Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: [snip] >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the I to

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] > >This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better > results also. [snip] These 4k-sector drives can be problematic when upgrading older computers. For instance, my laptop BIOS would not boot from the toshiba drive I mentioned earlier. However when us

[gentoo-user] SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

Hello, I am getting a SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [ok] message when re/starting eth0. I am wondering about that. The router's MTU is set at 1500. Looking at the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 it seems the inteface metrics should be calculated automatically. Any ideas about where to look for the reason

[gentoo-user] dependency on unmerged imagemagick

Hello, I have unmerged imagemagick from my system did a revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean but continue to get this output -> equery depends imagemagick [ Searching for packages depending on imagemagick... ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.15 (gnome? media-gfx/imagemagick) media-libs/gegl-0.0.22 (doc?

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency on unmerged imagemagick

Daniel Pielmeier wrote: [snip] > > Do you have the gnome USE flag enabled for gnome-extra/libgsf or the > doc USE flag for media-libs/gegl? I guess not. no > Equery depends does not give you the correct information. I guess it > just looks for imagemagick in the dependencies list but does not ta

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

Hello, I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to the newer version -> gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 * and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with emerge -e system emerge -e world assuming this all goes without trou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

Dale wrote: [snip] > > Is rebuilding the whole system needed for that upgrade tho? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Thought it would be a good idea to have a consistent system; not sure whether it is necessary. Thanks for the replies. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and >>> put it all back together again so that not even the factory can notice...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> Unless he's the kind of guy who likes to rip his Ferrari apart for kicks and >>> put it all back together again so that not even the factory can notice...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

Dale wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Alan McKinnon >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>

[gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

Hello, Is anyone experiencing this problem at the moment? Wondering what is wrong on my side. Thanks, -- Valmor -> emerge --sync >>> Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.240.40/gentoo-portage... >>> Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20)

[gentoo-user] panic:: octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: [...] failed

Hello, The test code below for writing an image to a file crashes octave. Would anyone be able to help? I am using octave-3.2.4-r1 and graphicsmagick-1.3.12 Thanks, -- Valmor file test.m --- #! /usr/bin/octave -qf im = ones(2,2); im(2,1) = 0.5; im(1,2) = 0.5; imwrite

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I tried both SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" Is anyone having issues with syncing the portage tree? Thanks, -- Valmor -> emerge --sync >>> Starting rsyn

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 11:24 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I >> tried both >> >> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" >> SYNC="rsync://rs

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

Mick wrote: > On 26 July 2010 17:24, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I >> tried both >> >> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" >> SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/ge

Re: [gentoo-user] timed out rsync error:

Dale wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Mick wrote: >> >>> On 26 July 2010 17:24, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>> >>>> I am still running into the same problem since a couple of days ago. I >>>> tried both >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] panic:: octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: [...] failed

pk wrote: [snip] > Hi, > > I tested your code (and variations of it) and I get the same result > as you. Googling seems to indicate that lots of other people are having > similar problems with imwrite/imread function. The functions are not > part of the octave package but is an add-on. However, fr

CLOSED Re: [gentoo-user] panic:: octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: [...] failed

On 07/29/2010 06:19 AM, pk wrote: > On 2010-07-29 06:49, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Thanks for the feedback. I posted the same question on the octave users >> list but no answers. > > Maybe vacation time so most users are offline? I'm on vacation but still >

[gentoo-user] Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Hello, After a recent sync and new kernel built, I get these messages from fdisk -l that did not use to get before. Searching the web, it appears that fdisk is listing my LVM partitions. Why is it doing now? It has never done it before. Thanks, -- Valmor fdisk -l Disk /dev/dm-0: 26.8 GB, 268

[gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

Hello, I would appreciate suggestions on what ultraportable laptop to put gentoo on. I am looking for a desktop replacement, therefore a powerful yet very portable machine would be ideal. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: [snip] > > Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series > to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. > And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ > You gotta love it~ > > -- > @ghosTM55 > Mech

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6: Window Maker received signal 6

Hello, I recently upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 (gcc-4.3.4); followed all info on gentoo web site. Window Maker does not start; it pops up an error window: Window Maker received signal 6. I "think" the X server is running okay. I have re emerged windowmaker-0.92.0-r7 but the problem persist

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade

Krzysztof Poc wrote: > Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the > screen > very slowly. "top" shows me that "X" process takes up around 95% of the CPU > while I have Intel Core 2 Duo. > > What's wrong with my system ? > > I have the following installed: > kernel 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glxgears with no ... gears?!

Mick wrote: > Am I the only one with dodgy glxgears? Any ideas at all? > > On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Mick wrote: >> I've updated xorg following all relevant instructions by gentoo devs on an >> old laptop and when I run glxgears I get no graphic and pedestrian speeds: >> >> $ glxgears >> 629 fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade

Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote: [...] >> I am using >> >> kernel 2.6.30.9 i686 >> xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r2 >> xorg-x11 7.4-r1 >> xf86-video-intel 2.8.1 >> hal 0.5.12_rc1-r8 >> >> Also h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VGA output?

James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Grant > wrote: > > > How are you guys getting your laptops to do VGA output? My system > > functions fine without an xorg.conf right now. Do I need to create > > one if I want VGA output? >

[gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

Hello, I would appreciate some guidance in getting sound working such that I can listen to an adobe flash video. I am using firefox (have the adobe flash plugin installed which plays video but no sound) and a pretty updated gentoo laptop. Thanks in advance. -- Valmor PS: never tried to get sou

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

Dale wrote: ...[snip]... > > At least you are past the kernel part and know the hardware should be > working. I had to install alsamixergui to unmute mine. Since I have a > somewhat bloated install, I'm not sure how you would unmute yours. You > may have to install some kind of alsa to do that.

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

James Ausmus wrote: > > [snip] > > First off - do you have PulseAudio running? If so, for HW/ALSA testing > purposes, shut it down. Second, check your mixer settings to determine No I don't have it installed. > if your volume levels are appropriate. A great quick CLI app for this is > alsamixe

Re: [gentoo-user] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

Stroller wrote: > [snip] > > You haven't made it clear - in any of your subsequent posts, either - > if sound is working for other applications. I have never configured sound. It has never worked. > > If you get a new email, does your laptop go "bing!"? Can you play an > MP3 by double click

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] need sound to listen to a adobe flash video

Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Stroller wrote: > [snip] >> You haven't made it clear - in any of your subsequent posts, either - >> if sound is working for other applications. > > I have never configured sound. It has never worked. > >> If you get a new email

[gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

Hello, I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to boot a relatively old machine with it. Here is where it stops >> Mounting the squashfs filesystem mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /newroot/mnt/livecd failed: Invalid argument !! Failed to $1; failing back to the shell..

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > ... > > I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to > boot a relatively old machine with it. > > Here is where it stops &

[gentoo-user] is ddrescue this slow?

Hello, I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue ddrescue -n /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which has taken over 6 hours so far Press

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd > took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so > I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +0000, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: [snip] > > All I know is that at one time, the external drive was recognized > on /dev/sda and at that time I formatted the drive for swap space and > ran swapon /dev/sda1 Now for some reason it doesn't work. I want it to > work. > > Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller wrote: [snip] > in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better > version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes > improvements, but it operates differently. > Comment. Another reason I moved away from dd (apart f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller wrote: > Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in > plain text format? > > Stroller. > > Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail without the html hot links. I am doing this from within systemrescuecd using fire

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:09, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller >> wrote: >>> >>> Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller wrote: > Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in > plain text format? > Stroller. Here it goes. >On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller >>wrote: [snip] >in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Stroller wrote: > [snip] > > I just reread the above ("from within systemrescuecd"), which implies you > may be stuck without another working system. Yes. I am afraid the text below will be confusing but will send anyway. Will be happy to send clarifications if ne

Re: [gentoo-user] [CLOSED] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

Stroller wrote: [snip] > > I would try running fsck on a copy of the image. > I did try and thought I would post here some final info just for the record. I proceeeded with the command r...@sysresccd /root % ddrescue -r 1 /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which took ~50 hours to finish with the

[gentoo-user] usb to ps2 adapter not working for left handed mouse

Hello, I am just trying to understand why my usb mouse does not work properly when connected via a usb to ps2 adapter. I have in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi the following section mouse 4 5 6 7 3 2 1 evdev which sets up a left-

[gentoo-user] cannot open root device "sda3"

Hello, I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message:   VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(2,0)   Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:   Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device "sda3"

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: [snip] > If yes, lookup the list archive a couple of weeks back, somebody mentioned a > boot option to delay booting to give the kernel some time to discover USB > devices. > > HTH... &g

[gentoo-user] remote desktop suggestion

Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote desktop suggestion

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [snip] > I use x2go, which is based on NX. FreeNX, which I used before, was > semi-abandoned at some point. > > You can find it in the nx overlay. > Will give x2go a try. Thanks, -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] configuring x2go on gentoo

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). >> Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? > > I use x2go, which is based on

[gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

Hello, Recently I bumped up (really) the number of HDD on a relatively old system (PATA IDE's) and I noticed that it took a while for gentoo to boot. After several weeks running, I tried to reboot and here is where I have a problem: *Populating /dev/ with existing devices through uevents... *Wa

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system [snip] > > I had this on my stand-by machine & discovered it was waiting > for a broken CD drive; when I unplugged the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] > > Don't know about the server configuration on Gentoo.  I only run the client > on my Gentoo box.  The server runs on a Debian machine and IIRC the Here are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: [snip] >    users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper There is a "%" missing at the beginning of the line above. My x2go client/server is not working. It starts a session but immediately kicks me out. This is what

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

Stroller wrote: The sub-packages are not intended to be installed stand-alone - they are merely for the convenience of the devs and so that minimal work is required of your system to maintain minor updates. I wonder why this is a required package * dev-tex/feynmf Latest version avail

[gentoo-user] liveusb not working

Hello, I followed all the steps in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml and created a liveusb on a memory stick; instead of the image livecd-i686-installer-2007.0.iso, I used the more recent 2008. When trying to boot from the liveusb I get: No operating system found. Do I have to use 20

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I recently created LiveUSB stick with Gentoo follow instructions in the link above and using http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/20090401/install-x86-minimal-20090401.iso ISO. It works nicely. Right; the minimal iso. Wil

Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working

Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? This was it. It all works now. Thanks, -- Valmor

[gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Hello, I've been trying the following grub.conf boot kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 video=intelfb,mode=1280x768...@60 but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format appears to be kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=xxx where xxx does not accommodate the mod

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Sebastian Günther wrote: This is the hint: intelfb can't change the video mode. But intelfb can be used if you /also/ add a vga to the kernel command line. I will post mine as an example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/system-slash \ ro resume=swap:/dev/mapper/sy

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Peter Humphrey wrote: kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.29-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap fbcon=scrollback:128k splash=silent memory_corruption_check=1 Thanks for letting me know the fbcon=scrollback option. -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Mike Edenfield wrote: these log messages. I assume this is a laptop (or else your intelfb is very confused). For some reason that I don't fully understand, but It is a laptop indeed. assume is a good one, the intel fb device cannot change the video mode on a laptop display. The vga par

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Sebastian Günther wrote: * Valmor de Almeida (val.gen...@gmail.com) [20.04.09 23:23]: since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled into the kernel. Only if you don't want to use it:

[gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

Hello, I would like to start net.eth0 manually, therefore I currently have -> rc-update show acpid | battery default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot conso

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

Tom wrote: kernel ... video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795 That gives me 1280x1024. I don't know at what refreshrate though... There should be a line in your /var/log/messages file that shows the refresh rate; at least intelfb does show that; not sure vesafb does the same. those options, wh

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

Philip Webb wrote: & I start net.eth0 by hand, so it looks as if it's 'netmount'. I removed netmount from all run levels and still get net.eth0 started. It is happening before; during booting I see the line *Wiping /tmp directory... *Device initiated services: net.eth0 udev-postmount

Re: [gentoo-user] what is starting net.eth0 and how to stop it?

Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: That happened to me recently. Just change the value of the variable RC_PLUG_SERVICES in /etc/conf.d/net to exclude eth0, like eg RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0" That did it. Never actually looked inside /etc/conf.d/rc. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] voice or touch data entry apps

James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for special types of applications that allow for data entry, via voice commands or using the touch screen on a touch screen enabled laptop. KDE4 is my preferred desktop, but any application that will run on kde4 and gentoo is of interest. Is there anything l

[gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the console the motd appears (twice; why?) and then the session is closed. In t

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, After a system/world update my user account dealmeida cannot be logged to or root cannot su to it. When su - dealmeida is issued at the root command prompt, it immediately returns to root. When login is at the

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Florian Philipp wrote: A low hanging fruit: Maybe the user wrote 'exit' or 'exec' into her .bashrc By the way: Which shell is defined in /etc/passwd? .bashrc is fine. The shell is /bin/bash Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Mike Kazantsev wrote: I don't know about motd, but the rest looks like pam problem to me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd suggest to check etc-update. Then look through /etc/pam.d, especially system-* files. There yo

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009 04:53:41 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 02 May 2009 20:52:39 -0400 I don't know about motd, but the rest looks like pam problem to me, if you're using pam, of course. Try 'euse -i pam' to see if it's enabled. If that's the case, first of all I'd sugg

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login to user account or do su - username

Alan McKinnon wrote: experiment to see if it's the new hashes that are doing it. Find an account that can sudo to root on the affected machines and examine the shadow file. See what kind of hashes the affected accounts are using. md5 is 34 characters long and sha512 is 98 in this format: $x$

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

Hello, After an evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3 upgrade, I suppose I don't need a input device section for a mouse in my xorg.conf. (I do need xorg.conf so I can get an external monitor working with my laptop correctly). However I would like to reverse the order of the buttons and this old xorg.conf section

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

Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > After an evdev+hal+xorg-1.5.3 upgrade, I suppose I don't need a input > device section for a mouse in my xorg.conf. (I do need xorg.conf so I > can get an external monitor working with my laptop correctly). However I > would like to r

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

ABCD wrote: > > As I understand it, everything that can be done in xorg.conf can be done > via HAL, but I'm not sure how you would do so for the video devices. > That said, you should be able to completely get rid of the input devices > in xorg.conf, and instead install this in a file in /etc/hal

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

Dan Cowsill wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: >> Have you tried + ? I have no idea if it will work in that >> circumtance... >> >> Remember that depending how you setup the kernel the IDE devices could be >> hdX or sdX. >> >> > > Thanks, > > Yes, I've tried shift+pgUp and it doesn't appear to work

[gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

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

[gentoo-user] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

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

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

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

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] xterm fonts not loaded

Paul Hartman wrote: > > And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not > having problems. > > It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, -- Valmor

Re: [gentoo-user] fontset

Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > When I try to run snns I get > > '>Warning: Cannot convert string "7x13bold" to type FontStruct > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > Can't find display font specified in command line > > [1]Exit

[gentoo-user] how to move overlays to a new storage location

Hello, A recent update of layman changed the storage variable in /etc/layman/layman.cfg to storage : /usr/local/portage/layman It was previously /usr/portage/local/layman. As a result I would like to move things to the new location. I actually like it better under /usr/local/portage. Is thi

[gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

Hello, Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the command prompt: get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 and a line in the /var/log/messages file [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6 does anyone know what these mean? The application runs but appare

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:58 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the >> command prompt: >> >> >> get fences failed: -1 >> param: 6, val: 0 > > I used to g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not >>> having problems. >>> >>> >> It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. >> >> T

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. > Everything in there must not be in your world file. > > Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove > everything > X11, glib, gtk from world. kde? qt does not belong there. > > With a litt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Valmor de Almeida wrote: >>>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>>> And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not >>>>> ha

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

AJ Spagnoletti wrote: >> -> glxgears >> get fences failed: -1 >> param: 6, val: 0 >> >> 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.565 FPS >> 298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.524 FPS >> 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.737 FPS >> 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS >> >> > > I have run into this same problem f

[gentoo-user] ooimpress: Message: don't know how to handle video

Hello, I have emerged openoffice with USE gstreamer and java. Still unable to import a movie. Just about any movie format I try I get: -->com.sun.star.media.Manager_GStreamer uno reference ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-msvideo ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-msvideo

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > Using the link you posted I was able to get similar numbers on my > card, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there where it > talks about driconf, and set up your drirc file you should be able to > apply these settings system wide. I am still have some issues with

[gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

Hello, When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible with Windows OS? Similarly when using a USB memory stick, the format is VFAT and I am also not able write. Is it possible to write and still pre

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

Keith Dart wrote: > === On Mon, 08/31, Paul Hartman wrote: === >> Sure, it works fine for me using vfat. Be sure it's not mounted >> read-only, and be sure the write-protect switch on the device is not >> enabled. You may want to mount with the check=relaxed option to make >> file accesses case-ins

Re: [gentoo-user] setting a USE flags for many packages

Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, ... > > How can I set the '-doc' use flags for all packages matching kde-base/* > and kde-misc/* (There are hundreds of them!) > I don't know whether the /etc/portage/package.use file will accept this syntax but maybe you can do something like kde-base/* -doc not

[gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

Hello, I am trying to configure lm_sensors and sensors-detect identified these two modules I don't know how to build. smartbatt coretemp I tried many config options when rebuilding the kernel 2.6.27.12 (vanilla-sources) but no luck in building the modules. Looking in the kernel sources do

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

David wrote: This should help; http://dwabbott.com/menuconfig_shots/ The pictures help a lot. Under Hardware Monitoring Support I do not have the option Intel Core (2) Duo/Solo temperature sensor in my menuconfig (vanilla-sources 2.6.27.12) which could enable CONFIG_CORETEMP. Interestin

Re: [gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

Alan McKinnon wrote: From any menu in make menuconfig, you can type '/' and enter a search string. Menuconfig will list all instances where it finds that string in item headings. coretemp is there. Thanks for this search info. CORETEMP is there under the search but the enabling option is ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

Paul Hartman wrote: What CPU have you chosen in your kernel? Did you enable hardware monitoring and expiremental modules? I did not have Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers selected under General Setup. Therefore missed options under Hardware Monitoring Support. I chos

Re: [gentoo-user] coretemp and smartbatt drivers for lm_sensors

Paul Hartman wrote: Also, if you are new to lm_sensors, beware that sensors-detect only works on a subset of the supported sensor chipsets. On my computer, for example, it detected the wrong chipsets which "sort of" worked (gave wrong/incomplete readings). I had to manually tell it which sensor

[gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

Hello, Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? I have these installed: virtual/latex-base dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra dev-texlive/texlive-latex dev-texlive/texlive-basic dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra dev-texlive/texlive

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