Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-18 Thread Digby Tarvin
I still think you need to partition the new drive first, then dd the individual partitions. Addresses within partitions are normally handled as sector offsets, but booting and locating the start/extent of partitions don't always. The fdisk format on PCs is ancient and predates SCSI (and IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
I do this quite frequently - except that in most cases I am replacing an old drive with a new larger driver, but want the existing partitions copied accross identically as if nothing has changed. To complicate matters, I often have more that one operating system installed on the disk. The basic

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Norberto Bensa schreef: Peter Ruskin wrote: ebegin Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel... if [ /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) != $(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut -f2 -d\|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ') ] This looks

Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:59:43AM -0500, Chris Fairles wrote: Changed my symlink to point to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, compiling ndiswrapper 1.5 is using running kernel 2.6.13 .. make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r3' Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST Oops - seems like

[gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink

2005-11-08 Thread Digby Tarvin
Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the documentation... The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a unique directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a symbolic link to the 'current' kernel directory named /usr/src/linux.. The

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
I've had another look at the problem, and at last can report a bit of success - at least I think I have bracketed the problem... I started by enabling the USB debug messages in the kernel (CONFIG_USB_DEBUG) to see if that shed any light on what was happening, but it just produced a lot of stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-02 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi James, Thanks for going to all the trouble of testing out the phone operation on your SuSE machine. I havn't had any breakthrough yet, but your help has given me the confidence to persevere.. On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:40:11AM -0500, James Hiscock wrote: I've just tried to use moto4lin with

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-11-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Sorry about the delayed reply - I have been away for a couple of days. On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:25:12PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: and the fact that you get a /dev/ttyACM0 and I get a /dev/usb/acm/0. I wonder if that indicates a slight USB driver change between our two kernels? The

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:31:37AM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: Did you specify the correct device for moto4lin? Should be /dev/ttyACM0. Also, check the permissions on /dev/ttyACM0 -- by default, they're too restrictive. It defaults to /dev/usb/acm/0 which seems to be correct for me. At least

[gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found anything in the handbook suggesting how this should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
tarball downloadable somewhere? Or is there some way to ask emerge to do this? Regards, DigbyT On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:06:35PM +0100, Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/27/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level code up to date

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
P.S. See my other posts regarding trying to get USB to work for my mobile for the inspiration behind wanting to update the kernel. I think if you get to the stage of having to debug kernel code, it is always worth at least trying the latest kernel first. Regards, DigbyT On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
. Thanks, DigbyT P.S. is there an easy way to confirm which kernel source (gentoo/vanilla) was originally installed? On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:31:30PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:25, Digby Tarvin wrote: Thanks, but I am ok on configuring the kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my system installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel updates

2005-10-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
Thanks James and Qian, But doesn't this conflict with the advice given in kernel-upgrade.xml, which says: The only situation where this is appropriate is when upgrading from one Gentoo kernel revision to another. For example, the changes made between gentoo-sources-2.6.9-r1 and

[gentoo-user] USB interface

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
I've been looking at the 'moto4lin' ebuild on my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 system, and it seems to be looking for a file '/dev/usb/acm/0' which does not seem to exist on my system: 1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui ls -lR /dev/usb /dev/usb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
, or is there some configuration that I need to do? Regards, DigbyT On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:58:34PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote: Do you have it working? Yes. That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working with? And if so, which kernel are you using? gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand) Ok,

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a sym link if you want to be

[gentoo-user] USB mobile phone connection..

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380 mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface. When I connect the phone, I see the following in /var/log/messages: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-2: device descriptor

Re: [gentoo-user] vnc

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
For remote access over the public Internet I usually use ssh. With the '-X' option it gives you secure encrypted port forwarding to your local X server, which appart from a speed hit is functionally pretty close to having a directly connected X terminal. Of course if you are trying to connect

[gentoo-user] Connecting a Motorola C380 mobile via USB

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, My post from yesterday seems to have disappeared into the ether, so I'll try again - appologies if this is eventually repeated... I would like to connect a mobile phone (Motorolo C380) with USB connector to my gentoo system so as to give me both mobile Internet access and also the ability to

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
In general, I think it is pretty straight forward to go from PDF to postscript, and PDF seems easier to access for Windows users, so if you can store a PDF file as your displayable format then I don't think you need to also store the postscipt. There are occasions, however, when PDF output isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you advertise it.. I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing list traffic and

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:05PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: That's fine for outgoing mail, but unless an MX record exists for the internal server on a domain/subdomain, it's difficult to 'direct' traffic from the outside in. The only other way I can think off is to test the server

[gentoo-user] system won't stop....

2005-07-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge of netkit-rsh

2005-06-11 Thread Digby Tarvin
, DigbyT On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:42:02AM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:46, Digby Tarvin wrote: When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I get several warning such as: QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using

[gentoo-user] emerge of netkit-rsh

2005-06-10 Thread Digby Tarvin
When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I get several warning such as: QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try: CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge netkit-rsh Which seems pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype is awesome, what is sound daemon for?

2005-06-09 Thread Digby Tarvin
Skype knows nothing about artsd or esd. The reason you see that message is that the execution of skype is done by a shell script which checks for the existence of one of these daemons, and if found, fools skype into using it via some clever (but not original) subterfuge. I assume the wrapper was

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
I agree that trying to size partitions optimally is an annoying chore, but I gather LVM should help with that problem - though I havn't tried it yet. However I disagree about the drive wear argument. Sensible partitioning can be used to reduce seek time by keeping related data together, and more

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, I guess that means that you either have smaller disks than me, or a larger tape drive... But assuming you do regular backups, how do you figure out which parts of the filesystem need to be scanned if the static stuff isn't confined to a separate filesystem? What do you use for your tape

[gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? The reason I ask is that I am quite particular about my

[gentoo-user] More on Libretto/PCMCIA effort

2005-06-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
A. GENKERNEL Well, I have now built a genkernal system to see if that helped, and it didn't seem to. It got noticably less far than my manually configured kernel, in that it did not recognise any PCMCIA slots at all :-( It also produced a suspicious error message during boot: /sbin/rc:

Re: [gentoo-user] More on Libretto/PCMCIA effort

2005-06-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
suggestions? Regards, DigbyT On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: Here are what I think are the relevent lines from dmesg. Can anyone diagnose what they mean, or suggest something I should try? I have tried 'pci=routeirq' and it made no difference... ACPI: PCI Interrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA progress

2005-06-02 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi Jerry, So your /proc/bus/pccard is also missing the two digit files aka: % ls -l /proc/bus/pccard total 0 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2 13:13 00 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2 13:13 01 dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel-3.1.6 fails for my situation

2005-06-02 Thread Digby Tarvin
I would quite like to try something like that as a neat way of bootstrapping a new install. Can you tell me which pcmcia-usb2 adapter you are using? The one that I have tried (an SDK adapter) didn't seem to work with Linux, and I have had trouble finding anyone who can confirm a working card.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi Nick and Richard, Thanks for both of your comments... On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:46:27PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100 Digby Tarvin wrote: But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get PCMCIA support detected. Starting pcmcia

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Further to my earlier post... I forgot to mention - one obvious thing to ask would be 'was the card recognised by the installation CD or when usign genkernel?' The answer is - I don't know, because This notebook has no CD-Rom, and the only way to connect one would be via PCMCIA or USB, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:43:16PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Grepping the 2.6 sources for ToPIC97 indicates you need the yenta driver. It is probably best to compile that into your kernel, not as a module. Hi Richard, That surprises me, because in the configuration bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work - ps

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hello again Richard, Well, the plot thickens... I found that the header file with the ToPIC97 information is /usr/src/linux/drivers/pcmcia/topic.h on both SuSE and gentoo, and on my SuSE system that was indeed included by the i82365 driver as I has surmised [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA progress

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
Thanks Richard, The yenta tip certainly seems to have helped. The system now seems to recognise the existance of the bridge, and when I insert the 3Com card, it recognises both the network interface and the serial port from the modem. There are still no '00' etc files in the /proc/bus/pccard

[gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-05-31 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi all, I am in the process of trying to upgrade my trusty Libretto 110CT from SuSE Linux 7.3 (2.4.10 kernel) to the latest gentoo. Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not being recognised. Any suggestions on where I should look? I did a manual config of the kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS CPU optim

2005-05-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
: On 5/29/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the subject of CPU flags, anyone tried optimizing gentoo for a Toshiba Libretto (110CT)? model name : Mobile Pentium MMX flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx This is indeed a classic pentium chip

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
On the subject of CPU flags, anyone tried optimizing gentoo for a Toshiba Libretto (110CT)? how do I determine which of the stage3 installation files: stage3-athlon-xp-2005.0.tar.bz2 stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2 stage3-pentium3-2005.0.tar.bz2

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA/USB2

2005-05-22 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone know of any good PCMCIA to USB2 cards (for adding USB ports to an older laptop) that work with gentoo Linux? Thanks, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] PCMCIA Modems

2005-04-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
Can anyone direct me to any useful resources for researching hardware suitability for use in Gentoo systems? My immediate need is to replace my old 10Mb PCMCIA LAN card in my notebook with a 100Mb or better, ideally a multi-function card that includes a modem as well (which would probably narrow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Digby Tarvin
Since we are discussing this I too am used to (and quite happy with) vi. It does what I want. Since moving to gentoo I have continued to type 'vi' when I want to edit a text file, in blissful ignorance of the fact that this is now a sym link to vim - or at least should have been.. Now this

[gentoo-user] emerge --update failure...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone have any clues as to why my 'emerge --update world' seems to fail on mozilla with the following output: Unpacking ipc-1.1.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work Unpacking enigmail-0.91.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work * Applying mozilla-stackgrowth.patch ...

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
, DigbyT On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:17:16PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: Still trying to get an 'emerge --update world' to complete... Now I am getting the following error: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm !!! Reason: Filesize

[gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
My first 'update world' seems to have complete sucessfully, having overcome the mozilla sensitifity to environment settings and the mysterious file size discrepency of my RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm file... That just left the protected directory file updates, all of which seemed

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge oddity.. update

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
the mozilla page rather than relying on the bugs link in the package database. Regards, DigbyT On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:18:04AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:56:21 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: I did check the bugzilla (by searching for mozilla in the package database

Re: [gentoo-user] --update world aftermath...

2005-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
your alsa to keep working do not let it modify your already-modified files. Also watch out for it to want to change /etc/fstab, this is a quite common rookie mistake. Good Luck, Scott Jones On 4/19/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first 'update world' seems to have

[gentoo-user] Anyone using gnat/bindx

2005-04-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
I have just done an emerge of gnat and adabindx and am having a bit of trouble building the bindx demo programs to verify that it all installed correctly... The emege didn't leave a lot of clues as to what it had done, but had there been a 'ReadMe' describing the adaptation to gentoo portage, I