I tried to update my nvidia-kernel and the whole thing
bombed on tk.
It built ok, but then I got this:
strip:
/var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/usr/lib/libtk8.3.so
/var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/usr/bin/wish8.3
Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/tk-8.3.4/image/
I would of course prefer doing it the gentoo way.
The LiveCD is just a means to an end. If Knoppix gets you
to Step 6 in
the install and the LiveCD doesn't, I say go with Knoppix.
I use the Gentoo 1.2 CD for those things. After it has booted your PC
you can remove it, unlike the 1.4 CD.
Hi,
You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script.
Usually you can
just copy net.eth0 and add need pcmcia to the depend() section.
I have a Linksys WPC11 up and running on my laptop. Unfortunately,
the laptop is at home, and I am at work... I removed all Wireless
support from the
If you have a config file or two I can look at, that would be most
helpful...
I will.
right now I think I'm using my own net.wlan0
script, because I
have IPsec setup on my wireless network (which seems to
work much better
than WEP).
Most articles I read on wireless VPN suggest ssh+ppp
I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from
livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n
work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms.
Try apic=off
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I am trying to install Genttoo (I am a gentoo virgin :-) on
my laptop. WHen
the livecd boots, I get the logo, but when the kernel
starts loading, it gets
just reboots the machine and dumps me back to the splash
screen :-( Can
anyone suggest a cure for my Gentoo bloos?
Before the kernel
I just finished rebuilding my machine and I repartitioned
my box so that
it looks like:
/dev/hda1 = windows xp (ntfs)
/dev/hda2 = linux swap
/dev/hda3 = gentoo (ext3)
no, I don't have a separate /boot partition. Anyway, I followed the
installation instructions (excellent btw!) and I'm
Your kernel is configured with PCMCIA driver support. Therefore,
'make all' will compile the PCMCIA utilities but not the drivers.
But if i don't build the kernel with General Setup --
PCMCIA/Cardbus Support:
PCMCIA SUPPORT M
Cardbus support [*]
As far as I know you
I was trying to setup my CDRW drive but I cannot. I had
given to the kernel
the needed SCSI support and installed cdrecord, mksifos and
koncd. I was
going to make my first cd compilation with koncd but the
system doesn't
recognise my CDRW, it says:
Cannot open SCSI driver
I'd like to ask the group a tentative and highly general
fuzzy question about
zeroconf and rendezvous. Not really a question, more of a
'what about this
Rendezvous stuff, eh?':
Well, it seems neat. The main problem I see is an organisational one,
not a technological one. Jini is also quite
I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this
afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI
All-inWonder 128
video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if
I started
install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and
Libranet 2.7) at
I have the pcmcia-cs installed for use with my orinoco
wireless card. filled in the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opt file
for the base station
created /etc/init.d/net.eth1 with depend pcmcia
/etc/conf.d/net ad iface_eth1=dhcp
/etc/modules.autoload has pcmcia_core,i82365
run rc-update add pcmcia
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 6
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
Can someone give me a hand here?
I'm
I need to reinstall my system but want to keep the
downloaded files in the portage, so i don't have to
donwload them again.
And your question is...?
If you're wanting to know what you need to back up, I'd say: backup
/usr/portage/distfiles/
The package list is also quite big, but doing a
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 5
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 6
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
IIRC you need the SCSI modules
Hi all. I am just a newbie with gentoo. I try to emerge kde, but
emerge fail. The packet scrollkeeper cannot compile, here is the
error message :
ERROR: app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.11-r1 failed
Function src_install, Line 56, Exitcode 2
This is not the real error. Please look a bit above this
/bin/install: cannot stat ./sk/scrollkeeper_cl.xml no such
file or directory
/bin/install: cannot stat ./zh_TW/scrollkeeper_cl.xml no
such file or directory
... and so on with many more
It seems you hit some sort of install problem. I haven't seen this
one (anyone else?). Are the requested
Spider wrote:
Okay, I'll take the bait... here
Thanks for your response. As far as I can tell I agree with you.
Gentoo is a 'do-it-yourself' distribution, and very good at it. The
(true) bugs people experience and report are inevitable when you take
into account the rate of change in the
Which java sdk should i use?
What do you want to use it for?
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Has anyone ever heard why the JVMs out there always lose to their
Windows counterparts in performance figures? The latest study at
this site shows all the Linux JVMs failing the number of
concurrent connections test miserably, except for the Blackdown
1.3.1 JVM which otherwise sucks in terms
I'm new to the whole java language. Anyway, i'm using
kdevelop as my ide, and
i have this simple java code:
class Main{
public static void main( String[] args ){
System.out.println( Hello, world! );
}
}
and when i try to compile it i get this error:
Exception in
BTW, why are you using outlook express? Don't tell me, you
are running it under wine :)
I'm running regular Outlook on w2k. Company policy... But, to my
defence, I run fetchmail/pine at home.
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I am beginning an install on a Power Edge 2650.
Does anyone have any pointers or similar experiences
to share?
We have a couple at my work, running RedHat Advanced Server 2.1.
The box has booted up fine using the 1.4rc4
live. Only thing is It did not seem to detect
my scsi hard drives.
The box has booted up fine using the 1.4rc4
live. Only thing is It did not seem to detect
my scsi hard drives.
All I can tell is that the default RedHat installation worked, but
they might have patched the kernel. We're running the
default RedHat
kernel 2.4.9e.3smp.
Well, that's not
anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this:
//jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0
but at boot time it won't mount... even though all my nfs
shares work just
fine.
so as a regular user, i tried this:
(~) $ mount /mnt/jay/
INFO: Debug class all
The minimal solution for me would be to take a Laptop with Gentoo
Installed, merge/unmerge some packages, fine. But IMO the most
distinguishing part of Gentoo is its install.
Definately. The thing to show would be emerge and qpkg. Emerge rsync
is a bit time-consuming, so I guess that
I'm trying to make working the sound on my notebook. A kind
guy already
explained to me that I need acpi support and that can work
just using
2.4.19 kernel (wrong patches for 2.4.20 aparently.)
That one is new for me (that ACPI is required for sound). But, I do
have a new laptop running
i'm having trouble to get ftp working with my iptable settings.
I can connect login , but can't see files, then my
connection is beeing closed. if i stop iptables then
everything workfine.
See:
http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jns/security/iptables/iptables_conntrack.html
Gwen.
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- my sound volume is very low when I try to listen some
music by xmms,
have you idea in how can fix that?
What are you using? Alsa? If so, run alsamixer (from alsa-utils), and
check the levels.
- According to you, is there any advantage to use alsa versus oss?
Could you list what
Man I hope it's not the latter...although with your shifts
it probably
is...on a semi related note, does anyone have any information on
clustering with Gentoo?
Clustering in what sense?
Gentoo has many packages that support clustering in some way or
another: cook, distcc, openldap
Can I update/patch acpi of gentoo-sources to some version
more current?
I just upgraded to vanilla 2.4.21 + acpi patch (from sourceforge).
I didn't use emerge to get the kernel or patch, just remerged my
driver packages after building and rebooting the new kernel
(alsa-driver, xfree-drm,
I read about autospeedstep, and installed it. It compiled well,
and runs well, and /var/log/speedstep indicates that it changes
betrwwn powersave and full power, but i don't quite trust it :
speedstep has nothing to do with throttling. Speedstep changes the
cpu clock rate between two
I need to setup rsh.
As a server, or as a client? Do you want to use rsh as part of
another tool (rsync, cvs,...), or directly as a command-line tool?
Has rsh anything to do with ssh?
They address similar needs. I'd go for ssh. It's more secure
alternative, and has more features. Ssh is
which java
/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/bin/java
I don't know exactly why tomcat is rejecting you JAVA_HOME, but you'll
probably want your JAVA_HOME to reference a JDK, rather than a JRE.
Tomcat needs the java compiler for compiling JSPs and possibly other
dynamic files (Cocoon XSPs for example).
Celerons are listed as pentium 2's in make conf: is that correct?
Which Celeron?
http://kernel.kernelnotes.de/linux-2.5.71/arch/i386/Kconfig :
- Pentium-II for the Intel Pentium II or pre-Coppermine Celeron.
- Pentium-III for the Intel Pentium III or Coppermine Celeron.
p.s.: Do you see an effect of your screen staying dark
during boot every
now and then, coming back to live if you switch the console back and
forth?
No, I have not...
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Do you think that radeon FB support is generally broke in 2.6? That
would be bad, because I've the very same situation as
you've described:
Laptop, Radeon plus TFT display running best @ 1400x1050.
That is interesting... I have an Asus L3800S, with a Radeon mobility
7500. I have tried a few
What are your kernel parameters for 1400x1050? I'm using vga=0x318
(1024x768) at the moment but anything higher like vga=0x31A|B
(1280x1024) gives blurred fonts like you said.
No kernel parameters IIRC. I just enabled the radeon framebuffer in
the kernel.
It autodetects my LCD correctly, and
quote who=Gwendolyn van der Linden
I have the same problem with 2.5 / 2.6-test kernels with my 7500
mobility. In my case the framebuffer does not autodetect
correctly (I
get a very distorted display), and only lower resolutions work
properly if I hand-pick them. The 2.4 series
Chris I wrote:
As I said, framebuffer, at least for me, refuses to work
no matter how
hard I try, wheras with 2.4 it worked with so little
effort it was
eerie. This, I think, is due to the fact that the
radeonfb is being
worked on (was forked) again, and something broke
Is there any particular optimal speed when burning Linux ISO
images?
- does that particular speed is influenced by the
CD-RW drive, burning software, and CD-R media?
I'd say its the lowest number of all of the above. If you have a
decent computer then it's the minimum of the CDR media
Hi all,
I want to use my analog modem (a combined Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card
from 3COM) to dial up to my ISP using a normal analog phone line, when
I'm on the road. Is there a document that describes somewhere how I
set that up? The installation guide only mentions ADSL.
Barring that, what
As long as your modem detects okay, it's very easy. Just
emerge ppp, edit
/etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 and then either run
/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 start or
rc-update add net.ppp0 default to your liking.
I had a quick look at /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0, and it seems quite easy,
as you say. I'll try it out
What is the preferred way of getting the card to work?
Kernel support?
pcmcia-cs? Linux-wlan-ng? I'd appreciate if you could point me to a
working howto somewhere or give me some assistance. Best regards,
I have a LinkSys WPC11 PCMCIA card up and running with kernel 2.4.21.
I have NO PCMCIA
Thanks Gwen. Do I have to remove all PCMCIA support from
the kernel, or just PCMCIA
network devices and their drivers? I recall that when I
removed the PCMCIA options from
kernel hotplug support as well, compilation of
linux-wlan-ng failed because of no PCMCIA
support in the kernel.
I
From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have
their networks
publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly
consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between
countries, though.
Phone jacks and 220V plugs are typically different between
what is the cause of this? just before the kernel panic usb
was detected.
but what in the process of usb detection causes the system
to hang? i have
nothing attached on my usb-ports, keyboard mouse are on PS/2...
What kernel? What hardware?
Do you have ACPI or APM enabled? ACPI is known
Are you using a kernel config that you know should work for your
machine?
i did no special kernel settings, just used genkernel with
gentoo-sources...
I would double check the resulting kernel .config file (I am
unfamiliar with genkerner; I assume it generates a kernel config for
you). If
So if someone could bright me up a bit, I would be quite happy :)
Read the articles Daniel Robbins wrote on that (2. The gentoo.org
redesign: A site reborn):
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml
By the way: if you want to do dynamic XML based web stuff, I strongly
recommend Cocoon from
Hi,
How do portage determines where a certain package has to be
installed (eg, /,
/usr, /usr/local, /opt or whatever)?
That's in the Makefile of the package, and in the ebuild. From the
user's viewpoint it's predefined.
Another question: how can one find out what package a given
file
I also had strange issues with my Toshiba Satellite 2430
(P4-Notebook) with
several kernels from Gentoo 1.4 or Knoppix 3.2. My
self-made kernels were
only working if Local APIC support on uniprocessors
(CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC)
was completely deactivated in the kernel config.
Same here. I
i need to setup a VPN connection from to my work, what kind
of program do i need to install, on my laptop.
At work the network administrator (PC user, so can't help
me) will setup all the rest.
That depends more on the network you want to connect to than your
laptop. What type of VPN will
the only answer i got was, it must be a client app for checkpoint.
That sounds like a proprietary solution. I guess you have to look at
their web-site, and order a Linux client... I don't know anything
about checkpoint, so I might be wrong here.
VPN is really a broad term. Running PPP over
I am playing with many kernel version. And must emerge
alsa-driver,nvidia-kernel for each kernel i install.
My question is there is way when i emerge these two
modules, to tell,
with command line option to not unmerge the previous merged
modules ?
I know that when i do emerge i have
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:02, Jason Stubbs wrote:
courier-imap doesn't support nested dirs.
Well, according to Robert Kruus I am wrong. I guess my
memory's going. Must be
age... pushing 25 and that.
I think you are referring to the fact that courier-imap does not
support
I think you are referring to the fact that courier-imap does not
support directories hat also hold mail. A directory can hold mail
folders, but a mail folder cannot hold directories...
I have a subdirectory of a mail directory with courier-imap.
~/.maildir= inbox
My problem is not with the volume, it's that the treble somehow gets
distorted and it sound as if the speakers are broken or
something. But
as I've tried plugging in several different speaker-sets
and the sound
still have this distortion I've ruled out that it's the
speakers fault.
Perhaps
(...) so there must be a file somewhere that holds
your inbox mail (/var/spool/...?).
inbox = ~/Maildir/[cur,new,tmp]/
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html
Thanks for the reply. I don't use maildir /w courier-imap, hence my
confusion.
I'm planning to migrate my
the thing still is that he really has to know what hes doing
and linux will hopefully never be a moron's operating system
Which 'Linux' do you mean? I'm perfectly comfortable with the
existence of click-and-go versions of Linux, as long as I still can
configure my stuff by hand in /etc. Given
I'm installing a new computer, but after running grub i
can't find a grub.conf in my /boot/grub directory.
I have run it several times now, but never is there a conf
file created and also no errors occur.
I think you have to edit the file yourself. And I think the filename
is still menu.lst,
I managed to install gentoo on my acer travelmate 525te
laptop with ATI
rage mobility M1 AGP,but I am not able to get the X to run,
when i run
startx from command line i get a black-brown checked screen
with mouse
pointer(the normal linux cursor in the shape of X),i can
move the mouse
QUESTION #1 - Is it a requirement that I need to rebuild
xfree each time
I build a new kernel? (Time consuming, but done.)
No, I don't think so. Just remerge xfree-drm if you use it, not the
whole xfree.
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Mikhail P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So once user user logins via ssh, he supposed to have
these limits (viewble
via ulimit -a). However, it does not work - user still
has 1024 in FD
limit.
Now if I su user from root, and type ulimit -a, I see
that FD is 4048!
Any suggestions where
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
system will break.
Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
/etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab;
Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out
what files I can update safely and which
ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect..
Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous.
I agree.
The only files that
I have just purchased a Laptop HDD, and I am now in the
market for a nice small caddy shack for it. I was after
any recommendations for a caddy shack that has USB2.0 and
is compatible with Linux. I seen an advertisements a while
ago advertising laptop HDD caddy shack that was Linux
How do I change the the font size for my console shells to
default to a specific size.
Right now they are super tiny and I have to manually change
the size everytime I open up a new
shell window.
Look at your .Xdefaults file. For example:
*XTerm*foreground: white
*XTerm*background:
Maybe i did something wrong when copying the kernel modules
to the xfree
modules dir and vice versa as someone in the chat told me.
I don't recall doing that for my radeon based (7500) laptop. I set
radeon as a use flag, compiled the kernel without any special DRI
stuff, and emerged
xfree-drm for the radeon, works with XFree86 4.3.0
Right. But the DRI modules in the kernel don't.
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Do you also have
/dev/agpgart (AGP Support) as module and
Intel 440LX/BX/GX and
I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support
in the kernel?
Yes, I believe so, except I have to use i810 support for my Asus
L3800S.
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Her comes another dumb one. My folks want me to copy all of
their 45's, 33's,
78's, 8 tracks and cassets to cd. My question is what
programs do I need to
to record these from linein or mic and store them in mp3
format until I burn
them. I know whats needed on windows but I am Trying to
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