Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
rocwhite168 wrote: Kaddehkaddehat gmail.com writes: it would help to also put your /etc/fstaband let us know what FS you have root setup asin addition to your /boot/grub/grub.conf 2010/6/20 rocwhite168rocwhite168at 163.com I used genkernel to configure the kernel. It

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread rocwhite168
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I notice you are using ext4 for the root partition file system. Do you have support for ext4 compiled in the kernel? Not as a module but built into the kernel? Using modules is OK but things that it has to have to get to the point where it can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
rocwhite168 wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: I notice you are using ext4 for the root partition file system. Do you have support for ext4 compiled in the kernel? Not as a module but built into the kernel? Using modules is OK but things that it has to have to get to the point

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread rocwhite168
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I sort of think this is in there but make sure you did the same for your drive controllers as well. You may also want to try this link. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4173972.html#4173972 I haven't had to put that on mine but maybe something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
rocwhite168 wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: I sort of think this is in there but make sure you did the same for your drive controllers as well. You may also want to try this link. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4173972.html#4173972 I haven't had to put that on mine but

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/21/2010 09:46 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: Walter Dneswaltdnesat waltdnes.org writes: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:57:58PM +0800, rocwhite168 wrote On the other hand, I'm trying to configure the kernel manually. I did this according to several online tutorials, but it still won't even start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/22/10, rocwhite168 rocwhite...@163.com wrote: fstab -- /dev/sda1 /boot ext4noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda5 / ext4noatime 0 1 /dev/sda3 /usrext4

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2010 02:14, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: I've setup my Gentoo box to use en_GB as the default locale in /etc/env.d/02locale with tips from the Gentoo Localisation Guide[0]. Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG parameter but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:00:08 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: fstab -- /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda5 / ext4noatime 0 1 /dev/sda3 /usrext4 noatime

[gentoo-user] HA firewall (conntrack-tools)

2010-06-22 Thread James
Hello, Conntrack-tools Look here: http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/testcase.html Is anyone doing this, and willing to share configs, answer questions, or point to other examples? Lots of new kernel stuff for ip tables, since I sank deeply into the abyss of minutia of IP tables. Further

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI RV710/730

2010-06-22 Thread james
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. uname -mr 2.6.33-gentoo-r2 x86_64 x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.6 x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.6

[gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
but will play in Opera. Have you noticed the same and is there a fix (other than emerging firefox-bin as the enotice is telling me? -- Regards, Mick

[gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debugged, is better than four lines in a config file.

Re: [gentoo-user] HA firewall (conntrack-tools)

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2010 15:33, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Conntrack-tools Look here: http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/testcase.html Is anyone doing this, and willing to share configs, answer questions, or point to other examples? Lots of new kernel stuff for ip tables,

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: but will play in Opera. Have you noticed the same and is there a fix (other than emerging firefox-bin as the enotice is telling me? Are you using 64-bit or 32-bit? If 64, you need to emerge nspluginwrapper set up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' as a plain user shows: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: but will play in Opera. Have you noticed the same and is there a fix (other than emerging firefox-bin as the enotice is telling me? Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 10:20 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I notice you are using ext4 for the root partition file system. Do you have support for ext4 compiled in the kernel? Not as a module but built into the kernel? Using modules is OK but things that it has

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2010 17:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: but will play in Opera. Have you noticed the same and is there

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 June 2010 17:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: HA firewall (conntrack-tools)

2010-06-22 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Howdy Mick! I can't add anything about conntrackd, because I have not used it, but I'd recommend to use the limit module and set it to something sensible (e.g. 3/minute) when logging invalid packets, if you want to avoid bogging down your fw. So use

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick wrote: On 22 June 2010 17:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: but will

Re: [gentoo-user] Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debugged, is better than four lines in

[gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 12:15 -0700 skrev walt: On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs in some one-off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
Anyone tried gujin http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ ? I think it may become an alernative to grub2, but I never found anyone who have used it. -- == Ivan Sichmann Freitas Engenharia de Computação 2009 UNICAMP http://identi.ca/ivansichmann Grupo Pró

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not saying you can't use it just that it doesn't always work. Thing is, when someone uses genkernel to make the kernel, when someone asks 'did you include some driver', the usual answer is 'I don't know, I used genkernel' and then nobody knows whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 12:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the new improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick wrote: On 22 June 2010 17:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM,

[gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the same when I go for a core i5? I use that box for

[gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 02:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4 ... Will it be the

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
And again, I had already written an answer to your last posting, but then my dreaded mouse problem in KDE4 happened again, and I forgot to save the mail as draft before logging out and in again. Mick writes: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick

[gentoo-user] messagebus keeps 0wning my files

2010-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
I've had this problem for a while now but it's finally driven me mad. I have a directory with some local mercurial repos. I'm the only user who touches these repos. Things will go fine for a while, and suddenly I'll do a commit and then hg will die with abort: Permission denied: on one of

[gentoo-user] file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get: * Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. Checking for file ownership gives me: # portageq owners /

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get: * Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. You could force installation with

[gentoo-user] Re: file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/23/2010 01:56 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: Checking for file ownership gives me: # portageq owners / /usr/bin/neon-config net-misc/neon-0.29.3 /usr/bin/neon-config # portageq owners / /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h net-misc/neon-0.29.3 /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h

[gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2010 12:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And what have mobos to do with the fact that whenever GNU lay their dirty hands on a project they will not rest until they turned something decent and useful into an overly complex, drowned in obscure options and hard to configure mess? I

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread rocwhite168
walt w41ter at gmail.com writes: I recall reading threads about problems caused by putting the root partition on a raid volume, but I've never understood what the problems are. Is that your situation? Maybe someone else can remind us about it. I guess not. I'm not using RAID. Thanks,

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread rocwhite168
Bill Longman bill.longman at gmail.com writes: Yes, it's built-in. I have attached a copy of my kernel config file in the original post. I'll bet you don't have HUGETLBFS turned on in your kernel. It's required for ext4. I checked and both HUGETLBFS and HUGETLB_PAGE are enabled.

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread rocwhite168
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: I did some googling. Seriously grasping at straws here. Do you have SMP enabled? If so, do you really have a multiprocessor or multicore machine? I ask beause I did find where someone else had SMP enabled and it shouldn't have been. I noticed it

[gentoo-user] trouble with broadcom wireless

2010-06-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Dell latitude E6510, ~amd64 kernel: 2-6.34 (gentoo sources) lspci -vnn 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4727] (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0010] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at e6e0 (64-bit,

Re: [gentoo-user] core i5

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: again ... I consider buying a new box for work. currently I am still quite happy with my core2duo E6600 with 8 gigs of ram, running ~amd64 ... running fine. but I remember the huge step back then from the pentium 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not saying you can't use it just that it doesn't always work. Thing is, when someone uses genkernel to make the kernel, when someone asks 'did you include some driver', the usual answer is 'I don't know, I used genkernel' and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
rocwhite168 wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: I did some googling. Seriously grasping at straws here. Do you have SMP enabled? If so, do you really have a multiprocessor or multicore machine? I ask beause I did find where someone else had SMP enabled and it shouldn't have

Re: [gentoo-user] messagebus keeps 0wning my files [SOLVED]

2010-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
Well this was interesting... One thing that mercurial does is if you clone a repo and the target directory is on the same filesystem as the source, it create hardlinks of files on the destination for efficiency. Well this is fine, but... One of the things my project does is create a virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread kashani
On 6/22/2010 1:46 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Because of EFI firmware, that's why mobos would effect it. Like the Sun Openboot PROM docs say somewhere: BIOS? We don't need no stinkin' BIOS. Same with the lame x86 status quo. At least nowadays we could have two different versions of it on board and