Re: [gentoo-user] nfs over (lvm over nbd) ?

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:58:18 +0200, Raph wrote: > I never did such a setup but already see a couple of > problems : > - each client need some private HD space to, at least, > boot enough to let the NBD daemon start. That's not a problem. Install the OS as usual and mount /home over the network.

RE: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
> My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably > MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always > been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade > things only after having read things here and there on the ML and > possibly elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 10:21:56 pm James wrote: > Not a bad idea, Jerome. > > I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have > to wait forever when updating all packages on your system? > > -j Hi James, Actally, I update the dvd pretty regularly. I'm a real bug about stayi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Arnau Bria wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 11 May 2009 21:33:23 +0200 Marc Blumentritt wrote: > Hi, > >

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mouse button mapping with evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ABCD wrote: > names begin with two digits, so as to facilitate sorting. Also, it > appears that you might not have restarted hal after adding the file - > try "/etc/init.d/hald restart", then restart X. Also, after doing so, > if it doesn't work, reply with the full output of `lshal` (yes, I kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1801 (95228-95277)

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
John Hennessy wrote: > unsubscribe > > NO !!! You are chained to us and we will not let you go. Dale :-) :-) P. S. gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org should work. If not, look at the headers in the email or the mailing list pages on gentoo.org .

[gentoo-user] nfs over (lvm over nbd) ?

2009-05-12 Thread Raph
Hello, I'm currently trying to setup a network with a storageless server. There are 20 computers (2x1.6 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB sata) and 1 more (outside the room) with the same hardware (so no real "server"). The whole is connected with 10/100 ethernet. Of course, and so sadly, there is not a penny...

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:20:10 -0700 James Ausmus wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill > wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my > > IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never > > boots without a ke

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eee

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > ifconfig wlan0 up > > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name" > > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 > > ping somebody.com gets unknown host. You've not set the IP address, DNS addresses o

[gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eee

2009-05-12 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I'm trying to connect at the library to their wifi(Open network, no key required), but it's not working so I moved to one of their own machines to send this. Here's the steps I took: cat /proc/net/wireless gives me the interface wlan0 ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan reveals t

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1801 (95228-95277)

2009-05-12 Thread John Hennessy
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread James
I have looked at Metro (a catalyst tool of sorts) but I'm not certain I can take the customer configuration / rc files that I've whipped up and somehow use them during the automatic build process. If I could...man would that be lovely. -j On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:05 AM, James wrote: > Jerry M

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:34:56 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Xorg messages? or application ones? > > > > All of them, lol. :-) > > *I keep vesa cause I had many problems with intel driver... > > Hmm, me too. Ok, I upgraded my kernel (2.6.28-r5), rebuild xorg, and i've copied a xorg.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote: > > Then, in my pride and arrogance, I decided to upgrade my desktop to use > > KDE 4.2.3. After two days of hacking away, I now have almost all the > > functionally I had with KDE 3.5.10 (two omis

[gentoo-user] Font problem

2009-05-12 Thread Christoph Schrauth
Hi all, I get the following error when starting Eterm: Eterm: Error: Unable to load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1". Falling back on "k14" Eterm: FATAL: Couldn't load the fallback font either. Giving up. and the follwoing warning when starting xterm: W

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 >> update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also >> when trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 > update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also > when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get > additional

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Marc Blumentritt schrieb: Hi, when I try to compile a kernel again (meaning after compiling it and building the modules), I get this error message: hive linux # make && make modules_install && make [...] INSTALL sound/core/snd-timer.ko INSTALL sound/core/snd.ko INSTALL sound/drivers/mpu

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2009-05-12 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Arnau Bria schrieb: hive linux # make && make modules_install && make just one question about your compiling command, why make && ... && make? I just do make all && make modules_install ... I used this command only to show the problem I have. I have a special setup, where I place nearly the

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote: > A few weeks back the list gave me some advice on using Flash on KDE 3.5 > under amd64 arch. I ended up with using gnash, which has a kpart, with > konqueror routinely, and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 (64 bit) with firefox for > when I wanted to see a

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> >> How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) >> >> without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > >> > So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because parav

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: > >> Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not >> to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he >> will want to know what it breaks. ;-) >> >> Dale >> > > Even better is

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > > How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > > >>> So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support becau

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:54:31 Dale wrote: > Now you know he is going to want this even more since it is reported not > to work. lol Curiosity you know will get him. If nothing else, he > will want to know what it breaks. ;-) > > Dale Even better is if he fixes it, reports the fix, supplies a

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:54:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> How can I revert that mask (in /etc/portage/package.mask ?) > >> without editing /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.use.mask > > So there you have it. The devs disabled qt4 support because paraview > > does not work with the unmasked v

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > > >>> sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to >>> see if that is your problem. >>> >> Many thanks (to Albert, as well). >

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: > one question: > is INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" enough? or do I have to include keyboard and > mouse? > > Thanks for your reply, > Arnau I found that if I use *any* xorg.conf file then evdev seems to be enough for me. However if I try to run without

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:08, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300 > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > [...] >> > Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it >> > is normal? >> > >> >> Definetly not normal. > Xorg messages? or application ones? > All of them, l

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:06:23 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > sometimes certain useflags are masked - you can grep PORTDIR/profiles to > > see if that is your problem. > > Many thanks (to Albert, as well). > I didn't know about that. > How can I revert that ma

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: [...] > > Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it > > is normal? > > > > Definetly not normal. Xorg messages? or application ones? > Have you run revdep-rebuild? What's your kernel > and VIDEO_CARDS variable c

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12 May, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview >> with a qt4 GUI. >> >> My /etc/portage/package.use contains >> sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi >> >> >> but when I try

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 13:30, Arnau Bria wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300 > Daniel da Veiga wrote: >> 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have >> you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's >> going on? > recompiled... and log show m

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 11:25:07 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Furthermore, how to unmerge all of KDE:3.5, e.g. > emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:3.5 > does not work. paludis --uninstall --with-dependencies =kdelibs-3.5.9 HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hi Daniel, [...] > 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have > you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's > going on? recompiled... and log show many things :-) some Xorg ones: (EE) Fa

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/12 Philipp Riegger : > On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 22:18 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > I would recommend you to try > > [I] net-misc/keychain >     Available versions:  2.6.6 2.6.8 >     Installed versions:  2.6.8(19:38:13 04/17/09) >     Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychai

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/12 Etaoin Shrdlu : > On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 11:17, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> > Does ssh-agent really ask you for a passphrase when starting a >> > shell? >> >> Not if you don't invoke it :) > > Sorry, that is a bit unclear. Ssh-agent will never ask for a password. > It's ssh-add that does (

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 12 Mai 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview > with a qt4 GUI. > > My /etc/portage/package.use contains > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi > > > but when I try to emerge it > emerge -vp sci-visualization/paravi

Re: [gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 17:42 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview > with a qt4 GUI. > > My /etc/portage/package.use contains > sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi > > > but when I try to emerge it > emerge -vp sci-visual

[gentoo-user] use flag not used - why

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to emerge sci-visualization/paraview with a qt4 GUI. My /etc/portage/package.use contains sci-visualization/paraview examples qt4 threads python mpi but when I try to emerge it emerge -vp sci-visualization/paraview I get USE="examples mpi* python threads -doc -hdf5 (-qt4)" Wh

[gentoo-user] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 > update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also > when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get > additional warnings and no font change. Do I n

[gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-12 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, After an update to xorg-1.5.3 (with hal), following the gentoo xorg 1.5 update guide doc, I get warnings when launching a simple xterm. Also when trying to change the font size (ctrl+left_mouse_button) I get additional warnings and no font change. Do I need to emerge font packages? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hello again list, After having tried every suggested method of scrolling or pausing kernel output and failing, I decided to mess about with the kernel config a little more and eventually came out ahead. I am happy to report no kernel panics and I thank everyone for their contribution. D signa

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

2009-05-12 Thread Robin Atwood
A few weeks back the list gave me some advice on using Flash on KDE 3.5 under amd64 arch. I ended up with using gnash, which has a kpart, with konqueror routinely, and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 (64 bit) with firefox for when I wanted to see a movie. And all was well. :) Then, in my pride and arrog

[gentoo-user] Re: strange net interfaces

2009-05-12 Thread james
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > The latter. Two tools that both do the same job. iproute combines ifconfig > and > route functionality into one tool; other than that having both is about as > significant as having two browsers Thanks, James

[gentoo-user] Re: automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread James
Jerry McBride comcast.net> writes: > I keep a master copy of a generic gentoo install on a dvd. It's configured > and > compiled as x86, i686 for both the applications and kernel. I build all the > kernel drivers I would ever need and update it as needed with each new round > of hardware pur

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-12 Thread Alexey Luchko
Nick Fortino wrote: Alexey Luchko wrote: I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencie

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Tue, May 12, 2009 11:25, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > > I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install > both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. > > For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which > parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better tha

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 5/12/09, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install > both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. > > For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which > parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than unmerge all of K

Re: [gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install > both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. > > For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which > parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than unmerge all of KDE:3.5 > and

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Philipp Riegger
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 22:18 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, [...] I would recommend you to try [I] net-misc/keychain Available versions: 2.6.6 2.6.8 Installed versions: 2.6.8(19:38:13 04/17/09) Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 11:17, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Does ssh-agent really ask you for a passphrase when starting a > > shell? > > Not if you don't invoke it :) Sorry, that is a bit unclear. Ssh-agent will never ask for a password. It's ssh-add that does (if you run it after the agent), assum

[gentoo-user] kde:3.5 how to phase out

2009-05-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to phase out KDE:3.5. One reason is, that I cannot install both, 3.5 and 4.2 without using 'prefix'. For doing so, I need to find out which (installed) packages use which parts of KDE:3.5. Is there something better than unmerge all of KDE:3.5 and let revdep-rebuild find out. Further

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

2009-05-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, 06:35, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > This works for me too but afterwards the key is completely ignored. > What happens if you do this and then restart the shell? Or better yet, > what happens if you logout completely and then log back in? For me, > the RSA key is completely igno

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 01:28:17 Dan Cowsill wrote: > > >> Seeing the output isn't the problem, its just that the relevant error >> messages scroll away too quickly. >> > > Have you tried CTRL-S to pause the output and CTRL-Q to resume? > > Or maybe the scroll loc

[gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-12 Thread bn
Hi, My Gentoo laptop is a Macbook Pro SantaRosa (late 2007, probably MA896LL/A , following wikipedia). Since I use it for work I've always been quite conservative with it... it is an x86 machine and I upgrade things only after having read things here and there on the ML and possibly elsewhere (Sti

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 01:28:17 Dan Cowsill wrote: > Seeing the output isn't the problem, its just that the relevant error > messages scroll away too quickly. Have you tried CTRL-S to pause the output and CTRL-Q to resume? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Mon, 11 May 2009 20:16:55 -0400 Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my > IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any > way to have

[gentoo-user] Re: mouse button mapping with evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-12 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > This partially solved the problem. The optical mice were correctly > configured but the quick pointing device on the laptop keyboard was not. > That is the left/right buttons were not switched. HAL does list (below) > the