Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/07, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION Pfft, missed a '/'should be: =app-emulation/vmware-workstation-tools-VERSION -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT vmware] Installing vmware-toolbox

2007-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stumbled around in the script trying to make it work for gentoo but only succeded in reaping piles of perl errors due to my clumsyness in perl. Why not just emerge =app-emulationvmware-workstation-tools-VERSION and use the version that

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/22/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact the radeon module conflicts with fglrx. I've unloaded fglrx, modprobed radeon (verified by lsmod) and relaunched gdm. But it's still refusing to use the new module: (EE) Failed to load module radeon (module does not exist, 0) Actually

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/22/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have updated my gentoo box by typing emerge --update world. This also updated udev and now I don't get any network on startup. If I want to get a network connection, I'll have to first delete /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid and then run

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/22/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The content of /etc/conf.d/net is config_eth0=( dhcp ) dhcp_eth0=nodns nontp nonis nodns instructs baselayout to run the dhcp client such that it will not overwrite/update resolv.conf with settings from the DHCP server. It is equivalent

Re: [gentoo-user] [UDEV] No network on startup

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/22/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! So I downgraded to udev-103 again and now I get the error message (on startup) that /lib/udev/net.sh cannot be executed, because this file doesn't exist! I also tried reemerging udev, but it didn't help. What kernel version are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/22/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [drm:drm_unlock] *ERROR* Process 5256 using kernel context 0 Hmm, looks like kernel DRM is still having some issues. Try changing your xorg.conf back to Driver radeon, comment out the Option lines, and then do a full reboot. You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/20/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko): Cannot allocate memory Try searching dmesg for drm. My guess is either the radeonfb module is conflicting, or the fglrx module. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering

2007-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is it possible to enable somehow direct rendering on Xgl, therefore allowing OpenGL apps to work as ought to. No...Xgl is always indirect. What graphics hardware are you using? If it is anything but ATI, you should be able to use the aiglx

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI doesn't work with Radeon XPress 200M and opensource Drivers

2007-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/18/07, Jerônimo Backes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (ChipID = 0x5955) I don't have a .19 kernel to look at, but 0x5955 doesn't show up as a supported PCI ID in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h. In fact, no RS480 cards

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering

2007-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/07, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is it possible to enable somehow direct rendering on Xgl, therefore allowing OpenGL apps to work as ought to. No... Bah, apologies for silly answer already provided by others. This showed

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When entering default runlevel GDM starts and launches both servers. First one, Standard, has got direct rendering turned on and OpenGL is rendered by fglrx driver. OpenGL apps work fine. On the other hand second server, Xgl, has not got direct

Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'

2007-01-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/07, Jan Stępień [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please verify my plan. I should recompile my kernel with device drivers - character devices - radeon built in (or as a module) and in xorg.conf set driver to radeon. Am I right? Yeah, I think that will work. Good luck! -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT]network drivers for windows xp guest in vmware player?

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/14/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is, Windows complains the ethernet card has no drivers, so it refuses to connect. My guess is that your network card is configured for the vmware vmxnet adapter (rather than the pcnet32-compatible) in the .vmx file. This requires a

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/07, chrissie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out balearen chrissie # cat /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out * autoconf * configure.in:326: error: possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile php-4.4.4R8

2007-01-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/10/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checking for Sablotron version... configure: error: Sablotron version 0.96 or greater required. Looks like this is really a problem with java on your system [1]. What does java-config -L report? Do you need php with java support? If not, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick bit of Googling yields: http://www.leenooks.com/Ricoh+Co+Ltd+R5C8xx+SD%252fMMC%252fMS%252fMSPro%252fxD%252fSC+Card+reader Looks like there is partial support for the SD/MMC aspect of these. I'll maybe give it a shot when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will take care of the extra core is idle problem! ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc slots

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/07, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scrolltime is also wasted. Therefore, I conclude that although I respect the opinions of those who choose to bottom-post, and agree with the reasons it is nice, I also insist that there are also good reasons to top-post, and that I think the only real

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/9/07, chrissie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: balearen chrissie # /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules exists, persistent interface names not saved. Then edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to assign the interface names you want if they

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?

2007-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/07, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add that I haven't got my SD card reader on my HP DV8000 series to work in Linux. Last time I investigated this for my Dell, built-in media readers unusable under Linux on all laptops, as they are all made by Ricoh, who

Re: [gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

2007-01-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/7/07, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... what else can I do? I don't see anything obviously wrong. It looks like the problem appears when autoconf/automake are run to generate the Makefiles. Searching bugzilla for similar things leads me to believe that the nls USE flag and non-english

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/7/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to free up some space on my server box. I was going through trying to find what packages could be safely removed. I don't have any graphical apps on my server box except gvim, which is built with -gtk. When I ran equery depends

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting network going properly

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/7/07, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, any reliable way to get a certain device to be eth0, etc. I saw the rename, but net.examples said that was not optional. You have to create some udev rules to tie device names to MAC addresses. Search the archives of this mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/7/07, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is going on? How can I compile wine and solve this problem? I'm running out of ideas. It just compiled fine on my system. Post your emerge --info and output of emerge -pv wine please. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/4/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:28:06 -0500, James Lockie wrote: It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a

Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/4/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compressing a folder doesn't work. When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a please wait dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth. It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/5/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running vixie-cron, but am unable to figure out what this is all about, I have followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml But on the report email, I only get on the email, the following: /bin/sh: root: command not found

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find eth0

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I'm told that my usage (like I set it up) of eth0 is depreciated and I read net.example once over and multiple times in what I thought were the related areas and I can't get around this problem. This, still, is only a warning, hence

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/3/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have one of these? :-) It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for

Re: [gentoo-user] Important security update for GnuPG!

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/4/07, qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm surprised that after several emerge sync and emerge --update world operations since Wed Dec 6 2006, Gentoo has still not upgraded to GnuPG version 1.4.6. It's always helpful if you tell us your arch when you post things like this.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] where is PID_MAX_DEFAULT ?

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/3/07, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was just trying to compile one of my programs that includes linux/threads.h for the #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT, however, threads.h isn't there anymore! Hmm, on linux the maximum PID can be changed dynamically at run time. Wouldn't it be

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # uname -a Linux 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 #1 PREEMPT Tue Dec 19 12:25:55 CET 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux and as you can see i'm using gentoo-sources. It looks like this was upgraded recently too, no? Did

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2007-01-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/1/07, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it useful, this is my lsmod: ohci_hcd 21636 0 uhci_hcd 24648 0 ehci_hcd 33160 0 I seem to recall that loading multiple USB controller drivers can cause problems on some systems. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable version). Since then i've experienced complete freezes of the machine (nothing responds, even external ping on the network) when USB devices are mounted. In case nothing is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By reading the virtualx.eclass file, I really wonder what this is necessary for. Why is an X server needed to build gtk ? You tell us: echo x11-base/xorg-server /etc/portage/package.provided emerge --oneshot x11-libs/gtk+ Then see what

Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:12, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...': On 12/31/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some days ago i've upgraded to udev-103 (stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/31/06, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, on most of my machines system is empty (went that way soon after each install - no idea why) so all I am left with is world. What do mean? The system package set is defined by /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages, and extended by

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/24/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me there's some solution to this? I haven't seen one mentioned anywhere yet. Even with Gentoo's occasional problems, I like it too much to use any other distro but I'd definitely like to see better version management than what its

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/23/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If he has that enabled in the kernel. That can be a good thing to have around though. Especially if you accidentally erase your old config. It is also very useful for being able to check the configuration of the kernel you are _actually_ running,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM problem

2006-12-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d? Something to be managed by rc-update? /sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have lvm in RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/conf.d/rc. The actual startup of lvm occurs in

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-103 and blacklisting

2006-12-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/22/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks this solution is working. Will this be the solution for the future or a blacklist file will be reintroduced? If you don't want udev to load any modules at all, you can set RC_COLDPLUG=no in /etc/conf.d/rc. [1] This should restore the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel woes..

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/19/06, Danyelle Gragsone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help with this please? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3793329.html#3793329 It seems you recently updated your kernel. After every kernel upgrade, you must re-merge nvidia-drivers to rebuild them against the current kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing system from single to dual CPU ?

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/19/06, Joel Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There isn't an image in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ either. Strange. Try running make V=1 to get verbose output. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing system from single to dual CPU ?

2006-12-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/19/06, Joel Osburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Opteron 242 system, to which I recently added a second processor and some more memory. I figured that to take advantage of that processor, all I needed to do was recompile to kernel, reboot, and set -j3 in the make.conf file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/16/06, Peter Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On restart, Firefox reports two different Flash plugins installed (via about:plugins), both 7.0, but one's r25 and the other's r69. Version 7 is too old for most youtube videos. They have moved on to version 8 (or 9?), for which there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking in /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r1 directory misc has newly built modules vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko You need to make sure that /usr/src/linux points to the configured sources of your currently running kernel. Otherwise vmmon and vmnet will

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you have a working vmware-server environment. If so, where are your copies of vmmon.ko and vmnet.ko located and are they referenced in modules.alias? Also, any additional thoughts on what I should be looking at/for to solve the

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware server problem

2006-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since .config contains # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set I do believe I know the cause of _this_ problem. Just to be sure, my next (newbie) question is Is bridged networking the the right option to choose? I'm not sure...I don't have that set, but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does emerge want firefox???

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have -firefox and -mozilla in /etc/make.conf . Why is emerge trying to pull in Firefox? I don't want Firefox. How do I make it stop? =gnome-extra/yelp-2.16 and =www-client/epiphany-2.16.1 unconditionally depend on firefox. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does emerge want firefox???

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure why this is...I assume that seamonkey no longer provides whatever functionality is required for the 2.16 versions of these packages. This bug explains: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146876 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms lib cruft?

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/11/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this an xmms dependency and therefore obsolete and should be removed It is probably a file that was modified after installation (fex by fix_libtool_files), so portage didn't remove it when you unmerged xmms et al. It is safe to delete. -Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r1 won't boot - arcmsr?

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/06, Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell server that runs Gentoo. I have been running kernel 2.6.18-r3 with the third party arcmsr add on driver without any problems. I have tried to upgrade to 2.6.19-r1 with the kernels inbuild arcmsr driver but I cannot get it to boot. It

Re: [gentoo-user] LAN speeds

2006-12-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/9/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am scp-ing data between LAN machines both of which have 10/100 ethernet cards, going through a 10/100 router. Using blowfish, I get about say 55682.80 kbits/sec (as shown in iptraf). How much should I be getting considering the speed of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with udev (was joliet fs)

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: K3B shows that it Reads DVD: Yes and it does not write on any media. I believe that it is a Compaq branded LG DVD-ROM. Is there anywhere where I can see what types of media it can read, or is this a trial error affair? According to:

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not open library kwin.la: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeinit_kwin.so: undefined symbol: _ZN12NETRootInfo4C2EP9_XDisplaymPKcPmiib Try revdep-rebuild -p and see if that outputs anything needing to be rebuilt. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done that twice. I guess it's time to file a bug report. Seems it's already reported. Add your info here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155377 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/8/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out what tool provides logger? AFAIK, the provide settings in the init scripts themselves. Try: grep -E provide.*logger /etc/init.d/* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with joliet fs

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd auto,iso9660,udf noauto,ro,user,exec 0 0 I'm not sure it is legal to specify a comma-separated list of filesystem types. Probably better to just use auto here. Could you please tell me what

Re: [gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem [SOLVED]

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:24 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: thanks for your answer that would have been very, very helpful if i hadn't already fixed this problem [1] ;-) Yeah I saw that, but only after I responded. I blame both gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd - start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 screen saver

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a recently upgrade my gentoo system, including X11. Now, instead of my KDE screen saver, I get a giant X11 logo. I cannot find where this should be turned off. Any pointers? What does xset -q report for Screen Saver. Xorg has it's own

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with udev (was joliet fs)

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as I run udevstart (or at boot) I get this error about a dozen times: Dec 7 20:45:29 lappy udevd[2187]: lookup_group: specified group 'cdrw' unknown That's because the cdrw group is needed by udev just-in-case you have a cdrw drive. I

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs.

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/06, Xamindar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang this is stupid. You are right, vmware stays up if I hibernate without restarting alsasound. But for me I have no sound when I start up again. Oh well. You could disconnect vmware from the sound device while the virtual machine is still

Re: [gentoo-user] udev_run_{hotplugd,devd} failed

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Gorden wrote: I think you should run etc-update once... I'm seeing this as well (udev-103 and have run etc-update). I notice that 50-udev.rules has references to /sbin/udev_run_devd|hotplug Nope, the helper programs moved to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DVD drives

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at these right now. Can someone help me pick from these four? I don't see much difference myself. Well the two NEC models are identical hardware, just different colors. If I were making a choice between those 4...er 3...I would probably

Re: [gentoo-user] One more time -- KDM 3.5.5 and kdesktop crash

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Steve Brenneis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that. After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM. Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce update with wrong versions

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ebuild U ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE=-debug -doc 292 kB Since versions =4.3.90.1 are p.masked, I'm guessing you've got a problem between /etc/portgage/package.mask and /etc/portage/package.unmask. -Richard --

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Mirco Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi For the archives: Problems solved. The missing ethernet interface resulted from two missing links in /sbin (udev_run_devd, udev_run_hotplugd). I've created them now manually. I think they should get installed when emerging udev. A this

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM boot problem

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/6/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you should not have any udev utilities in /sbin now. Bah. s/utilities/helpers/g -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/5/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, # date Tue Dec 5 10:12:01 BRT 2006 # emerge openoffice { in other terminal } # date Tue Dec 5 15:24:01 BRT 2006 and portage continues to compile openoffice,

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/4/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with a routine update on a system. [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.4-r2 (is blocking kde-base/kde-env-3-r4) [ebuild N] kde-base/kde-env-3-r4 0 kB I've unmerged kde-base/kdelibs several times and then tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging nis-utils

2006-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have read the email before i sent it. Sorry. I am installing nis on my network of gentoo machines. During the compilation step I keep having the error in the original message. I performed a find / -name mp.h on my system and

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA

2006-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/06, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as kernel setup, I am using gentoo sources, 2.6.18 r3. These SATA configs: Did you also remember SCSI disk (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD) support? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?

2006-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to run both davfs2 and subversion which depend on different and incompatible versions of neon. Can neon be slotted so I can run both at the same time? What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight Savings Time patch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/2/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a better solution would be to get rid of the DST and be done with it. What exactly is that for anyway? I agree. In fact, we should just do away with timezones altogether and all start using UTC. :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable

2006-12-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/2/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ls -L /usr/bin/as # ls -L /usr/bin/as ls: cannot access /usr/bin/as: No such file or directory The bizarre thing is that I can use the tab completion to see that there is an entry for /usr/bin/as there... This means that /usr/bin/as is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Update - HowTo

2006-12-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/2/06, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next step which I'm afraid of is upgrading to glibc-2.5 Having destroyed (the system) of my machine some years ago by upgrading glibc (on Suse), I know that this is not a trivial step. Actually the glibc-2.4 to 2.5 upgrade is pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o [solved]

2006-12-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/2/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - remove the 3.4.6 version by emerge -C ... (almost nothing works now) - create symlinks /usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin - ..i686... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.6 - ... /4.1.1 - re-emerge gcc, glibc and several other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/1/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: · Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are plenty of packages within portage which have no longer been maintained for just as long as xmms (see cgoban for an example). Possible, yes. But even if that occurs, it really isn't a big deal.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/1/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my compiler is broke. Any pointers on how to fix this? One thing I just thought of is that I could add the executables installed by binutils to my $PATH so that it can find them to build the new compiler - perhaps that will work?

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the CHOST variable

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my compiler is broke. Any pointers on how to fix this? One thing I just thought of is that I could add the executables installed by binutils to my $PATH so that it can find them to build

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Have you seen this error message in an emerge? Yes. 2. Have you subsequently identified a hardware problem, fixed the hardware problem, and have not seen the message since? Yes. The problem was memory timings...or more

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/30/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, the output of '... 21 myfile' seems not to happen in the correct order. Just for future reference, you want myfile 21. The order is significant, as the command that you ran first redirected stderr to the same location as stdout,

Re: [gentoo-user] SegFault while compiling gcc 4.1.1

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/30/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done nothing to my hardware and I've seen this error, oh, a half a dozen times, the last time 3 months (?) ago. I ran memtest when I installed new memory, and it did not report problems even when run for hours. memtest is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/30/06, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something that's been bugging me about my system - I accidentally used an i386 stage 3 when I installed, and didn't notice until long after the machine was configures. Can I just change the CHOST setting to i686 and use fix_libtool_files.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Best method for automounting...

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/30/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I've looked into using hal,dbus and media:/ in konqueror... It works to a degree, but the hal daemon has a nasty habit of polling the cd card/pcmcia to such a degree that autofs won't unmount the then when you're done... I've had very

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/06, krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh ok, that might be it. I use the open source nvidia driver (nv). But I would expect that to work with it, right? Yeah, it should work, unless you are using the Option Rotate in your xorg.conf, in which case the extension gets disabled. Check your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:31, Richard Fish wrote: can see a 75-persistent-net-generator.rules file in there.. Hmm, not sure how I got a 70-persistent-net.rules. There is some interaction between that and 75-persistent-net

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading tetex, not finding crti.o

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade teTex using `emerge -pvuD tetex'. The compiling process aborts with an error message saying that this file could not be found: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../crti.o Can you post your emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the point is: what browser now? IMO konqueror rocks. The split-window browsing feature is something that every other browser should adopt _now_! But there are still sites that don't fully support it, so I keep firefox/bon echo around

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you use the split window feature for browsing (as opposed to file manager actions)? I typically use it for something like google or bugzilla search results. I drag links from the browser pane that has the search results to the other pane to

Re: [gentoo-user] new udev (?) loading ipw3945 without starting ipw3945d

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/29/06, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I switched to udev-103 recently, and now when I boot I find that ipw3945d is not getting started, which causes my wireless card to not appear at all. rmmod ipw3945; modprobe ipw3945 once the system has started works. Any advice? my

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] switching X.org resolution - how ???

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/06, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get: Xlib: extension RANDR missing on display :0.0. what is necessesary in config to get this extension working? I have libXrandr / randrproto / xrandr installed. It is a built-in extension (you should see (II) Initializing built-in extension

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, due to a human error I've deleted my package.keyowrd file... (echo package ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords) How may I find which packages were in the file? I'm afraid of doing an update... Option 1: # emerge -DNvp world Look for things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ethernet devices ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, SYSFS{address}==00:13:d3:60:4a:a5, NAME=eth0 ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, SYSFS{address}==00:0d:88:45:c1:c9, NAME=eth1 No go. They didn't swap. Just in case, you did make those 2, not 4,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NB: ping www.google.com is slow, ping 192.168.2.1 is either too much slow or blocked. route is slow, route -n is fast. Ok, two things to try. First, remove the 192.168.2.1 nameserver from resolve.conf. That nameserver may be broken and

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB per second... This seems more like the SATA-II interface speed of ~300MB/s... Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+ MB per second for my USB drive (not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade and non-working eth0

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udevd-event[3110]: rename_netif: error changing net interface name eth0_rename to eth1: No such device. Hmm, haven't seen this error, but these rules (based on 70-persistent-net.rules) might work better: SUBSYSTEM==net,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem

2006-11-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/27/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even worse is that udev seems to discover the sound cards in the reverse order to coldplug. My Audigy card becomes /dev/dsp1 and the Intel card is /dev/dsp0. Unfortunately, Audacious, my music player of choice, doesn't seem to offer any choice

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