is the usb support the main difference between the bin versus non-bin packages? Yes. -- Neil Bothwick We can't solve problems by using the same kind

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Valmor,   Take a look at the Extension Pack. It might give you more of what you need. It does seem to be in portage but I've not used it myself. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads HTH, Mark Mark, I

[gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

Hello, I have eliminated hal long ago and noted recently in my group list that I have a haldaemon group haldaemon:x:104:haldaemon and a user haldaemon:x:102:104:added by portage for hal:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On 05/25/2011 12:15 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Valmor, Take a look at the Extension Pack. It might give you more of what you need. It does seem to be in portage but I've not used it myself. http

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] For the record. Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL vbox (source). All usb devices on the gentoo host are visible on a Windows7 guest. The problem I am facing now is that the Windows7 virtual machine tries

Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user

On 05/25/2011 04:46 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or something else still needs it? I think you should do it by hand. In general, you can assume

Re: [gentoo-user] usb support in virtualbox

On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] For the record. Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL vbox (source). All usb devices on the gentoo host are visible on a Windows7 guest. The problem I am

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

On 05/19/2011 05:17 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/19/2011 04:12:24 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. It even offers a beta version which has been

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/19/2011 01:38 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console

[gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update

[gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X server running? Before a recent update the output would just automatically go to an external monitor when one is connected. Now it does not; not sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/17/2011 11:20 PM, Mark Shields wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

On 05/17/2011 11:51 PM, Mark Shields wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com mailto:val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected

[gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

Hello, After a recent sync, I ended up with these two modules /lib64/modules/2.6.36-gentoo-r5/misc/vboxdrv.ko /lib64/modules/2.6.37-gentoo-r4/misc/vboxdrv.ko and others too. I expected the directory for the older kernel to be removed. Is this the case? Virtualbox was re-emerged after the

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple /lib64/modules directories

On 05/16/2011 08:12 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:11 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Valmor de Almeida did opine thusly: [snip] In other words, what you have is exactly what you should have and things as working as designed. To remove anything in /lib/modules, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

On 03/30/2011 02:46 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:40:02PM +0200, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest

[CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

On 03/29/2011 09:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] A couple of questions: 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage which, for whatever

Re: [CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

On 03/29/2011 05:56 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2011 17:06:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting

[gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the

Re: [gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

On 02/28/2011 03:48 PM, Nils Holland wrote: On 15:24 Sat 26 Feb , Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

On 02/08/2011 08:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I

[gentoo-user] usb modem pantech uml290

Hello, Is anyone using the uml290 modem? I've never used one and recently acquired this model. What other kernel support is needed in addition to usb modem? and what package is needed to connect the modem (currently I use wicd for wired and wireless connection on a laptop where I intend to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and wired internet config. This laptop happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/20/2011 10:03 AM, Mick wrote: [snip] Have you had a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml Yes. Got some info there. Also, have a read of the InputClass section in man xorg.conf and the files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. This

[gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

Hello, I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse (left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy configurations. I have just updated xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level).  I tried startx using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/19/2011 01:24 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 07:44 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] emerge --depclean -vp Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to the following required packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/19/2011 01:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev Don't forget to enable udev as Mike suggested too. I put mine in the USE line. After all, about all hardware now uses udev to see hardware. You only need evdev. keyboard and mouse are deprecated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/19/2011 10:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Should I be enabling udev globally in make.conf? I'm currently not. I do have it on xorg-server so I'm not seeing the OP's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

On 02/19/2011 06:59 PM, Mick wrote: [snip] On two laptops of mine evdev causes untold confusion with the touchpad and second language selection for the keyboard. I *have* to use the synaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it doesn't hurt I guess). I

[gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have: /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2 /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/LICENSE

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit xulrunner version?

On 02/10/2011 09:52 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:32 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is there a way to install a 32bit version of xulrunner? An application I am using on top of eclipse apparently needs a 32bit version. Don't know exactly why... Currently I have

[gentoo-user] aircard suggestion

Hello, I am interested in trying an aircard with gentoo and I would appreciate suggestions; hardware and provider service. Thanks, -- Valmor

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

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

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

On 01/13/2011 09:58 AM, Bill Longman wrote: On 01/12/2011 07:25 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 01/12/2011 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP If not BIOS then I'd look at kernel config next. - Mark If it helps

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

On 01/12/2011 02:48 AM, kashani wrote: On 1/11/2011 11:04 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I am trying to build a windows 7 guest using virtualbox-ose-3.1.8. When starting the virtual machine to install the OS, I get the warning: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

On 01/12/2011 05:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote: On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: System uname: linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6...@_2.13ghz-w ith-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:45

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] vbox 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

On 01/12/2011 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP If not BIOS then I'd look at kernel config next. - Mark If it helps here's my 2.6.36-r6 .config. Cheers, Mark Thanks for the posting. I have CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] starting wlan0 only when wireless is turned on

On 12/13/2010 09:02 AM, Mick wrote: On 13 December 2010 09:04, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:26:22 +, Mick wrote: Interesting! Can wicd manage encryption WPA/WPA2 without wpa_supplicant? No, wpa_supplicant is a dependency of wicd. Right, I thought as

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